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The dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences has signed his letter of resignation, according to university officials.

Provost Dr. Jaimie Hebert said the long-time professor and dean John de Castro, Ph.D. will no longer be dean effective Aug. 31.

Hebert said de Castro stepped down because “he’s ready” and it was the right time for he and his family.

De Castro gathered his staff

to tell them and turned in his resignation l e t t e r i m m e d i a t e l y before his trip to China on university business.

Hebert said de Castro “won’t be easy to replace.” Hebert and his staff are currently contacting faculty to find an interim dean until a proper search can be conducted.

De Castro is the third dean to

resign in the last year. Genevieve Brown, Ph.D., stepped down as the dean of the College of Education in preparation for her reitrement. Roberta Sloan, Ph.D., resigned after only six months as the dean of the College of Fine Arts and Mass Communication due to personal reasons which were never disclosed.

The search for the new CHSS dean will begin in August after a committee is put together. Currently, the education dean search is still ongoing. Ronald Shields, Ph.D., will take over the College of Fine Arts and Mass

Communication effective July 1.De Castro earned his B.S. in

psycology from Northeastern University in 1969 before earning his doctorate in experimental psychology from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst in 1974.

He was a professor at Georgia State University from 1974 to 2003. He then moved to El Paso where he served at the University of Texas brach as the chair of the department of psychology before being hired by SHSU in 2006.

Hebert said de Castro will not be done at the university though. He will continue on as a faculty

member in the deparment of psychology.

The CHSS encompasses the departments of communication studies, english, family and consumer sciences, history, psychology and philosophy, political science, sociology, and foreign languages.

De Castro has served on several committees and projects on behalf of the university including serving on several dean search committees including the one that chose Shields where he served as chair.

The interim dean is not chosen.

Humanities, Social Sciences dean resignsSTEPHEN GREENEditor-in-Chief

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President Barack Obama’s approval rating dropped 8 percentage points over the past month, to 45 percent, the lowest rating the president has received in more than a year and a half, according to a new national poll.

The poll, conducted by CNN/ORC International, was released Monday morning after several controversies have rocked the White House over the past few weeks and put the Obama administration on the defensive.

The decline stems from the president’s reaction to a massive government surveillance program, the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of tea party and other conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status, the handling of last September’s attack in Benghazi that left the US ambassador to Libya and three other American’s dead, and the Justice Department’s secret collection of journalists’ phone records as part of a government investigation into classified leaks.

For the first time in his presidency, half of Americans say they don’t believe President Barack Obama is honest and trustworthy, the poll shows. Americans are split on the controversial National Security Agency’s anti-terrorism program to record metadata on phone calls made in the United States, but they support the NSA program that targets records of Internet usage by people in other countries. Six in 10 polled believe that government is so large and powerful that it threatens the rights of freedoms of ordinary

Americans.The number of Americans

who think Obama is honest has dropped nine points over the past month, to 49 percent. Fifty-seven percent of those questioned say they disagree with the president’s views on the size and power of the federal government, and 53 percent say he cannot manage the government effectively. Despite these numbers, fifty-two percent

say the president is a strong and decisive leader.

The president’s approval rating stands down from 53 percent in mid-May. Up nine points from last month, 54 percent of Americans say they disapprove of how Obama is handling his job.

Nearly half of the public says that the Obama administration has gone too far in restricting civil liberties to fight terrorism,

with over a third saying the administration has been about right. 17 percent say it has not gone far enough.

With regards to the current NSA program, fifty-one percent say gathering phone records is the right thing to do. Just eight percent of all American’s think the government has collected their personal data and is using it to investigate them. More than half

say they think the government has collected their data and stored it somewhere without analyzing it with a third who believe the government has not collected and stored any of their personal phone or Internet records.

The poll was conducted on 1014 adults nationwide questioned by telephone. The survey’s overall sampling error is plus or minus three percentage points.

KOLBY FLOWERSContributing Reporter

Obama loses big because on controversy

ROUGH FEW MONTHS. Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, US President Barack Obama and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy attend a media conference regarding EU-US trade at the G-8 summit in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.

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DiDn’t finD Hoffa, yet

Politics

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A backhoe arrives on the scene as Robert Foley, center, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Detroit division, addresses the media with Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard, right, in Oakland Township, Mich., Monday where officials search for the remains of Teamsters union president Jimmy

Hoffa who disappeared from a Detroit-area restaurant in 1975. Members of the FBI Evidence Response Team survey an area . The search follows claims made in February by reputed Mafia captain Tony Zerilli, who told Detroit TV station WDIV that he knew where Hoffa was buried.

