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This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at IRL @ UMSL. It has been accepted for inclusion in Current (2010s) by an authorized administrator of IRL @ UMSL. For more information, please contact [email protected]. VOL. 47 ISSUE 1436 The Current APR 7, 2014 UMSL’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWS UMSL students voice concerns regarding campus shuttle service

KARLYNE KILLEBREW STAFF WRITER

Student frustration with shuttle operators and the shuttle system isn’t completely new, but more people are enquiring as to what the problem is and how it can be fxed. Some of the more common concerns involve late or no-show shuttles and crowding. An example from Brittiny Martin, junior, political science, stated, “Te south campus shuttles are never on time and [drivers] take random, not-on- SARAH MEYERS/THE CURRENT schedule breaks… Tere are forty plus students trying to make their way on the shuttle to make it to class by the hairs of their chins. Te shuttle packs 25 plus students on the shuttle, leaving students to stand past the white line and, in most cases, sitting on the steps by the door. UMSL transportation ofce has been called and notifed of this issue with pictures. Te person in charge of UMSL transportation never returns phone calls nor has added two shuttles to one pick-up. Tis has gone on since the beginning of last semester.”

Jamyria Landers, freshman, RYAN BROOKS/THE CURRENT biochemistry, also noted, “Every Many UMSL students depend on the university’s shuttle service to get around campus now and then, at certain times, I’m pretty sure it’s one certain bus everyone is trying to get to class.” related business. Roeseler provided installed in each shuttle, stating periods of inactivity in any shuttle driver that doesn’t come, so I have Te posted shuttle schedules context on the relationship UMSL that he has the ability to check schedule that can be utilized to to stand there waiting an extra 10 has with its shuttle provider, St. the records of any individual bus improve promptness or efciency. to 20 minutes for the shuttle drivers show lapses of 10 to 12 minutes in pick-up times, however there Louis Transportation. “I have not and/or driver. Regarding student Roeseler also addressed the who do come on time. I’ve heard received [complaints] personally complaints, Roeseler added, “It’s other people had to stand outside is nothing specifc indicating a accusations of poor student particular shuttle’s break. According for about three weeks. I go through based on perception. If you’re the assistance. “We’ve got to be longer or have struggled trying to St. Louis Transportation when I get one waiting on the shuttle it can get to work or something, but mine to Mason, the schedules’ lack of responsive to the students. If I detail is where the confusion lies. a complaint about a shuttle. Te seem like it’s been 20 minutes hear my secretaries dealing with a hasn’t been completely awful.” last complaint I got, the shuttle had when it’s only been six, but if I say “Tat’s where [students] question or complaint I will help.” Referring to the small time broken down,” Captain Roeseler ‘I can look at the GPS and prove get [their] information from... Students and staf with gaps in the shuttle schedule, explained. As the head of shuttle you wrong’...Tat won’t help.” Whatever schedule they give us, we complaints about shuttle services night shuttle driver Nikita Mason operations, Captain Roeseler follow it,” Mason said. Roeseler acknowledged that the should feel free to call his desk, explained, “Te gaps are that they reaches out to our shuttle service shuttles run on a tight schedule. said Roeseler, who can be reached are on break... [Te schedule] says Te UMSL department provider for any problems he is “It’d be nice to have an extra shuttle in Parking and Transportation by 8:18 at the MSC then it says 8:30 responsible for the shuttle service is unable to fx himself, notifying the but the budget won’t allow it. Te calling 314-516-4190. Roeseler’s - that is supposed to be me going Parking and Transportation, which company of any issues in service cost of shuttles is $40 per hour, personal extension is (*4192). For on break. Sometimes I don’t go on recently relocated to the campus and working with them to repair or [multiplied] by 50 hours a week.” further information on the Parking break. You know, people are out police station. Captain Charlie improve the situation. Roeseler, Commander of Special Te only cost-allowed changes and Transportation ofce, visit the here waiting so I drop them of. In reference to the issues of Operations for the UMSL Police require rearranging current UMSL Parking and Transportation But in the day time they should really shuttles being late, Roeseler Department, handles all shuttle- resources, and there are no lay-over webpage. be accurate, because, you know, elaborated on the GPS system

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THE UNDERCURRENT By Siyun Zhang WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE FOOD AT UMSL?

