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Homecoming 2011

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Google MapsLast week's 7.2-magnitude earthquake that has killed nearly

600 people had its epicenter near Van, Turkey. There are 30 Turkish students studying at ASU.

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The winners of the Homecoming election were announced at Saturday's game against North Texas. (top left) Homecoming Queen Candi Biggers, senior communications disorders major of Jonesboro. Photo by Lindsey Blakely. (bottom left) Homecoming King Broc Arender, senior biology major also of Jonesboro. Photo by Abdullah Raslan. (right) Former Homecoming Queen Ashdon Floyd, Candi Biggers, Broc Arender and former Homecoming King Carlton Graves. Photo by Abdullah Raslan.

On Oct. 23, a 7.2-magni-tude earthquake hit east-ern Turkey at 1:41 p.m. lo-cal time, the country’s most powerful quake in more than a decade, causing ASU’s Turkish students to worry about their families, friends and country.

According to Bailey Gambill, administrative professional at Interna-tional Programs, ASU now has 30 Turkish students.

“I got really sad about it and tried to check the newspapers to see what is happening there,” said Tolunay Guney, a junior computer science major of Istanbul, Turkey.

Ibrahim Tayfur, a junior electrical engineering ma-jor of Istanbul, said, “I was worried about my country as well as all my people, because it was an unex-pected situation.”

According to CNN, the quake hit the Van prov-

ince. The most devastated areas are the city of Van and Ercis, which are the some of the nation’s poor-est areas.

The death toll has reached more than 570, and nearly 2,555 people were injured in the quake.

More than 2,250 build-ings collapsed in the region and more than 5,500 people lost their homes.

Numerous aftershocks, the largest of magnitude

6.0, have broken out in the Van and Ercis areas since the quake, still causing people to be frightened.

The greatest diffi culty for survivors is the cold weather. The disaster area has near-freezing temper-atures. According to the Huffi ngton Post, thousands have been sleeping outside in the cold.

“I heard about really big diffi culties in Van where earthquake happened.

The weather conditions are making it so diffi cult. It was so cold over there,” Tayfur said.

He said it started snow-ing there two days after the quake happened.

“People are trying to live in tents over there, but tents are not enough to pro-tect from the cold weather,” Tayfur said.

The poverty in the disas-ter area extended the dam-age of the quake.

“They won’t be able to move anywhere because they don’t have enough money. This area is poor. They do not have any choice. They just wait for help,” said Ahmet Eralp Kurk, a sophomore animal science major of Istanbul.

He said Turkish people are blaming building con-tractors for the lack of earthquake-proof construc-tion in the damage area.

Guney said another problem is Turkey’s politi-cal issues involving diplo-matic relations, which

See TURKEY, page 3

Turkish students react to earthquake disaster

Interim Chancellor Dan Howard recently proposed a new set of undergraduate admission standards that, if approved, will change the Jonesboro campus from an open enrollment institu-tion to a selective enroll-ment institution.

These standards, which would go into effect during the fall 2013 semester if accepted, will raise the re-quired high school GPA for unconditional admission from no less than 2.5 to no less than a 2.75.

This is expected to move 102 incoming students into conditional admission sta-tus, which requires them to enter the Academic Suc-cess institute and pass a series of remedial classes before they can attend reg-ular classes and programs.

For fall 2014, the pro-posal calls for the mini-mum ACT score for con-ditional admission to be

raised from 18 to 19. This change is expected

to render at least 94 stu-dents to be inadmissible to ASU.

Howard explained that this proposal is not meant to reject students, but to save those who may be unprepared for college life from an increasingly high chance of future misfor-tune.

“Back in 2008, students were getting in with rela-tively low ACT scores or high school GPAs. What we have found is that stu-dents with ACTs of 12-15 absolutely never gradu-ated from the university,” he said. “So we were not being fair to those students because you are creating high opportunities for fail-ure, as many of these with low ACT scores would have $15,000 to $20,000 worth of debt and would fl unk out of the university.”

