WHITNEY SAPORITOCollegio Reporter

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling against a Chicago ban on handguns raised questions among students as to what effect it would have on PSU’s campus gun ban.

Jamie Brooksher, general counsel for Pittsburg State, says the ruling will have no effect on the campus gun ban.

“I think what’s going to happen from this is it’s not going to change our ban on campus whatsoever,” Brooksher said. “It doesn’t sound like the Supreme Court is going to open this up for a free for all. Their main point in doing this is that people are allowed to have guns in their homes.”

Brooksher says the Supreme Court ruling, handed down on June 28, says that the Second Amendment does apply to the states. She says the opinion explic-itly states that guns in schools may still be restricted.

Although the Supreme Court ruling will not change the ban at PSU or other college campuses throughout the country, some Pitt State students believe it should.

Stephen Artinger, senior in political science, says it is hard to limit gun rights to certain places.

“I believe we have a constitutional right to have guns,” Artinger said. “There is a difference between what is right and what is constitutional. As far as handguns, I believe that we should have the right to carry.”

Darren Botello-Samson, assistant professor in political science, says although the ruling does not change the ban on campus it could get people talk-ing.

“The decision itself isn’t going to have a direct legal effect,” Botello-Samson said. “If we want to talk about a longer social effect, what this kind of

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Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri are all different states. University offi cials know this, college students know this, even sixth-graders know this. Fortu-nately for students living in the Sooner and Show-Me states, the PSU admission offi ce sometimes seems to pretend that they aren’t.

The Gorilla Advantage Program allows students from select counties in these states to pay in-state tuition, saving slightly less than two-thirds the cost of full tuition. Now that the Board of Re-gents has approved an expansion of the Gorilla Advantage Program, even more out-of-state students may get the fi nan-cial break they need to attend Pitt State. The program will now include Benton and Washington counties of Arkansas. Some of the high schools in these coun-ties are actually closer to Pitt State than Kansas City or Wichita.

“I think it’s incredibly important,” said Melinda Roelfs of the program, which serves 22 out-of-state counties and accounts for about 17 percent of enrollment. “Because of our location we certainly look to both Missouri and now parts of Oklahoma to recruit and bring

students to PSU who will benefi t from the programs we have available.”

Edyth Wooldridge, a newer resident of Carthage in Jasper County, Mo., doesn’t cite tuition breaks as the main reason she chose Pitt State. “It was close and convenient, with a good reputation. The class size is nice,” said Wooldridge, who is seeking her master’s in psychol-ogy.

Counties in Missouri included in the program extend much farther north than Jasper County, all the way up to Jackson County, about 130 miles from Pittsburg. In the coming years, students living up to 130 miles from Pitt State directly south of Jackson County will be eligible for the Gorilla Advantage as well, as Benton and Washington counties in Arkansas will be added in fall 2011.

It was decided to include part of Arkansas after learning of that state’s projected rise in high school graduates in coming years, according to Roelfs, who is director of the Admissions department. This information was obtained from a brochure produced by the Western Inter-state Commission for Higher Education, called “Knocking at the College Door.”

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BY MADISON DENNISCollegio Editor

The neon yellow-green papers taped to the doors of the residence halls call attention to the change taking place across Kansas. These papers warn students in the residence halls of the new Clean Air Act, which came into effect July 1.

The act states that not only is smoking prohibited in most buildings, restaurants and bars, but smokers must stand at least 10 feet away from doorways, open windows or air intakes of buildings where smoking is prohibited.

Evidence of this new act is seen as several ashtrays across campus have been moved outside these prohibited areas.

“I kind of like it,” said Britney Klotz, senior in nursing. “It’s probably kind of annoying for people who smoke, but it’s annoying for a lot of people to walk through smoke to get to their classes.”

Wichita has delayed the implementa-tion of this act with a pending lawsuit from several businessmen who say that the law would kill their business. Only businesses within Wichita city limits are subject to this delay.

“The law is hypocritical,” said Jared Johnson, a junior in business. “The state made their own casinos exempt from the law. People should be able to decide on their own whether or not they want to go into a place because of the smoke.”

