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RANKED 4TH BEST COLLEGE NEWSPAPER IN SOUTH Managing Editor gets digital makeover , 5 Phi Kappa Phi holds ’big reveal’ of new members, 7 Lady Govs basketball win in overtime at Peaynk Game, 10 » WEDNESDAY, FEB. 22 2012 THEStudentTHETHE Newspaper of Austin Pe ayALLALLALL State University Since 1930 • FirstSTSTST copy free, additionalATATAT copies 50 centsEEE each.ORG #UNITYCELEBRATION SLIDESHOW: See photos from the Lady Govs annual “Peaynk” basketball game at TheAllState. org. ‘Every dream SLIDESHOW: » See photos from the Unity Celebration has an address” dinner and speech at TheAllState.org. “60 Minutes” correspondent Byron Pitts talks hardship, success SLIDESHOW: See photos from the breast cancer awareness 5K run at TheAllState.org. SLIDESHOW: See photos from the Phi Kappa Phi honor society nominee anouncement at Byron Pitts, a “60 Minutes” correspondent, spoke to the APSU community about overcoming hardship and succeeding at goals during the annual TheAllState.org. Unity Celebration at the Clement auditorium on Monday, Feb. 20. BRANDON CAUTHEN | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER By TIFFANY HALL spiritual and mental power. the English class he failed his fi rst Martha’s Vineyard. [email protected] Pitts knows the struggles and semester, he was told he did not Since then, Pitts has SOCIAL MEDIA hardships everyday people have belong and it would be best to interviewed six presidents, person of great inspiration to overcome. As a child he had drop out. While in the process for traveled to 49 countries, watched with a huge audience base, a severe stutter that impaired his dropping out, he met a stranger 51 people die and witnessed two thisA year’s speaker at the annual learning. At the age of 12, Pitts who changed his life. executions. Unity Celebration was Byron Pitts, was found to be illiterate. His “She told me that before I left, “I make my living by covering a “60 Minutes” correspondent. mother was told he needed to be to sleep on it and come talk to death and I’ve made peace with e Clement auditorium was full institutionalized. Pitt described her in the morning. I did and that,” Pitts said. of students, faculty, and the public his mother as a typical southern she turned out to be a fi rst year He said his most impactful /theallstate @TheAllState for his speech on Monday, Feb. woman: very determined. English professor. She helped me story thus far was Sept. 11. 20. After graduating 343 out of with English and get a start in life,” Pitts said he has seen the worst #TheAllState Pitts’ speech was not about 346 in his all male Catholic High Pitts said. and best of people. e terrorist the importance of being a news School, he went on to graduate She is now considered part attacks on Sept. 11 brought out anchor, but about how people 10th in his class at Ohio Wesleyan of his family, and they have had can achieve their goals through University. While there, retaking several summer vacations at CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 #PUBLICSAFETY #101AIRBORNE Public Safety director School desegregation plans for expansion aided by 101st Airborne By CHRIS COPPEDGE he assigned 1,200 members of the 101st [email protected] Airborne Division to help escort the Nine to Director of Public Safety Calloway wants to hire police, school, and assigned the Arkansas National security offi cers and educate students on risks Clarksville’s favorite sons, the 101st Guard under federal orders to assist the Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, or 101st. e Nine fi nally entered the school for “Screaming Eagles,” served an integral role in their fi rst full day on Sept. 25, 1957. one of the most famous hard-fought victories After harassment by fellow students, By ERICKA CONLEY & in the Civil Rights Movement: the integration guards were assigned to escort them to BRIAN BIGELOW of nine black students at Little Rock Central classes. The Nine did not have any classes [email protected] High School in 1957. together, nor were they allowed to participate [email protected] e crisis began Sept. 4, 1957, when nine in extracurricular activities. One student, students – Carlotta Walls, Jeff erson omas, Brown, was expelled for fi ghting back against Police chief Terence Calloway has a vision Gloria Ray, Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, white students, and then moved to New for the APSU department of Public Safety: Thelma Mothershed, Terrence Roberts, York . preparation, education and expansion. Minnijean Brown and Melba Pattillo – The other eight students continued to As the new Director of Public Safety, attempted to enter Little Rock Central High. study at the school for the remainder of the Calloway said he has received feedback ey were turned away by the Arkansas year, with Green becoming the first black the police presence