In addition to requiring both a set high school GPA and ACT score as of

See ADMISSION, page 3

Proposal calls for tougher admissionAri Yuki

Staff WriterCasey RinaldiStaff Writer

After weeks of anticipation, the newest Homecoming king and queen have been written in ASU’s history books.

Seniors Candi Biggers and Broc Arender, both of Jonesboro, were announced during halftime of the game against North Texas on Saturday night.

Biggers, a communications disorders major, was put up by the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. Arender, a biology major, was

put up by the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority.

Biggers said she felt like she was in a dream when her name was announced at the game.

“I never thought in a million years I would get it,” Biggers said. “Everyone told me that they thought I would get it, but I thought they were just being nice.”

Arender said he had the same experience when his name was called to the crowd.

“Mom gave me a huge kiss and Dad was astonished as well,” Ar-

ender said. “They were both re-ally nervous. They didn’t want to be in front of a huge crowd.”

Arender and Biggers, who are both involved around campus, said they didn’t have to do much campaigning because they relied on their involvement.

Biggers only spent $20 on her campaign posters, and Arender said he didn’t spend any.

“I had a lot of connections. My friend’s mom took the pictures and designed my poster. I had a friend give me a discount on printing, and an agriculture pro-

fessor made my stakes,” Biggers said. “If I had to pay for every-thing, it would’ve probably cost me over $100.”

Arender said he didn’t feel like campaigning with a lot of posters was as good as meeting people.

“I just really tried to get out their and shake as many hands as possible,” Arender said. “I printed fl iers at my work and that didn’t cost me anything. The only real poster I had was the one Kappa Alpha put up in front of the house.”

Arender, who is the president of Kappa Alpha, is also the ex-ecutive director of Up ‘Til Dawn and a member of Sigma Alpha Lambda.

Biggers is the campus rela-tions director of Alpha Gamma Delta, the co-captain of the Diamond Dolls, an orientation leader, a member of the Stu-dent Conduct board and the vice president of the National Stu-dent Speech Language Hearing Association (NSSLHA).

Both students are also highly See HOMECOMING, page 3

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— Our View —

Halloween is fun for all ages. Going to parties and dressing up are fun ways

of celebrating this holiday, but it seems in college, some people take things just a little too far.

While you may not have a problem with showing a lot of skin, others have boundaries and there are just some things people don’t want or need to see.

It is called “dressing up” for a reason and showing up in your underwear certainly doesn’t constitute as that.

Though you should have fun, you should take into consideration a few things before picking out a costume such as the nature of the event, who you will be around and even your body type. You wouldn’t wear your skimpy pirate outfit to a Fall Festival, would you?

If you decide to go out and party on Halloween, don’t give off an impression that you may not want others to have of you.

Some costumes may give you unwanted attention. And consider your surroundings and who you are with as well. Parties are great, but you need protect yourself.

You don’t always have to go party and drink on Halloween, though.

If all of your friends are going to the biggest party on campus, that doesn’t mean you have to. There are tons of fun things to do on Halloween.

From movie marathons to ghost hunts and haunted houses, there are plenty of ways to have fun on this holiday.

Halloween is certainly a favorite holiday for college students, and why shouldn’t it be.

It’s a great escape from the everyday routine we’re all in by this point in the semester. But being responsible in how you have fun is key to having a great holiday.

Have a safe and fun Halloween.

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I would first like to thank the CA on duty last week for courageously slaying several wasps in my apartment in Red Wolf Den. That, I’m happy to say, gives me some hope.

However, I’m concerned these days about what is going on in the Residence Life office. Has all man-agement vanished? Has everyone suddenly forgot-ten about their residents? Or maybe, residents on campus just aren’t that important.

Whatever the reason, I would just like to say that enough is enough. This se-mester, there have been numerous, various com-plaints regarding things in campus housing. But for some reason, Res Life seems to have hit the ig-nore button on everyone’s call to action. But there are some things that should not be ignored.

Right now, there are nu-merous wasp nests around the Red Wolf Den apart-ments. One in particular is at the end of the hall-way of building three. This one has received the most notice, but it seems the wasps are nesting some-where else.