Johnson has smoked for one year, and acknowledges the dangers of his habit.

“But that’s my decision. It isn’t the government’s business.”

Johnson says that while the 10-foot rule is not too inconvenient, his prob-lem with the law has nothing to do with whether or not he gets rained on when he is having a cigarette.

“It isn’t that it bothers me to get wet when I want a smoke, it’s that the govern-ment is telling me where I have to stand

when I want to exercise my rights,” he said.

However, other students think that the law is helping to protect people rather than take away their rights.

“There’s a lot less second-hand smoke to go through when you are walking through the doors,” said Klotz. “And if this law can get some people to quit, then that is defi nitely a good thing.”

The act states that cities that have less strict smoking ordinances than the state

law will be required to adopt the state law. Cities that have provisions stricter than the state law may maintain those provisions. Businesses are also now re-quired to post signs stating that smoking is prohibited by state law. The signs are available for free via download, or busi-nesses may request that they be mailed the signs.

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A 10 percent hike on tanning services has some students and a local tanning salon owner wor-ried about the possible sting to their pocketbooks.

Jason Renn, owner of Malibu Tanning Salon, says the tax will hurt his business.

“Anytime there is a price change or an implemented tax, that does scare people away, es-pecially college kids,” Renn said. “I think it will have an effect on my business, how big of an effect only time will tell.”

The federal tax on indoor tanning services, which went into effect July 1 as part of the re-cently passed federal Health Care Reform bill, applies to tanning devices that emit wavelengths of at least 200 nanometers. Other sunless tanning options such as spray tans and tanning lotions are not included. The government estimates the tax will produce $2.7 billion in revenues in the next 10 years.

The tax joins the list of other so-called “sin taxes” levied by local, state and federal govern-ments, on products such as ciga-rettes, alcohol and soda pop.

According to reactions from Pitt State students like Sarah Rocco and Carlee

Norris, tanning-salon owners like Renn may have reason to worry.

Rocco says the tax would have a negative effect on her decision to tan or not.

“That’s why I never tanned very much in the fi rst place,” Rocco said. “Because it costs too much money.”

Still, she says she disagrees with the tanning tax.

“I don’t really think it’s a right place to put taxes,” Rocco said. “It’s a luxury for people to relax, the 10 percent tax is kind of high.”

Norris says because she works at a tanning salon she does receive a discount. However, if it were not for the discount she says she probably would not be able to tan there.

“I would say it would affect where I tan,” Norris said. “I am a poor college student.”

Renn says he has raised his prices to include the tax. A monthly tanning package that used to cost $25 is now $30.

“All rates have gone up 10 percent, which will not be going to me but to the federal tanning tax,” Renn said. “What it means for my business, I’m really not sure. In the past year a lot of things have happened because

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Army presence soarsin Kashmir protests

SRINAGAR, India — India’s regular army patrolled the violence-hit streets of Kashmir to enforce a round-the-clock curfew for the fi rst time in two decades Wednesday after weeks of deadly unrest in the Muslim-majority region.

Anti-India protests have grown increasingly strident. Residents accuse government forces of killing at least 15 people in street demonstrations over the past month, including three on Tuesday — raising concerns the situation could spin out of control.

“We are out to give support to the state machinery. We are ready to move anywhere, anytime,” Col. Vineet Sood, an army spokesman, said in the main city, Srinagar.

A separatist insurgency fi ghting for Kashmir’s independence from Hindu-majority India or its merger with Muslim-majority Pakistan has been ac-tive since 1989, and tens of thousands have been killed in the confl ict. But re-sistance is now principally through street demonstrations.

Israel keeping shipsuntil inquiry ends

JERUSALEM — Israel will hold on to the six ships from the interna-tional fl otilla that sought to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip at least until it completes its investigation into a deadly raid on one of the vessels, the Defense Ministry said Wednesday.

Israel towed the boats to a northern port days after naval commandos stormed the ships, killing nine Turkish activists on board the lead vessel. Some boats remain moored in Haifa port with cargoes of cement and steel still on board, a Defense Ministry spokesman said.

