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A recent UN re-port announced that of the seven billion people on Earth, six billion of them have cellphones, but only 4.5 billion have proper sanitation facilities such as toilets. UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson is reaching out to the global com-munity stating, “I am determined to energize action that will lead to results. I am calling on all actors – government, civil society, business and international orga-nizations – to commit to measurable action and to mobilize the resourc-es to rapidly increase ac-cess to basic sanitation." This initia-tive is in an effort to bring 2.5 billion people worldwide proper sani-tation facilities. As of now 1.1 billion people

The call for sanitation

defecate in the open, under bridges or trash dumps, all while making phone calls or checking their facebook. Eliasson also added, “Let’s face it – this is a prob-lem that people do not like to talk about. But it goes to the heart of ensuring good health, a clean environment and fundamental human dig-nity for billions of people – and achieving the Millen-nium Development Goals. With just over a thou-sand days for action be-fore the 2015 MDG dead-line, we have a unique

window of opportunity to de-liver a generational change.” The UN reports that the countries where open defeca-tion is most widely practiced are the same countries with the highest numbers of under-five child deaths, high levels of under-nutrition and poverty, and large wealth disparities. Eliasson’s plea will not set up any new structures or funding mechanisms, but instead will focus on a global grassroots campaign of infor-mation and action by impact-ing one community at a time.

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It’s been three years since the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA), or otherwise known as "Obamacare" was passed. The ACA healthcare reform pro-gram ensures that by 2014 ev-ery tax-paying citizen will be covered by an insurance plan. Since its inception the act has received its fair share of opposition from politicians and citizens alike. But what has the act accomplished thus far? Through Obamacare, young people have been allowed to stay on their parents health-care until they are 26 years old, this has directly impacted about 3 million people. In a time of fi-nancial hardship, this has been crucial to young people receiv-ing the healthcare they need. Michele Bachmann claims that the ACA “literally kills wom-en, kills children [and] kills se-nior citizens.” Though, because of Obamacare the act requires all

health insurance plans to cover birth control with no co-pay as well as other women’s preventative care options at no out of pocket fee. As well as aiding young people, The Health and Human Services Department announced this week that more than 6.3 mil-lion people with Medicare have saved over $6.1 billion on pre-scription drugs because of the law.

Overall, the country is still very torn over the issue of national healthcare, with 37 per-cent of Americans having a fa-vorable view of the law and the opposing unfavorable view gar-ners 40 percent says a poll con-ducted by the nonpartisan, non-profit Kaiser Family Foundation. With a little under four years left in office it will be interesting to see how the healthcare debate and legislation will develop. Let us know your thoughts via twitter by tweeting us @TheUMFalcon.

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The Senate on March 22 passed 75-24 an amendment to the budget to tax the internet. This tax would impose state sales taxes to all on-line purchases regard-less of where the buyer and seller are located. Bear in mind, Senate hasn’t passed a budget in four years and in 1992 the Supreme

Court case Quill Corp. v. North Dakota set the precedent for online retailers to operate tax free. Where you do stand on this? Do think states have a right to their sales tax dollars? Do you think in-ternet retailers should be allowed to operate without paying state taxes? Or do you think this will open a Pandora’s Box of taxing the internet? Let us know.

The good peo-ple of New York or How Steve Jobs inad-vertently made New Yorkers less hostile Anyone grow-ing up in America on a steady diet of movies and television will tell you New Yorkers aren’t very nice. This idea of the mean/arrogant Yankee is amplified here in the south where we pride ourselves on our hospitality. When we think of New York we can imagine Dustin Hoff-man’s famous “I’m walkin’ here!” line from Midnight Cow-boy or Bruce Willis wearing a sandwich board scrawled with a racial slur on a corner in Harlem. For many, the characters they en-counter on shows like Law & Order typify who New Yorkers are. Well, sorry to break it to you good people: This simply isn’t true anymore. Here in the south when you’re walking on the side-walk you make eye contact with people passing you and of-ten exchange greet-ings. Such as “Good morning.”, “Hel-lo.”, “Nice day out.” In New York you have none of this. There is no eye contact. There are no pleasant-ries exchanged. Some people stare at their

