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The Murray State News April 7, 2016

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Bevin to be sued if cuts not rescinded Kayla Harrell News Editor

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Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear says he will sue Gov. Matt Bevin in Franklin Circuit Court as early as Friday if the Republican governor does not rescind his immediate Beshear 4.5 percent budget cut to public colleges and universities.

Beshear said the governor’s action was illegal and outside of his authority.

“The law on budget reductions is straightforward. It requires a declared shortfall that does not exist. If it did, the last budget bill that was passed and signed into law dictates the steps that must be taken. We are therefore requesting the governor withdraw his order.

We are confident he will comply,” said Beshear, a Democrat, in his official statement on the governor’s budget cuts.

President Bob Davies sent out a statement after Bevin announced the immediate budget cuts and said the 4.5 percent cut represent $2.16

million for Murray State.

“We recognize that our Governor, and all state leaders, face many difficult decisions, especially as they deal with the pension crisis that is hampering our state,” Davies said. “This remains a very fluid situation. While Murray State University leaders are discussing and planning for the possibility of these proposed budget cuts, we remain optimistic that our state leaders will continue to support higher education.”

Kathy Callahan, history department chairwoman, said the attorney general raised one of the questions she had about the immediate cuts – if

it is legal.

“Time will tell about the legality of it,” Callahan said. “As a faculty member, I am concerned about the implications it will have for our budget and our ability to finish out the year.”

Democratic House Speaker Greg Stumbo told to Lexington Herald-Leader the Democratic House lacks standing to sue, but he thought a university employee or possibly a student could sue and be successful.

Murray State students said they are frustrated at state leaders.

“It is just disappointing that our education isn’t a pri-

ority to them,” said Cameron McRoberts, freshman from Vernon, Kentucky.

McRoberts said she hopes Murray will do all it can to make sure the students come first.

No university, faculty member or student has come forward yet to pursue a lawsuit against Bevin. Beshear gave the governor on April 1 until the end of the week to rescind his action.

“The university has been preparing to respond for several weeks now, ever since he made the announcement that is what he wanted to do,” Callahan said. “There’s been plans put forward about what to do

and I think we can do it but it means tightening everyone’s belts across the board.”

Davies has said throughout the spring semester since Bevin first proposed higher education cuts the values of Murray State will remain intact.

“I want to reemphasis the importance of investing in higher education, and Murray State specifically, as we are a catalyst for future growth throughout the commonwealth,” Davies said. “Above all, we will remain committed to our vision of being a nationally-recognized university, noted for our student-centered values.”

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(Left) The Lambda Chi Alpha house was vandalized last Thursday, but (right) other fraternities came together to repaint and fix the house.

Vandalism results in acts of Greek unity

Alicia Steele || Staff writer asteele5@murraystate.edu

Members of Lambda Chi Alpha, or Chop, woke up last Thursday to find someone had spray-painted their fraternity house with question marks, a vulgar image and the words “Greek War.” Additionally, the fraternity letters were painted over and the front lawn ravaged.

For now, Chop members still aren’t sure who vandalized their house. They filed a police report but haven’t heard anything more.

“As an organization, we don’t want to point fingers at anybody, because the sad truth is that we don’t know,” said Jeremy DuCharme, a Chop member.

“And we may never know.”

By Saturday, fraternity members filled in the holes in the lawn and pressure washed and re-painted the house with help from Sigma Pi, Pi Kappa Alpha, Alpha Gamma Rho and Alpha Tau Omega members.

“We want to strive to help each

other,” said Jordan Norber, Sigma Pi member. “And when something like this happens it’s really hurtful to not only Lambda Chi as a whole, but to the entire Greek life.”

Craig Lamb, president of Phi Kappa Alpha, said this kind of vandalism is not the kind of example Murray State Greek life wants to set. Instead, he wants to set the example of “Greek unity.”

“I like to preach Greek unity and it’s easy to talk about or easy to say, ‘We’ve got your back,’ but when something like this actually happens we really want to give a hand and show that we’ll be there,” Lamb said.

Norber said the idea of Greek unity has been around since he rushed in 2012, and was started by former Greek life Coordinator Jason Hinson-Nolen.

“He wanted us to come together as a whole, and work with each other and try to promote each other as Greek life,” Norber said.

Current Coordinator of Greek life and Student Leadership Programs Evan

Ditty wrote in an email to The Murray State News that the support the brothers of Chop received from other Greek organizations was “admirable” and it is not something seen on a daily basis.

“While the fraternities and sororities are often competing against each other (intramurals, philanthropy events, academics, etc.), at the end of the day, they also support one another when it matters most,” Ditty wrote.

Seth Parsley, brother of Alpha Gamma Rho, said Greek unity is what prompted his fraternity to help the Chops on Saturday.

“Regardless of if you’re in a fraternity or a sorority, we all need to come together,” Parsley said. “If somebody’s having a rough time or somebody’s going through something that is predetermined by somebody, then we all just need to come together and help out.”

Keegan Camron, a member of Alpha Tau Omega, said the Chops have been

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The color teal is associated with feelings of calmness, loyalty, wisdom and joy, but for many the color represents something much more personal.

April is Sexual Assault Awareness month, and throughout the month the color teal is used to bring awareness to the issue and show support for survivors.

“This is a new year for me,” said Hannah Barney, graduate student and Lee Clark Residential College residence director.

Barney is a survivor of sexual assault.

In the past, she said this month was hard for her as it continuously highlights the issue and can bring up past feelings of the incident.

According to a report by the National Institute of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics on sexual victimization of college women, it is estimated that for every 1,000 women attending a college university there are 35 incidents of rape each year.

“It sends you into a dark hole,” Barney said. “It’s a deep, dark place and sometimes people don’t make it through it.”

Through counseling at the Women’s Center, finding forgiveness and encouragement from friends and family Barney said she has found her voice and charisma again.

“I realized people value me and I need to start valuing myself again,” Barney said.

She began speaking on

behalf of those who aren’t comfortable to speak out, recently speaking at the annual Take Back the Night event – a rally to show support for those who have been impacted by sexual violence – after being encouraged to share by the Women’s Center director, Abigail French.

“We should always take care of the people who can’t take care of themselves,” Barney said. “And that was me for a while.”

BRINGING AWARENESS

Barney has used her residence director position to advocate within her residential college by having residents stand before a teal backdrop holding a wipe-off board where they finished the sentence, “I wear teal because...” The residents had their pictures taken, which were then added to the Lee Clark Residential College Facebook page.

Residents wrote statements like “I wear teal because no one should feel worthless” and “I wear teal because anyone can be a victim.”

“It is OK to be upset, but it’s OK to use your voice,” Barney said. “It is your story, so you choose what you do with it.”

Teal ribbons were handed out to students starting April 1 both in the Curris Center and in front of Carr Health to encourage students to take part in bringing awareness.

Kaylee Noel, sophomore from St. Louis, handed out ribbons on the Carr Health

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First two chief of police interviews held Alicia Steele || Staff writer asteele5@murraystate.edu

Murray State narrowed its applicants to four finalists for Chief of Police and Director of Public Safety and Emergency Management, and the first two candidates fielded questions from students, faculty and staff in the last week.

The third candidate will be interviewed Friday, and the final one will come to campus Monday.

Roy Dunaway, who has served as interim chief of police for 21 months, interviewed Thursday and fielded questions about his goals for Murray State’s Public Safety and his Dunaway opinion of concealed carry on a college campus.

Robert L. Spinks interviewed Monday and answered questions about why he was asked to resign twice in his career and his opinion of Gov. Matt Bevin’s budget proposal as well as concealed carry on a college campus.

The candidates get one hour and 15 minutes to give a presentation about themselves and then answer questions from the audience.

Members of the audience also can fill out a questionnaire

to rate the candidate on a scale of zero to five. Zero is no opinion, one is poor and five is exceptional. Candidates are rated based on their background and experience, leadership presence and projected overall “fit” with Murray State, among other things.

was implemented, and he has held “Coffee with the Chief” conversations with members of the university community.

And as the national spotlight has highlighted sexual assaults on campuses over the last two years, Murray State has seen an increase in the number of sexual assaults reported.

ROY DUNAWAY

The current interim chief of police and director of Public Safety and Emergency Management, Roy Dunaway, told the audience Thursday that regardless of whether he is selected, he still considers Murray to be his home.

Before coming to Murray State, Dunaway was an investigator for the State of Tennessee Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities where he handled cases involving abuse and neglect across 33 central Tennessee counties, according to his resumé.

During his forum, Dunaway said his goals include allowing officers to only work four days per week if possible and embracing technology by providing better equipment, including body armor and field cameras.

Dunaway told the audience he does not support allowing people with concealed carry licenses to bring guns on campus because he fears if an active shooter were to come to campus, miscommunication issues may arise about who the actual shooter was.

During Dunaway’s time at Murray State, the LiveSafe App

ROBERT L. SPINKS

Spinks, the second candidate, has been the chief of police at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana, since 2012 after serving as the chief of police in Sequim, Spinks Washington, the director of Public Safety at Bellevue College in Washington, chief of police in Milton-Freewater, Oregon, and other officer positions.

An audience member asked Spinks why he had been asked to resign twice in his career.

“The reality is that police work is generally a compromise,” Spinks said.

Spinks said the only conflict with a city council was when he had a negative history with the Milton-Freewater mayor, but he did not answer why he was asked to resign a second time from the Sequim, Washington, police department.

Spinks was asked to leave

WANT TO ATTEND? WHERE AND WHEN The final two public forums for the chief of police and director of Public Safety and Emergency Management will be held at 2:30 p.m. April 8 and April 11. Locations will be sent out the morning of the forums and the applicants will also go through a day-long interview during their time on campus with various constituents, according to an email from Vice President of Finance and Administrative Services Jackie Dudley.

WHAT ELSE? Evaluation forms will be available for those who want to provide feedback on the applicants after the public forums. On the morning of the interviews, the candidate’s resume will be sent to the campus community to help inform students, faculty and staff members on each person.

by City Manager Steve Burkett after five years as the head of the Sequim force, according to an article from the Peninsula Daily News.

Burkett said Spinks was no longer a good match for Sequim’s needs, according to the article.

Spinks was placed on “non-disciplinary administrative leave” when he resigned from the Milton-Freewater police department at the end of “a bitter dispute with some members of the city council,” according to The Dispatch, a newspaper in Mississippi where he was a candidate in 2011.

During his career, Spinks said he would begin at an agency, fix the major problems and move to the next agency.

