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The Murray State NewsVol. 88, No. 26March 29, 2013 TheNews.org

STEP SHOWAlpha Phi Alpha hosts successfulLovett performances, 5B

WHAT’S INSIDE

GREEK WEEKOrganizations unite annually for campus, community, 6A

OUR VIEWStaff finds board’s gathering inappropriate, 4A

NOT QUITEDemarcus Croaker chooses Texasover Murray State,

Austin [email protected]

The night before the criticalBoard of Regents vote not torenew President RandyDunn’s contract, several boardmembers met at a Regent’shome in Murray, and BoardChairman Constantine Currissaid some University businesswas discussed.

Faculty Regent Jack Rose re-signed from the board directlyafter Friday’s meeting, citingthat gathering, among otherthings, as inappropriate andquestionable.

Curris told local NPR affili-ate WKMS that the meeting offive or six Regents the nightbefore the quarterly boardmeeting was a casual socialgathering, although boardbusiness was discussed. Ear-lier that day, Regents had metin special session to finalizebudget recommendations thathad been a hot topic on cam-pus. The president had com-piled atentativelist of cutsand rev-enue mak-ers theweek be-fore andhad pre-s e n t e dthem toc a m p u sconstituencies.

Jill Hunt, the board’s exec-utive coordinator, had sent amemo to members assessinginterest in a University-spon-sored board dinner Thursdayevening, but Rose said therewere no takers on the offer.Rather, out-of-town Regentswere invited to the privatedinner party at a Regent’shome. Rose, Staff Regent PhilSchooley and Student RegentJeremiah Johnson were notinvited. Curris told WKMSthat Regent Jerry Sue Thorn-ton did not attend the gather-ing at Regent Sharon Green’sMurray home.

Curris, who failed to answerrepeated phone calls and

emails from The News, toldWKMS after the meeting thathe did not believe the socialgathering from the night be-fore violated the KentuckyOpen Meetings Act, whichprohibits public agencies fromdiscussing business withouto p e n i n gthe meet-ing to thepublic andg i v i n gprior no-tice that am e e t i n gw o u l doccur.

“I recalldiscussingthe events of the day; this wasright after the committee hear-ing that went over all the fi-nances,” he said. “There wasdiscussion on the impact ontuition; there was even discus-sion of the recommendationthat WKMS be studied to besold. There was discussion ofthe upcoming meeting thenext day, but it was all in thecontext of people talking overa glass of wine. I guess it wasan hour or so.”

Dunn confirmed that boarddinners are not uncommon,particularly when Regentshold meetings over the courseof a two-day period. In fact,the University caters boardlunches during the afternoonbreaks at quarterly meetings.When those meetings occur,however, Dunn said the Uni-versity extends invitations toall members and board busi-ness is not discussed.

Last week, Lexington, Ky.,attorney Jim Deckard sent acomplaint to Curris claimingthat board members had ille-gally held the social gatheringbecause a minimal quorumwas achieved and Universitybusiness was discussed. He re-quests the board’s meeting fol-lowing the gathering be nulland void and that memberscall a special meeting wherethe business discussed thenight before is made public.The letter, a first step in filing

NOT A DIVIDED BOARD?THE BOARD OF REGENTS VOTED 7-4 TO NOT RENEW PRESIDENT RANDY DUNN’S CONTRACT

PRESIDENTIAL CONTRACT WOES

Meghann Anderson || News [email protected]

he fate of President Randy Dunn’s stay at Murray State has been decided. Members ofthe Board of Regents voted 7-4 not to extend the longtime executive in a controversialquarterly meeting shortly before Spring Break.

Dunn’s contract is set to expire in June of 2014 and the board de-cision to vote came at the end of the meeting, when board Chairman Con-stantine Curris said a majority of the board had indicated to him they wereready to decide and did not want to wait until the next board meeting in May.

Prior to the vote, the board passed the minutes from the January meet-ing of the ad-hoc committee that included Curris, Vice-Chair MarilynBuchanan and Stephen Williams.

Faculty Regent Jack Rose, Staff Regent Phil Schooley, Susan Guess andJenny Sewell voted in favor of renewing Dunn’s contract, while Student Re-gent Jeremiah Johnson, Curris, Buchanan, Stephen Williams, Harry Lee Waterfield, Sharon Greenand Jerry Sue Thornton voted against the renewal.

After the vote, Buchanan moved to create a search committee to find the next University pres-ident, which passed by a 9-0 vote. Schooley and Rose abstained.

With controversy surrounding the vote, Curris denies allegations of politics or personal agen-das playing a role in board’s decision.

Dunn thanked the board for the opportunity to serve and said he would be pursuing other ven-ues. He then promptly left the room following the adjournment.

Lori Allen/The News

President Randy Dunn, left, and Board of Regents Chair Constantine Curris stare away from each other duringthe March 15 quarterly meeting where Regents voted 7-4 to not renew Dunn’s contract.

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There are no politics. This boardworks very well together.”

– Constantine Curris

Faculty, staffchallenge

Regents’ vote

Senate files openrecords request

Questions surroundboard’s social event

INSIDE:Students react tothe controversialvote to halt Dunn’scontract in 2014, 6A

Rose

Dunn

Taylor McStoots/The News

BASEBALL LOSS: ‘Breds pitcher Cameron Finch winds up a throw againstthe Austin Peay Thursday night. Murray State lost 4-3 to the Govs in the firstof a three-game series.


The Delta Iota chapter of Kappa Deltawill be re-established at Murray State thisfall after being off campus since 1984.

The chapter, which first arrived at Mur-ray State in 1967, has been disbanded for29 years following an incident that led toits ban from campus.

A committee compiled of alumni and amember from each existing Murray Statesorority voted shortly before Spring Breakbetween Kappa Delta, Delta Zeta and PhiMu for which group would join MurrayState Greek Life.

Kirstin Barry, extension and interim newchapter development manager, said that onApril 8, a leadership development consult-ant (LDC) will arrive on campus to meetwith the College Panhellenic Council, eachGreek organization and Student Govern-ment Association to continue research for aguidebook. The guidebook will be distrib-uted to the resident LDCs to help them learnabout Murray State before others arrive oncampus in August.

While KD will not participate in formalrecruitment with the other five sororities,the LDCs will make a presentation duringrecruitment orientation. Then in early Sep-tember, they will be helping out behind thescenes and will hold their own recruitment.

KD will be a colony for approximatelyseven weeks during the new member pro-gram before they are reinstalled as an ac-tive chapter on Oct. 27.

Barry is in charge of selecting andtraining the consultants and is their maincontact until the LDCs arrive at MurrayState.

“Another benefit is that we have hun-dreds of alumnae in the area, several ofwhich are Delta Iota alumnae, butour chapter advisory board is going to bea mixture of women from different chap-ters,” Barry said. “What’s neat about thatis being able to have alumnae with MurrayState participate in chapter events as wellas women with collegiate experiencesfrom across the country.”

Jason Hinson-Nolen, interim GreekLife coordinator, said he thinks thismarks a turning point in the Murray

State Greek community.He said this first expansion will set the

stage for growth in the coming years. Delta Zeta will arrive at Murray State in

2015, with Phi Mu following in 2017. “It opens the door for us to gain more

members in every single category ofGreek Life and that is such an amazingopportunity for our campus,” Hinson-Nolen said. “We have proven multipletimes that Greek Life on our campus issomething that can enhance your expe-rience.”

Hinson-Nolen said the Universitynow has a solidified option for womenwhen deciding on a sorority differentthan the ones offered in years past.

“It’s overwhelming when we startedtalking about expansion in September;we didn’t know if it would happen,” Hin-son-Nolen said. “Then it happened over-whelmingly.”

Francie Ray, parking supervisor at Pub-lic Safety and KD Delta Iota alumna, saidshe is very excited about KD being back

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Rebecca WalterStaff [email protected]

Ben ManhankeStaff [email protected]

Murray State staff and fac-ulty have begun to discussconcerns with the Board ofRegents decision to not renewPresident Randy Dunn’s con-tract.

STAFF REACTIONStaff Congress President

John Young issued a statementMarch 19 – four days after thecontroversial vote – address-ing the congress’ disappoint-ment with the Board of

Regents.Y o u n g

said hespoke withmore thanhalf of themembersof StaffCongressfollowingthe con-clusion of

the Board of Regents meetingon March 15. Each had con-tacted him with concerns.

The first issue concernedthe staff survey – a part ofDunn’s comprehensive evalu-ation – of 2011, which gaveDunn high approval ratings.Staff Congress also passed aresolution late last year ex-pressing its support of thepresident.

Young said the staff at Mur-ray State has benefited wellfrom Dunn’s shared gover-nance policy.

The second issue Young’sstatement addressed was ageneral concern with the man-ner in which the board oper-ated in their voting process.

“While the board is free toact as it sees fit within thestatutes under which it islegally required to operate,one is left to wonder why ma-terial that had been given tothe (ad-hoc contract review)

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Rose resigns after meeting

Young

Kappa Delta will return to Murray State

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Rowing clubbrings back honors

an official complaint with the Kentucky attorneygeneral, asks Curris to respond in writing stat-ing the specific Kentucky revised statute that au-thorizes the gathering and a description as towhy it did not violate the law.

As it applies to languageon open meetings, Kentuckylaw defines meetings as, “allgatherings of every kind, in-cluding video teleconfer-ences, regardless of wherethe meeting is held, (includ-ing) regular or special andinformation or casual gather-ings held in anticipation of,or in conjunction with, a reg-ular or special meeting.”

