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Volume 45, Number 29

March 24, 2008

Mikey Hendrich accused of Facebook wrongdoings see page 4

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Match Day Candidates make their cases at forum offers made Leigh Patton

MANAGING EDITOR

lwp302@jaguar1.usouthal.edu

Devi Sampat SENIOR REPORTER ds608@jaguar1.usouthal.edu

Medical student Cheryl Law didn’t have time to get nervous as she and other anxious graduating medical students at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine gathered March 20 at the Magnolia Ballroom USA Brookley Campus for Match Day, which is where they learn where they will begin their residency training. “I didn’t have time to get nervous,” Law said. “But I was really nervous one or two minutes before we found out.” Students like Law find out of their new educational paths through the National Residency Match Program, which allows students to electronically rank the programs in their order of preference and allows residency program directors across the country to rank students in order of their preference. At Match Day, NRMP released each individual’s matched residency program simultaneously. Results were distributed in sealed envelopes in a random order to each medical student. X

The debate heated up as candidates running for the 20082009 Student Government Association were questioned what their motives will be while serving in office. SGA held the forum for the candidates running for president, vice president and treasurer in the Student Center. Jeffrey Ryan Harris, Mikey Hendrich and Caitlin Collins gave their goals as potential president of SGA. “I am running for SGA president in order to enact damage control while the petition is circulating to abolish the organization,” Harris said at the SGA forum March 20. “Students are shafted out of their money, and they deserve to get it back,” Harris said. According to Harris, money is not well spent, and the appropriations process is not fair. Harris hopes to use Article XI of the SGA constitution which allows students to propose initiatives and force referendums. Harris’ initiative includes a new amendment to the SGA constitution which would call for the dissolution of SGA. Article XI of the SGA constitution states, “The students reserve to themselves the power, by petition signed by 7 percent of the student body, to propose laws and, by petition signed by 10 percent of the student body, to propose amendment to the constitution. The student body shall enact or reject such laws and amendments at the polls by a majority of those voting.” “Clubs such as the Heritage Panel and the Horror Club weren’t given their money last year because they weren’t liked,” Harris said. Michael Smith, the candidate running unopposed for vice

see MATCH DAY, page 19

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see SGA, page 5

Marzieh K. Atigh / Photo Editor

SGA presidential hopeful Jeffrey Ryan Harris outlines his plan to abolish the SGA during SGA’s candidate forum last Thursday.

Northrop, EADS face political battle to keep tanker contract Mobile County Commission President Stephen Nodine expresses an urgent need for community to show support Jason Shepard EDITOR-IN-CHIEF jason.shepard@comcast.net

As the political battle and the fierce rhetoric heat up, Mobile County Commissioner President Stephen Nodine recognizes that the recently awarded tanker contract – a contract valued at up to $40 billion that would bring tanker aircraft assembly to Mobile – is “ours to lose.” Nodine urges members of the community to show their support. “If we don’t keep our own people motivated and excited and wanting to keep it, it is going to be very difficult for us to fight that political battle with Congress,” Nodine said. On March 29, the U.S. Air Force announced its decision to grant a contract to build 179 refueling tankers to the partnership of Northrop Grumman and European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co., winning over heavily favored Chicago-based Boeing Co. Boeing filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office March 11. Boeing accuses the Air Force of inflating Boeing’s perceived risk factors while downplaying those of Northrop and EADS. X

Inside

see TANKER, page 18

Lifestyles pg. 6

http://www.comebackhometomobile.com

Http://www.keepourtanker.com is a Web site that the County of Mobile created. The site gives visitors a chance to express their support of EADS and Northrop Grumman. County Commissioner Stephen Nodine stresses the need for supports to speak up. There is a fear that even if Boeing loses its protest, Congress may pull funding for the project.

Fine Arts pg. 8

Entertainment pg. 10

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Opinion pg. 15

Classifieds pg. 23

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