www.ksusentinel.com TUESDAY The April 15, 2008 VOLUME 43 ISSUE 24 ENTINEL OF KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY SS SERVING SINCE 1966 Dance company KAB event attracts wins in Gator’s hundreds of students KELLY BLAINE poker, blackjack, roulette, STAFF WRITER craps and Texas hold-em at the University Rooms in the hometown Every spring, students head Student Center. At the end of to the campus green to partake the night, students could use in the carnival-like celebration their chips to purchase raffle of KSU Day and this year, that tickets and $1,000 in prizes tradition continued. was raffled of afterward. On April 8, more than KAB also held its annual KSU’s dance minor 1,000 people came out to elections and students nomi- holds its own against join in the day’s events which nated freshman Shannon were put on by the Kennesaw Carter as next year’s KAB big-name universities Activities Board and orga- President. “I am very ex- nized largely by KAB’s KSU cited to have been elected Hommie, Ashley Brown. as KAB President because I Activities included en- know KAB is great organi- tertainment from singer and zation and has the potential songwriter Natalie Stovall, to be greater and I am ready an inflatable maze, mechani- to start that change,” Carter cal bull, karaoke, cotton said. candy and a lunch. KAB is the programming According to KAB main- body at KSU whose mission tenance coordinator, Tiffany is to provide students with Grady, the purpose of KSU fun, free activities. KAB of- Day is to bring together all ficials did not mention what registered student organiza- the budget for KSU Day was, tions and Greeks in order to but said that KAB’s annual have fun and raise school budget is approximately $6-8 spirit. “Today has been a per student. great success. We have had There are 25 voting members an amazing turnout,” said of KAB, and anyone inter- Grady. ested in finding out more KSU Day closed with about the organization can Casino Night where 426 visit their Web site at ksukab. students tried their hands at com.

ing the needs of educational institutions in the northwest Money region of Georgia, receiving less attention than “politically demanding constituencies.” dispute “The chancellor’s office is maintaining an imperial atti- tude, like an emperor reaching out to people and patting them put on on the head and not doing any- thing,” Fein said in a recent interview. display According to Fein, on aver- age, KSU professors already make less than the national av- CLARK BARROW erage of $80K, reaching only STAFF WRITER $65K, and 18 percent below the average faculty salary in the The issue of state fund- University System of Georgia. ing for KSU caused a war of “We’re not asking for mir- words earlier this month be- acles, just asking for justice,” tween a sociology professor Fein said. “They don’t have to and President Papp. solve all the problems immedi- Professor, Dr. Melvyn Fein, ately, but they should make a recently submitted an opinion start.” piece to the Marietta Daily KSU contributes more Journal, where he blasted state than $500 million to the Cobb officials and accused them of County economy and contin- forcing KSU to operate on ues to upgrade the workforce a budget more suitable for a of northwest Georgia. Fein Courtesy of Jamie Bullins junior high school. Papp re- Top: Jason Marret. Above: members of the KSU Dance Company perform winning piece, “Incubus,” that will be featured in said the university is a part of plied with his own editorial National Festival. the engine that makes the area stating that there has been pos- prosperous, and the community SHELLY MIDDLETHON University of Alabama and is that the dance department at clude: Andy Allen, Tai Courtney, itive movement in response to needs to understand it’s in their STAFF WRITER Mississippi State University KSU is only three years old and Myles Johnson, Jason Marett, the school’s needs for a fund- interest to support the school. performed before adjudicators only offers a minor in dance,” A.J. Paug, Richard Smith and ing increase. Fein helped organize the Founded in 2005, and direct- in Gainesville, Fla. hoping to said Richard Smith, senior KSU Cory Washington. Fein, whose op-ed ap- Friends of KSU, Inc., a non- ed by Ivan Pulinkala, KSU’s be selected to perform at the dance team president. “Some of The team is currently look- peared in the April 2 edition profit grass roots movement dance company recently beat the National Festival at Columbia these big schools have master ing for sponsors to assist them of the MDJ, accused Gov. working to get more funding odds at the American College University in New York City programs. We were able to in participating in the National Sonny Perdue of allowing the for the university. Friends of Dance Festival in March where this June. achieve in a few years what it Festival. To inquire about University System of Georgia KSU, Inc. has collected more they competed and won against The KSU Dance Company has taken other schools much sponsorship, make a donation to drift backward by not build- than 3,000 petition signatures the likes of much older, larger joined the University of South longer to achieve. It shows or to obtain information about ing adequate classrooms, from students, faculty and dance companies from 33 well- Carolina as one of two win- that there is a great passion for upcoming performances, con- hiring an insufficient number staff. Fein stressed that stu- established universities. ners who will travel to New dance at KSU because we have tact Ivan Pulinkala, assistant of faculty and seriously under- dents should care about the Schools such as the York to perform at the National come so far in such little time.” professor of dance and direc- funding research. The tenured funding situation because if University of Florida, The Festival. Company members who will tor of the Dance Program at professor also accused the University of Gainesville, the “What is truly noteworthy be traveling to New York in- [email protected]. Board of Regents of neglect- See MONEY, page 2 Weekly weather Around campus What: Visit from Rt. Reverend J. Neil Alexander, Bishop of the Diocese In this issue of Atlanta When: April 16, 12:30 p.m.

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• MONEY from front page response by saying Fein’s recent arts and humanities. the university does not receive editorial, “requires a response KSU’s mission statement Center for the Investigation of Human funding comparable to other in- that provides proper context has changed four times since stitutions of similar size, it will and some corrections.” its beginning in 1963; first Trafficking finds home at KSU not be able to hire quality pro- According to Papp, funding founded as a junior college, fessors. Fein said that KSU al- for the university system has con- later becomming a college cur- MASHAUN D SIMON Last month they officially kicked off a slav- ready has better faculty than the tinued to increase over the past rently described by the Board STAFF WRITER ery mapping program in Kennesaw, accord- school deserves due to its loca- three years, increasing by 10.5 of Regents as a “robust, com- ing to Mark Hoerner. The Hoerners serve as tion in Cobb County. He went percent in 2008. Papp said the prehensive university.” As the A center designed to map and monitor human Georgia State Directors for the Not for Sale on the record saying Dr. Papp Board of Regents understands the mission statement changes, the trafficking in the state of Georgia is in its begin- Campaign. “The slavery mapping program here is doing a good job fighting for dire funding needs KSU has and expectations for students, facul- ning stages here at KSU. The proposed Center in Kennesaw focuses on identifying possible the school and understands his that last year Perdue, the Board ty and staff increase, along with for the Investigation of Human Trafficking situations in which people are being forced to difficult position. Fein said that of Regents and state legislature expectations from the Board of would allow students and faculty to collaborate work against their will, either in an industrial, Papp is the one person that can worked together to provide $42.5 Regents. on research projects to map and monitor human agricultural or sexual format,” he said. “In San help, and he needs students, million toward a new health sci- “We do have some funding trafficking in the state. Francisco, students concentrated on identifying faculty, staff and citizens of ences building. challenges, but we have been Keisha Hoerner, department chair of KSU’s massage parlors that were doubling as brothels Northwest Georgia to back him Papp stressed that a major very forthright about these chal- First-Year Programs, said students in the first- populated by women (often young girls) being in the fight. factor the Board of Regents lenges, and I am guardedly op- year program got the idea of the center after held against their will.” Papp, who responded in the has to consider when allocating timistic that our situation will reading David Batstone’s “Not for Sale,” a book They will do the same here. “Only we expect April 3 edition of the Marietta funding is the “mission” state- begin to improve,” Papp said. that defines and explains the issue of human to investigate typical businesses as well,” he paper, countered Fein’s claims ment of the university, which “Kennesaw State University trafficking in the U.S. said. “Atlanta is a highly attractive city for of state officials ignoring determines its operating cost. is working closely with all our “Right now we are in the planning stages,” human trafficking - its number one in the world KSU, saying that the Board of Law schools, medical colleges funding partners to acquire the said Hoerner. “We are putting together a pro- for child sex slavery - and we want to put an end Regents’ staff has acknowl- and science and engineering resources necessary to make posal that will spell out what the center will look to that reputation.” edged KSU’s ever increasing labs require significantly more this an even better university like, the budget, where we will get the funding “Not for Sale” has really worked well with funding needs. Papp began his funding than programs in the than it already is,” from and how we would integrate the center the Year of the Atlantic World theme and the into what KSU is already doing with other cen- Third Annual Student Leadership Training ters we have.” for Peace conference, though it was not planned The goals of the center are essentially three- that way. fold: (1) to provide accurate and timely infor- “We are seeing some really great synchron- Patel, Barnes, Pena mation on human trafficking within the state; icity on campus,” Mr. Hoerner said. “It abso- (2) to participate in a coalition of law enforce- lutely stuns people when we tell them that more ment agencies, social services organizations, than 27 million people are enslaved today and faith-based groups and researchers working to that roughly half of those are children.” He reduce human trafficking; and (3) to serve as a explained that when people think of slaves in elected to SGA resource center for students, faculty, staff and chains, they think of the countless Africans who KELLY BLAINE Afterward, Patel attributed the victory to the community members wanting to get engaged in were abused and murdered because they were STAFF WRITER hard work of his campaign staff and running the fight to end human trafficking. viewed as a commodity. mates. “I’ve never had a group of individu- While they are in the discussion stage, “It’s hard to conceptualize given the way we On April 8, Student Government announced als who worked so hard,” he said. “I’d like Hoerner and others here at KSU have already have been taught about history. Lincoln spoke that students elected Punit Patel as the new to thank Amanda Barnes, Carmen Sofia Pena, started working to inform and educate others and suddenly everyone was free and equal, President, running mate Amanda Barnes as Anthony McCalla, Kim Allen, Andre Forbes, about mapping. “There’s so much momentum right? Yet, right now, I can go to the border in Vice President and Carmen Sofia Pena, who Theo Bullard, Shannon Carter, Marshalluna to engage in mapping, and such an incredible Burma and buy a teenager for $3. I can literally ran unopposed, as Secretary. Land and Kyle Gibbons for all their hard need, that we have decided to start it as a com- order a child from Cuba and have him brought According to SGA officials, the 2008-09 work.” munity project that will utilize the talents and to my doorstep for just $500. That’s a chilling elections elicited the greatest voter turnout in According to Patel, his first orders of busi- interests of KSU students, faculty, staff, alumni thought. It’s for that child that I stand up to do KSU history with nearly 1,300 students sub- ness will be to appoint his cabinet, talk to other and community members,” she said. what we are doing here.” mitting a ballot. A dedicated team of faculty organization’s presidents regarding plans to and staff counted ballots late into the night on collaborate with various programs and talk Tuesday. Just before midnight they announced with students and work on their concerns. that Patel won by a margin of less than a hun- Patel, Barnes and Pena will be inaugurated dred votes and that Barnes won by a slightly at the SGA meeting April 24 in the Student wider margin. Center. Tara Cucksee

offer this degree. New degree The College of the Arts will begin accepting applications in the fall for its new bachelor’s programs to be degree. The Bachelor of Arts with a major in dance was created after the dance minor (started offered in 2005) proved its popularity among students. Beginning in July of this year, KSU will The dance minor currently has 143 students. offer a Master of Arts in Teaching. The degree will consist of 48 hours of coursework and is designed for people who currently have bach- Baseball wins big elor’s degrees in a science-related field. The Over the weekend, the KSU baseball team program was created to help ease the state’s traveled to the University of South Carolina prediction of a middle and high school science Upstate to play a double header. The Owls teacher deficit: a shortfall of 1,800 science clenched the first game 11-4. The second game teachers by 2010. was an even bigger upset, with a score of 32-3. This summer, Coles College of Business During this game, every position player scored will offer the university’s second doctoral and had at least one RBI. The game broke degree. The Doctor of Business Administration two KSU records: most hits and most at bats. is targeted toward working professionals and Division I records were also broken, including will cost around $24K a year. KSU is the first records for total bats, runs scored, doubles, and school in the University System of Georgia to RBIs.