“As I would get one done, I would get bored, so I would go find another one,” Spinks said.

Spinks said he is looking to find a job somewhere else because he has lost faith in the Louisiana state legislature.

Paula Amols, director of Dining Services, asked Spinks how he planned to handle the similar situation happening in Kentucky with Bevin’s proposal to cut funding from higher education.

Spinks said he is less concerned about the legislature in Kentucky because Bevin proposed a cut of “only four percent.”

Bevin’s proposal would reduce Murray State’s budget by 4.5 percent by June 30 and another 9 percent next year.

Spinks also said he doesn’t

think it’s a good idea to allow the campus community to conceal and carry on campus.

“Do you really trust the person sitting next to you?” Spinks asked.

Spinks asked audience members to look to their right and then look to their left and then asked if they would trust that person to have a concealed gun sitting next to them.

“Do you want an AK-47 sitting in one of the resident halls?” Spinks asked.

Spinks said a majority of Americans can’t handle the skills required to fire a gun in an auditorium full of moving people and said it is not a hard task to get a concealed carry permit Kentucky.

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when a sexual assault occurs on or off campus and is reported to them.

“I think it’s really good that we are aware of what goes on on-campus,” Barney said. “When you don’t know what’s going on, you don’t know what is an issue.”

Barney said she thinks the conversation should focus not only on rape prevention, but also on consent and making survivors feel safe to talk about what happened.

“The way we talk about it needs to change to make victims feel like it wasn’t their fault,” she said. “When we see something, you need to say something.”

The Murray State Women’s Center has launched a social media campaign “It’s on Us Week of Action: #CultureofRespect Challenge” to encourage all students to advocate during the month.

The campaign stems from the challenge established by the Culture of Respect nonprofit that partners with Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education to equip universities with tools to eliminate rape and sexual assault from their campuses.

The challenge runs April 4 to April 8 and requires participants to join the #CultureofRespect Challenge Facebook event and then take a picture or video of themselves answering the question, “What does a Culture of Respect mean to you?”

Participants are encouraged to upload the video to the Facebook event and their own social media accounts using hashtags #CultureofRespect and #SAAM2016.

“Thank you to all people who have stood up and been an ally to all survivors,” Barney said.

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Camron said Greek unity means everyone coming together to help someone out.

“Whenever you get the chance to bring everybody together just to help another fraternity, that’s Greek unity in itself,” Camron said.

Robert Rosa, president of Lambda Chi Alpha, said it was exciting to see how much the other fraternities cared and were willing to sacrifice their time for his fraternity.

“I think this experience has opened a new door for Greek organizations to come together,” Rosa said.

DuCharme said it meant a lot to Chop members that other fraternities helped clean up the house.

“We’re going to repaint it, and hope that this cohesive vibe coming from other fraternities outweighs the need for somebody to try and do this again,” DuCharme said.

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COMING TOGETHER: After finding the Lambda Chi Alpha house and lawn vandalized on March 31, several members of different fraternities came together April 2 to wash and repaint over the graffiti.

“If somebody’s having a rough time or somebody’s going through something that is predetermined by somebody, then we all just need to come together and help out,” said Seth Parsley, a brother of Alpha Gamma Rho.

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Noel had a male friend in high school who was sexually assaulted and she said this encouraged her to advocate on this issue through an internship and one day a career.

“I thought, ‘What can I do about this?’” Noel said. “I wanted to stand up to make a change.”

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11:52 a.m. An officer conducted a traffic stop at the residential college circle. A citation was issued for failure to wear a seatbelt.

5:35 p.m. A person reported a Murray State policy violation at the New Physics Building construction site via the LiveSafe app. Officers were notified.

March 31

2:26 p.m. A caller reported persons stuck on the elevator in the Price Doyle Fine Arts Building.

Officers were notified.

3:02 p.m. Public Safety received a General Incident Reporting Form from Hart Residential College in reference to a theft. Officers were notified and a report was taken for burglary, second degree.

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2:12 p.m. An officer conducted a traffic stop at the residential college circle. A citation was issued for failure to wear seatbelts, operating on a suspended/ revoked operator’s license and failure of non-owner/operator to maintain insurances, first offense.

6:00 p.m. A caller reported the smell of marijuana in James H. Richmond Residential College.

Officers were notified and an information report was taken.

April 2 1:00 a.m. A caller reported a medical emergency at Elizabeth Residential College. Officers and Murray Ambulance Service were notified. The patient refused transport by the ambulance and a medical report was taken.

11:56 p.m. An officer conducted a traffic stop on Waldrop Drive.

A citation was issued for driving 52 mph in a 25 mph zone and careless driving.

April 3

3:57 a.m. A caller reported an intoxicated person on foot. Officers, Murray Ambulance Service and Student Affairs were notified. The Murray Ambulance Service transported the patient.

9:48 a.m. An officer conducted a traffic stop at Lowes Drive. A citation was issued for failure to wear a seatbelt, no registration plates, failure to have an operator’s license in possession and failure to produce an insurance card.

April 4

12:01 a.m. An officer conducted a traffic stop in the Heritage Hall parking lot. A citation was issued for speeding.

12:28 p.m. A caller reported being stuck on the elevator in the Business Building. Officers and Facilities Management were notified.

April 5

8:52 a.m. An officer conducted a traffic stop in the Curris Center parking lot. A citation was issued for speeding.

10:36 a.m. A caller reported a non-injury motor vehicle collision in the Main Street parking lot. Officers were notified and a collision report was taken.

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JMC department hosts PR360 Ashley Traylor || Staff writer atraylor@murraystate.edu

The Journalism and Mass Communications (JMC) Department hosted the first PR360 at Murray State to connect high school students and college students to public relations professionals.

“I think it’s really important to go ahead and get the students a little more aware of what to expect when they enter the industry,” said Heather Mix, junior from Mayfield, Kentucky, and coordinator of the event. “It was really important for students to get their toes in the water and get to network with people in the industry.”

PR360 was open to all majors, but the department pushed for mass communications and nonprofit leadership studies majors to attend.

Heather Mix, Brennan Handley, Austin Gordon, Tim Vance and Marcie Hinton coordinated PR360.

The event also helped recruit local high school students who are thinking of pursuing a degree in the JMC department.

Each guest speaker addressed a different area of the public relations field to show how research, planning, communication and evaluation come together. They shared their advice and experience with students.

The day of the event was divided into a morning session for high school students, college students and local professionals and an afternoon session, strictly for college students.

During the morning sessions held in the Curris Center, guest speakers addressed different areas of public relations and shared advice and experience. The afternoon session took place at Pogue Library. The students were divided into groups that addressed social media, the importance of a LinkedIn profile and resumé building.

The PR professionals that led breakout sessions were from Omnicom, FleishmanHillard and Ketchum.

Alissa Sommerfeldt, junior from Owensboro, Kentucky, said PR360 was not a boring workshop where you take notes all day; instead, it was an engaging event. She said she had one-on-one conversations with leading professionals and gained insight from these professionals.

The goal of PR360 was to prepare students for a future in the public relations and give students the skills they need to succeed, Mix said.

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how to act, the right questions to ask.

We wanted to prepare students for that,” Mix said.

Sommerfeldt said she learned more about software programs that she did not know existed prior to PR360, and it was fascinating to learn how professionals track consumer data.

Mix said she gained a lot from the resumé-building class. Professionals want to see your “return on investment.” They want to see what you can offer, the numbers and the specifics.

“PR is about extending honest relationships with integrity,” said President Bob Davies during the event.

The department pushes students to advocate for what they believe in and not take the second seat for anything, Mix said.

The event had 176 registrants, 31 of whom were high school students.

The department hopes to hold PR360 every two years in the spring semesters.

“Going to events like PR360 has definitely validated my choice in going to Murray State,” Sommerfeldt said. “I am so amazed by how awesome my department is every day.”

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University GMO research receives high ranking Cody Hall || Contributing writer chall22@murraystate.edu

Murray State professors and students set out to find out how the current generation really feels about genetically-modified organisms, and people have noticed their efforts.

The paper, “Examination of Millennials’ Attitudes toward Genetically-Modified Organism (GMO) Foods: Is it Franken-Food or Super-Food?” became one of the top ten most downloaded articles on the site Social Sciences Research Network, with more than 483 downloads currently.

Stefan Linnhoff, marketing professor, and Murphy Smith, accounting professor, coauthored the paper with Elena Volovich, business graduate and Hannah Martin, doctor of education student. All four of the writers contributed

equal amounts of time and effort into the paper, Martin said.

“Our study explores attitudes of Millennials in the United States regarding food that is derived from genetically-modified organisms,” Linnhoff said in an article by Racer Nation Information. “GMO-laden food products appeared in grocery stores in the U.S. in 1994 and have become a part of almost every chain supermarket.”

There are many misconceptions about what genetically-modified organisms are, and there is still debate on whether they are harmful or helpful. One example used in the paper “Examination of Millennials’,” is golden rice, a strand of rice that has been modified to have a higher amount of vitamin A. “I have been surprised by the article's popularity,” Smith said.

“Besides being cited on National Public Radio, the working paper

has been downloaded 477 times from the Social Sciences Research Network.”

Smith was neutral about the use of genetically -modified organisms coming into this project. All scientific studies indicated that GMO foods are safe from a health standpoint and in some cases more nutritional than non-GMO foods, Smith said.

“Right now, there is more of a cool factor with non-GMO and with organic,” Martin said.

The media is why we have negative ideas about what genetically-modified organisms are, Martin said. But through teaching agriculture students, people that come from farming homes understand the importance and benefit of these genetically-modified organisms.

During droughts, these families see the effects of these genetically-modified organisms. Droughts

like this could easily wipe out entire fields, but because their crops have been modified to be more resilient, these families are able to keep their crops, Martin said.

To perform their study, the authors surveyed college students to see how they felt about these modified organisms. They did this through the online questionnaire platform surveymonkey.com.

“The research was prompted by the importance of the issue, that is, whether GMO foods can help meet the world's nutritional needs,” Smith said.

“I was surprised how little people actually know about scientific research on GMO foods. The U.S. Department of Agriculture indicates that GM corn acreage and soybeans acreage make up 85 percent of corn produced and 93 percent of soybeans produced,” Smith said.

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Rachel Farr continues her research for “The Kids Are All Right” by studying the growth of several families, which includes a heterosexual, gay and lesbian couples.