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shoes as they walk. Oth-ers look straight ahead, defiant of those around them. But an alarming-ly large number of them are near oblivious to anyone else’s presence. How you might ask? The ubiquitous white cords dangling from the ears of peo-ple. On college cam-puses like the Univer-sity of Montevallo it isn’t uncommon to see a handful of students, and the occasional pro-fessor, walking around lost in their own pri-vate world, pumped directly into their ears, provided by these magical ear lanyards. These electronic yokes tether New York-ers of all ages, races, colors and creeds to the miniature comput-ers firmly glued to their palms. As such, their necks are permanently drooped, eyes fixed on their hands as they cup their wonder machines. Thousands of people willfully cut off from the sights and sounds of the world around them. And what sights and sounds they are. Of course, with any luck, a time will come when these powerful contraptions of distraction will al-low us to avoid the myriad smells that waft through the cavern-ous avenues of NYC. Yes, the city smells. While deployed

to Iraq I discovered what human waste re-ally smells like. No matter how bad the damage to your bath-room is after a Taco Bell bender, nothing compares to the smell of human sewage flow-ing through the streets (and occasionally your bedroom). Between the smells emitted from the thousands of res-taurants in Manhattan and the random waft of air from the bowels be-neath the concrete jun-gle, the mix was enough to trigger flashbacks. But I digress. Most people fear New York and, more accu-rately, fear the people. But the people are genu-inely nice. Inside, away from the hustle of the street, everyone I en-countered was as pleas-ant as could be. On the street, they ignore you. They aren’t mean or un-pleasant by any stretch. They simply ignore you and instead focus on the world fed to them by their headphones. Einstein once said, “I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our hu-manity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.” He might be right. Just take a look at YouTube for confir-mation. However, in the case of New York, technology has created a generation of islands.

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Our favorite little hermit kingdom of North Korea never fails when it comes to showings of anti-western shenanigans and vast ex-ploits of exaggeration and puffery. The DPRK has released a 4-minute long propaganda video via North's official website, Urim-inzokkiri, depicting an invasion scenario of Seoul that boasts the potential successful capture of 150,000 US citizens living in Korea. A male narrative breaks down each stage of the inva-sion as the “powerful weapons of

mass destruction” do their thing. The video depicts a full on-slaught of crackpot “Best” Korean forces surging over the border on foot and in tanks all while backed up by starving socialist paratroop-ers dropping in from planes and helicopters. A scene reminiscent of the late 90s PC game intro video for Command & Conquer. As of today the US and South Korea have signed a mili-tary plan of action in the event of North Korean aggression. The full video can be seen here.

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Bao Bao Bao, Baohaus is bustin’ at em At first it doesn’t make sense for a small student pub-lication to review an even smaller Taiwan-ese restaurant 1000 miles away in New York City, but what was found there may be essential the next time you find yourself in the Union Square area. Opened on Christmas Eve in 2009, Baohaus looks like a forgotten pop club of the 1980s with its blue neon sign and enclosed doorway. Brothers Ed-die and Evan Huang’s mentality from the be-ginning has been to tear down everything people knew about Taiwanese-Chinese food and rebuilt it from the ground up according to the res-taurant’s website. Upon entering visitors are corralled into a narrow space reminiscent of a New Orleans shotgun house, the walls and tables are covered in past patron’s hand scribbled graffiti, a thin plexiglass wall separates diners from the fryers and grill as hip hop music blast through the speakers. For the uniniti-ated, bao is a steamed bread-like food popu-lar in many Chinese style cuisines. At Baohaus they are pre-sented as small sand-wiches, ala eastern White Castle style. At the end of the day the only thing that matters is the food, and Baohaus delivers the goods. At an aver-age price of about $3.50 per bao, this place is also one of the least ex-pensive dining options available in the big city. The space ex-udes typical NYC coolness, all the way down to the names on the menu. Bao-haus features a variety of Bao such as The Chairman Bao, a slab of pork with crushed peanut, cilantro, Haus Relish, and Taiwanese red sugar as well as a pun on China’s former leader Mao Zedong. Along with the Chairman Bao we sam-pled the Birdhaus Bao, which could be politely dubbed a Taiwanese Chik-Fil-A. What’s also amazing is that for such quality and exot-

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icness each bao is rea-sonably priced at $3.50.