Dunn, whose contract was not renewed by a7-4 vote the day following the gathering, said heis disappointed by the board’s decision anddeeply concerned by the questionable socialevent.“Clearly, this is something that needs to be in-

vestigated using the appropriate measures andlegal authority that exists for such purposes,” hesaid. “Certainly the law is clear on this. Given themagnitude of the (contract) decision that the so-cial gathering may have been related to, I think itdeserves a full review and finding.”Indeed, those same concerns led former Fac-

ulty Regent Rose to resign from the board di-rectly after the March 15 meeting. Rose said hehad been considering his options should theboard meeting go unfavorably, but, he said, henever expected quite what happened.Regents had formed an ad-hoc contract review

committee early last year that met only onceprior to the decision. Pursuant to the commit-tee’s initial charge, the March 15 meeting alreadyanticipated a controversial executive sessionwhere committee members would present in-formation they had collected about Dunn’s per-formance to the full board. Then in May, Curristold The News earlier this year, the board wouldlikely vote on Dunn’s contract.Rose said he was disappointed after the Board

of Regents completed a comprehensive evalua-tion on the president’s performance a little more

than a year ago and did not take action on hiscontract then. Neither were board members af-forded the opportunity to sit with Dunn to dis-cuss the findings verbally. Rather, Currisinformally passed a written finding on to Dunnat a meeting the two of them attended. Dunnsaid Curris denied a request to meet with theboard over the issue.With that, and the prior social gathering, Rose

said it was too much.“The board meeting actually went further

south than I would have ever anticipated,” hesaid. “There were enough people in that meet-ing that either knew or should have known thatthe meeting was illegal, or as a minimum, wouldbe construed to be illegal. It’s hard for me to seehow you can talk about transparency in aprocess and have that kind of situation develop.“(Curris) made the comment that the meeting

over a glass of wine was a social kind of thingand that there were five or six people there.Well, not being a wine drinker, I don’t know howmany glasses you have to drink before you can’tfigure out if you have five or six people there.”Rose said he is pleased to see an attorney has

decided to question the board’s motive, and hesaid he anticipates a final attorney general deci-sion after a thorough investigation. Rose, whovoted in favor of renewing Dunn’s contract, saidhe does not think the vote represents the major-ity opinion of the University constituency, espe-cially after both Faculty Senate and StaffCongress passed resolutions of support forDunn.Ultimately, with so much uncertainty sur-

rounding the legality of some of the board’s ac-tions and the University now searching for anew provost and president, Rose commented onthe ability of Murray State to carry on.

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committee and which had been reported in var-ious media outlets, three examples being theFaculty Senate Resolution, the Staff CongressResolution and the letter from 27 area PublicSchool Superintendents, as well as other mate-rials the committee was to gather were not pre-sented before a vote was taken,” Young wrote.Young concluded his statement by saying the

general feeling was one of disappointment inDunn’s contract not being extended and furtherexpressed concern regarding the actions takenby the Board of Regents. Board of Regents Chairman Constantine Cur-

ris replied to Young’s letter Monday.Curris stated in his response that he wanted

to acknowledge receiving and reading Young’sstatement and hoped the information he pro-vided would help in answering the issues thatwere raised. “The Ad-Hoc Contract Committee followed

the procedures approved by the board at its Dec.2012 meeting,” Curris wrote. “The committeedid its research and collected important infor-mation by which each Regent could form his orher judgment as to whether the president’s con-tract should be extended.”In the resolution that formed that ad-hoc com-

mittee, however, the members were supposed touse the March 15 meeting to present the statisti-cal information it had collected on Dunn’s per-formance to the full board. The information wasnever shared publicly.Curris said the committee made no recom-

mendation in the draft report. The draft report first covered Murray State’s

progress between 2006-12, which representedDunn’s tenure at the University.The data covered three areas of Murray’s fu-

ture: academic standing, student enrollment andfinancial health. Data from Murray State’s sister institutions

was analyzed to see how institutions compared.Curris said he understood Young and other

members of Staff Congress were disappointedby the outcome of the vote. “It was a difficult decision for the board, and

not one that any member relished,” Curriswrote. “Nevertheless, I am convinced that eachRegent made a conscientious decision based onfacts on his or her judgment as to what was inthe best interest of the University in the yearsahead.”Curris ended his statement by thanking John

Young for all the work he and the Staff Congressdo at Murray State.

FACULTY REACTIONThe Faculty Senate held their own special

meeting Tuesday to discuss the issues raised byboth the Board of Regent’s vote to not renewPresident Dunn’s contract and the resigning of

their Faculty Regent Jack Rose.Kevin Binfield, president of the Faculty Sen-

ate, opened the meeting by stressing the impor-tance of maintaining and creating a better chainof communication with the Board of Regentsand the president.Binfield said he did not think the Faculty Sen-

ate and the Board of Regents had reached a pointwhere communications had broken down, butrather they had never been opened up.He said within the first 24

hours of learning the boardwould not be renewingDunn’s contract he receivedapproximately 36 emailsfrom faculty senators ex-pressing their desire tosomehow reverse the board’sdecision and if necessarypass a vote of no confidencein the Board of Regents.Binfield advised the Faculty

Senate to not act so hastily and aggressivelyagainst the board without first having all the facts.A vote was called during the meeting con-

cerning if they should request the report of theUniversity’s performance under Dunn whichwas recently compiled by an ad-hoc committee,upon which the decision to not renew Dunn’scontract was partially based, and which is con-sidered to be open record.Faculty Senator Ann Beck said the Senate

should pay attention to the tone and languageused of any letter to the board so as not to alien-ate themselves from them.“We need to try and keep our relationship and

tone as positive as we can so we can try andbuild a spirit of cooperation,” she said.The vote passed in favor of the request which

will be sent to the Board of Regents after revi-sions are made to the letter.The next order of business addressed was

whether to request greater inclusion in theforthcoming search for a new University presi-dent and for the Board of Regents, specificallyCurris, to share with the Faculty Senate theirplans.Faculty senators discussed how such a request

may seem to express their approval of theboard’s action concerning Dunn’s contract andtheir pressing need for representation in theBoard of Regents as discussion on these topicsmay already have begun.This vote failed to pass by one vote and al-

though Binfield voted against addressing theBoard of Regent with these requests, he said hewished to examine the matter again at a laterdate at which time he would vote in favor.The Faculty Senate solidified their plans of

holding elections for a new Faculty Regent onApril 15 and 16, with the deadline for applicantsbeing Tuesday. So far only one applicant has ap-plied, Renee Fister, professor of Science, Engi-neering and Technology. Both Staff Congress and Faculty Senate have

expressed desires to engage in further conversa-tion with the Board of Regents.

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at Murray State.She said she has been impressed by the dedi-

cation of the group and after talking to many in-volve. She said KD set the bar high for expansionat Murray State.

Jackie Dudley, who pledged KD in 1981, saidshe has seen the students show excitementabout bringing a new sorority to campus. “I think one thing that tipped the scale is that

we have a lot of alumni in the area,” Dudley said.“There were roughly 40 women who were will-ing to serve on the chapter advisory board. “There are many more of us. We have an alum-

nae chapter and we will help provide support forthe newly organized chapter. I think we’re here toget them off the ground and running.”

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88::3377 pp..mm.. A caller reporteda suspicious person atRacer Arena. Officers werenotified, and the personwas gone on arrival.99::2255 pp..mm.. A caller reporteda medical emergency at theCFSB Center. Officers andMurray Ambulance Serv-ices were notified.

11::2266 pp..mm.. A caller reporteda verbal altercation at theCFSB Center. Officers werenotified, and the area ap-peared normal.22::4466 pp..mm.. A caller reportedbeing locked out of anapartment on the 600 blockof College Courts. Thehousing office was notified.

1122::0099 aa..mm.. Officers issued averbal warning for failureto dim bright lights on Ky.Hwy 121.77::5577 pp..mm.. A caller reportedlost property to the PublicSafety Building. Officerswere notified, and a reportwas taken.

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tial College. Officers andCentral Plant were noti-fied.1100::1177 pp..mm.. Murray PoliceDepartment requested theassistance of officers atClark Residential College.

22::0022 pp..mm.. A caller reporteda non-injury accident at theMain Street parking lot. Of-ficers were notified, and areport was taken.88::3322 pp..mm.. Murray Police De-partment requested the as-sistance of officers atWaterfield Library. Officerswere notified, and a reportwas taken.

33::1199 pp..mm. A caller reporteda non-injury accident at the16th Street parking lot. Of-ficers were notified and areport was taken.88::3311 pp..mm.. Officers issued averbal warning for im-proper display of a licenseplate and improper turn onMiller Street.

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Murray State’s campus will bevisited by four potential provostcandidates to fill Bonnie Higgin-son’s soon-to-be vacant position.The candidates are current

Murray State associate provost ofgraduate studies, Jay Morgan;Charles McAdams, dean of thecollege of arts and sciences atNorthwest Missouri State; Bah-man Ghorasi, current executivedirector of Fenn Academy andFenn Research and DevelopmentInstitute at Cleveland State andBrenda Nichols, dean of the col-lege of arts and sciences at LamarUniversity in Texas.The finalist will be continuing

their evaluation at Murray Stateon April 2-3, 4-5, 8-9 and 11-12 re-spectively. An open forum will beheld for faculty with each candi-date on the first day of each oftheir visits in the Freed Curd Au-ditorium.Another forum and presenta-

tion will be held for the entirecampus community following the

faculty forum in Wrather WestKentucky Museum Auditorium.The 17-member committee ap-

pointed by President RandyDunn has worked since Decem-

ber to whittledown thenumber ofprospectiveapp l i c an t sfrom 84, tothe four nowrema in ing .This commit-tee includesrepresenta-tives from

every academic college andschool as well as a number ofother campus organizations.Jack Rose, professor of Educa-

tion and chair of the search com-mittee, said the large size of thecommittee was beneficial in al-lowing for a large amount of theUniversity’s constituent’s opin-ions to be represented.“Dunn did an excellent job get-

ting the cross section of the Uni-versity represented,” Rose said.“We have a student on the com-

mittee; we have a dean, as well asfaculty. It was very representativeof the community.”The committee advertised the

available provost position in TheChronicle of Higher Education inDecember, before promoting theopening through various web-sites. The deadline for applica-tions was March 1.Applications were then evalu-

ated according to a matrix de-signed by the committee, toanalyze candidates’ experience inprogram development, theirrecord of teaching and scholarlyachievements, their academicleadership and their commitmentto diversity and equality, amongother criteria.This evaluation allowed the

committee to narrow down thenumber of initial candidates toeight applicants, who were theninterviewed via Skype on March8, 11 and 13. After the preliminaryinterviews, the committee wasable to reduce the number to thefour remaining finalists based onapplicant’s performance in theirinterviews.

