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Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam | February 16, 2012 | volume 94 Issue 4

The “Strut to Success Spring Fashion Show” was held for Our Sister’s Closet on Sunday, Feb. 12 at 6:30 p.m. in Byrne Hall at Spring Hill College.

Senior, Jade Beason, held a fashion show as part of her se-nior seminar. Our Sister’s Closet was founded in 1998 by Terri Kearns. According to Kearns, the organization is 14 years old.

OSC’s main goal is to in-crease self confi dence and job opportunities for disadvantaged women, men and teens. Our Sister’s Closet, combined with Success Ability Services, has its clients go through extensive job advancement workshops where they emphasize the power of one’s image, interview skills, etiquette and many other social graces that help land jobs. “They have job training and they teach people how to write resumes. They teach people how to have

By BrandyJONESLife Style Reporter

Spring Fashion Show inspires confi dence

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InsidenEWS InsideOPInIOn InsideLIFESTYLES InsideSPORTS

Mardi Gras break from a new prospective

“I got all dressed up for nothing!”

Sun tans and good music in Gulf Shores

Jeremy Lin: Knicks Saving Grace

THIS WEEK | 2 February 16, 2012

WEEKLYFORECAST

HILLIAnSTAFFEDITOR(s)AllisonPATRICKKatelynGARDNER

ADVISORStuartBABINGTON

NEWS editorCoraALLEN

LIFESTYLE reporter(s)AliciaCANDELABrandyJONES

SPORTS editorMattLaBORDE

SPORTS reporterKieferGINGLES

CARTOONISTEfrenFLORES

HILLIAnCOnTACTThe SpringHilliana: 4000 Dauphin Street c/o The SpringHillian Mobile, AL 36608e: hillian@stumail.shc.edup: 251.380.3850f. 251.460.2185

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Brittany Lewis (left) and Brittany Huber (right) modeled donated clothes during the Sunday event, “Strut to Success: Spring Fashion Show.” The clothing was donated to Our Sister’s Closet.

Photos by KeliMAZZA

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2/18/12Baseball to Face Mobile on Friday, Saturday

The Badger Baseball team will take on its arch-rivals the University of Mobile Rams in a 3-game conference series at Stan Galle Field beginning on Friday at 4 p.m. followed on Saturday with a

doubleheader at noon. For more information contact Jim Stennett at jstennett@shc.edu.

YWCA of Greater Mobile Presents Power Lunch: “Speaking of Money, Class, and Cultural Diversity”

YWCA Power Workshop/Lunch Fee: $25. Facilitator: International and Certified Trainer Maria Gitin, of Maria Gitin and Associates of Capitola,

California Participants will review current diversity data, engage in interactive exercises to assist with fund devel-opment and board recruitment and hear recommendations from the facilitator. Event cosponsors are the USA Department of History and the History Museum of Mobile. The training is open to the public, including all

non-profit organizations. Please send check by Thursday, February 23 to Stephanie Knight, Interim CEO at ceo@ywcamobile.org. The power lunch will be held at The History Museum of Mobile, 111 South Royal Street.

Black History CelebrationThe Cultural Impulse Step Team will present a Black History celebration at 6

p.m. in the dinning room. Join us for the celebration and a soul food dinner.

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2/24/12Jabali Afrika Performance

Powerful percussion and big vocals; African melodies on a wide variety of instru-ments and vocal harmonies that are the foundation of modern rock, jazz, gospel, blues

and more. The experience will leave you enriched, educated, and entertained.

More than 1,000 sixth, seventh, and eighth graders at Burns Middle School wrote timed narrative essays from a prompt. Twenty-five stories were selected as winners, now you get the opportunity to make one into a film.

Come to the Story Starter Film Competition Kickoff to find out information about the com-petition and randomly select one of the winning stories as the basis of your film.

3rd Annual SAFA Story Starter Film Competition

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2/22/12 - 2/25/12Common Grounds: Homeless not Hopeless

The First-Year Learning Communities are coordinating Common Ground: Homeless not Hopeless program to raise awareness about hunger and homelessness. We are asking students, faculty and staff to “think inside of the

box” and sleep in a cardboard box on Rydex Commons from 10 p.m. – 7 a.m

3/6/12SHC’s Best Dance Crew

Residents Hall Association is hosting SHC’s Best Dance Crew on Thursday, March 6 at 9:15 p. m in the Arlene Mitchell Theatre. Grab some friends and pick a crew. Sign ups continue through Feb. 24.

The entrance fee is $4.

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The Mobile County Board of Health has recently announced its support of state officials who are working to raise taxes on tobacco products by $1 a pack. Representa-tive Joe Hubbard D-Montgomery introduced the bill which would earmark the revenue for the states Medicaid program. The new tax would include not only cigarettes, but snuff, chewing tobacco, rolling tobacco and cigars.

The current tax is 42.5 cents a pack, ranking Alabama as the 47 lowest, in front of only Georgia, Louisiana, and Virginia. The new tax would make Alabama tobacco

taxes consistent with the national average.

Proponents for the bill say that higher taxes encourage individuals to quit smoking. According to the Center for Disease Control twenty-two percent of adult Alabamians are smokers, compared with an 18.4 percent national average. In New York, a pack of cigarettes can cost up to $10, and advocates from Just Breathe, Smoke Free Mobile County say this has reduced the number of smokers there. They think that the new tax would not only encourage current smokers to quit, but discourage young people from starting to smoke. Senior

Alabama looking to implement new tax on cigarettesBy CoraALLENNews Editor

ImpactAlabama was founded by Stephen Black in June of 2004. According to their website, “Im-pact is Alabama’s first nonprofit dedicated to developing and im-plementing substantive service-learning projects in coordination with more than twenty universities and colleges throughout the state.”

Impact Alabama has four ini-tiatives set up to fulfill Black’s vi-sion of students coming together to pursue the common good such as: “SaveFirst, FocusFirst, Speak-First and CollegeFirst.

SaveFirst is a program where college students and law stu-dents are trained to provide free tax preparation for low-income, working families. According to Kathleen Smith-Shelton, SaveFirst coordinator, ImpactAlabama has a variety of programs to offer future volunteers.

FocusFirst is a program where the college students take around several high-tech cameras to dif-ferent low-income daycare cen-ters and take a picture of kids six months and up. The reflections of the high-tech camera will tell the photographer whether they are near sighted, have a stigmati-zatism or anything else that may be wrong with their eye sight. “Division Research Corporations

makes the cameras. They are really great cameras. All you have to do is take a picture of the kids and it can help identify any issues with their eyes that if not treated or not treated soon enough can lead to permanent blindness,” said Smith-Shelton.

SpeakFirst is a program that is based in Birmingham, Ala where students from the public high schools in the area are asked to participate in an “All Star” debate team. “The program is really com-petitive. The students spend all year, three days a week research-ing the topics. They also get many other kinds of support. Like help studying for the ACT or the SAT,” said Smith-Shelton.

