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Controversy drowns water ski leaders; 2 dismissed from team

Gilbert wearing 1 crown too many?p. 6

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Two leading members of the national championship water ski team were dismissed Mon-day for breaking curfew the night after winning the title.

Skiers Zach Worden and Claudio Koestenberger, who finished first and second re-spectively in the jump com-petition at nationals, have been removed from the team and are forced to forfeit their scholarships for the spring semester, according to state-ments given by the two skiers.

Wordon said head coach Treina Landrum kicked the two skiers off the team for missing curfew because the two were celebrating winning the national title. But Wordon said the judgment was un-fair because assistant coach Heather Reilly gave the team permission to be out later than the stated curfew.

“We stay at a different hotel from the other schools, and all year we follow the strict guide-lines,” Worden said. “Then our last night we wanted to let loose after winning nationals.”

Wordon said he and Koes-tenberger went out with Wordon’s parents to Mike’s Bar in Tigerland, a cluster of bars in Baton Rouge near where the team was staying, assuming they had permis-sion from the assistant coach.

After returning to Monroe, Wordon said Reilly denied to Lan-drum she gave them permission, but she lat-er apologized to Wordon with a phone call while addressing the team.

Wordon’s father, John, said he did not hear with his own ears Reilly give permission to be out past curfew, but he said “that was the understanding that was prevalent in the lobby among the team and parents.”

The Wordons said their big-gest complaint about the whole incident was the lack of clearly defined rules on the team and the heavy judgment passed on the team’s top two skiers based, on what they say, are no defined guidelines.

“She just dropped the ham-mer on Zach, and she dropped it hard,” John Wordon said. “[Landrum’s] rules set every-one up for failure. She just gets worse each year.”

They also said the team abid-ed by a strict curfew the night before the competition while other schools were out party-ing. They said they felt cele-brating after winning was ap-propriate.

See WATER SKI, p.16

Left: National champion Zach Worden celebrates his victory at the homecoming football game Saturday.

photo by Srdjan Marjanovic

by Cole Avery and DeRon Talley

special edition

Football devastated in overtime lossp. 19

Campus celebrates Homecoming festivitiesp 8

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NEWS

TOKYO, Japan — Tibet’s exiled Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, pointed to what he called China’s “ruthless policy” as prompting the recent deaths of Tibetan monks who set themselves on fire in protest.

“For their own interest...they have to act (with a) realistic sort of policy,” he told reporters Saturday at a Tokyo hotel, while in Japan to visit victims of the devastating March 11 tsunami.

At least nine Tibetans in their late teens and 20’s have self-immolat-ed since March in protest of Chinese rule, and five of them have died from their injuries. Many Tibetans con-sider the Dalai Lama as their rightful leader.

NEW YORK — On Friday, author-ities in lower Manhattan removed propane tanks and generators in Zuccotti Park -- an Occupy Wall Street home base in the city’s finan-cial district -- leaving demonstrators to battle the cold seeping through their blankets and sleeping bags.

“These are fire hazards (and) against the law,” New York Mayor Mi-chael Bloomberg said during a radio interview, adding that his “first con-cern was safety.”

Demonstrators described the removal as an attempt to restrict In-ternet use and make their lives more difficult as a cold front moves into the region.

Dalai Lama: China to blame for monk fires

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. Dept. of Commerce has rescinded an $80 million grant to Louisiana last year that would have expanded the reach of broadband Internet to rural and poor areas of the state.

U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu on Wednesday was disappointed, say-ing the “state was unable or unwilling to meet the necessary deadlines” to move the project forward.

“This is yet another missed op-portunity to improve the lives of Louisiana residents, particularly ru-ral Louisianians who are often left out of such initiatives,” Landrieu said. She also vowed “to work even hard-er” and pick up state leader’s slack.

NYC ‘occupy’ being frozen out by officials

$80 million lost in broadband grant funding “Sidney, how does

it feel to be almost brutally

butchered? People want to

know. They have a right to know!

How does it feel?”A reporter speaking

to Sidney Prescott

from the movie “Scream”

ULMPD arrested Laquenchia Mar-nette Dykes, 28, of Desiard Street, shortly after midnight Saturday morn-ing on charges of DWI first offense with child endangerment.

Police said in a report an officer pulled Dykes over because she was driving with her fog lights on. Dur-ing the questioning, the officer said he smelled alcohol on her breath. The re-port goes on to say Dykes performed poorly on the field sobriety test and failed a breathalizer test.

The report makes no mention of a child being in the car with Dykes, but ULMPD confirms that a child was in the car with Dykes at the time of the arrest.

Alex Blake Pilgreen, 19, of Debo-rah Drive, was arrested early Wednes-day morning on charges of DWI first of-fense.

Officers said in a report they smelled a strong odor of alcohol on his breath. He told officers he had consumed only two beers during the night, but officers said he failed a breathalizer test.

Austin C. Hemphill, 20, of Caney Ridge Road, Monroe, was arrested ear-ly Monday morning on charges of pos-session of a legend drug, possession of drug paraphernalia and simple posses-sion of marijuana.

The arrest report says an officer pulled over Hemphill because his win-dows were illegally tinted. The officer said when he made contact with the driver, he smelled marijuana and arrest-ed Hemphill.

Officers searched the vehicle and found a blue pill poison control verified to be Viagra. The report says Hemphill admitted to stealing the Viagra from his grandfather.

The search also found a grinder used to separate marijuana, a Finaflex bot-tle Hemphill admitted he used to carry marijuana and six unknown, cream col-ored pills.

NATIONWORLD QUOTESTATE

HAWKEYE HALLOWEEN COSTUME CONTEST RESULTSCAMPUS CRIME BRIEFS

Brought to you by RaceWay

SCISSORHANDS by Nathaniel Medlin

SQUIRREL by Sarah Ricaud

1st PLACE Honorable Mention

After much deliberation and several great entries, the Hawkeye is pleased to announce Nathaniel Med-lin as the costume contest winner for his homemade rendition of Edward Scissorhands. Medlin will re-ceive a $100 store gift card courtesy of RaceWay. We also wanted to show off Sarah Ricaud’s squirrel cos-tume with an honorable mention.

Thanks to all contestants who entered! Stay tuned for our next contest for the month of November!

THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE PAGE 3October 31, 2011

“Southern Fried Mikado” de-buts in Brown Auditorium for this Fall’s opera production. The Japanese-cultured play will run 7:30 – 9 p.m. Thursday and Friday with a matinee perfor-mance 2 p.m. Saturday at.

Tickets are $5.00 general public. Free with Students/Fac-ulty/Staff I.D. Contact VAPA at 342-1414 or 105 Biedenharn for ticket information.

The exhibition “Found Uni-forms” is on display in Bry Gal-lery until Dec. 1. Paintings by Suzanne Schireson and sculp-ture by Nate Risteen will be available for viewing in the gal-lery 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m Monday-Thursday and 8 a.m. – 12 p.m. Friday, from the School of Visual and Performing Arts.

Through Nov. 24, the ULM Starbucks hopes to build a bet-ter community by fighting hun-ger. Donations can be dropped off in a box at the store. Star-bucks requests that items be nonperishable and not past their expiration date. Donations are accepted from anyone will-ing to play a part. Every little bit helps.

Comedian Jeff Havens will be in the SUB Ballrooms 7 p.m. Tuesday, November 8 to pres-ent “How to Get Fired!” a satir-ical presentation of what to do if a lifetime of stable employ-ment depresses you.

Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) will play host to area high school juniors and seniors Wednesday, Nov. 2 to show them what the School of Visu-al and Performing Arts has to offer.

Interested students may tour the facilities, receive informa-tion about pursuing majors and minors in VAPA and gain infor-mation about scholarships and talent grants.

Fall musical debuts in Brown Auditorium

Bry Gallery exhibits sculptures, paintings

Starbucks hosts food drive for November

“How to Get Fired” talk in SUB ballrooms

VAPA brings local high schools to ULM

NEWS

BRIEFS

Although the weather proved chal-lenging with scattered showers and chilly fall air, students still came out to enjoy the second annual Hallow-een Costume Ball Thursday night in Brown Gym.