When Phil Mickelson approached the 18th green on Sunday at the U.S. Open he could have been on his way to having his first trophy from the major. He could have been one step closer to completing his career grand slam. But he didn’t.

Mickelson took second place, for the sixth time in the same tournament. Englishman Justin Rose lifted the trophy in his first major win on the PGA Tour.

Mickelson’s first runner-up finish was in 1999 at Pinehurst Resort No. 2. Again in 2002 at Bethpage, 2004 in Shinnehock Hills, 2006 at Wingfoot, 2009 at Bethpage. Now at Merion.

During a post-round press conference he described it as one of the worst losses he’s had.

“It’s heartbreaking,” Mickelson said. “This could’ve been a big turnaround in looking at the U.S. Open, the tournament I want to win after having so many good opportunities.”

He led during the first three rounds, even under par after the first two rounds along with Billy Horschel. After all was said and done, no one was in the red.

Rose finished at (+1) for the tournament. Mickelson tied for second with Australian Jason Day at (+3).

“This was my best chance,” Mickelson said. “The way I was playing, it gave me chances to make birdies. I didn’t really make any.”

The situation is reminiscent of another famous snake bitten pro-golfer, Australian Greg Norman.

Norman never won the Master’s tournament at Augusta County Club,

despite finishing in the top 5 a grand-total of eight times. Norman, now 58, ended his career with two major victories in 1986 and 1993, both at the Open Championship along with 18 other PGA Tour.

Mickelson is also getting closer to his PGA Tour career end. Many players stop playing on the pro tour when they turn 50, when they become eligible for the Champions Tour. Although that doesn’t prohibit players from participating in tournaments they qualify in the regular tour. Something Mickelson is all-too aware of.

“This one’s probably the toughest for me because at 43 and coming so close, it would’ve changed things for me and the way I look at things and my record,” Mickelson said.

His career hasn’t been all-for-naught. His career wins, which began at the 1991 Northern Telecom Open that he won as an ameteur, total 41 events. They include four major championships (three-time Master’s champion and the PGA Championship) one World Golf Championship, two FedEx Cup Playoff Events and 34 other regular-season PGA tournaments. He’s also won the HSBC Champions in 2008.

Mickelson still ranks as the golfer with the ninth most wins in the history of professional golf and the 17th with the most major championships.

The golfer, commonly known as “Lefty”, is the most successful left-handed players the PGA tour has seen, despite being right-handed when not playing golf.

This week the PGA Tour will host the Traveler’s Championship, which Mickelson has won before but will not be

there this week. Mickelson will play next in the

AT&T National tournament in Bethesda, Maryland where Tiger Woods will defend his title.

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He just can’t winTIME NUMBER 6. Phil Mickelson tips his hat to fans as he makes his way up the 18th fairway during the final day of the U.S. Open Sunday, June 16, 2013 at the Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pa.

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Texas Governor Rick Perry added employment discrimination to his list of crimes against women earlier last week when he vetoed House Bill 950 which would have brought Texas into compliance with the 2009 Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.

When it comes to women’s rights, Governor Perry is a Texas Texas-sized threat to all.

A self-described “cancer hater”, Rick Perry has consistently advocated for policies that limit health care access for women. Perry’s actions include slashing support for family planning by 66 percent and limiting access for Human PapilomavirusPapillomavirus vaccines, a disease whichthat is known to cause various types of cancer.

In an effort to push his conservative agenda, Perry worked to implement the “emergency” ultrasound bill whichbill that required women seeking abortion care to undergo an ultrasound and have the images displayed and the heartbeat made audible, even if she did not want to see or hear it.

In a continued effort to suppress women to a medieval standard of living, Perry rejected 4.4 million dollars in federal funds that would have provided quality sex education to Texas students. In Texas, a teenage girl gets pregnant every 10 minutes according to the University of Texas Prevention Research Center . Perry continues

to force young women to turn to Google and Wikipedia for information about STDs and pregnancy.

In spite of his blatant disregard for women’s quality of life, Perry manages to get elected as governor again and again, now the longest serving governor Texas has had. We haveThere is an obligation to each other to call out inequality, fight for justice and work to create a world of peace. When we people stand aside and allow people others to be denied basic health

care and the freedom to make their own decisions then we it allows an opportunity for injustice and inequality to thrive in our society.

There are many ways for you to

become involved in the fight for equality. You don’t have to march down the streets of Austin with banners and signs, although that may not be a bad idea, but there are ways to use your personal talents to enrich the lives of those around you. Analyze your skills, discover your positions and take action. When we join the fight for equality, we are not only fighting for others but we are fighting for ourselves.

