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Robert HoltStaff Writer

Summer is almost here, and for many stu-dents, that means the bittersweet experience that is summer school. These somewhat short, five-week ses-sions are di-vided into two terms and help students lighten their loads during fall and spring semesters.

H o w e v e r , this may not be possible for a lot of stu-dents who rely on govern-ment assistance in the form of financial aid to help pay for their educa-tion.

Due to a severe cut in the U.S. Pell Grant bud-get by President Obama, funds now have limited access to those in need.

Students that are en-rolled in a full semester of classes (12 hours or more) during the regular fall and spring semesters are now no longer eligible to receive Pell Grants.

When the program first

began to allow students to receive two awards in the same year, with the second one usually used for summer school, gov-ernment officials under-estimated its use and ef-fect.

What was originally estimated to be only 1 percent of the Pell pro-gram’s annual budget, is ex-pected to be 14 percent — or $5 million — of the $36 billion bud-get by 2013.

For students belonging to cer-tain programs,

summer classes are re-quired. Elizabeth Calla-han, a radiologic technol-ogy major from Batesville said she depends on gov-ernment funding to help pay for school.

“Before now, I paid with a grant and a stu-dent loan. For this sum-mer they sent an email saying if you got a grant for fall and spring, you can’t get one for summer. So I’ll have to get a stu-dent loan this summer,” she said.

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The Red Wolf football spring game drew a record crowd of 6,115 on Sat-

urday at ASU Stadium. The annual 'Red vs. Black' game showed the red team

(likely fi rst-team starters), led by returning quarterback Ryan Aplin, to come

out on top. The fi nal score was 28-14.

Full story on page 3. Staci Vandagriff/Herald

Pell Grant cut makessummer classesimpossible for some

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to effect students

causing them to

take out loans or

pay outright..."

Leah McDanielStaff Writer

The Community Assis-tants (CAs) of Northpark Quads will be hosting the Northpark Quads “Cribs” contest through-out the month of April.

During this competi-tion the CAs at Northpark Quads will be searching for the best male resi-dent’s room, best female

resident’s room, and the resident’s room with the most school spirit.

The “Cribs” competi-tion is a spin-off of MTV’s Cribs TV show that fea-tures the houses and ve-hicles of celebrities.

This is one of many events that the North-park Quads and Resi-dence Life has hosted this semester like the Residence Hall Asso-

ciation Week during the first week of April and Northpark Quads hosted the “Porn and Chick-en” event at the end of March.

Each of the winning rooms chosen will receive a prize and the chance to be featured on ASU-TV. The judging will take place at the end of the month.

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and senior psychology and philosophy major, Hannah Holloway said not many residents have entered their rooms in the competition yet.

To enter the competi-tion or to get more in-formation about activi-ties hosted by Northpark Quads or Residence Life, contact any Northpark Quads CA.

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Students fi nd good health, good income AdvoCare, direct sales nutrition company, sparks student action

Ashley HelliwellStaff Writer

In a fi nancially instable, mentally draining and often-chaotic college environment, several students have found a way to succeed through Ad-voCare.

AdvoCare is a health and well-ness company offering energy, weight-loss, nutrition and sports performance products along with a rewarding business opportunity.

Thomas Castilaw, a former Red Wolf center lineman for ASU foot-ball. Castilaw has used AdvoCare not only to gain muscle for the de-sired weight for his sport, but he has also used the products to lose weight after completing his football eligibil-ity.

"It is a product that is made with carefulness, made with integrity, honesty and quality. When you are putting good nutrition in your body, your body is going to do what it is meant to," Castilaw said.

AdvoCare is not meant to replace

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"AdvoCare is meant to supple-ment and provide those missing pieces that we don’t get from eating the broad range of produce," said

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The AdvoCare 24-Day Challenge is one of the more popular packages offered.

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Best laid plansThis coming week, ASU administrators will

introduce preliminary plans to students, faculty and staff on the future development of our campus.

This presentation, beginning at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, is the next to last step on the finalization of the ASU Comprehensive Campus Master Plan, a plan to turn ASU-Jonesboro into one of the finest campuses in the country.

While there are many details still to be worked out, these preliminary plans mark an exciting time for the Jonesboro campus as they will help transform and revive our growing campus.

Having taken ideas and suggestions from university officials, students and faculty, the planning firm JJR of Michigan has created one of the most fascinating plans, available for anyone to see at www.astate.edu/masterplan/.