The night began at 9 p.m. and didn’t stop until the clock struck 1 a.m. with the gym being transformed into a dance hall.

This year’s event was included as a Homecoming activity because of how closely Halloween fell this year to Homecoming.

All ULM students were welcome, but those not in costumes had to pay a $5 entrance fee.

Proceeds from admission also went to the Student Government Association and Campus Activities Board, the two organizations who sponsored the ball.

Alcohol was provided for those who were old enough, and refresh-ments were catered by the Field House.

Many students participated in

dressing for the ball this year and made for a variety of different cos-tumes.

Nathan Hall, associate vice president of student affairs, also par-ticipated in dressing up in costume along with other faculty and staff.

The costume ball held its tradi-tional costume contest later, and Heather Wardiaw took home first place dressed as a witch.

Wardiaw said she wanted to par-ticipate in every event she could this year since she is a senior.

With this in mind, she decided to go to the ball.

“I wanted to be something scary because I knew there was not going to be too many scary costumes. I had no intention to win when I decided to dress up,” said Wardiaw.

Homecoming Halloween Ball

Different designs were carved into over 20 pumpkins as contestants worked to win prizes in the first ever Pumpkin Carving Competition.

Costume ball contest winner

Heather Wardiaw (above) dressed as a scary witch along side Leigh Runions dressed

in a Freddy/Jason mashup.

Laura Knotts (right) and Nathan Hall

join in on the holi-day festivities.

photo by Sydney Bonner

photos by Lane Davis

2nd annual costume ball held in Brown Gymby Brandon Tate

Halloween is here again! This spooky holiday gives people the chance to be someone else for a night, watch horror movies and eat as much candy as possible. But as stu-dents put down the books, eat candy and be kids again, safety is an issue that is sometimes forgotten.

Although partying is the thing to do for Halloween for most college students, partying and trick-or-treat-ing can be dangerous. Sgt. Sonya Bethley of Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s office recommends that everyone drink responsibly.

“If college students are going to drink, they need to make sure they have a designated driver,” said Beth-ley. She also recommended that when going trick-or-treating, every-one should travel in groups and wear appropriate colored attire.

“Wearing black while trick-or-treating can be potentially dangerous for drivers and themselves. They can-

not see someone in all black,” Bethley said. “Also go to neighborhoods that are most familiar.”

Kat Ashby, se-nior in health m a n a g e m e n t and marketing, plans on going out and having fun with her friends.

“I’m going to a Halloween party,” Ashby said. “I’m getting away from homework and having fun. I may even go trick-or-treating!”

Ashby said not everyone is going to party or go hunting for the best treats, so she offered watching scary movies as an alternative.

For those with a sweet tooth, be sure to set safety rules before going out with friends. Check your treats before eating them and stay alert. Happy candy hunting!

Over 20 people joined in on the fun of the first ever Pumpkin Carving contest hosted by the Student Gov-ernment Association Thursday in the Quad. The winner, Shelby James, re-ceived a $100 gift card to Wal-Mart. For placing 2nd Heather Nguyen re-ceived a $50 to Wal-Mart.

There were some criteria that the judges were looking for, but overall

they were looking for artistic ability. “Just the general artistic feel of

the pumpkins,” said Nathan Hall, Assistant Dean of Student Life and Leadership. “The winner was cleanly cut and very detailed.”

The participants were supplied with all the utensils and the pump-kins. Some had the pumpkins cleaned out for them.

Halloween safety techniques for students during holidays

1st pumpkin carving contest spills treats for creative contestants

by Jackie Johnson

by Brandon Craven

Ashby

contact Jackie Johnson [email protected]

contact Brandon Craven [email protected]

contact Brandon Tate [email protected]

“I had no intention to win when I decided

to dress up.”Heather Wardiaw

costume ball winner


While most of campus was in the midst of Homecoming Week, busi-ness students were focused on the three-day business symposium to learn how to further their careers.

Business students were excused from class and required to go to the symposium for extra credit.

All students could attend the event to see important business speakers, most of whom were ULM alumni.

This allowed multiple classes to hear the same speaker. A cookout was also provided for faculty, stu-dents and business guests.

The purpose of the business sym-posium was to engage alumni in college activities and to also bring

current business thoughts and prac-tices to campus. This gives students a big chance to build their résumés and network with other businesses with hopes of internships and possi-bly full-time careers.

“The symposium is helpful for stu-dents because it gives us an outlook on suc-cessful jobs and businesses,” said Heather Black-man, a senior marketing ma-jor from Monroe. “It is very inspir-ing for people in our field to listen to these knowledgeable speakers.”

Wednesday night was the kick-off for the symposium. The event that night was called the “Brain Bowl.” A variety of business majors put together teams to compete in a Jeop-ardy-style game for fun. The idea

behind the game was to get stu-dents excited for the next two se-rious days. T h u r s d a y ’ s events includ-ed 11 different speakers coming to talk to busi-ness students about current business trends and practices.

Speakers shared their stories of success and challenged the students to reach for their goals in the busi-ness world.

All speakers earned a level of suc-cess and position in their respected fields.

The last day of the symposium was perhaps the most important of all for business students to attend. Speak-er Shama Kabani, president and CEO of Zen Marketing Group, came to ULM as the keynote speaker with

the theme: “Business and Society: Connecting for Success.” People from the community, as well as faculty and students, came to hear the high-profile speaker address issues in the modern-day business world.

“Kabani gave us a lot of great ad-

vice about what to do and what not to do in a business setting, for example Facebook and Twitter,” said Chistian Bibi Ndongo, a senior general busi-ness major.

Career Connections hosted their third annual “Hiring for the Holi-days” marketplace Thursday in the Career Connections office.

Businesses from around the area came to ULM looking for a chance to hire students to work seasonal posi-tions.

Many businesses were clothing stores like Forever 21, American Ea-gle and Old Navy. However other stores like Build-A-Bear Workshop and Pier 1 Imports were looking to hire too.

Roslynn Pogue, student em-ployment administrator at Career Connections, helped students throughout the fair talking to them about potential jobs and hosted the businesses that were in attendance. “Companies need extra workers for the holiday crowd; it’s a great oppor-tunity for ULM students to get a job they may need.’ Pogue said.

Jasmine Blanson a junior elemen-tary education major is thankful ULM helps students find jobs. Blan-son said, “I’m glad ULM hosts these events; I need a job for the holidays to buy presents!”

A main quality a company may be looking for is a person who can rep-resent their company well. Many students were dressed for the event

and employers took notice. Robert Esposito, manager of Yan-

kee Candle at Pecanland Mall, gave some advice to students about job searching.

“Appearance does matter when I am looking for someone to hire” Es-posito said about students dressing professionally to the event. “Dress like you would for an interview.”

Most com-panies hire people in Octo-ber so they can be trained and ready for the holiday season. This is the per-fect time for any student to apply for a seasonal position, perhaps to get some extra cash for holiday shop-ping.

Remember while looking for a job: retail always needs help during the holidays, and if you are going to the location for an application, dress like you would for the interview so they know you can represent a company well.

Career Connections is always available to help students prepare for entering the job market.

If you’re like many students, mid-terms snuck up on you, picked you up and dropped you on your head. It seems that every semester, mid-terms and finals come and go fast, and students are left wondering what happened.

Maybe it was procrastination or lack of sleep, but one thing is for sure, studying more would have helped. Here is a wake-up call: It’s already November, so why not get a jump-start on the finals?

The University Library is one of the best places to study on campus. First of all, you have computers if you need them. Second, floors four and five are usually very quiet and secluded.

Group study rooms are available to all students. Students just need their IDs and at least two people to get a room that can be rented for up to four hours. The library is one of the places open until midnight during the week, but on Fridays they close at 4:30 p.m. The library is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays and 12 p.m. to midnight on Sundays.

Many people go to the Student Success Center because it is conve-nient, but it’s not ideal for silence. If you have math homework due, it can be the perfect place.

Tutoring is available for all stu-dents. So if a student needs help with a class, the SSC can get you a tutor. Online tutoring is available on the Moodle home page.