Two weeks ago, my roommate and I noticed a wasp in our vanity/sink area outside our bathroom. She killed it, as I am al-lergic to wasps. After that we both went to our rooms and thought nothing of it. The following night she killed two wasps in our bathroom. At this point we got a little concerned.

The next day, a main-tenance worker was doing routine pest control on the building. I stopped him and asked if he could do anything about the wasps and from what he said, someone has told main-tenance that “residents can take care of the wasps themselves.”

(So, obviously there had been complaints prior to mine.)

We both agreed this was pretty dumb and he said he would go check my room for wasps and do the best he could to take care of them. He left a hangtag on our door saying he had killed a wasp and there were nests around the building so I should be careful.

The next few nights, my roommate and I didn’t notice any wasps, but we were being cautious. Then, Monday we spotted four wasps – three in the bath-room light fixture and one in the vanity/sink area.

At this point I called the

CA on duty and he asked me to leave the apartment. When wasps are involved, you don’t have to tell me twice. He said he would get maintenance over as soon as possible to take care of it.

About 10 minutes later, the CA called me back say-ing he would come over himself to kill the wasps and he would call when he was done so I could come back.

In about 15 minutes I received a voicemail that it was safe to come back and he had killed “seven or eight” wasps – double the number we spotted before we left.

I have since put in two work orders and sent an email to Res Life. One work order the third night of wasp killing and the oth-er, along with my email, on Thursday night after spot-ting a wasp in my room. I know there are tons of work orders sent each day, but when will they be an-swered?

I have two concerns here.

My first is that these pests are coming in our bathroom through the ex-haust fan and the holes in the ceiling where the elec-trical wires come through for the light fixture. Since they’ve pretty much all been spotted in the bath-

room, that has to be where they are coming in at.

My second concern is why with all the problems residents have dealt with this semester, things aren’t getting done. It took two months to finally change a card reader so students could stop using their own quarters to do laundry they already paid for. Why not give them $80 back just for the trouble? And now, with complaints of wasps inside people’s apartments, it’s taking too long to get any-thing done.

So what if it takes a lot of trouble to get the wasps taken care of? So what if you have to completely overhaul the building and go into the ductwork to fig-ure out the problem? Just put residents in hotels for the time being since that seems to be the trend these days.

All I’m saying is that people have serious prob-lems with these pests. I know I do. I just don’t un-derstand why we aren’t allowed to change a light bulb without sending in a work order, but we can kill a wasp even if we’re allergic. I guess just pop a few Benedryl and you’ll be OK.

Bright is a junior pho-tojournalism major of Hot Springs.

“I just don’t understand why we aren’t allowed to change a light bulb without sending in a work order, but we can kill

a wasp even if we’re allergic.”Beth Bright

Pests take up residence in ASU apartmentsThe Herald

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Happy Halloween!

In a recent issue of The Herald, there was a poll that asked participants whether or not they supported the Occupy Wall Street movement.

The majority said they sup-port the movement.

I’ve heard many of the Occu-py Wall Street protestors, and while many think their mes-sage is a good one, if you look at the way these people are conducting their protests, you just might think differently.

In The Herald’s poll, the first choice asked if you support the movement, while the second choice asked if you think there is no point to the movement. I wasn’t exactly a fan of this poll question since it seemed to leave out those people who support the message of Occupy Wall Street, but criticize their methods.

But regardless of your per-sonal opinion, it’s important to take a closer look at what is go-ing on.

Occupy Wall Street began on Sept. 17 with a small group of protestors who decided to stake out on Zuccotti Park in New York City to protest the alleged greed and corruption on Wall Street. Eventually, more and more people joined this protest, and groups have formed in cities around the country.

Although the group has not exactly aligned itself with any

political party, it shouldn’t be too hard to figure out which party it tends to support.

However, the group has criticized President Obama and members of Congress for their bailout of big Wall Street banks.

But the message these people are conveying isn’t the problem. The way they’re go-ing about it is. According to the Associated Press, city officials are growing antsy over these protests because of the enor-mous costs Occupy Wall Street is creating.

Trash, human waste, drugs, and destruction of property have characterized these pro-tests, and the problems are only getting worse.