According to the website, “CollegeFirst trains college and graduate students to help imple-ment a Summer Advanced Place-ment Institute for high school students enrolled in AP Biology, AP Calculus, AP Chemistry, and AP English Language.” “It is a way for students who are about to start taking AP courses to get a head start on the information that they are going to see in class as well as so that on their first day in an AP course they can hit the ground run-ning,” said Smith-Shelton. Accord-ing to Smith-Shelton, although SpeakFirst and CollegeFirst are smaller programs you are really having an impact on someone in

an important and deep way. According to the website the

program is intended it engage stu-dents in identifying and address-ing the needs of the community, as well as enhance students’ sense of social and political responsibility.

ImpactAlabama is a nonprofit program that is supported by the University of Alabama and May-nard, as well as Cooper & Gale.

“We offer a variety of proj-ects that college students can get involved in and each of them offer a unique opportunity to see what poverty and what development looks like in the state of Alabama. As young citizens of Alabama or the United States that they really can make a difference, there are organizations like ImpactAlabama and we would really not be able to do any of what we do without student volunteers,” said Smith-Shelton.

The program is currently ac-cepting volunteers and interns ap-plications. It is also looking for full-time team members. You can sign up for the program’s newslet-ter at the website.

For more information on how to donate or to volunteer for the organization contact Stephen Black at (205) 934-0664. Accord-ing to Smith-Shelton volunteer’s area of work is based off of their college area.

College students give back to their stateBy BrandyJONESLifestyles Reporter

T.J. Will disagrees stating: “This is nonsense, cigarettes are already expensive enough. If this is sup-posed to get people to quit, it won’t work.”

The benefits that others find more important are the revenues. The Mobile County Board of Health estimates that the $1 in-crease per pack would raise about $205 million in revenue for the state. In a state that is facing a de-crease in revenue by $360 million for the State General Fund, which is a major source of state money for court systems, prisons and Medic-aid, the new revenue would surely prove very useful.

a great interview because many people don’t know the proper way of really doing that. Then they pro-vide them with clothes after going through the program,” said Beason. According to Beason, they don’t just give people the clothing; peo-ple have to go through the training and people have to be able to pass: “It is like a school to kind of train you and they won’t release you un-til they say that you are ready. And I think that’s a really, really good thing.”

Clients of OSC are usu-ally referred by the Social Service Agency. According to Beason, over 70 percent of OSC clients are hired after the training program. According to Beason, she first be-came interested in the OSC when they came to one of her classes and the entire class had to do a write up for their organization. “After finding out what their organization was about I realized that I had done something similar in my home-town,” said Beason.

The OSC is based on helping those who struggle to get job op-portunities. “I feel that it is a very strong organization with a strong founder behind it,” Beason said.

Go to their website at www.oursisterscloset.org, or call at (251)

432-8678 to leave a financial con-tribution. Financial contributions help offset the cost of providing workshops to Social Service Agen-cies, job training programs and any group offering services to people in crisis. People can also go to their drop off site at St. Mary Par-ish Center Sister’s of Mercy Bldg. 1405 Old Shell Rd. They accept causal and professional accesso-ries, jewelry, handbags, cosmetics, sleepwear and coats that are clean, on hangers, in season and ready to wear. Donations are tax deductible and a form will be sent to people after the donation is made.

The show had several mod-els including Beason’s mother. The models showed off professional wear that had been donated to Our Sister’s Closet in two sessions. Pow-erful female singers such as Madon-na and Whitney Houston played in the background.

Our Sister’s Closet will hold a fundraiser for Cheap Chic Boutique on Friday, March 2 and Saturday, March 3, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. The fundraiser will be held at the organization’s drop site, across from McGill-Toolen High School on Old Shell Rd. For information on the organization or the upcoming fundraiser, contact Terri Kearns at (251) 423-2001.

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Gern, Mazza win journalism awardsThe Southeast Journalism

Conference announces ‘Best of the South’ contest winners at 26th an-nual convention. Caroline Gern-hauser, a senior integrated com-munications ma-jor from New Orleans, placed eighth in the arts and entertain-ment writing category. She was a writer for The Springhillian. Keli Mazza, a senior from Orlando majoring in digi-tal video produc-tion, placed ninth in the press pho-tography catego-ry. She is a contributing photogra-pher to the student newspaper.

177 students were ranked in 26 categories as being among the “Best of the South” in the SEJC’s annual

Photo by KatelynGARDNER

journalism awards competition.The SEJC competition is

open to the organization’s member schools from eight states — Ala-

bama, Arkansas, Florida, Geor-gia, Louisiana, M i s s i s s i p p i , North Carolina and Tennessee —recognized in its constitution as eligible to en-ter the contest.

This year’s c o m p e t i t i o n included 433 entries from 41 eligible member schools. Judges for the compe-tition included

23 journalism professionals from newspapers, broadcast outlets and magazines across the country.

Kelli Mazza and Caroline Gern

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MOBILE, Ala. – Dr. Charles J. Boyle, professor emeritus and former archivist at Spring Hill College, died Feb. 6, 2012, at age 87.

Born in Bristol, Pa., in 1924, and later a resident of New Jer-sey, Boyle first came to Mobile in 1947 to attend Spring Hill College. He graduated in 1950 with a Bachelor of Arts in English. He went on to earn a master’s degree in English from Marquette University in 1952 and a doctoral degree in Ameri-can Literature from the Univer-sity of Wisconsin in 1957.

Boyle returned to Spring Hill in 1957 as a member of the faculty in the English De-partment. He served the college in various academic and admin-istrative capacities, including being chairman of the Division of Humanities and English, dean of faculties, and academic dean. In addition, he served as Visiting Scholar at the Univer-sity of Virginia in 1977-78. He was named Teacher of the Year in 1963 and 1986, chaired the College’s sesquicentennial cel-ebration in 1980, and directed the Spring Hill College Venice Program in 1987-1989. Boyle spoke at the College’s com-

mencement ceremonies in 1985 and in 1992. The Charles Boyle Literary Lecture Series was es-tablished in 1995 and is held annually in his honor.

Boyle was named Professor Emeritus in 1990. After his retirement from full-time faculty status, he was ap-pointed as the College archivist in 1991 and contin-ued in this capac-ity until 2005. As archivist, he was instrumental in celebrating the col-lege’s 50th anniver-sary of integration in 2004-2005 and the 175th anniver-sary of the College in 2005-2006.

During his tenure at Spring Hill, Charlie com-piled and edited three publications on the history of the College. “Twice Remem-bered: Moments in the History of Spring Hill College,” a com-pilation of events of the first 100 years of the college’s exis-

tence, was published in 1993. “Sound Mind, Sound Body: A History of Sports at Spring Hill College,” co-edited by Pat-rick McGraw, was published in

1997; and “Gleanings from the Spring Hill College Archives” was published in 2004.

Boyle writes in the preface of “Twice Remembered,” that

“The history of Spring Hill Col-lege is long and rich … Behind the rising and falling fortunes of our history have stood some amazing people: the founding bishop and his devoted priests;

the ‘rescuing’ Jesuits and their tena-cious, vision-ary leaders and priest-teach-ers; talented and self-sacri-ficing laymen; and the always present, always essential stu-dents, both men and wom-en. Together they form an inspiring line of people … all dedicated to or in search of a cherished ideal of edu-cation. Their history of dedication and

determination to survive make the true history of Spring Hill College.”