on campus has been National Guard under orders from Arkansas graduate on May 27, 1958. Dr. Martin Luther suffi cient and well received by faculty and TERENCE CALLOWAY Governor Orval Faubus. King, Jr. was among the attendees at his staff , but he wants to expand the department Director of Pubilc Safety For more than two weeks, the students, graduation ceremony. and encourage his employees to get “out known as the “Little Rock Nine,” stayed at Today, the Little Rock Nine students of their offi ces [and] out from behind their home and attempted to keep up with their continue to fight for racial equality in desks” and to interact with students, faculty needs and concerns are being addressed. schoolwork. education. and staff . Because of the age of the students at APSU, en the federal court ordered Faubus to e Little Rock Nine Foundation, formed He is looking “to get some additional eyes they are susceptible to certain pressures comply with the court order, so he removed in 1999, is “dedicated to providing fi nancial and ears” on campus by hiring two new and unfortunately can end up getting into the National Guard troops, and the Nine support to needy and worthy students” and police offi cers or security offi cers by the end trouble. Some of the issues students have are once again attempted to enter the school on “urging local and national governmental of the year. safety, drinking, drugs and assault, but the Sept. 23, 1957. bodies to maintain high quality systems of Calloway also discussed feeling delighted most common crime on campus, Calloway is time, the students were met by a mob instruction.” to be on a college campus. e average age said, is theft. He stresses educating students that chased and beat black reporters trying “The 101st were also on call for the of students at APSU is 18-25, which is an age is integral to combating theft and keeping to cover the event, as well as hurling verbal University of Mississippi for James Meredith of self- discovery and enlightenment. students and their property safe. abuse at the students. e Little Rock Police when he became the first black student “I think that you can make more of an “Because our university is a safe haven Department then escorted the students back at Oxford,” said 101st Airborne Division impact on people in this environment than for a lot of students, they get the notion that to their homes later that morning, fearing Historian James Page. at a local police department,” Calloway said. this is home away from home,” Calloway they couldn’t control the mob. Page also notes the 101st participated in He said he wants each student to feel they President Dwight Eisenhower referred training for civil disturbances regarding race are the most important student and their CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 to the mob’s actions as “disgraceful,” and in Detroit in 1967. TAS APSU HEADLINES THE ALL STATE • WEDNESDAY, FEB. 22, 2012 CRIME LOG APSU Chamber Singers to tour west Tennessee in spring 9/11 themed play ’End Days’to come to Trahern, Feb. 22-26 The campus crime log military, diplomatic textbook includes arrests APSU professors writing 2-volume and dispatch call- ins. As mandated CAMPUS by Tennessee CAMPUS law, the crime the department,” Calloway said. log is updated Calloway “Part of my plan is to … maintain within two CONTINUED FROM FRONT credibility and respectability of our business days of police department from other law an incident and said. “But, when you have 10,000 enforcement entities and students new information people on a campus, all it takes is for a t A P S U.” to an incident one to have an opportunity to steal In addition, Calloway is reaching available for something.” out to other staff members, police public inspection He is working with the police officers and security officers for any time during department’s four supervisors, input on the direction to take normal business 14 sworn officers and six security the department. hours. guards to assess the current state of “I want to create unity within our the department and how to improve police department. Although we it. have three diff erent shifts, we want 11:17 a.m.; APSU campus police offi cers go to be of one accord,” Calloway said. Feb. 14; Dunn through the same state training as “I’ve also asked of each employee Center; theft all Tennessee police officers. They to submit to me two goals and two of property respond to calls such as burglaries objectives and two strategic plans 4:11 p.m.; and thefts. Security offi cers do not on how they’d like to [accomplish] Feb. 13; Foy go through the same training and those goals.” Fitness and do not carry guns. Security offi cers Calloway replaced previous Recreation write parking citations. director of Public Safety Lantz Biles Center; theft “Right now we’re going through on Jan.

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