Dunn, who will make the finaldecision of who will becomeprovost, said he is highly appre-ciative of the commitment andwork completed thus far by thecommittee; particularly chairRose.“Rose has provided outstand-

ing leadership as the committee’schair, and the campus couldn’task for a more successful andtimely performance from a searchcommittee to this point,” Dunnsaid.Dunn and Rose said they were

happy with the results, especiallyconsidering the University didnot pay for or receive help fromany outside consulting firms.Although Higginson’s resigna-

tion as provost does not go intoeffect until June 30, Rose said oneof his main concerns right now isstaying on schedule with the ap-plicant interviews so they canhave an appointed provost by themiddle of April, or as soon thereafter as possible. Higginson plans on remaining

at Murray State as a professor inthe College of Education.

Provost search continues

Staff Report

The Night Owl, a local hookahlounge and snack bar, is in theprocess of laying out a new busi-ness plan after police were calledto the business on two occasions.During their March 20 meeting,

the Board of Zoning and Adjust-ments requested for Night Owlowner, Tung Dinh, to put togethera new business plan after problemsarose with issues such as over-ca-pacity, lack of adequate security,hours of operation and trash andnoise complaints.Justin Crice, planner at the City

of Murray Planning and Engineer-ing Department, said Murray Stateofficers contacted the Board ofZoning and Adjustments after vis-iting the business in both Januaryand February of this year. Crice said on one particular inci-

dent, police counted more than 200people in the building. Under theconditional use permit for theNight Owl, there cannot be morethan 165 people in the building atone time. It is also stated in the conditional

use permit that the Night Owl isconsidered a recreational facilityand cannot cause any safety or firehazards or a nuisance to the publicand surrounding areas, such as thenoise and trash complaints thebusiness has recently received. According to Crice, if Dinh does

not fix the existing problems withthe business plan, several coursesof action can be taken, includingrevoking the Night Owl’s condi-tional use permit. Dinh has until the Boarding of

Zoning and Adjustments’ nextmeeting, April 17, to submit thenew plan.

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The third graderat Oaklawn Ele-mentary School inFort Worth, Texas,had waited for thisday. Usually, his fa-ther would comearound at the endof the school day Ito pick up the twobrothers for theride home.But now it was

spring, and theboys’ parents had decided that it wastime for the younger brother to walkhome alone. And the boy knew theroute well, having often walked itwith his mother to a grocery storenearby the school. He knew that after several blocks

from the school a large, dark brickhouse surrounded by a chain-linkfence would rise on the hill to theright. Intimidating black Dobermans,three of them, always came barkingdown to the fence at the sidewalk. It was at that house the boy knew to

turn left onto the safety of CollinsStreet, his street. The street was still gravel but after

making the turn, his house, a nonde-script, white frame bungalow with at-tached garage in front, stood onlythree doors to the right.The boy waited patiently for the

final school bell to ring. And when itrang he headed home. He skippedalong a block or two, and then beganto look for the large dark house withthe chain-link fence. He listened forthe familiar bark of the dogs. Hewalked another block, and kept up hiswatch. Then, another block. Andthen, yet another.By this time he knew something

was amiss. Had he missed a turn?Had he left the school from the wrongcorner? He wasn’t sure where he hadgone wrong, but he was sure of onething. He was lost, utterly lost. Hebegan to cry, and through his tears hesaw across the street a tall man with abag draped over his shoulder. Theman wore a distinctive blue-gray uni-form. The boy knew him for what hewas, a mailman.The boy looked both ways and

crossed the street. He got the post-man’s attention, and still crying, triedto explain to him that he was lost.The boy explained that he had justleft Oaklawn Elementary School awhile ago, that his parents had al-lowed him for the first time to walkhome alone, but that something hadgone wrong. He was lost.The boy has never forgotten what

that postman did at that moment ofhis despair. The postman did not justpoint the boy back to the school withinstructions to walk a few blocks inthe direction from which he hadcome. Rather, the postman put hisarm around the boy, left his own mailroute, and walked with the boy stepby step all the way back to the school.Sure enough, back in the parking lot

stood the boy’s family, father andmother and brother, beside the whiteRambler station wagon. The Rambler had all the doors flung

open wide, as if the car itself wel-comed the boy back. The boy ran intothe arms of his parents and they tookhim safely home.I will never forget what that post-

man did for me that day. And I willnever forget his face. And when I tryto imagine what God looks like, Idon’t see a stern old man with a long-flowing beard. Instead, through tear-stained eyes, I

see the kindly, smiling face of thepostman who led me back home.

Lost and found

Duane BolinProfessor ofHistory

A Professor’s Journal

2609 University StationMurray State University

Murray, Kentucky 42071-3301email: [email protected]

Fax: 809-3175

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Board of Regents not above law

Seldom does Murray State gather so much attention when basket-ball isn’t involved, but the controversy surrounding the Board of Re-gents’ decision to not renew President Randy Dunn’s contract isbringing in a lot of attention, and none of it is positive. On March 14, some members of the board met privately at the

home of Regent Sharon Green before voting the next day against re-newing Dunn’s contract. If six of eleven Regents attended that so-cial gathering, and if University business was discussed, then thisconstitutes a criminal act.According to Kentucky’s open meetings law, the board’s regular

meetings are open to the public. If the board discussed any businessat all regarding the University then they broke the law, period. Nowthe question is whether the attending board members will face anylegal repercussions for this private meeting. Board Chair Constantine Curris said regular board business was

discussed at the meeting, including some talk about the president’sAd-hoc Contract Committee Report. That in itself is a violation ofthe law, provided there were enough board members present toconstitute a majority.Whether or not you like Dunn’s administration, there’s something

shady about how the board came to a decision on Dunn’s contract atthe meeting. The vote was not scheduled for March 15, rather it wasalready set for May. The board should have made a decision onDunn’s contract a year ago, as we editorialized in a previous editionof The News. But once the board did decide to act on his contract it

should have been done with transparency and in accordance withKentucky’s open meetings laws.Wrongdoing hasn’t been proven yet, and that is important to note

here, but the resignation of Faculty Regent Jack Rose and the merepossibility this decision was reached illegally has tainted the entireprocess.Murray State is a regional Univeristy and as such it is beholden

not only to the students and faculty of the school, but also to mem-bers of surrounding communities. The board’s decision to end hiscontract despite the support of community leaders and local educa-tors (including the 27 school superintendents of western Kentucky)has shown the board feels the only opinion which matters is theirown, and most important the opinion of Constantine Curris. MurrayState cannot have two presidents.If Curris had known what was best for this University, his presi-

dency would not have ended in 1983. His own administration is infa-mous across campus for behaving in the same manner the board hasacted in the past few weeks. Enough is enough. The board has sent us a message. We need to send one right back

– that disregard for the law and for how we, the students, staff, fac-ulty and community members feel our University should run andwho should run it will not be tolerated. Now is the time to get up,get active and get angry. It is time for the board to be held account-able – maybe not by legal authority, but by the moral authority wehave when we stand up for ourselves and our rights.

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“You’ve got to goto college if youwant to makesomething of your-self,” goes the usualrefrain. But is ittrue? If it is, why?And if it is, shouldit be?The greatest gen-eration didn’t seemto think it shouldbe so. The postwareconomic order

that lasted well into the 1970s was engi-neered by a generation fed up with in-come inequality, depression and war. Itwas one where you could enjoy a mid-dle-class standard of living with a highschool diploma in hand. It was a timewhere a factory worker could earnenough (on his wages alone) to buy anew car every few years, own a homeand put his kids through college – if thekids wanted to go, that is. Back then,you didn’t have to overload yourselfwith student loans to go to college ei-ther. In California and New York, it wasalmost (if not entirely) free of charge.So what happened? Why did college,

which was a choice in the past, becomean unspoken requirement in today’seconomy? The nature of the economychanged. No, I don’t mean that suddenlyworkers needed BAs to do the jobsthey’d been doing already – the econ-omy stopped working for the middleclass and started working a hell of a lotbetter for the wealthiest Americans.As the wealthy and their political al-

lies in Washington mobilized to rewritethe rules that governed the economy inthe 1980s – smashing unions, cuttingtheir taxes and lowering oversight – get-ting an education started to get expen-sive. Ronald Reagan, the second-rateactor turned second-rate president, ledthe charge during his time as Califor-nia’s governor to eliminate the state’sfree university and community collegesystem. Reaganomics certainly reshapedAmerica, creating an economy that re-warded wealth over work, redistributedmiddle class wealth into the wealthy’spocketbooks and dealt middle classAmerica a deathblow.The union-busting campaign pushed

by Reagan and his corporate allies, com-bined with government support for lowwage businesses like McDonald’s andWalmart (with special tax incentives tokeep wages low, like the Earned IncomeTax Credit) sent wages spiralling down.The high school graduate of 1963 couldown a home; the high school graduateof 2013 has no such option, having littlechoice but to pile on student loan debtto buy themselves an education (even ifit’s not what they enjoy or what they’dbe best at doing) or try and survive on$7.25.The new economy that Reaganomics

gave us is one of both great want andgreat wealth. Those who wish to avoidthe former must now buy their way out,thus further enriching the alreadywealthy. As education becomes a mon-eymaking operation, so do other serv-ices we take for granted. The UnitedStates Postal Service is as old as the re-public, but that hasn’t stopped Reagan’sdisciples from trying to tear it to pieces.Call me old fashioned, but there are

some things that just shouldn’t be forprofit. Education is one of those things.You shouldn’t have to mortgage your fu-ture to have a decent living today.Everybody, no matter what they do for aliving, or how much schooling theyhave, should at least have a decent stan-dard of living free from starvation ordestitution.It’s time that we went beyond

Reaganomics and build a new economicfoundation – one that rewards thosewho work before it rewards thosewealthy who have enough already.

