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Vol 67 | Number 07

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SENIOR STUDENT PROPOSES TO HIS GIRLFRIEND DURING CAMPUS BIBLE STUDY

LIFE & STYLE

Welcome GovernorElect Greg Abbott

THE TSU HERALD | November 12, 2014

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BRAIN CANCER PATIENT BECOMES NEW FACE FOR OREGON’S DEATH WITH DIGNITY ACT

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pageBedia 10 Photo credit: Buck GREAT CHANGES IN ACADEMIC STANDARD OF TSU ATHLETES

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OPINION page 11

HAZING STILL A PREVALENT DANGER ACROSS AMERICA

HOW TO HANDLE PERSONAL ATTACKS ON SOCIAL MEDIA

JESSE H. JONES SCHOOL OF BUSINESS HOSTS PROJECT GRAD INFORMATIONAL

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Campus News Senior student proposes to his girlfriend during campus bible study

BY CAMBRAI ROBINSON Contributing Writer

Senior Shickerra Marsh received the ultimate shock of her life when her boyfriend, and Senior Deandre Lacy proposed in front of dozens at noon day bible study in the student center.

Eager to crack the surprise, Lacy kept it a big secret by planning an afternoon of love and worship witnessed by close family, friends, and the student publications.

“He who finds a good wife finds a good thing,” Lacy said. “God placed it on my heart and within two weeks I made a lifetime commitment.”

The noon-day bible lesson was taught on love, relationships, and the importance of a commitment to Christ in your relationship. Lacy gradually began to profess his love to Marsh

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and thanking her for sharing his journey in Christ with him.

After leaving numerous clues, Lacy grabs Marsh by the hand and begins to reveal his big surprise.

Cracking the case, Marsh was shocked to see her boyfriend bow to one knee and propose at bible study, the event and organization they helped build together in 2012.

The romantic proposal chilled the room as tears began to flow eye-to-eye.

Lacy got down on one knee, shaking in admiration, telling Marsh the only thing he wants to change about her is her last name.

The couple met the spring semester of 2012 and began their relationship by only being friends. One of the many things they had in common was their love for Christ.

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“I had no idea, this is unreal” Marsh with chills and a smile says she is blessed to have man of God. Marsh says she was blown away by the obscurity of the proposal, adding that Lacy really pulled it off. Lacy adds that surprising Marsh was one of his greatest accomplishments because she is always aware of what he is doing.

The grand proposal

ended with a Q&A with the newly engaged couple. The bible study group was opened to ask any questions in regards to relationships and growing in Christ together. The humble couple answered every question in honesty and truthfulness.

“The road has not been easy but with God we have made it together” From meeting each other at TSU to saying “I Do”, Lacy & Marsh plan to get married with a small wedding with family and dear friends.

The couple says they plan to continue to work faithfully in the word of God by saving souls on campus one day at a time.

“He who finds a good wife finds a good thing.”-Deandre Lacy

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Campus News Jesse H. Jones School of Business Hosts Project GRAD Informational

BY MARIEA BOYD Campus News Editor

On November 5, 2014 The Jesse Hill Jones School of Business hosted the project GRAD seminar in partnership with Project Grad Houston.

Texas Southern University has partnered with Project Grad Houston many times before, once in conjunction with he COPHS Office of

The informal gathering Students, armed with scholarships, along with their parents, will get a closer look at nearby Texas Southern University.

Beginning in 1988, Tenneco funded a four-year college scholarship program for eligible graduates of Davis High School, at the time Houston’s lowest-performing high school. By 1991–92, the number of Davis graduates entering college had more than quadrupled.

“I remember when I was in high school and Project GRAD came in to encourage students to graduate and to give students information on college,” Freshman Business student Bianca Dottie said.

The scholarship offer had a great impact.

Project GRAD’s goals were more ambitious: seeing at least 40 percent of entering 9th graders enroll in college. To get there, GRAD resolved to reach students earlier than 9th grade, developing a comprehensive set of interventions to begin in kindergarten (or even before) and span all the grades through the 12th.