Farr spoke about her research thus far on March 29 in the Dr. and Mrs. Gary Brummer Colloquium series in Psychology. She spoke about child development and family dynamics in adoptive families with lesbian and gay parents. The presentation showed the first and second waves of her work, which presented three families in different stages throughout life.

The first wave showed the couple and the child, in preschool at the time, playing a game of their choice and seeing how each couple acted around the child. The video showed that the lesbian couple

was very supportive and attentive to their child. Farr said support and attention are important qualities to show a child, especially at that age.

The second wave captured the families making vacation decisions and how well the parents listened to the child, who was 8 years old at this time. Again, the couple with two moms listened to their children and made sure each was satisfied with the plans.

Farr also showed a couple with two dads and a couple with a mom and a dad. Each couple showed different strengths and weaknesses, but Farr said all were great parents.

“It boils down to the fact that this is still an ongoing controversy and debate, but there are children out there who need a foster or adoptive family and so shouldn’t we be considering the broadest pool of people possible?” Farr said.

Sixty-three percent of people

were in favor of LGBTQ parents adopting in 2014, according to national surveys.

Farr said her work is both personal and professional because she grew up in an adoptive family and experienced what it was like to have that type of diversity. In graduate school, she became even more interested in adoptive families and wanted to study families that could be possibly limited or prohibited.

She said the heart of this work is the question “What makes a family?” and “What defines a family?”

“There’s a lot of misinformation out about this topic, and it’s really frustrating, especially being someone in that situation,” said Casey Brugh, sophomore from Evansville, Indiana.

“The types of parents you have don’t matter. The family dynamics and how they love you are what truly matter,” Brugh said.

She said she enjoyed the presentation a lot and appreciates that this information is being shared.

She liked that Farr studied the actual parenting that was taking place and not if the child was “normal.”

In the conclusion, Farr found that couples differed in their divisions of labor and in some co-parenting dynamics. Also, families with more supportive co-parenting had children with fewer behavior problems.

Overall, family process variables appeared more important to child outcomes than family structure.

Wave three of her work will be interviewing the kids in the study as adolescents and getting their perspective on growing up in their households. She said so far they do not notice a difference between their families and others. She’s excited to see how the families will progress.

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Always connected, lazy, self-reliant, hopeful, impatient – millennials are called a lot of things, and not all of them are good.

We are also called a several variations of “generation:” Generation Y, Digital Generation, Net Generation and, most relevantly, the Selfie Generation.

We post pictures of our smiling faces as advertisements for every event we attend, meal we eat and good hair day we have.

We have moved from capturing the moment itself to capturing ourselves in the moment, with the main goal often being to then capture sufficient likes and comments.

Here’s the caveat, though: enough is never enough.

Because it’s not just, “I was here,” it’s “I was here – envy me.”

We have outsourced our personal brands to a digital society that tells us our approval ratings will suffer if we don’t post pic-

tures often, at the right angle and with the right lighting and filters.

Selfies have not only influenced our lives, but an entire industry as well. Selfie sticks, mobile photo editing apps, filters, Snapchat, Instagram and countless other products and brands have latched onto our need for likes and have turned a massive profit off it.

Campaigns have been launched not only in favor of selfies, but in defiance of them.

We see individuals and national brands coming out with #LoveYourself and #NaturalBeauty type initiatives that preach body positivity, all while ironically pushing more selfies into an approval-craved, algorithm-based social media society.

Many have reached celebrity status on Instagram by garnering hundreds of thousands of followers and averaging tens of thousands of likes on their daily, sometimes hourly, posts – beautiful, “real” people living beauti-

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ful, inauthentic lives.

There was a time when people were worried young girls and boys based their self-worth and image on the unobtainable beauty of models in magazines.

Now, there’s a whole new pressure.

People flock to Instagram to follow “real,” “normal” people on Instagram because they’re beautiful and because these people are often advocating a healthy lifestyle – validating the people in the pictures with each like, while knocking themselves down a ladder that was too unsubstantial to climb in the first place.

One “Instagram famous” individual spoke out recently about her fabricated fame and how dangerous it became.

Essena O’Neill once had more than 500,000 Instagram followers, until she overhauled her life.

She now has 35,600 followers and her Instagram bio section includes the statement, “Social

Media is NOT real life.”

Also, according to The Guardian, O’Neill reflected upon her Instagram-centered lifestyle and called it what it was: “contrived perfection made to get attention.”

We couldn’t have worded it better ourselves.

So before you take another photo, think about why you’re taking it and who you’re taking it for.

Are you taking it to preserve a memory or to inflate your ego?

How finely are you treading the line of self-confidence and narcissism?

Human beings have always had an inherent need to prove we exist in this world, and understandably so. The fear of being forgotten – of not leaving a mark – is staggering.

Live a life worth remembering and document it if you must – at a certain point you will have to look up from your screens to do so.

Some Things Considered

City stickers will now cost an arm AND a leg After May 31, 2016, the price of city stickers in Murray will increase by $100 for a whopping total of $150.

When I first heard this, I’d hoped it was just a rumor, but a phone call to city hall confirmed the monstrosity and crushed my dreams.

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I had a twinkling of Junior from hope when the Louisville, Ky. woman on the phone said, “It’s a late fee,” speaking about the massive increase. Sneaky lingo doesn’t fool me, though – that “late fee” is the new price for the batch of city stickers to expire May 2017.

Hoping the city would cut us a deal, I asked if the post-May 31 price also applied to students. As I feared, anyone residing “within the city limits of Murray” has to purchase a sticker, as usual – students included.

While I don’t know why the price has in-

creased, I imagine it has to do with the city of Murray needing a little extra cash. That’s understandable, and as a part-time resident, I want to see Murray flourish and be able to do what it needs to do.

However, not all students of Murray State are permanent residents of Murray, and I don’t think it’s right to force us to pay yet another hundred bucks when we already have outrageous dues to pay the university, an entirely separate entity.

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...unlike university fees, or even the overpriced parking tags, we don’t know where the money goes or why we really, truly need to pay for it.

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Between parking tags, parking tickets, city stickers and housing, we fork over hundreds, even thousands of dollars just to legally exist here.

Housing is expensive no matter what, I know, but having to pay for something like a city sticker each year is excessive, especially for non-Kentucky residents who only live in the state for eight months out of the

year.

Maybe this sounds like whining, but hear me out: isn’t it a little twisted that the people visiting the city (students in this case) have to bear the weight of its financial burdens?

Don’t get me wrong – Murray State students love Murray, and I think we know that the success of our university is related to the well-being of the city that holds us.

But come the end of the semester, we’re not residents anymore. Most of us return to our homes hundreds of miles away and try to make back a fraction of the money we’ve spent while at school.

Students shouldn’t necessarily be exempt from city stickers, but we should at least get a more sizable discount. It’s a fee that has essentially no purpose for us – unlike university fees, or even the overpriced parking tags, we don’t know where the money goes or why we really, truly need to pay for it.

I think beneath all the money and frustration, though, there’s a bigger problem at hand: why does the city of Murray need to make such a drastic price increase in that shiny little sticker?

I’d like to find out what spurred this sudden influx and how this was a better option than a more gradual change or a plan that excluded university students.

In the meantime, go get your $50 sticker at city hall before June 1 unless you want to sacrifice a pretty penny.

Happy spending!

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Opinion

April 7, 2016

Letter to the Editor

Recently, I was invited to be a member of a panel of radio station owners, program and news directors and mass communication educators to talk about the future of radio. These were comments I prepared for the event.

Fifty years ago, I took the worst job at the coolest radio station in Music City, USA. I was the kid who turned on the remote mixer, checked the phone line connection and rode gain on the microphones during church services on Sunday mornings. I worked for WKDA, one of the two Top-40 stations in the market. We were on 1240, a Civil Defense frequency with a better nighttime signal than our competition WMAK on 1300. If there were teenagers in the family, two of the buttons on the car radio were set on them. The parents – the fossils – got the other three.

One day in 1967, I went down to the studio to pick up my paycheck. There was a new window in a storage room across the lobby from the receptionist, and you could see two huge Schulke machines with enormous reels of audio tape on them. One of these was barely turning. “What’s that?” I asked the receptionist. “The FM,” she replied. Eight hours of beautiful music on a reel complete with spots and station IDs, with a switch to start the second machine when the first tape ran out. The receptionist rewound the first reel and popped in a

new one every morning when she came in. Ten years later, we owned one of those FMs. In 1969, my new car came with one of the latest options – an 8-track tape deck.

I could play whatever music I wanted, whenever I wanted. I just had to be able to afford the tapes and find a place to store them in the car. Cassettes soon replaced 8-tracks. They sounded like crap, but you could dub your vinyl LPs, even choose separate tracks and create playlists if you had enough patience.

Jump ahead to 1979 now. A good friend worked for a bank in Atlanta, handling international accounts. He came back from Japan with the newest gadget.

It was a portable radio with a built-in cassette player called a Walkman, small enough to fit in your shirt pocket. There was a flimsy set of headphones that put you into an audio cocoon. It looked like a toy, but the personal media zone was addictive. We didn’t realize it then, but the Walkman was a game changer. The iPod, Napster, podcasts and Pandora merely improved the concept.

So where does radio fit into this environment now and in the future? The radio business has been disrupted for the past 60 years. In the 50s, the networks took programming, the evening audience and national advertising to TV. At the same time, the number of radio stations on the air quadrupled. Commercial

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and non-commercial FM came along, and the number of stations quadrupled again. Next came speculative buying and selling radio stations, crippling debt service, the almost total migration of the audience from AM to FM and soon a third of all stations were effectively bankrupt, and another third hand-to-mouth operations. Massive ownership consolidation brought a momentary solution to radio’s financial woes but did little to correct the underlying problem of too damn many radio stations.

The most recent disruption is the loss of the 12-24 demo to streaming media and podcasts. Teens and young adult listeners are disappearing faster than king crab legs on a seafood buffet. There’s no assurance they’ll ever listen to radio.

Through all these disruptions, radio survived because it has had three inherent assets – it’s free, ubiquitous and accessible. I know my friends in Public Radio don’t like to talk about radio being free, but it is. And free entertainment and news are scarce as sun-worshipers in Seattle.

I haven’t been to Alaska or Hawaii, but I’ve traveled in almost every state of the lower 48 and have always been able to find at least one radio station in the car.

Even in the high desert of northeast Arizona, you can hear KNDN – broadcasting in Navajo.

And everybody knows how to use a

radio – or maybe not. Go to a car dealer, test drive a new model and see how long it takes to figure out how to listen to your favorite station on the multi-function touch-screen display. We’ve come a long way from two dials and five push buttons.