Devin Griggs is vice president of fi-nances for the Murray State CollegeDemocrats.

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Reaganomics: A failing grade

Devin GriggsOpinion Editor

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After reading the articles in the opinion section of March 1st's paper by Dr. Robert Martin, Mr. BenShelby and Dr. William Zingrone, I felt the need to read Dr. Faris Sahawneh and Mark Looy's responses toDr. Zingrone's original article. After reading the articles in the argument, I was incredibly disturbed bythe level of disrespect shown. As a child, I was taught to think for myself and decide what I believe to be true. Presented with evi-

dence for both evolution and creationism, I support the theory of evolution, and have never particularlyhad the taste for religion in general. However, I was profoundly disappointed in BOTH sides of the argu-ment. I have seen many secular people condemn those that do practice a religion for not being respectfulof those that are not religious. I feel as if a reverse of this applies. After reading the replies to Sahawneh and Looy, I felt they were con-

demning them for their religious beliefs, and that they were just as intolerant and disdainful toward theirbeliefs as they would consider Sahawneh and Looy to be toward theirs. As someone who accepts the theory of evolution and considers herself a student scientist, I was embar-

rassed by the replies of the people representing our biology department. I sincerely hope that thosewithin and outside the University are aware that not everyone in the science departments are so pedanticand disrespectful of others' points of view. Martin says: "If Creationists had their way, we would bethrown back into the Middle Ages ..."I highly doubt that and would like to say that if anything is going to hinder progress, it will be due to

intolerant people who degrade others. Let's be respectful, and agree to disagree.

Kathleen MountSophomore from Crestwood, Ky.

Well, this has been an interesting few weeks; first, we have a couplecreationists trying to convince the Murray State population that hu-mans coexisted with dinosaurs, and now we have a professor railingagainst the moral decay of America, driven he says, by such untenablepositions as the right to an abortion, universal health care and gun con-trol. Professor Rose knows his history, and as Vicki the software pro-gram in the movie “I, Robot,” would say, his logic is “undeniable.”However, as I will endeavor to demonstrate, his basic premise is flawed.I am not going to argue here for or against abortion; that is a personaldecision and it is a difficult one for all of us as compassionate humansto make (but isn’t it interesting that the most outspoken critics againsta woman’s right to an abortion are predominantly old white guys?). Rather, let’s consider the premise that there even exist any universal

moral positions, let alone who has the right to decide what those posi-tions might be. Abraham Lincoln won the fight against slavery, not be-cause he was guaranteed to do so because he held the moral highground, but because he happened to be the most powerful human inAmerica and commanded the superior set of armed forces. Isn’t it in-teresting how morality tends to flow that way through history?Other than religious fundamentalists who believe there are univer-

sal laws handed down by a deity (and those laws differ depending on

the religion, of course), very few others are naive enough to believethat morality is anything except a set of rules to eliminate societalchaos at any given time and place. While some may choose to believethat God delivered the Ten Commandments to Moses in order to guidehumanity, a much more credible idea is that Moses was a smart guywho realized that his people needed a healthy shove away from theGolden Calf for their own good. I am a biologist and an evolutionist; I see human behavior, the good

and the bad, as the result of millions of years of adaptation to somepretty difficult conditions, first in Africa, then in Eurasia as humansevolved and spread out during the Ice Ages. We had to be both toughand cruel, as well as smart, to survive, and we still carry all thosegenes. We see them play out every day in the mayhem that plagues theworld. American societal problems, of which there are many, are hardlydue to “moral decay” as a result of current activities and trends, mostof which come and go through the generations, but to the primitive,cruel genes we carry, expressed mostly by short-sighted, pompous,vainglorious, greedy, angry, testosterone-driven males (yes, of course Ihave those tendencies, too).

Robert MartinProfessor of Biology

The Board of Regents votetaken Friday before Spring Breaknot to renew President Dunn’scontract comes as no surprise. Quoted in the local press, the

Board Chairman’s disavowal of“factions, politics, hidden agen-das” and the like, the fact he hadto make such a public statementconceals a reality filled with un-dercurrents. When it comes torunning the University, for yearsthe board has had divisions thatgo deeper than “opinion.” Sincethe election of the current Demo-cratic governor, its current mi-nority faction, in the wings underthe previous Republican gover-nor, has reasserted itself andDunn has become its target. A case in point is his now com-

pleted “objective performanceevaluation,” which took well overa year to conduct. If any per-formance issues were uncoveredthat justify his release, we in thecommunity have yet to be in-formed. The real tip-off that hisperformance was not faulted

there was the board’s appoint-ment of a three-member contractreview committee just a fewweeks ago, which, to no surpriseagain, conjured up four new eval-uation criteria. The handwriting was on the

wall for all to see at last.Friday the 15th’s pre-emptive

board strike is packed withironies, pre-emptive because ofthe board’s stated commitment toongoing and thorough con-stituent input. Would waiting tillthe May meeting have left toomuch time to register communitysupport for Dunn? Another is thebalance Dunn has managed overredistribution of declining re-sources throughout his tenure. For the most part, the process

was transparent and judged fairby students, staff and faculty re-peatedly. Another is the apparent“clash of visions” between Dunn’sstrategic imperatives whose maingoal is to provide access to mar-ginal and nontraditional studentsand this faction’s more “tradition-

bound” view of the University’sdirection that harks back to themiddle of the last century. Nopublic higher education leader ofindependent mind would sub-scribe to the latter in this day andage. Another irony, by no meansthe last, is the board chair’s ownhistory in this community andhow his downfall was engineeredafter his enlightened leadershiphad developed it into a real Uni-versity from what had been littlemore than a teacher training in-stitution. You would think hewould have learned a lesson.This University needs a

stronger and more enlightenedboard, not one under the detri-mental and obsolete influence offamily connection and parochialprerogative. What we have here isa state University, not just a Mur-ray-Calloway County one, whosemission is to serve the region,state, nation and the world.

Michael BasileProfessor of Education

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breaking the law.

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News6A March 29, 2013The News

In the escalating conflict be-tween North and South Korea,North Korea cut its last militaryhotline with Seoul Wednesday,severing communications be-tween the two countries’ armies.

This hotline was being used pri-marily for organizing the con-struction of an industrial complexin the North which employedhundreds of South Koreans butwas important in diplomatic com-munication as well, as direct tele-phone communications do notexist between the two countries.

The Supreme Court continuedto deliberate this week whetherto take out a piece of the 1996Defense of Marriage Act whichdefines marriage as a union be-tween a man and a woman, a def-inition that is used by more than1,000 federal laws and programs.

With the omittance of this pas-sage, same-sex couples in the ninestates and the District of Columbiawhich allow same-sex marriagewould receive the same federalbenefits already granted to tradi-tional married couples.

Information and photos fromThe Associated Press

Compiled by Ben Manhanke

SUPREME COURT DISCUSSES DOMA

Early Wednesday morning con-struction crews, protected by ap-proximately 250 police, tore down15 feet of the more than 30-yearmonument to the division of Eastand West Berlin.

The part of the wall being re-moved is known as the East SideGallery.

Many Germans and Berlinerswere opposed to the removal of thispiece of their identity so as to allowfor the construction of a plannedluxury apartment complex.

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Staff Report

Monday kicked off the newlyrevamped Greek Week for MurrayState fraternities and sororities.

Seventeen organizations col-lected cans for Needline of Mur-ray Tuesday. These groups arepart of College Panhellenic Coun-cil, Interfraternity Council andNational Pan-Hellenic Council.

A total of 7,771 cans were col-lected for Needline, surpassingthe original goal of 1,000.

Alpha Omicron Pi collected themost at 2,554 and won the stroll-offcompetition Tuesday night.

Pi Kappa Alpha was the top fra-

ternity at the food drive with 1,050cans collected.

Alpha Gamma Delta and AlphaSigma Phi won Outstanding chap-ter adviser at All Greek Assembly.

Julia Hilkey of Sigma SigmaSigma won outstanding sororitypresident and Greek Woman ofthe Year. Drew Filosa, AlphaSigma Phi member, won out-standing president of the year.

Alpha Gamma Rho memberMichael Dobbs was named GreekMan of the Year. Other awards werealso presented at the assembly.

Greek Week ended Thursdaywith the all-Greek social eventfollowing step show.


Social media platforms such asFacebook and Twitter blew up withstudent responses after the March 15Board of Regents meeting where avote was made to not extend Presi-dent Randy Dunn’s contract.

Student Regent and Student Gov-ernment Association president Jere-miah Johnson voted to not extendDunn’s contract at the Board meeting.

Johnson and six other boardmembers voted in favor of the non-renewal.

Students, faculty and staff allturned to social media hoping to findanswers. Comments on several newsoutlet website and Facebook pagesproved many people had intenseopinions on the discussion.

Many students were questionedJohnson’s vote, while many sup-ported his decision.

Johnson said he spoke with theSGA and students from the regionalcampuses and based his vote on whathe thought was best for the students.