The informational also discussed information on what students needed to renew their project GRAD scholarships, like their spring schedule and grades from the preceding semester.

“We are just trying to help students understand that just because they went to an inner-city school they can still grow up and be successful,” Project GRAD Ambassador Amanda Roper said.

Ambassadors were also stationed in the Sterling Student Center November 4th and 5th giving out advice to GRAD scholars during the PG at the U event.

“I think Project GRAD is a really good tool for freshmen. I didn’t know a lot about scholarships and FAFSA until my sophomore year [of college], so it’s good to see a positive program on campu,” Jaron Wright, Junior at the Martin Luther King School of Communications said.

Project GRAD is a non-profit organization founded in Houston, Texas by James Ketelsen, the Chairman and CEO of Tenneco, Inc.

TSU officials showcased the university’s unique degree programs like Maritime Transportation, Airway Science, Entertainment and Recording, Transportation and Research, Theatre, Education and Business. It also announced new degree programs such as Civil Engineering, which will be available in the spring of 2015 and Electrical and Computer Engineering in the fall of 2015.

Ambassadors also touched on how students could tackle excellent time management skills and to understand how the Free Application for Federal Student Aid works.

participated for four weeks in The Institute’s program, which ended June 30, 2005.

Student Services, who recently completed the Project GRAD Summer Institute program.

The Institute was one of nine college preparatory programs funded by Project GRAD. The TSU program was designed specifically for students with an interest in pharmacy, respiratory therapy, health administration, health information management and environmental health or clinical laboratory sciences.

Seventeen students from Yates High School

This led to the development of the full GRAD model, incorporating curricular, methodological, and student and family support programs to help build basic skills, improve student behavior, and catch children before they find themselves at risk of dropping out.

GRAD’s growing successes in Houston led to its expansion into four additional feeder systems in Houston’s public school system, where the program now reaches over 45,000 students.

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Life & Style

How to handle personal attacks on social media

BY KENNETH WARE, JR. Life & Style Editor

Social media is a powerful tool that has many professional and personal advantages, which is why many collegians use it.

However, while you do have control over it and how you build your online presence, you typically lack control about what others say about you in online comments.

“I do not even entertain negative people or comments online,” La’Tricia Whitaker, a freshman studying broadcast journalism said. “It is a waste of time and energy.”

Chris Brown was praised by a judge earlier this year for his progress in mandatory anger management classes, but showed that he is still a work in progress.

The 25-year-old singer recently took to social media to verbally attack talk show hosts Tamar Braxton, 37, and Adrienne Bailon, 31, over critical remarks they made on their talk show, The Real.

Tamar and Adrienne said that his girlfriend Karrueche Tran tolerates his alleged cheating because she loves the fame. Chris quickly fired back on Instagram and dissed both women in a video and lengthy caption, which he later deleted.

“I think it’s petty,” Kassandra “Kassie” Johnston, a junior studying finance said. “I deleted my ex-boyfriend off my Facebook page because of some childish things he said when I started dating other people.”

The larger your presence, the more likely you are exposing yourself to feedback – both positive and negative. Even if you have not built out your social media presence, you run the risk of being exposed to one of social media’s dark sides: the personal attack.

People can incorrectly take a comment you make out of context (which in some states could potentially be ground for a false light claim); they can share hurtful opinions (which are generally protected speech under defamation law); or expose a truth that is less than

flattering to you (a statement is not defamatory if true). Or people can just be downright mean.

Twitter currently provides a form for reporting abusive users and details of the behavior. It also suggests contacting local authorities to resolve the issues offline “if the interaction has gone beyond the point of name calling.”

Facebook also provides guidelines for reporting violations. It suggests hiding the abusive item from your news feed, sending a message to the user asking them to take the item down, and unfriending or blocking the person.

If you see an abusive image or comment on Instagram, you are able to report it directly from the mobile app. Once you’ve reported the abuse, Instagram suggests you block the person to avoid further confrontation.

Before you post an ill-mannered Facebook comment, send out a negative tweet or post a raunchy image on Instagram, college students should be aware that employers are judging them on social media. They want to be able to Google future employees and not just see a selfie of them drinking a beer at a party or read a Twitter

rant filled with expletives about a roommate not cleaning their side of the room.