On this trip, I tried to find a radio station on the “clock radio” in my hotel room. It had easy-to-use controls on the front for the CD player, the iPod dock, even the clock. The radio controls were hidden away – on/off and volume on one side, tuning on the other – with labels printed in 3-point fonts. The tuner was bad; the antenna was worse.

Unlike the Walkman, your iPod or Galaxy S7 doesn’t have a radio receiver in it. You can download an app, figure out how to use it, hope you have WiFi or pay roaming charges.

In the car, by your bedside and on your mobile audio device, radio is a second-tier medium in the new audio environment, definitely not a Killer App. So the hurdles for radio today and in the future are too many stations, the vanishing 12-24s and listening devices that make it inaccessible.

Dr. Bob Lochte

Chairman in the Arthur J. Bauernfeind College of Business

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There’s no business like...

There is much talk these days about running things like a business. Most of it is wrong.

In Kentucky, the governor wants to run the state more like a business.

Like any good businessman who finds himself in arrears, he has looked first at some of his biggest expense items. Very reasonable.

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On the national level, candidate Senior lecturer Donald Trump of advertising wants to run the nation like a business. His current business (performing a comedy act with his partner, Ted Cruz) can’t last forever.

Sadly for all those people who want greater efficiency, more accountability and more stability, a government is not a business. This will come as a surprise to many, but it’s easy to understand once you a) spend some time in public office or b) think for a minute.

First, consider that a business usually exists for profit – not solely, but without a profit the business will cease to exist. Profit for a business can go into reserves, higher salaries and wages or business expansion.

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Questions, comments or concerns should be addressed to aborthwick@murraystate.edu

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Governments don’t have profit, because all of their financial resources don’t really belong to them.

“Profit” for a government has to go back to the taxpayers. Whether it is spent on a massive campaign to renew the infrastructure or reduced taxes to those who would benefit most, governments can’t get rich. Look at the one in Washington: it’s broke, and has been for decades.

Second, a business sells things. Whether it is a product (jet planes, razors or beer) or a service (pest control, teeth cleaning or election fixing), you give the business money and it gives you something you want. You are allowed to make incredibly stupid choices and there are many businesses out there to help you do so. States even run lotteries, in case you missed your stupidest opportunity.

Government, on the other hand, has nothing for you to buy. You pay taxes, but that is not directly related to a specific good or service provided by the government. For instance, you can’t withhold your taxes because you have no kids in the schools.

Government can even do with your tax money that which you violently oppose. No, a government is not a business.

Businesses have customers, and customers can go somewhere else if the business doesn’t satisfy them.

Governments have citizens. You can’t change your government without moving. Some people do so, and some Kentuckians are probably thinking about moving right now.

Finally, a business can go broke. When it does, we usually write it off to bad luck (flood damage, divorce), bad management (crooked cashier) or a changing economy (where are all the blacksmiths?).

Cheers to ... Caffeine.

No one dies.

When a government can no longer sustain itself, the scope of harm far exceeds the mere filing of a bankruptcy brief. Many will suffer and some may die. It may result from bad luck, but it always results from bad management. It’s called “leadership” at that level, but it’s just as harmful.

Sure: government can be run with greater efficiency. Government can devise plans to better serve its constituents. Government can be conducted with greater wisdom and vision. All that is true.

But no government can be a business.

Likewise, the university is not a business. It does not sell education. It can be made more efficient; it can change priorities and ask more of its constituents, but, like a government, it really has no customers. It doesn’t produce things; it produces understanding, progress and futures. It needs money, but it runs on hope, ambition and hard work.

A university serves the world. Its impact can reach around the globe and as far into the future as may be imagined. A university is a nursery for dreams – dreams of individuals and hopes for a nation. The profit is not in dollars, and the product may not be realized for decades. Universities don’t have owners; they have leaders. The real owners are the people who make it work: students, faculty, citizens.

So let us all try to do what we do better, with less waste and more progress, but let’s not imagine that everything is a business. We’re already too far down that dead end street. Let’s wake up and create the dream.

Jeers to ... Mississippi.

The struggle is so real, you guys. As we near the end of the semester, the usual monster of final projects and exams is starting to rear its hideous head and nothing, especially not our need for sleep, is safe. Cheers to you, caffeine, in whatever beautiful form you may come in.

Gov. Phil Byrant recently signed HB 1523 - yet another “religious freedom bill.“ States, such as Indiana and Georgia, have pushed for similar bills before.

People were livid then and people are livid now. Bills like this protect business owners who refuse service to homosexuals, transgender people, etc.

Jeers to ... Tuition increases.

Cheers to ... Andy Beshear.

Gov. Matt Bevin finally announced official budget cuts for the state of Kentucky, and resulting tuition increases are imminent - as if students seeking a higher education aren’t stressed out enough about the cost of a college degree.

The Attorney General of Kentucky came out and said Gov. Matt Bevin’s budget cut is illegal and demanded he withdraw his order within seven days. Time is running out, Governor.

I fundamentally don’t understand people who have a stressfree, fun, “last-hoorah” kind of senior year.

It didn’t go that way for me in high school, and it certainly isn’t Allison Borthwick going that way for me now.

Opinion Editor My senior year of high school was a whirlwind of figuring out where I was going to spend the next four years of my life and how I was going to afford it all. I was bracing myself for a long-distance relationship and figuring out how I was going to hold on to that while also holding on to friendships that got me through high school.

I was an angsty, terrified, excited teenager making life-altering decisions, so my senior year was memorable, but not stress-free by any means.

Also, my mood depends almost entirely on how much sleep I get, so waking up at 6:30 a.m. and getting home anywhere between 5-10 p.m. every weekday was not conducive to anything other than constant abrasiveness.

My family and friends who dodged and managed my ever-changing mood swings are the true heroes.

One moment toward the end of that school year made the stress and anxiety subside, though, and it wasn’t even graduation.

It was the last day of classes, and our entire senior class came celebrated the occasion beautifully – with abandon, defiance and freedom.

We wore the colors of the Land of the Free, gathered in the parking lot and stormed the halls of one of the largest public schools in Indianapolis.

It was a beautiful blur of red, white and blue – more than 700 students stampeding their way through one of their last high school experiences and on to bigger and better things.

My bigger and better things came, and they’re almost gone.

Murray State has given me nearly four years of priceless opportunities – professors turned mentors, acquaintances turned best friends, connections turned internship supervisors and soon a diploma turned exciting career.

I’m in my second senior year and I’m more stressed, terrified and excited than before.

This school year has been a constant juggling act of multiple jobs, capstone classes, senior seminars, nostalgia, losses and uncertainty of what the future holds.

I’m a young adult (secretly very large toddler) making more life-altering decisions, and while I may be stressed, I’m holding on to these memories with everything I’ve got.

A professor recently told me, surprisingly casually, that I should expect to experience a period of depression and identity crisis after I graduate. She said this casually, I’m assuming, because it honestly just makes sense.

College is a shockingly-lenient time when we’re surrounded by people (mostly) all about the same age and we’re all allowed to stumble around, mess up and pick up the pieces of our rapidly-changing lives in solidarity.

We’re like newborn puppies learning to walk, tripping over our own paws and all while professors and future employers gaze at us from the pet shop window saying, “Aww, they’re still learning.”

And then, right as we learn to stand on our own, we innocently meander into our last semester and we’re supposed to have “our lives together,” a “personal brand,” a “professional image” and “you probably shouldn’t proudly call yourself Captain Struggle anymore, Allison.”

I may not know who or where I will be in the next couple months, but you can bet I’ll one-woman stampede across that stage on May 14 and I’ll be on to bigger and better different things. aborthwick@murraystate.edu

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A Month in Review

April 7, 2016

Check out a few of our favorite images from stories that happened in March.

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STEP OFF: Alpha Sigma Phi won first place in the 2016 Alpha Step Off fraternity division for the second year in a row.

BUDGET CUTS: Murray State students continued activism against Gov. Matt Bevin’s proposed budget cuts to higher education.

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SGA ELECTIONS: Clint Combs and Nathan Payne won president and vice president for the second year in a row. This image is from their first win in April 2015.

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CAREER FAIR: The STEM Career Fair hosted 42 employees to connect with students within that field of study.

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OVC: Men’s basketball lost to Morehead State in the quarterfinals of the OVC Tournament.

SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: Students learned basic stage combat during a workshop at the Shakespeare Festival.

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OVC: Women’s basketball made the OVC Tournament for the first time since 2013.

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Track goes the distance

Baseball sets records in winning weekend against Eastern Illinois Mark McFarland

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four runs to earn the win for the Racers.

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Track and field seniors take the field to be honored alongside family, friends, professors and advisers during the Margaret Simmons Invitational on Saturday. The Racers graduate 12 women from the team.

Sophomore breaks record after 31 years

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Contributing writer jgaston2@murraystate.edu

The Racers split the weekend at home for the Margaret Simmons Invitational and away at Washington University in St. Louis. The team had a day to remember as members of the 5k and 10k distance team competed and set personal bests as well as breaking a record that stood for 31 years.

Sophomore distance runner Vallery Korir set a new 10,000meter record for the Racers with a time of 35 minutes, 8 seconds. Teresa Colby set the record in 1985 with a time of 36 minutes, 30 seconds.

“They came in and decided they were going to go for it and they did,” said Head Coach

Jenny Swieton.

Korir also broke the Francis Field record of 35:44 set in 2012.

Senior distance runSwieton ner Leah Krause set a new personal best time in the 10,000, almost breaking the original record with a time of 36 minutes, 51 seconds, placing her third alltime at Murray State.

Krause is one of the seniors giving it her all for her team in her final outdoor season.

“I’m realizing this is the last year to do what I want to do,” Krause said.

Krause said she will miss the

overall experience of being a part of the Racers. She said being with her best friends and the people she trains with is a big part of why she’ll miss the team.

Sophomore distance runners Meagan Smith (37 minutes, 30 seconds), Caroline Grogan (38 minutes, 16 seconds) and Emily Flaherty (38 minutes, 38 seconds) all ran new personal bests in the 10,000.

Sophomore distance runner Rebekah Priddy also ran a new personal best in the 5,000meter race with a time of 17 minutes, 53 seconds.

Head Coach Jenny Swieton says she is proud of her team’s overall performance.

“They all run together so when one is going they know they can push themselves as well,”

Swieton said.