Although Israel has said the soldiers acted in self-defense, the bloodshed pro-voked an international outcry that forced Israel to it to ease the Gaza blockade.

Spy swap in works,Russian spy claims

MOSCOW — Russia and the United States are working out a spy swap in-volving Russians recently arrested in the United States and people convicted of spying in Russia, the brother of an imprisoned nuclear researcher said Wednesday.

Offi cials from both the United States

and Russia refused to comment on the report but Dmitry Sutyagin said he had plenty of details on the swap from his brother Igor, who is serving a 14-year prison sentence on charges of spying for the United States.

In addition, there were signs in the United States that something might be under way. A hearing for three alleged spies was canceled in Virginia, U.S. offi cials were meeting with the Russian ambassador in Washington, and two other alleged spies waived their right to a local hearing in Boston and were being sent to New York.

The United States arrested 10 people on June 27 and charged them with being in an alleged spy ring that tried to obtain information about American business, scientifi c and political affairs.

Feds fi le suitagainst Arizona law

PHOENIX — The federal lawsuit against Arizona’s tough new immigration law focuses heavily on a question that has been in the spotlight repeatedly the past decade and dates to the Founding Fathers: The right of the government to keep states from enacting laws that usurp

federal authority.The lawsuit fi led in Phoenix federal

court on Tuesday sidestepped concerns about the potential for racial profi ling and civil rights violations most often raised by immigration advocates. Experts said those are weaker arguments that don’t belong in a legal challenge brought

by the White House to get the measure struck down.

Instead, the suit lays out why the government believes that immigration laws passed by Congress and enforced by a range of federal agencies must take precedence to any passed by a state Legislature.

The Arizona law requires offi cers, while enforcing other laws, to question a person’s immigration status if there’s a reasonable suspicion that they are here illegally, such as speaking poor English, traveling in an overcrowded vehicle or hanging out in an area where illegal im-migrants typically congregate.

The law also makes it a state crime for legal immigrants to not carry their immigration documents.

Backers of the law say the crack-down is a necessary tool to keep illegal immigrants out of Arizona and com-bat problems such as drug traffi cking, murders and violent kidnappings that have become so common in a state that is home to an estimated 460,000 undocu-mented residents.

W.Va. gov considersrun for Byrd’s seat

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Vir-ginia Gov. Joe Manchin said Wednesday he will consider running for the Senate seat left vacant by the death of Democrat Robert C. Byrd if it’s on the November ballot.

He wants an opinion from Democratic Attorney General Darrell McGraw on whether the election can be held this year instead of 2012, when Byrd would have had to run again.

Manchin said he won’t appoint himself to the seat, but asked if he would run for it, he replied: “I would highly consider that. I do understand what’s at stake here.”

Byrd, 92, was the longest-serving senator in history when he died last week with about 30 months left in his term.

Kansas wind-farmproposal withdrawn

WICHITA, Kan. — Developers of

a proposed wind farm north of Cheney Reservoir say they are ending the project.

Horizon Wind Energy has sent a letter to landowners in the area saying that it would no longer negotiate leases for the proposed 100-megawatt wind farm.

The Houston-based company says it sought commitments for about 10,000 acres, but had received commitments for only about 1,000 acres.

The Wichita Eagle reports that most farmers in Horizon’s target area believed their land would be worth more as part of housing development.

Many landowners also didn’t want to commit to leases of at least 30 years.

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decision might do is either polarize the population on this particular issue or mobilize a certain segment of society to push forward on this.”

Botello-Samson says because the ruling allows states to set rea-sonable restrictions, the gun ban on campus should not be affected.

“It’s going to be hard for an individual to interpret the decision to say that states can’t prohibit guns on school grounds,” Botello-Samson said.

Some Pitt State students say they are content with the current gun restrictions on campus.

Martha Smalley, freshman in Spanish, says she supports the right to bear arms, just not in certain places.

“Schools are one of them, especially with stress levels of students,” Smalley said. “I don’t think it would be a good idea.”

Travis Spickert-Fulton, sophomore in computer science, says he fully supports the campus gun ban.

“The issue is, literally, does your right to bear arms infringe on other people’s rights in general,” Spickert-Fulton said.