Boyle was a member of a number of academic and lit-

erary associations and served a two-year term as president of the Association of College English Teachers in Alabama. His primary focus in teaching was in the field of American Literature. He taught courses in American Fiction, Poetry and Drama; developed a semi-nar course in modern American Fiction with an emphasis on William Faulkner and Flan-nery O’Connor; and designed a course of study of the dominant themes of American literature.

Boyle is survived by his wife of 47 years, Roberta Fink Boyle, and daughters Barbara Catherine “Katie” Boyle and Bridget Boyle Lafferty. He is also survived by several grandchildren, nieces and nephews. Charlie was pre-deceased by his parents, Connell and Katie Boyle, and by his four siblings.

A Mass of Christian Burial was Wednesday, Feb. 15 at St. Joseph Chapel at Spring Hill College, with Rev. Michael Wil-liams, S.J., presiding and mem-bers.

The family requests dona-tions to the Charles J. Boyle Scholarship Fund. Contact the Office of Advancement at (877) SPR-HILL for more news.

Spring Hill College Remembers Dr. Charles J. Boyle

Florida and Alabama have pe-titioned for the Supreme Court of the United States to decide a 20 year long battle with Georgia over a fresh water source. Florida and Ala-bama have asked that the decision by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that allows metro Atlanta to use the water from a man made dam to be overturned. The down-stream states argue that Congress never intended for the federally funded reservoir to be used to pro-vide local drinking water.

In the 1950s a man made dam was built by the Army Corps of Engineers in Georgia, on Lake Lanier to support a hydroelectric power project. Lake Lanier has a number of tributaries, including many that run all the way down to the Gulf Coast. Forty years later, in 1990, Atlanta, Georgia had grown into a sprawling city, and the Army Corps of Engineers recommended that the reservoir should be used to provide water for Atlanta’s millions of residents.

As a result of this change Florida and Alabama filed lawsuits

against the state of Georgia as well as the Army Corps of Engineers. The more southern states argued that the recommendation made by the Army Corps favored Georgia and ignored the environmental ef-fects that this will have on the eco-systems downstream of the reser-voir. Florida cited the impact on the large number of endangered species in the fragile ecosystems. The law-suits were eventually dropped, and settled out of court, but the states still cannot agree on consumption caps and flow requirements.

Georgia argues that providing over 5.6 million people with fresh water is the most important fac-tor in the argument. Alabama and Florida see things differently.

Alabama utilizes the river ba-sins flowing from Lake Lanier for a wide variety of things includ-ing: agriculture, industry, fisheries, recreation, preservation of habi-tats and biodiversity, and power generation. Alabama counters that the over usage of the reservoir by Georgia will have a negative impact on these things, which the state sees as of equal importance. Florida is

also dependent on the river basins flowing from the lake for its fishing and shrimping industries. Florida argues that the water is needed to support a population economi-cally. Alabama and Florida have also pointed to Georgia’s noncom-pliance with the National Environ-mental and Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA,) and its requirements for an Environmental Impact Assess-ment in all matters of environmen-tal concern.

However, the Supreme Court only hears about one percent of the cases that are petitioned.

Florida and Alabama attempt to take Georgia to the Supreme Court

Photo courtesy Spring Hill College

By Cora ALLENNews Editor

Dr. Charles Boyle

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The International Service Im-mersion Program will provide 41 students as well as nine faculty and staff members the opportunity to visit different cities in Central America during the Mardi Gras break.

During their visits, the stu-dents and faculty members will separate into four groups, giving them the opportunity to serve, aid and engage with the natives from Belize City, Belize; Punta Gorda, Belize; San Salvador, El Salvador; and Managua, Nicaragua.

According to Campus Minis-try’s Service and Retreat Coordi-nator, Colleen Lee, the immersion and service trips are centered on five pillars: service, learning, faith, justice and community. “Our hope is that the students participating in these trips are engaged in all aspects of the five pillars. They will serve the people they meet in El Salva-

dor, Nicaragua, and Belize, and they will learn the importance of service in their local community, beginning a lifelong passion for service,” stated Lee.

Students who have experienced immersion trips are talking about their experiences. Senior, Alex Grif-fin stated, “Participating in one of these trips is transformative. In some way, shape, or form, you will be changed. Coming back to the states, you have a fresh perspective on new people and cultures, pov-erty, and even yourself. To me, one of the most important things that I take away from these trips is the common experience and common understanding that I have with my classmates, faculty and staff advi-sors.”

When senior Ellen Broad was asked about her experience she stated, “The immersion trip helped me realize exactly how lucky I am. The individuals participating in the trips are immersed in a culture

totally different than what we are used to. It it truly a privilege to be a part of this journey and to expe-rience something so much bigger than myself.”

“The learning happens both before and after the immersion trip,” stated Lee. Over four months have been spent on preparation for their trips to Belize, Nicaragua and El Salvador. In order to prepare, students learn about the culture of the country they will be visiting. “We spend time after the trip pro-cessing and reflecting on everything that was learned during the week we spent in country. We come to understand that our learning about justice is a lifelong effort,” added Lee.

With each trip, comes a new goal. Hand in Hand ministries lead the work that students will fulfill in Belize City and Nicaragua. Accord-ing to Lee, students will help build a house for families that are strug-gling to both pay monthly rent and

afford a healthy life for their chil-dren.

In Punta Gorda, the immer-sion group will build a library for the village of Jalacte. The Punta Gorda group will be working with St. Peter Claver Catholic Church to fulfill their goal of service, engag-ing and learning.

For the group serving in El Salvador, they will experience a dif-ferent type immersion trip: “The students and advisors will experi-ence what is called a reverse mis-sion,” stated Lee. “This group has chosen to concentrate on issues fac-ing young people in El Salvador, es-pecially the issue of gang violence.

They will spend time in a rural village being immersed in the his-tory and culture of El Salvador,” Lee explained. After the El Salva-dor group returns, they will engage in the service aspects of their trip where they will educate people in their local community about the is-sues surrounding the community.

In the end, Lee hopes the stu-dents will learn the importance of service. The overall goal of the im-mersion trips is for the students to join the call in building a more just world. Lee said, “We talk about justice and how to live our lives in solidarity with the people we will meet. However, the real learning takes place when they are immersed in community during the trip. Much of our understanding of jus-tice and our call to solidarity comes from getting to know the people we meet and the issues they face.”

The immersion trips rely on the generosity and donations of the community, school and students to in order to fulfill their mission. Through donations and prayers, the ISIP gains the ability to provide a future for others as well as gain a better understanding of cultures outside of their own. For more in-formation contact Campus Minis-try or e-mail Colleen Lee at cflee@shc.edu.

Student service during Mardi Gras breakBy KatelynGARDNERCo-editor

The Spring Hill Knights of Columbus, Council 3038, donated over $800 to the children at St. Mary’s Home for mistreated chil-dren early this semester.

The funds were raised as part of the Knight’s Tootsie Roll Cam-paign, which encourages councils throughout the nation to raise money for children’s charities by handing out the popular candy. The Spring Hill Knights collected do-nations outside of Sunday Masses on campus and outside the Bruno’s on Old Shell Rd. in November last semester.