“One of my co-workers was fired from his internship after he posted an obscene picture of a group of half-naked girls at a college party where there was obvious underage drinking,” Terrance Brown, a junior studying psychology said.

According to Snelling Staffing Services, 86% of employers are checking social networks even before they grant an interview. You do not want to go through college and earn a degree and find out you missed out on a high-paying job because of something you posted online during your freshman year.

Keep all of your online profiles positive, not just LinkedIn, and before you post anything, imagine that your grandmother is standing behind your shoulder.

Remember: The Internet is a giant public record.

Even though Generation Y – loosely defined as those born between 1982 and 1999 – are encouraged to post every detail of their lives online, you have to refrain sometimes.

Do not let one social media post come between you and your career. You do not have Chris Brown’s bank account and cannot afford to make his mistakes.

“I deleted my ex-boyfriend off my Facebook page because of some childish things he said when I started dating other people.”- Kassie

Johnston

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Brain cancer patient becomes the new face for the Death With Dignity Act

BY AMBER VERNON Contributing Writer

Terminally ill cancer patient, Brittany Maynard, 29, went through with her plans to end her life Saturday, November 1st after her battle with the disease turned for the worst.

The situation left Texas Southern University law school professors with mixed opinions regarding physician-assisted suicide.

In an interview conducted on November 3, professor of law James Douglas said the issue was not up to everyone else to decide.

“There are some situations, in Maynard’s case for instance, where the doctor says you only have six months to live,” Douglas said. “How you decide to spend your last moments ought to be left up to you. I know that on the religious side they’re going to say God could perform a miracle. That might be true but, what if he doesn’t?”

Maynard was a terminally ill 29-yearold woman diagnosed with brain cancer who took her own life with medication this past weekend. Her death inspired numerous discussions across the nation regarding the ethics of assisted suicide.

Maynard learned of her brain cancer just as she and her husband were trying to reproduce. She had continual headaches and migraines, and by the beginning of the next year she was diagnosed with brain cancer, and was told initially that she had 3-5 years to live.

After further examination of her tumor,

her life expectancy then dropped to a mere six months. She immediately decided not to work to have a child, for fear of abandoning him/ her.

“I immediately shut down my plans, because I can’t bring a child into the world knowing I’m going to leave them motherless,” she said in an interview with Us Weekly.

Maynard and her husband moved to Oregon from California so she could end her life lawfully under the state’s assisted suicide act.

According to Oregon.gov, the “Death with Dignity Act” enables terminally ill Oregonians to voluntarily take their own life with medication prescribed to them by a physician for that purpose.

Douglas said there is a possibility that Texas and the rest of the nation could adopt the policy, “just not in the near future.”

“I think as a nation we are becoming more and more cognitive of the fact that there are some issues that will cause us to rethink the way we’ve considered things in our culture,” Douglas said. “I think assisted suicide is one of them.”

Although law professor James Douglas sees no issue with Maynard’s decision, instructor for legal pedagogy Tamara Tabo believes the “Death with Dignity Act” proposes a few problems.

“There are aspects to the Oregon law as well

as laws from other states that I think are problematic,” Tabo said. “This isn’t a moral argument. This is one that says the law as written isn’t a good idea. We’re asking medical doctors to do things that are not typically a part of what medical doctors do.”

Under Oregon’s “Death with Dignity Act,” physicians have to certify that a patient has been diagnosed with an illness that will end their lives within six months before the patient can receive the medication that will be used to end their life. It is this notion that Tabo said is an issue within the law.

“Medical prognosis, or the amount of months or years you have to live, makes sense in a medical context but doesn’t make sense in a legal context because it is a conjecture, an informed guess,” Tabo said. “Putting doctors in a position in which they are certifying all of this legal stuff is a little weird. We’re trying to put doctors into a system where they don’t really fit.”

In an article Tabo wrote for Above the Law, she described how physician-assisteddeath laws defined the medical profession “in ways that were inconsistent with the profession’s self-definition.”

