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A Day in the Life of Angel Abbott BASEBALL PREVIEW Check out sports for a full break- down of the Commodores’ upcoming season. ND TheFRIDAY, FEBRUARY Vanderbilt 19, 2010 • 122 YEAR, NO. 12 • THE VOICE HustlerOF VANDERBILT SINCE 1888 SEE PAGE 6 www.InsideVandy.com CALENDAR TODAY • Alexander Technique Football recruit Rajaan Bennett murdered presentation Sally Ahner will teach a by DAVID RUTZ impact he had on his of his mother, Narjaketha. just seemed to be the ideal When most kids his class on the Alexander Technique, which Senior Sports Reporter family, friends and A four-star running young man for Vanderbilt age are concentrating increases psychological football teams will live back according to Rivals. and for college football, to on college applications, and physical awareness Rajaan Bennett will on. Wherever he was and com, Bennett had signed tell you the truth.” friends and graduation, of the body to better never make a cut on whatever he did, Bennett his letter of intent to Details will continue Bennett had different allocate energy for tasks, Vanderbilt Stadium’s touched people’s lives. play football for the to pour out over how and responsibilities after reduce stress and release tension. The class is at 4 grass. He’ll never score Bennett was killed in a Commodores on Feb. 3. why this happened, but his father Charles was p.m. in Sarratt 325/327. a touchdown, rumble shooting at his home in “We’re going to miss the undeniable tragedy is murdered when Rajaan for a first down or catch Powder Springs, Ga., early him,” said Vanderbilt that Bennett’s time was was in the sixth grade. • VUT premiere of “The a screen pass for the Thursday morning in an coach Bobby Johnson. cut short right when he In addition to the BENNETT Seagull” Commodores. apparent murder-suicide “The little bit of time that was entering the prime of commitment to becoming Even so, the positive involving the ex-boyfriend we’ve known Rajaan, he his life. Please see BENNETT, page 7 Hope for Haiti Vanderbilt University Theatre will premiere “The Seagull” in Neely Auditorium at 8 p.m. The performance is free for undergraduate students. “The Seagull” explores the human drama of longing, legacy and love. There will be additional performances Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday JUSTIN MENESTRINA / The Vanderbilt Hustler afternoon at 2 p.m. Aaron Thompson and Hamilton Turner show off their new mobile phone applications that allow access to university amenities. TODAY THROUGH TOMORROW • Dance Marathon Vanderbilt Dance Marathon will raise New mobile apps funds for the Monroe Carrell Jr. Children’s Hospital from 7 p.m. Feb. offer campus 19 to 9 a.m. Feb. 20 in the Student Recreation Center. Admission is $10 per person and can be dining, event info purchased at the door. by MORGAN SMITH-WILLIAMS Contributing Reporter Students with iPhones and devices running with the Check out a video of the SATURDAY, FEB. 20 Google Android operating programmers talking about • Asian New Year Festival system can now be more in their new mobile apps at The Asian American Student’s Association touch with what’s happening InsideVandy.com. will host Asian New Year on campus thanks to new Festival, a dinner and applications created by the Vanderbilt Mobile Application Team. show. Catered dinner will Applications now available include a Vanderbilt event calendar, be served at 5:30 p.m., a campus map and a dining application that o ers menus and and students will perform at 7 p.m. in the Student closing times for restaurants on the Meal Plan and the Commodore Life Center. Admission is Card. $8 for the show, and $12 e programs have academic roots. Professors Doug Schmidt for dinner and the show. and Jules White in the School of Engineering wanted to nd a way CHRISTOPHER HONIBALL / The Vanderbilt Hustler to integrate mobile data programming into his curriculum. To bring the reality closer to campus, fi ve campus experts spoke at the Dores for Haiti event, “Hope for Haiti: Holistic Perspectives on the Crisis,” Tuesday night. Through “Mobile programming — making applications for phones ticket sales for a catered benefi t, donations and a silent auction, $4,500 was raised for — is what the students are interested in working on as projects Partners in Health, an organization providing medical relief on the ground in Haiti. in class,” said Schmidt. e professors hired senior Hamilton IN THIS ISSUE Turner and three other students through the Vanderbilt Undergraduate Summer Research Program to see if it was feasible SPORTS: for undergraduates to learn to program on phones, and the group began work on prototype applications using the Google Android For a complete OS. When the prototypes were successful, the group saw an recap of the Com- opportunity to allow students to work during