“On a campus where police are patrolling, you expect to be safe so guns really are not necessary.”

Brooksher says the Pitt State gun ban is a state law and that the federal ruling does not mandate that the state change that law.

“Schools are allowed to re-strict guns on campus,” Brook-sher said. “Another consideration would be state law. This is the Supreme Court saying that the Second Amendment applies to the state, that’s federal law. State law also applies, so states can have their own restrictions or non-restrictions. If our state decided to change the law, they could.”

Botello-Samson says the rul-ing does not make it very clear what kinds of regulations are permissible.

“The court explicitly states that this ruling isn’t supposed to be read in a way that means that states and municipalities can’t have reasonable restrictions against gun use,” Botello-Samson said. “What they simply said was this doesn’t mean you have the right to possess any type of fi re-arm at any place at any time.”

taking-your-rights-away thing,” said Klotz. “It’s more like, you can’t drive drunk because you could hurt someone, and you can’t smoke where other people are around because smoking is harmful.”

The 10-foot radius rule means that smoking on the sidewalks of Broadway would prove diffi cult, because of the prox-imity of so many doorways. But however inconvenient it may be, Johnson says smokers will still smoke.

“Nobody I know is going to quit just because they have to walk a little farther away to smoke,” said Johnson. “I don’t feel like this law has any real benefi ts for citizens, smoking or non-smoking.”

On the other hand, Klotz says the act encourages a healthier society.

“The less smoking can be a normal part of life, the better,” said Klotz.

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the 2014-2015 school year, the graduate population from public and nonpublic high schools in Kansas is projected to fall 10 or more percent. The graduate populations in Missouri and Oklahoma are projected to stay about even in the same time span.

By the time the 2014 school year begins, however, the number of Arkansas graduates is projected to rise as much as 20 percent compared to 2004, according to the brochure, which can be seen on the WICHE Web site. This increase, credited to growth in the Hispanic popula-tion in the area, will create what Roelfs calls a “new market.”

“Arkansas seems to be a per-fect fi t,” she said. “A number of those high schools in Benton and Washington counties are closer to Pitt State than some schools in

Kansas ... Those counties have (already) seen an increase in population.”

2010 graduates from Benton and Washington counties won’t be able to participate in the program this fall, but Gorilla Advantage does allow transfer students as long as they meet certain requirements.

Although the in-state tuition program may draw some students from far away, it isn’t always the main draw to the school for out-of-state students. This may not be a bad thing, since students who qualify are automatically enrolled.

Wooldridge, for one, iden-tifi es herself as one of those students, saying, “It’s nice to be able to have the option to be able to go to different schools. Regardless, though, I would come here.”

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of the tanning tax. The tan-salon industry has gotten a lot of negative publicity. I’m down about 18 percent.”

But Renn says he is not sure if the decline is caused by the economy or bad headlines.

“We’re in a lose-lose situation right now,” Renn said.

Not all Pitt State students are opposed to the tax. Lauren Hiatt and Kristen Wiles both say they understand why indoor tanning is being taxed.

“I support it just because tanning is dan-gerous,” Wiles said. “I know it’s something that is a big industry, but if that extra 10 percent is helping cancer research or health care then I support it.”

Wiles says she used to work in a tanning salon and remembers that customers had to sign waivers when they began tanning.

“You have to sign a waiver saying you

understand it’s bad for you,” Wiles said. “So you should be willing to pay that extra 10 percent to help.”

Although she supports the tax, Hiatt says she does not believe it will stop people from tanning.

“It makes sense because of the health risks involved,” Hiatt said. “Most people are going to be willing to pay for it because it’s something they’re addicted to, just like cigarettes.”

Renn says he believes the tanning tax may be the beginning of an effort to slowly run tanning salons out of business.

“This tax has been implemented to help with the health-care bill, but I just don’t ac-tually see this being able to fund the federal government to what they think it will,” Renn said. “It is obviously going to slow down business for all tanning salons.

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Luis Suarez is a cheater. He’s a villain, a criminal and a scoundrel. But, he is also a genius.