The Minneapolis Sher-iff’s Office has spent nearly $200,000 in their attempt to control the protests, and both New York City and Oakland have had to spend more to col-lect excessive garbage and in-stall more bathrooms in areas around the protests.

Obviously, these problems don’t typify all the protests, but they have overshadowed what might otherwise be a le-gitimate protest.

The First Amendment to our Constitution guarantees “the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

The key word here is “peace-able,” but if you’ve seen many pictures or videos of the pro-tests, it is obvious that they are anything but this.

According to the AP, many protestors have banged drums

well into the night, screaming and shouting, and some have taken to throwing rocks and bottles at police. I’m not a legal expert, but I find this to be far outside the meaning of peace-able.

Maybe one of the saddest things about these protests, however, is the fact that these people have directed their an-ger towards the wrong people.

They blame Wall Street for all their economic woes, when they should really be blaming the politicians running our government.

It doesn’t take a rocket sci-entist to realize that our econ-omy has gone sour thanks to economic policies praised by our politicians.

Remember all the Wall Street bailouts to companies that were “too big to fail”?

Apparently, Americans see this. According to a recent USA Today/Gallup Poll, 64 percent of Americans blame the federal government for our economic woes, compared to 30 percent who blame Wall Street.

Maybe this is a sign of changing times.

Regardless of your opinion towards these protests, it’s ob-vious that people are finding new ways to vent over this bad economy.

Occupy Wall Street proba-bly won’t last too much longer, especially with winter coming on. But the anger will last, and we might just see its results come next November.

Davidson is a sophomore education major of Bryant.

“They blame Wall Street for all their economic woes, when they should really be blaming the

politicians running our government.”Jeff Davidson

Why blame Wall Street for government bailouts?

NEWSPAGE 3 Monday, Oct. 31 The Herald

HOMECOMING, CONTINUEDADMISSION, CONTINUED

BriefsThe Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs cordially invites you to the Renaming of

the Student Union in honor of the late Dr. Carl R. Reng, Friday, Nov. 11 at 2 p.m. at the Heritage Plaza Lounge in the Student Union.

The Career Management Center invites faculty and students to come meet recruiters from various graduate and professional schools. In addition, we will have Kaplan test prep in attendance for students needing to take the admissions graduate test. This event is open to all students and is a great place to look at many graduate programs, admissions requirements, and college recruiters if students are unsure about graduate school. The event is planned for Nov. 3, 2011 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the second floor of the Student Union corridor. Contact Brittany Straw at 870-972-3025 or bstraw@astate.edu for more information.

On Thursday, Nov. 3 at 7 p.m. in the Sunbelt Lounge, the Student Activities Board will be hosting an event featuring award-winning spoken word performers, The ASIA Project. The event will also feature FREE Starbucks beverages. The event is free to all members of the ASU-J community.

The ASU Museum will be hosting an observance for Dia de los Muertos at the ASU Museum, Tuesday Nov. 1 from 5 to 7 p.m. The Museum will celebrate this special holiday with food, crafts, music and candy.

The English as a Second Language program of The International Center for English (TICE) in the Office of International Programs will be hosting an International Conversation Appreciation Game night Nov. 28, 2011 from 6 to 8 p.m. in Centennial Hall. This event is open to all current conversation partners and other interested ASU students, faculty members, staff and community members who wish to serve as conversation partners for international students learning English.

involved in volunteering and commu-nity service.

On Saturday, the members of the Homecoming Court were given a brunch in their honor.

Both Biggers and Arender went to volunteer at Miracle Rodeo when the brunch ended. Miracle Rodeo is a day dedicated to children and adults with special needs, put on by the Craighead County Sheriffs Mounted Patrol.

“Community service is a big part of my life,” Biggers said. “I actually work with a girl with Down syn-drome and so being there to support people with special needs was really important.”

Being named the Homecoming king and queen, both Arender and Biggers agree that they will continue to be in the spotlight through good and bad.

“(Being king) means that I’ll al-ways be in the spotlight,” Arender said. “Regardless, I’m representing not only ASU but Jonesboro too. I’m always on my best behavior, but if I do get in trouble it’s not just Broc Arender, it’s ‘ASU’s homecoming king.’”