Courtesy of Carl Zornes | The Sentinel Current SGA President Tracey Carter, left, congratulates the newly elected executive board. Group wants students to be The board members, from left, are Carmen Sofia Pena, Punit Patel and Amanda Barnes. able to carry guns on campus BRIAN NEWSOME 22-25 in which they will Constitution gave Regents Catch your runny nose THE GAZETTE wear empty holsters “to show authorization to regulate their we’re basically defenseless internal affairs and there was If a gunman were to when we come to school,” no conflict in saying no to SUSAN CLOUGH to know how to avoid being burst into a classroom at the Davis said. His group will use guns. COPY EDITOR affected by pollen-induced University of Colorado at the event to educate other stu- Davis said his group is allergies. To fully enjoy the Colorado Springs with murder dents about concealed carry talking to students at the In 2004, Atlanta was spring, avoidance, medication on his mind, one group of stu- permits. Students also will University of Colorado at named the Springtime Allergy and immunotherapy are suf- dents wants a chance to shoot collect signatures on a peti- Boulder and other cam- Capital of the United States ficient to prevent affectation. back. tion that will be presented to puses about an effort to get by the Asthma and Allergy Avoidance measures can be But packing heat to the Board of Regents advocat- state lawmakers to limit Foundation of America. This extreme- such as traveling class, even with a concealed ing a change in its gun policy. the Regents’ authority on year, Atlanta dropped to 56th to pollen-free regions for the carry permit, is prohibited Davis and other members the matter. Colorado State on the list of 100 cities, down entire season or wearing a by University of Colorado of the group believe being University allows people from last year’s rank of 10. high-efficiency filter mask- but system policy and cause for armed in an incident like with concealed carry permits While this season may keeping car and office win- expulsion. Virginia Tech or Columbine to bring their guns to class, be less severe than in recent dows closed and remaining active, and can be Now about a dozen stu- High School could save lives. according to the national years, the necessary process of indoors during mid-day hours obtained without the systemic dents on the Colorado Springs The guns are concealed, he Students for Concealed Carry breathing in Atlanta inevitably and on windy days can reduce side effects that usually ac- campus have joined a nation- said, and having one in a on Campus Web site. leads to an inescapable attack the severity of tree pollen aller- company respiratory steroids. al and fast-growing group, classroom is no different than The group claims on its of pollen on our airways, and gies. A wide measure of aller- These drugs, however, must Students for Concealed Carry in a restaurant or movie the- Web site, www.concealed- a relentless covering of every gy medications are available, be taken daily, require several on Campus, whose goal is to ater. His parents and other campus.org, to have recruited visible outdoor surface with both by prescription and over days to reach full effectiveness lobby legislators and school family members carry con- 25,000 members in the last yellow dust. Hardwood tree the counter, and they fall into and are best used to prevent administrators to allow their cealed weapons. year, mostly college students. pollen (oak, hickory, pecan, and two main categories: those seasonal allergies. handguns in class. But the University of It says it is not affiliated with other non-evergreens) is the that relieve symptoms (fast, In severe cases, medications “I carry because I’m a Colorado policy came about the National Rifle Association most troublesome in Atlanta, but temporary relief) and those may not be sufficient to control former Boy Scout and the because “there is a strong or any political groups. and, according to a published that suppress the allergic reac- disease; allergen immunothera- motto is always be prepared,” belief that having guns in In identifying its mission, study from Emory University, tion (slow but powerful with py may be needed and usually said John Davis, 30, a UCCS classrooms is not conducive the group says: “The first step the average adult will inhale longer- lasting effects). results in major improvement. senior who organized the to an open environment or is to see `colleges’ removed about a half-million particles Antihistamines are the most Since injections take months local effort. a learning environment,” from the lists of places listed of the pollen during the spring common allergy relief medica- to control the problem, this is a Both Colorado College said UCCS spokesman Tom as `off limits’ by the con- season. Although most people tions, and have been improved long-term allergy defense strat- and Pikes Peak Community Hutton. cealed carry laws in many are not bothered by this annual in recent years to offer strong egy. College also ban guns regard- “There’s an appropriate states. The next step is to see event, one in three people be- effects on sneezing, itching and The pollen count is a valu- less of permits, but students place for guns, and the class- other states follow Utah’s lead comes allergic to the proteins runny nose without causing able tool for gauging the sever- at those campuses have not room is not an appropriate in prohibiting state (tax subsi- delivered by pollen, and, as a drowsiness. Over-the-counter ity and prevalence of pollen on objected to the policies, ac- place,” Hutton said. Students dized) colleges from enacting result, suffers from nasal itch- antihistamines are less power- a given day, and can help pre- cording to the schools. with concealed carry permits their own bans on concealed ing, sneezing, watery secre- ful and can cause drowsiness, vent the onset of allergic symp- “From my perspective, I are allowed to store their guns carry.” tions (from the nose and eyes), but are still effective and read- toms. When planning outdoor certainly am an advocate for at the campus police station Supporters of allow- and obstruction of the airways. ily available for mild allergic activities, consult a local news people’s Second Amendment or lock them in their cars, he ing concealed handguns on Problems with the ears, si- reactions. These symptomatic channel or Web site (such as rights,” said University of said. campus are quick to point out nuses, throat and lungs may medications work quickly and weather.com) to find out the Colorado Regent Kyle Hybl. A state law passed in 2003 the background checks and also emerge. Once allergies are good for “bad day” relief. best time of day to be outdoors “I also think the issue of con- allows concealed weapons to training required to obtain a develop, the nose is rendered Topical anti-inflammatory and if weather conditions (such cealed carry on campus is be carried in most parts of permit, and they claim that unable to filter the pollen out of drugs (nasal sprays) are the as warm, dry conditions) will one that needs to be looked at Colorado. concealed carry permits have the air, and 10-100 times more powerhouses of modern ther- worsen the chances of being internally to see what’s in the That same year, the Board not led to more violence pollen is diverted to the throat apy for severe allergic symp- affected by seasonal allergies. best interest of the campus.” of Regents sought an opinion among those people. and lungs. toms, and are more powerful On campus, over-the-coun- Students at UCCS and the on its weapons policy from Opponents point to the Since tree pollen is preva- than ingestible medications. ter drugs are available to stu- University of Colorado at the Attorney General’s Office. risks of guns ending up in the lent in Atlanta and can become When sprayed into the nose, dents free of charge and may Boulder plan to participate Then-Attorney General Ken wrong hands or being mis- troublesome, it is important cortisone-like drugs are very be obtained by visiting the in a nationwide protest April Salazar said the Colorado used. Student Health Clinic. The Tuesday, April 15, 2008 SENTINEL News • Page 3 Award-winning news reporter and anchor Anissa Centers speaks to future journalists NADIA ABDULAHI reporters are STAFF WRITER based on their looks. “It will Anissa Centers visited KSU on April 10 cripple you if to discuss her journalistic career with stu- you focus on dents. She has come a long way from start- others and ing her television career at a local station in what they are Lufkin-Nacogdoches, Texas to becoming an doing. And anchor at WSB-TV Atlanta. because this Centers spent the last eleven years in is a visual Mobile, Ala. as the co-anchor of the 5 field, if you p.m. and 9 p.m. newscasts at WALA-TV. focus on that There she covered every major hurricane as well, then that hit the Gulf Coast in the last decade. it will cripple you.” Her coverage for Hurricane Katrina earned Centers advised students that they need her the Alabama Associated Press “Best to work on networking and obtaining intern- Anchor” award for the third year in a row. ships. “You need to get an internship while In 2004, The National Association of Black you are in college. You will never know the Journalists named her best anchor in Region highs and the lows and you need to do it now IV, which includes Georgia. Recently, before you graduate. For example, I worked Centers was awarded “Alabama’s Best in at a sports PR company and I realized that I Broadcasting” by the Alabama Broadcasters did not do well at paperwork. In public rela- Association. tions, you have to be super-organized with Centers graduated Magna Cum Laude your paperwork.” On networking, Centers from Austin College in Sherman, Texas with stated, “You will be amazed by how small degrees in Business and Communication. this world is. Everyone at WSB has worked After graduation, she worked at a Lufkin with someone that I have worked with in the station where she had to undertake many past. So, it is important to stay in touch with obligations. “I did everything from doing people you meet.” reports, editing, writing, etc. I’m glad that Currently, Centers works Saturday I got to do all that because it has helped me through Wednesday from 3 a.m. until 1 p.m. down the road,” Centers said. She stated that this schedule works well be- Along the way to becoming an award- cause she is able to be with her kids after winning journalist, Centers revealed that she they get home from school. “My goal is to has faced many challenges along the way, possibly have as much a career as I can have including a media-based society in which here in Atlanta.”