For those of you who don’t know, Suarez is a member of Uruguay’s 2010 World Cup soccer squad, and was recently criticized for his hand-ball in their game against Ghana.

Let me set the stage for you: The game was intense, to say the least. The score was knotted up at 1-1, and it was deep into the 120th minute, which is soccer’s equivalent of the last seconds in overtime. After a save by Uruguay’s goal keeper, the ball popped out to one of Ghana’s forwards, who kicked it toward the wide open goal. Suarez, who was standing on the goal line, did the unthink-able, and reached up to swat the ball down.

Now, I have played my share of third-grade soccer, and that’s one of the fi rst things that kids are taught. You cannot use your hands in the game of soccer unless said game is hanging in the balance.

As most of you probably already know, Ghana missed the ensuing penalty kick, the

two teams tied the game in regulation, and Uruguay won in a resulting shootout, send-ing them to the semi-fi nals.

As I’ve pointed out in some of my earlier columns, soccer is not one of the most popular sports in the United States. But, after Suarez’ little incident the discussion boards on ESPN’s Web site lit up so quickly that I assumed Tiger Woods and David Beckham had conceived a love child.

The big question that many people had after watching this was,

“Is what Suarez did morally right?”I mean, let’s be honest, morals have their

place in sports. But not when the game is literally on the goal line. Like I said before, Suarez is a genius, a hero, an innovator. He did what he had to do when the game was on the line. What he did saved his team the game. If Kobe fouled Rajon Rondo on a game-winning layup to save the NBA Finals, he would have been considered a hero.

As should Luis Suarez.French player Thierry Henry had the in-

famous handball in the box earlier this year, when he tapped the ball down to his feet with his hand and kicked it in, which sent France to the World Cup, showing that when the game is on the line, everything goes.

Had Suarez listened to my third-grade soccer coach and watched the ball sail past him into the goal, he would have surely regretted it for his entire life. It was a smart move, but not a classy one.

The resulting one-game suspension that FIFA (Federation of International Football Associations) slapped Suarez with was fair. He wasn’t allowed to play in the semi-fi nals against the Netherlands, which resulted in a 3-2 loss for the Uruguayans. The suspension that Suarez received could have been what caused his team to lose in the next round, but had he not done it, there would have been no next round. For that I commend him.

The real question that arises from this situation is whether FIFA will re-evaluate its policies against handballs. Should the goal just be awarded at the referee’s discretion? Or is the penalty kick that the shooting team is awarded enough?

I think the format that is in place now is great, because nothing is more exciting than an entire nation’s hope riding on one penalty kick.

Now that Uruguay is out of fi nal conten-tion, Suarez probably won’t have a parade thrown in his honor. But regardless whether you see him as a hero or a villain, Suarez will always be remembered as one of the most famous handballers of all time.

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This year there will be seven new pictures hanging in Pittsburg State University’s Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame. After the announcement was made earlier this summer, the group will be formally honored at a banquet on Saturday, Sept. 18, on Pitt State’s campus.

Headlining the 2010 inductees is Ronald Moore, who during his senior season in 1992 won the Harlon Hill Trophy and then embarked on an eight-year career in the NFL. In leading the Gorillas to 25 consecutive victories, Moore became PSU’s all-time rushing leader with 4,299 yards and 52 touch-downs.

Another former football player en-tering the Hall of Fame this year is Ben

Peterson. Peterson played defensive end for the Gorillas from 1995 to 1998 and registered 241 career tackles over his four-year career, along with getting to the quarterback 29 times. Along with being among the most recent inductees, Moore and Peterson were both named to Pitt State’s 100-year anniversary team in 2003.

The only inductee to hail from the hardwood was Oscar Gonzalez, who played point guard for the Gorillas from 1996 to 1999. Gonzalez was a two-time All-American and was a se-nior on the 1999 squad, which won the MIAA League Championship and was voted the league’s MVP for his perfor-mance that year. Gonzalez will travel from Madrid, Spain, where he plays professionally, to attend the induction ceremony.

Two legacies who will be inducted along with the 2010 class are Francis

Wachter and Walter “Vic” White. Wachter played basketball for the Go-rillas in the late 1920s and early ’30’s during the legendary tenure of coach John Lance, for whom the PSU athletic arena is named.

