Pinethe Log Wednesday, September 27, 2017

The Independent Voice of Stephen F. Austin State University thepinelog.com Parking protests peak Student Government Association to host Banned parking forum for students to voice concerns Books Week

International English Honor Society to hold banned books reading By Taylor Antwine Staff Writer

Sigma Tau Delta, Phi Iota, an International English Honor Society, will be hosting an event celebrating Banned Books Week at 5 p.m. on Thursday in the Vera Dugas Liberal Arts North Building, Room 102. The English Honor Society plans to read from banned books, take a quiz and sell treats. All proceeds from the night will go toward supporting a classroom the group adopted from Port Arthur. Lauren Bush, vice president of Sigma Tau Delta, said Banned Books Week is not just about celebrating books and the freedom to read; it is also about giving back. “We want to do our part to help out with Hurricane Harvey Relief, and you attending will help us do that,” Photo by Hannah Russell/ The Pine Log Bush said. Student Government Association will host a parking forum for students who have complaints about SFA parking. Commuter and According to Bannedbooksweek.org, the Banned resident parking issues can be discussed at the forum where Cynthia Haile, the director of parking and traffic, will be present. Books Week Coalition is a national alliance of diverse organizations joined by a commitment to increase By Shannon Poe studying done, but I couldn’t because the majority of available All Permit awareness of the annual celebration of the freedom to Staff Writer of [parking]. People are always late to parking is taken.” read. They seek to engage various communities and class because of [parking].” Students often suggest many inspire participation in Banned Books Week through The Student Government Students take extra time to find a different solutions to the problems of education, advocacy and the creation of programming Association will hold a Parking Forum parking spot. finding a parking space on campus, about the problem of book censorship. The 2017 for students to discuss their concerns “Mostly every day [I struggle to find one of them including the Jack Track celebration will be held from Sept. 24 to Sept. 30. from 4:30 to 6 p.m. on Thursday in parking] unless by chance I happen to shuttles. “I think that celebrating banned books is more the Baker Pattillo Student Center run into someone pulling out of their “One of the solutions I had is to or less synonymous with celebrating the freedom of movie theater, located on the second spot,” Upham said. put shuttle buses to the apartments… information. To keep someone from reading something floor. One suggestion made was to assign nearby,” Upham said. “That would on the grounds that there are ‘inappropriate’ aspects to Parking and Traffic eliminate half the problem.” the book is, at best, misguided, and at worst, dangerous,” officials and Dr. Adam Peck, “For students like me who work in the However, the Jack Track said Abbey Perschall, president of Sigma Tau Delta. student body president, shuttle busses can often be “Doing so cuts off the student from everything else will be in attendance along mornings, we don’t have the luxury of unreliable for students. that the book has to offer. I think that it’s important to with SGA, according to SGA coming to campus an hour early to get a “I have waited 35 minutes for open up a dialogue about why we as a society find these President Jessie Jenkins. a bus before,” Webb said. “I was topics uncomfortable, and as something that should spot. I don’t have classes until 12:30 p.m., be hidden. Reading banned books, and literature in “Cynthia Haile, the so by the time I need to be on campus, the late to an exam this past week director of parking and waiting for [the] Jack Track. I general, is a way to open yourself to differing ideas and traffic, will be answering majority of available All Permit parking is ended up running to the Human perspectives, rather than wasting away in an echo- student questions and taken.” Services building.” chamber.” concerns about parking,” —SFA student Kayla Webb Not only are commuters Jenkins said.“We are affected by the lack of parking, BOOKS, PAGE 3 asking students to tweet parking to certain buildings. but so are residents. their questions using the hashtag “Not very many professors move “The trouble finding parking, I #AskCynthia so we will be able to buildings, so if we assign faculty to think it’s [affecting both residents and answer questions more effectively at one spot (and a few that move a second commuters]. I’m hearing it now this the forum.” spot if it’s necessary) that would open year more than ever,” Upham said. “I Professor indicted The Parking Forum was created up a lot of parking,” said Kayla Webb, have friends that live on campus now in response to a petition started by junior special education major. that cannot find a spot.” for child porn SFA student Jared Upham, a junior Another suggestion made to Often times, residents get desperate marketing major, who got over 2,000 students is to leave earlier to find a for parking and park in All Permit By Joanna Armstrong computer examiner signatures in two weeks, according parking spot. parking. Design Editor and certified sexual to an email sent out by Jenkins. “I “For students like me who work in “If we can keep residents in resident assault nurses. The knew [parking] was a problem because the mornings, we don’t have the luxury parking—I see a lot of residents in An SFA professor was investigation revealed everybody talks about it,” Upham said. of coming to campus an hour early to All Permit.” Webb said. “They aren’t indicted by a Nacogdoches Stroup had downloaded “I drove around for 30 minutes get a spot,” Webb said. breaking the rules, but they have their grand jury Sept. 15 on pornographic looking for parking because I had a “I don’t have classes until 12:30 p.m., own assigned lots for a reason.” 