NOOR AHMED CARL MANGANELLI KATIE SOEDER Freshman Senior, Senior, Communications Premed biology Electrical Engineering “It’s good that we have brand names such as Pizza Hut and “It’s a delicate subject. It “The food is okay, but it Subway, but I feel like we have could be really good or bad. [would] be better if we get a need for Mexican food.” And it’s not nutritional.” more choices.”

MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN 53HI 58HI 64HI 72HI 66HI 72HI 63HI 42LOW 36LOW 49LOW 51 LOW 48LOW 56LOW 40LOW April 7, 2014 The Current NEWS 3 Police arrest two men involved in Metrolink phone theft

HEATHER WELBORN FEATURES EDITOR

The University of Missouri— investigated by five officers from capturing both suspects. The rerouted dispatch. “It saves you at safety.umsl.edu. St. Louis Police Department UMSL and two more from St. victim had an app on her phone about 2 minutes in dispatch time,” Regarding directly notifying investigated a robbery that Louis County Police Department. that allowed officers to track its Captain Roeseler said. students, Roeseler said, “If there’s occurred on the Metro Link North Officers pursued the suspect, who location. Officers say the app To avoid falling victim to a danger posed to the students, Platform on April 2. At around hid in a wooded area near Express aided in tracking down the second theft, Captain Roeseler suggests we want them to know about it. 2 p.m., an unnamed woman Scripts. “He was able to hand assailant, who was detained off of students stay mindful of their It’s all about safety and students was robbed of her cell phone by the phone off to somebody else,” Natural Bridge Road. surroundings at all times. “Don’t getting the info they need to keep physical force and sustained a Roeseler said. “We had a report “We’ve been very lucky,” have your phones out,” he said, themselves safe.” The department small cut on her hand. Within an from Express Scripts that they Captain Roeseler said. Regarding noting that cell phone theft is offers an escort service to students hour after the incident, UMSL could see the guy. He was hiding crime on campus, Roeseler says high in the surrounding areas. who are uncomfortable walking to Police arrested two men involved from the policeman who was that “if they get reported quickly, “Area wide, it’s rampant. They’re a parking lot, bus stop, Metrolink in the attack. like 40 feet from him,” he said. we have a much higher chance stealing phones constantly,” he stop, or anywhere else on campus. Following the tip, officers quickly Captain Charlie Roeseler of of recovering the property and said. “They’re valuable, and we If you witness or experience apprehended the suspect. UMSL-PD shared details on the finding the perpetrators. As quick encourage students to hide their a crime, call campus police incident. He said the robbery The victim, who sustained a as they can advise us, that quick electronic chargers in their cars, immediately. The police occurred while the victim – not a cut on her hand from when the response from the victim really especially at night. They see the department will need information student at UMSL – was riding the assailant yanked the phone out helps us.” He notes the usefulness cord and they’ll check the car to on what happened and where, Metro-Link. “One of the other of her hand, was treated at the of the victim’s phone app, as see what’s in there.” as well as a physical description patrons in the cab took her cell campus police station. Once the well. “These phone apps are real The robbery was reported as a of those involved, a vehicle phone, hopped out at the north suspect was detained, the victim valuable to us to have on your mass-notification, in accordance description or license plate platform and took off running,” positively identified him as the phone if your phone gets jacked,” with the Cleary Act, a federal number, and the direction of Captain Roeseler said. A campus man who assaulted her on the Roeseler said. law that requires police to make travel. Police warn witnesses police officer walked out of the train and stole her phone. His Should you become the victim crime reports available to the to avoid becoming part of the police station, adjacent to the accomplice was arrested shortly of a crime report it immediately and general public. In the annual incident, advising students to not Metro-Link North Platform, as after, with the victim’s cell phone travel in groups if possible. Students crime statistics report found on approach or attempt to apprehend the theft occurred. “The young still concealed on his body. who become victims or witnesses of the campus police website, one the suspect. If possible, stay on girl screamed, he went over to her, Police say that the immediate theft or suspicious activity are urged robbery was reported in 2012, the phone with police until an she said, ‘That guy just stole my reporting of this crime and to dial 911 on campus phones or along with one aggravated assault, officer arrives. The campus police phone,’” Roeseler said. the quick response by the red emergency phones, and 516- one auto theft and 13 burglaries. safety tips can be found at safety. The incident was immediately Police Department were key to 5155 on a cell phone to avoid The full report can be read online umsl.edu.