Wachter was a member of the 1930 and 1931 undefeated squads during the times of the Central Intercollegiate Conference. White, who was a legend-ary shot putter for the Gorillas in the mid-1920s, won three consecutive league titles along with a fourth-place fi nish at nationals in 1928.

Two members who are being inducted this year gained the nomina-tion through meritorious achievement following their time at Pitt State.

J.W. Emerson was a member of the 1951 and 1952 football squads, and went on to become a highly decorated high-school coach with a 221-111 overall record, along with a two-year

quarterback coaching assignment at Kansas State University.

Tommy Riggs is a well-known name around Pitt State athletics after his 10-year career as a member of the support staff and as associate athletic director in the department. Riggs is well known for his role in the renova-tions made to Carnie Smith Stadium and was integral in bringing the Shrine Bowl to Pittsburg, which will once again be held here this year. Riggs is also well known for his role as the NCAA Division-II Golf Committee chairman in 2006. Riggs died on July 21, 2007. Pitt State holds an an-nual golf tournament every August in Riggs’ memory.

Along with the Hall of Fame banquet, the former Gorillas will be honored during halftime of the football team’s conference matchup against the University of Central Missouri.

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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Two for-mer University of Kansas athletics offi cials tied to a $1 million ticket scalping scandal at the school have been charged as part of a federal probe into the scheme, ac-cording to court documents made public Wednesday.

Brandon Simmons, the uni-versity’s former assistant athletic director for sales and marketing, was charged with one count of misprision of a felony. Prosecutors allege he knew tickets were stolen from the university, concealed that fact and did not report it to authorities, according to a criminal information document fi led in federal court in Topeka.

Jason Jeffries, the assistant director of ticket operations, was charged last week with the same felony, which carries a maximum sentence of three years in prison.

Jeffries’ charges also were cited in a criminal information docu-ment, which is typically fi led with the consent of the defendant and is commonly the fi rst step toward

entering a guilty plea. Both men are scheduled to appear in court next week.

Simmons, Jeffries and four other former university employees have been accused in an internal investigation of an alleged scheme to sell at least $1 million in bas-ketball and football tickets to bro-kers. The university determined that thousands of tickets were used or sold by several school staffers for personal purposes.

Simmons’ attorney, Mark Bennett Jr., said his client hasn’t decided whether to plead guilty. He said Simmons cooperated with the university investigation, but it has “yet to be determined” whether he will cooperate with federal prosecutors.

Jeffries cooperated with investigations from the beginning because “he has nothing to hide,” said his attorney, Tom Haney. Jef-fries is considering pleading guilty to the charge and is not accused of profi ting from the alleged scheme, Haney said.

Two former KU offi cials charged in ticket scam

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The Fourth of July is a perpetually overcast holiday, in my experience. It’s a family affair fi lled with younger rela-tives experimenting with PVC pipe and M-80s, some older relatives attempting to keep all their children’s limbs intact, and others driving off to Missouri to spend another hundred on “the good stuff.” We get together, we eat, we watch things blow up – your basic family Independence Day. More permanently seared into my memories, though, and an experience few have shared, is a Fourth of July tradition that I sincerely hope will live on through eternity: the camel.

If you are lucky enough to drive west on K-10 from Kansas City on the fi rst few days of July, you might spot the aforementioned desert beast. Just a mile or so east of the Lawrence city limits is a fi reworks stand of a respectable size, inconspicuous except for the portable fence surrounding three or four camels. Most of the camels are wearing nifty camel saddles, carrying little children around and around in circles and creating a pleasing atmosphere with their offen-sive odors and rude noises.

The day would begin with my little sisters and I waiting anxiously for our father to take us to the fi reworks stand – we had applied enough sunscreen to drown a cow and modifi ed our DNA with the bug spray we sprayed on each other (it didn’t matter, no matter how much bug spray we put on, camel bugs still nibbled us to bits.) Eventually, we would load into the car, where my father would be forced to immediately roll down the windows to prevent suffoca-tion. We would drive the seven minutes to the fi reworks stand, park in the grass, leap out of the car, and immediately

wither from heat exhaustion. After we re-covered, we would trek into the big tent, grab a basket, and commence whining.