14 counts of possession photographs of children test and wanted to get some extra so by the time I need to be on campus, of child pornography, a and had searched third-degree for images felony. with terms D r . d e s c r i b i n g M i c h a e l adolescent girls, S t r o u p , according to the Lumberjack Marching Band member dies professor of arrest affidavit. economics Released on By Nella Kopp help those in need. teary-eyed, even those who generation Lumberjack’s and finance $15,000 bond Contributing Writer “It’s easy to talk about admitted they had never college experience. Gibbs and former a day after his being a family when things met Gibbs. Fellow baritone loved everything about interim arrest, Stroup The SFA flag was flown go right,” Dr. David Campo, players were sitting closely music and SFA. department was suspended at half-mast as students director of the LMB, said. together where Gibbs often At the conclusion of the chair of the with pay but mourned the death of The LMB stood for inside meeting, the LMB sang Department Dr. Michael Stroup since has student Caleb Gibbs, who talks frequently rehearsal. the Alma Mater, and many of Economics worked for died in an automobile about their “Grief is not left following a group hug and Finance, the University accident Sept. 20. family-like weakness. We are encircling Campo. could be sentenced to two “on an off-campus Gibbs, 18, was a freshmen lifestyle, all here for a short Fred J. Allen, director of to 10 years in prison and alternative assignment,” music education major, celebrating time, and the best bands, said the Carthage fined up to $10,000 for according to Dr. Shirley member of the Lumberjack together after thing we can do for High School Band dedicated each count, according to Luna, executive director Marching Band and a performances, each other is to love its half-time performance, the Texas Penal Code. of university marketing member of the School of gathering each other, support Saturday at Gilmer High Stroup was arrested in communications. Stroup’s Music. He graduated from outside of each other and to School, to Gibbs by his office in the R.E. McGee current employment Carthage High School. rehearsals be there for each forming letters CG on the Building on campus status at SFA is being Many members of the and joining other,” Campo said. field. LMB members also in September 2015, evaluated in accordance LMB, faculty and staff joined together in “Let’s move forward played “Amazing Grace” at following an investigation Caleb Gibbs with University policies together Thursday afternoon hard times. and do everything the game to honor Gibbs. led by University Police and procedures, she said. in the Band Hall to remember This is the first we can as a family.” Once they arrive, the LMB Department and assisted and celebrate the life of death in the LMB for many Gibbs’ mother reportedly will wear memorial “CG” by the Texas Rangers, INDICTMENT, PAGE 3 Gibbs. Counseling Services years. said that the opportunity to ribbons for the remainder of a certified forensic members were present to Many in attendance were be in the LMB made the third- the season.

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CMYK Page 2 SFA student plays for national college band @thepinelog By Brittany Barclay was selected to play in the Scott, professor of trombone Staff Writer band. and jazz and director of the News “I was freaking out,” Swingin’ Axes. At Disneyland, dreams Martin said. “I didn’t believe Martin said they even held really do come true, it. I called him back the next a mock audition for him. Students host BioBlitz especially when you use your morning, and I asked him “Their courage made big toe to accomplish them. again. I was like ‘Is this really me put all I had into the Barry Martin, a Music you? Are you sure?’ I had a audition,” Martin said. Education senior from lot of doubt. I was in doubt “They helped me by making Overton, Texas, along with until I got on the plane.” the mock audition harder 20 other students from Martin said J.D. Salas, than the real audition.” around the country, had the director of the Swingin’ His favorite thing about opportunity to play in the Aces and associate professor playing in the band was Disneyland All-American of tuba-euphonium, looking at the giant Ferris College Band in California encouraged him to audition. wheel while playing their over the summer for 11 “In addition to the last set every day. weeks. performance requirements Martin said the experience The Band is a marching of the audition, part of it is helped him choose to be band/jazz band. They positive. performed five sets a “I learned that day, five days a week. everything’s a One of their sets choice basically,” included a sit-down Martin said. “I set, where they played can choose to jazz music. Martin be great, choose Photo By Alyssa Faykus/ The Pine Log played the Tenors and to be positive; I would occasionally can choose to get SFA students and Nacogdoches community members came together for BioBlitz, a sing for them and things done in the program that helps people learn about things in nature through various activities. also had a marching way that I want to show for 40 minutes. get them done.” By Alyssa Faykus Community members were excited The audition process Gary Wurtz, Staff Writer to learn more about the local flora in included sending in director of the Nacogdoches, and students were excited a video and putting School of Music, Forestry students, members of to find things in nature they had been it on YouTube. After described Martin the community and various wildlife studying in the classroom. that, they met for an as “a gregarious, specialists went into SFA’s Tucker Woods For some forestry students, BioBlitz audition in person hard-working on Friday and Saturday for a program gave them affirmations about their in one of their six young man who is called BioBlitz. possible career choices and plans after locations. passionate about According to National Geographic, college. According to the music.” “A BioBlitz is a 24-hour event in which Senior forest recreation major Jessica Disney Website, the “Barry had teams of volunteer scientists, families, Mattox enjoyed teaching children and program has been a to earn a spot students, teachers and other community adults about the different species of Disneyland