New courses provide new ways to engage with history

HUNG NUYGEN MANAGING EDITOR

Is this person guilty or not are immersed in the history and assignments, within some guiding guilty? Should they be banished literature of the Civil War, but criteria and themes. Te freedom to Canada, executed, imprisoned, also participate in experiential to question and explore other or fned? Tese were the questions learning in the feld,” Amy Dooley, approaches to the subject matter, that UMSL’s “Literature of the program manager of the school she noted, has allowed students American Civil War” class, taught of professional and continuing to come up with and have the by Kathleen Nigro, PhD, assistant studies, said. “Tese historic places courage to think about events and teaching professor, English and create connections to our heritage issues in ways not readily seen in gender studies, tackled on a feld that help us understand our past the traditional classroom courses, trip to Jeferson Barracks. Being that can’t always be accomplished often having a more prescriptive, placed in the position of military in the classroom. Tis class is fact-based approach to inquiry judiciaries after being introduced helping students build and grow and subject interrogation. to some background about each their knowledge through unique “Te experiential learning has CONNIE O’NEIL PHOTOGRAPHY court case, students worked in experiences. Each historical site caused them to be much more Nigro’s course is enhanced by feld trips to historical sites groups to press for a verdict and feld trip is enhanced by special aware of how history is made,” punishment as the clock ticked tours and programs led by experts Nigro explained. “We went to interdisciplinary, commented, where they can see individuals away the allotted time nearby. in the feld.” the Eugene Field House and then “Tey’re absolutely invaluable for working in felds related to Afterwards, each team of three Nigro’s class will visit several we went to the [Campbell House me…Tere’s something about being history. Nigro noted that by sheer disclosed their decisions and places this semester, including: Museum] and it was very clear able to see the chair where someone serendipity, some of the docents learned what actually happened the Eugene Field House, the Old to [the students] that diference sat or the dress that someone wore. of the sites were University of to the individuals they just Courthouse, Campbell House in class meant where you lived, It makes it human... And it actually Missouri—St. Louis graduates condemned or acquitted. Some Museum, Jeferson Barracks what you had, how people treated makes you interested and excited or current students in history or revelations left students surprised, Museum, Bellefontaine Cemetery, you. I think they see that it’s not about history.” a related feld of study, that now even after learning the reasons for Mercantile Library, and the only today that we have those Te course is open to both have jobs. a seemingly wrong conviction. Ulysses S. Grant Historical Site. same hierarchies of value. I think credit and non-credit community “I think it’s important for Te course is one of a But more importantly, Nigro we tend to romanticize people of members and Nigro expressed our students going into the few currently in-design that has pointed to some unexpected the past- that they were all moral, enthusiasm at the mixed courses. humanities to know that they have incorporate an experiential but welcome rewards while ethical, good, smart. I think it’s “I hope we continue to ofer these opportunities to work [outside of engagement with subject matter, teaching the course. Because interesting for them to go to mixed courses, as community academia],” Nigro said. particularly in humanities or social these places and see that they’re the course does not follow a members are often older and may Additional course oferings of science classes where a traditional people just like we are. It’s been traditional didactic, lecture-heavy have life experiences that our this kind are available through lab or practical component has interesting to show them that mode of instruction, Nigro has students may not have had to add the School of Professional not been common practice. history was popular culture to aforded students more freedom to the discussion.” and Continuing Studies, in people at one time.” “What makes this class so and control in how they approach Te feld trips also bring collaboration with various unique is that students not only their papers and discussion Myrta Vida, senior, students out to the community, academic units 4 FEATURES THECURRENT-ONLINE.COM APRIL 7, 2014 Job seekers attend annual education job fair HEATHER WELBORN FEATURES EDITOR