One of the most important aspects of the plans is the developers’ inclusion of commuter and pedestrian needs. Considering that a large number of students commute to the school each day, it is good this firm has developed a plan to include large areas of parking.

Putting emphasis on the needs of pedestrians and better access to different areas on campus (e.g. track and Intramural fields) has been addressed as well.

But another important aspect is the realization that collaboration will need to take place between the university and the city of Jonesboro to address the crime in neighborhoods along Johnson Avenue.

As many of us are well aware, crime around campus affects many students, especially those who live in the outlying neighborhoods, so addressing that problem remains vital to developing any sort of growth plan.

While we look forward to see the preliminary results this Wednesday, we encourage the administration to look for practical steps to implement the plans as proposed.

Granted, one of the most important steps is obtaining the necessary amount of funds to implement any new changes. As the condition of the new Humanities College building indicates, our school hasn’t done this very well.

Regardless, as JJR makes its presentation, it is important that we as students discuss the plan and continue to ask questions or offer suggestions.

Since nothing has been finalized, the more involved we are in the process, the better.

“Our View” is written by the editorial staff. The opinions are not necessarily reflective of the student body, faculty or administration of Arkansas State University.

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To tablet or not to tablet, that is the new question.

The multi-touch, user-friendly, personal, tablet computers are the new craze among tech enthusi-asts.

Ever since Apple com-puters introduced the iPad in April 2010, the world started looking how to do their everyday assign-ments differently.

With enough apps to choose from in the Apple store and the Android market, tablets are slowly replacing our old habits with new ones.

Instead of grabbing the paper in the morning, you can check the worlds top news headlines with figu-ratively one finger.

Instead of chatting with a friend in real time and space, “Face time” and

“Skyping” became the norm to communicate with others.

Tablets are made to help us, not to set us back.

Just like cars, we want to have the biggest, “bad-dest”, fastest one, and thanks to the new world demand, tablets now come in all sizes, shapes and col-ors.

Before Apple’s iPad, tablets were not targeted towards the general pub-lic.

In 2000, Microsoft intro-duced the Microsoft Tablet PC built for note taking, businessmen and rugged fieldwork.

Jump twelve years later, and almost all the major tech savvy companies have released their own version of a computer tablet, such as Samsung, HP, Toshiba, Blackberry and Sony.

The latest from Ama-zon, “Kindle Fire” might not have the same specifi-cations as the iPad, but its cheaper price tag covers up for all its flaws.

In the article “New iPad vs. Kindle Fire: Which Tablet is Right for You?” in pcmag.com, the Kindle Fire is listed at 200 dol-lars, while the iPad is set to 499 dollars.

The Kindle Fire doesn’t support 4G network, doesn’t come with a cam-era and its screen is almost 2 inches smaller than the iPad’s.

Interestingly, the iPad 3 can hold anywhere be-tween 16 and 64GB. Plus Wi-Fi and 4G LTE options are available that will cost $499-699 and $629-829 dollars, respectively.

It is common sense to say the iPad is superior to the Kindle Fire, but is it the right tablet for you?

The Kindle Fire might not be as sophisticated as the iPad, but it’s simplicity and lightness is what the iPad lacks.

With the extra $300 you will save by not buying the iPad, you can even buy an extra Kindle and share it with a loved one.

It’s certainly not wise to spend $300 on an extra two inches.

The Android operating system that supports the Kindle Fire and almost all other tablets gives the user more control over their de-vice.

According to findings in the article “Smackdown: Android Market vs. iPhone App Store” in pcworld.com, 60 percent of the apps in the Android Market are free compared to the 29 percent in the Apple app store.

Not all tablets are cre-ated equally; it depends on what your needs are.

Apple has certainly proven they can deliver a smart device but they are not the only ones that can deliver.

Sure, the iPad might be the “cool” tablet to buy, but who really wants to be cool anyway?

Raslan is a senior digital media and design major of Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

All tablets created equal? Kindle vs. iPad“Just like cars, we want to have the biggest, ‘baddest’, fastest

one, and thanks to the new world demand, tablets now come in

all sizes, shapes and colors.

Abdullah Raslan

One of the top stories in the news at this time is the North Korean missile situ-ation.

As readers may know, provided they are keeping up with current events, North Korea recently launched a ballistic mis-sile to test its capabilities of producing a nuclear warhead.