CAITLIN DINGLE maintain land and DUI. noon police were dispatched STAFF WRITER The blood alcohol concentra- to Lot B in front of the tion of the driver was found Nursing building in refer- Friday afternoon a student to be 0.162 grams with the ence to smoke coming from reported the tailgate of his GA state breath test. a trashcan. The officer was car missing. The tailgate, unable to distinguish the valued at $400, was stolen A high speed chase oc- flame using a fire extinguish- off the car, but nothing else curred on Sunday afternoon. er and three glasses of water, was taken. This is the second KSU Police were advised of so Cobb Fire was dispatched tailgate to go missing in the the area the car was travel- to the scene and was able to past month from campus. ing, and followed the chase put it out promptly. from Chastain Road and I- JUSTIN J. WYATT Early morning Saturday, an 575 up to Chastain Center A patrol car on Campus Loop officer observed a vehicle Office Park. The car lost Road noticed a vehicle fail- failing to maintain its lane control once off the inter- ing to maintain lanes Friday three times while driving on state, but continued into the night. The police officer & ASSOCIATES Chastain Road. The vehicle park where it came to a dead attempted to catch up to the was pulled over in University end. The suspect then hit a vehicle and make a traffic Place Apartment’s parking tree, and started to back up stop when the vehicle began Trial Attorneys lot. The officer smelled the towards the police officers, to flee. Speeds reached 80 odor of alcohol coming from hitting two of the vehicles. miles per hour before the the driver’s breath. The The chase then continued car stopped in the Kroger “Agressive, Creative, Experienced” driver submitted to volun- back onto I-575 and to I-75 Parking Lot on Jiles Road, tary field evaluations after south, reaching speeds up submitting to arrest. The advising the officer that she to 100 mph. The police fi- driver was arrested for fail- had been taking medication nally successfully used a box ure to maintain land, dis- for pain and sinus problems. maneuver in order to stop regarding two stop signs, The driver then showed posi- the fleeing vehicle. The car driving without headlights, CRIMINAL LAW tive for alcohol, failed the came to a crashing stop in a passing on a double yellow nine step walk-and-turn eval- ditch and the driver was ar- line, reckless driving, driv- uation, and failed the one leg rested. ing on a suspended license • DUI stand evaluation. The driver and attempting to flee and was arrested for failure to On Wednesday early after- elude. • Traffi c • Misdemeanor • Felony FAMILY LAW PERSONAL INJURY

770-422-2221 367 Atlanta Street Marietta, GA 30060 KSU students receive discounted representation www.jwyattlaw.org The Page 4 • Op/Ed SENTINEL Tuesday, April 15, 2008 Visit us online Tell us about it www.ksusentinel.com OPINIONS & EDITORIALS [email protected] Before you ride Elevator etiquette for the simple minded student Our new social sciences Those would be: pregnant I have witnessed this many times it’s also dangerous. No matter if you building is beautiful. There women, obviously in- in the very social sciences building were the one who called the elevator is no denying that. While jured folk and the elderly. elevators I alluded to before. Do or if you really have somewhere to after one year, it is holding No, Thomas Beatie, I did not, under any circumstances, push be, you can wait the five seconds it up rather nicely, something not include you, and on someone aside or reach across them takes for the riders to exit. If it takes about it irks me. The build- purpose. If you’re going to select your destination button. more than my allotted five seconds, ing is not the problem; it’s to be a “man” and be Simply ask; it’s that easy. Also, upon be patient. Good things come to the thousands of students “pregnant,” you have to boarding, check and see if your desti- those who wait. And again, we are who are ignorant to proper walk the stairs. As for all nation is illuminated before blurting not going to leave you. multi-level building travel, other students who get on it out. We have already sat through a 6. This one may be the most impor- and that causes me much and go up or down one treacherous hour and fifteen minutes tant one to those who may have been sadness. There is indeed level, you need to suck of repetition, and we don’t want it in stuck in an elevator before. Elevators such thing as elevator eti- it up and walk the whole the elevator. If you choose to stand unfortunately can not talk, because if AMY STOREY quette, of which no one at twenty steps up. Heaven by the buttons, let it be known that they could, I’m sure that they would COPY EDITOR KSU seems to be aware of. forbid you might burn you assume remediate responsibility be sick of telling KSU students, “hey Some of you may be re- some calories or even of button pushing. If you don’t like fatties, get off, you’re kill- cram as many bodies as we can in quired to take lengthy trips break a sweat. And we all it, don’t stand there. ing me.” People, it is one ride. If you are the last few to in elevators to get to your know America couldn’t 4. Do not ever hold the doors open not good to get on the lift, and it starts beep- office one day. If this is use a little more of either with other people in the elevator ing, then please get off. You are the case, I want you to be of those. to finish your phone conversation. putting the rest of us in danger. I prepared to not look like 2. If you are in the Where you’re meeting Sally Jo am pretty sure that you can wait a complete fool, or just a front of the elevator [near for lunch is not more important the extra two minutes it takes for plain ignoramus, in front of the doors], and they open than us getting to class on time. the next elevator to come. There coworkers or even, heaven for others to leave the el- Also, please refrain from, if you is no need to shove yourself and forbid, your boss. Thus, I have pre- evator party, even though you are not have some super-power cellular your third leg, also referred to pared for you a short list of elevator getting off, instead of playing people service, carrying these conversa- as a rolley backpack, in the very rules. Let it be known that this is not ping pong, politely step out and wait tions on inside the elevator. Your last crevice available. the absolute list; there are other rules until they de-board, and then get voice bouncing off the walls of I can only hope that those for properly riding an elevator. back on. Trust us, we are not leaving the four-by-six foot metal elevator of you abusing KSU’s elevators 1. Avoid, at all costs, riding the you. No one likes being pushed into walls is not a pleasant sound. and its patrons can read this and elevator up or down one single floor. the wall or corner of an already small 5. While boarding the elevator, reconcile with any thoughts of Not only is this annoying to other space. So move out of the way to let please wait until all of the patrons continuing your bad elevator passengers who have somewhere patrons behind you exit smoothly de-board from their trip. Not only etiquette. Because honestly, to be in a timely manner, but it just and safely. does the jumbled mass of people others notice, and they talk makes you look lazy. There are, as 3. Honestly, I’m sad that I even trying to get off and people trying to about you when you get off. with anything, exceptions to this rule. feel I have to mention this one. But, get on cause extreme confusion, but Human damages Cheerleaders gone wild to earth can be By now you’ve seen or problems. between right and wrong. heard about the six teen- But there are those who While I don’t know any of aged cheerleader girls (read will blame The Internet, the parents personally, I reversed that as: felonious loons YouTube and Myspace will go out on a limb and One person’s suggestion: with no sense of good or when the blame lies with say they probably never evil) and their two trollish the little criminals who said ambushing a defense- shave the population male look outs who beat an committed the atrocious less teen and beating her unsuspecting teen with a acts and, to a lesser extent, into a concussion is bad, CRISTINE GHATTAS an egalitarian society, such as is the savagery usually reserved their parents. I had vio- but I am sure the parents GUEST COLUMNIST ideal, that certain people make hard for clashes between the lent influences when I was implied that in some of sacrifices for the good of the greater Chinese militia and Tibetan growing up, but I can hon- their lessons. The parents TONY SARRECCHIA It is a depressing state to those whole. monks. The reason? The estly say that I never tried are certainly financially re- COLUMNIST who walk through this great world, And so it is that I suggest the ter- victim wrote something to eye boink my friends, sponsible for their children, when they see the skies, the oceans mination of newborn LMOCCDP’s. that hurt the fragile egos push them off cliffs or drop as future civil suits will no and forests, crowded with litter and They must be stopped as early as of the cheerleaders on her anvils on their heads. There doubt bear out, but I am said this is bad idea. The litter-makers, of both sexes, followed possible in their oxygen-consuming, MySpace page. Let’s hope was the one summer when torn on the suggestion that person holding the camera by their offspring, all breathing pre- carbon dioxide-producing existence, that the state of Florida tries I acted like Baretta and criminal charges against could have put it down or, cious oxygen, exhaling damning before they have the chance to grow these criminals as adults. walked around with an unlit the parents are necessary. at the very least, stopped carbon dioxide. These Litter-Making into litter-makers. They are then to None of this would cigarette behind my ear, but Unless raising a thug is a recording and suggest they Oxygen-Consumers and Carbon be buried in the as-of-now depleted have happened without upon returning to school in crime. release the victim. Instead Dioxide-Producers (LMOCCDP’s) forests so that their decaying bodies the Internet and YouTube. September, Mother Superior Christina Garcia, mother the little vigilante holding are dangerous indeed, for it is the may fertilize and aid in the growth Before you send my editor broke me of the habit by of one of the thugs, I the camera said, “There is combination of reckless littering and of oxygen-producing vegetation, crazed emails, hear me out. smacking the smoke from mean girls, had the audac- only 17 seconds left, make excessive carbon dioxide produc- thereby raising atmospheric oxygen Thanks to the egocentric my ear and leaving me with ity to blame the victim. it good.” tion that is contributing now to the in relation to carbon dioxide in order narcissism that compels a aural ring for three days. According to news reports, One of