“Daddy, Kate put more smoke bombs in the basket!”

My father would ask Kate to put back the smoke bombs.

“Daddy, can we get more of the chicken ones?”

My father would think of the impend-ing screeches of the chicken fi recrackers and wince.

“Daddy, Kristen passed out from a combination of heat exhaustion and chemical inhalation and she stepped on my foot!”

My father would resuscitate little Kristen, (who I am not sure ever fully recovered from this annual trauma) and slog forth to the end of the aisles. We would bring up our one basket full of chicken fi recrackers, sparklers, smoke bombs, and baby fountains.

“Your total is $257.93, sir, would you like a few more punks?”

My father would run screaming into traffi c.

After he returned, we would hurry to the camel pen.

To young me, camels weren’t the tan-gly, pungent, awkward animals that they are now. They were enormous, towering,

exotic creatures, and I got ONE RIDE A YEAR on these bad boys. Naturally, each year, I wanted to make it count.

Of course, my sisters would ruin it for me.

The camel handler would look at the three of us – adorable, blonde and be-speckled little girls, and promptly break my heart.

“Biggest on the back, the two littler ones in front.”

I was forever doomed to ride the back of the camel. It was my burden, as eldest, to never have any fun ever, and that went double for camel rides. I would shoulder my misfortune bravely, smiling, so that

my younger sisters could enjoy them-selves, but inside I was a very unhappy child.

It was horrendously uncomfortable in the back – the tawny, matted beast’s gait was rocky and swaying, and I was in constant danger of slipping off and being trampled by its freaky two-toed feet. Plus, I couldn’t see anything, because the hump and my sisters’ dumb heads were in the way, and I didn’t get to pet the camel’s neck since I was so far away, and nobody ever got pictures of me, because who wants a picture of a camel’s butt?

As soon as I slid off the camel, I would be able to feel the 67 insect bites that had infested my body. I would col-lapse, miserable, in the car, which had turned into an industrial-grade oven, and try to maintain consciousness while my sisters recounted their adventure with joy. I would spend the rest of the day in a deep, itchy depression, my sisters would play fun camel games without me, and my father would trek to Mis-souri to buy manly fi reworks. All the exciting things that had happened at the front end of the camel would taunt me, and I would vow to never disgrace myself thusly again.

But somehow, at the beginning of July of the next year, all I could think about was getting another shot with that camel ....

Adventures from the back of the camelMADISON

DENNIS

Editor in Chief

The writer and her siblings made camel rides an annual event.

July 8, 20106

BARTHOLOMEW KLICKCollegio Reporter

As a fan of M. Night Shyamalan fi lms, as well as an enthusiast of the series upon which “The Last Airbender” was based, I found this movie disap-pointing, almost beyond words.

The fi lm has some good points: The cast does a remarkable job of capturing the characters from the cartoon and the special effects are impressive. And once the story got rolling, I couldn’t look away.

But the story didn’t get rolling for about an hour. The absolute worst mistake any writer can make lies in not knowing where a story begins, and M. Night Shyamalan really didn’t know where this story started. A two-hour movie simply can’t begin at the same point of a story that an entire season of a TV series does, at least not if it’s trying to keep all of the character arcs, back-story, and plot. At the end of the movie, I felt as if I had watched a book report on the fi rst season of the Avatar cartoons, albeit with good illustrations.

The movie is faithful to the fi rst season of the series, but this kills it. The characters that were most interesting didn’t get enough screen time, because instead of making reasonable cuts and rewrites for a movie format, Shyamalan tried to keep every character from the series important. This might even have worked for a three- or a four-hour movie, but in a two-hour movie it falls hard.

And while the special effects were good, the combat scenes felt phony. During the story’s climax, when the Fire Nation is invading a Water Nation city, you see all these soldiers fi ghting each other one on one, and it feels more like you’re watching a bunch of martial art-ists practice a form, instead of watching a battle.