SGA vice president Kevin Cough-

lin, said Murray State created a Stu-dent Senate to give students a voiceon campus and to represent the stu-dents to the administration.

“It is impossible to represent avoice that chooses not to speak untilafter the decision has been made,”Coughlin said. “I urge anyone inter-

ested in express-ing their voice tobecome a Senatoreither throughyour ResidentialCollege, or pick-ing up paperworkin the Center forStudent Involve-ment.”

Coughlin saidhe invites anyone

with any issues to attend the Senatemeetings at 5 p.m. in the BarkleyRoom on Wednesdays. Meetings areopen to the public and events andother happenings on campus are dis-cussed openly between senators.

Along with the support of John-son and his decision many studentsfelt he was wrong in the way hevoted and on how he went about

talking to students.Cornelius Hocker, graduate student

from Greenville, Ky., said to his knowl-edge, Johnson did not talk to anyonein the music department about the re-newal of Dunn’s contract.

Hocker said members of SGA aresupposed to serve as liaisons for thedifferent student groups on campus,but he said no member has visitedthe group Phi Mu Alpha.

While many students attended thebudget meetings held earlier in theweek prior to the board meeting, sev-eral students were still unclear aboutwhat the board’s decision meant fortheir University president.

Matthew Thomas, graduate stu-dent from Murray, said on one hand,Johnson did not do his due diligenceto find out what the student bodythought during the year.

Thomas suggests a survey couldhave been sent out to the students.

Johnson confirmed no survey wassent to students, but when he askedSGA its opinion on Dunn, only one sen-ator voted to renew his contract.

SGA has approximately 100 mem-bers, which include students involved

with the Residential College Associa-tion and the Campus Activities Board.

“On issues that are important likethis, Mr. Johnson should have madeevery effort to get as many of thestudents' opinions as possible,”Thomas said. “That being said, hedid not and had to rely on gut feel-ing. Now, I agree with the decisionbecause even if people may dis-agree, I believed Murray Stateneeded change.”

Thomas said he was still ques-tioning the actions of the board.

David Madwell, senior fromOwensboro, Ky., said the majority ofthe posts on Facebook that he sawwere from alumni.

He said while he did hear someconcerns from students in Phi MuAlpha and other music students, hesaid he heard a lot of support fromstudents in and outside of SGA.

Madwell, who serves as a senatorin SGA, said he thinks Johnsonvoted fairly and wisely.

“I know this was not an easy vote,”Madwell said. “He did what hethought was best for students and Ithink it was an excellent choice.”

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Jeremiah Johnson, above presents the President’s Cup to Miranda Sexton of AlphaOmicron Pi for the Greek GPA award. Alpha Omicron Pi also won the stroll competi-tion Tuesday night, left.

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More than 7,000 cans were raised Tues-day during the canned food drive thatwas a part of Greek Week. The originalgoal was 1,000 cans, surpassing lastyear’s total of 150 cans. Below, members of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfoniacompete in the stroll competition Tues-day night in Racer Arena. Photos by Lexy Gross, TaylorMcStoots/The News

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March Madness ABCs

Out of LeftField

It truly is thebest time ofthe year. Flow-ers are bloom-ing, allergiesare back inseason and thenation is onceagain infectedwith theMarch Mad-ness.

Tournamenttime is hon-estly like Christmas to me. Non-stop, passion-driven basketball inits truest form? Yes, please. SinceMarch Madness is such a staple in college sports, I’ve compiledthe ABCs for the bracket busting phenomenon.

A is for apps. If any of you arestaying in the dorms, I know howsub-par the cable situation is inthe rooms. It’s no excuse with theofficial March Madness applica-tion, which live-streams all thegames. The price tag of free is alsoworth mentioning, and being ableto watch games on your phonekeeps a low profile if you’re tryingto slack off at work. Come on. Weall know you do it, too.

Another notable app is MarchMadness Fan zone, which aggre-gates real-time scores, stats andmedia straight to your device. Italso provides chat rooms for fansto openly discuss the wonderfulsport of basketball.

Carly BesserAssistant Sports

Editor

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On Dec. 2, 2012, DemarcusCroaker – a 6-foot-3-inch guardout of Orlando, Fla., announcedhis intentions to play basketballfor the Racers.

With many Murray State fanshoping Croaker would fill the va-cancy left by departing senior Isaiah Canaan, the guard knownfor his flashy dunks and fast-pacedplay seemed primed to becomethe next star player to wear

the blue and gold. “I talked to Isaiah Canaan, and

knowing how he came here andhow he made an impact on theirprogram, I think I can do the samething,” Croaker told Scout.com atthe time of his commitment.

Unfortunately for Racer fans,Croaker didn’t stick around to find out.

Recruits often give verbal com-mitments to schools, usually dur-ing or after a visit to the campus.In Croaker’s case, he informed thecoaching staff he had chosen

Murray State during a weekendvisit to campus.

This type of commitment is notbinding, however, until a recruitsigns an official letter of intent.

These letters cannot be signeduntil National Signing Day inApril, however, which allows ver-bally committed recruits to con-tinue visiting and talking withother schools.

After his verbal commitment tothe Racers, the University of

Lexy Gross || Assistant News [email protected]

With only 13 practices left this spring,Racer football is considering every mo-ment a precious one.

The first spring practice landed beforeSpring Break this year, where HeadCoach Chris Hatcher said he was verypleased with the team’s performance.

Walter Powell, senior wide receiver ofSt. Louis, said the first few spring prac-tices are more of a learning experiencethan anything.

Powell said the tempo and motivationbetween practices has already in-creased. Execution of plays and consis-tency seems to also be a focus of the team.

Hatcher has two objectives in mind forthe spring practices: implementing a newdefensive scheme and finding the nextMurray State quarterback.

After hiring two new defensivecoaches in February, Dennis Therrell asdefensive coordinator and DavernWilliams coaching defensive line,changes have already been made to theMurray State defensive scheme.

Later into last season, the Racers had aweaker rushing defense against EasternKentucky and Jacksonville State. Hatcherand Powell believe the new strategieswill strengthen the team altogether in theupcoming season.

“We’re switching positions and theplayers have to learn, and the coacheshave to understand the players in thosepositions,” Hatcher said. “We’re worrying about the run first, and thepass second.”

Hatcher also mentioned the possibilityof Corey Addison, senior linebacker of

Jacksonville, Fla., playing as center thisyear. He said Addison has performed well in the position this spring. Janawski Davis, sophomorewide receiver of Eight Mile, Ala., hasbeen playing as an inside receiver, ratherthan an outside receiver.

Hatcher said he is also happy to havesenior linebacker Sam Small back inpractice, after sitting out due to an in-jury last season. Perhaps the open posi-tion under most scrutiny right now isthe one All-American Casey Brockmanleft last season.

“It’s going to affect us because (Brock-man) was experienced and a four-yearstarter,” Powell said.

Sophomore KD Humphries, juniorParks Frazier, junior CJ Bennett and senior Spencer Phillips are cur-rently competing for the starting quar-terback position.

Powell said Humphries has steppedup and taken control of the offense in the last few practices. He said itshould not be difficult to build up the of-fense because the system Brockmanplayed under is well understood byHumphries and Frazier.

Hatcher said he believes Humphriesand Frazier have an advantage becausethey understand the offensive schemeand can distribute the ball well.

“We chart every throw they make inpractice, and keep up with it and who’sknowledgeable,” Hatcher said. “This iswhy Humphries and Frazier have the ad-vantage right now.”

Hatcher said he will continue to chartplays and evaluate execution of playsuntil the end of spring. By then, the Rac-ers will have a starting quarterback forthe fall 2013 season.


EXTRA INNINGS: Senior Mike Kozlowski runs toward first base in an attempt to beat the throw to first. The ‘Breds lost in the12th inning 4-3 to Austin Peay in game one of a three game series. The ‘Breds had many chances to win as they were leading untilthe top of the eigth. The scores stayed dead-locked at 3-3 until the Govenors drove in a run at the top of the 12th. The ‘Breds hadlooked as though they would come back but a double-play ended the game. First pitch goes off at 3 p.m. today for game two.

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Junior Cameron Finch from Collierville, Tenn., threw a complete game with no hits recorded on March22, in Edwardsville, Ill., against SIUE. The ’Breds would go on to win the game 1-0 and the series 2-1.

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On March 22, Cameron Finch’s namewas added to a short list of prestigious‘Breds pitchers.

The junior from Collierville, Tenn.,threw his first no-hitter of his college career in the win against SIU Ed-wardsville in the first game of the seriesFriday, March 22.

Finch is the first ‘Breds pitcher in Mur-ray State history to pitch a nine-inning no-hitter and the eighth to pitch seven in-nings without a hit. The last one wasrecorded in 1986 against Tennessee Tech.The pitcher was Rich Garner and he ledthe ‘Breds to a 4-0 victory.

Because of his performance during thegame, Finch was awarded OVC and Na-tional honors. He was named theLouisville Slugger Collegiate Baseball na-tional Player of the Week, the Adidas OhioValley Conference Pitcher of the Weekand Murray State Pepsi Athlete of theWeek. This was the second time he hasbeen named the OVC Pitcher of the Week.

About halfway through the game, Finch

said he realized he might be able to throwa no-hitter.

“I started thinking about it a little bit,but I didn’t really try to change anything,”he said. “It was a close game, and I wasmore concerned about the win than theno-hitter.”

Finch got things rolling early, going 1-2-3 in strike outs in the first two innings. Inthe third, he walked one player beforequickly striking out the next three. In thefourth he hit a batter, but allowed no otherCougars on base in the inning.

In the sixth inning it looked as thoughFinch’s no-hitter could be in jeopardy ashe walked SIUE’s Denton Reed and threwa wild pitch to Matt Highland. He quicklycalmed down and got out of the inningwithout any damage to the score or thepossible no-hitter.