the accomplices, ever-growing danger of GLOBAL to defeat that demon, GLOBAL these loons, they believe I did not tell my mother the victim made some com- an 18-year-old high school WARMING. WARMING. that no matter how heinous about the incident because ments on her Myspace student, was standing by The children – that is, the offspring Quite apart from the man-made their particular crime, it she would have assumed page about the girls. Ms. the door planning to run who will grow into LMOCCDP’s – miracle we will have achieved in is worthy of public view- that, if Mother Superior has Garcia, who will never interference if anyone tried are the greatest danger in my estima- halting and reversing GLOBAL ing on a video sharing site. whacked me I must have win Humanitarian of the to interupt. He could have tion. The world is crowded already WARMING, several less-obvious Had this attack occurred deserved it. The point is, Year, said, “I just don’t see gone for help at any time, with people. Imagine, if you dare, the benefits will be felt by all. five years ago, the victim even as young children, why [the victim] would do but choose to be a thug. dire situation before us if ever the off- No longer will we be forced to would have had to prove my friends and I knew that if she didn’t have the A word to that particular spring we have now grow to be adult contend with the squealing voices of these troglodytes were her that the things the Three nerve to back it up, what troglodyte: you are just as LMOCCDP’s. It will be pandemo- developing LMOCCDP’s. attackers. No doubt each Stooges, Buggs Bunny, or you’re saying.” She did guilty as the girls who per- nium, and GLOBAL WARMING No longer will we have to ration would have lied for the the Coyote did were fantasy admit later thather daughter petrated the beatings. You will kill us all. our water usage consumption; three- other rather than face cer- and shouldn’t be replicated should have called police. will be tried as an adult, as I I foresee that the nature of my hour showers will again be the norm. tain prison time and pos- in the real world. Ya think? hope the the rest of the pack suggestion will not be appealing to And no longer will we cry at the sight sible Karmic retribution. The parents of these These monsters had is; and, if found guilty, you everyone. Certainly the mother who of photoshopped pictures of Polar Now, the victim can just hoodlums also share some ample opportunities to pre- will end up in the big boys’ has newly given birth or the father Bears frolicking on melting blocks of point to the video when her culpability. Not as much, vent this crime. At every prison. Keep in mind that who has just held his offspring’s ice. vision heals. The victim but some. The cheerleaders stage during the planning someone will be standing thumb for the first time may recoil at These things, and the release from was beaten so badly that and their accomplices were process one of the more outside your cell making the idea I will shortly put forth. And worry over GLOBAL WARMING, she (as of this writing) certainly old enough to highly evolved among sure no one interrupts your to be sure, this is a matter not to be make my humble suggestion not still has hearing and vision understand the difference the primates could have welcoming committee. taken lightly. But it is necessary in only necessary, but attractive.

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While we do not publish letters from groups endorsing express written permission of the editor in chief. © 2008, THE SENTINEL. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The Tuesday, April 15, 2008 SENTINEL Op/Ed • Page 5 Running out of oil? Hardly The conventional wisdom peddled by market prices, it is lem is every time we get close to peak the media and the latest sociology confer- becoming profit- oil, it’s realized that peak oil is a moving ence on suburbia is that we are running able to research new target. The New York Times describes it out of oil, and a crisis is on the way. They ways to get more by noting: “As the industry improves its point to the over $100-a-barrel oil costs oil out of each res- ability to draw new life from old wells with a gallon of gas now costing con- ervoir. Companies and expands its forays into ever-deeper sumers over $3. Many scream foul at the such as Chevron and corners of the globe, it is providing a “record profits” of the big oil companies Exxon are research- strong rebuttal in the long-running debate and some even want to “take away those ing methods to allow over when the world might run out of profits” by force. them to extract as oil.” This is nothing new. Since the 1960s, much as 80 percent All of the talk about the billions in books and movies have been foretelling of the oil. profits for these oil companies is bunk. running out of oil in the near future. So The Athabasca It is only profit margins that matter. The KEVIN SCHMIDT far, none have come close to the reality. A region in Alberta, profit margins of oil companies are less COLUMNIST famous prediction was in a bet between Canada was not than those in banking, computers and economist Julian Simon and environ- profitable to tap its some household goods. There is no em- mentalist Paul Ehrlich in 1980. Simon 1.7 trillion to 2.5 pirical evidence of price fixing or “goug- bet Ehrlich that none of the five resources trillion barrels of oil, ing.” The U.S. oil companies have espe- some environmentalists want to go there Ehrlich picked over ten years would rise because getting oil cially less influence on the price of gas to see it someday. Instead we should buy in real cost. Not only did the real cost not out of the sand is ex- considering state-run oil companies own oil from countries who don’t care about rise, all had declined along with the other pensive and compli- most of the world’s oil. the environment like Russia and Nigeria. resources Ehrlich thought would increase cated. With the rise Does this mean we shouldn’t try to So while Anwar remains pristine, the but didn’t bet on. of oil prices, production has started. partly because governments in resource- find alternative energy sources and do world environment suffers when more But with the rise of economic power- It’s true that some oil producers have rich countries are becoming ever more more to conserve energy? Of course not. oil is demanded of countries that don’t houses like China and India, how can I been producing less oil than in past prone to jacking up royalties or expropri- But first we should take advantage of all take care of the environment. U.S. oil say we aren’t running out oil? Well first years, but it’s not because the oil is run- ating resources.” Some companies fear of the opportunities to drill our own oil. drilling would be far more environmen- off, the oil recovery rate from reservoirs ning dry. According to the Economist, that oil-producing countries will raise Places like Anwar in Alaska and off the tally-friendly and the companies would is typically 35 percent. A few decades “Mining and oil firms are struggling to royalties or do what Hugo Chavez did to coasts of Florida and California hold so be monitored and held accountable. ago it was only 20 percent. It’s amazing increase output, partly because it takes Exxon and ConocoPhillips and kick them much potential oil, but environmentalists Theorists are wrong about oil. Have for people to tell us that we are running years to develop new mines or oilfields, out entirely by nationalizing the industry. and people don’t want it in their backyard been for years and will be for the fore- out of oil, when we only get one-third of partly because shortages of equipment Some theorists believe that we are (NIMBY) block our energy indepen- seeable future. Oil is as abundant as their the oil out of each reservoir. At current and labor are hampering expansion, and nearing peak oil again. The only prob- dence. We can’t drill in Anwar just in case hot air. The economy wont stay bad forever Years ago I asked my maternal grand- he paid for it. He wasn’t responsible with his by. Congress is looking to change public now, but trust me, you won’t even notice it’s mother what it was like during the Great other debts so refinancing wasn’t an option policy that may put the government (which missing. To wind up with a comfortable Depression and her answer surprised me. either. He did what a lot of folks are doing means you and me as taxpayers) on the retirement fund you need two things: time “We didn’t really know we were in a depres- these days; he walked away from it. His hook for a LOT of spending. We all need and money. A little money is great, but time sion. Things weren’t really all that different credit is pretty much toast for the next seven to probably take a deep cleansing breath and is what makes that money multiply. The for us.” Sometimes big events are like that. years; he can pretty much forget about ob- slowly exhale. Did a lot of supposedly smart next time you’re at Publix and you see that They overtake us and move by us so quickly taining other credit, whether it’s credit cards, people do a lot of stupid things? Yes. But old gray haired man working in the deli or we scarcely knew what happened. It was dif- an automobile loan, or anything else for that let’s not get so angry and animated that we, in the old woman working as cashier, think ferent for my paternal grandmother’s family, matter. He’ll be lucky if his existing credit turn, wind up being just as stupid as they’ve to yourself: do I want to be there when I’m something I would hear about from time to card companies don’t cut him off completely. been. Congress is estimating that perhaps 70? They didn’t plan on it either, but as the time. Those comments are in the back of my That’s the new reality of the sub-prime melt- as many as 2 million people may be facing expression goes, we don’t plan to fail, we fail mind as I contemplate our current economic down, and changes in bankruptcy laws don’t foreclosure. Let’s stop and think about that to plan. Lastly, don’t put all your eggs in one situation. Things seem potentially scary make things any easier. Multiply my friend for a minute. That’s not even 1 pecent of our basket. When I worked for MCI I invested a TODD FRARY yet nothing truly precipitous or terrible has by several thousand and you get a sense of population. lot of income in our company’s stock as did SENIOR COLUMNIST pushed the economy over the tipping point. what’s happening nationwide. These aren’t So for those of you about to graduate, other employees. It seemed like a good idea There’s the expression, “It’s a recession when high-rolling home flippers out to make a worried about entering the job market in since the purchase price was discounted and someone you know loses a job; it’s a depres- buck, but honest, hard-working middle- a slowing economy, don’t worry. You’ve our stock was hot. The problem came later sion when you lose your job.” If that’s true class