Prospective educators flled the attendee is seeking, what skills they Mark Twain Athletic & Fitness can provide and questions for the Center on April 4 for the annual employer. University of Missouri–St. Louis’ Teresa Balestreri, director of Education Career Fair. Students career services, managed the Career and alumni seized the opportunity Services informational table at the to interact with over 36 area school job fair. “[Te Education Career districts and learning centers Fair] is a little bit diferent than HEATHER WELBORN/THE CURRENT within an afternoon. Many districts our corporate job fair because even scheduled same-day on-site of the nature of the industry,” Job seekers flled Mark Twain gymnasium on April 4 interviews. Balestreri said, noting that this for the student’s career development UMSL alumni attended the industry leaders can be as easy as Participants that preregistered event specifcally targets potential with resources to help them get event, and ofered professional sharing a brief self introduction for the job fair received an email educators and instructors. Te connected to the right employer.” headshots for LinkedIn profles. and extending an ofer for cofee in before the event with tips to education fair is hosted each spring According to James Page, assistant the future. For more information ensure successful interactions with and receives a considerable turnout. For students who aren’t sure director at the ofce of alumni and on UMSL alumni events, visit potential employers. Attendees were “We expect about 300 job seekers what they want to do once they community relations, over 30,000 umslalumni.org. advised to develop a plan of action to come through,” Balestreri complete their education, Balestreri UMSL alumni use LinkedIn to to ensure confdence at the event. said. “We’ll have well over 100 points them towards the resources Te College of Education (COE) network, job search and recruit Basic guidelines included reviewing interviews that will take place available at Career Services. “We encourages students interested in fellow alum. He encouraged employer information and today, in addition to the initial don’t have a magic wand, but we education to consider one of their students to join the thousands of analyzing what skills a participant contacts made today.” have the tools to help them start many academic programs. Te to gain some focus, so they can area UMSL graduates on LinkedIn COE ofers courses in teaching can ofer the organization before Balestreri says that the fair gives start targeting,” she said. Resources as an invaluable way to target the and counseling, as well as options making contact with a recruiter. participants the rare opportunity available to students and alumni perfect employer, form connections in undergraduate, graduate and Professional attire and conduct to make an initial connection range from resume writing and in area industries of interest, and post-graduate pursuits. Students was required of all attendees, who with a large number of employers interviewing skills, to salary pursue mentors. with an undergraduate degree are waited patiently in line as recruiters and begin the job seeking process. benchmarking and using social Page says networking with advised to consider post-degree spoke with potential job candidates. “Students need to realize that career media. Networking skills and career LinkedIn is as easy as searching certifcation in education. For more Participants arrived with plenty fairs are only the tip of the iceberg of assessments are also available to job for UMSL alumni, organizing information on academic programs of copies of their resume to what career services can help people seekers. For more information, visit by employment industry, and in education, visit the COE website distribute. A three-point agenda do,” Balestreri said. “We’re not a Career Services at 278 MSC or sending a quick message of interest. at coe.umsl.edu. was suggested, including what the placement agency, but we are here online at careers.umsl.edu. Te initial point of contact with

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GAME REVIEWS ‘inFamous: Second Son’ is a must-play ‘‘QuizUp’’ offers a fresh, new take on classic trivia

JANE LAKAYIL STAFF WRITER

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JOHN “SAMMY” LUDEMAN SPORTS EDITOR