Perry and those that work on pushing his agenda of oppression

and injustice must be stopped. Many people have written our generation off as a group of unconcerned and uneducated people who could care less but that couldn’t be farther from the truth. When we put our minds to the task, our generation has a proven history of blazing trails and advocating for justice.

- Anthony is a sociology major at SHSU. This is part of his ongoing series addressing Generation Y and issues that impact them.

ANTHONY ORMSBEEColumnist

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Gov. Perry continues typical anti-woman behavior

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Summer is in full swing, and for me that means I have ample time to spend enjoying my favorite hobby, bicycling. Huntsville is a perfect town to explore using my preferred method of transportation, it’s small enough that I can get anywhere I need to

go and the scenery is beautiful. My free time spent on my bike is easily my favorite part of every day here, but one problem regularly ruins my fun, other cyclists.

It’s common to hear about cyclists and motorists disparaging each other since both wildly different vehicles have to share the same space, but every pedaler, driver and even pedestrian can find a common enemy in the uninformed cyclist.

If you possess a drivers liscense from the state of Texas, you at some point took an exam to prove your knowledge of state laws regarding vehicles. That test also covered two wheeled, human powered vehicles. Bicycle laws vary from place to place, but in 1968 the Vienna Convention on

Road Traffic outlined the idea that bikes should have all the legal rights of motorized vehicles. The United States was a contracting party to that treaty, so a bicycle has equal rights on all roads except freeways. This means that a cyclist may ride on the road, in the center of the lane if he or she wishes, but must also obey all the same rules of the road as a motorized vehicle.

The problem that I have seen time and time again around town is that we cyclists have not been holding up our end of that deal. I have seen countless bikes fly past on the wrong side of the street, blaze through stop signs or worst of all, speed down sidewalks putting pedestrians in danger.

The last offense I listed is sadly not only the worst of the bunch,

but is the most common. It is a crime in many cities in Texas to ride on the sidewalk, and with good reason. Sidewalks are rarely wide, and bikes traversing down them simply don’t have enough room to keep a safe distance from pedestrians. Riding on sidewalks also puts the cyclist out of sight of drivers until the cyclist must cross a street. If the driver cannot see you because you aren’t in the street (where a driver’s focus should be) you put yourself at risk every intersection that you cross through because the guy in the two ton truck has no idea that you’re even around.

The uninformed biker puts himself and those around him in danger every time he goes for a ride, but the effect he has

on those he encounters lasts much longer than his commute. Every time a cyclist, knowingly or unknowingly, breaks the law it discredits the entire cycling community. As cyclists we need to obey all traffic laws and keep safety and predictability at the forefront of our focus as cyclists. In 2011, 677 cyclists met their death in accidents in America, an increase of 9% from the previous year. As a biker I cannot rely on the cars around me to keep me safe if I don’t also practice safe riding. After all, the slogan is “share the road” and part of that is sharing the responsibility.

- Monty is a mass communicaion major and avid biker.

MONTY SLOANContributing Columnist

With summer here, pay attention to bike safety

The annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, is never a dull affair for those interested in the future of video games, but it’s not every year that the two leading system makers debut their newest technology and reveal the consoles of tomorrow.

Microsoft revealed their new console, named the Xbox One, first. The computer giant didn’t just reveal a console with more ram or faster processors than their predecessors, Microsoft made it clear that they aim to change the way their customers consume video game content and make the new X box One the central piece of the living room.

Physical disks may soon be a thing of the past if Microsoft has it’s way, while stores will still sell copies of games, the Xbox One will actually install games on it’s internal hard drive space and won’t require a disk in order to play. All games will also be available as downloads directly to the console, an option that Microsoft claims will cause game prices to drop over time by cutting out production costs and middle men. This move to digital media as opposed to physical disks means that games cannot be traded, rented or resold

in the traditional sense, but Microsoft will allow you to share your entire collection of games with up to ten friends via their X box username.

The Xbox One also features an HDMI pass-through allowing users to control their cable box via their Xbox, surf the web, use social media and other functions while on their Xbox.

“You can be watching TV through your cable provider, satellite provider and then instantly you get that game invite to play and boom it switches” said Major Nelson, director of programming Microsoft.

Sony followed Microsoft’s presentation by unveiling their Playstation 4. The Playstation is largely identical hardware wise to the Xbox One but features a more powerful Graphics processing unit and a higher class of Ram. Sony also showed off a new controller that has all the functions of a Playstation 3 controller but also features a touch pad area for further input. Sony jabbed at Microsoft’s console when mentioning that the Playstation 4 would use disc media and would allow trading, renting and reselling of games., including games on old systems.

“Providing other non-game content is an area we will reveal and talk about in the coming months, but it’s first and foremost a video game console.” said Kaz Hirai, CEO Sony.

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