Tutoring hours for the SSC are from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday-Thursday. Computer lab hours are 7:30 a.m.-12 a.m. Monday-Thursday, 7:30-11:30a.m. Friday and 4-8 p.m. Saturday.

If students need a computer for a few things or to take quizzes, the Write Place in Walker Hall (former-ly the Administration Building) gives the perfect balance for homework or studying.

“We offer English tutoring and help with students on their papers,” said Shelby McGaha, a speech-language pathology major from McGehee, Ark. “It’s a lot quieter than the library or SSC.”

NEWS

contact Jaime Arrignton [email protected]

Start making up for midterms by going to study-friendly spots

Symposium prepares business majors

Blanson

Kabani

Ndongo

3 days of speakers get students ready for future careers

Two students read at one of the many study areas in the university’s library during a late-night study session.

by Jaime Arrington

by Cole Avery

by Sydney Bonner

contact Cole Avery [email protected]

contact Sydney Bonner [email protected]

Workshops help those looking for holiday jobs

photo by Devon Raymond

DID YOU KNOW?

Shama Kabani, a well known and energetic expert on social media and web marketing was our keynote speaker. Kabani is regularly in the news media and has her own Internet TV show and social media mar-keting book. Through her web marketing company, Kabani works with businesses and organizations around the world. In 2009, Business Week honored her as one of the Top 25 under 25 entrepreneurs in North America. In 2010, Kabani won the prestigious Technology Titan Emerging Company CEO award.

Studying on Campus series

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The Catholic Campus Ministry (CCM) held a special night of dedica-tions and ceremonies on Thursday, Oct. 20, to honor outstanding stu-dents as well as the memory of a ULM benefactor.

The dedication of the Ellen Ran-dall House, the annex by the CCM, began that night. Carl Thameling, head of the Communications De-partment, and Father Job Edathinatt of the CCM dedicated the house fol-lowing the ribbon cutting done by Eric Thibodeaux. Bishop Michael Duca performed the blessing. A close friend of Randall’s named Car-ol Christopher, a former director of Music Education at ULM, shared a speech about Randall.

According to Christopher, Randall was a Monroe local who was orig-inally from Michigan. She and her husband, Warren, moved down here so he could open the Piccadilly res-taurant. She lived to be almost 100 years old and was a regular member of Our Lady of Fatima even in her old age. Randall’s passion was to save up money not for herself but for the ben-efit of others. When she passed away three years ago, she donated money to numerous churches. Although she never had kids of her own, she want-ed this money to benefit the future generations to come.

“Ellen always did what she said she was going to do. This house will

be a sacred place for anyone to come to worship, study or hang out,” said Christopher. “She wanted to share her passion for God with others.”

The Scholar’s Mass followed the blessing of the house.

Seven students received scholarships for their academ-ic achievements and hard work presented by professors Laurie Babin, Sean Chenoweth and Kar-en Frye. The scholarship recipients for their academic successes in-cluded: Jenae’ Clay, atmospheric sciences major; Fernando Cor-dova, accounting major; Robert J. Esponge, doctoral pharmacy student and Robert Connor Wofford, histo-ry major. The meritorious service awards included: John Michael Lon, pre-pharmacy major; Kevin Mues, general business major; and Tyra Ri-vera, biology major.

All seven students chosen from the CCM were required to write an essay about how faith is helping them in this phase of their lives.

“I feel so honored. It is a truly hum-bling award to be given,” said Clay. “I love serving the CCM because it gives you a sense of peace to work with this wonderful family of love.”

With the guidance of several ULM faculty members and students, the West Ouachita Senior Center (WOSC) has recently gained nation-al accreditation.

The National Institute of Senior Centers granted the WOSC accred-itation after a grueling 18-month process. Accreditation will help gain more recognition and funding to en-hance the center, and give the elderly more readily available resources.

Karen Frye, interim department head of Gerontology, Sociology and Political Science, said the process was a tough task because most cen-ters do not have the resources to

finish the accreditation process. The WOSC is only the 201st center in the nation to receive accred-itation, further revealing what a strenuous task completing the process is.

The WOSC has been a partner with ULM for many years offering students intern-ships and experience. With all that the WOSC has given to ULM, certain members of the ULM faculty includ-ing Charlotte Owens, Paula Griswold, Patsy Costello and Frye, as well as

volunteers Marty Steffenson and Jea-nette Ellington, knew that despite the difficult task, it would be worth their time.

Frye said she relished the chance to give back to the WOSC as well as the community by serving as a direc-tor on this project and making sure the process was carried out thor-oughly. Along with Frye, several ULM students assisted in the accreditation process by proofreading documents, working on applications and volun-teering their time. With dedication from ULM, the WOSC will now re-ceive the help they need..

NEWS

contact Sydney Bonner [email protected]

Senior center gets accredited with help of students, faculty

Frye

On-site house named after generous giver

Eric Thibodeaux cuts the ribbon to dedicate the house near the CCM to Ellen Randall. Randall was a generous benefactor to many local churches.

by Sydney Bonner

by Jarred Keller

contact Jarred Keller [email protected]

Scholarships given at Catholic center dedication ceremony

photo by Sydney Bonner

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OPINION

“You like me, you really like me!” Like the jubilation expressed by Sally Field after winning her Oscar, maybe Miss ULM and Homecoming Queen Jessica Gilbert is feel-ing the same way. But is it fair for one girl to create a monopoly of her popularity?

With the recent crowning of Gilbert as both Homecoming Queen and Miss ULM, that question begs to be answered. Some may find it unfair for one girl to hold both crowns. However, unless there is a rule stat-ing that one girl cannot win both titles, why hate her because she is pretty and popular?

It’s not her fault everyone likes her. Many girls like Gilbert have their eyes set on be-coming college royalty, but there is much more that goes into being queen than just looking good in a crown. Each Homecom-

ing contestant must have a 2.5 GPA and must be nominated by at least one on-cam-pus organization.

Even with that criteria, most still want their candidates to paint on that smile and be “nice” to get our votes.

If you are like myself, you do not even know the majority of the people that run for Homecoming court. The determining factor for me is always primarily, do I know you? Secondly, are you pretty? Perhaps a bit shal-low, but when all you have to rely on is a picture, a subjectively superficial decision must be made.

However, Miss ULM is a decision made by judges, not the masses or lust-filled college boys. These girls need at least a smidgen of talent and have to be able to sell themselves to these judges. That further proves Gilbert must have a quality about her not only her peers admire but appeals to other genera-tions as well.

So to that I say, if you feel Jessica Gilbert doesn’t deserve to be both Homecoming Queen and Miss ULM, then you should have competed and beaten her.

I would like to preface this editorial by saying the opinion in this article might not be very popu-lar, but I’m going to say it anyway.

I’m convinced that every high school has one. Probably most families have one too. It’s the gold-en child who somehow manages to win every award, play every sport flawlessly and maintain an impeccable GPA, all the while looking perfect-ly put together.

Since we all can’t be runners-up for the “Most Interesting Man/Woman in the World,” those precious moments of triumph for the underdog stick with us. At my high school, we had those multi-talented, multi-faceted few who seemed to dominate at every sporting event, science fair and talent show. But when it came to Homecom-ing, I was always surprised that everyone banded together and was firm in the decision that former

winners were never on the court again. Of course, they still came up during nominations (they were “well-liked.”) However, the general consensus was, “Yeah, so-and-so is cool and all, but they won last year. What about someone else?” I must say I’ve always admired that resolve we had.

I feel it is our duty as human beings to share joy with as many people as possible. There’s so much negativity in the world that the only way to bal-ance it out is to make a conscious effort to help others feel a sense of fulfillment. I’m all about happiness for the masses.

I’m not saying Jessica Gilbert didn’t deserve to win. After all, the votes determined that the ma-jority of Warhawks believe she did deserve her second crown of the month. But, why didn’t we root for the underdog? Why didn’t everyone band together to ensure that such a prestigious and joyous moment in someone’s life, like winning a coveted title, was experienced by two people rath-er than one?