The Chairman Bao’s thick cut of pork comes with about half an inch worth of fat riding along the edge, some-thing that at first glance would even make we southerners shy away. What was discovered was that, that piece of fat was so essential to perpetuating the flavor and texture of the rest of the ingredients. It provided a bed for the cilantro and peanuts to stick to as well as a foil to the savoriness of the pork, all enclosed and neatly delivered by the fluffiness its bao carrier. However, it is advised that you do not shovel three of these bad boys into your maw in quick succession. You will love every bite, but the flavor overload will potentially send you into a minor food coma. An added plus to Baohaus’ menu is that all their meat is all all-natural, antibiotic, and hormone free, a fact that is noticed so prevalently in the Birdhaus Bao. The all natural fried chicken is brined for 24 hours and served with the Haus season-ing salt and like its cu-linary brothers crushed peanuts and Taiwanese red sugar are included for good measure. The red sugar provided the perfect sweetness to the soft chicken and the crushed peanuts picked up the slack in the crunchiness department. The downside, unfortunately seating is extremely limited and you will more than likely find yourself sit-ting with a set of strang-ers, though this does add to the atmosphere and as the cashier calls out your name to come and retrieve your order, even a visitor feels like part of the neighbor-hood. This lack of butt parking seems to have left some people with the desire to dance on the counter tops. Sadly, Baohaus doesn’t en-courage dancing any-where but on the floor. Baohaus is lo-cated at 238 E 14th St (2nd Ave) and is open Sunday-Thursday 11:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 11:30 a.m. to 4:00 a.m. on Friday and Saturday.

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Wavves come crashing in

Album Review:

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Wavves ring-leader Nathan Wil-liams is set to release his band’s fourth al-bum, Afraid of Heights, on March 26. The al-bum has been stream-ing via NPR’s web-site since March 17, which is available here. Overall, the al-bum is drenched in self loathing and fear, it is a darker release than past albums such as King of the Beach. Williams cites that the album is about the fears of grow-ing older and the added responsibilities of fame. At first listen the album comes off as bratty and immature but this feeling quickly dis-sipates as the feelings of apathy and hopeless-ness give us something to relate to via sim-plistic lyrics and driv-

KYLE JONESEditor-In-Chief | @TheUMFalcon ing choruses. A perfect

soundtrack for a hazy one bedroom apart-ment with no food in the cabinets or a solitary walk in sunny weather. “Lounge For-ward”, the fourth track on the album, sounds like the best Green Day song that was never written. “Paranoid” and title track “Afraid of Heights” amp up the albums message of fear and anxiety in an amaz-ingly catchy way. The bubbly beach rock songs like those on previous albums are not missed with this latest release, “Cop” provides that classic sound Wavves has become known for but with haunt-ingly morbid lyrics. Afraid of Heights unsurprisingly gives us everything we’ve come to expect from the three-piece.

Fast paced SoCal punk and droning repetitive eerie ballads. This is not necessarily a bad thing,

it is a welcome continu-ation of the bands for-mula that also shows the band and Wil-

liams growth as artist. The Fal-con gives Afraid of Heights a 8 out of 10.

When the Strokes burst onto the music scene in 2001with debut album “Is This It?”, they were instantly declared the “Saviors of Rock n’ Roll”. Their apathetic leather jacket aesthetic blended per-fectly with songs chock full of neon guitar riffs, machine tight rhythms and singer Julian Casa-blancas’ characteristic croon. There was possi-bility to this lofty claim. By “First Im-pressions of Earth” in 2006, the Strokes seemed to have lost their cool. Songs about girls turned to rumina-tions on suicidal love coupled with themes of social alienation and

The Strokes “Comedown Machine”