The Spring Hill Knights of Columbus have a long standing partnership with St. Mary’s Home. Numerous times throughout each semester, the Knights will spend their Saturday mornings at St. Mary’s to serve in a variety of ways, whether it be doing yard work, playing kickball with the kids, or helping with schoolwork.

The Knights of Columbus council at the College has been in-fluential in the Mobile community. This council often participates in service work ranging from demoli-tion in Bayou La Batre to yard work around the Daughter’s of Charity’s community house at Providence Hospital to pro-life activities, such as the 40 Days for Life campaign, as well as volunteering at the Little Sister’s of the Poor and helping Brother Knights in their time of need.

The Knights of Columbus both at Spring Hill and around the world strive to uphold principles that support and protect the hu-man person. If you are interested in learning more about Spring Hill’s Knight’s council, feel free to stop by one of weekly council Masses at 5:00p.m. in the Jesuit Residence Chapel or one of our meetings held on the first and third Wednesdays of the month at 7:00p.m. in Quin-lan 129.

Tootsie roll campaign raises funds for mistreated children

Over the past month there have been complaints of disrup-tive behavior, damage of property and items being stolen in O’Leary Hall.

Residents are starting to ques-tion their safety. In addition, they are also getting frustrated with be-ing blamed for something that was not necessarily their re-sponsibility. O’Leary resident, Lorelei Koory expresses her concern by stating, “It makes me angry because I pay mon-ey to live in a dorm building that is supposed to be safe. I should be able to walk back and forth from my dorm in the middle of the night with-out being afraid that someone is going to walk in through the Old Shell gate and hurt us. Some people do not lock their doors when they sleep and the first and second floors are all-girls dorms.”

As Koory stated, the first and second floor of O’Leary is all girls and it makes all the girls in this building feel uncomfortable and

unsafe to have a door that is not locked or that cannot close prop-erly. O’Leary residents have already been issued a warning about the main door from the Area Coordi-nator, Anna Burton. It was assumed by most residents that since they were issued a warning and were giv-en a notice, that if this was to occur again, that all residents in O’Leary

would be issued a fine of $25. Ever since the start of the se-

mester residents have had to deal with broken washing machines, mold on the first floor caused by water damage and unsanitary bath-room conditions. Another frustrat-ed resident Jenny Jones, who lives on the second floor, stated, “I just think the situation in O’Leary is

ridiculous, I walked into the door one night and saw some guy that I have never seen before. I don’t feel safe knowing that people who don’t live here can just walk in and out of our dorm because the door is messed up. I don’t feel comfortable doing laundry because people are getting things stolen, and we have people accusing other people of

doing things.” Right now safety is a big

issue and it is unfair for stu-dents to not feel safe in their own dorm. Holly Baker, the RA for the first and second floor of O’Leary sympathized with her residents stating, “I think its chaotic and I feel bad for all my residents who are

getting blamed. I know that it is hard on them. The students need to raise their voice and make it aware that it’s not fair that they are getting punished for something that they have no control over.” Even though O’Leary has been experiencing these issues, other dorms on campus are experiencing similar issues.

“I think its chaotic and I feel bad for all my residents who are getting

blamed. I know that it is hard on them. The students need to raise their voice and make it aware that it’s not fair that

they are getting punished for some-thing that they have no control over.”

Trouble in O’Leary sends residents over the edge By AliciaCANDELALifestyle Reporter

By AlexGRIFFINContributor

OPInIOn | 6 February 16, 2012

By KatelynGARDNERCo-Editor

Cigarette companies have rights too

College Programming Board drops the ball

With the help of nicotine’s addictive side effects, cigarettes have been gaining popularity since their widespread usage in the beginning of the 20th Centu-ry. As the government attempts

to counteract the profit of ciga-rette companies, the younger generations are continuing to engage in smoking. And since the cigarette companies are gain-ing large profits, they have begun to fight for their First Amend-ment rights when it comes to the details of packaging.

Apparently, the warning il-lustrations that depict the harm-ful side effects of smoking are being mandated, by the govern-ment, to be printed on cigarette packages. According to cnn.com, “the full-color illustrations were mandated by the government to cover the entire top half of the front and back of every pack-age of cigarettes. They were

intended to be revolting and visually inescapable.” The pic-tures display images such as a man with a hole in his trachea, a woman suffering from cancer as well as a child inhaling second hand smoke. In order to better serve the public, the government is now attempting to use educa-tion, yet cigarette companies feel that this would take away from their profit.

No matter how revolting the pictures are, I feel that a smoker will continue to use cigarettes. I am a firm believer in learning lessons through experience, and with cigarette users, I do not think that an array of pictures will deter their lighters. How-

ever, the government is attempt-ing to educate Americans on the seriousness of their addiction.

The cigarette companies are arguing that the government is trampling on their First Amend-ment rights. The main argument on behalf of the cigarette com-panies deals with freedom of speech issues. However, the gov-ernment is only trying to warn cigarette users, not take cigarettes off the market completely.

In my opinion, people who engage in smoking are already aware of the harmful side effects either through commercials, me-dia or even their peers and fam-ily members. Therefore, by plac-ing graphic images on a pack of

cigarettes, I feel that, at most, it may make people take a second glance.

With the majority of our youth becoming addicted to cigarretes at an early age, I think the government’s mandate could be a positive one. For teens and young children, the packaging images could deter an addition. While the images would go un-noticed by the long-term ad-dicts; therefore, helping both the companies and the community.

As for hurting the cigarette companies growing profits, I think that the nicotine has es-tablished lifelong consumers that will fail to stray from the cancer sticks for good.

By MatthewLaBORDESports Editor

People who arrived at this year’s Mardi Gras Ball on the second round of buses might have been wondering, “Who ate all the chicken tenders?” or “Where is the live band?” But, more importantly, they were asking: “Why are we at ‘Club Insanity’?”

Students may or may not remember walking through the Spot of Tea (one of Mobile’s nicest restaurants) thinking: “What an amazing venue for a

Mardi Gras Ball!” and then be-ing herded through a hallway into a sanctuary that can only be characterized by volumes of people and LMFAO’s “I’m Sexy and I know it.”

I wastefully debated in front of my mirror in O’Leary Hall over what tie/shirt combination that I was going to wear, all for nothing. I even wore cuff links. I don’t usually wear cuff links.

What Badgers know as “Club Insanity”, (name recently changed to Club TeaZ), a bar/club not known for its classi-ness, was dark and gloomy and plagued with cigarette smoke. The same affect could have been had at Bojangles for half the price. As senior Grant Beniot put it: “I didn’t realize Spot of Tea had a barn behind the res-taurant, an open pasture might have been a better venue.”

Usually the student center rendezvous process takes only thirty minutes for invite par-

ties, and I even recall it moving pretty quick for last year’s Mardi Gras Ball (MGB), but the Col-lege Programming Board wasn’t ready for the 500 plus people who arrived on time. As a result, students were confused, sitting around and chatting for up to an hour before transportation showed up.

Upon arrival I didn’t know what to think or do, I didn’t know where my friends were because of the bus fiasco at the student center, and I couldn’t fig-ure out why there were no more chicken tenders left. OK, I’ll let this whole chicken tender’s thing go (BUT SERIOUSLY WHO ATE ALL OF THEM).