Tabo also questioned Oregon’s law, revealing some issues with the ruling that may have been overlooked.

“A doctor’s job is to not necessarily heal, but to end suffering,” Tabo said. “Why limit these sorts of laws only to the terminally ill? There seems to be this sort of dual standard there that suggests that some types of suffering are worse than others.”

Despite Tabo’s disapproval of Oregon’s law, she said she is understanding of Maynard’s situation.

“I oppose the Oregon law as written but, I don’t oppose the idea of voluntary death with someone who is terminally ill, such as Brittany Maynard, being able to end her own life under the law,” Tabo said.

Maynard’s life story may have ended on November 1, but the movement for “Death with Dignity” has a long way to go.

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YES OF OUR TIGERS

As the weeks go by here at Texas Southern University, our photographers have captured all of the moments and current events.

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1. Spectators cheer on the Tiger football team.

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2. Members of the Royal Court encourage the football team during its game against Grambling State University.

3. The Tiger Football Team lines up to prepare for the Grambling’s next play.

4. Students dance on the court alongside the cheerleaders before the Halloween Madness Basketball Game.

5. The ladies of the Tiger Basketball Team are introduced and huddle before Halloween Madness.

6. Player dunks for two at the Halloween Madness Game.

7. Students pose courtside at the Halloween Madness basketball game.

8. Students dressed as cholas for Halloween dance during Halloween Madness.

9. Senior Deandre Lacy proposes to his girlfriend and senior Shickerra Marsh after on-campus bible study.

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10. Students enjoy a meal during noon-day bible study.

11. Participants in the Recreation Center’s Diabetes and Hypertension awareness event pose at the Student Center.

Photos courtesy of: Jacorolynstans Harper, Cameron Butler, Joedicy Simms and Kurt Brinson

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News Updates Texas Southern University Releases New Graduating Initiative

BY MARIEA BOYD Campus News Editor

In collaboration with the university’s president, Dr. John M. Rudley and the Division of Academic Affairs, the Degree Works initiative will be launched campus-wide this month, just in time for Spring registration.

Degree Works is another way that TSU can continue to enhance and highlight its student-centered mission.

Degree Works is an online check sheet for students and their advisors to review and monitor progress toward degree completion. It organizes academic coursework into blocks of requirements to help you easily identify courses you have completed and what courses you still need in order to complete your degree.

“I am very excited to be a part of an amazing team that has worked diligently to make sure this initiative is available to students and academic advisors. The Degree Works Team and students alike are a part of something that will positively impact the University from the onset and in years to come. We are One TSU,” said Raijanel Crockem, the Executive Director of Institutional Assessment Planning and Effectiveness

Degree Works allows students view all of their completed and currently registered courses as well as their grades. Students can also view courses that are remaining from their degree plan requirements.

There are many different within the web application that can assist the student in many ways like: Worksheets, What If, Planner, Notes, and the GPA Calculator.

The worksheets tab is the tab for the degree audit, which is an online version of a check sheet. It provides a review of past, current and planned coursework as well as information about completed and outstanding requirements. Audits are organized by blocks. The blocks show what requirements are needed for a specific degree, major, minor, area of emphasis, etc. and help you to see what you need to do in order to fulfill the requirements within each block.

The What If function is currently used for two purposes; To hypothesize a change in major and to track a minor or area of emphasis not listed in your audit.

The planner feature can be used to create a plan for degree completion and check the plan to make sure that the courses you plan to take will fulfill your degree requirements.

The notes can appear at the bottom of your audit. They are a convenient way for your advisor to keep track of academic advice, career goals or any other bits of information important to your academic career.

The GPA Calculator is a convenient way to track and plan for your GPA, especially if your department has a minimum GPA requirement.

The Class History link allows you to view all courses taken organized by semester. It also shows the grade received and credit hours. Class History does not act as an official transcript.

For more information you can go to the tsu.edu website and click on the degree works tab.

Downhill Streak for Tiger Football

BY SIDNIE HOLMES Sports Editor

The Tigers have suffered a series of losses since going into Conference play, losing the last four games including a devastating heartbreak during the university’s Homecoming. The Tigers are ending the season opposite of how it was started.