In the seventh inning Finch quicklystruck out all three batters. The finaltwo innings proved a little dramaticwith a walk, a fielding error in theeighth and a walk in the ninth. However,Finch had control of the ball and fin-

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Senior Darian Yahyavi, No. 29, and sophomore Tray Carr, No. 17, prepare to begin a drillat Wednesday’s practice. This is the second spring practice of the year. The team ishoping to strengthen its defense by trying new strategies and switching positions.

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the lowly No. 15 seed, considerthe element of surprise. West-ern Kentucky didn’t get blownout by Kansas by any means.They put up a good fight and itturned out to be a close game. C is for criticism. While it issafe to say a lot more menwatch tournaments, you’re stillbound to see a few cat fights.Kentucky did not make thetournament this year and lostin the first round of the NIT. If your favorite team is inthe bracket, you’re most likelypublic enemy No. 1 to a typicalCats fan. You can sit throughthe lecture of how many tournaments they have won,their list of NBA stars and how they won last year. Youknow the drill. I’m predicting bloodshed inthe Michigan area upon dis-

covering the Michigan StateSpartans made the tournamentand not the Michigan Wolver-ines. Whoever said the lastcivil war was in 1861 obviouslydidn’t watch NCAA basketball.I’ve gotten quite a few jeersfor predicting Louisville willwin the championship, and Ican openly admit that I willgroan in boredom if Duketakes yet another trophy. No-body is safe. Even the mosthumble, diplomatic sports fancan’t stop himself from a littletrash talk. Madness is in thename for a reason. In all seriousness, MarchMadness is simply a fun event.Before you try to make it ahomework assignment and nota past time like I do, just re-member that it only comesonce a year. Try to enjoy it.

Texas, a finalist for Croaker along with MurrayState and Florida State, intensified its efforts toland the three-star recruit. In late February, ESPN’s Reggie Rankin reported Croaker had decommitted from the Racers and was likely on the verge of sign-ing with Texas. Since the decommitment, Croaker has vis-ited Texas and has also drawn additional inter-est from Baylor. Following his visit to Texasearlier this month, Croaker verbally commit-ted to the Longhorns March 19. While the commitment to Texas doesn’t nec-essarily put Murray State out of the running, it is not likely Head Coach Steve Prohm andstaff will be able to change Croaker’s mind fora third time. With Croaker likely out of the equation,

Prohm still has two schol-arships open for next sea-son. With five seniorsdeparting, the Racers havealready inked three playersfor next season. They included two fresh-men guards CameronPayne and forward JarvisWilliams, and Clemsontransfer guard T.J. Sapp. If Croaker cannot be con-vinced to recommit, Prohm and his staff maylook to the junior college ranks or to otherschools to add another guard and forward. In recent years, the Racers have experiencedsuccess at bringing in junior college and trans-fer players, including seniors Stacy Wilson andLatreze Mushatt.With much still to be decided, Prohm andhis staff are sure to be busy over the comingweeks. They look to complete next year’s ros-ter and fill the shoes vacated by the winningestsenior class in program history.

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ished the com-plete gamewithout anyhits.“I was ex-cited, relieved,”Finch said. “Iwas happy wewon more so,but it was coolto throw (theno hitter.)”Finch is now 3-1 so far this sea-son with an ERA of 3.51. He neededonly 96 pitches to win the game,and struck out five batters andwalked four.Senior Dylan Wheeler con-tributed to the win on both de-fense and offense. Wheeler made an incrediblecatch in the sixth to keep Finch’sno-hitter hopes alive. Finch jokedthat he needed to take his secondbaseman out to dinner to thankhim.This is not the first complete no

-hit game Finch has thrown. Hepitched two in high school, one atthe district championships.Next up the ‘Breds return to con-ference play as they take on AustinPeay at home on Thursday throughSaturday. Finch started the gameand had another strong showing al-lowing only four hits and a run insix innings of work.

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The Murray State Rowing Club returnedto the water Saturday to compete in the27th annual John Hunter Regatta inGainesville, Ga., racing in six events.

The regatta was categorized by men’sor women’s teams, novice or varsity row-ers and by boats of either four or eightpassengers.

The team returned with two medals,with the women’s novice eight placing firstin their flight and the men’s novice eightplacing third.

Competing against notable schools likeVanderbilt, Georgia Tech, Duke and theUniversity of Georgia, Murray State stillmanaged honorable mentions.

“It’s such an amazing experience,” saidsophomore rower Danielle Eichelberger.“We definitely have some strong compe-tition, especially with D1 schools, but we feel that we represent Murray Statewell. We like to go out there and play withthe big kids.”

The varsity men’s team placed fourth,missing a third place finish by seconds.The women’s varsity four team sailed past

Louisiana State, Georgia Tech and Libertyin the first heat.

The regatta marked the first 2K race ofthe season for Murray State. In the fall, the team focuses on long-distanceracing.

In the spring, sprints are the primary focus and rowers practice weeklyon high speed stars, lining up with float-ing starting blocks and formulating effec-tive race plans.

Coming back from the first regatta of theseason, Eichelberger said the team is look-ing to incorporate new training methods to better prepare better for competition in the future.

“Our boats have a ways to go before theclub nationals,” she said. “We’re workingon strength training and will be incorpo-rating Crossfit exercises soon to buildsome more muscle and add more speed.She said attending the regattas with bigger schools not only gives MurrayState a taste of the competitive experi-ence, but it also gives more nationalrecognition to the team.

“I had a few people come up to me and ask me where we were located,”Head Coach Colin Neeley said. “But

it’s nice to know that our team doesn’t get distracted by the big schools with big names. We can compete with schoolslike that.”

With two more regattas before the na-tional tournament, Neeley said the JohnHunter regatta was more of a learning ex-perience for novice rowers and even var-sity rowers so they can get acclimated tomore serious racing.

“I told them that I just wanted to see asolid race,” Neeley said. “And they did ex-actly that. We held our own and peopleare starting to recognize us and saw thatwe did good. We didn’t blow them out of the water, but we did pretty good inthe long run.”

Despite their status as a club, the rowingteam is looking to eventually be recog-nized as an NCAA sport at Murray State.

Neeley said funding was the primaryconcern in the way of the club advancingto collegiate sport status.

“Our women’s team could certainly oneday be recognized by the NCAA,” he said.“The team is paying for it themselves.They really want to be here, and I think iteven drives them to compete a little more.It’s out of their pockets.”

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The men’s and women’s rowing teams take to the water at practice on Wednesday night. The team travelled to Georgia to compete in their first regatta ofthe season and came home with two medals. They placed first in women’s novice eight and third in men’s novice eight.

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The Murray State women’s golf team participated this week inthe 20th annual John Kirk Panther Intercollegiate hosted by Geor-gia State at Eagles Landing Country Club in Stockbridge, Ga.

While enduring 20-mph winds and 35-degree weather condi-tions, the Racers finished the tournament in last place out of 14teams.

Despite the team’s struggle, team member Delaney Howson in-dividually placed eighth out of 76 players shooting 235 overall.Murray State Women’s Golf Coach Velvet Milkman said she wasvery pleased with Howson’s results.

“It was a very good tournament for her,” Milkman said. “Any-time you finish top 10 is good.”

Winning medalist honors in the Bobby Nichols Intercollegiatehosted by Tennessee Tech in Sevierville, Tenn., two weeks ago,Howson has worked hard this season. She was also named OVCplayer of the week this week for the second time in a row.

Other players who competed for the Murray State team along-side Howson were Alli Weaver, who placed 11th with a score of246, Abby Stamper, who placed 43rd, Sophie Hillier, who placed73rd, and Gina Nuzzo, who came in close behind placing 75th.

As the John Kirk Panther Intercollegiate is a regularly playedtournament for the Murray State Women’s Golf team, Milkmansaid the Racers did some great things this year compared to pre-vious years. However, Milkman said there is always more roomfor improvement.

“I know this wasn’t our best tournament, but I’m still seeingprogress,” Milkman said. “I wasn’t displeased with the effort, butour goal is to continue to get better every week.”

In preparation for this tournament, Milkman said the team didnothing different than when preparing for any other tournament.The ladies use their practice time by playing the course and fo-cusing mostly on their short game.

Milkman said this season has been a great season overall forher team, making huge improvements from last year. However,Milkman also said that the team must work on a few other thingsin order to continue improving.

“We need to work on hitting more greens,” Milkman said. “Ouriron play could get better, and our putting could get better aswell.”

The Racer Women’s Golf team will compete again Saturday atnoon in a duel competition against the Southern Illinois Salukisat Dalhousie Golf Course in Cape Girardeau, Miss.

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Freshman Abbi Stamper follows through with her swing. The women werecoming off of first and second place finishing at their previous twomatches, but struggled Monday and Tuesday due to weather.