Biggers said that when the former homecoming king and queen, Carl-ton Graves and Ashdon Floyd, spoke at the brunch they spoke about that focus, the idea really hit her.

“As the queen, I get to kind of rep-resent ASU more than I already do with my other activities,” Biggers said. “Carlton said ‘everyone’s eyes will be on you, whether it’s good or bad. Make sure to set a good exam-ple.’”

Both Biggers and Arender agreed that being named king and queen didn’t change how much they are go-ing to be involved on campus.

“I want people to know that I didn’t stay involved just to be Homecoming queen eventually,” Biggers said. “I’m going to continue to be involved at ASU. I love ASU and I always will.”

makes the country much slower to correspond with the foreign aid for the quake.

According to the Huff-ington Post, Turkey once declined the aid from Isra-el because of a rift between the two countries over last year's Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla killing

nine activists.According to USA To-

day, Turkey has decided to accept foreign assistance from other countries in-cluding Israel.

“To recover from the earthquake, my country should accept all the help from other countries,” Guney said.

For now, Turkish stu-dents are seeking ways to help their country.

“My family has already given a donation,” said Emre Biber, a junior com-puter science major of Is-tanbul. “We can donate money, clothes and medi-cal stuff. I think the first money should cover the re-covery of the buildings, and then medical stuff.”

Tayfur said everyone could easily donate mon-ey through a U.S. mobile phone by texting “GIVE TURKEY” to 80088 to do-nate $10 to the Turkey Earthquake Relief Fund.

“We can also send some funds to them via to Turk-ish Consulate because they need winter clothes and foods immediately,” Tayfur said. “We’re trying to talk

to ASU about this situation to collect money or some clothes. Also, we are trying to set up an organization to find some funds.”

“Turkey needs more help and support,” Kurk agreed.

“Someone should set up a donation. I don't know of any around the college campus, or in Jonesboro but I bet there are some,” said Jeff Parish, senior business major of Fort Worth, Texas.

“If someone asked me and had a donation plan set up and I knew my giving was going to be effective I would donate money to the disaster,” Parish said.

Yoshiaki Sasaki, MBA student of Tokyo, Japan, said, “I feel so sorry for Turkish people. I hope the victims will be able to live a normal life as soon as possible.”

Learning from the expe-rience of the 8.9-magnitude earthquake that hit Japan and caused a tsunami in March, Sasaki said it is important that the govern-ment, the media and people are closely connected.

“In Japan, the informa-tion from the media was so different from the real situ-ation. People who are not suffered from the earth-quake don't know the vic-tims’ truth,” Sasaki said.

He said if the govern-ment and the media pro-vide correct information, people could help victims better. He also suggested that people make an effort to seek true information.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, Turkey is located on the boundary where the Eurasian plate and the Arabian plate col-lide with each other, caus-ing frequent destructive earthquakes.

Turkey experienced the 7.6-magnitude earth-quake that struck north-western Turkey in 1999, causing 17,127 casualties and 43,959 people to be in-jured.

“We need to be strong, just as 1999's earthquake. All people in Turkey need to become one heart for re-covering from it,” Tayfur said.

fall 2010, as well as adding a ‘conditional enrollment’ that requires a series of re-medial courses.

“This will increase fresh-man retention rate, as well as our six-year graduation rate, as well as a reduction in the number of students that will require remedial math, English and reading and the range in which we have to offer those cours-es,” he said.

Madelyn Carson, a senior history major of Jonesboro, said she feels these changes are posi-tive for the university and should result in further success for everyone.

“I think having high standards for our univer-sity is a good thing,” she said.

Howard said another benefit of these changes is the increased attractive-ness of the university to a wider audience.

“By raising our mini-mum requirements, we will become more attrac-tive to better students. Currently, we have the highest enrollment in Hon-ors and the highest enroll-ment of freshman in the Honors program in the his-tory of the university. We have also raised our profile among the editors of U.S. Weekly, who ranked us as a Tier 1 university in edu-cation in 2011 and 2012, which is the consequence of having higher admission standards. We also believe that the long-term student loan default rate will de-cline because we will be graduating a higher num-ber of students who are ad-mitted to the university.”