The University of Missouri- two RBI’s in the Triton victory. seventh place out of fourteen 10 hits and 6 RBIs compared to Cardinals. Leanne Cantalupo, St. Louis men’s baseball team UMSL women’s softball teams at the Argonaut Invitational the Triton’s seven hits and four junior, civil engineering, showed won both of their games in also won both of their games in Pensacola, Florida. The RBIs. Cody Garlington, senior, great poise for the Tritons in a doubleheader against the in a doubleheader against the competition lasted from April finance, and Daniel Seddon, singles play. Cantalupa rebounded Rockhurst Hawks on March 31 Rockhurst Hawks on March 31 1-2 and was hosted by the West junior, business administration, from a 0-6 first set loss, to win her at the UMSL baseball field. The at the UMSL softball field. In the Florida Argonauts. The hosting each contributed two hits in match through 6-1, 6-2 second UMSL Tritons won the first game first game, the Tritons defeated Argonauts walked away victorious the loss. In the second game, and third set wins. The Tritons 10-2 in seven innings, piling on the Hawks 7-4. The game was tied with a score of 848 (285-280- UMSL walked away with a 7-1 improved their record to 12-5 runs and exhibiting an effective 3-3 going into the fourth inning 283). The Tritons ended the victory over the Saints in seven overall and 4-1 in the GLVC, the defense after Rockhurst scored before the Tritons scored three competition with a score of 884 innings. Taking advantage of best in program history under two runs in the first inning. runs that the Hawks were not able (304-286-294). Colby Yates, Maryville’s fielding errors and Coach Rick Gyllenborg. Daniel Seddon, junior, business to recover from. Ashleigh King, sophomore, undecided, tied for their pitcher’s excessive walking UMSL men’s tennis defeated administration, boosted the senior, elementary education, sixth place individually shooting of Triton batters, the Tritons were the William Jewell Cardinals Triton effort with two runs, two contributed with three runs, two a 214 (76-69-69) and Warren able to squeeze five runs out of 8-1 on April 5 in Kansas City, hits, and two RBIs. In the second hits, and a RBI for the Tritons. Crow, senior, business, tied for two hits in the first two innings. Missouri at the Clayview Country game of the doubleheader, UMSL In the second game, the Tritons 34th with a 224 (76-72-76). Michael Budka, senior, physical Club. The Tritons won all six of defeated Rockhurst 5-3 in nine walked away with a 2-1 victory in UMSL men’s baseball lost education, contributed with two their singles matches, and two innings. With the Tritons leading eight innings. The Hawks struck their first game and won their hits and two runs in the Triton of three doubles matches against 2-1, the Hawks scored two runs first with a run in the third, but second in a doubleheader against effort. the Cardinals. Irving Corrales, in the top of the seventh to take the Tritons responded scoring the Maryville Saints on April 1 UMSL women’s tennis sophomore, computer science, a 3-2 advantage. The Tritons one run in both the seventh and at the UMSL baseball field. The defeated the William Jewell contributed for the Tritons with immediately responded with eighth innings. Katie Rutledge, Tritons lost the first game 6-4 in Cardinals 7-2 on April 5 in an impressive 6-0, 6-0 singles three runs in the bottom of the junior, elementary education, and nine innings. Though the Tritons Kansas City, Missouri at the victory. The Tritons improve to seventh, proving to be the last Hannah Wessels, junior, nursing, were able to score runs in the Clayview Country Club. The 10-4 overall and 3-1 in the GLVC runs scored of the contest. Shane each contributed with two hits first, third, and ninth innings, Triton women won four of six with the win. Brinker, junior, biochemistry, for the Tritons. the Saints simply had more singles matches, and all three of contributed with three hits and UMSL men’s golf tied for production. Maryville tallied their double matches against the

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Collins College of Business APRIL 7, 2014 The Current OPINIONS 7