In closing, I want to offer my congratulations to Ms. Gilbert while reminding my fellow Warhawks to spread the smiles. Root for the underdog from time to time. With that mentality, who knows? Maybe we can all win something special one day.

contact Jarred Keller [email protected]

contact Morgan Witt [email protected]

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Dear Students,

The Student Government Association (SGA) serves as the elected voice of the ULM student body. As such, we are responsible for listening to the concerns of all stu-dents and taking action when deemed necessary. Many students expressed concern to SGA regarding their Nata-torium Student Fee. It was suggested that student usage of the Lake C. Oxford Natatorium is low, and alternative options for its supporting fee should be considered. This prompted SGA to take a closer look at funding and usage of the Natatorium. Recent reports showed that nearly 90 percent of funding for the facility comes from students, yet students only account for approximately nine per-cent of the total usage. Since students do fund the vast majority of operation and maintenance costs of the Na-tatorium, SGA believes it to be only fair that decisions made in regards to the facility lie in students’ hands. We presented this information to the ULM Administration for their consideration. The administration provided support to SGA to continue with efforts to allow students to reevaluate their Natatorium Student Fee.

SGA then proceeded to gather ideas from students on how to most effectively use this fee. SGA leadership

met with an architect to discuss these ideas and to de-velop a variety of options for the student body. An open forum was held on Oct. 17 for viewing of architectur-al renderings designed from these student ideas. As the community and its needs are important to SGA and ULM as a whole, we have also worked closely with community groups throughout this process. During the forum, com-munity members also presented a proposal to attendees.

Within the next few weeks, final plans from ULM’s ar-chitect and the community will be displayed throughout campus. These plans and associated costs will then be placed on the ULM website. An online vote will allow students to vote on the option they feel best meets their needs.

As always, do not hesitate to contact SGA if you have any questions, concerns or suggestions regarding this process or any other matter. SGA exists to serve you. We are “students serving students.”

Sincerely,

Brooke DugasSGA President

SGA president: We are ‘students serving students’

MORGAN WITTJARRED KELLER

Homecoming, Miss ULM: wrong to take both?Don’t hate because she’s beautiful; talent, popularity aren’t the same

Is 1 head big enough for 2 crowns? Student votes should share the wealth

comic courtesy of MCT Campus


It’s that time of the year when the weather and wardrobes change. Shopping for new clothes to match the weather can be fun, but adjusting to the weather for our health is the biggest challenge when going from hot/warm weather to freezing cold.

Winter is my favorite time of year. I think about the holidays and the end of the fall semester. Snow boots and hot cocoa comes to mind when winter rolls around. One can picture cars with frost on the windows, see-

ing someone’s breath in the cold air and building snowmen.

Unfortunately, Louisiana’s weath-er is so confused that some of those things may not happen. The issue that Louisiana has to deal with is the weather going from cold to hot con-stantly and fighting the cold.

Five years ago, I caught the flu twice in one year. There were med-ications to take, being quarantined from the rest of the world and drink-ing an at-home remedy that made me dislike peppermints for two or three years.

My mother made a drink to help kill the flu. She combined whiskey, lemon juice and peppermints togeth-er and put it on the stove to cook. The steam from the mixture helps with a stuffy nose, whiskey and lemon juice help with mucus and peppermints help soothe coughing. It can be a

rough drink, but it works.No one wants to get sick, but it can

happen and there are ways to prevent it. Take vitamins such as cod liver oil, drink orange juice and have hand sanitizer. Check weather forecasts for appropriate clothing, and get the flu shot.

During the winter, it is also im-portant to keep helpful medicines in stock. NyQuil, DayQuil, Theraflu and Mucinex are successful over-the-counter medications that can help with colds and flu-like symptoms. For hot liquids, make the whiskey concoction or a simple peppermint tea with lemon, honey and pepper-mint candies.

Being sick is never fun, but with those simple tips, wintertime can be much more enjoyable!

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Whiskey, peppermints: My tips for fighting flu

OPINION

JACKIE JOHNSON

“The Greatest Campus on Earth.” The phrase is perhaps a clever way to celebrate the circus theme the University chose for this year, but this board thinks ULM missed a golden opportunity to play up a huge mile-stone for our institution.

People know that for big birthdays, you typically do something real-ly special. Instead, we became a circus and made an utter mockery of a proud institution of higher learning.

We turned 80 this year, a number that people pay attention to. Not only did we turn 80, we turned 80 on the heels of an Investiture Week that brought a very large spotlight to the great things happening on our campus. Turning 80 was a chance to say to the world, “We’ve been around a long time, and look what a great school we are.”

Instead, while the world was watching, we turned our greatest cam-pus on Earth into the greatest show under the big top. Our campus was displayed as a circus.

Rather than use the big year to highlight our many accomplishments, we decided to show that we were clowns, people doing a song-and-dance routine, riding on elephants or swinging from a trapeze. We could almost be considered a mockery of ourselves.

While all that was going on, serious people on this campus probably lowered their heads in shame, hoping that when the human cannon-ball went off, they could be in the line of fire so the madness would stop.

Is that who we are at ULM? Are we a dirt-floor arena under a big, por-table tent? Of course we aren’t, but that’s the message we sent while the world was watching.

This is a serious institution doing great things. If we are going to con-tinue to grow and improve our stature among our peers, we cannot afford to miss opportunities like the one we missed with our 80th birth-day.

This board knows the people of this university come to this campus everyday to accomplish greatness. Knowing that makes it all the more puzzling why we would not let everyone else see that when they were watching us.

We only turn 80 once, and we did not make the most of it. Hopefully when we turn 90, the University will choose to say, “Man, aren’t we awe-some!” instead of

HAWKEYE P.O.V.

Our campus is not a circus for clowns

“Step right up to see the show.”

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Jugglers and stilt walkers seemed to bring the youth out of students during lunch Tuesday as ULM hosted the “Roving Carnival Artists” as part of the Homecoming week activities.

The Roving Carnival included many different artists ranging from clowns to magicians and stilt walkers to jugglers.

The Roving Artists were brought in by the University because they co-incided with the circus theme “The Greatest Campus on Earth,” accord-ing to Nathan Hall, assistant vice president of student affairs.

“The Event was aimed to get students out around campus and cel-ebrate homecoming,” said Hall.

The carnival artists put on two shows, one held at noon in the quad where students could also eat free Chick-fil-a and donate to the blood bank. This event featured the stilt walkers who put on a show in the quad and SUB.

The second show was held at 7 p.m. in the SUB. This event highlighted a mixture of magical tricks, carnival style talents and comedy.

The show featured magician James David who entertained the crowd with a number of audience participa-tion tricks and card tricks.

A duo known as “Ryan and Steve,” two professional jugglers, followed David. Ryan and Steve, who have been juggling for 16 years, put on a show displaying talents juggling ev-erything from bowling pins to knives.

Four mass communication stu-dents composed a video for the University to promote last week’s homecoming activities, receiving the honor by beating out several other teams also competing to have a win-ning video.

Lauren Guerriero, Devin Jones, Brandon Craven and Adrianna Fitz-water were on the winning team.

They were part of mass com-m u n i c a t i o n professor John Rodriguez’s vid-eo production class. The class was broken into teams. Judg-es viewed each team’s video and selected the winner. The video was put on the University’s website.

“I want my students to get involved in the university and gain practical experience,” said Rodriguez, who was approached by the University to see if he had students who could make the video.

The students were provided with

stock footage and a few guidelines to follow, but the winning group said they used a lot of their own footage in the video.

“We wanted to tell a story, not just show random shots, of what would happen if you went to a game,” said Guerriero.

She said the video transitions from

people preparing for the game, then shots of the game and a celebration after winning.

A final shot shows the iconic uni-versity library against an afternoon sky while the homecoming logo fills the screen.

Guerriero said she was excited to win because so much hard work went

into the video.“I left the hos-

pital from my niece’s birth to come to cam-pus and work on it. We spent all of fall break put-ting it together,” Guerriero said.

Jones said she was “shocked” at winning because a lot of the footage they shot was lost due to mechanical errors.

Still, they were able to salvage enough to compose the winning vid-eo.

“I thought we had a decent chance at winning even with the problems,” Jones said. “We really encompassed the homecoming theme.”

The still frame above was captured from the video produced by mass communi-cation students and featured online for the ULM Homecoming week.