Resort in the Disney members work together to find and plants and mammals that could be tradition since 1971 All-American identify as many species of plants, found in Nacogdoches. and gives top college Band by way of animals, microbes, fungi and other “I kind of knew what BioBlitz was from musicians from all a coast-to-coast organisms as possible.” working with some of the state parks around the United national audition,” Participants of BioBlitz downloaded and getting to share that experience in States the opportunity Wurtz said. “His the iNaturalist app on their smart sharing what BioBlitz was with the little to perform and Courtesy Photo competitors were devices to catalog their findings in the kids and the parents,” Mattox said. “It learn about the Martin played drums for the Disneyland the best students woods. Wildlife specialists then verify was so fun just to see their faces light up entertainment from all of the any plants or animals that a group finds when they catch a minnow or a turtle or industry first-hand All- American College Band this summer. biggest and most and uses the findings from the app for a snail.” through performance prestigious music their own research. Mattox wants to be a guide for national at a Disney Theme the musician’s personality schools in the country. I The group identified 182 different parks and eventually a member of a Park and clinics with and demeanor,” Salas said. “I was extremely proud of him species of plants and animals. search and rescue team. world-renown artists and thought that Barry would be because I knew it would be There were many different types of “I think [BioBlitz] really reaffirms experiences in nearby a great fit for that program.” the experience of a lifetime.” sessions for people to attend, like the what I want to do. I love interacting with Hollywood. Salas was in the Martin took piano lessons bat walk or a plant identification session people and showing them these really Martin originally Disneyland AACB in 1997 with his three older brothers lead by forestry students and members of cool things that a lot of people don’t auditioned to play piano and the International Show growing up. Then in sixth the Horticulture Club. Participants also know about,” Mattox said. “It makes me and drums, but they were no Band at Disneyland in Paris grade, he started playing went on a bird walk lead by the Audubon want to go after that goal.” longer allowed to do both. in 1998. percussion. Society and a moss identification walk Lana Welford, a senior urban forestry Martin said he got the spot “I consider my time in the “I was the only one that lead by SFA biology professors. major also enjoyed BioBlitz, even though because he played a note on AACB to be one of the first stuck with it, and I just kind Senior wildfire management student it did not directly correlate with her the piano with his big toe. professional experiences for of liked it. I grew up playing Jessica Pruneda was the organizer of major. “They just think it’s funny me and I can’t recommend by ear because my mom this event. “I want to be an arboriculturist, which because I’m playing this the program enough,” would teach me by ear,” “This is the first BioBlitz hosted by means I work on trees in cities—kind of piece and I played a note Salas said. “Alumni from Martin said. “I kind of kept SFA, and we have not done an event of like a tree doctor, which has absolutely with my big toe and that’s the program hold positions it up because in sixth grade this particular type before. I am excited nothing to do with this or recreation, but when the director started in many of the world’s top they just put piano players in for the event as a whole,” Pruneda said. I really like doing recreation,” Welford filming,” Martin said. “After music ensembles from the percussion, and I was having “I believe that with the help of our said. that he kind of just started Chicago Symphony to many fun in percussion.” visitors we will learn so much about our Welford said she did not know what talking to me. So, they think of the premier military Martin sings for the backyard around SFA and Nacogdoches.” she expected BioBlitz to be like, and it’s funny that I got the spot bands in addition to several Swingin’ Axes and plays BioBlitz offered many kid-friendly was unsure of the process. But after half because I played the piano alumni who are now music piano for the Swingin’ Aces, sessions and activities like catching a day in the Native Plant Center and a with my feet.” professors at universities the jazz bands at SFA. minnows in Lanana Creek, fishing turnout of 77 people, she had a different A week after the audition, through the country.” Martin plans on teaching for backyard bass and making frozen perspective. he got a call from the Martin also had help music after college and yogurt. director of the program, Ron from Brad Meyer, director of dreams to one day become a McCurdy, who told him he percussion studies, and Deb music therapist. SFA dietician offers nutrition services, dieting tips to university community

By Jillian Whitney by Washington University in St. Louis vegetable from the Comfort Station or a Staff Writer School of Medicine had similar results. piece of fruit, so they get that part out of Hamilton can help students create the way,” Hamilton said. Any SFA student or faculty or staff healthy diets that are free from allergens Some of Hamilton’s personal member can receive free nutrition or address other health concerns such favorite snacks are the pears with consultations with SFA’s registered as high cholesterol. She can also help cottage cheese, hummus with pretzels, dietitian, Jill Hamilton. students create a diet to encourage almonds or other nuts, Greek yogurt Those with meal plans can have weight loss. Vegans, vegetarians and and lattes. multiple visits while those without Though Hamilton is now a dietitian, a meal plan can receive one free she initially majored in athletics consultation. After their first visit, they training. She liked the nutrition would have to either get a meal plan or component of that, but her mother meet with an off-campus dietitian if majored in