Fortunately, it failed by crashing into the

sea west of the nation. According to a recent

MSNBC article entitled “US cancels food aid to North Korea after mis-sile launch, warns of more sanctions,” there have been many strong responses to this.

Unfortunately, the situ-ation is as serious as it gets. I have always known of other nations having access to missiles but due to the fact that our nation also has access to them, I did not think another na-tion would be senseless enough to launch one.

I have always viewed our missiles as a means to keep other superpow-ers in check. The fact remains, however, that nuclear combat is too dangerous to use.

The problem with nu-clear combat is that it is so detrimental it can wipe out a great deal of civilian populations. For this rea-son, it is commonly argued that such weapons should never be used in war.

Study the 1960s of American history, and you

will find information re-garding the fear of a Rus-sian nuclear attack and how our country’s nuclear programs kept the Rus-sians in check.

You will also find infor-mation regarding how nu-clear missiles could not be used because of the possi-bility of civilian casualties. The satirical film known as “Dr. Strangelove” which parodies this time frame is just one example.

But what should be done about this current situa-tion with Korea? I think first of all we should be ap-preciative that no one was harmed in this incident.

Moreover, as described by several news stories, the U.S. has decided to cancel its deal with the North Ko-reans regarding food assis-tance with the country.

Personally, I would sug-gest this is the right direc-tion since this is a good di-plomacy attempt.

But, perhaps, I think we need to use better diplo-matic measures. As sourc-es indicate further, the G-8 ministers raised the idea

of the U.N. taking possible plans of action. I believe diplomacy should be used as much as possible.

Furthermore, I do not believe we should go to war with North Korea, not immediately at least, especially since we have just pulled our troops out of Iraq and still have many other troops in Afghani-stan.

War should always be the last answer. Even when war is the answer, it should only be in the name of defense against a cor-rectly assessed aggressive situation.

In short, I would sug-gest we appreciate the fact that no one was harmed from the incident, but we should also support our government’s decision to call off the food deal.

In my opinion, it should be the UN that needs to take diplomatic measures with North Korea, pushing it as much as possible.

Holland is a gradu-ate student in history of Jonesboro.

“The problem with nuclear combat is that it is so detrimental

it can wipe out a great deal of civilian populations.”

Jason Holland

Missile situation should be handled carefully

Having a senior momentName: Brian Evans

Hometown: Oxford, Miss.

Major: Interdisciplinary studies

Favorite College Memory:Running through Arkansas Hall and acting crazy while the lights were out because of an ice storm that came through

Plans after Graduation:Work in full-time foreign missions or a management position

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The 2012 football season kicks off for Arkansas State on September 8 in Eugene, Ore., but a major step to-ward that day was the Red Wolves’ Spring Game held Saturday at ASU Stadium.

ASU fans turned out to show their support with an announced crowd of 6,115, believed to be a school re-cord for the annual scrim-mage, on hand to watch the Red team win 28-14.

“The exciting thing for me was to see the crowd that was here for our spring game, that would be the biggest positive of the day,” said Malzahn, the 28th head football coach in ASU’s history.

“Right before we came out for warm-ups, Ryan Ap-lin and a couple of the oth-er guys came up to me 30 minutes before we started and said, ‘This is already more people than we’ve ever had’,” offensive coordi-nator Rhett Lashlee said.

The session got off to a sloppy start, with the like-ly first team starters on the Red team committing two turnovers.

“It was good to see our players out there. Obvious-ly, there were some mis-takes. We pride ourselves on our [lack] of turnovers. Offensively, we turned the ball over, but that’s credit to our defense, they creat-ed some,” Malzahn said.

The turnovers were fum-bles committed by transfer

running back Michael Dyer (15 rushes for 87 yards and one receiving touchdown) and senior receiver Tay-lor Stockemer (62 yards receiving and one touch-down).

“Red group, we did some things we haven’t done all Spring, which was sad,” Lashlee said. “I don’t think we’ve had one fumble all spring in 12 practices and we had two in our first three series.”

The Black team, made up of second stringers and led by two quarterbacks, redshirt junior Phillip But-terfield and freshman Zach Davis, capitalized on the turnovers.

The first score of the game came on a quarter-back option by Davis, who ran behind blockers down the home sideline for a 34-yard touchdown into the south end zone.

Aplin, the defending Sun Belt Player of the Year, im-proved on a 70 percent passing in the first half, finished by throwing for 78 percent, 313 yards and four touchdowns to four differ-ent receivers.