The Southwestern Athletic Conference standings as of Saturday, Texas Southern, stands in fourth place in the West falling behind Prairie View, Southern, and the 7-0 Grambling Tigers. Texas Southern, who in the last few games had been getting off to a slow start and coming alive in the second half, managed to not receive a reward this game. The Tigers were held to a non- scoring second half. The Tigers last score was a field goal made by Medina in the second quarter. This was a sign of the game going in a downhill direction.

It is the university’s hope that the Tiger Football Team can reemerge its greatness and finish the season out strong.

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Sports Great changes in the academic standard of TSU athletes

BY TONY MONK Staff Writer

grade point average of 2.0 must also take the same amount of hours, and all students must pass 12 hours within their degree plan going towards graduation and 24 hours within a year, the Dr. McClelland and the department emphasize putting a winning product on the field.

The students themselves have responded well to the message passed down from the director and coaching staff put in place.

“We are really required to do study hall and we know that we are students first and athletes second”, women’s softball player Alaina Stubblefield said. Being three years removed almost receiving the death penalty to having an opportunity to having an opportunity for a winning season is a huge feat to the department each sports team competing at a high level Dr. McClelland hopes this all 16 sports can win a series of championships.

Texas Southern University Athletics Department has steadily risen the academic ranks within the last few years. Led by athletic director Dr. Charles McClelland and the outstanding academic changes he’s made, they have shown that TSU can win off the field as well.

Formally close to the bottom of the barrel of Division 1 graduation rates, Texas Southern has risen from its lackluster 29% to today where the schools is seeing more 54% are graduating within 5 years. Last May, 58 students received their degrees compared to the 14 in 2009.

“We put academics first here at the university, we wanted to make sure if a student athlete came to TSU to obtain a degree, we would give them that 100% guarantee,” Dr. McClelland said. Having dealt with NCAA and APR sanctions the director has had to make drastic changes with the staff as well as what was being offered resource-wise to the athletes. With the use of enhanced academic programs and technology bought, Dr. McClelland made sure the athletes had everything readily available to them.

Results of these installations have been

positive as the Academic Progress Rate has seen a huge jump in recent years. In 2008 TSU held an overall APR of 833. The NCAA had the minimum cut off score at 925 recently changed to 930, but with the recent changes had brought TSU 2013-2014 to 970, with men’s football at 977, men’s basketball at 953, and the women’s basketball, golf, cross country and volleyball scoring a perfect 1000.

Dr. McClelland has also critically evaluated coaches have held themselves accountable as well as put in incentives with the graduation rates, making sure they understand how important graduating students athletes are to the program. The department’s vision is 70% for a graduation rate which is hoped to be achieved within the next few years. That vision is also trickling down to the coaches who are instilling that the athletes make sure when they graduate they have their degree.

“The athletic director has sent a firm message that we make academics and education is a priority”, Volleyball Head Coach Adams said. The athletic staff as a whole has made sure the students are getting the lesson, freshman are required to go to study hall at least 20 hours a week and other athletes with a

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Politics

Welcome Governor-Elect Greg Abbott

BY LINDSAY GARY Politics and Opinion Editor

Texans spoke out on Election Day, electing Greg Abbott as the next governor of Texas. After months on the campaign trail, Wendy Davis conceded her race for governor on the night of November 4th. The results were not only disappointing to Davis and her supporters, but also shocking as the national political star loss by over 20 points, a margin greater than any expert predictions.

Ironically Davis, who garnered national fame last year when she filibustered an antiabortion bill on the Texas Senate floor for 11 hours, was unable to secure enough votes from the very people she stood up for.

Results show that the majority of Texas women favored Abbott, while blacks and Latinos largely supported Davis. Although Davis’s dedication to women’s right did not secure her seat at the governor’s mansion, she was successful in thrusting these issues back to the forefront.

Abbott’s win must be an exciting one, as he is the first governor elected after Governor Rick Perry’s nearly fifteen-year tenure.