The Racers also hosted the Margaret Simmons Invitational at Roy Stewart Stadium, which is their only home meet of the season. The invitational was also the Racers’ Senior Day. “This senior class was the class we kind of knew how we wanted to build and what direction we wanted to go,” Swieton said.

Murray State ran two 4x400 meter relay teams, placing first and second. Sophomore sprinter Anna Curlin, junior mid-distance runner Tia Weston, freshmen sprinters Tamdra Lawrence and Jocelyn Payne ran the first place group, breaking the meet record with a time of 3 minutes,

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The Racer baseball took two out of three games last weekend against Eastern Illinois.

The Racers were led by outfield graduate student Tyler Dixon, who went 7-14 with five home runs and seven RBIs. Head Coach Kevin Moulder said with the injuries Dixon has stepped up and helped the Racers come away with two wins.

“He had a good week,” Moulder said. “He’s filling in for an injured guy and he recently has done a good job. He’s stepped up and in recent games, he’s made the most of the opportunities, getting a chance to run with the job at this point.”

Dixon earned multiple accolades including the ADIDAS OVC Player of the Week and Colligate Baseball News/Louisville Slugger National Player of the Week for his contributions last week. Between the three games against Eastern Illinois and the one game against Kentucky State, he finished 11-19 with 11 RBIs, five home runs and four doubles.

EIU GAME ONE

In game one, the Racers won 9-4, outhitting the Panthers 12-8, and committed zero errors.

Murray State was led by junior catcher Tyler Lawrence and junior outfielder and infielder Adam Bauer, who finished a combined 6-9 and two RBIs. Sophomore infielder Caleb Hicks finished the game going 1-3 with two RBIs, one walk and one strikeout.

Junior left-handed pitcher and first baseman Jack Hranec pitched five innings, giving up seven hits and

EIU GAME TWO

Murray State tied a school record in the 31-11 win over Eastern Illinois, the record has not been tied or broken since 1950, when it was set in a game against Lipscomb.

The Racers jumped out to an early 20-1 lead in the first four innings before the Panthers scored four runs in the top of the fifth inning.

Dixon contributed with four home runs, six RBIs and finished the game 5-6. The four home runs in the game tied an OVC record for most home runs in a game. Dixon said he was glad he was able to step up and contribute to the team and that the record just comes secondary.

“I just want to keep it simple at the plate,” Dixon said.

“Not try to overdo things and try to see good pitches and hit the good ones.”

EIU GAME THREE

The Panthers came back and won the third game 9-3 after the Racers took the first two games by a combined score 40-14.

Junior right-handed pitcher Ryan Dills gave up four runs in seven innings, while recording 10 strikeouts in the losing effort. Offensively, the Racers were led by Hicks as he went 1-2 with two walks and a stolen base. The Racers were outhit 12-7 in the game.

Moulder said it was good to take two out of three games, but he said he feels they should have taken all three.

“We had a good first couple days,” Moulder said.

“We swang the bat and did a good job pretty much across the board. Today, we came out you’ve got a lack of maturity, you’ve got a young

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Football hosts Pro Day, Miller finishes with 200th sees five new recruits career hit in weekend series Mark McFarland

Assistant Sports Editor mmcfarland1@murraystate.edu

Nearly two months after 28 new players signed, Head Coach Mitch Stewart welcomed five more signees to the program.

Prior to signing the five new players, a few players from last season’s team competed in Murray State’s Pro Day.

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Three of the seniors participating in Pro Day really stood out to Stewart: running back Pokey Harris from Winchester, Kentucky, defensive back DeQuinten Spraggins from West Point, Mississippi and defensive tackle from Cincinnati.

Stewart said Spraggins had a good day in the bench press and Stewart weighed in well at over 300 lbs. Stewart also said he was surprised at how well Spraggins ran.

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“Pokey Harris did really well,” Stewart said. “Pokey was actually a lot stronger than I thought he was going to be. He did really well in the 225 bench, I think he benched 225 like 13 times or something which is pretty good considering he’s 178 pounds.”

Stewart also said Harris ran really well, running a 4.51 second and 4.71 second 40-yard dash.

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After signing day, Stewart and the program had eight scholarships left to give out.

Stewart said he wants to be able to fill all of the spots so they won’t have to have such big classes in the future.

“Everything we’ve done since I got here basically has been off of roster management,” Stewart said. “We need certain numbers at certain positions don’t want to go over it at some positions and can go over it at other positions and that was just based off the numbers who we needed.”

The Racers lost 35 players in the offseason to graduation, the NFL draft and transferring to different programs. With the signing of the five new players,

Stewart has signed 33 new guys in total for the fall 2016 season.

Out of the five new signees, four of them have played junior college football. The other was a Missouri Class 6A first-team All-State selection at kicker.

Stewart said these five student-athletes were signed to continue to build depth to the roster.

“If you look at our roster, we needed some more O-lineman, we needed some more D-lineman, we needed a kicker, so you know that was the reason why we signed who we signed,” he said.

With 33 new guys coming in, there will be some spots to compete for during the fall.

Stewart said all spots are open for someone to come in and earn.

“I tell those recruits the same thing all the time ‘I’m not signing you to sit on the bench with me,’” Stewart said. “Now obviously we’re going to have to redshirt some guys, or else we’re going to be in this situation again.”

Spring practices began April 5 and will continue until April 23. Practices are open to the public.

Mark McFarland

Assistant Sports Editor mmcfarland1@murraystate.edu

The Racer softball team welcomed Eastern Illinois by taking the first two games in the series.

Though the Racers lost the third game, senior infielder Shelbey Miller hit her 200th career hit in a Racers uniform.

Head Coach Kara Amundson said Miller has been great to coach over the last four seasons and she is thankful for her contributions to the program.

“Shelbey’s been great,” Amundson said. “A four year starter now, she’s kind of moved around defensively a little bit. She’s just been really locked in and she’s been a joy to coach and fun to watch.”

EIU GAME ONE

The Racers shutout the Panthers 4-0 with just five hits and one error in the first game of the series.

Murray State jumped out to

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Freshman utility player Brenna Finck throws the ball to first base during Sunday’s loss against Eastern Illinois.

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SOFTBALL From Page 1 an early 4-0 lead in the first three innings of the game and never looked back. Three of the four runs came off a home run, junior outfielder and infielder Cayla Levins hit a three-run home run in the bottom of the third inning to push the Racers lead to 4-0.

EIU GAME TWO

Eastern Illinois jumped out to a quick 3-0 lead in the top of the first inning, but Murray State scored three of its own to tie the game in the bottom half of the inning.

The Racers earned 13 hits on their way to win the second game 7-5.

Freshman catcher Madison Culver led Murray State, finishing the game 2-4 with three RBIs and a home run. Maddy

Feeney, sophomore outfielder, also finished the game 3-3.

Sophomore pitcher Haven Campbell pitched 6.2 innings on her way to earning the win for the Racers.

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The Panthers twohit the Racers on their way to win the third game of the series 2-0.

For the first six innings of the game, Murray State could only muster one hit and no runs. However, in the seventh inning the Racers got a runner on base, but could not score to try and put a dent in the tworun deficit.

Despite pitching seven innings and only giving up five hits, sophomore pitcher Mason Robinson took the

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loss. Amundson said she was happy her team fought hard all series and took two games out of three, but they really should have taken all three games.

“Anytime we can take a series from here on out, it’s a big deal.”

Miller said she believes her team can continue to compete against every team they play.

“It shows us we can do this,” Miller said. “Those games proved it, not that we needed to prove to ourselves anyway.”

COMING UP

The Racers’ doubleheaders against Western Kentucky was canceled because of weather forecast and has been rescheduled for April 26 at 4:30 p.m. Their next game is a pair of doubleheaders against Tennessee State on Saturday in Nashville, Tennessee, and against the Belmont Bruins at 1 p.m. on Sunday at Racer Field.

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Women’s tennis adds 1 win, 1 loss Sarah Combs || Staff writer scombs8@murraystate.edu

The women’s tennis team added a loss against UT Martin last weekend but responded with a sweep against Southeastern Missouri State 7-0.

After struggling throughout the year with second day matches, the Racers were able clutch the doubles point against SEMO. Head Coach Jorge Caetano said the most important thing the Racers took from the weekend was maintaining high energy from the first match of the weekend and converting that to the second match.

“We were struggling to keeping on keeping the good energy one day and dropping it the second,” Caetano said.

“This weekend they kept it at all times.”

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Eastern Illinois’ freshman utility player Jennifer Ames flew out to end the top of the sixth inning during Sunday’s game. The Panthers beat the Racers 2-0.

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Senior distance runner Emma Gilmore, sophomore mid-distance runner Emani Griffin and junior sprinters Victoria Yocum and Taylor Adcock’s team finished sec-

The Racers fell to the Skyhawks 6-1.

UT Martin claimed the doubles point early, establishing their momentum going into singles.

Junior from Hamburg, Germany, Alina Schibol and freshman from Dinard, France, Jeanne Masson set a competitive pace for the Racers, winning their match 6-3. Senior from Memphis, Tennessee, Erin Patton and freshman from Anthem, Arizona, Haily Morgan followed but couldn’t hold the momentum, falling 6-4.

Senior from Mississauga, Ontario, Megan Blue and freshman from Esbjerg, Denmark, Amina Hadzic concluded doubles falling 7-5.

Although the Racers struggled throughout the day, they never stopped competing.

“The other teams know that even if they beat us, they better come prepared.” Caetano said. “If they don’t play their best tennis, then we are gonna ond in the 4x400, finishing in a time of 4 minutes, 4 seconds.

Lawrence also placed second in the 400-meter dash, finishing in a time of 58.94 seconds. Adcock also won the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1 minute, 7 seconds.

Curlin finished second in the 100-meter dash, running a time of 12.34 seconds with freshmen hurdler Jabreuna Brimlett finishing closely be-

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Senior from Mississauga, Ontario, Megan Blue hits the ball during the Racers’ match Easter weekend. come and beat them.”

Morgan was the only Racer to win her singles match. Morgan lost her first match 0-6 but responded with a 6-3 and 10-8 to clinch the win. Patton played a tough match against her opponents losing her first match 6-2, winning the second 6-1 but falling short the third set 10-3. Schibol opened her match with a 7-5 win but lost momentum and finished 6-4, 11-9.

son concluded the doubles with a forfeit, giving the Racers an early 1-0 doubles point.