One aspect that both players and coaches agreed on was a lack of consistent pacing on both sides of the ball.

“There was several times we were really tired, in-cluding myself,” Aplin said. “Not carrying out fakes or not getting set or getting a good push into the back field. But I think it was a good day. I think we left a lot of points out there and a lot of yards. But other than that, I think it was a good spring game.”

ASU has two more scheduled spring practices to conclude the spring sea-son.

ASU Press Release

The Arkansas State bowling team was eliminat-ed from the NCAA Bowl-ing Tournament after three matches of bracket play on Friday.

The Red Wolves suffered a 4-1 loss to Fairleigh Dick-inson in the opening round of bracket play, but bat-tled back to defeat Central Missouri in 4-3 in the next round. In the third round A-State forced a sixth game af-ter rallying from 3-0 defi-cit against Vanderbilt, but could complete the come-back and lost 4-2 to the Commodores.

“We just got behind and we got behind in every match we had today,” ASU bowling head coach Justin Kostick said. “We lost ev-ery first game in all of our matches and it’s tough to continue to comeback time after time. We gave it a real-ly strong effort against Van-derbilt, but just came up short.”

Against Central Missouri the Red Wolves went down 3-1, but rallied in games 5, 6 and 7 to stave off elimina-tion.

In the fifth game Aman-da Labossiere hit all three strikes in the tenth frame to give ASU a 223-213 victory.

In the sixth game, A-State faced elimination again heading into the tenth frame, but the Jennies failed to convert on a spare at-tempt which gave ASU the 187-176 victory.

In the seventh game, the Red Wolves had the lane choice after winning game six and chose to flip lanes forcing both sides to make adjustments during the

game. The move paid off and the

Red Wolves emerged with a 204-191 victory and took the match 4-3.

“My coaching philosophy is to always flip the lanes,” Kostick said. “I feel like we make moves better than anybody in the country and we can adjust to lanes so we want the other team to make adjustments too.”

In the match against Vanderbilt the Red Wolves fell behind early and despite a late rally could not over-come the deficit.

Vanderbilt jumped out in front with a 235-212 victory in the first game and edged out a 226-219 win in game two and then took game 212-194 to go up 3-0 in the match.

ASU regrouped and won game four 214-176 and then edged out a 199-193 victory in game five behind a strong game from Labossiere.

The sophomore hit two strikes in the tenth frame to clinch the win.

Labossiere was named to the NCAA All-Tournament

bowling team for her perfor-mance.

Labossiere finished the tournament with a 206.1 av-erage in Thursday’s round of competition, which was sixth best overall.

She also filled the anchor position on Friday’s baker round of the tournament as the Red Wolves went 1-2 be-fore being eliminated.

The rally fell short in the sixth game, however, as ASU faltered and left an open frame that allowed Vanderbilt to pull away with a 203-189 victory.

“We had a really good year,” Kostick said. “We were ranked No. 1 com-ing into this thing and I felt were the No. 1 team with the way we finished at all of our tournaments through-out the year. It was just one of those things where it is just really tough to lose.”

ASU finished the year with a 90-38 record and the most wins in school history. It also marked the first time the team had three players selected to the NTCA All-America team.

ASU out in first round of NCAA TourneyLabossiere named to NCAA All-Tournament team

Courtesy ASU Sports Info

Sophomore Amanda Labossiere was named to the All-Tournament team.

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Sophomore running back Rod Smith takes a run during Saturday’s spring game. Smith had 97 yards on 16 carries.

Red out paces Black6,115 on hand for first Spring game of Malzahn era Zach Lott

Staff Writer

John Koch has been near-ly untouchable this season, and on Sunday afternoon the junior closer cemented his place in school history, surpassing ASU’s marks for both single-season (8) and career saves (12) as the Red Wolves bested Western Ken-tucky 6-3.

Koch replaced reliever Brandon Farley, who picked up the win, in the eighth inning and complement-ed Farley’s two scoreless in-nings with two of his own, shutting down the Hilltop-per’s offense and ensuring a series win for Arkansas State (21-16, 10-5), who lost Saturday’s match 8-3 after claiming Friday’s opener.

“[The win] felt great. Com-ing in after Brandon Farley had the momentum going, you know, we’ve been scor-ing runs like it’s our busi-ness today. Just getting peo-ple on, keep pressuring the other team. The momentum really carried me into the game today,” Koch said.