PAUL’S PONDERINGS POINT COUNTERPOINT Spring is the time to get ft and healthy PAUL PEANICK OPINIONS EDITOR IS THE DRUG WAR A FAILURE? Whether you have never called mitosis) an enzyme called worked out, or are just getting telomerase cleaves chromosomes back into the swing of things, in the cell and splits them. When POINT there’s no better time to start this occurs, the telomeres on the : Prohibition is not the answer building up good fitness habits. chromosomes become shorter. Prohibition creates the elsewhere, the greater the rewards With the beautiful spring weather Information encoded in DNA black market whose loathsome for those who can successfully hitting St. Louis, many people is lost. Having a more efficient are doing just that. The health body, a fitter body, helps make consequences themselves produce and smuggle their drugs, benefits of an active lifestyle are this process more efficient. become just one more supposed and the greater the need to kill to many and undeniable. Exercise Mitosis can only occur so many justification for the war on protect these interests. helps your heart, your brain, times before enough info is lost drugs. Prohibition turns ordinary However harmful a drug is, your posture, your sleep, and that errors begin to occur. This citizens into criminals. Its we can do nothing but increase your entire body. accrual of errors is a large part of massive profits fuel violence and its harm through prohibition. Exercise helps to control what we call aging. political corruption. Time and In a black market, there is weight, lower insulin resistance, As to how to begin exercising, get to it, the easier it becomes. time again, criminal prohibition no regulation on quality or blood pressure, and improve and how much to get, there Many experts agree that a new has been seen to fail at reducing purity. Dangerous, unregulated metabolism. Exercise combats are many experts to whom habit can be built with just 7-21 demand, and it magnifies the adulterants become common, health conditions and diseases one can turn. The Center for sessions on average. If you stick health consequences of the illicit and drug warriors argue that like high blood pressure Disease Control, for example, with it, eventually, you may find substances. their presence, ironically, justifies (hypertension), diabetes, recommends a couple of exercise an indispensable part Prohibition incorporates huge the war, because these drugs are depression, certain types different paths. One could attain of your daily routine. It quickly risks into the supply side of a known to be contaminated and of cancer, arthritis and also good benefits from two hours becomes addictive, relaxing, and market. Loss of life, liberty, and dangerous. Yet in a regulated improves bone density and the and thirty minutes of moderate satisfying. You will find that it property are costs. The imposition market, this is not the case. strength of connective tissues. physical activity, such as a brisk improves your sleep, gives you by prohibition of these costs, We should focus our financial Our ancestors evolved exercising walk, every week, in addition more energy, and even improves without reducing demand, raises and intellectual resources towards vigorously every day, so much to two or more days of major your love life. In the future, with the prices. Enforcement efforts treatment, addiction reduction, so that our bodies need exercise strengthening activities that burgeoning obesity epidemic can restrict supply, but never and education rather than to function fully. Our bodies work multiple muscle groups. and increasing cognizance of the realistically eliminate it. The imprisonment. The stigma that are not designed for long term, Or, according to the CDC, one physical, social, and economic more money is spent, the more comes with even a minor drug sedentary living. could substitute two and a half costs of mass sedentary resources employed, the greater conviction can ruin careers, and Exercise also improves the hours of moderate intensity behavior, along with poor diets, the risks, and therefore, the is especially harmful to the young way the body functions on a cardiovascular exercise for an cellular level. If you take two hour and fifteen minutes of it is expected that incentives greater the profits. The tighter and the poor, two of society’s for exercising will increase. a government or police agency most vulnerable groups. Let us similar adult individuals of the vigorous activity, such as running same age, and then allow one or swimming. It is important Companies increasingly, for clamps down in one place, the end this war. to exercise regularly for ten to remember that these are just example, are offering subsidized harder the market springs back years, and the other to live a minimums, and more exercise is gym memberships and health sedentary lifestyle, then after always better as long as you are care discounts to their more those years have accrued, the getting proper rest too. active employees. Barnes Jewish Care recently banned smoking COUNTER: It’s a war worth fghting more active individual will When starting an exercise tend to be physically younger plan, it is important to consult by its employees. It is expected than their counterpart. This a doctor beforehand, if possible. that taxes on unhealthy foods The drug war and violence can be attributed to the is because exercise improves Building new habits and will also tend to increase. There prohibition are worth fighting. drug culture as well. Even worse, the efficiency of the body’s extinguishing a well entrenched, is no reason not to start getting Drugs are dangerous. This is drugs can harm the organs and cellular processes. When cells sedentary lifestyle can be more active. It’s good for you, a war we fight on principal. brain. split and reproduce (a process challenging. But the more you and good for society. Even seemingly “soft” drugs like We should not give up marijuana, which are believed just because demand has not to be innocuous, are really completely evaporated in the quite dangerous. Marijuana is a decades that the drug war gateway drug, and can lead one has been developing. Law want to be down a path to harder drugs, like enforcement has many new crack and heroin. When drug technologies and copious dealers get a hold of children, the funding available to them. With consequences can be especially the USA PATRIOT Act and new devastating. wiretapping technologies, and In the 1980s, we saw crack military grade equipment, this destroy entire communities, and isn’t your grandfather’s drug war. many of those abusers started The violence of cartels is being HEARD with marijuana. The health costs handled appropriately at this very of drug use are also enormous. time by our special forces, by the ??? And since many drug abusers DEA, by foreign governments are poor, they are more likely to and local law enforcement. go to emergency rooms and not The most important thing you sign up for have insurance, putting a further can do is educate your children burden on the American taxpayer. about the dangers of drugs. An The high prices of drugs offer ounce of prevention is worth a tempting avenue to making a pound of cure. Studies have money for unscrupulous people. shown that children from good THE CURRENT Criminals can be identified by homes are less likely to resort to the fact that they are willing to using drugs. A good citizen starts subvert laws and resort to selling in the home. thecurrent-online.com/about-us/employment dangerous, illegal drugs. Much 8 THECURRENT-ONLINE.COM APRIL 7, 2014 COMMENCEMENT COMICS Are you planning to graduate this semester??? Have you applied for graduation??? If not, visit your academic advisor today!!!

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