The Racers carried the momentum into singles where Blue led the way with a 7-6, 6-2 victory in her match. Hadzic followed suit pulling out a late rally 6-4 in her first match and finishing with 6-0. Morgan delivered a 6-0, 6-2 win, Patton logged 6-1, 6-4 win and Schibol contributed 6-2, 6-2 win to the domination of singles for the Racers.

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The Racers traveled to Girardeau, Missouri and posted a 7-0 sweep over the Redhawks.

Partners Blue and Hadzic won their doubles match, followed by partners Patton and Morgan, who both won their matches 6-1. Schibol and Mas-

The Racers host Belmont on Friday and Tennessee State on Saturday this weekend at the Bennie Purcell Tennis courts.

Senior Day will be on Saturday for the seniors’ last home court match.

hind with a time of 12.4 seconds. Brimlett also jumped 5.42 meters in the long jump to finish second.

The 4x100 meter relay team of Brimlett, Payne, Yocum and Lawrence finished second with a time of 47.59 seconds.

Freshman thrower Christina Meinhardt won the shot put with a throw of 12.07 meters.

She also finished second in the discus throwing 39.15 meters.

Coach Swieton believes her team still has a lot left in the season and believes they can compete with any of the schools they face.

“When we go to the bigger meets, we’re going there to compete,” Swieton said.

The Racers will be competing again this Friday and Saturday at the Western Kentucky Relays in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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HOME MEET: (Left) Senior jumper Jill Jachino competes in her final home meet at Saturday’s Margaret Simmon Invitational. (Top) Senior distance runner, Emma Gilmore also runs her last home meet on Saturday. Gilmore started the 400-meter open and finished the 4x400-meter relay with a time of 4 minutes, 4 seconds.

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group and still figuring out what it takes to be winners.”

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One year after winning the OVC, Southeast Missouri State continues to lead the conference. The Redhawks are 21-8 overall with a 12-0 record inside of the conference. Jacksonville State, 9-0 in the conference, will play the Racers this weekend in Jacksonville, Alabama. The Gamecocks are 19-9 overall and have posted an 11-4 record when they are playing at home.

Austin Peay State follows the Gamecocks in the OVC standings with an 8-4 conference record. The Governors swept the Racers March 24-26, winning every game by four or more runs.

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Skateboarding helps provide relaxation

Clara Firtos

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Skateboarding is a nontraditional sport on campus that is often overlooked. However, just like any other sport, there are a variety of ways for someone who is passionate for it to get involved.

“Sports are just different forms of physical competition,” said Nolan Winbun, sophomore from Versailles, Kentucky. “Skating is both very physical and mental, whether it is vert skating, street skating, downhill longboard racing or freestyle.”

Winbun has been longboarding for more than two years.

He said the reason he began boarding is because he felt he had always been an adrenaline junkie.

“It’s hard to explain how much I love longboarding,” Winbun said. “My favorite thing about skating is that it helps me relax after class, it has introduced me to a few of my best friends, gives me a good reason to go outside and I always have something to work on. I can spend hours on learning a new slide or a new trick, and it takes my mind away from whatever stressors I have that day.”

Nathan Jones, freshman from Slaughters, Kentucky, enjoys boarding as well.

Jones has been boarding since his first semester at Murray State.

“A sport is an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against others for entertainment,” Jones said. “And as longboarders or skateboarders we constantly use physical assertion and skill as we continue to learn new tricks and learn from our mistakes.”

Jones uses his board to get to his classes, but also as an escape from the stress college classes can bring.

“My board adapts to whatever I’m feeling,” Jones said. “If I need a place to get away from the college life, I’ll just get on my board and life’s good. If I want an adrenaline rush, I’ll bomb a hill and life’s great.”

Jones said that with dedication and practice anybody can learn how to board.

“Almost any skate shop should be able to help you pick out a good beginner’s setup,” Winbun said.

Winbun said it’s important to remember that it takes everyone a long time to get comfortable on a board.

“Also, you are going to get

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the sudden urge to grab onto vehicles or a campus golf cart to let them pull you,” Jones said. “That is not a good ideado not do that.”

Jones said it’s important to remember to get back on your board as quick as you can when you fall and to make sure that you’re always wearing a helmet every time you ride.

The prices on boards vary between what type, shape and producer. Popular types of boards on college campuses include penny boards, traditional skateboards and longboards.

“I recommend spending a good amount of money on your first board just because it makes it easier to learn and you won’t have to replace it for years,” Winbun said.

Winbun has had his first board for a little over two years.

Longboarding competitions aren’t very big in Kentucky. If the men wanted to compete, they would have to travel to competitions held by International Slalom Skateboarding Association and Midwest Longboarding Association.

For now, they ride around on campus.

Jones said if students see him on campus, he’d be happy to give some pointers and make friends.

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The women’s golf team finished the weekend in eighth place at the Ole Miss Rebel Invitational in Oxford, Mississippi.

The Racers faced a variety of weather conditions throughout the weekend on the par 72 and 6,323-yard course, but that didn’t phase sophomore from Tranas, Sweden, Moa Folke, who delivered her career low round of 68.

Folke carded scores of 71-6875, totaling 214 and claiming second place under Troy’s junior from Santigo de Compos-

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Nolan Winbun longboards down the hill behind the Blackburn Science Building. He began skateboarding when he was a freshman. tela, Spain, F á t i m a Fernandez Cano, who delivered 73-70-66, totaling 209 for the weekend.

“I didn’t play nearly Folke as well as I did the first two days,” Folke said. “I’m really happy with my second place.”

Though weather conditions were less than desirable the second day, Folke said she played better because she didn’t focus on the wind and that’s what affects her perfor-

mance, allowing her to shoot 68.

Conditions were better on the third day, Folke said she started thinking about the weather and that affected her negatively leaving her with 75.

“Her 68 in the wind that we had was exceptional,” Head Coach Velvet Milkman said regarding Moa’s performance.

“It’s one of the best rounds of golf I’ve ever seen.”

Folke’s performance was encouraging and positive for the team, Milkman said-. The Racers placed eighth as a team with final scores of 303-300308 that totaled 911.

Sophomore from Hopkinsville, Kentucky, Anna Moore

logged her career low 73 in the final round finishing 45th with scores of 83-76-73 totaling 232.

Sophomore from Paducah, Kentucky, Sydney Trimble carded scores of 78-78-75 totaling 231 finishing 39th, followed by senior from Frankfort, Kentucky, Abbi Stamper who finished 61st with scores of 8177-77–235. Junior from Bowling Green, Kentucky, Jacklyn Van Meter placed 66th with 73-81-82–236 and senior from Sandy, England, Sophie Hillier scored 83-77-81–241 in 80th place.

The Racers will host a home tournament Friday and Saturday at the Miller Memorial Golf Course.

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Murray State anglers keep reelin’ and dealin’ Justin Gaston

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The Murray State Bass Anglers entered last weekend looking to advance the team into the national championship picture.

Freshman from House Springs, Missouri, Nathan Adams and junior from Goreville, Illinois, Shon Messmer finished 13th out of 203 teams in the 2nd Annual FLW College Open, which advanced them to the Fishing League Worldwide College National Championship in 2017.

The Anglers also competed over Spring Break in the Cabela’s Collegiate Bass Fishing Open at Lake Dardanelle.

Sophomore from Shelby, North Carolina, Ryan Lancaster, sophomore from Hunetley, Illinois, Mike Lowry, sophomore from Peewee Valley, Kentucky, Daniel Young and sophomore from Ziegler, Illinois, Boris Moskoff complete the four-man team that ended with a 4th place finish at Lake Dardanelle.

The Anglers’ team president, junior from Linderhurst, Illinois Ryan Kirkpatrick, said the team’s strategy is in their numbers. The Anglers have one of the largest collegiate bass teams and use it to their advantage to maximize the opportunities of scoring points.

The Anglers often send out anywhere from three to eight teams in competitions, better-

ing their odds for a top place finish.

“We like to send as many teams out as possible to better our chances for points,” Kirkpatrick said The Anglers are currently ranked 10th in the Association of Collegiate Anglers School of the Year standings but are expected to move up to 7th in the standings, according to Kirkpatrick’s calculations.

The Anglers are known as one of the best bass teams in the Midwest and always finish near the top of the standings. With a few tournaments left before the season deadline in July, the Anglers are confident they can bring in the ACA School of the Year title. But the Anglers are aware there

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are other competitors with the same mindset.

“Our biggest competition is North Alabama. They’re always a top team,” Kirkpatrick said.

Kirkpatrick says UNA is a rival to the Anglers and expects to be battling with them for the ACA School of the Year title.

The Anglers will also be deciding the top six anglers that will be on the national U.S. boat team in a friendly competition April 17 at Kentucky Lake.

The Anglers travel to Table Rock Lake in Kimberling, Missouri this weekend for their next competition. They will also be setting up some fundraising event around Murray in the near future to help support the team.

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Brianna Willis || Staff writer bwillis2@murraystate.edu

Murray State has its own Snapchat, many student organizations have Twitter accounts and President Bob Davies is known for taking selfies all over campus.

Nationally, students under the age of 19 are called “The Selfie Generation,” as a subset of the generation of students that were born between the late 1990s and early 2000s, according to Forbes.

Walking through campus, students can be seen snapping pictures, adding Murray State specific filters and uploading these selfies to social media. This phenomenon does not exist in isolation; rather, communities everywhere are experiencing this new wave of selfie culture.

According to Forbes, “It’s a real-life experiment with real-life implications.”

For many older students, selfies are a means of passing time.

Brett Mayberry, junior from Mt. Carmel, Illinois, said for him, selfies are just meant to be silly.

“I took a day to just take selfies around my house,” said Mayberry. “Mostly because I was bored.”

Grant Knox, junior from Lexington, Kentucky, agreed. He said for him, selfies aren’t meant to be serious.

However, for many, social media and selfies are serious.

CNN did a special titled “#Being13,” a multi-segment special feature on teenagers in the United States. CNN collaborated with the University of Texas Dallas Child Clinic to do a study on 13-year-olds and their interactions with social media. One of the findings said that many teenagers go online to monitor their popularity status, as well as monitoring their friends’ activity.

According to CNN, “61 percent of teens said they wanted to see if their online posts are getting likes and comments” and “36 percent of teens said they wanted to see if their friends are doing things without them.”

This verification of popularity affects more than just 13-year-olds. Austin Herald, senior from Murray, said a lot of people his age seek validation through social media and selfies.

“It is like an ego booster,” he said. “People will say, ‘Oh, I’ve got more likes than you,’ but it isn’t real.”