When asked what im-pact these plans could have on the future of the poten-tial student body, Howard responded with the follow-ing.

“Every time we raise ad-mission standards, we have about 125 to 150 students who no longer qualify to go to ASU. We are provid-ing directory information to our three sister institu-tions to help students who may not be prepared for a full college institution, es-pecially as we become more of a research institution in

the future.”After meeting with the

Shared Governance Com-mittee and the Faculty Senate about this proposal, Howard expects a decision to be made, after it makes its way through the shared governance process, at the first meeting of the ASU Board of Trustees next year in March 2012 at the earliest.

Howard then spoke about the university’s plan to recover the lost revenue from the exclusion of cer-tain students.

“After the first of these proposals goes into effect in fall 2013, we should not lose any students. What will happen is some of those students who will have been unconditionally admitted will be condition-ally admitted. The second time, we have the potential of losing 90 to 100 students, which would result in the loss of $900,000 to $1 mil-lion and we will make that revenue up by potentially recruiting some well quali-fied international students, so there will be no net loss of revenue, which is how we’ve been able to raise these standards.”

Howard said this would result in a greater success rate for incoming students and feels that, given the timeframe before an offi-cial decision, everyone will be able to prepare and ad-just to the news changes, if and when they take effect.

“I think this is a very transformative time for the university, as we transition to becoming more research-focused. We now have stu-dents that will do much better academically, will survive and thrive more easily, and yet we haven’t forgotten about the Delta and our less prepared stu-dents. We’re going to create real opportunity for them to succeed, but in commu-nity colleges, such as ASU-Newport, but not with us. Hopefully they’ll complete an associate’s degree and then transfer back to us. This will allow teachers to go through more material and teach to a higher level of students that will suc-ceed,” he said.

Abdullah Raslan/HeraldJamel Alford, a senior social work major of St. Louis, Mo., participated with his fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha in a Greek step show competition

Saturday in the Fowler Center. Alpha Eta Alpha from Saint Louis beat out three other acts and was awarded a cash prize and a trophy.

Step!

TURKEY, CONTINUED

SPORTSPAGE 4 Monday, Oct. 31 The Herald

No Mean Thing

Ryan SimpsonStaff Writer

The homecoming match up Saturday between the Red Wolves (6-2,4-0) and the Mean Green of North Texas (3-6,2-3) proved to be a one sided showcase for the Red Wolves as they ran over the Mean Green 37-14 to become bowl-eligible for the first time since 2008.

The Red Wolves seemed to throw the ball at will, with no real signs of strug-gle on the opening drive as the Red Wolves drove 74 yards in ten plays, ending in with four-yard touch-down run from freshman Frankie Jackson.

That touchdown drive left 10:43 left in the first quarter.

Jackson left the game in the second quarter with an injury and did not return for the rest of the game.

Jackson, who has al-ready missed time this sea-son due to an ankle injury, finished with nine rushes for 44 yards and the touch-down.

ASU went up 10-0 with a 48-yard field goal from Bobby Zalud with 6:50 left in the first quarter.

The next Arkansas State drive ended at the North Texas 10-yard line with a fumble from Derek Lawson that was recovered by the Mean Green.

ASU struck first in the second quarter after a drive stalled inside the 20 of North Texas.

Neely Sullivent, the se-nior punter from Bauxite, rushed for 14 yards into the end zone on a fourth and goal fake field goal at-tempt, that made the score 17 to zero for ASU with 9:26 left in the half.

“We saw on the film that they like to overload on one side and the back side of that was weak and there was just open holes,” Sul-livent said.

The next scoring drive

for Arkansas State last-ed only one minute and 34 seconds and covered 81 yards in five plays.

Junior Ryan Aplin com-pleted a 12-yard pass to Al-len Muse, making the score 24 to zero in favor of ASU with 5:52 left in the half.

Muse now has a touch-downs catch in two consec-utive games.

ASU closed out the first half with another 12-yard touchdown pass, this time to Taylor Stockemer in the right corner of the north end zone, making the score 31-0 at halftime.