Students who attended last year’s ball had high expecta-tions. Understandably though, last year’s MGB was located at Mobile’s beautiful Renaissance Hotel in an extravagant ball room with a live band that kept people on the dance floor the

whole night. Not to mention a very pertinent catering crew who kept us all happy.

I’m sorry to all of the danc-ing Badgers out there who love to show off their moves, because the venue was just not right for breaking down. The interesting light up dance floor might as well been an MMA ring where you had to fight for position, constantly having to hold your dance partner tight to be shield-ed from wavering elbows and excessive body movements as a result of “The Wobble.” Not all hope was lost, though; students who were tired of the dance floor could mosey up a small flight of stairs to a platform in prime location above the bar.

I tried my best to have my own fun. I explored the bar about three times, praying each time that maybe the Black Eyed Peas would appear via helicop-ter (or spaceship). I also found peace by the finger sandwich

trays, where I devoured some twenty sandwiches in approxi-mately three minutes.

Security was an issue, too. The end of the ball was marked by utter chaos. Sophomore An-drew Herman had a bad ex-perience during his departure from the night club: “Security was acting extremely immature and were much more interested in getting us all to leave as op-posed to keeping us safe.” The buses were filled to capacity and the officers were still trying to force students on board.

Spring Hill is home to tra-ditions, on and off campus, and sometimes things get monoto-nous. Mardi Gras Ball is sup-posed to be a change of pace: a night where any student can pay $8 to get dressed up and have a night of fun. What students got, however, was a $2 discount on the cover charge on any nor-mal Thursday night at Club In-sanity.

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Recently in the news, we have read too many times about a celebrity in trouble because of drugs or alcohol or a com-bination of both. With the recent unexpected tragic death of Whitney Houston, I ques-tion the fact of “fame” and the ability to cope with the normal pressures of everyday life. Sure the celebrities might be rich and famous, but is their life actu-ally that different from yours or mine?

Drug addiction is promi-nent in many areas across the country. People tend to want to self medicate themselves to treat loneliness, anxiety or de-pression. What do they usually turn to? Alcohol is usually the

first choice because it’s easily at-tainable and many times fit the poor man’s budget. However in the past couple of years, the trend has moved to prescription drugs such as painkillers or anxi-ety medication to help ease the pain. When anyone becomes de-pendent on these types of medi-cations, addiction rapidly sets in resulting in the dire need to have these drugs in their system. This pattern has become all too com-mon with the celebrity world.

Next, you have the celebri-ties that come in and out of re-hab. They go for help, and while I greatly admire the ones who are successful in their treatment and actually break their addic-tions, you have the ones such as Whitney Houston who have been in and out of rehab, and just fall back into their same bad habits. While rehabilitation may not work for all, other aspects of their lives may need to be addressed. Celebrities are often under a great deal of pressure to keep up an image. They are also pressured to keep finding new projects in order to keep their income steady. Many times the celebrities have the “enablers” who push them into addictions to keep them happy or to make life a little easier for them. Is that

By AllisonPATRICKCo-Editor

Fame and addiction

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how one should achieve fame and fortune? I think not.

So, let’s examine life for just a minute. I am a college student, with many responsibilities. Life at times for most of us can be quite demanding. Many of us have jobs, studying for class, keeping up with homework, all at the same time while trying to maintain some type of social life. It can be a constant struggle to manage everything. However, I would never once think that a pill or a bottle of alcohol will make things easier or better for me. Why do celebrities engage in such dangerous behavior that put their lives in danger? Celeb-rities are often role models for the very young and ambitious. What a terrible picture they are painting for such impressionable people.

Anyone facing an addic-tion should definitely seek help. Reach out to other people who can help you immediately if you are facing trouble. If you notice that your friends are becoming addicted to drugs or alcohol, you have the moral duty to help that person. Yes, it may be diffi-cult in the long run, but remem-ber we can’t save the celebrities from addiction, but we can save the people who are close to us.

While I will admit that Mardi Gras Ball 2012, was quite pos-sibly the worst Spring Hill sponsored event (maybe with the exception of Play Fair last semester), my letter to the editor is not entirely about that. It’s sad that such an event was so poorly planned throughout the entire process—from check in, venue, to even the bus issue,( I had to drive myself along with other students since the buses, which came at 10:30 were packed) that the senior’s last memory of Mardi Gras Ball and the freshmen’s first impression of it will be, quite frankly, bad. My question to the student body is, is it fair that a select few students and adults have power to orchestrate the memories and experiences of the entire Spring Hill College community? I know from experience that it is hard to please everyone when organizing events, but if every, single person thought the event was wretched, there is obviously something wrong. I understand the idea behind these ‘destination unknown’ events that Spring Hill loves, but after this last one, no one is going to trust another. Would it not be better to have a selection of three venues and put it to the vote of the student body. The results would be kept a secret until the night of the event. Not only would that allow students some sort of ownership of the event and their experience, but still keep with the destination unknown vibe. But don’t let this be the beginning of poor or so-so memories and experiences in your Spring Hill experience. Speak out. Student leaders and organizers need to learn to listen to the community, and not just the good things, but the bad and downright ugly as well. Overall as a student body we are too smart and pay too much in tuition to be led to believe that events like this past Mardi Gras are acceptable.

Grant Benoit

Letter to the editor

LIFE STYLE | 8 February 16, 2012

Life

on

the

Hill

All photos by BrandyJONES

Top Left: Will Amanor swings to hit the ball at tennis practice. The men’s tennis team will play Emmanuel College this weekend.

Top Right: Women’s volley-ball player Megan Haber listens to her iPod as she jogs in the Ar-thur R. Outlaw Center.

Bottom: Leslie Kraymak and Matthew Jones have lunch out-side on Spring Hill college cam-pus near the tennis court.

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Top Left: Junior Beth Burgert reads Chris Cleave’s “Little Bee” while exercising at the Arthur R. Outlaw Center.

Top Right: Sophomore Jacob Neu practices his swings as he prepares to face Emanuel College on Feb. 18 at 2 p.m.

Bottom: Junior Cory Cian-ciola, sophomores Michelle Gad, Eric Francisco and Stephanie Harris enjoy the delicious candy apples as they eat lunch outside the Student Center.

All photos by BrandyJONES

Getting Fit at Spring Hill

LIFE STYLE | 10 February 16, 2012

The journey of life: Dr. Reed’s discoveriesBy EmilyHILLContributor

Spring Hill College business professor, Dr. Kendra Reed, is a wide-eyed woman whose smile never fades and whose optimism never weakens. She was born in the third most populated city in the United States, Chicago. Here, her journey begins.

Reed has never stayed in one place for more than four years. Her journey revolves around education, family, heartbreak and friends. But most of all, her journey revolves around God.

She attended college at Northwestern University in Evanston, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science and a major in Human Development and Social Policy. She contin-ued in her quest to be more ful-filled and educated by working with General Motors in Pontiac, Mich. for six months. Reed ex-panded her knowledge, receiving a Master of Business Adminis-tration from the nation’s largest Catholic university, DePaul Uni-versity in Chicago.

“Then I fell in love and moved to southern Indiana where I worked with American General Finance and got to do many fascinating things in busi-ness. I sought out a Ph.D. to think better,” says Reed. Work-ing and learning is what she lives for. “So I went to Nebraska, Go Huskers! And pursued a Ph.D. in management and organiza-tional behavior,” says Reed.