The win is also moving for his wife Cecilia, who is now going to be the first Latina First Lady of Texas. Abbott’s triumph is a piece of a larger wave of Republican midterm wins across the nation, including the

on Election Day. This law likely disenfranchised thousands, especially people of color and students. He also has serious plans to put an end to ObamaCare, protect the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms, and to limit abortion rights; he is essentially in opposition to four major issues that are beneficial to black Texans and others. Davis on the contrary was a major advocate for expanding educational opportunities for both K-12 and higher education and increasing job and other economic opportunities. She believed her efforts would serve as equalizers for marginalized Texans.

With the new make-up of Congress and our new governor, the importance of midterm elections is ever-apparent. Conservatism will likely prevail in both statewide and national policy-making, and as black students, we will likely be met with greater obstacles. It is important that we do not give up during this time, that we become more engaged and continue to hold our elected officials accountable, and that we vote in every election. election of Utah’s Mia Love, the first African American Republican woman ever elected to the United States House of Representatives.

Republicans are now the majority in both houses of the United States Congress.

Political analysts are debating over both this so-called Republican sweep and over the reasons for Davis’s loss. Some argue Davis did not raise enough funds and that her campaign was unable to convince non-voters to go out to the polls on her behalf. Others maintain that despite an increasing Latino population, Texas is still a very Red state.

The fact that Texas ranks last in voter turnout nationwide, a statistic that is even lower for gubernatorial elections, is an added challenge for democratic candidates and Davis was no exception. Her campaign also lists immigration and Ebola as reasons for her loss.

But regardless of the politics of the election, the people of Texas are most important. The fate of blacks, Latinos, immigrants, students, women, and low income individuals under the leadership of Governorelect Abbott are unclear. A self-proclaimed “conservative to the core,” Abbott and his running mate, Dan Patrick, are advocates for rich, white Texans. He led the push for the Texas Voter ID Law which was in full effect

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Hazing Still a Prevalent Danger Across America

BY LENZI CAUSEY Managing Editor

Following the gruesome death of Florida A & M University drum major Robert Champion in 2011, hazing organizations have been under fierce watch on college campuses.

Hazing by definition means to impose strenuous and/ or humiliating tasks as part of a program of rigorous physical training or initiation. Often times, hazing is thought to only take place during admittance of students into Greek organizations, but hazing is widespread throughout schools’ bands and sports teams.

Incriminating acts of hazing on college campuses have been widespread across the country in recent events.

“The problem is that many alumni are unwilling to say that hazing is a bad thing; because they went through it and survived, they think new members should, too,” Alexandra Robbins, author of ‘Pledged: The Secret Lives of Sororities,’ said in a recent Fox 411 interview.

Champion, 26, was murdered by blows from 12 former university band members, 10 of which were charged with third-degree felony hazing and the other two with seconddegree manslaughter.

“He was a very fine drum major who was of excellent character and very trustworthy. I had not told him yet, but he was slated to be the head drum major next year,” Julian White, the band’s director said after the incident.

Soon after the investigation of Champion’s case, FAMU student Bria Hunter came forth after her thigh bone was broken during alleged hazing by three other band members.

Hunter placed a lawsuit upon the school whilst forfeiting her $82,000 scholarship.

From 2011 up until now, several organizations have been caught and punished for similar crimes. Just Monday, November 3rd.

Elon University in North Carolina suspended its chapter of Sigma Pi fraternity for hazing.

There are appeals, but if they fail, the fraternity is not to have any formal or informal events or take part in any community philanthropy until fall 2017.

The university released a statement on November 9th about the incident: “Elon Uni-

versity possesses zero tolerance for any hazing activities, regardless of degree or student organization.”

Even high school students are becoming villains and victims of this seemingly on-going crime. According to The Associated Press, a New Jersey high school football team is underwent investigation for hazing late last month.

Sayreville War Memorial High School had seven students and football players ranging from 15 to 17 years of age involved in sex crimes. Six of them were arrested the same night the investigation began to take place, for the attacking of four other students over a 10day period.