Jugglers Ryan and Steve perform on stage with a duo bowling pin act.

Student video production online

Carnival artists bring circus to Homecoming

Mass communication students produce winning Homecoming video for website

video still courtesy of ULM Homecoming page


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“I want my students

to get involved in the university

and gain practical experience.”

John Rodriguez

mass communication professor

by Cole Avery

DID YOU KNOW?The ULM Mass Communication Department fea-

tures several opportunities for students to gain hands-on experience in different media fields, in-cluding publication, radio and video production. Through grants, the department has gotten up-grades in the video production lab, allowing the de-partment to air programs such as “Hawkeye Live.”

ULM recently hosted James David, a magician and comedian, and Juggle This!, a duo of jugglers and perform-ers of dangerous stunts, on Tuesday as part of ULM’s Homecoming Week celebrations.

David, a Wisconsin native, started his act by having student volunteers perform in a skit spoofing Star Wars.

He performed several card tricks, one in particular involving tearing off a quarter of a card, and the other three-quarters subsequently appear-ing inside of a melon after it was cut open.

Another trick involved an audi-ence member calling a friend to se-lect a particular card out of a stan-dard deck.

When the Ace of Spades was cho-sen, David pulled out a jumbo set of cards previously untouched during the performance and showed the au-dience that the Ace of Spades was the only card flipped over in the deck.

David then performed a series of tricks including pulling a deceivingly live bird out from under a cape, and enclosing a hankie with his fist and making a real egg appear.

Juggle This! performed af-ter David, which featured Ste-phen King and Ryan Dekoe as a juggling and comedic team from Boston, Mass. who have been performing together since 1990.

King and Dekoe used sarcastic hu-mor as they performed stunts such as switching jugglers while three clubs were in mid-air.

They then presented a stunt in-volving stapling a one-dollar bill to Dekoe’s forehead, and later tearing it off with no sign of injury.

The pair demonstrated knife jug-gling before closing the show with

King lighting torches and seemingly swallowing the flames.

Thomas Sugg, a freshman biology major from Pioneer, LA, said, “It was really funny. I liked James David. His magic was funny, but Juggle This! was better. I loved their humor.”

Al Bailey, a freshman majoring in history from Jonesboro, Ark., said, “I thought it was hilarious. I didn’t ex-pect the magic to be as impressive as it was. I still don’t believe it.”

Magician James David utilizes student participation to draw the attention of the audience in his Homecoming performance.


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by Lesley Engolia


ULM hosted the 27th annual Uni-versity Mile race Wednesday, a one-mile homecoming tradition.

The race was originally called “Lou-isville Mile” because it was run along Louisville Avenue on Homecoming Saturday.

The Louisville Mile started near what is now Ouachita Wide Bank and ended in front of Wal-Mart.

Difficulties with coordinating the race on homecoming day proved to be too much, and the race was moved to Wednesday prior to homecoming.

“During this same time it was also moved onto campus to its present lo-cation and given the name the Univer-sity Mile”, said Mackie Ashton, director of the University Mile and coordinator of intramurals.

This year’s race started near Airway at 5:30 p.m. and ended in front of the Activity Center, where plaques were given out for several categories.

Registration fee included five dol-lars for students and faculty and $10 for all other racers. The race fee went toward intramural funding where it is used to purchase equipment and to travel with student intramural teams.

This year first-place finisher went to Morgan Smith. This is Smith’s first time running the event, but he has been running for eight years.

“It feels good to win,” Smith said. “A lot of guys out here run together com-petitively and are former track athletes so it feels good to be able to compete.”

Smith is a former track and field athlete from Louisiana Tech. A native of Corpus Christi, Texas, Smith cur-rently coaches track and field at Oua-chita Junior High School. He plans to participate in next year’s University Mile to see if he can defend his title.

ULM’s Miss(ter) WKU pageant got laughs and cheers from the

packed crowd last Monday in the SUB Ballroom.

The pageant featuring men in drag, poked fun

at beauty contests as well as the ladies from home-

coming opponent Western Kentucky University (WKU).The pageant was divided into

three portions: talent, evening wear and question and answer.

“It was freaking hilarious,” said Kai-tlyn Fussello, pre-nursing major

from Deville. Jarvis Mansfield

(aka Melove You Longtime), a kinesi-ology major from Collinston, won the pageant, receiving a $250 Visa gift card while wearing a lime green dress and heels.

This was not Mansfield’s first time competing in the pageant, but he stole this year’s show with his rendition of Tina Turner’s “Proud Mary.”

“I do it just for fun, and I wanted to come back and try for the crown,” said Mansfield.

First runner up was Kyle Parker (Uma Dickhurtz,) who got a $150 Visa gift card. The second runner up was Brian Scholes (Tess Tickles,) who got a $50 Visa gift card.

Other contestants were Patrick Pierce (Shea Vercat,) Kasey Wright (Verdi Gogh) Alex Crowson (Ilickiya Holes,) Tremayne January (Dawasha An Dryer) and Clayton Starnes (Ghana Rea).

ULM’s homecoming king Ben Young, a marketing major from Rayville, was one of the judges for the pageant.

“It’s a big tradition because we’re making fun of the other school. There were some disturbing moments, though,” said Young, laughing.

Even though all the “ladies” couldn’t win, the crowd still rolled as they strut their stuff on the stage.

First-place winner Morgan Smith pos-es with trophy plaque.

Jarvis Mansfield (a.k.a. Melove You Longtime) entertained the audi-ence and won the pageant with a $250 Visa giftcard.

University Mile brings competitive runners

photo by Blake Self

photo by Blake Self

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by Brandon Tate

by Shelby DeSoto

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Miss(ter) WKU pageant arrives


ULM celebrated its 80th birthday on Tuesday with a party featuring free Chick-fil-a, birthday cake, par-ty favors and roving artists with the theme “Greatest College on Earth.”

Most students came for free food, but many also enjoyed party favors in-cluding hats, candy and balloons.

“We ran out of food in 40 minutes,” said Nicole Bertrand, CAB Home-coming committee head.

She said the turnout was much higher than expected.

Bertrand added that she hoped that turnout would be just as good for the Homecoming parade scheduled for Friday.

Homecoming court was also in-troduced to the students at this event with an appearance from the new-ly crowned Miss ULM Jessica Gilbert.

The reception gathered at the par-

ty showed approval to this year’s roy-alty.

The birthday party had more than just cake.

Faculty members and students found themselves gathered to rem-inisce in the school’s past and look forward to the future.

“It’s an hon-or, not many schools can say they’ve been around for 80 years,” said De-j a c q u a n i s h a Nash, a kinesiology student.

Angela Robinson, a worker in the Student Success Center said, “I am happy to see the changes made in the last several years, and I feel like the University is heading back in the

right direction.”Kyle O’Neal, a new staff member

in the Office of Career Connections, was excited about this year’s home-coming. O’Neal said he was excited to “take in his first full Homecoming week at ULM.”

Fresh off the waves of a nation-al championship, the ULM water ski team threw a show Tuesday at the Bayou Desiard to promote ULM’s most successful sport and celebrate homecoming week, giving many in the crowd a first glimpse of why the program is the best in the country.

“We decided to support the school and do it, but this presentation is also a good way to educate students about the water ski through three events,” said assistant coach Heather Raley, who was asked by the homecoming committee to perform.

Great weath-er and cheering fans lined the banks to see the team run the sla-loms, do tricks and jump.

Funny com-ments and i n t r o d u c t i o n s kept the crowd in a good mood and made them laugh, have fun and re-member to have a good time.

Ski team member Adam Sedlma-jer, an MBA graduate student from Prague, Czech Republic, said it’s al-

ways great to have a show and display to people what the team is capable of.

“We have a full ranch of talents here, and some of them compete on the professional level,” Sedlma-jer said. “We have the best water ski conditions in the nation here at ULM because of the great support from the university that provides us with boats and other equipments. We just need

to work hard and enjoy the sport.”“This is so exciting. I love the dif-

ferent tricks they do,” said Jordania Wade, a senior nursing major from Lafayette.

Wade said after three and a half years at ULM, she knows all about the team’s reputation as winners, but she never had that chance to watch them until now.