A major turning point in her life was when she went through a divorce, a topic even this upbeat teacher has trouble talking about. As she says the word “divorce” she looks down at her fidgeting hands. The heartbreaking event pushed her to look for a more permanent and consistent source of love, God. “I was recovering from a divorce and really into God’s plan and his purpose. He certainly took me on many exits and turns so I was open to try-ing to be a professor,” Reed says while looking up to thank God for guidance.

While recovering from the divorce, she took a two-year

contract position as a professor at the University of Northern Iowa. “I said nope! This isn‘t it. I can‘t be a professor. They’re too serious!,” says Reed in a play-ful manner. She knew what she wanted, and this was not it.

Then a friend called from Loyola University in New Or-leans, La: “I was like, I can’t go to New Orleans, that’s the city of sin. I’m a mid-western girl. I need to stay where my roots are,” Reed says as she begins to talk faster. She prayed about it and talked to many people and ev-eryone told her she should take the risk.

She traveled to New Or-leans with no intention of stay-ing. However, within a short 12 hours, she fell in love with the people and the value system of a Jesuit-based education. Loyola offered her a two-year job and she eagerly took the opportu-nity. Loyola touched a special place in her heart, being founded on Ignatius of Loyola’s vision of finding God in all things.

After being there for two

years, Hurricane Katrina, the third strongest hurricane ever recorded to make landfall in the U.S., tore through the Gulf Coast. As the hurricane headed straight for New Orleans, Reed evacuated, which was a journey in itself. She traveled to Califor-nia, Chicago and Wisconsin, vis-iting family and friends for two months. She then went to Ala-bama to do research and gather data for ways in which she could help the city of New Orleans and Loyola University get back on their feet. She worked on sustaining something she really believed in; the Jesuit education. “It was a phenomenal experi-ence. When Katrina hit, all those normal, everyday routine things were gone. Balancing the heart with the purse strings. Trying to get money and people’s pas-sion. It was really the passion and people’s care about the com-munity that revitalized the city,” says Reed, who remained opti-mistic even in such a challeng-ing time as this. She stayed there four more years and reconnected

with the students through teach-ing.

Having been in New Or-leans for two years, evacuated, then returned for four years, she considers her trips to have been to two very different places. The four years Reed was in New Orleans after Katrina hit was a whole new experience, challeng-ing yet inspiring.

Reed then moved to Mo-bile, Ala., and presently works as a professor of business and management at Spring Hill Col-lege. She hopes to take what she learns at Spring Hill back to Loyola this fall.

Teaching at Spring Hill has been a wonderful experience for Reed. She marveled at the stu-dents and faculty of Spring Hill, and expressed how she will cer-tainly miss the Spring Hill com-munity. However, new opportu-nities and adventures await her.

“Life’s about learning and unleashing your talents; allowing them to flourish and make the world a better place,” says Reed. “Life’s a journey, and I love it.”

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Cutest Teacher on Campus?

Mobile or New Orleans for Mardi Gras?

Best accessory that you can’t live without?

FRESHMANNikki Whiting

WHITING: “My camera.”MURPHY: “Toms.”

WHITING: “Dr. Dorton”MURPHY: “Dr. Franco Zamudio”

WHITING: “New Orleans because I have friends that live there.”MURPHY: “New Orleans ... never been to Mobile Mardi Gras. NOLA is more fun.”

SENIORCaitlin Murphy

veteransFRESHMEAT

versus

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Fun in the sun at Hangout Festival By KieferGINGLESSports Reporter

Tickets for the 2012 Hang-out Festival in Gulf Shores, Ala. are on sale and selling out quick-ly as headliners like the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Dave Mat-thews Band draw a large crowd for the third-annual event.

The festival will begin on Friday, May 18 and continue through the weekend. Tickets can be purchased for $209. It’s certainly a hefty price to pay, but this year’s lineup is bringing in some impressive talent.

If the price of the ticket is unattainable, but you’d still like to go, there is a payment plan of-fered through hangoutmusicfest.com that divides it into three separate payments.

This year’s lineup supplies attendants with popular artists from a variety of genres. Some of the artists that will perform during the weekend, in addition to those previously mentioned, include Jack White, The String Cheese Incident, Skrillex, The Flaming Lips, Wilco, Mac Mill-er, Flogging Molly, Coheed and Cambria, Yelawolf, and Switch-foot.

According to hangoutmu-sicfest.com, Jack White is best known for his guitarist skills, serving as a lead vocalist of The White Stripes. White is also known as a prominent guitar-ist and vocalist for The Racon-teurs.

The String Cheese Incident is an independent band that has had a 14 year history of music

accomplishments, according to thehangoutfest.com. Listen to one of their hits such as “Rest-less Wind” to hear the band’s eclectic array of music.

Flogging Molly is not a tra-ditional band in any sense of the word. The band members state that their music “infuses punk rock with Celtic instruments—violin, mandolin and the accor-dion—and they merge blues progressions with grinding gui-tars and traditional Irish music.”

The festival is sure to be tons of fun as visitors get to enjoy a talent-packed, three-day weekend of music stylings and the beach atmosphere. For the complete lineup and more in-formation about the bands that will be featured, visit the Hang-out Festival’s web site.

Megaladon takes over Mobile

The largest shark that ever lived has come to Mobile, Ala. Don’t be fooled though. It’s not Jaws, it’s “MEGAL-ODON.” An exhibit focus-ing on the largest shark in the world will be at the Golf Coast Exploreum Science Center until May 6.

Take a step into the life of Megalodon. Literally, the entrance to the exhibit is a life- size replica of the jaw of the great fish. With teeth up to seven inches long, and a bite with the force more than 10 times that of a great white, this shark holds a no-torious title. Though it has been 2 million years since

By CoraALLENNews Editor

Megalodon vanished, “its fas-cinating story inspires lessons for science and shark conser-vation today with this family-friendly, interactive, hands-on exhibit,” according to brown-papertickets.com.

Megaladon was one of the fiercest predators ever to have lived on this earth. Visi-tors will be in awe of the 60 foot dinosaur-shark at the exhibit as well as the IMAX film.

Tickets prices vary with age. For adults ages 19 to 59 tickets cost $14. For youth ages 13 to 18 tickets cost $12.50.

For more information Contact the Gulf Coast Ex-ploreum at 251-208-6873.

Time to stop the partyingBy Mr.KNOWITALLAdvice Columnist

Dear Mr. KnowItAll,

My friends and I hit up the apartments every chance we get. Pre-gaming is a must before all parties. At Mardi Gras Ball, all I remember is getting pushed around. I enjoy the alcohol but I just wish I remem-bered more of my night. I also love to break things when I’m nice and drunk. Once, I dug up an actual tree and threw it at a build-ing. That’s how I roll but I want to stop. Any advice?

Sincerely, -Alcohol insane

Dear Alcohol Insane,

It appears as though you might very well be an alcoholic, not to mention your problem with van-dalism is pretty obvious. The first step to solving the problem is admitting that you do in fact have a problem. If you wake up from a night of drink-ing and have another beer to get rid of your hang over, that’s not good. One or two times is fine, but if you do it every time you go out and drink, you may be on the downhill road to rock bottom.