foods and nutrition, and she they require further consultations. didn’t want to follow in her mother’s “Honestly, if you look at the going rate footsteps. to see a dietitian outside of here, like, Hamilton said as she began working once you meet with me twice, you’re with a cross-country team, answering pretty much covered. So it kind of pays the athletes’ questions about nutrition, off. Especially if you are already eating and realized there needed to be more Starbucks or Chick-fil-a on campus,” registered dietitians. Hamilton said. “So I started going towards that. I’ve Hamilton said the best way to contact always loved food, talking about food her for a consultation is via email. and dealing with food. So it just kind of This may be welcome information fit naturally,” Hamilton said. for students who struggle with eating Hamilton advises students interested healthy food on campus. Photo by Ronnie Chapman/ The Pine Log in becoming a dietitian that the career “I used to be super healthy in high SFA Dietician Jill Hamilton offers can be both challenging and rewarding. school, and now, I have to, scavenge for services on nutrition and dietary needs. “It’s a very long process that a lot healthy food,” said Madison Marshal, a of people don’t make it all the way junior studying biology and history. pescatarians who struggle finding through,” Hamilton said. Even though students have meal meals free of meat or other animal However, Hamilton said she enjoys plans, some choices might not be as products could benefit from consulting being a dietitian. fitting for their diet. with Hamilton as well. “If you love it and you kind of stick it “The EC does not have a lot of variety “Nutrition is not a one-size-fits-all out, it will be worth it. You have people of fruit and the salad bar is kind of approach,” Hamilton said. who listen to what you say and have stale,” said Fransisco Acosta, a senior She advised students to realize that people who just want to hear what you studying criminal justice and biology. just because something works for one have to say and will follow it,” Hamilton Poor diets might lead to weight gain student doesn’t automatically mean it said. in college. While not all students gain will work for them. Hamilton encouraged all students to weight in college, Acosta and Marshal She also suggested that students visit the SFA dining website, Facebook both said they did not, the “freshman think about how their dietary habits or Twitter. These resources post special 15” is founded in reality. have changed before and during college events Hamilton will participate in. She A study by Auburn University and making small changes from there. welcomes students to come and talk followed 131 students, and 70 percent “Also, if they’re eating in the dining with her at those events, even if they of them gained weight. Another study halls, an easy start is just to start with a aren’t seeing her for consultations.

CMYK Wednesday, september 27, 2017 Page 3 Indictment: Overall SFA enrollment decreases, Stroup’s undergrad retention rate rises While SFA is reporting a fall enrollment of 12,614 a 4.2-percent increase from 768, College of Liberal and students, a 1-percent decrease from fall 2016, there are Applied Arts, 2,672, a decrease of 1.9 percent from 2,724, bright spots to be found in the enrollment numbers, ac- College of Sciences and Mathematics, 2,406, down 2.5 employment cording to a news release from the University. percent from 2,468. The highest first-time undergraduate retention rate While SFA recorded increased graduate enrollment in for fall 2017 is 71.6 percent, representing a 4.3-percent half of its colleges for fall 2017, overall enrollment in SFA’s pending at SFA increase during the past five years. Graduate School was down 3.3 percent. SFA has recorded a five-year increase in the number “As market and student demands change, we respond From Page 1 of first-time undergraduates of 6.6 percent. In 2013, there by developing new graduate programs and by offering were 2,016 SFA students who were first-time undergradu- existing degrees in new ways,” said Dr. Richard Berry, Stroup is still listed as a faculty member in the online ates; in 2017, there are 2,150 first-time undergraduates. Graduate School dean. “Other such offerings are in the faculty and staff directory and on the Nelson Rusche “This upward trend is a reflection of the new initia- works now and will launch in the coming year. These College of Business website. tives we have implemented to create meaningful and changes in program delivery are a part of the University’s “Suspensions are by their nature temporary, and in this sustained enrollment growth,” said Dr. Steve Bullard, initiative to ‘meet our students where they are.’” case, it was determined that an alternative assignment SFA provost and vice president for academic affairs. “We Among the graduate programs offered by the that would not endanger our students or community was are setting tuition and fees earlier so that we can offer University are a Master of Social Work in a face-to-face appropriate while the criminal investigation took place,” financial aid packages sooner, and we’ve increased the format in The Woodlands and an online Master of Public Luna said. “Stroup has had no contact with students as amount of scholarship dollars that are available. We Administration. This fall, the University also began of- part of these assignments.” created new programs, including an online Bachelor of fering a Master of Science in Nursing with a nurse prac- Business Administration and programs in Houston and titioner focus online. In the coming year, SFA will imple- The Woodlands. All of these will contribute to future ment a Master of Science in cybersecurity. growth in enrollment.” In the College of Sciences and Mathematics, graduate SFA also awarded more degrees in 2017 than in 2016, enrollment increased by 13.2 percent with a total of 137 when 2,703 degrees were distributed. During the 2017 graduate students enrolled. Additionally, graduate en- Books: academic year, the University awarded 2,767 degrees, a rollment grew in the Rusche College of Business from 128 2.4-percent increase over the prior year. to 134, a 4.7-percent increase from fall 2016. Also, gradu- The number of students in each of SFA’s six colleges ate enrollment in the College of Fine Arts grew from 78 is:Rusche College of Business, 1,848, a 3.4-percent in- to 82 students, a 5.1-percent increase. Decreases were Lumberjacks crease from 1,787 in fall 2016, James I. Perkins College reported in the College of Education, from 989 to 965; of Education, 3,968, a 2.6-percent decrease from 4,076, Forestry and Agriculture, from 107 to 91; and Liberal and College of Fine Arts, 920, a .1-percent increase from 919, Applied Arts, from 261 to 220. celebrate Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture, 800, freedom of speech in lit