Knox said that it is a faux self-confidence, and people are even losing communication skills since interactions are being held behind portable screens.

“During the blackout the other day, people were worried about their phone dying or their laptop dying,” he said. “It be-

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From the class to the stage: a musician’s journey

Gisselle Hernandez

Assistant Features Editor

ghernandez1@murraystate.edu

As a child, he often dreamt of the stars. As a college student, his heart breathed photography. For a while after that, politics piqued his interest. Now, Daniel Martin Moore will perform his first show at Murray State in honor of his fifth folk-indie album, “The Golden Age,” on April 12 at Pogue Library.

His path as a musician took Moore by surprise since he thought he would always have a career in the sciences, having been in love with astronomy and biology as a child. While he never actually studied music in an academic setting, Moore received his degree in photography and later was interested in public policy. He eventually chose the musical route when the idea of singing and songwriting as a career appealed to him. Moore said he just wanted to play and didn’t really care how, as long as he was making music.

“I was fortunate enough to have a

knack for music, so I just chartered my own path across the keyboard,” he said.

Moore said he is against the Gov. Matt Bevin’s opinions on the lack of importance of studying humanities and arts – especially music – as his own show at Murray State approaches.

“I think it’s nonsense,” he said. “It shows the general ignorance and lack of understanding about what education is and about what it is to be a human being.”

James Duane Bolin, professor of history, invited Moore to perform at Murray State. Bolin is having a book signing on his new book, “Home and Away: A Professor’s Journal,” and after seeing Moore sing in between readings at another book-signing event, he asked Moore to do the same at his own on April 11 at the CFSB Center.

An actual concert was also arranged for the following day in Pogue Library, which would be a nice venue for Moore to play, Bolin said. He also agreed with Moore on the vitality of having the humanities

Stefani album is truly awful Nick Erickson || Staff writer nerickson@murraystate.edu

Gwen Stefani was the pop sensation of the early 2000s. Once upon a time, her hit “Hollaback Girl” was a staple track for every radio station in the country. More recently, Stefani had stepped back from the spotlight, lying dormant from music and embracing her motherhood. Surprisingly, she reemerged last month with “This Is What the Truth Feels Like,” her first solo album in a decade, via Interscope Records. To the distaste of some and the joy of many others, not much has changed on this album from her past releases.

The same sugary, over-produced pop she was praised for years ago is ever present, as is the high school freshman persona she gives off, despite being a 47-year-old woman.

Stefani has proclaimed in recent interviews that “This Is What the Truth Feels Like” is largely a “breakup” record. Her recent divorce with Bush lead singer Gavin Rossdale, which was finalized last October, drove her inspiration for the record and eased her writer’s block.

However, this record is anything but sultry. While it tackles the breakup, Stefani has a positive vibe throughout the record, and instead of feeling melancholic, focuses on the future of a new relationship and moving onward. This motive is drowned out in rather stale produc-

tion, masking most of the emotion Stefani is trying to convey in the candy-coated pop instrumentation.

Opening the album is “Misery,” which ironically feels the opposite of miserable, containing upbeat disco-influenced beats. Stefani’s smooth voice sings of romantic tension and longing. “So put me out of my misery, hurry up come see me,” Stefani says. The repetitious nature of this song will leave it stuck in listeners’ heads, but the lack of lyrical diversity can be annoying. Nonetheless, its sweet, cheery feel is as pop as it gets, and the bassline will induce head-nodding.

“Where Would I Be” takes some reggae-influence and gives it a Stefani twist. From the get-go it could very well be a 1920s flapper track.

Despite this, Stefani’s lyricism feels watered-down and cliché, as she sings to a boy she feels gives her purpose. “Where would I be boy, if you didn’t love me boy?”

“Make Me Like You” kicks off with punchy guitar strums, and an undoubtedly infectious vocal hook.

This track draws in the feeling of a late 70s disco anthem, with Stefani repeating phrases over a dance beat. This track, as most others on the album, screams “high school prom playlist.” The repetition isn’t enough to make the track very memorable, and by the third chorus, it’s all too forgettable.

“Send Me A Picture” is almost an uncomfortable listen in context.

Stefani sings of sexting, and how she is longing for pictures from an

unspecified lover. “Send me a picture right now cause I been waiting such a long time to get you right in front of these eyes,” Stefani sings.

As previously mentioned, Stefani is a middle-aged woman nearing 50, and this song simply doesn’t seem like something people her age deal with, and it’s as far away from the “breakup” theme as she could get.

On a lighter note, the album closer “Rare” lives up to its name as it’s the most stripped-down track on the record. It is simply Stefani, backed by an acoustic guitar and a beat. It’s still very-much radio pop, but there seems to be more heart in this one. Stefani sings of how special her lover is, and how she treasures those unique qualities.

“You’re rare, and I’m loving every second of it, don’t you know?” Stefani cries out. “You’re rare, and only a stupid girl would let you go.” This track is ultimately the highlight out of the album’s 12 tracks.

One can admire Stefani for getting back into the music scene. As much as one could respect her art, it just doesn’t feel as genuine as she might want to come across. “This Is What the Truth Feels Like” might be pushed by Stefani as the testament to her breakup, but it feels more like she’s a 16-year-old girl living in a 47-year-old woman’s body. The music is catchy, as most studio-assembled pop music is, but instead of channeling her divorce into emotional music, it feels insincere and all too bubbly. Perhaps she should have stayed in 2004.

and fine arts as part of someone’s life, and he said passionate students should pursue those fields, regardless of the money.

“To be called to be a writer or a singer-songwriter like Daniel Martin Moore is every bit as important as to be called to be an engineer or scientist or mathematician,” Bolin said. “You have to follow whatever your first love is.”

Bolin said being flexible is the key to opening up to new experiences, especially with statistics showing people change occupations three or four times in a lifetime.

Being a vocational chameleon, Moore fits this criterion since he said he already thinks his career in music might not last forever. He still possesses a passion for photography – and who knows what interests might lie ahead. The singer-songwriter said he admires people who shift gears and try something new.

With non-STEM departments being looked down upon by some, Moore believes the greatest intellectuals of our time were also exceptional artists and musicians.

“I think we can be many things in our lives; you can’t just have one facet as a person,” he said. “That [person] would be the most boring person who ever lived.”

Moore’s thirst for the unconventional has led him to play in an underground cave in Ireland, one of his most memorable experiences.

His passion for helping other lesser-known artists like him inspired him to have his own record label, a brainchild that can be attributed to his stubbornness and refusal to accept market reality, he said. Moore’s haunting, gorgeous voice will hopefully bring out some people to come see him on April 11 at the CFSB Center and on April 12 in the Reading Room in Pogue, Bolin said.

As for the professor’s thoughts on music majors and humanities majors being downplayed, those are actually the things that make life worth living, he said.

“You go to university to prepare for an occupation and to prepare to make a living,” Bolin said. “But it’s even more important to go to college or university to make a life.”

Greek Week returns after year-long hiatus Jeff Ramsay

Contributing writer jramsay@murraystate.edu

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When Evan Ditty interviewed for the Coordinator of Greek life position last April, it was mentioned in his interview that a solid Greek Week hadn’t been established at the university.

At Edinboro University, Ditty worked as a full-time grad assistant for Greek life, which had a Greek Week consisting of 21 events in seven days. Ditty said he would like to see Murray State’s Greek life moving in a similar direction, but the return of Greek Week this year was all about laying a foundation.

Michael Mann, president of Interfraternity Council, said he knew when Ditty took the job for Murray State that his previous job experience of planning a large Greek Week would help push the annual event to the next level.

“This time Ditty said, ‘Let’s try and up it a little bit, next year it will be bigger and even bigger the next,’” Mann said.

“Just like bringing in any new process, you have to ease it in.”

Planning for Greek Week, which was held all last week, began as early as last fall during the vice president elections for Interfraternity Council, National Pan-Hellenic Council and National Panhellenic Council. One of the biggest duties as vice president for these councils is programing for Greek life, with the

This is an event for students, so it should be based on what the students want and planned by the students.

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biggest part of that being Greek Week.

Ditty said he wanted Brooke Hubbard, Greek life Graduate Assistant, and the vice presidents of each council to have the experience of planning a major program, so he put them in charge of coordinating Greek Week.

“I really let Brooke and the three of them drive Greek Week as much as possible,” Ditty said. “This is an event for students so it should be based on what the students want and planned by students.”

Ditty said most of what he did for Greek Week was logistics to make sure each event planned was feasible.

“I didn’t want to overprogram our students, who are already complaining about overprogramming,” Ditty said.

“I didn’t want to make the week overwhelming since so many organizations

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Sigma Pi brings pups to play with for ‘Dog Days’ Taylor Inman Staff writer

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Sigma Pi’s annual Altruistic Campus Experience project has been many different things in the past, but this year it took an adorable, fluffy turn by working with the Calloway County Humane Society to offer students access to pet therapy dogs and adoption services for their first ever Sigma Pi Dog Days.

Last Saturday was bright and beautiful as the certified pet therapy dogs greeted students on the Quad. The Humane Society offered these services, as well as the chance to meet and adopt puppies on the spot. The project raked in four adoption applications throughout the event.

Evan Laird, Sigma Pi’s philanthropy chairman and ACE project chairman, said Sigma Pi has used their ACE project in the past to put on a dinner for faculty and staff, organize a campus clean-up and, most recently, host a dinner for local law enforcement.

“This year we’re doing something a little different,” Laird said. “We’ve decided to team up with the local Humane Society. A lot of our other chapters have done this all over the country.”

Laird said the project happening during a stressful time for students was beneficial coincidence.

“We’re helping students benefit themselves by taking time to come out on a beautiful day, play with some animals and not have to stress about class,” Laird said.

The fraternity offered Dog Days t-shirts and drinks for sale, and while there was an admission fee of $2, Sigma Pi president Michael Mann said it’s going toward a good cause.

“So we’re helping the campus and the community,” Mann said. “I don’t like charging people, but we’re giving this money to the humane society. Yesterday, we did a clean-up at the animal shelter, as well.”

The pet therapy dogs can come in many shapes and

GEN-SELFIE From Page 5B came real that we actually had to talk to each other.”

Selfies may be all fun and games, but no matter a person’s intent behind the selfie, there are serious effects of taking and posting them.

For women and girls, concerns over body image have begun to rise with the rise of selfies and social media.

BBC News conducted a study in 2014 showing the more women are exposed to selfies of their friends, the more of a negative body image they begin to develop.