Did you just lose a loved one? Are you strug-gling in school? Whatever it is, something is caus-ing you to do these bad things.

Not all hope is lost though, you can try a few different things. First, limit the amount of beer you buy from 24 to 12, thus reducing your chance of getting wasted by exactly 50 percent.

If your that much of an alcoholic to where you can’t resist yourself in the beer aisle, bring a friend along who will hold you back.

Also, try staying away from yard tools such as shovels, which will inadvertently reduce your chances of throwing trees at innocent buildings!

I have hope for you, Alcohol insane. Just keep on keeping on.

-Mr. KnowItAll

LIFE STYLE| 12 February 16, 2012

History professor by day, Traveler enthusiast by nightBy MaryRIESEditor Emeritus

Dr. Hamilton, history professor at Spring Hill College. Photo by AliciaCANDELA

A New York native. Party animal. History professor. Avid traveler. What do these aspects have in common? Dr. Neil Hamilton.

At first glance of Hamilton, one would not see him as a history professor at Spring Hill College. His typical outfit consists of blue jeans, cowboy boots, a graphic tshirt and a pair of blue-tinted round glasses. His arms covered with various tat-toos, and his fluffy ponytail is hard to miss.

One may assume that Hamilton is a laid back professor who is stuck in the 70s. The truth of the matter is Hamilton is a popular professor in the History department amongst students. Hamilton started his career at Spring Hill in 1991. After al-most 21 years of service to the college, Hamilton has earned a notable reputation on campus. Ham-ilton’s passion for the college and American His-tory is obvious to anyone who takes his classes. “I definitely don’t do it for the money. You just have to follow something you are really full of fervent and excitement about,” said Hamilton.

Besides Hamilton’s passion for teaching and history, he is a well-known author. To date, Ham-ilton has successfully published 12 books. The subject matter of his books is in some way related to history. However, “Lucky number 13 is a little different,” said Hamilton. “Lucky number 13” will be focused on outlaw country music.

Outlaw country music is for the rebellious country artists. Outlaw country music is differ-ent and “hard to explain,” said Hamilton. “The easiest way to describe it is that it is very much opposed to what you hear coming out of Nash-ville today,” said Hamilton. Outlaw country music stars are against mainstream country music. Most outlaw country music artists refer to it as, “Nash-ville pop,” said Hamilton. The artists believe that the music has lost its country roots and have be-come far too commercial. Outlaw country music artists find their influences through such sounds as southern rock and hard rock.

Hamilton fell in love with outlaw country music about three years ago when he went to a Jackson Taylor performance in Houston, TX. He instantly became interested in the topic. Hamilton grew to become good friends with Taylor. Taylor found out about Hamilton’s past writing history and urged him to investigate the world of outlaw country music.

Hamilton accepted the challenge.Since then, Hamilton has been taking weekend

trips across the United States to view performanc-es of outlaw country music artists. From Kansas to Texas, Hamilton has experienced many memo-rable moments while with these artists, “Most of them can’t be published,” said Hamilton.

On each trip, Hamilton has been given stage access to interview the artists as they set up their equipment. Along with interviewing the artists, Hamilton takes photographs throughout the per-formances to use throughout the book. Many of his images adorn the front door of his office in Quinlan Hall.

With a recorder at hand, Hamilton follows the artist around prior to the show beginning and then celebrates on the tour bus afterwards. He has yet to have a bad experience with an artist. Hamil-ton said that each one of them has treated him as a friend, and they were the first ones to offer him a drink.

A New York native turned hippie outlaw country music lover, Hamilton’s adventures only continue. He plans to have his book completed by early 2013. As for his history courses, the students continue to be taught by their quirky and outland-ishly dressed professor with little knowledge of his weekend excursions.

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Top Carnival PicksMardi Gras season, also known as Carnival season, refers to a celebration that is widely celebrated throughout the world, but it is a major holiday for cities like New Orleans, La. and Mobile, Ala. The official Carnival season begins on January 6. Carnival has been connected with the Christian season of Lent for sev-eral years. It was once associated with young women making their debuts as debutantes, but not so much anymore.

King Cake

Bourbon StreetThe cobble-stoned street draws in thousands of tourists each year because of its many bars, strip clubs, souvenir shops, and restaurants. The attraction between tourists and Bourbon Street is the open container law that allows an individual to have open alcoholic beverages in the street, a law that is very uncommon in other places.

ParadesFloats are usually built on a vehicle and towed by the rig of an 18-wheeler. The floats are beautifully decorated and most likely coordi-nate with the krewe’s theme for the year. The people that ride on the floats throw beads, toys, stuffed animals, along with many other objects to the crowd gathered on both sides of the street.

Flambeau carriersThese carriers are seen as a traditional com-ponent to a parade. The carriers usually dance while walking through the parade. It is also com-mon for parade goers to throw spare change to the flambeau carriers.

Moon pies

The cake itself is a loaf of bread that is twisted into a ring and its toppings vary. The most unique thing about the king cake is the baby figurine that is placed inside of the cake. The idea is that whoever finds the baby has to buy the next king cake and the cycle continue until the end of the Mardi Gras season.

A moon pie is a pastry that is made from two graham crackers with a marshmallow filling. They are normally dipped in chocolate, but they have been other flavors such as straw-berry and banana. Moon pies became a popu-lar and favorite throw to parade goers in Mo-bile, Alabama in 1956. It is popular in this area because there are different flavors that debut each and every year.

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By MariahHOLIDAYContributor

History professor by day, Traveler enthusiast by night

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THIS WEEK IN BADGER SPORTS

Women’s BasketballSpring Hill at

Faulkner University 5:30p.m.

Men’s BasketballSpring Hill at Faulkner

University7:30p.m.

BaseballUniversity of Mobile

at Spring Hill

4:00p.m.

Women’s BasketballSpring Hill at

University of Mobile5:00p.m

Baseball University of Mobile at Spring Hill

12:00 p.m. (two games)

Men’s BasketballSpring Hill at University of Mobile

7:00p.m.

Women’s TennisEmmanuel College vs Spring Hill

2:00p.m.

Men’s TennisEmmanuel College vs Spring Hill

2:00 p.m.

