The Cadet Contents News Features Sports @ www.cadet-newspaper.squarespace.com News 2 • The Zika Virus • Open House •Super Bowl 50 Features & Op/Ed 3 • Chinese New Years • Star-Wars Review •Baseball • New Hampshire •Basketball Sports 4 Primary Op/Ed •Wrestling • Boko Harem Sports 5 •Resurrection Week • Drone Delivery • No Ordinary College ONE OF THE INDEPENDENTLY OLDEST COLLEGE RUN BY CADETS NEWSPAPERS SINCE 1907 1907 THE CADET 2015 VOLUME 109 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15 , 2016 ISSUE 14 $2.00 FROM THE BOXING RING TO TV: VMI BOXING By Matthew Arnold ‘17 air conditioning company boxing titles last year. 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If you in the Virginia Michigan. was just icing on the cake. answered yes for either of Military Institute The Boxing team is looking those two you are wrong. newspaper? phenomenal. The team This was part of a Super That’s because First is bigger and better than Bowl commercial that “extras were classman John ever, and I am confident aired and featured Mike recruited off J. Park has never that this year will be even Tyson, a renowned boxer the streets” to been more ready more successful than the that bit the ear off of one participate as to get back into the previous. Even though we of his opponents and has the fans in this action and had this won nationals last year, been in a good amount commercial. to say about the we are a humble team. We of movies recently. This commercial and never let the success and is also part of the slogan These the boxing team. fame get the best of us. In used by the Michael & Son “extras” were none “First of all it the gym we are training Company. Their slogan other than some of was a dream come true every second we can get. is “if you can we can, the finest from the to meet one of the best We are out to defend our Michael & Son.” Michael Virginia Military Institute Park boxer of all time. I'm sure title. We're not here to & Son is a local plumbing, boxing team that brought and commercial that for majority of boxers, take part; we're here to electrical, heating, and home multiple national Armando Herrera- as extras. at one point in their take over.” Editor-in-ChiefThe R CadetYAN KENNEDY Editor-in-chief MATT TONKINSON Business Manager MURPHY KERNER DITORIAL E The Cadet, student newspaper of the KAIYING WANG Virginia Military Institute, was estab- Layout Editor lished in the Fall of 1907 and has been continued since that time. Our news- Assistant Layout Editors paper is published every Friday after- noon during the academic year, except MICHAEL LOGAN REAGAN GOULLA during Corps trips, holidays and exam periods. 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THE SCENES The itineraries they abide SRC and go to more By Ben Richie ‘17 is a Chinese gambling At the head of the circle By Austin Hartness ‘17 northeastern Nigeria has December 31, 2015. By Caitlyn Casten'18 by on Fridays are identical, briefs. As they all party Cadet News Writer “card” game that revolves the oldest member of Cadet News Writer left over 1,000 dead, with Although he boldly made Cadet Features Writer meaning every prestrain in their rooms, S5 reps around getting sets of the family, single or around 700 killed in the this claim, Boko Haram In case you ever that comes through will do monitor and walk the certain cards. Whether married alike, would sit city of Maiduguri alone, has continued their wanted to know what the same activities minus stoops preventing any you arrived between 1 or and wait for the children Stories of Boko according to one military operations throughout happens in the making of the free time they receive. really crazy things. On Monday, 5:30, there would always to come forward. The Haram have become a official. The violence West Africa in 2016, most an open house weekend at It does not change from February 8th, amid be fresh food on the main youngest child would then reoccurring news event since then has only recently 30 in their attack VMI, you are in the right month to month what The wake-up the celebrations around the table and plenty of people approach, bow, take a in the last five years. increased, Boko Haram on a market, using their place. A typical weekend briefs they attend. next morning is early; the world, the lunar year of to embrace and say hello. kneeling position in front Located in West Africa in has maintained a steady notorious suicide bomber event at the Institute, pre-strains get dropped 2016 began. Chinese My favorite snack was of their elder, clasp their the countries of Nigeria, rate of attacks since 2011, technique followed by cadets often see the pres- Popular things to off by the rats by 0600 at New Year is something always the fried sweet hands and wish them a Cameroon, Chad, Niger, striking a wide range of machine gun fire into trains walking around do during free time include the OB Sentinel box. They that children and adults taro root dessert squares. happy, prosperous and and Benin; the terrorist targets, multiple times per large crowds of civilians. happily, full of ambitions post tours, given by cadet turn in their hays and go look forward to for weeks Dinner would start at healthy upcoming year. groups has wreaked havoc. week. Lai Mohammed said the and dreams. To find out tour guides, mini open to eat, and after watch before the actual changing. around 6 and would The elder(s) then respond Continuously pillaging soft Nigerian government had why they are so happy to houses held by academic BRC marchdown. They In Chinese tradition, the consist of a whole fish, a in kind and present the targets such as Christian They have attacked greatly reduced Boko be here, and give more departments, and visits attend yet more briefs coming of the New Year is few other seafood dishes, child with a red envelope churches, refugee camps, politicians, religious Haram's capacity to strike, insight into this process, to the bookstore/ PX. The Saturday morning before second in festivities only vegetable plates and white containing any value and women shelters. leaders, security forces adding it was on its last The Cadet sat down with most common one is for the majority start to leave to the Moon Festival. A rice. Some may see it as of money. The child Most notably, Boko Haram and civilian targets. The legs as a rebel force since S5 CPL, Phil Harpen ’18. the pre-strains to visit between 1100-1200. One traditional feast is made, a waste but the fish was then backs up and the is associated with the tactic of suicide bombing, launching an insurgency with department heads of final thing many families a positive and healthy never fully eaten, in fact ceremony is repeated until kidnapping of young girls, has been their preferred six years ago that has The night before the various majors they do is watch Keydet sports year is wished upon the only half of the fish was every unmarried person selling them into slavery method, ultimately leading killed an estimated 20,000 starts the logistics, sorting are considering enrolling games, i.e. basketball, elders, and gifts are given ever eaten because we has bowed to every elder. and the human trafficking to Nigerian forces having people. which prestrain will go in. Weather permitting, wrestling, football, etc. to to unmarried children. were not allowed to flip Traditionally the red markets. a difficult time defending where and with which if parade happens on get the full experience. While I have not attended the fish over. According envelopes would remain themselves against Although Boko cadet/rat they will be Friday, they attend that to my family’s celebration of to legend, if the fishermen unopened and slept upon As of 2015, Boko constant attacks from Haram may be defeated staying.