“I thought about [the re-cord], but to me, it’s not something I’m looking for-ward to…. I’m looking for-ward to the win each time. I’m looking forward to shak-ing the catcher’s hand and having the team come out and congratulate everyone.”

Farley and Koch’s per-formances were central to a successful day for the bull-pen, who combined to allow only one earned run in relief of starter Cory Kyle.

Kyle pitched four innings, giving up three hits and one unearned run.

“That was pleasing. I mean, put the ball in [the

bullpen’s] hands and see what we can do. [The reliev-ers] were able to execute, and we were able to make some plays behind them,” said head coach Tommy Raffo, who earned his 100th career win Friday night.

The Red Wolves struck early, gathering two runs in each of the first two innings. Zach George and Logan Uxa each belted in runs in the first.

George then hit a single in the second to score Stuart Levy, and he got into a run-down between first and sec-ond that allowed Zach Mag-gio to score from third.

“I don’t think [George] meant to get into a rundown, but it was a big run,” Raffo said with a hint of a smile.

WKU countered with an RBI ground out from catch-er Devin Kelly in the fourth, only to be answered later in the inning by Maggio, who smashed a double into the gap to score Dustin Jones and put the game at 5-1.

Cody Woodhouse re-placed Kyle in the top of the fifth and surrendered a dou-ble from Casey Dykes that

brought in two runs, one of which was unearned from third baseman Alex Potts’ fielding error on a ground-er smacked by David Sim-mons.

Once Bradley Wallace entered the game later in the inning, the Hilltoppers wouldn’t score again.

Arkansas State got an-other run in the bottom of the eighth, with Michael Faulkner knocking in Levy with a single into center field. Faulkner then stole second and third, giving him 29 bags on the year and ty-ing him with Jerome Mill-er for the single-season sto-len base record Miller set in 1978.

Faulkner will have the opportunity to follow Koch into the record books on Tuesday when ASU travels to Southeast Missouri State for a one-game series before playing a crucial conference series this weekend at Flor-ida International, who are only a half game back of the Red Wolves in the Sun Belt standings. First pitch for Tuesday is slated for 5:00 pm in Cape Girardeau.

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Senior Cory Kyle rockets a pitch at a Western Kentucky batter Sunday afternoon at Tomlinson stadium.

Koch breaks record in win over Hilltoppers

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Many students like Callahan rely on this as-sistance to help pay for different parts of their yearly school expenses, and may now be put in debt from loans taken out to cover their summer charges — for many, this

means more debt. “I rely on federal aid

to supplement the cost of my meal plan, books, the expense of the com-mute to school and other things not covered by my scholarship,” said senior photojournalism major

from Jonesboro, Krystin Phillips.

This cut has and will continue to effect stu-dents causing them to take out loans or pay out-right, which a lot of people cannot do in the current state of the economy.

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Taylor Coughlin a ju-nior biology major and volleyball player from Bloomington, Illinois has completed the 24-day challenge.

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With the demand of fo-cus to get through college lectures and the time de-voted to studying, gradu-ate student Seth Laugh-ter of Asheville, N.C. has found AdvoCare to be a blessing.

“Being in grad school I was taking on a heavy load, the product, Spark, helped me focus and the energy boost was unbe-lievable. Using the post-workout recovery after be-ing out of shape, I wasn’t sore the next day, which is unheard of,” Laughter said.

Laughter is working to-ward a Masters degree in exercise science and sees himself moving forward with the company as a distributor. “I want to see people well; it kills me to see people fall victim to such a lifestyle when a so-lution is available to them and within their grasp,” Laughter said.

“The cool thing about Advocare is it is provid-ing solutions; health and wellness and his provid-ing people—college stu-dents to work with a com-pany that they can use at their discretionary time,” Castilaw said.

The Strong Turner Alumni and Freshman Scholar Achievement Program was held Friday night at the Carl R. Reng Student Union. The event was part of the Convoca-tion of Scholars.

(Pictured) Japhanie S. Gray, a freshman RTV major, accepted an award at the Strong Turner Alumni and Freshman Scholar Achievement.

Still ahead in the Convocation of Scholars: the College of Nursing and Health Professions Banquet will be held today and the Phi Kappa Phi Initiation Banquet will be held Tuesday.

Shan Huang/Herald

Freshman Scholar