“This was a perfect chance for me to see them in action,” Wade said.

Lauren Chandler, sophomore computer science major from Bossi-er City, shared the same opinion and said after nationals, she heard peo-ple saying how awesome the water ski team is.

“I’ve never seen it, so I thought it would be definitely cool to come and

see how it looks like,” Chandler said. It seems like everybody heard

about the team, but they have never seen them performing.

With the excitement of Home-coming, the ski team hopes to have crowds of supporters to cheer them on in future events.

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Champions hit the waves to promote Homecoming

Ski team makes splash of a show

by Vladimir Jakovljevic

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Overlooking a picturesque view of the campus library, ski team members dazzle an audience with flying water stunts on Bayou Desiard.


“I feel like the University is

heading back in the right direction.”Angela Robinson

SSC worker

Students enjoyed free Chick-fil-a, birthday cake, party favors and shows put on by the roving artists in the SUB Tuesday to celebrate ULM’s 80th birthday.


Nash

Chandler

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by Hope Barton

University holds 80th anniversary celebration


John Avant was in the midst of a gripping sermon and had his con-gregation of several hundred on the edges of their seats. Nearing the end of his message, he glided across the stage to a veiled structure, and re-vealed an 18 –foot mosaic featuring one word: unbroken.

In the audience that day was ULM art student Srdjan Marjanovic. He had been commissioned six months earlier by the church to build the mo-saic, built from tiles with messages from church members telling their darkest troubles. For the first time, Marjanovic was able to see how pow-erfully his art could move people when people began praying near his creation.

“It was a strange moment where I really didn’t realize it was done by me somehow. It was like ‘Oh my God, what I did here was really important,’” Marjanovic said.

What Marjanovic may not realize is he’s been doing important things around ULM for the last three years, most notably through his artwork. The list of accolades in his art career is as long and vibrant as the different mediums he uses to construct them. From paintings to photography, from burnings to clay sculptures, nothing seems impossible to the 35-year-old Serbian native.

Marjanovic had two photographs published in Nikon’s 31st Annual In-ternational College and High School photo contest. He also finished sec-

ond place this summer in Kappa Pi International Honorary Art Fra-ternaty through local chapter Delta Alpha.

The ease with which Marjanovic seemingly constructs these stunning products leads many to believe he has been doing these things all of his life, but art is actually not his first ca-reer.

Marjanovic had been a profes-sional basketball player in Serbia. But when the Balkan Wars broke out, the Marjanovics found themselves in a country with skyrocketing infla-tion, no power and a need to smuggle goods into the country in order for the people to survive.

“The crisis was terrible. There was no future in that state at all, so we de-cided to get out,” Marjanovic said.

The Marjanovics moved to Chile, then Spain and then Clearwater, Fla. where the family opened a restau-rant. Because of injuries, Marjanovic decided to end his basketball career and work in the family business.

But another crisis would strike Marjanovic. In 2008, the Great Re-cession swept through the U.S. and claimed the Marjanovic’s restaurant as a casualty. His parents and sister’s visas were revoked, and the family moved back to Chile.

Marjanovic stayed behind and

married his girl-friend Alma, who worked at ULM.

Marjanovic enrolled in ULM in graphic design. He began his art ca-reer by shooting an event arned only with a point-and-shoot camera.

“He loves to be challenged,” Alma said, a mentality she said he learned from sports. “I’ve learned a lot from him. Determination. Never give up. Whenever he’s at his lowest and I think he can’t do it, he finds a way to pick himself up, and he just does it.”

Avant said in the weeks following the mosaic’s unveiling in early Oc-tober, the church has taken to the message the mosaic brings.

“We are seeing hundreds of new people discovering that our church is actually a hospital where their bro-kenness can be healed in a family where they are loved. Our church will treaure the mosaic for many years,” Avant said.

Marjanovic said people should do what makes them happy, especially if it is art Like anything they have to strive to be successful.

“If you say, ‘I’m an artist so I will take it easy,’ that kind of person even with a law degree will never make it because of the attitude,” Marjanovic said.

“If you set your mind for any ca-reer, there is always a future.”

With that mentality, the sky seems to be the limit for Marjanovic. Through wars, injury and econom-ic turmoil, a work ethic like no other drives Marjanovic.

As he continues in his artistic ca-reer he does so happy and unbroken.

NEWS

Artist unveils mosaic at local churchMarjanovic tells how art made him a whole person

E Pluribus UnumMarjanovic received the mosaic contract after church officials saw his portrait

of Pres. Abraham Lincoln. The piece, titled “E Pluribus Unum,” means “out of many, one” in Latin. Marjanovic made the portrait out of pennies. No paint was used on them. He separated the pennies based on their shades. 4,187 pennies were used to make the portrait.

The portrait holds a lot of symbolism. The pennies are of all different shades and weight; each is different like each person is different. When put together, they form the portrait of the president who held the union together during the Civil War. The phrase is printed on all American currency, and symbolizes the to-getherness it takes for America to be what it is.

photos by Kelsey Hargrove

by Cole Avery

contact Cole Avery [email protected]

Left: Tiles like these were written on by church members confessing their deepest personal prob-lems. They were used to form the mosaic (right,) forming one word to symbolize how the church can come together. They broken tiles are different olors to represent different races coming together to make one solid piece. People prayed before the mosaic af-ter it was unveiled.

Below: Alma (left) and Srdjan (right) Marjanovic pose after unveiling the mosaic.


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Halloween is here! Parties, trick-or-treating and many other Halloween re-lated events will be going on.

Megan Lowe and Carlita Alexander, who work at the reference desk at the ULM library gave their choices of good reads for Halloween.

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There comes a time when dressing up in a costume and going trick-or-treating goes out of style. For college students, Halloween parties become the new highlight this holiday.

Halloween takes on a different meaning now. We go door-to-door as children, but as adults, it’s about the best costume party and outfit.

“Younger children like it for the candy, and the older crowd likes it for the social event,” said Jordan Rich-ardson, a junior toxicology major from New Orleans.

The trick-or-treating exchange for parties isn’t all that’s different for col-lege students.

Halloween costume parties evolved from people dressing like ghosts and goblins to play-boy bun-nies and naughty catholic school-girls.

“It’s just an excuse for women to dress provocatively,” Richardson said.

Halloween isn’t all about how much candy you get or the costume compliments. Halloween also has a dark side with some associating it with the devil.

Jasmyne Beard, a junior commu-nication studies major from Mon-roe, said while a lot of people see it as a demonic holiday, she treats it as a time to have fun.

“Besides from witchcraft, it’s just a holiday where everybody can come together and dress up and have fun,” Beard said.

Despite the demonic associations, most people will just see Halloween as another day to go out and have fun.

Not all students associate Hallow-een with religion. It’s the candy and the partying that makes this holiday popular.

“I believe that Halloween has nothing to do with religion,” said Ja-cob Evans, a sophomore pre-phar-macy major from Mansfield. “I don’t see any demonic reasoning behind it. It’s just another way for the govern-ment to make money.”

Halloween will be celebrated by some college students, so be on the lookout today for those wanting to give some people a little fright.

Ashley Bland, a senior political sci-ence major, chose “Halloween” as her scary movie of choice.

“Halloween” tells the story of Mi-chael Myers and how he escapes from the sanitarium he was placed in as a child. He goes back to his hometown and commits gruesome murders.

The original “Halloween” released in 1978, and has spawned several sequals since then. This movie also stars Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode.

Joshua McDowell, a junior health studies major, chose this movie.

Clarice Starling is pulled from training at the FBI Academy to interview Hanni-bal Lecter, a former psychiatrist and in-carcerated cannibalistic serial killer.

It is believed that Lecter’s insight might be useful in the pursuit of a serial killer nicknamed “Buffalo Bill” who skins his female victims’ corpses.

Rachel Rugg, junior kinesiology major, chose “1408”.

The film follows Mike Enslin, an au-thor who specializes horror. Mike in-vestigates haunted houses, though his efforts thus far have proved unfruitful.

Through an anonymous warning, Mike visits the Dolphin Hotel, home to the infamous “Room 1408.”