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dejection. The fun of the first two albums was buried under 14 tracks of uncharacteris-tic nervy post-punk. The band took a five year hiatus, only to return in 2011 with the hugely disappointing “Angles”. However bad “Angles” was, the re-cord’s dance and elec-tronic influences are pivotal in understand-ing the band’s current musical evolution. The just released “Come-down Machine” is a long awaited return to form which moves away from the Strokes’ trademarked retro rock. As evidenced by the twelve tracks here, the Strokes have left the grimy dive bars of their youth and are at-tempting to tap back in time to the glitzy sheen of 80’s new wave. This era’s influence was al-ways evident; a look back at the music vid-eos for Strokes classics like “12:51” and “Hard

to Explain” show visual references to the de-cade’s kitschy aesthetic. Where “Angles” lead single “Under Cov-er of Darkness” played like a long lost “Is This It?” cut, new lead single “All the Time” sounds like a flat and bored bone thrown to fanboys of the old sound. The band is at their worst when they try to recap-ture former glory here. Even the dirty punk of “50/50” can’t shake the impression that these “saviors” have no interest in straight rock music anymore.The first tune released from the album, “One Way Trigger”, was a de-cisive track for longtime Strokes fans. The nor-mally prominent twin guitar playing of Albert Hammond Jr. and Nick Valensi is layered under-neath a squelchy synth seemingly lifted from Ah-a’s “Take On Me”.The record feels lighter and goofier than any

other Strokes release. “One Way Trigger” has a ridiculous, but infec-tious hook. Opening track “Tap Out” sounds like a better and more nocturnal take on “Ma-chu Picchu” from their last record. Skittering and glittery disco beats dance around an es-pecially impassioned and sultry Casablan-cas’ vocal delivery. “Welcome to Japan” throws disco in the mix while maintain

the tightly coiled guitar playing the band has made its name on. The group has had trouble in the past attempting less than stellar experiments with electronica. The flickering “Chances” and woozy title track are much better stabs at a synth based sound. The former has an es-pecially stellar falsetto hook from Casablancas. Despite the re-newed confidence, the reinvention comes with

a few kinks. “Partners in Crime” is compiled of several annoying musical parts. A spring loaded guitar riff clash-es with an especially poor chorus. Closer “Call It Fate, Call It Karma” does away with New Wave for an older turn of the century jazz approach. The results? A perplexing and ill-advised end choice for an otherwise de-cent comeback album. It took three al-bums and seven years, but The Strokes finally sound refreshed and ready after highly pub-licized bouts of inde-cision and infighting. With their five album contract with RCA ex-pired, the band can ex-plore new possibilities and territories with re-newed confidence and nostalgic expertise. The Falcon gives The Strokes “Come-down Machine” 7/10.

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Trunk Muzik’s lackluster return

Alabama native Yelawolf recently re-leased his 6th mixtape, Trunk Muzik Returns

on March 14 via datpiff.com. This marks his first release since last No-vember’s Psycho White, a collaborative proj-ect featuring infamous drummer Travis Barker. The mixtape features guest appear-ances from hip hop art-ist ranging from the greats to those new to the spotlight, a lineup that includes A$AP

Rocky, Paul Wall and legendary Wu-Tang Clan member Raekwon. The title offers the idea that the mixtape will return to the sound and style that propelled his career on Trunk Muzik 0-60, though it is a welcome change from Yelawolf’s previ-ous haphazard releases, overall the mixtape falls just short, a disappoint-

ing realization for fans . Fans can rejoice that the tape does knock on the door of what we grew to love from the rapper. Tracks like “Way Out” and “Cat-fish Billy” once again paint the picture of the redneck lifestyle and landscape when hip hop music is juxtaposed in the mix. Where we fall short is on “Box Chevy Part 4”, a song that for

fans should carry on the legacy of the pre-vious beloved releas-es of the same name. An unlikely gem from the mixtape comes from “Hustle” which features Houston staple and grill jeweler to the hip hop stars, Paul Wall. Somehow this track is perfect from the smooth and cool beat to the at-tributing verses of both Wall and Yelawolf.

A consolida-tion from this release is that Yela spends part of the album apologiz-ing for his past lacklus-ter releases and is on the road to returning to his former greatness. Hopefully we can ex-pect a full reemergence later this year with the release of his third stu-dio album titled Love Story. Until then, at least we still have 0-60.

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