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The top ten challenged books of 2016, according to the Bannedbooksweek.org, include “Drama,” written and illustrated by Raina Telgemeier, which was “challenged Photo by Hannah Russell/ The Pine Log because it includes LGBT characters, was deemed sexually explicit and was considered to have an offensive political Applications for May 2018 graduation are open until Nov. 15. Students can apply for graduation in the registrar’s office viewpoint,” “Looking for Alaska” by John Green which was on the second floor of the Rusk Building. Students must pay $50 fee for the application, which will be added to the e-bill. “challenged for a sexually explicit scene that may lead a student to ‘sexual experimentation,” and “Eleanor and Park” by Rainbow Rowell, which was “challenged for offensive language.” According to Bush, censorship stifles the voices of the oppressed. New major offered in tech field “It is inherently at odds with the freedom of speech, as it represents the quieting of others’ voices, and often reflects By Brielle Thomas this background must first take them before moving into systems of power in given communities,” Bush said. “I News Editor graduate courses.” think if we have the freedom to read well, and often from Dunn said the curriculum includes courses in computer whatever we choose, we should not only exercise that right, SFA’s College of Sciences and Mathematics recently re- forensics, reverse engineering, secure coding, attack and but celebrate it.” ceived approval to offer a master’s degree in cybersecurity. defense techniques and web-based system security. 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plays at the SFA Planetarium at 7 p.m. Fridays, Sept. 29 – Oct. 13. Join narrator Michael Dorn, Star Trek’s Worf, on a journey between two galaxies that spans human history—and reveal the secrets of the cosmos. Life & Arts@thepinelog H.a.L.P. Students host ‘Have a Listen Podcast’ to discuss music By Meaghan Morton of us decided, Have a Listen, was recommended by a Copy Editor which I think we both liked professor. that a lot,” Norton said. “Me and Alec are both Internet personalities The two often refer to saxophone students, who self-identify as “two the show by its acronym and our saxophone broke music majors” host “HaLP,” which is almost a professor named Dr. Nabb a weekly podcast that slang or different way to say recommended an album concentrates on music help due to meme culture. to Alec; it’s a saxophonist,” ranging from Stevie “It’s kind of funny, Norton said, “who wrote Wonder, to folk, to punk. because we don’t know music based off of his wife’s Since January 2017, what we’re doing half of paintings about Hiroshima Alec Bartlett and Colby the time,” Bartlett said, and Nagasaki.” Norton have spent their laughing. Bartlett and Norton weeks listening to music, The show covers many do not have plans to slow recording podcasts, editing different genres of music down anytime soon. and finally, posting the and is open to any type. “We’ve talked about finished product other podcasts on the Have a we might want to Listen Podcast do, opening up a website, all while “A podcast Youtube channel balancing school e v e n t u a l l y and being part of and just kind the Lumberjack of eventually Marching Band. by two bored morphing this For the show, into something the two creators we do for a large choose music college kids” portion of our for the other to time,” Norton listen to, and at “We listen to almost said. “We both the end of the week, they everything and anything,” have plans to really expand share thoughts about the Norton said. “I say that this and get more people on picks. because, we as people board.” “We kind of started it as listen to every genre, so The two say they are just a little thing to do with that influences the podcast working toward a bigger each other, to introduce because we are listening audience. each other to the music to music we like. So it just “Shout out to my mom,” that we like and music we happens.” Norton said. knew they hadn’t listened Bartlett is a big fan of Bartlett laughed at to,” Bartlett said. “It kind of jazz music and Norton is Norton but corrected him. started off as ‘that’s what it a fan of singer/songwriter/ “I think it’s a lot more is, let’s go! Let’s record.’” folk. than just her now,” Bartlett The two start each session “These two past episodes said. “If I were to put a talking about news in the we’ve done… it was Stevie number- and this is just ball music industry, thoughts Wonder and then it was parking it, but I’d say like and how they feel about the a post/punk band, Joy 20 people [watch], which is album given to them. Division,” Bartlett said. good because we started off “It’s really casual; not “Some of the punk stuff he’s with our moms.” like a serious music critic given me, I’m like not a part Norton said it is nice to thing,” Bartlett said. of that scene, so I was like, know when more people Norton said the name, ‘oh sure, what’s this?’” listen, because that’s what Have a Listen Podcast, just Norton said it is hard the podcast is meant for. came naturally. for them to find any To listen to HaLP, log on “We were sitting there kind of music strange. to Halpodcast.com every thinking of what to call it, One of the musicians Sunday, or go now to listen and I don’t know which one they have listened to to archived shows.