Interested yet skeptical, Mike decides to spend one night in the hotel despite warnings against it, leading to a series of bizarre experiences in the room.

Students choose favorite fright-filled films

Halloween meanings change as college students get older

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by Jade Choyce

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The all-new


SPORTS

However, this is not Wordon or Kostenberger’s first run-in with Lan-drum and her style of justice.

When last Spring semester ended, several team members were in Baton Rouge on their own time, unrelat-ed to any team activities.

During the trip, Wordon and Kosten-berger, along with a third unidenti-fied person, were filmed streaking through a fountain in downtown Ba-ton Rouge.

The video found its way to the In-ternet and back to Landrum. Though the two skiers faces could not be clear-ly made out, she punished them

by fining both with $500 fines.John Wordon said following the

streaking incident, Landrum forced the team to add her on Facebook so that she could monitor their ac-counts. That type of behavior, the Wordons said, will hurt ULM in re-cruiting in a sport widely known for its freeness.

“Zach is outgoing. He speaks his mind, and that’s why he can be the free skier that he is,” John Wordon said.

Zach Wordon said the strict rules enforced on the team are al-

ready hurting the team’s recruit-ing.

“People in the water ski world want to go to college to have fun, but when they see this they say ‘I guess I’ll

be going to Lafayette then,’” Zach Wordon said.

UL-Lafayette and ULM typically finish one and two in the nation. UL-La-fayette won the title last season, and Landrum made the team leave the bars following the compe-

tition at 11 p.m.“People are starting to shy

away, saying maybe I don’t want to go to ULM if I have to

go under these strict rules,” Zach Wordon said. “We already look

like poor sports last year for leav-ing [the celebration] early. In the

ski world, it gives ULM a bad rep for sportsmanship.”

Both Wordons and Kostenberg-er agree there should be some penalty if they violated team rules, but they feel the punish-ment was unbe-fitting the crime. They said a suspen-sion from a meet would be more ap-propriate than outright dismissal.

The two have an opportunity to be re-instated following a review at the end of the spring semester. The skiers said they were used to win a nation-al championship, but now will not be paid a scholarship during the time they will not be skiing.

“She won’t pay Zach in the spring, but she’ll ride him to a nation-al championship? Come on,” John Wordon said.

Landrum refused to comment on the issue. She referred to Lau-ra Woodard in University Relations for comment on the issue. Woodard did not respond with a statement by press time.

contact Cole Avery or DeRon Talley [email protected]

Supported by Militia clothing

Militia clothing is a group based out of Lafayette, that heard Zach Worden and Claudio Kostberger’s story.

They designed a t-shirt, and will charge $20 dollars to buy.

Militia clothing is donating 100% of the profits to Worden and Kostenberger.

The group decided to sponsor the two students, and will give all profits made from the shirt sales to them to help pay for their tuition.

According to the website, the goal of this shirt is to support those who hold free expession dear to them.

They believe what Worden and

Kostenberger did was part of the water ski culture, and believe the two stood up for “what the sport is about.”

If Worden and Kostenberger ap-peal their cases and overturn the ruling of their punishment, all shirt proceeds will go to support col-legiate waterskiing and the col-legiate waterski lifestyle that “we hold dear.”

Militia clothing ultimately wants to help Wordon and Kostenberger pay for tuition, but they want peo-ple to stand up and help say, “No suspension without representa-tion.”

Kostenberger

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photos by Srdjan Marjanovic

Members of the water ski team at ULM’s football game on Saturday.

Junior Zach Worden of the water ski team at the ULM football game on Satur-day.


SPORTS

Basketball tips off new season

The men’s basketball team plays its first game at 7 p.m. on Tuesday at home against Lubbock Christian.

The exhibition game starts their 2011-12 season in which they can’t advance to the post-season due to NCAA sanctions.

“I’m anxious to see if things we’ve seen in practice show out game situa-tion,” head coach Keith Richard said.

He said, “I think the guys will be ready to play.”

The team returns several starters, and senior guard Fred Brown leads the team as the only Pre-Season All-Conference honor.

Richard said, “The whole guard package feels like its gotten a whole lot better since last year, and it’s a good feeling.”

Richard said the team knows what is expected of them now.

He said they understand how he coaches and how to win.

“If we can be mentally tough, show a little bit of physical toughness, and our guard play is better, then I think we have a chance to improve,” he said.

With no way to win a trophy this year, the team is just looking to im-prove and build.

Senior forward Christian Bibi Ndongo said, “I think we are ready, we can definitely see improvements from our guards.”

The team plays its first regular sea-son game on Nov. 11 at Ole Miss.


Senior guard Hugh Mingo jumps to lay the ball in the hoop, while teammate de-fender Christian Bibi Ndongo (5) defends him at practice.


Justin Stawychny bunts a ball in the ULM Blood Series.

Strong guard play is expected from senior Brown in ‘12by DeRon Talley

contact DeRon Talley [email protected]

The baseball team begins its 2011-12 season with one of the best incom-ing freshman recruiting classes in the Lower Central Region.

“I’m high on the incoming fresh-man,” senior right-handed pitcher Will Browning said.

Head Coach Jeff Schexnaider said, “We feel good despite the rank. We know we have great players with great character.”

The team needed a boost after last season’s early exit in the Sun Belt Conference Tournament, so they added some spices.

Junior fielder Judd Edwards said, “The recruiting has absolutely helped us.”

He said, “The coaches did a great job finding the best players.”

The team gave the nine freshmen their first test in the annual Blood Se-ries tournament, also known as the Maroon and Gold game.

Schexnaider said, “It shows who can compete.”

Freshman catcher Blake Wolfe showed he can compete. In one match, he put the gold team away

with a double in the 11th inning to give Maroon a 7-6 victory.

Wolfe said, “In clutch situations, I put the bat on the ball.”

The team is building its program around recruiting and expects to sign five more for the Spring season.

by Donald Gibson

contact Donald Gibson [email protected]

Baseball’s recruiting class honored among best in Lower Central Region

“The coaches did a great job

finding the best players. ”

senior Judd Edwards

9There are nine 2011 baseball signees in the honored recruiting class.

The African assassins led the cross country teams to the Sun Belt Cham-pionships on Saturday in Bowling Green, Ky., and helped the men’s team earn a fifth place finish.

They finished one, two and three for the Warhawks, led by junior Dan-iel Mutai who crossed the finish line with a time of 24:28.10 in the 8K to take third place.

“It was a really tricky race, but I should have won it,” Mutai said.

Senior Moses Chelimo ran his fi-nal race as a Warhawk cross country member, and finished behind Mutai with a time of 26:06.20 to earn 15th place.

Junior Silah Chumba rounded out the top-20 with his 20th place finish, completing the course in a time of 26:28.20.

Overall the men’s team finished fifth behind first place winners West-ern Kentucky.

On the women’s team, junior Mad-eleine Robertson crossed the finish line first for the Warhawks in the 5K race with a time of 19:32.50.

Senior Denise Myers finished next for ULM with a time of 19:42.00 to claim 38th place.

NCAA Cross Country Regional Championships take place on Nov. 12, and Mutai said he hopes to finish

Mutai takes 3rd, team finishes 5th at cross country championshipsby DeRon Talley


TRENT MACKEYMackey is a

freshman guard from Tampa, Fla.

Mackey at-tended New-some High School and owns the school records for most 3-pointers made in a season and in a career. He made 77 of 181 (.425) 3-pointers in his senior season. He is second in career scoring with 1,130 points.

REGINALD SMITH

Smith is a freshman guard and local native from Columbia.

He attended Caldwell High School where he averaged 22.3 points per game and eight assists.

Smith was named to the second-team Louisiana 3A All-State honors, and also selected to the All-North-east team.

TREY LINDSEY Lindsey is a

freshman for-ward from Aus-tin, Texas.

He attend-ed Bowie High School, and as a senior he aver-aged 14 points, five rebounds and four assists.

He was selected to the Second-Team All-District twice.

Lindsey was named Most Valu-able Player of the Dennis Johnson All-Star game.


Soccer head coach Stacy Lamb said Wednesday she is not concerned with her job security, despite the team going winless in Sun Belt Con-ference (SBC) games in two consec-utive seasons.