“Three of the students were charged with aggravated sexual assault, criminal restraint, hazing and other crimes for an act of sexual penetration upon one of the children,”

Middlesex County prosecutor Andrew C. Carey said.

The school cancelled all campus football events for the entire season, and one of the students lost a possible recruitment and scholarship to Penn State. The football coaches who also teach at the New Jersey high school were suspended with pay from both positions, according to an official interviewed by ABC News.

The backlash behind the situation was unreal; students attacked the victims and not the perpetrators.

“[If freshmen] thought we hated them before we sure as hell hate them now,” a 16-year-old female student wrote on Twitter, because the school’s football season was cancelled. Another student posted a picture of two trash bins, saying it was a real picture of the freshman football team. “[The comments] made me want to shoot myself,” one freshman player told The Times.

Is a functioning high school football season really more important than the safety the players?

The Times- Herald Record, The Huffington Post and Cosmopolitan Magazine have all recently posted stories and photographic records displaying the dangers and occurrences of hazing. Cosmo’s slideshow, posted Sunday, showed campus photos underlined by short synopses or sorority hazing nationwide-- from forced binge drinking to brutal assault.

Hazing is a true form of bullying and has resulted in many injuries, much humiliation and even wrongful deaths. It has been taken lightly for many years, but for some students and parents it is recurring nightmare.

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What’s Happening on campus & around town

Monday - 11/10

Tuesday - 11/11

10th Annual Veteran’s Day Program 12:00-1:00 p.m.

Sawyer Auditorium

Monday - 11/17 MBB vs. Indiana 5:00 p.m.

Bloomington, Ind.

Tuesday - 11/18 WBB vs. Kansas 7:00 p.m.

Lawrence, Kansas

Wednesday - 11/12

Thursday - 11/13

Friday - 11/14

Department of Music Apollo Night Presents: 6:00 p.m.

Legacies of Jazz: Past, Sawyer Auditorium Present and Future 3:00 p.m.

Rhinehart Auditorium

Men BB vs. Eastern Washington 8:00 a.m.

Spokane, Wash.

Wednesday - 11/19

Thursday - 11/20

The Root Presents: Free Lunch and Bible Study 12 p.m.

Room 237 SSLC

Friday - 11/21 WBOWL at Track Kat Clash TBA

The Weekend 11/15 & 11/16 11/15: TSU FB vs. Jackson State 5:30 p.m.

BBVA

The Weekend 11/22 & 11/23 11/22: MBB vs. Norfolk State 5:00 p.m.

Norfolk, Va.

Our calendar is reserved for the advertisement of on and off campus events. If you are interested in having your event placed on our calendar, then please stop by room 221 of the Student Center or call us at (713) 313-6710.

20 Questions

1. Has anyone seen our university president? Or nah.

Anonymously 2. Is President Rudley trying to take away the HBCU title from TSU? submit your 3. Why do student orgs have to pay to use school venues? questions via 4. Where is this $15 million NASA donated to TSU? Ask.Fm 5. Is the Chick-Fil-A going to be done by Fall 2015? today: 6. Why does TSU let the bookstore rip students off?

TSU20Questions 7. Why was our homecoming really only three days?

8. Why has the seating been removed downstairs from the SC? 9. Why were the K’s so judgemental at the Stroll like an Alpha Event?

10.Aren’t they barely K’s?

DISCLAIMER: The questions are 11. Did anyone really enjoy Midnight Madness?

12. Why has UPC been so unorganized to where other orgs have to compensate? submitted by the student body and are not the views of The TSU 13. Did UPC really take over the Grad School’s event?

Herald or Texas Southern University 14. Is the support for the football team increasing? as a whole. Feel free to bring your 15. How many people can run for SGA Senate positions? questions to room 221 of the Student 16. Didn’t you already have to be in SGA to run?

17. Did you know Thanksgiving Break is no longer Wednesday through Friday? Center. Questions are printed at the discretion of The TSU Herald.

18. Who’s all excited to see what this year’s shuffle will look like?

19. How can the SGA president relate to students much younger than he is?

20. Why is the UPC President hosting events?

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