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Alec Bartlett (sitting) and Colby Norton collaborate every week to critique music. REVIEW: Post Malone’s ‘Rockstar’

By Meaghan Morton what he did; threw them. I’m Copy Editor not sure if he totally missed the memo, but in the first Since the release of “White few lines of his verse he says Iverson,” from the Stoney he’s feeling like a pop star. album, artist Post Malone, Savage… this song is called AKA Austin Richard Post, Rockstar. He then follows it has grown in popularity with some generic flow with and has dropped a single some generic rhymes. This called “Rockstar” from his shouldn’t come as a surprise upcoming album. if you have watched the Rapper 21 Savage joins 2017 XXL Freshmen Cypher him on this track to create with Kodak Black, Lil Yachty, Google photo what lyrically sounds like a Savage and several others description of the life of a who fall into the category of rock star who fully embraces mumble rap. To compare, “Man, I feel the theme of sex, drugs and please listen to the 2014 XXL in this case, not rock ‘n’ roll, Freshmen Cypher, featuring but hip hop and rap. Chance the Rapper, Isaiah just like a The song is definitely Rashad, Kevin Gates and catered to mainstream August Alsina. The two radio play than music from videos are not even close in rockstar” the Stoney album. Stoney skill and talent. It’s almost incorporates different styles embarrassing to watch. —Post Malone and even features one of Before this becomes a dog my favorite songs, “Feeling session on 21 Savage, let’s According to an interview Whitney,” which is more of bring it back to Rockstar. by Mass Appeal, at the an acoustic song. Personally, I might be a beginning of his career he However, focusing more little biased because of my would work at an old Italian on the new single, when I love of Malone, his music restaurant playing music first listened to it, I wasn’t and his personality during while the customers dined. If extremely thrilled. I am a interviews, but eventually you haven’t heard any of his huge fan of Post Malone. I’ve I did grow to like the song early work, I encourage you listened to his entire Stoney a little bit more than when to listen to the covers of songs album, I intend on getting I first listened to it. In a he has done. For example, some merchandise at some way, it reminds me of the Malone did a cover of Bob point and I am patiently same theme of the band Dylan’s song “Don’t Think waiting for his new album Nickleback’s song Rockstar: Twice, It’s Alright.” Watching to drop. So, when at first I fame gone out of control. both the interview and the didn’t really like the song as Malone is an artist. So I Bob Dylan cover truly made much as his others, I was have full confidence in his me believe Malone is a great disappointed. next album. Though some artist. First off, 21 Savage, may label him as a rapper, Even if the song Rockstar “mumble rapper” threw a he is also talented in other wasn’t my favorite song of few verses into the song. I genres of music, is a guitar his, I am still looking forward honestly think that’s just player and can sing very well. to his album dropping.

CMYK Wednesday, september 27, 2017 Page 53 Rebate limits academic choice Graduating college census date. The credit is one of life’s rare hours attempted also Opinions@thepinelog accomplishments, which extend past your time spent not everyone is fortunate at SFA. Dual credit classes enough to experience. The taken in high school and satisfying emotions that transferred courses will be come with it are a reward accounted for. As enticing in itself, especially when as the incentive may be, it that reward can come with is clear it does not allow for a $1,000 payout. Tuition much academic freedom. rebate programs, which are The goal of the program offered here at SFA, award is to save money for the students for reaching student, parents and graduation within a certain ultimately the institution. time frame. It rewards students who It serves as a financial leave high school and in incentive for students four calendar years, walk to complete bachelor’s across the stage with their degrees efficiently, which diploma. But as efficiently means taking as few as the program proclaims courses as possible. itself to be, it can restrict Though the rebate students from exploring program, known as College other degree plans outside for All Texans, is an exciting of the one they started incentive, it has strict with. The only degree plans parameters that can make determined to be worthy many students ineligible of a five-year calendar for the rebate. window are architecture The first thing students and engineering. should understand is their Once you apply degree plan and what that for graduation, you means for their chances at automatically apply for qualifying for the rebate. the rebate, and your Many of the bachelor’s application will be degrees offered at SFA reviewed to see if you require students to earn are eligible to receive it. 120 credit hours in order to Once reviewed, you will graduate. be informed if you are According to the rebate approved or denied. If program, if a student has denied, you will have 60 attempted more than three days to file an appeal in semester credit hours in which you can make a case excess of the minimum to why the Board should number of hours required overturn their decision. to complete the degree, It is important students then they are automatically are aware that choosing ineligible to receive the the correct career path money. Dropped courses is more valuable than after the 12th class day, a $1,000 rebate. Many flunked courses, repeated students look forward to courses, fluff classes you getting some of the money took out of curiosity and back they have invested in internships that count as their education, not