folks who do most of the buying in our spent your time here wisely and have ac- when we were bought by WorldCom and the economic crisis we face, and I do believe it then I’ve been through a depression or two in economy. When people like them hit this quired skills that will serve you well in years financial shenanigans crept in. Between the will get worse before it will get better. Are my time. hard patch, they stop buying new cars, nice to come. It may take you longer to find a job, shares I bought and the options I received I we in a recession? Yes. We probably en- We all make bad choices, whether pick- televisions and appliances. Multiply that but you will find one. It may not pay what should have had a small fortune, but the real- tered it in November or December of last ing the wrong course, choosing a major we a few thousand times and you see why the you’d hoped for, but in time, the money will ity was I wound up taking a huge loss when year. How long it will last depends on a huge regret or paying too much for something we economy is slowing down. come. Live a little more frugally; it’s not a the stock cratered. I should have known number of variables, but it may be a while. can’t afford. Sometimes we recover quickly, Now I’m not as old as Grandpa Simpson bad thing to learn. Don’t be like my friend better, but failed to diversify; don’t make that Some people will have a tough go of it until and if we’re lucky no one was watching and or John McCain, but I’ve seen my share of and go into debt buying stuff. Things may same mistake. things get better, but I think of a funny com- saw us make that misstep. Sometimes we good times and bad times. I’m not going to be going well at times, but they won’t always So am I worried about the economic ment one of my grandmothers made. When I faceplant for everyone to see. Newly separat- say I’ve seen it all, done it all, and know it be going great in the future. When you enter downturn? The short answer is yes and no. mentioned that 25 percent of the people were ed, a friend of mine bought a condominium all, but what I can say is I lived through it. the job market remember one critical rule I’m not thrilled about the price of gas and the unemployed she got a twinkle in her eye and at the height of the market. His adjustable Things looked scary and bad when they were too: pay yourself first. What do I mean? inflation of prices, but I know that in time it said, “That’s true, but the other 75 percent of rate mortgage readjusted and it wasn’t going happening, but they turned out alright. In a Put money into an IRA or a 401k and put will be OK. I know there are people worse the people did have a job.” We all make mis- down. Panicked, he looked into selling it and way that’s probably what both grandmoth- as much in as you can afford to. You may off than me. I can only hope that our lead- takes and bad choices; hopefully your worst found out it was worth considerably less than ers were getting at: you find a way to get think you desperately need that money right ers have the wisdom to properly handle the ones are already behind you.

T H E WL FORUM Tired of the Bias Monkey Wrench, a well-known, widely used environmentalist symbol? I write this in a state of complete distaste and feel as though the only way to And what’s with the “wing-nut” pseudo-insult he likes to repeat through- dispel this rot is to scrub where it stinks: Jason Camp and Dave Dalton’s col- out article after article? Aren’t wing nuts used to… hold things together? umns. For the past two semesters, I’ve watched these two write emotional, In that case, are you making the point that environmentalists are what’s jingoist and exclusionary articles about things they’ve obviously misunder- holding the environment together? Thanks Dave Dalton for that wonder- stood. Camp’s recent article about the “Kill Capitalism” posts found on the ful, insightful complement. I didn’t realize you had a poetic sense of meta- pillars displays a complete… ineptitude for deduction. Perhaps, in his day- phor in you. I know your philosophy doesn’t approve of anything other dreams, he wishes to be in Starbuck’s holding an intelligent conversation than pure, laissez-faire capitalism, so go hang out at your local Starbuck’s, for once. I don’t know what kind of articles you’ve been reading on com- support capitalism and the oppression of third world countries, and have munism/socialism, but I’m pretty sure they’re anti-private corporation. So a pseudo-neo-intelligent conversation with your fellow jingoist journalist. when you blather about communists in a high-end coffee shop, you make Maybe we’ll get a decent Sentinel article out of you two… for once. yourself sound like a elementary school kid firing off a string of senseless, Ashley DiBelardino wordy insults that you think appear clever. Secondly, we all know Dave Freshman Dalton hates environmentalists. Then why does he name his column The Sociology, Geography and Anthropology Read comments posted in response to these and other editorials, at ksusentinel.com Get the conversation started by posting your own response.

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MTV’s hit reality show, “The Real World,” has just embarked on its 20th season: on location in Hollywood. Now, the people on the show are still completely psycho, and their house is luxuri- ous as always, and nothing seems to be different. But wait! Look closer at the house and you will find that it’s completely green, from the comput- ers to the pool to the candles. Not the color green (that would be pretty ridiculous) but eco-friendly. A new mini-episode has been added to the iTunes Store under “Free on iTunes,” where Pete and Summer, two creative, active MTV employ- ees and environmentalists come to the house to explore the possibilities of an eco-friendly home with the seven strangers. “Whether or not you may know this, every- Photos by Maria Yanovsky | The Sentinel thing in this house is environmentally friendly,” says Pete. “There is a common misconception that being eco-friendly is hard.” He goes on to prove that it really isn’t. Pete and Summer point out some effective and Student artist plans business out of easy ways to create an eco-friendly environment, and while some things seem really difficult (the computer powered by a bike) others seem quite simple (the toilet that exterminates the use of toilet paper by washing and drying your bottom). RECYCLED FRAMES Not only are the roommates living in an older building (the studio where “I Love Lucy” was shot) rather than inhabiting a newly built build- from Lafayette, Ga ing, but all of the furniture comes from manufac- turers who replant the trees that they use, and try MATT LOGAN to recycle old materials. STAFF WRITER purchasing studio room, Nathan began selling his idea, image, or even lyrics to going to the big corporate The computer is powered by a battery pack he utilized his own garage art for the first time. “In a song that they’d written, frame shops around that can only recharge after two hours on the Nathan Kilpatrick is an space. Instead of ordering my portfolio I had over and I would take that idea Kennesaw and paying bike that powers it. Sounds unnecessary and art student at KSU, and all new framing pieces, he 100 paintings and when I and run with it.” really outrageous amounts inconvenient, but like Pete explains, it basically he is actively pursuing recycled some old frames moved to college I began Painting has always of money for something I reminds you to turn things off or unplug devices a framing business. for his own art. And even selling them out of the been Nathan’s focus. “I’ve could do for a fraction of after you use them. “Even unplugging your Unlike many others in in his painting, he reuses dorms to fellow students. always been a student of the cost. That’s where I phone charger when your phone is not on it can his situation, Nathan has canvases to maintain an It would be sort of like the arts, but my first passion first got the idea of starting help, because if it stays plugged in, it uses the been resourceful in his eco-friendly practice. consignments-- students in the arts was painting. a business of my own.” same amount of energy as if your phone were endeavor. Instead of While living on campus would come to me with an I started painting in high Committed but unsure on it,” describes Pete. school my freshman year of where to start, Nathan The swimming pool, as Summer points out “Is under the instruction of Mrs. picked up mouldings better for your skin and actually doesn’t need that Wesley and have been at it wherever possible and many chemicals.” How? It has salt in it. But ever since.” made the best of what MTV didn’t stop there = solar panels on the roof Making art is nothing new he could get. Recently, heat the pool. Next to the pool is a garden where to Nathan Kilpatrick; he’s however, the framing gods the roommates can grow their own vegetables. been painting for eight years smiled on Nathan and his And to water the vegetables, (now this is a genius now. But after becoming a fellow art students. idea) they use the water that their AC drips into professional custom framer “One day I got a call recycle bins. three years ago, he began to saying that a guy in LaFayette, The roommates’ favorite feature seems to be work on the technical side of Georgia (my hometown) had a the toilet. To conserve toilet paper, the toilet has painting. “During my work whole building full of nothing a remote control that you can use to activate the as a framer, I began to take but frames.” Intrigued, water and dryer for your behind, and even front. more of an interest in the Nathan headed north to In the kitchen, the innovative stove only heats production of making the take a look. “There were when metal is placed on it. Also, right after the paintings, like stretching my literally thousands of frames metal goes off, you can put your hand right on the own canvases and basically there...about 100,000 feet I stove (as a daring roommate demonstrates) and it making them from scratch.” estimated.” Recognizing an will feel cool. He also learned the value and opportunity, Nathan bought A dishwasher conserves much more water beauty a frame could add. the frames and hauled them to than doing the dishes by hand, so that is highly “Since my first job as a his house. encouraged too. framer I’ve been interested in With that, Killer Frames The bright lights outside of the house are making an already beautiful was born. “I couldn’t believe powered by iPower, a device that captures sun- piece of art even better by it at first, but I think this light through the sun panels on the roof, and also adding the perfect frame. is going to be great for me monitors how much energy you save in a day. The thing I like most about and other art students. I was One final surprise is revealed when the room- framing is the ability to make getting along pretty well mates get their car. Now, past seasons have a