The first half was very impressive for ASU on both sides of the ball.

Dave Wommack’s de-fense limited the Mean Green to just 47 total of-fensive yards in the first quarter and just 82 total offensive yards for the half and for the eighth straight game did not give up a 100-yard rusher. Senior line-backer Demario Davis fin-ished with a season-high 12 tackles and one sack.

“I thought our defense was really, really good and I thought offensively we were pretty solid too,” head coach Hugh Freeze said fol-lowing the game.

The offense had 365 to-tal offensive yards for the first half as Aplin com-manded the passing game to 222 yards in just the first half.

As impressive as the first half was for the Red Wolves, it was the opposite story for the Mean Green with just 10 passing yards in the first half and 72 to-tal rushing yards.

North Texas finally punched into the end zone with 8:20 left in the third quarter when North Texas’ Lance Dunbar scored on a one-yard run to make the score 31-7.

After punting the ball away to the Red Wolves at their own 34 yard line with 3:25 left in the quarter, Ap-

lin led the team to the 15 yard line before throwing a pick to North Texas’ Rich-ard Abbe, who returned the ball to the Mean Green 34 yard line with 34 sec-onds left in the third.

The Red Wolves re-turned the favor on the Mean Green’s next drive when Andrew McNulty threw an interception to ASU’s Kelcie McCray in the end zone for a touch-back to push McCray’s in-terception total for the year to three.

The Red Wolves’ final score of the game came when Aplin threw a 10-yard touchdown pass to senior Dwayne Frampton with 3:48 left in the game.

Aplin finished the night with 322 yards passing, with three touchdowns and one interception on 28 com-pletions.

Aplin also led the Red Wolves in rushing with 69 yards on eight carries.

North Texas’ last score came in garbage time with one minute left in the game.

Mean Green quarter-back Andrew McNulty found Brelan Chancellor for a 23-yard touchdown pass.

With a win next week against Florida Atlantic, the Red Wolves will exceed six victories for the first time since joining Division 1A competition.

The Red Wolves have not started 4-0 in any con-ference competition since doing so in the Southland Conference in 1986.

The Red Wolves continue to lead the Sun Belt with a 6-2, 4-0 record, while Lou-isiana Lafayette (7-1, 5-1) and Western Kentucky (4-4, 4-1) sit at second and third respectively.

The Red Wolves now hope to avoid any surpris-es when they play at win less Florida Atlantic next Saturday at 3 p.m.

ASU’s defense shuts out North Texas in first half on way to becoming bowl eligible

Abdullah Raslan/HeraldFreshman running back Frankie Jackson runs into the south end zone of ASU stadium to give the Red

Wolves their first score of the game against North Texas. Before leaving the game with an injury in the second quarter, Jackson had nine rushes for 44 yards.

Staci Vandagriff/Herald Junior guard Marcus Hooten reaches for an air-ball during the men’s basketball exhibition opener against

Central Baptist Saturday. The Red Wolves won the game 125-69 on the backs of senior Brandon Peterson, who earned a double-double with 20 points and 10 rebounds and junior transfer Bryce Clark, who had 20 points on nine field goals and two free throws in his first game as a Red Wolf. Marcus Hooten had six steal for the game in addition to 17 points in his first game of action. ASU was without the services of senior Martavius Adams, who was held out of action by head coach John Brady for undisclosed reasons. The Red Wolves will play their last exhibition game Thursday against Henderson State.

Let the Games Begin

Daniel McFadinSports Editor

In their final home game of the regular season, the ASU volleyball team dis-patched the ULM War-hawks in four sets, 27-25, 24-26, 25-8 and 25-14, to improve to 19-7 on the sea-son and 10-2 in Sun Belt play.

The first two sets of the match were hard fought as ASU and ULM had to go past the usually point lim-it of 25 to determine a set winner.

ASU got out to an early 7-3 lead in the set and had a 22-18 lead before ULM pulled within one and evened the score at 25.

Because NCAA rules re-quire a set winner to have a two-point lead, ASU forced the Warhawks into errors to win the set.