only credits all can make you for themselves, but their ineligible for the program. parents as well. College is The 123 credit hour an experience, and while limit means students the rebate is an attractive Illustration by Olivia Boan/ The Pine Log are afforded exactly one option, you cannot put a excused drop after the price tag on your future. Student shares importance of creating ‘me’ time You go to class for three or more hours every of not doing anything. I kept falling short of But the truth isn’t that. The truth is sometimes I day, and some days you have labs that double all my expectations for myself, and it was get too busy to socialize with anyone. your time on campus. You get back to your dorm disappointing. Sometimes I would rather watch Netflix all or apartment and start your online quizzes and I came into college with so many expectations. night with my cat and a carton of Blue Bell homework for your other classes, grab some I thought that coming to college would turn my than talk to anyone. Sometimes I feel guilty dinner and go to bed. life around, that this would be the best four for ignoring them, and sometimes I feel left Being so busy all the time can really add to years of my life. I thought I would finally break out when they stop inviting me to things. But your stress levels, especially with challenging out of my shell and become the girl I always when you can’t even handle yourself, it’s hard to coursework. Then you only get five or six hours imagined I would be. I would get great grades, I handle other people. Alyssa Faykus of sleep and do the same thing the next day. would turn in all my homework on time, never So now I go on walks by myself through the Staff Writer College can be stressful and tiring. I have such miss assignments and read all the required trails in Nacogdoches. I put more time aside for a hard time balancing my time between class, material for class. schoolwork. Now I have more time to write and organizations and socializing that sometimes I thought I would make so many friends in edit photos and create things that I’ve always “...While it’s I forget to take care of myself. My first year of college. I did have a few friends who lived in my wanted to create. I’ve realized that while it’s important college I was not putting myself first. dorm who I really liked. important to surround yourself with the people to surround I was eating bad food, not getting enough We would go eat in the dining hall together or you love, it’s more important to do the things sleep and on top of it all, I still wasn’t doing buy pizza and do movie nights in the dorm, but you love. yourself with amazing with my classes. as the work piled up, we saw each other less and There’s only one you in the world, and you people you I’m the type of person who when confronted less—to the point where our only interaction need to take care of yourself. While it’s great to love, it’s more with a lot of things, instead of doing them, I just was liking each others’ posts on Facebook and have friends, go to parties and be involved at important to do don’t. Instagram. school, those posters you see all around SFA are I put everything off because the thought I thought I made a lot of friends who I would true: “The most important project in college is the things you of so much work stresses me out to the point hang out with all through college and beyond. you.” lo ve.” Loneliness offers valuable time for self-reflection One of the scariest feelings I have ever differently. Initially, loneliness was only a valuable. I am guilty of trying to fill emptiness experienced is loneliness. It is a feeling that is vacant, catatonic feeling that I would spiral with unhealthy coping mechanisms and other simultaneously empty, relentless, numbing and down into and dwell in for a while. I think people’s company. painful. I feel loneliness in a multitude of ways. my loneliness is now a time to practice self- This isn’t to say that having friends to keep I feel it when I’m sitting in my car in front of my reflection. How comfortable can we be with you company is a bad thing, but never allowing apartment after a long shift at work. others, romantically or platonically, if we cannot yourself time to think about the difficult things I’ll sit in the dark, with my radio playing songs be comfortable with only ourselves? happening in your life is dangerous. that only make me feel worse, afraid to step out There have been many times where I’ve sat in These feelings that aren’t being addressed and into my apartment where I’ll only feel more my bedroom, so scared of self-reflection, that will only build up until you’re forced to deal with Brigette Kozash isolated. I’ve gone for walks or drives, looking for music them. Rather than loneliness being something Contributing Writer I feel it when I’ve been in relationships. Even or street sounds to fill the quiet of my mind. that we are “forced” to deal with from time when I have lived with a significant other. Though I have been afraid of self-reflection in to time, I believe that loneliness can be an Sometimes the empty part of me would never the past, I have recently begun trying to catch opportune time to practice introspection. fill up. Maybe it was because I was trying to fill myself before falling into a spiral of negative Being alone is a time to become familiar with “...Practicing it with him, or maybe I tried to find the cure to thinking. ourselves, stop denying who we are and pursue mindfulness my own loneliness in the wrong place. The moments where my mind finally gets a what we want to discover about our minds. When I am going out with friends, I see myself rest from the world around me and is given the and self- from outside my own body, staring at nothing opportunity of peace and quiet are moments to acceptance and feeling a hollowness that feels unfixable. relish in rather than be afraid of. The Pine Log Opinions Page regularly The world around me becomes quiet, and I can These are times where instead of looking at features the Axe ’Em Advice Column. The during these only hear my own thoughts and faces become loneliness as something I have to fill with other staff answers questions about everything blurry. Loneliness is something that persists people or vices, I should try to fill with what I from relationships to general life issues moments of and might never leave a person no matter how already have within myself. isolation is much they try to fill the gaps. While loneliness is a scary feeling by itself, and everything in between. 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CMYK Page 6 The Pine Log 2017 SFA Scoreboard