“ULM is where I want to be. This is my home, and I believe in the direc-tion we are going in,” Lamb said.

Lamb finished her 11th season as head coach Friday, losing against UL-Lafayette 4-0. The loss marks the sec-ond-consecutive winless conference season for the soccer team.

“As a team, I don’t think anybody would change a thing about this year,” Lamb said. “Except for injuries, and it takes time to get younger play-ers where they need to be.”

The team failed to win a game in conference-play, but they played very close games, and took one game into overtime.

“There was a point where I was up-set, and had a lot of anxiety about it,” Lamb said. “But at the end of the day if my best wasn’t good enough, I can live with that.”

This season set the foundation for the team, as they will have an expe-rienced roster set for next year. Only two seniors leave and the team ex-pects a full roster return

next season. Freshmen Taylor Bonetti and Alys-

sa Wooden led the team this season in goals scored respectively with 15 and 11.

But, health played a major role in the team’s lack of success.

Lamb said, “Once we would finally get into a rhythm, somebody would have a significant injury.”

In 2009, he weighed 245 pounds and had a blood pressure of 210/105. His weakness was cookies, and his waist was a size 44.

Now 85 pounds lighter, ULM Col-lege of Arts & Sciences Dean Jeffrey

Cass competes in Ironman competi-tions and is the recipient of the American

Heart Association life-style change award.Cass’ life changed from racing to the

cookie box, to racing 70.3 miles in Iron-man competitions.

Now he is fit, active and competitive. He completed his first half Ironman competi-tion on Oct. 23 in Austin, Texas.

“It hurt,” he said. “Except that I kept try-ing to think, how can I do it better for next time?”

Cass said his legs cramped after the bike race, but while he was “in misery and in pain” he remained optimistic toward his next race.

Cass said he likes to be fit and exercise, and it treats him better than a box of cook-ies.

Cass blamed his weight problem on the stress of being dean. After his doctor rec-ommended he change his habits for the sake of health, Cass took becoming fit as a new goal.

“I’ve always had a weight issue,” Cass said. “The fact is, you find yourself in a sit-uation where it doesn’t matter. You’re big; you have to start over.”

ULM triathlon coach Lisa Colvin pro-posed Cass train and compete in Ironman competitions.

Cass said he wanted to lose weight the right way, without the surgeries or pills. Colvin helped Cass learn to bike and swim efficiently, and after losing about 50 pounds, he said he began running work-outs.

Cass said what made weight loss easier was the people around him.

“You can’t do this without a team of people,” he said. “I think when people try to do this alone, it is a mistake.”

by DeRon Talley

by DeRon Talley

Just like you guys are tired of hear-ing me complain about empty seats at football games, I’m tired of com-plaining.

Saturday’s homecoming game against Western Kentucky celebrat-ed our school’s 80th birthday, but no one showed up to say “Happy Birth-day.”

The Hawk’s nest was empty yet again.

At Saturday’s homecoming game, you could have put all the people on the same side of the stadium, and it would not have filled the seats.

Fans who hang out in the Grove for tailgating don’t even go to the game.

I appreciate the support and the atmosphere that you guys provide in the tailgate areas, but once the game begins please come in and enjoy the game.

Your presence in the stadium is also needed.

Don’t forget fans play a big role in teams’ success on the field.

The community loves football, and supports it at the high school level.

Friday night high school football games are packed with fans of all ages, no matter rain, shine, sleet or snow.

But, I guess asking them to support ULM on Saturdays is too much.

I thought these were the days wheen everybody has their own swag, and like to be originators.

Be different and come to the ULM football games, or now that basket-ball season has begun, pack the Fant-Ewing Coliseum. Support all sports at ULM.

Let’s make Malone Stadium stand as the 12th man when teams come in and face the Warhawks.

Show ULM pride.

I hate to say it, but the St. Lou-is Cardinals wanted it more. Going back to August, I don’t know if you could have found a redbirds fan that believed their team would make a run in the playoffs, let alone win the World Series.

Going back to the end of the reg-ular season, the Cardinals were 10.5 games behind the Atlanta Braves. Both teams were fighting to secure a wild-card spot in the playoffs.

The Cards clinched that spot on the last day of regular season, as the Braves choked and gave up a one run lead and lost in extra innings.

I’ll admit it, when the Braves got knocked out of the playoffs I jumped on the Texas Rangers bandwagon.

I wanted to see some redemption from that quick five-game World Se-ries to the San Francisco Giants a year ago.

Yeah, that’s not what happened. Apparently the only thing worse than losing one World Series, is returning the following year only to have your dreams dashed again.

As game seven ended, I don’t know who I felt worse for between hall of fame pitcher Nolan Ryan, or manager Ron Washington, because both sullen faces summed up every-one’s emotion… heartbroken.

They say there always has to be a winner and a loser, but try explain-ing that to a team that did everything they could to erase the memory of last year’s loss.

You can’t be any prouder of Texas for making it back, but now that it’s over they will have to pick themselves up once again.

Next year will be a gut check for the Rangers just to prove to everyone they can be champions.


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Soccer finishes season winless in conference-play

I’m tired of looking at the empty ‘Hawk’s nest’

The St. Louis Cardinals stole the World Series

Dean takes on Ironman after getting healthy


Soccer head coach Stacy Lamb looks at her team on the field.

SPORTS

23The soccer team lost 23 straight matches in confer-ence-play. The last win was at home on Halloween in 2009 to Lafayette.

DeRON TALLEY ZACK BROWN


Dean Cass competed in an Ironman competition in May.


The football team (2-6, 1-3 SBC) made a late rally that led to overtime Saturday against Western Kentucky, but came up short and lost 31-28.

“We have to play perfect to win, and we didn’t play perfect,” head coach Todd Berry said.

After scoring first in the second quarter, ULM failed to get on the board until the last 2 minutes of reg-ulation.

The Warhawks recovered from a 20-7 deficit, taking the lead by one with less than a minute in regulation.

Quarterback Kolton Browning took center and held his ground in the pocket, completing passes that kept ULM alive late in the game.

“This one hurts really bad,” Brown-ing said. “We have to do it for all four quarters.”

“We have to put ourselves in po-sition to be more consistent on of-fense.”

Browning scored on a quarterback draw, which tied the game, and with the extra-point ULM took the lead at 21.

Berry said, “Guys have to step up and make plays.”

He said, “I wish we had that sense of urgency the whole game.”

But it was the leak that had been running all game that caused ULM to lose, the special teams.

On the ensuing kick off, WKU re-turned the ball inside Warhawk ter-ritory.

After a couple quick runs, the Hill-toppers punched in for six more, and decided to go for two-point conver-sion and got it.

Berry said, “It was bad all the way around and I take full responsibili-ty for it.”

Senior defensive end Ken Dors-ey beasted the Hilltoppers offensive line, as the defense fought to keep the Warhawks in the game.

Dorsey took 43 yards from WKU’s offensive production in tackles for loss.

Dorsey said, “Our offense is very explosive, so when they start clicking we believe we have the game won.”

He said, “To see us lose games like this leaves a bitter taste.”

Senior safety Darius Prelow inter-cepted a pass in the second quarter to help the defense gain momentum .

The interception increased his sea-son total to a team-high of four.

Freshman Justin Manton lined up to kick two field goals for the War-hawks, and they both were denied by the Hilltoppers.

The two missed field goals would have made the difference in the game, and ULM could have won the game.

The team travels to Lafayette on Saturday to take on the Ragin’ Cajuns at 2:30 p.m.

Football can’t climb the hilltopTeam defeated in overtime against WKU; lose 31-28

SPORTS


by DeRon Talley

The Reffett way

The Warhawks defense has

forced at least one turnover in 28 of 32

games under defen-sive coordinator Troy Reffett. Under Reffett, ULM is ranked first in

the Sun Belt Confer-ence in yards allowed

“It was bad all the way around,

and I take full responsibility.”head coach Todd Berry

photos by Srdjan Marjanovic

Linebacker Cameron Blakes (above) battles for position against WKU. Quarterback Kolton Browining (right) cries on his teammate’s chest.

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