The second set also went beyond the 25-point goal with junior Amanda Chap-arro and sophomore Shelby Crncic each earning serv-ing aces as both teams tied at 24 before Monroe won the set 26-24.

“We started out a lit-tle slow and unfortunately it took a little bit in order to take care of the small plays,” said head coach Jus-tin Ingram. “At the begin-

ning we were…very tenta-tive in not locating the easy ones. It took awhile to real-ly understand how Monroe was going to play. It was that that was going to get us those one,two,three and four points in a row.”

The Red Wolves came out with a vengeance in the third set, scoring the first three points of the set before going up 8-1 over ULM.

Ingram attributed the success in the third set to figuring out and then shut-ting down Monroe’s Sa-mantha Morse, who had 13 kills on 18 attempts for a .722 hitting average.

“I think some of the girls were kind of shocked that they came out and played that hard because we beat them so hard in the past,” said Fielder. “So I think af-ter that second game when they beat us…it really lit a fire under us.”

With 17 team kills in the fourth set and nine errors from ULM, the Red Wolves clinched an undefeated season at home for the first time since 2004.

Fielder led the Red Wolves in kills with 18 and junior Jasmine Terry with 13.

One of Fielders kills in the fourth set found its

way right into the face of a ULM defender, eliciting a loud reaction from the crowd in attendance.

The win was the final one at home for the Red Wolves two senior play-ers: middle blocker Cayla Fielder and outside hitter Whitney Nilson.

As the final set drew to a close, the crowd began chanting, “We want Whit-ney,” and with the score at 21-10, Ingram sent Nilson in for her first action of the game and recorded one dig before matches conclusion.

“It was kind of surreal, [and] so touching,” Nilson, who transferred to ASU two years ago from Salt Lake City Community Col-lege, said.

“The fans are the great-est. I started crying, but it was awesome and felt real-ly good.”

With their home sched-ule completed, the Red Wolves will conclude their regular season with four away games beginning with North Texas on Nov. 4.

They will then play Den-ver, Louisiana Lafayette and Monroe before taking part in the Sun Belt tour-nament in Miami on Nov. 17.

ASU volleyball defeats ULM on Senior Day

Ashley HelliwellStaff Writer

The Lady Red Wolves (5-5-1,7-9-3) finished its Sun Belt Conference play as it took home a 4-0 shut-out victory over the Universi-ty of Arkansas Little Rock Friday.

“It is nice to finish the season on a high note. UALR is a quality team, very well coached, and we knew they were not go-ing to come in and just lay down,” head coach Tafadz-wa Ziyenge said.

The Red Wolves first goal came when freshman forward Jena’ Kelley took a pass from freshmen Jessi-ca Jingblad.

Senior mid-fielder Lynd-sey Patterson and Kelley led ASU with three shots on goal.

Patterson then spread the gap by scoring back- to-back goals giving ASU a 3-0 lead.

The second goal came in the 11th minute of the game when Kelley took a shot from the top of the box.

Patterson scored the third goal in the 26th min-ute from the left side of

the goal as it floated over UALR’s goalkeeper.

Senior Megan Stolzfus and sophomore Bethany Kremer dominated in the goal to keep UALR score-less.

Stolzfus recorded six saves, while Kremer had three.

Senior mid-fielder Mi-chelle Clark took an assist from senior forward Kara Nitti, shooting into an open net, giving the Red Wolves its 4-0 victory.

The match marked the end for eight senior at ASU.

“We are losing a lot of leadership...this is a very special group of leaders that have brought so much to the team. There is definite-ly going to be some shoes to fill,” Ziyenge said.

The Red Wolves will now visit Murfreesboro, Tenn., Wednesday to play No. 2 seeded FIU at 10 a.m. in the first round of the SBC tournament.

“We have to put the reg-ular season behind us,” Zi-yenge said. “Forgetting the teams we have beat and the teams that have beat us, this is a new start.”

ASU soccer defeats UALR 4-0 in finale

Abdullah Raslan/HeraldASU begins play in the Sun Belt tournament Wednesday against FIU.

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Invitational, losing to Valparaiso 4-1 in the finals.

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women finished fifth overall, while the men finished 10th.