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Murray State men’s golf aims toplace high in the March 29-31Spring Break Invitational.The Racers tee off in Boca

Raton, Fla., at the Fountains Coun-try Club starting today, Florida At-lantic University is hosting theevent. Head Coach Eddie Huntsaid the team hopes to continue itsstreak of solid individual and teamperformances and expects a top-ranking finish in Boca Raton.“We have a really good oppor-

tunity to place in the top five,”Hunt said. “I’ll be really disap-pointed if we don’t.“ Hunt said the Spring Break In-

vitational features many EastCoast opponents and severalother non-conference collegesthat will help prepare the Racersfor OVC play. Patrick Newcomb said he is op-

timistic about Hunt’s top-five am-bitions.“Oh, definitely. I definitely think

we can finish in the top five,” New-comb said. “I think perhaps we caneven win it.”Hunt said the Racers need

someone to step up in the fifthspot, which has been filled mostlyby freshmen. “We’ve had really good play

from our seniors,” Hunt said. “Weare having a hard time finding afifth man.”As for Newcomb, the senior said

he’s playing better than ever.“I feel really confident going

in,” Newcomb said. “My game isreally good right now. I expect toplay well.”Murray State is coming off an

eighth of 18 ranking with a score of907 at the March 16-18 Mission HillSpring Spectacular in Orlando, Fla.Indiana University won the eventscoring 869. “It was a really good tournament

with a lot of good teams we don’tusually get to play,” Hunt said. “Ifelt like going into the tournamentthat we had a shot at a top-five fin-ish and we fell just short of that.”“Overall, I was very pleased

with the way we played,” Huntsaid. “We had Patrick finish 11thout of 116.”Murray State’s top two per-

formances came from seniorsNewcomb and Hunter York.Newcomb placed in 11th placeand York at 23rd in the large fieldof opponents. Tyler Brown and Preston French

landed in 60th and 64th. DuncanMcCormick rounded out the Rac-ers’ tournament in 77th place.Jared Gosser placed 10th of 26 inindividual play and 64th overall. The Racers played the strongest

in round two of the competition.Hunt said good weather at bene-fited Murray State’s performance. Newcomb agreed that weather

plays a part.“It takes a little longer to come

back from the winter in Kentucky,”Newcomb said.Murray State will tee off at

the Fountains Country Club inBoca Raton, Fla., today and returnon Sunday.

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The Racer softball team played adouble header against the Universityof Evansville on Wednesday. The Racers lost the first game 3-0.

Evansville scored in the first inning totake an early 1-0 lead. Evansville scored again in the sec-

ond and fifth innings due to MurrayState errors. “We committed way more errors

than we have been committing defen-sively so far this year,” said HeadCoach Kara Amundson. “Mental er-rors really got the better of us.”The Racers had a total of five

errors throughout the game. Seniorpitcher Shelby Kosmecki got the loss but handled the situation well,said Amundson. The second game started out simi-

lar to the first. Evansville scored tworuns in the first inning to lead the Racers 2-0.Senior Christian Cox singled to start

off the third inning for Murray State.She was bunted over to second andmade her way to third on a wild pitch.Sophomore Mo Ramsey grounded outto score Cox, giving Murray State theirfirst run of the game.

Evansville extended its lead to 3-1 inthe third, but the Racers turnedaround and scored two more runs oftheir own in the fourth inning. Junior Leslie Bridges homered to

left field, scoring senior Ellyn Troupand tying the game. Murray State con-tinued their streak in the fifth with

a three run homer by sophomoreAlexa Becker, which gave the Racers a 6-3 lead. Evansville was unable to come back

and Murray State got the win to splitthe series. “We had much more offensive

fire power,” said Amundson. “We

had much better mental approachesat the plate.”Amundson said sophomore pitcher

CheyAnne Gaskey threw a good gameand came home with the win for theRacers. This series brought the teamto 12-15 for the season. “We let the first game slip away,”

said sophomore Alexa Becker. “Wefought back really hard in the secondgame and got a really good win.” Amundson said she was proud of

the team being able to leave Evans-ville on a positive note after the roughfirst game. The Racers will head to Eastern

Illinois this weekend for a conferenceseries. Eastern Illinois is currentlyhalf a game ahead of Murray State in the conference.“It’s a big weekend for us,” said

Becker. “I hope to get a few wins, ifnot all three.”Becker said she believes the team is

playing more confident, having funand trusting each other, which will beimportant going into the weekend.Amundson said she believes the

pitching staff and the offense are in agood place and have become muchmore consistent. The Racers first game against East-

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The Greatest Show on Earth willbe revisiting Murray April 4-7 at theCFSB Center.

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bai-ley will be presenting their 2013 tour,“Fully Charged: Gold Edition.”

The family-favorite event will fea-ture unique circus acts like high-wires, exotic animals, a motorcycleglobe and knife throwing.

The Lopez Family plays a big rolein the show. They entertain the audi-ence with heart-pounding acts of thehigh-wire, the motorcycle globe andknife throwing. Their skills havebeen passed down through genera-tions of family circus entertainers.

Brothers Johan and JonathanLopez, from Monterrey, Mexico,started training on the high-wirewith their father, Alfonso, when theywere young boys.

They learned to ride motorcyclesspecifically for the globe act withRingling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey.In total, they have been working to-gether for 17 years.

For the high-wire act, Johan,

Jonathan and Jonathan’s wife, MariaLopez, bring the audience membersto the edge of their seats as they per-form hand-stands, shoulder-standsand ride bicycles on a thin wire highabove the ground. Some of theirstunts are even performed whilewearing a blindfold.

“My biggest challenge is perform-ing a handstand on top of a pole bal-anced on (Johan and Jonathan’s)shoulders as they peddle across thehigh wire on bicycles,” Maria said.

At 12 feet in diameter, the motor-cycle globe is the narrowest in theU.S. Three motorcyclists ride in the

globe, with Erika Lopez, Johan’s wife,standing in the center. The motorcy-clists ride at high speeds with closerpasses and precise timing. Theymust avoid colliding or hitting Erikain the center.

In the knife throwing act, AlfonsoLopez hurls knives more than 12inches long at his targets. Standingbefore the targets are his daughters-in-law, who are at risk of being hitwith the knives.

Brett and Catherine Carden are theexotic animal presenters for theshow. In total, the married coupleperforms three animal acts.

Among those acts is a performanceof Asian elephants, a performancewith a mixture of camels, Arabianhorses, Shetland ponies and a minia-ture horse and a dog performancethat features terriers, poodles andmixed breeds.

“I was born into the circus, intoperforming,” Brett said. “I grew upwith elephants at my side. It’s my life,and my animals are part of myfamily. I knew my calling would in-volve the circus.”

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The Zeta Omicron chapter of AlphaPhi Alpha named Alpha Delta Pi thewinner of their 14th annual Step Off.

Several sororities and fraternitieslined up in front of Lovett Auditoriumat 1 p.m. yesterday to save seats for

their brothers, sisters and friends forthe show.

“Waiting on the steps was worth it,”said Samantha Steinman, freshmanfrom Edwardsville, Ill., “It was cool tosee the Greeks come together with acompetitive but fun attitude.”

On Tuesday, Alpha Phi Alphahosted a stroll off in Racer Arena. The

Stroll Off is a preview for the step off.Alpha Omicron Pi was named thewinner that night for their preview.

The idea of the Stroll Off is to getpeople hyped for the main event. Thestudents that participate may or maynot have be the ones participating inthe Step Off. This option is up to theteams.

The step show had special guestsStep Crew, ENT. preform an intermis-sion representing the CrossroadsTeen Center. The master of cere-monies of the night was Rick Daniels,the leadership adviser for Greeks at

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In honor of National Women’s His-tory Month, the Women’s Center atMurray State hosted its annual Cele-brate Women Luncheon Tuesday in

the Curris Center Ballroom. For the 25th year, the Women’s Cen-

ter hosted the event to pay tribute tothe millions of women who work tochange the world for the better. Ac-cording to Abigail French, Interim Di-rector of the Women’s Center, by

educating and inspiring those who at-tended the luncheon, the Women’sCenter honors those women whohave accomplished great things andencourages others to work towardgender equality.

“The Celebrate Women Luncheonencourages women to continue topursue their goals,” French said. “Wehope to encourage mentoring rela-tionships between the generations ofwomen on our campus as well.”

The Celebrate Women Luncheonnot only honored the accomplish-ments of women of all ages, national-

ities and backgrounds but also edu-cated those who attended on the rolesand contributions of women through-out history and culture. It also raisedawareness of issues and powerful so-cietal trends that are affectingwomen’s lives today.

According to French, approxi-mately 140 people attended the lunch-eon this year.

The theme this year was WomenInspiring Innovation through Imagi-nation. It celebrated the women work-

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Music is not an easy field to get into. Thereis a lot of competition and only a few artistswill truly make it to the top.

Zach Peacock, senior from Cadiz, Ky., andlead singer and guitarist for his band, Peacockand the Feathers are willing to do whatever ittakes to make it big.

The original Peacock and The Feathersconsisted of Brandon Harper on drums, TylerBurnham on guitar, Trevor Harper on bassand Peacock as the front man.

“We disbanded for a couple of years, thenwe finally came back together for the love ofrocking out and writing music and actually

started Peacock and The Feathers,” he said. Now the group consists of Peacock, Trevor

Harper, freshman from Cadiz, Ky. and BenStone, junior from Owensboro, Ky.

It took a while for the band to come to-gether. Peacock started many different groupsin an attempt to find one that fits best with hismusical tastes and talents.

“I started my first band in eighth grade,with the name, The Trials and Tribulations ofThe Glass Hearted Man,” Peacock said.

At the age of 14, Peacock started anotherband, this time heavy metal, called ZombieDance Party.

“We were super heavy metal and actuallydeveloped a pretty large following at a youngand brutal age,” Peacock said. “We playedshows in Bowling Green, Ky., and evenrecorded our first crappy little studio albumwith a guy named Rory in Bowling Green. We

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The show is led by DavidShipman, a rookie ring masterwho managed to get the rin-gling job after missing the au-dition. Shipman called theproducers and asked if he

could still audition after miss-ing the deadline, and the oddswere in his favor.

Doing anything from voicinga script to freestyle dancing inhis improvised audition, he gotthe job and he said he could notbe happier to introduce theacts in the show and entertainthe crowd.

“I now have this incredibleopportunity to tour the United

States and see places that I’dnever have had the opportunityto see,” Shipman said. “It’s beena whirlwind. It almost doesn’tfeel real, like it’s happening tosomeone else. I’m proof thatit’s never too late to chase afteryour dreams.”

Shipman said his favoritepart of his job was getting tosee the genuine reactions fromthe children in the audience.