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Knicks saved by arrival of Jeremy LinBy MatthewLaBORDESports Editor

Jeremy Lin might just be the New York Knicks saving grace. A Harvard graduate and frequenter in the National Basketball League’s De-velopmental League, Lin has come out of nowhere to bring the Knicks from a losing team to a team that now has a clear and definite shot at the playoffs. Let’s consider what Lin has done as an undrafted free agent out of Harvard so far this year for the Knicks. In five games, he’s averaged 26.8 points, 8.0 assists, 4.4 rebounds and 2.0 steals per game. That in-cludes a 25-point game against New Jersey, 28 against Utah, 10 assist to help defeat Washington, and he also dropped 38 points against Kobe Bryant and the Lakers, and to top it all off, he hit a clutch free throw against the Minnesota Timberwolves to give them the win by two. Did I mention that the Knicks are on a six game win streak? Oh, I also forgot to mention that these last six games have been played with-out Knicks superstars Carmelo Anthony and Amare Stoudemire. Lin isn’t one for attention, how-

ever, and that is all he has been receiving lately. Additionally, his brand is now worth $14 million dollars. All of this hype will undoubtedly add unneces-sary pressure to the 23 year old, but it hopefully won’t affect his game. Sophomore and New Yorker Liam Bave likes Lin at

point guard for the Knicks: “He’s what has been missing for the Knicks to win. He plays a lot like Steve Nash and he fits well into Mike D’Antoni’s system.” It’s interesting to note his level of play considering where he’s been. He has been in and out of the D-League

four times, and was waived twice by the Hous-ton Rockets and the Golden State Warriors. He averaged just less than three points for the Warriors and was released to free up salary cap room. Another interesting stat line for the Knicks, over the last five games, is how well the team’s supporting cast is playing. It appears as though Lin as raising his teammates level of play. Steve Novak has scored 62 points over the last four games. He had a season total of 41 points before Lin arrived. Also, rookie Iman Shumpert is now making half of his shots (50 percent) compared to making 37.2 percent of his shots before Lin got on the floor. That begs the question: with the addi-tion of Stoudemire and Anthony, can the Knicks win a championship? Who knows, but my guess is that the answer would be no. We all watched as the big three of the Miami Heat (Dwanye Wade, Lebron James, and Chris Bosh) lost in the championship series to the Dallas Mavericks. The Knicks will have to develop a chem-istry that can outwit and out perform the other heavy hitters in the NBA, and we all know that it just doesn’t come over night, or a whole year The Knicks are currently 14-15 and will face the New Orleans Hornets on Friday night.

Jeremy Lin going in for a slam dunk against Oklahoma City Thunder

SPORTS | 14 February 16, 2012

Badgers baseball starts off with a winning record

“I feel that we have had a good start to the season and are playing well as a team, but there is always aspects of the game that we should improve on. Hopefully the positives can give us some momentum going into our first con-ference series with the University of Mobile. Personally, I’m happy about the way things are going, but definitely have lots of room for im-provement,” said Huell.

by KieferGINGLESSports Reporter

Despite continuous struggles with rain delays, the Spring Hill Col-lege baseball team won two of the three games against Blue Mountain College Toppers in their first home series last Friday.

The first game, played Friday night, was dominated by the Badgers. The scoring started in the second in-ning when senior, Wayne Huell, blasted the first grand slam of the Badgers’s season. He followed up the blast with a single in the third inning, scoring an-other run. S o p h o m o r e , Robert Boudreaux, also contributed to the win with a single in the sixth inning that scored two runs, and senior, Kend-ell Carvin, finished Friday night 3-for-3 with three RBI’s.

Junior, Nick Schmiemeier, picked up his first win of the season, al-lowing only two hits and two walks. He finished the game with four strikeouts

in five innings of service. Junior, Jeff Keenum, and freshman, Keller Douglas both contributed one inning of relief, also allowing no runs by the Toppers.

Saturday, the Badgers split a double header with Blue Mountain

College. Both teams took one victory each, with a final score of 6-4.

The first game began with the

Toppers in the lead in the third inning when the Badgers drove in four runs. Senior, John Hollingsworth, hit a dou-ble in the third inning that tacked on two runs to the score. Freshman, Daniel Pitfield, also grabbed his first win of

the season in his four innings of pitch-ing. He gave up seven hits and a walk, with one strikeout before freshman,

Jack Howard came into the game to earn his first save. Howard threw three innings, allowing one hit, a walk, and four strikeouts.

The second game of the double header looked promising as the Badgers led 4-0 after the second inning, but the lead slowly slid away when Spring Hill couldn’t match the Toppers as they scored two runs in the fourth, fifth, and seventh innings.

Offensively, the day was led by senior, John Hollingsworth, and sopho-more, Brian Sims, each who had three hits. Senior, Ryan Cummings also had two hits and two RBI’s on the day.

Friday, Feb. 17, at 4 p.m., the Spring Hill College Badgers will host their first conference game as they play the University of Mobile Rams in a weekend series. Come support the Bad-gers as they face the rivals in a confer-ence battle.

NOTE: A minimum of two people must be present at the start time in order for a fitness class to be held.

Mondays7:00 p.m.: Stretch and Relaxation

with Lylah (New class)

8:00 p.m.: Zumba with Christie

Tuesdays

12:35 p.m.: Abs and More with Angel (New time)

4:00 p.m.: Bootcamp with Lauren

7:00 p.m.: Modern Dance with Karen

Wednesdays4:00 p.m.: Stretch and Relaxation

with Lylah (New class)

7:00 p.m.: Zumba with Chelsea

8:00 p.m.: Step on our yard with Cody and JR (New class)

Thursdays12:35 p.m.: Abs and More with

Angel (New time)

4:00 p.m.: Modern Dance with Karen

7:00 p.m.: Boot Camp with Lauren

8:00 p.m.: Irish Dance with Meg

Friday

5:00 p.m.: Zumba with Christie or Chelsea

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By KieferGINGLESSports Reporter

Former American League MVP in 1988 and author of the infamous book, “Juiced,” Jose Canseco, plans to begin his return to baseball stardom with the Mexican Baseball League’s current champions, the Quintana Roo Tigers, reported the Chicago Tribune. At fi rst word of this story, I laughed out loud. I refuse to believe that Canseco honestly thinks he has a chance at making it back into the big leagues. At most, he must have dominated the local slow-pitch softball league and desires a harder challenge. Although Canseco did achieve success in the later years of his career, having strong offensive seasons in ’98 and ’99, the tail end of his career was a failure. He struggled to maintain his necessity in the early 2000’s before failing at a comeback attempt in 2004. Regardless of any success in his baseball career, Canseco is undoubtedly more closely associated with his literature than anything else. For those of you who don’t know, “Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big,” Canseco’s book, made historical impact on the game of baseball, as it essentially brought the massive steroid issue in baseball to light. In the book, Canseco claims that up to 85 percent of major league players use steroids, and he also specifi cally called out former teammates for using steroids. When Canseco released his book back in 2005, shortly after retiring, many claimed that this incriminating work was a desperate publicity stunt, as he missed the spotlight and fame. Now that he is attempting to make a comeback in the sport, just as the public was beginning to forget he existed, proves that he is truly

getting desperate attention. Canseco has written three books in total, quickly scrapping together two more after the fi rst put him into the temporary spotlight. In addition, and facilitating Canseco’s parody of himself, he made his MMA debut back in 2009 when he lasted about a minute and 20 seconds stumbling around the ring before 7’2” fi ghter, Hong Man Choi ended the battle with a TKO. So, it seems right in line that Canseco would

pull a stunt like this. Thankfully, at least anytime he’s been in the spotlight, it’s been amusing. The man’s most memorable highlight involves a fl y ball bouncing off his head for a homerun, what more do I need to say. Like I said, I think it’s obvious this is a publicity stunt for Canseco to get one more glimpse of fame before he fades into the past. Canseco will be 48 in July; the idea of him making a comeback in baseball is nothing more than entertaining and laughable. I’m positive his foolhardy attempt at a return will soon expire.

Rumors say Canseco is making a return

Photo courtesy of dailycomedy.comThe famous baseball player Jose Canseco

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