This oddity carries into elemental bending, the movie’s and the series’ term for magic. Whenever a character used elemental magic, it required a nifty Tai Chi-like series of movements. These took so long to do that I wondered why the people fi ghting these magicians didn’t just tackle them instead of waiting for the spell to fi nish. This wasn’t consistent

throughout the fi lm, either, and it served to further remove me from the story. At one point, an entire camp of earth-benders are being held prisoner by three or four fi re-benders. I could believe this, if these spells always took a little time to cast. But when Aang (Noah Ringer) incites a rebellion, all the earth-benders have to do is stomp their feet, while the fi re-benders still need their elaborate forms. It may seem as if I’m picking at nits, but action scenes in movies with a lot of action need to be both well thought out, as well as well executed, and these weren’t well thought out.

I wanted to criticize the acting and the dialogue, but about a-third of the way into the fi lm, I realized that this was an emulation of the TV series’ style; if, like me, you thought the cartoon had some awkward dialogue, prepare to encounter it in the movie as well.

If you can get past all of this, the climax is well worth watching. It took way too long to establish the movie’s characters, but once they were all where Shyamalan wanted them, he wasted no time in using them to good effect. Nor-

mally, with a fi lm that has left me this disenchanted, I fi nd the notion of a se-quel distasteful, at best. However, since Shyamalan’s goal is, apparently, to ape the series on every plot point, I suspect that the next movie will be signifi cantly better, merely because he’ll have already

established all of the characters.Also, Shyamalan says the DVD ver-

sion of the movie will have more content than the theater version, which may fi x some of the problems with the plot’s speed. If you plan to catch this fi lm, hold out for the DVD release.

‘Last Airbender’ a slow-moving disappointment

‘The Last Airbender,’ 2010

MADISON DENNISCollegio Editor

During hot summer days when even barbe-cueing sounds like too much work, the Gorilla Bookstore produced an air-conditioned solution. The employees hosted a Bookstore Beach Bash on July 1, complete with refreshments, games, door prizes and a costume contest.

Although the bookstore is usually frequented by students, this celebration focused on welcom-ing the faculty as well, according to Tanya Lloyd and Jennifer Lawrence, bookstore employees.

“Anyone was welcome,” said Lloyd, “but it was geared more toward the staff and faculty.”

The store manager, Fawn Baker, began plan-ning this event on her own several weeks ago, said Lloyd.

“It was all her idea. It wasn’t anything with our vendors,” she said. “Barnes & Noble wasn’t involved.”

The festivities were intended to provide interest during the slower summer months for the faculty and bookstore.

“It was just kind of to break up the summer,” said Lloyd.

“It was a boredom buster,” said Lawrence, laughing.

During the bash, participants got a chance to

win door prizes and contests. They played two rounds of Beach Blanket Bingo and com-peted in a Hula Hoop contest. Altogether, the employees estimate they gave away almost $500 in prizes and gift cards.

“Some of our vendors donated things,” said Lawrence. “We had some nice stuff, a Nike hoodie and a bag, that kind of thing.”

The bookstore also held a contest for the most creative luau or beach costume. Each contestant was photographed, and the employees announced the winner the next day. Chuck Killingsworth, a professor in health, human performance and recreation, won fi rst prize in the costume contest. The prize was entitled “The Big Kahuna,” and was a Barnes & Noble gift card.

While the crowd was respectably sized, Lloyd and Lawrence say they weren’t looking for numbers but were pleasantly surprised at the turnout.

“There were more people there than we thought we would have,” said Lloyd. Many of the attendees were faculty.

Baker was not one to miss a retail op-portunity, and marked down many items on sale during the event.

“I think you could say that people had fun,” said Lawrence.

Gorilla bookstore holds beach bash to bust boredom

(Left) Tatiana Sildus, associate professor in curriculum and instruction, hula hoops Thursday, July 1, during a beach event put on by the campus book-store for PSU employees. (Above) Contestants play Beach Blanket Bingo at the Bookstore Beach Bash.

Chuck Killingsworth, professor in health, human performance and recreation, wins of ‘Big Kahuna’ contest.

Photos by Shalin Patel