picture or painting really before this, but now I’m ready used big SUVs provided by MTV. This season, pop.” With this holistic, DIY to really make an impact.” the kids get brand new Civic Hybrids. “Even if attitude, Nathan became “I want to cater to you do all of those little things in your house, involved in every aspect Kennesaw students for right if you drive an SUV, it almost doesn’t matter,” of his art, from making now,” says Nathan, “but I says Pete. “It’s most important to drive an eco- the canvas to hanging a can see it growing to serve a friendly car.” completed, framed work of larger area, too. I just want To close, Pete brings about a great point. art on the wall. people, students or otherwise, “Some people think that being green is for He also became interested to know that they can come to losers, or flannel-wearing people, but it isn’t. in helping other people with me and get the absolute best If you look at the new technologies out there, their art. “I started building frame-job for their money.” they are eco-friendly.” And it’s true, going frames for other artists after Nathan plans to have a green is totally trendy, and what better place to I saw how expensive framing website up soon to display begin this green chapter on “The Real World” could be,” says Nathan. “I ideas, finished work, than Hollywood, where celebrities are endors- felt like I could do it cheaper mouldings options, and ing everything green, and stars like Jessica and make it look just as prices. “I love making art Alba are rolling around in environmentally good. Plus, as art students, and I love framing art. My safe cars like her Prius. it’s good to be supportive of goal with Killer Frames is College students can take advantage of each other.” to make the frame as much a this revolution, which seems to be one of the After having his frames part of the artwork as the art better trends out there. This is a time where displayed with student itself. If I can help somebody young people can take part in a vital move- art in the senior art show, realize their art more fully, ment. “[Summer and Pete] taught us that you he saw there was a real then I’ve succeeded.” don’t have to wear grass skirts and be a hippie need for good, affordable You can contact Nathan to be a part of this movement,” says one of framing options. “I realized at [email protected] for the roommates. that a lot of people were more info. The Tuesday, April 15, 2008 SENTINEL Arts & Living • Page 7 ISA annual fashion show educates students about different cultures

MARIA YANOVSKY aware of cultures. We are showcasing ARTS & LIVING EDITOR traditional clothes from many countries that Americans might not be familiar with. There was a runway fit for a couture People need to know that there’s much more show, a D.J mixing beats, silhouettes out there than jeans and t-shirts.” dancing behind red screens, and models DJ Shizzle from Owl Radio provided that looked absolutely “fierce.” You’d be entertaining music from all over the world fooled into thinking a Hollywood fashion as the show proceeded. show was taking place, but instead, a night The fashion show began with a “Silver of international entertainment was going and Black” run through, in which students down at KSU. showed off trendy clothes common to On Saturday, April 12, the International America’s nightlife. Next came Asia, with Student Association put on a fashion show a ballet number from Japan, traditional for a hyped up crowd, right in the student kimonos, and dancing from India, with center. People could not stay in their seats as outfits fit for Bollywood. models stomped down the runway, danced Following Asia was North America, and entertained the audience. then South America, then Europe, and Since ISA is an organization that finally Africa, where an African drummer promotes cultural awareness, most of entertained the crowd, followed by dancers. the clothing was traditional attire from a ISA put on a fabulous show. The different country. The continents of North organization consists of about 300 members, America, South America, Europe, Asia and who meet every other Thursday, and hold Africa were represented in what turned out events in-between. The meetings consist of to be one exciting event. a presentation from a country, with food and The members of ISA spent a month and festivities from that country. a half preparing the clothes and models, and Coordinator for publicity and social many members showed up as early as 10 events, Diana Santamaria from Colombia, a.m. to prepare for the 7 p.m. show. said, “It’s important that students recognize President of ISA, Nevein El-Haddad that ISA is not just for foreigners.” from Lebanon said, “This show was put ISA advisor, Catherine Odera, said, on in order to introduce people to different “Our motto, ‘We are all international,’ cultures. We have many continents reflects the idea that we all have different represented with different music, clothes experiences from all over the globe, and dancing.” including those from the U.S. ISA creates One of the members of ISA, Hellen opportunities for students to become a Oliveira from Brazil, said, “This is a great part of an open forum and become more Photos by Maria Yanovsky | The Sentinel experience. Whoever comes will be more informed on global learning.”

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through abstractions THEATER PREVIEW

LEAH HALE Texts class and a senior seminar character with the beast itself. Gentile STAFF WRITER how to adapt “Moby-Dick” into a explains, “The actor performing the Herman Melville’s epic, “Moby- production. It seems the professor gained role ‘The Whiteness of the Whale’ Dick,” is a monumental novel that a something invaluable from the classes embodies the essence of ‘whiteness’ lot of people may never read for one himself; much of what Gentile says he that is explored in [a] key chapter.” reason: it is long and tedious. At 135 used in his work started with suggestions “Whiteness” can perhaps best be chapters, it’s little wonder that many from students. “The class recommended described as “mystery,” according students groan at the mention of the chapters they felt were necessary to tell to Gentile. His adaptation seems to book, no matter how fascinating and the version I was interested in creating. concentrate on the elements of the enlightening the story is and in our I considered their recommendations mysterious in the story more than visually-driven culture, it can be carefully and, in most cases, agreed.” anything else, and that focus may tempting to skip the book and watch Years of writing and revising be the reason for the unique format the movie. Well, how about the play!? later, he is co-directing his completed in “Moby Dick.” Gentile said, “[the For those who passed up reading project along with Theater instructor, production] combines chamber theater, the novel in exchange for a month Hylan Scott. a form developed by Robert Breen, or so of their lives, as well as those Certainly what was included or which maintains the narrative voice who have experienced Melville’s left out of the adaptation had not rather than converting narration into prose first-hand and want more, only to do with student and professor dialogue, and aspects of performance from “Moby-Dick” is a shortened can look forward to the show as much KSU’s Department of Theater and preferences; most events in the novel art, which is interested in abstraction theatrical version of the novel. What as anyone else. For those audience Performance Studies presents Dr. are impossible to show literally. and symbolism on stage.” they may anticipate is a show that members, Gentile has a particular John Gentile’s adaptation of “Moby- The limits of space and time in the Student Lee Ogilvie, who plays tells Ahab’s story while interpreting wish: “I hope that those audience Dick” in the Stillwell Theater April theater demand that unless Gentile Hosea Hussey, owner of the Tripots the deeper meanings in an accessible, members who have not read the 15 – 20. could include a ship, a whale and Inn, described the performance. “What creative way. Ogilvie said, “What I book will also find the production The monster task of bringing what the ocean in the set design, he had to I really enjoy is that the show is based think audiences should look forward compelling and engaging. The best is often called the quintessential think abstractly. He makes clear what predominantly on movement. When I to is that ‘Moby-Dick’ is not a compliment would be that someone American novel from the page to the audiences can expect not to see. “No tell people I’m in “Moby Dick,” they traditional play. Our production takes was moved enough after seeing stage takes courage, innovation and papier-mâché whale and no flooding say ‘You must have an amazing set!’ one part traditional theatre and mixes the production to read the book. It time. “Gentile...has dared to tackle the theater.” Instead, his work focuses and I shake my head at them. We have it with one part performance art to tell is an American epic, perhaps the this Leviathan work in a new stage on recreating the important aspect of custom props like tables, desks and a a story in a simplistic way. There is American epic.” adaptation developed over the last five the story: its essence. rotating staircase but no gargantuan an element of spectacle to it, but we KSU’s production of “Moby- years,” said Jane Barnette, resident One way he has captured “Moby- ship on the Stillwell stage. All the don’t wheel out clunky props just to Dick” runs April 15 – 19 at 8 p.m. dramaturg, in an article on the Theater Dick” in an abstract sense is by choreographed movementKENNESAW by COLLEGE Scott SENTINELmake the scene interesting. We as theNY007039B and April 20 at 3 p.m. in the3/11/2008 Howard and Performance Studies website. introducing a new character to the shows the audience what is happening actors work hard on bringing these Logan Stillwell Theater. Tickets $15; KHIBLER 5.6875 x 10.5 HELP WANTED The adaptation actually began in story: “the Whiteness of the Whale,” at the moment while Dru Jamieson characters to life on stage and putting $10 for students with an I.D. For the classroom. 