Tickets for Ringling Bros.and Barnum & Bailey “FullyCharged: Gold Edition” areavailable through the CFSBCenter. Prices for the showrange from $10-25.

Ringling is also offering a flat$10 ticket price for students ontheir opening night.

The shows are at 7 p.m. April4 and 5, 1 p.m. April 6 and 7 and5 p.m. April 6.

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ing or studying the fields of science, technology, engi-neering and mathematics.

Coinciding with the theme, Murray State students, fac-ulty and staff were recognized for inspiring and betteringthe lives of women at Murray State.

Students honored included Mariah Robinson, seniorfrom Beaver Dam, Ky. and Virginia McClure, junior fromBenton, Ky. Robinson, a member of the basketball team,was awarded the Margaret Simmons Student AthleteAward, while McClure was awarded the Celebrate WomenScholarship.

The faculty honored included Renee Fister, who re-ceived the Dr. Slimmer Outstanding Faculty Award andDorris Clark-Sarr, who received the Dr. Kimberly BarrettOustanding Staff Award.

Fister served as the project director for the BioMaPSgrant from the National Science Foundation, studyingmathematical population studies in biology. She has alsobeen awarded the Neil Weber Award for Excellence, whichis given to outstanding teachers or scholars in the Collegeof Science, Engineering and Technology.

Clark-Sarr currently serves on multiple committees toimpact the Science Technology Engineering and Mathfield. She has also served as the Director of the Adven-tures in Math and Science programs for 11 years.

Renae Duncan, associate provost of undergraduatestudies, was the keynote speaker. She spoke about the ac-complishments of women in the STEM fields, wherewomen rank in terms of jobs held and pay in those fields.

She also spoke about what others can do to encouragewomen to pursue careers in STEM fields.

French said she hopes to improve the Celebrate Womenluncheon with each passing year.

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were too metal for our own good.”After growing as musicians, Zombie

Dance Party called it quits, and Peacockstarted what would be his third band, TheWay The Cards Were Played.

By this time, Peacock had been workingwith longtime friend, Harper, who currently plays the bass in Peacock andThe Feathers.

“We have been through a lot of differentmusic projects together and know eachother very well, musically,” he said. “It isone of those relationships that takes a life-time to build.”

The band, which has now been togetherfor a little more than a year, is working onreleasing its first studio album.

The band released a live demo in De-cember 2012 and immediately began writ-ing new material, Peacock said.

“It was like we had evolved as soon as thedemo dropped,” he said.

Since then, the band has been hard at

work writing new lyrics and music for itsupcoming studio album.

“We are currently in the heavy writingphase for our next studio release,” Peacocksaid. “We have had discussions with ourproducer, Andy Howell, who is out ofNashville, about the next productionprocess and goals for the future. The re-lease date is still up in the air.”

The band has gained some following inMurray, but hopes to develop a better rela-tionship with the fans. Peacock would lovefor the bands current fan base to stick withthe them along the way.

“I like to think that people enjoy what weare doing in Murray,” Peacock said. “I thinkwe need to do more as a band to connectwith our friends and fans, but that is partof the growth as an artist and as a band. At the end of the day, I think we have a very attractive and intelligent fan basecomprised of young people who are intrepid in nature.”

Currently, Peacock is studying public re-lations at Murray State, but credits his loveof music to his parents.

“As cliche as it sounds, I have alwaysloved music,” Peacock said. “My parents

were really big music fans; they prettymuch raised me on VH1 and their mas-sively eclectic CD collection. As I got a lit-tle older, I started developing a deeppassion for heavy metal.”

Even though becoming a well-knownartist is one of his dreams, Peacock will set-tle for writing a hit song.

“I have had this goal for a while, which isto write a song the whole world gets stuckin its head,” he said. “I would love to makea career out of song writing and touringand jamming with my bros, my feathers.”

It’s the writing part of music that Pea-cock really enjoys. He likes the idea of hiswords reaching out and touching someonein a personal way.

“I look up to any musicians or producerswho have real ears and a passion for themusic that they make,” Peacock said. “Mu-sicians are tough people. Musicians aren’tafraid to put their hearts and souls outthere. The idea is to tell a story, either withwords, or melody, that someone out therecan relate to and call their own. I love itwhen I hear a song, or a line in a song, thatI just get. It makes the song so much morecredible and personal.”

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the University of Wisconsin,Whitewater and also alumna ofAlpha Phi Alpha also spokeWednesday on supporting a di-verse campus. Daniels told theaudience he’s never seen a showlike the one he saw at MurrayState’s campus.

“You see our (the stepping com-munity) representation on how weare changing the world,” Danielssaid. “Stepping is about usingyour body as an instrument tocommunicate. Stepping can bet-ter bring a campus together bybringing people together in acommon interest.”

There were 10 different showsbetween sororities, fraternitiesand independent organizations.All of the groups began rehearsingearly this semester and somestarted late last semester.

Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia beganthe fraternity division of the stepshow with a spinoff the Jabbawoc-keez called Singona Wockeez.

Following that, Sigma Chi pre-sented their prison themed show.

Sigma Phi Epsilon showed off intheir show with black lights and a

Blue Man Group theme. In the independent division,

Alpha Kappa Psi matched theirtheme with “The Wizard of Oz.”

Finishing up the independentcategory, Sigma Alpha Iota per-formed a “Phantom of the Opera”-themed show.

The sorority division startedwith Alpha Gamma Delta andtheir rebel masquerade theme.

Alpha Delta Pi preformed theirnightmare-themed step show inhopes to leave the audience with asleepless night.

After that came Alpha SigmaAlpha with their freak showthemed steps.

Sigma Sigma Sigma broughtEgyptians to life with their show.

Rounding off the night wasAlpha Omicron Pi. Their showcaptured the essence of life onthe streets.

“I’ve never been to the StepShow but think the energy is reallyexciting,” said Caleb Ellis, juniorfrom Henderson, Ky. “I’ll defi-nitely be back next year.”

To conclude the evening, theAlpha Phi Alpha’s walked onto thestage and presented the audiencewith their step show.

The Zeta Omicron chapter ofAlpha Phi Alpha uses their annualstep show to raise money for theirphilanthropy, the March of Dimes.

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It was 12 years ago when TheStrokes first made their way intothe music scene with their firstalbum, “Is This It.”I still go back and listen to that

first album because you cannot re-ally tire of it.With great songs such as “Is This

It,” “Someday” and “Last Nite”there is always a song I cannotbring myself to skip.Their first album was released to

critical acclaim and even made itonto Rolling Stone’s 500 GreatestAlbums of All Time.Twelve years later, the band is still

going strong. They just released theirfifth studio album, “Comedown Ma-chine,” with RCA Records.The album itself is a wonderful col-

lection of songs creatively put to-gether to create a good album. Theproblem I find myself asking is, howis this different?In the past 12 years, The Strokes

have put out four other albums: “IsThis It” in 2001, “Room on Fire” in2003, “First Impressions of Earth” in2006 and “Angles” in 2011, all excep-tional albums. But now, with the re-lease of their fifth album, as a Strokesfan myself, I cannot really see how theband has grown.They still have the same sound,

and as much as I love him, JulianCasablancas still has yet to learn

how to sing the higher octaves ofhis own music. But that sound is what makes The

Strokes unique. All I want is for themto build upon that. Make an albumthat really stands out, just like howtheir first album set them asidefrom every other musician outthere at the time.There are a few songs on this

record that make it worth listening to.The second song, “All The Time,”

sounds like something from their2011 album, “Angles.” I mean that inthe best way possible. Out of all the tracks on this album,

this one, for sure, has their showcasestheir classic sound. The lyrics during the chorus stand

out the most to me. Casablancasshouts over and over again, “You’reliving a lie, you’re living too fast.”Another standout track on the

album is “Welcome to Japan.”Again, I repeat, this song could eas-

ily blend in with the previous worksthe band has released.In this song, you can hear the in-

fluences music from the ‘80s has ontheir work today.The Strokes have been making

music for more than 12 years. Inthat time they have released five al-bums, three solo albums, collec-tively, won several music awardsand have appeared on numeroustalk shows across the world.While this album doesn’t stand out

from their others, it is one their fanswill not want to miss.

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For the pastyear or so, Ihave beenwatching “LateNight withJimmy Fallon”almost reli-giously.Fallon really

has a great wayof gearing hisshow towardhis audience.He has the

ability to con-nect with his audience, whichmakes you, as a viewer, feel likeyou really know him.That is why, when I found out he

may be replacing Jay Leno on the“Tonight Show,” I couldn’t be moreecstatic for him. But it does scareme a bit. I think most of us can re-member the Conan O’Brien vs.Leno debacle of 2010.In case you were living under a

rock in 2010, NBC was going topush back its late-night programsso Conan, then host of the “TonightShow with Conan O’Brien,” wouldnot start until 12:05 a.m.Conan would not accept this.

He said the delay of the “TonightShow” to the next morningwould just be ironic.“Also, if I accept this move, I will

be knocking the ‘Late Night’ show,which I inherited from David Let-terman and passed on to JimmyFallon, out of its long-held timeslot,” he said. “That would hurt theother NBC franchise that I love,and it would be unfair to Jimmy.”Conan ended up leaving the NBC

network all together and starting atalk show all his own on TBS.Leno went on to take the reins

back and host “The Tonight Show.”It is about time Leno set aside his

horrible jokes and awkward host-ing techniques to let some freshmeat take over. It is also rumored that if Fallon is

selected for the new hosting gig,the entire production will pick upand move to New York City to ac-commodate the comedian.If this proves to be true, it will

make the show that much better. Idon’t know what Jimmy’s showwould be without the Big Apple.As of right now, NBC and Fallon

himself have both not made anycomments as to the future of “TheTonight Show.”[email protected]

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