CROSS-COUNTRY: Jacks preparing for annual OSU Jamboree VOLLEYBALL: Ladyjacks defeat UCA 3-0, NWSU 3-1 SOCCER: Women split weekend matches against SLC foes Sports Photo by Jackie Conde/ SFA Athletics | Intramural Sports | Sport Clubs The Pine Log FOOTBALL: Lumberjacks win 20-10 at ACU, sit f irst in SLC @TPLSports Keeping the train rolling Lumberjacks sit first in SLC; look to extend streak vs. McNeese

BY Devin Brooks can’t afford to let them loose or they’ll find themselves in coordinator, has to prepare his defense for possibly the best Sports Editor a bad spot. The Cowboys’ rushing attack is as balanced as offense SFA will face all season outside of the Sam Houston it could be. Justin Pratt, David Hamm and Benjamin Jones State Bearkats. The SFA Lumberjacks are back in the comfort of their have rushed for over 100 yards in the first four games and The Cowboys’ offense is high-powered, but the defense, own home for their third Southland Conference matchup have scored two touchdowns each. The Cowboys average based on the numbers, is average. The SFA offense started of the young 2017 season. 156.3 yards per game on the ground, and they’ve rushed the season off on a bad note, but the last two games, it has The Jacks will host the McNeese State University Cowboys for 720 total yards. MSU has talent at every skill position made plays, helping them get two early SLC victories. The Saturday at Homer Bryce Stadium. SFA is looking to extend on the offensive end, and the Jacks have to be main focus for SFA is figuring out who will be the starting its SLC winning streak to three games, but standing in their at their best if they want to slow d o w n quarterback. way is a team that gives them a challenge every time they these high-scoring Cowboys. T h e Foster Sawyer, the 6-foot-6 gunslinger from TCU, has meet. The Jacks (2-2 overall, 2-0 SLC) currently have the SFA defense has given up been hurt on and off during the first four games, and his best record in the SLC, while the Cowboys (3-1 overall, 1-1 37.5 points per game this status for this game as of press time is not known. Sawyer SLC) have the third-best record in the SLC. season, which is right is the key of the SFA offense, and his health is dependent on SFA is 20-14-2 all-time versus the Cowboys. In the last in the Cowboys’ range. the Jacks’ offensive success. four meetings, the road team has won each matchup. They’ve also given up Sawyer threw for 623 yards, four touchdowns and one SFA was the road team last season and secured a 31-28 852 rushing yards and interception during his three season appearances. He victory. The Jacks trailed the Cowboys 28-24 with under five 270 passing yards has a QB rating of 126.5 and a completion percentage of minutes left in the game, but then freshman safety Alize per game. Jeff 68. Backup quarterback Jake Blumrick has thrown 244 Ward intercepted James Tabary, the Cowboys quarterback, Byrd, SFA yards, one touchdown and one interception through which set up an eventual game-winning touchdown pass defensive three games. If Sawyer isn’t healthy enough to play, from former SFA quarterback Hunter Taylor to current wide Blumrick will step in and lead the Jacks on offense. receiver Tamrick Pace. Running backs Kijana Amous and Jamall SFA hopes they can break the streak of road teams Shaw broke out in the last game against Abilene winning the last four games and secure a victory in front Senior RB Christian. They both rushed for 60-plus yards, of the Lumberjack faithful at Homer Bryce Stadium. For Kijana and Amous scored a touchdown. The Jacks will SFA to win its third straight conference game, the team will Amous have to have the same balanced attack against have to find a way to neutralize the high-powered offense the Cowboys that they had against the Wildcats of MSU. to win this game. The Cowboys’ offense is trouble for any defense. They The offense can’t turn the ball over, the offensive average 34.5 points per game and compile over 400 yards of line has to block, and the receivers and backs have total offense. Tabary has torched every defense he’s faced to take advantage of their opportunities. A win this so far this season, and he will aim to do the same to SFA’s Saturday will give the Jacks a huge momentum shift defense. Tabary has completed 65 percent of his passes in going into the 92nd installment of the Battle of the four games this season. Piney Woods; that’s a huge boost to have. He’s thrown for 1,015 yards, 11 touchdowns and five interceptions. He averages roughly 255 yards per game through the air. The Cowboys’ receivers are why Tabary has put up such high numbers. SFA vs. McNeese State MSU has four receivers who have compiled at Photo by least 100 yards receiving through the first four Jackie 6 p.m. Saturday (Parents Day) games, and three of them have scored at least two Conde/ Homer Bryce Stadium touchdowns. These big bodied receivers are primed The Pine to give the SFA secondary fits all game long, and SFA Log

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