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MATT LOGAN creatively and produced some description-defy- STAFF WRITER ing tunes on “Because of the Times.” Once gritty southern rock, punk, funk and new-wave rolled It’s a rare thing isn’t it…an album that’s full of into one, it became so clear: this album is my great songs from start to finish? Sure, a few easy pick for most overlooked album ever. Ever. And examples come to mind: The Clash’s “London it’s only been out for a year. Call me crazy, but Calling,” The Beatles’ “White Album,” U2’s “The before you do, listen to “On Call,” “Charmer,” Joshua Tree,” Radiohead’s “OK Computer” or “and “True Love Way.” Green Day’s “Dookie.” While these albums’ great- ness is certainly debatable, the fact that they’re all Interpol wildly popular, commercially successful monolith- Turn on the Bright Lights (2002) ic cultural artifacts is not. An album doesn’t have to be an anthem of a generation or a transcendent For all the critical praise this album has re- Adair Moore | The Sentinel musical statement to be a great album, though, and ceived, one would think it’d be more popular. it doesn’t have to be written by The Clash or The Pitchfork named it album of the year in 2002 Beatles. In honor of a few of those great all killer, and other media outlets showered it with love. Link workshop teaches teamwork no filler records that haven’t quite made it into our While it did sell well for an independent release, Link Emerge Friday Group conducted a workshop on team building strategies by collective consciousness, I’ve compiled a short list it hasn’t got the attention it truly deserves. From going through several low elements courses. KSU actually has its very own low of albums that I think deserve more attention. the opening high hat flutter, it’s clear that Interpol elements course located in the wooded area behind Jolley Lodge. Link Emerge intended “Turn on the Bright Lights” to be a consists of three different groups that meet on Monday, Thursday and Friday of Further Seems Forever sleek, subversive album with dark undertones and every week. Each group is like a family, and team building courses like these The Moon is Down (2001) a driving, mechanistic rhythm. That’s not to say help each member of the group grow a better connection with one another. LINK it’s boring or repetitive. This is rock music at its actually stands for Leaders in Kennesaw, and in order to be a leader, one must “The Moon is Down” was Further Seems core, just delivered methodically, with a cold at- be able to work in groups and get along with others. 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CAITLIN DINGLE 6-0. Presbyterian’s only rally started in the sixth STAFF WRITER inning when they scored their only run of the entire evening. KSU then brought in three more The KSU Baseball team is turning up the heat, runs in the seventh inning on an Andrew Martin with their seventh win in a row. Presbyterian’s hit with the bases loaded and a wild pitch to effort was not enough to stop the Owls as the score Josh Whitaker. Blue Hose dropped both games of the double- KSU had four players with two hits in the header on Tuesday evening at Stillwell Stadium. contest with Fowlkes leading the way. Fowlkes The Owls scored 15 runs in two games with 20 was 2-for-4 with two RBIs and two runs scored. hits on the night. Defense was a key factor in In game two, defense was crucial for the the spectacular wins and Presbyterian’s offense Owls, with the Blue Hose having ten hits to was no match for the Owls’ pitching. The KSU KSU’s eight. Even with these numbers, the lineup combined to allow just one run on the Owls still managed to keep Presbyterian score- entire day, sweeping Presbyterian College, 9-1 less while notching six runs. Whitmer led KSU and 6-0. in the second game, going 2-for-2 with three Sophomore Jace Whitmer was the star of RBIs. Pitchers Kyle Clayton, Ryan Rodebaugh, this doubleheader against Presbyterian College Kenny Faulk, and Bubba Blalock combined on Tuesday night. Whitmer drove in six runs to keep Presbyterian scoreless throughout the over the two games, tying the team lead for second game. RBIs with 26. “Jace has been swinging the bat The Owls started off with a 1-0 lead after well over the past couple of weeks,” head coach a Smith bunt single was followed by a sacrifice Mike Sansing said. “He’s just found a good bunt by Morrow. Then Whitmer brought him in groove and we’re getting guys on base to take for the RBI. The game stayed quiet for the next advantage of it.” few innings, until KSU extended their lead in In game one the Owls, who have moved the fourth inning with two runs by Tendler and to 17-16 on their season, opened the game Wooley from a Curtis Van Wyck single through strong by scoring five runs in the first inning. the middle. Tyler Stubblefield placed a bunt Whitmer smashed a three-run double to send perfectly, sending Van Wyck into scoring posi- Jacob Robbins, Bucky Smith and Jay Morrow tion. With two men out, Smith and Morrow both all across home plate. Drew Fowlkes then fol- earned walks to load the bases for the Owls with lowed Whitmer’s RBIs with a single to push the Whitmer up to bat. The standout sophomore lead to four runs, and then reached home him- showed up with another hit, sending Van Wyck self to make the score 5-0 in just the first inning. and Smith both to home and making the score 5- The scoring would halt for both sides until the 0. Ending the scoring for the day, Whitaker sent Photos by Carl Zornes | The Sentinel fifth inning when Fowlkes sent Morrow in to a single down the left field line to bring home Top: KSU freshman Bucky Smith swings for a hit. Bottom: KSU pitcher throws the ball score a run for the Owls and then reached home Morrow, leaving the score at 6-0, the final for towards the plate. The Owls defeated Presbyterian 9-1 and 6-0 in the doubleheader. himself on a Blue hose error, making the score the night. One thousand successes for KSU coach AUBREY INGALLS 186. With just three more victories, he the players’ talents and ability. He es- but in the end they’re just another vic- STAFF WRITER will have accomplished what less than timates an 85-15 split between recruit- tory.” His goal, instead, is to have the 20 other coaches have in all of colle- ing and development, respectively, KSU softball program become as re- This softball story begins with bas- giate softball: 1,000 wins. Is he proud as the two greatest factors of coach- spected and dominant in DI as it was ketball. In 1981, a young man named of this feat? Yes, he says, because ing. Though he is well-known for his in DII. Scott Whitlock became the manager/ “so few have done it.” The milestone coaching ability, he is even better at Whitlock and his Owl softball gopher for his junior college wom- also signifies the success of the KSU recruiting and, according to him, he’s teams have just about done it all over en’s basketball team. While working softball program; success is something “a great judge of people.” The jump the years. Whitlock, nonetheless, is the job at Truett-McConnel, all his that Whitlock and the Owls know a lot from Division II to Division I prevents clear in his assertion that he is just a previous notions of women’s sports about. the Owls from competing for a cham- cog in the machine. He admits that a were blown away. It didn’t take long Under his guiding hand, KSU has pionship for four years but when KSU small amount of credit is his but “gi- before he realized that those athletes won two national titles, a district becomes eligible in 2010, Whitlock gantic credit goes to the players. I’ve were serious; he was “moved by their championship, played in the World will have even more ammunition to never gotten a hit, never struck any- commitment, dedication, and ability.” Series and finished fourth, and won recruit the top talents. body out…I’m more of a by-product Whitlock stayed in the arena of wom- the Atlantic Sun conference crown. Besides his judge of character, than a creator [of success].” It is all a en’s hoops at his next stop: Piedmont Whitlock, in what may seem strange Whitlock is a self-described “builder.” series of investments: when he was a College. He was offered and accepted to the average fan, doesn’t view these He inherited an existing program that young man, KSU made an investment an assistant coach’s position even achievements as successes. Instead, he claims was “not just good, they in him and the softball program and Scott Whitlock though he was still in his junior year. he says that “winning is the by-prod- were great.” So good, in fact, that he, in return, makes an investment in After Whitlock graduated, he found uct of success.” If he and his staff are they logged a win-loss record of 153- the young women on his team. Most career until he calls it quits. How will himself selling Schwinn bicycles in successful in recruiting and refining 15 in the four years before making the importantly, to Whitlock, is the invest- he know when to hang it up? “I don’t Marietta, Ga. when James “Spec” the already talented players, and if the jump to fast-pitch. The move was a ment made by his wife and children. know how I’ll know,” he says “but I Landrum, Athletic Director of then players are successful in seizing op- new kind of game for the slow-pitch Susan Whitlock, a one-time KSU head do know that I’d rather end it a year Kennesaw College, invited him to portunities to grow and develop them- coach and team. Whitlock began basketball coach and current KSU too early instead of a year too late.” lunch. He offered Whitlock an as- selves on and off the field, then those building right away, though, with professor, understands the dedication 1,000 is just another number for sistant coaching job on the women’s successes will result in victories. what he called “sheer luck” by recruit- that Scott necessarily has for the soft- Scott Whitlock, but what is most im- basketball team if he’d also agree to Assembling the right team of play- ing Canadian pitcher Dyan Mueller. ball team. “Susan is smart and needs portant to him is helping his team find coach the school’s slow-pitch softball ers also seems to be a key ingredient Their first year in the fast-pitch league me for nothing…and has allowed me the success for another thousand. This team. A deal was struck and Whitlock for on-the-field success. High school was a success and they kept on with to go all over the world and do what I assistant basketball coach turned soft- coached his first game on June 1 of and youth programs, according to their winning ways. Scott Whitlock love to do. I’m terribly grateful.” ball legend is yet to take his final cur- 1985…and the rest is history. Whitlock, act as the construction is building again, however, as his When will he hang it up? There is tain call and you can bet he’d settle for At present, Hall of Fame Coach phase for players, while programs like Owls now compete in Division I. no way to tell. He has promised him- another thousand victories before he Scott Whitlock’s career record is 999- his at the collegiate level seek to refine “Championships,” he says “are great, self to not look back and reflect on his does. Competitive cheer team takes fourth at nationals KELLY BLAINE the country and with a final felt great and the girls We felt better coming team were on the floor a couple of minor problems STAFF WRITER score of 8.765, trailed their had a great time out performing. and that’s the only thing that competitors by just fractions there.” off the floor this year in According to Mulkey went wrong with the whole he KSU of a point and improved on The 2:15 routine the team did not have routine.” competitive their third place score from was similar to the one fourth place than we