the school year on modores’ 82-78 win A day in the life applications for the university. over the Ole Miss Turner, who also serves as president of the Vanderbilt Computer Rebels, go to Society, then joined forces with computer science engineer Aaron ompson to become the student leaders on what is now called InsideVandy.com the Vanderbilt Mobile Application Team, and they have since of Angel Abbott recruited 25 students to work with Schmidt and White to develop applications for the Vanderbilt community. OPINION: “What is unique about this project,” Turner said, “is the fact Disabled student shares to class. Abbott is disabled and that Vanderbilt is at the forefront for multiplatform mobile The effects of mid- con ned to her wheelchair. programming. Other universities, like Stanford, have developed terms, in cartoon perspective on campus “ e campus looks a lot apps just for the iPhone, but Vanderbilt is one of the rst — if not form. accessibility. more accessible than it is,” the rst — that has developed applications for more than one See page 4 Abbott said. “A lot of people platform.” don’t realize the problems To help with development e orts, Google has donated Google by SYDNEY WILMER unless they go around with me G1 phones to the project. Recently, Palm also donated a Palm Multimedia Editor on the campus where there are Pre and Palm Pixi to aid the group in developing applications, WEATHER curves and see detours I have and the group is now in talks with Research in Motion to develop WEATHER.COM Sophomore Angel Abbott to take.” applications for BlackBerry smartphones. ABBOTT TODAY follows the same route to class Abbott said she worked with e next application the group is working on will be a Medical each morning. First, she waits both Plant Operations and the Center app where patients can use their phone to help them for an elevator to take her to o ce of Equal Opportunities, navigate the halls of the Hospital. the lobby of Lewis. She heads A rmative Action and “What is really cool about the whole thing,” Schmidt said, “is the out the double doors, up 24th Disability Services this spring fact that as an undergrad, that here at Vanderbilt students have Avenue, then cuts through the to make adjustments. Even still, Check InsideVandy.com to the ability to create something meaningful to the university as a Bramscomb Quad parking lot. limited entrances to buildings, watch Abbott describe her whole.” ■ But Abbott doesn’t follow curb cuts and small spaces are day and hear how campus HIGH , LOW 48 32 this exact route by choice; it’s obstacles she must traverse offi cials address the prob- More information about the programs can be found at http://www. Partly Cloudy simply the only accessible way each day. ■ lems she faces. vanderbilt.edu/apps. NASHVILLE 2801 West End Avenue Red Hot Deal Days (Next to Holiday Inn/Vanderbilt) TM 615-329-4519 • QWERTY Keyboard Samsung Intensity New 2-yr activation or qualifi ed upgrade required. • Mobile IM • Threaded Messaging • Picture Messaging HURRY! Activation fee/line: $35 ($25 for secondary Family SharePlan lines w/ 2 yr Agmts) • Music Player for MP3 Offer Expires IMPORTANT CONSUMER INFORMATION: Subject to Customer Agmt, Calling Plan & credit th approval. Up to $175 early termination fee ($350 for advanced devices) & other charges. • 1000 Entry Phone Book FREEafter mail-in rebate debit card February 28 Off ers & coverage, varying by service, not available everywhere. While supplies last. • Bilingual Interface Shipping charges may apply. Rebate takes up to 6 wks. Intensity™ is a trademark of $50.00-$50.00 mail-in rebate debit card = FREE Samsung Electronics America, Inc. and is related entities. © 2010 Verizon Wireless. 2 Friday, February 19, 2010 The Vanderbilt Hustler www.insidevandy.com DAVID Who is:LEWIS TEACHES: Classes in American politics and public policy such as Introductory American Page Two Politics and the American Presidency. ATTENDED: University of California Berkeley (B.A. in Political Science), CRIME LOG compiled by AMANDA NIEMAN University of Colorado at Boulder (M.A. in Political Science) Saturday, Feb. 13, 1 a.m. Stanford University (M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science) A person was staggering down the street. A strong odor of alcohol was coming from his person. He was unsteady on his feet, had slurred speech and red, watery eyes. IF YOU WEREN’T A PROFESSOR, WHAT WOULD YOU DO? I’d be a sportscaster or a government bureaucrat, probably the Saturday, Feb. 13, 1:30 a.m. latter since I am more passionate about that. A person was sitting in the Carmichael Towers East lobby intoxicated with a large contusion over her right eye. WHAT DO YOU LIKE TO DO IN YOUR FREE TIME? Watch and play sports, spend time with friends, enjoy the Sunday, Feb. 14, 7:41 p.m.
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