According to BBC, “To look at the impact on body image, researchers at the University of Strathclyde, Ohio University and University of Iowa surveyed 881 female college students in the U.S.,” and “It did find a link between time spent on social networks and negative comparisons about body image.”

Even those who consider selfies as silly did have opinions on how to “look good” in selfies.

“It’s all about angles,” Mayberry said.

“You can’t take a selfie from a low angle,

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Lizzie Shaylor, senior from Mayfield, Kentucky, petting one of the puppies up for adoption. sizes, but to do their job correctly, they really only have to have a loving personality, said Calloway County Humane Society’s Executive Director, Kathy Hodge.

“It has to do with the tem-

it shows all your chins.”

While studies show that selfies and negative body images may be closely related, many women, especially celebrities, claim empowerment through selfies.

Kim Kardashian West published a book last year titled “Selfish,” which consists of selfies she has taken over the years. It was 32 on the New York Times Best Seller: Celebrity list, selling more than 32,000 copies in its first three months, according to the Daily Mail.

USA Today ran a body image survey in 2014 that resulted in different conclusions than previously-conducted surveys.

“65 percent [of teenage girls] said seeing their selfies on social media actually boosts their confidence,” said USA Today.

Tags on twitter such as #bodyposi have emerged, in which social media users, predominately women, share selfies of themselves. People find comfort in sharing their selfies with the Internet, but most of the research conducted thus far suggests this is rooted in attachment to likes and retweets.

The debate surrounding selfies as beneficial or detrimental or serious or a tool to combat boredom may continue. However, it is clear that the selfie is here to stay.

perament of the dog more than anything else,” Hodge said. “Some dogs love being messed with and they love to be played with and they never tire of it. That’s the kind of personality a ther-

GREEK WEEK From Page 5B already have big events planned throughout the remainder of the semester.”

One of the new events for this year’s Greek Week was Family Feud, which was chosen because it hadn’t been done by any of the organizations and got every Greek chapter involved through representatives.

Another new event for this year’s Greek Week was a rebate night at The Burrito Shack, which raised $184.

Even though this may seem like a surprisingly-low amount since all of Greek life was expected to participate, several factors had an effect on the rebate night’s outcome, including the amount donated being only 10 percent of sales.

“There was a miscommunication with The Burrito Shack and we thought the event started at noon, but it actually started at 4, so those that came for lunch missed out on

donating,” Ditty said. “Other Greek philanthropies also had rebate nights scheduled during Greek Week, and the overprograming had an effect on participation.”

Ditty expanded on the topic by saying this was the first year Greek Week featuring a rebate night so this was simply somewhere to start, but also something to build off for next year.

The money is split between the three Greek councils and donated to the philanthropy each council decides on.

“A photo challenge was also something new added to this year’s Greek Week, which had three different opportunities each day for students to take photos that were related to what was going on,” Ditty said. “It got everyone involved throughout the course of the week and was an opportunity for each organization to earn spirit points for friendly competition.”

Ditty explained that #RacerGW16 was chosen as a unique tag for Greek Week at Murray State. It served as a way of labeling the photo competition, but

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The Humane Society brings their therapy dogs to the Curris Center on the second Wednesday of every month, but they rarely offer up puppy adoption services at Murray State, only bringing a litter of puppies about once a year.

While the potential adoptees couldn’t just take the puppy home from Dog Days, the Humane Society volunteers have begun the vetting process of looking over the applications submitted, to determine if they are a good match.

“We feel like what we’re doing is match making,” Hodge said. “We want the person and animal to be the perfect match for each other.”

Through all of the donations, Humane Society representatives said they also want to spread their own message.

“We really appreciate it; we’ll use that money to help with that care for the animals that we brought today.

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stand what humane societies are all about, we like to send students away from campus knowing what humane societies can be and how they can be active in a community.”

Laird said he hopes this will become a regular project for Sigma Pi and considered the large turnout to be a successful first attempt.

“This is something that we hope to be a staple for years to come,” Laird said. “If it’s not our spring philanthropy, we will have it as our ACE project.”

Mann said he wants to add to Dog Days, making it even bigger next year, by doing a campus clean-up in addition to the Dog Days project and expanding their reach to other Humane Societies in surrounding counties.

“As we make it bigger, obviously we’re going to need more dogs,” Mann said. “The more animals that are here, the more animals that can get adopted. And with more people here means we raise more money for the Humane Society.”

also used the mascot to promote school spirit.

“We got really good participation for Greek Week this year especially via the social media challenge,” Ditty said. “The events that we picked out allowed the smaller chapters to be on an even playing field with the big chapters, which is what we wanted.”

In the future, Ditty said he would like to see trophies associated with Greek Week in hopes to establish more of an incentive for fraternities and sororities to participate.

Although All Greek Assembly was canceled due to the countywide power outage, the Greek life Office is currently planning to reschedule the event sometime before the end of the semester. The event is still set to feature a Greek God and Goddess Beauty Pageant, which was a new addition originally scheduled to be a part of the assembly.

If you have any questions regarding Greek Week or Greek life at Murray State contact Evan Ditty at editty@murraystate.edu.

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America’s sweetheart faceplants in new ad Last summer, Taylor Swift, the queen of pop, single-handedly changed Apple’s mind on not paying writers, producers and artists in their decision to give customers a three-month free trial of Apple Music. She wrote a letter to Apple expressing her disappointment on her Tumblr blog, which received thousands of notes.

Now, almost a year later, T-Swizzle has partnered up with Apple in a new ad showing how “distractingly good” Apple Music is. The ad has gone viral since its release on Friday, topping 11 million views on YouTube. The ad shows the “Blank Space” singer attempting to workout to Drake and Future’s “Jumpman” but failing miserably as she trips on the treadmill, faceplants and ends up on the floor feebly singing along to the hip-hop track. Knowing our Taylor, it wouldn’t be a good commercial without her clumsiness.

Like most blockbuster sequels, “London Has Fallen” hits all of the requirements it needs in order to be a political action thriller. With that said, audience members looking for an action film with little narrative that, subsequently, doesn’t require much thought are bound to find this film enjoyable, but the remaining viewers are going to be profoundly dissatisfied.

The film picks up the plot three years after the events of its prequel, “Olympus Has Fallen.” The British prime minister has just died under mysterious circumstances and all of the major world leaders are invited to his funeral. Mike Banning (Gerald Butler), who is still the U.S. president’s (Aaron Eckhart) top Secret Service agent, escorts the president to London for the memorial service.

Not long after their arrival, multiple bombs explode, killing a majority of the world’s leaders. The group of extremists behind the explosions is revealed to be an assemblage of Muslim terrorists that have infiltrated the police and military forces.

The radical group demands the life of the president in order to cease bombings throughout London, and if they don’t comply, “then all future deaths will be on your hands.” Back in the States, Vice President Trumbull (Morgan Freeman) uses all resources available to assist Banning in getting the president safely back home.

If the viewer has a basic understanding of how action movies work, then they will be able to figure out how the plot is going to go for this one. The film’s storyline is straight-forward and has no shocking

twists or anything unique. Spectators watching this movie will probably find the plot exceedingly formulaic and feel as if they have already watched a similar narrative.

Another harmful plot device this film uses is the fact that it seems to make the entire Muslim population look like a terrorist force that America needs to stop. The film’s dialogue even consists of racist comments. For instance, at one point in the film the main character says to one of the extremists he’s killing, “get back to F***headistan or wherever you’re from.”

The sequel had a budget of more than 60 million dollars, and the audience will deduce that the bulk of the funds were spent constructing the film’s vivid action sequences with the use of CGI and on obtaining its A-list cast members.

The acting was the overall highlight of the film, but with the cast comprising Freeman, Butler and several other recognizable faces, it’s not a complete surprise. With that said, none of the performances were Oscar-worthy, and most of the cast undoubtedly reprised their specific roles for the paycheck.

“London Has Fallen” is an unoriginal film that audiences are bound to forget moments after leaving the theater. If viewers go into this film and don’t really pay any attention to its superficial narrative and are looking to watch another typical action-packed sequel, then spectators might have a decent experience.

Conversely, viewers that are looking for something unique or thought-provoking would be better off watching the grass grow outside instead of viewing this lackluster, refurbished follow-up film.

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In my hometown, there were several rock quarries. If you’ve been to one, you know what I’m talking about.

Connor Jaschen If you Features Editor h a v e n ’ t been to one, just imagine a perfect circle of the bluest water imaginable, surrounded on all sides by sheer cliff faces, sometimes reaching up to 70 feet high depending on the water level.

While it sounds like a load of fun, bad things tend to happen in rock quarries; people jump in and never come back, swimmers can catch full-body cramps and drown because the water is so cold and sometimes there are entire structures just beneath the surface that are invisible to those above water.

Needless to say, it is pretty dangerous stuff, if you aren’t careful.

In true form and fashion, though, nothing was going to stop my friends and I from braving the cliffs, so we made the trek to the quarries at least once a week, slipped through the razor wire fence with the “No Trespassing” sign on it and looked down into the abyss of water beneath us.

Every week we would urge each other to jump and for the first few times, no one would. We were teens and we knew what could happen; we had all heard the horror stories.

My friend Joe decided one day enough was enough. So, he made his way to the highest point, had us take long sticks and prod for the bottom to make sure the water was deep enough for him not to hurt himself and readied for the jump.

It took him a few minutes, but he did it. At that point the water was low enough it could’ve been a 60foot jump, easy. But he did it.

He jumped, crashing into the still top of the water, breaking the otherwise tranquil scene.

Then, everything went quiet again. Joe had disappeared beneath the pool of water.

We immediately began to panic, calling out for him.

It took a few seconds, but Joe reappeared, smiling wide in triumph.

I ended up jumping a week later, but looking back, I wish no one would have.

My last column was about taking the risk despite it not being the safest option, but that comes with limits.

I don’t know what we would’ve done if Joe hadn’t come back to the top of the water, and I don’t want to think about it either way.

Sometimes, the risk can affect more than just yourself. I don’t blame Joe or myself or anyone else for taking that jump. Just realize for every person that does resurface, reality is there are always times when that’s not the case.

A few months after our jumps, someone died in the quarry. No, it wasn’t jumping related, but they ran their car off into the water.

We visited a year or so later for nostalgia’s sake. The top of the water still had a film of oil from the engine of the hidden car.

No one jumped in this time around. Now, the water was black, and if someone wouldn’t have come up, we would never find them.

And those are the thoughts that keep me awake at night. cjaschen@murraystate.edu

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