did its best performance The crowd and the team cheer team last year. the team performed but there were no felt the performance de- took fourth “We felt better coming off at the West Coast “last year in third place. major errors whereas served better than the fourth place at the the floor this year in fourth Championships in Las the first and third place place finish, and although 2008 NCA place than we did last year in Vegas where the Owls Regardless of our teams, Louisville and Mulkey admitted the scor- and NDA third place,” said head coach took second place Maryland, each had ing may have been strange, Collegiate Cheer and Dance Felicia Mulkey. “Regardless earlier this year. The placements before, major drops. she said afterward, “It Championships in Daytona of our placements before, difficulty level was “The first [stunt] se- was a great weekend and I TBeach, Fla. on Friday. The this is the best team we’ve higher due to the stunt this is the best team quence was flawless,” think next year were going Owls beat dozens of teams ever had at Kennesaw. We sequences and only said Mulkey. “The to come back and hit it for from top schools around didn’t hit our routine but we 20 of the 33 member we’ve ever had at ”KSU. second sequence had sure.” The Tuesday, April 15, 2008 SENTINEL Sports • Page 11 Seniors walk the diamond for final season KELLY BLAINE ly leads the team in saves (4), STAFF WRITER games finished (8), appearances (13), and is in the top three in ach year the base- strikeouts (32). This season ball team’s coach- Bohana secured his place in ing staff must fill KSU history as he cracked the the gaps left behind top ten in career appearances by the graduating for a pitcher. “I always loved class of seniors. Next year, they being in the game and I was haveE will their work cut out for fortunate enough to pitch in them as KSU will say goodbye many of them over my career,” to four outstanding players and said Bohana. “Kennesaw has dedicated students – pitcher been great to me and the thing I Bubba Blalock, pitcher Mike will miss the most are my team- Bohana, outfielder Jay Morrow mates and coaches.” and Jerome Wooley. Morrow, a Roswell, Ga. Blalock, a chemistry major native, is one of KSU’s most from Macon, Ga., has appeared potent offensive performers. in 10 games for the Owls this Since his sophomore year, he season, struck out 17 batters, has started nearly every game and walked only seven in 20 in the outfield for the Owls and plus innings of work. His 1.17 currently ranks in the top two in ERA in conference games cur- several offensive categories in- rently leads the team and his cluding batting average (.358), dominance over Atlantic Sun slugging percentage, on base opponents is nothing new. He percentage, hits and RBI’s. In finished out last season with addition to posting top num- the lowest ERA on the squad in bers on the team, Morrow is conference games, at 2.03. He currently ranked fourth in the also allowed the fewest earned conference for batting average runs (22) and walks (19) among in A-Sun games (.418), seventh the team’s starters while finish- for RBI’s in conference games ing third on the staff with a 3.60 (21), and top ten in on-base ERA overall. percentage and slugging per- Bohana is an Atlanta native centage. While Morrow makes and will graduate this summer headlines for his slugging on Shelly Middelthon | The Sentinel with a B.S. in sport manage- the field, it is his role as a team From left to right: Seniors Mike Bohana, Bubba Blalock, Jerome Wooley and Jay Morrow of the KSU baseball team ment. He received a medical leader and friend that his team- redshirt last season after under- mates say will be missed the who transferred to KSU last the team in stolen bases. This him, can always be counted on to hang out with my friends, go going elbow surgery, but came most. season. In 2007 he played in 39 season he has appeared in 19 to make his classmates laugh. out on dates and relax.” After back this year as the Owls’ Wooley is a sport manage- games and led the team in sac- games for the Owls and leads “My philosophy on the baseball graduation, Wooley plans to dominating closer. He current- ment major from Decatur, Ga. rifice flies, was second in sac- the team in pinch hits. Wooley, field is to always have fun,” said pursue a masters degree in rifice bunts, and was fourth on or “Rome” to those who know Wooley. “In my free time I like sports management. Bats stay Inclement weather calls Global silent against Challenge exhibition game short Lipscomb

JUSTIN HOBDAY run production in the sixth STAFF WRITER inning on a RBI double by Lipscomb’s Sara Simons. The softball team had The Owls’ best scoring not lost back-to-back games chance came in the second before their double header inning. KSU catcher Jenna against Florida Gulf Coast Closner led the inning off on April 4th. Now how- with a line drive over the ever, the Owls have seen third baseman’s head. After their losing streak reach a strikeout, Hollie Huffman six games after being swept singled to right field putting by Lipscomb last Friday at runners on first and second Bailey Park. with one out. However, two Before the Owls had groundouts ended the Owls’ a chance at the plate, best scoring chance. Lipscomb’s Kellie Sirus put The Owls continued to the Bisons ahead with a two- struggle at the plate being run homerun during game set down in both the fourth one of the doubleheader. and the sixth inning. KSU This would prove to be all left eight runners on base, the run support the Bisons six in the first three innings would need. After con- and were never able to put necting for three hits in the any pressure on Lipscomb’s first two innings, the Owls pitching or defense. were only able to muster The Owls went on to two more hits from the third lose the second game of the inning on. Lipscomb’s Kim doubleheader by an identi- Jacobsen threw a complete cal 4 – 0 score. The Owls game, striking out seven, threatened to score in the walking three and only al- third inning drawing a walk lowing five hits. and connecting for a single. KSU’s Brittany Mathews However, that would be one Tara Cucksee | The Sentinel also pitched a complete of three hits for the Owls KSU battles the under 20 Mexico national team. The Owls lost 2-0 in a weather shorthned game. game, seven innings allow- in the second game who ing only three earned runs wouldn’t come any closer AMY STOREY was no clear advantage in the the 32nd minute, leaving it 2-0 the crowd size at the soccer on eight hits. Mathews also to scoring after the third COPY EDITOR beginning of the first half be- at the half. The rain continued, complex and the Owls perfor- fanned seven Bison batters inning. tween the two teams. Mexico and with 16 minutes left to go mance. “The crowd was tre- and was able to pitch out Fortunately for the Owls, The Owl’s soccer team took made the first move at 24 in half time, officials ordered mendous despite the weather.” of a jam in the third inning they wouldn’t have a lot of on Mexico’s national under- minutes with a goal by Yalu a delay of the game and called King said. “Overall we didn’t striking out pinch hitter time to dwell on the losses to 20 team Friday April 11 on Mondragon. Soon there after, a those in attendance back to the play that bad tonight, we had Katie Brokmeyer leaving Lipscomb. The Owls were campus as a part of KSU’s light drizzle began and it start- East Deck or to their car for some solid chances on offense the bases loaded. Mathews slated to host the Belmont continuing “Get Global” ed to take an obvious toll on shelter for 30 minutes. Delays and did some good things pitched strong through Bruins on Saturday for a campaign. Clouds and severe KSU and Mexico. As the rain continued, and the game was defensively.” The Owls will the fourth inning setting second double-header in as weather reports loomed over intensified and halftime ap- finally called at 10 p.m. due wrap up their spring season the Bisons down in order. many days. The Bruins, cur- the packed crowd as the game proached, Mexico scored once to weather. KSU head coach next weekend at Jacksonville However, an Owls throw- rently in last place, could be kicked off at 7 p.m. There again on an open field shot in Rob King was elated with State on April 19. ing error in the fifth al- just what the doctor ordered lowed an un-earned run and to wake up the Owls’ sleep- the Bisons completed their ing bats. Trevor Immelman, the golfer with PAULDING MUSIC CENTER the scar and the Masters green jacket Convenient to Kennesaw State University MARK HERRMANN when he was in a hospital bed, wonder- Immelman blew a 30-inch birdie putt NEWSDAY ing if the tumor they just took out of on No. 7, bogeyed 8, chunked his second New & Used Musical Instruments him was malignant (it turned out to be into the bunker on 9, but saved par. He Lessons available on all Instruments The only slam that meant anything on benign). His six-inch scar is a sharp re- made par on 11 by holing a tough 20-foot Sunday at the Masters was the lid going minder. downhiller. He even withstood hitting his OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK down on talk of anybody winning all four “It was tough to come through that. tee shot into the water on No. 16. “Even majors this year. Trevor Immelman was But it was probably tougher for my though I made a double, people are clap- testimony that winning just one takes family. I was so out of it at the time ping for me,” he said. 10% OFF purchases a lifetime of heart, stomach and scars. they could have shot me in the leg and The champion was happy but com- Emphasis on the latter. I wouldn’t have known about it,” he posed, as he had been all day, as he had when you show your student ID! Immelman had been getting encour- said at his news conference, wearing his been while the biopsy was being taken agement from his hero and South African green jacket. “You realize it can get taken last December. countryman Gary Player, a three-time away from you so fast. The week before, “You know, I’ve always dreamed Masters winner. “He’s been on me all I’m winning a golf tournament, the next about winning majors and deep down, I week, telling me to believe in myself,” week I’m lying in a hospital bed. always thought I was good enough,” said Immelman said. “He also told me to keep Everybody involved on Sunday re- Immelman, who lives in Orlando, Fla. my head still on putts.” flected on how he hung tough when most “But at times you obviously doubt your- Immelman, whose 75 on a blustery of the other contenders dropped like self” course under excruciating pressure to rocks: Brandt Snedeker shot 77, Steve Another crazy thing: Immelman is the 2.4 miles west of Hwy. 41 on Hwy. 92 win the 72nd Masters by three shots over Flesch 78, Paul Casey 79, Ian Poulter only guy who can win the Grand Slam Phone 770.974.1158 Tiger Woods on Sunday, didn’t come 78. It was a testimony to how hard it is this year. 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