Vol. 77 Iss. 24

Friday, April 1, 2011

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Proceeds: Varnadore scholarship

Benefit concert honors studentMark McDaniel

Staff Writer

Students, faculty and oth-ers from all over San Angelo honored a former student who died early in the semester at the ASU lake house Saturday with food and entertainment.

More than 1,000 people attended the Geology- and AMAS-sponsored event that honored James M. Varnadore, who died in a car accident ear-ly this year.

“The major purpose of [the event]... was to honor James Varnadore by having a benefit concert with the money go-

ing towards a scholarship,” As-sistant Professor of Geology Dr. Joe Satterfield said. “It has been interesting how this has gone from pretty much nothing into a really big event.”

Satterfield said all the pro-ceeds from the event will go to-ward a scholarship in James Var-nadore’s name.

“He touched a lot of lives, so we are just returning the fa-vor,” said graduate student Rob Raney, a member of Buckshot Bradley and a close friend of Varnadore.

Assistant Professor of Geolo-gy Dr. James Ward said the event was not intended to be a somber event, but more like a party.

“[It] was the best way to honor James Varnadore, who was just a tremendous, awe-

some dude who we enjoyed ev-ery minute of,” Ward said. “You know, when you lose somebody it leaves a void. It’s good we re-member him. It’s good that we also remember what happened to him so that it doesn’t happen again. That’s what we’re here for to celebrate his life and celebrate what he gave us.”

The event was held from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. and included lo-cal Texas country bands Bryce and the Bad Decisions, Crossing Tyler, and headliner Buckshot Bradley.

“It started out as just Buck-shot Bradley, and then every-body else threw their time in,” Ward said. “These guys played for free, we’re not paying them anything at all.”

Concealed handgun forumeducates, incites debateDifferent sides: Representation forpro, con, neutral

Megan EllisStaff Writer

Student Government As-sociation held a Concealed Handgun Forum Tuesday night to educate people on the issue of carrying con-cealed weapons on campus.

More than 100 people at-tended.

Each side was repre-sented, along with a neutral party.

ASU Police Chief James Adams, who represented the neutral party, presented facts about the Concealed Handgun License process.

There are many require-ments one must meet in or-der to obtain a concealed handgun license.

One must take a 10 to 15 hour course by an approved instructor, pass the written exam with a 70 percent or

better, take a shooting profi-ciency of 50 rounds at three, seven, and 10 yards with a 70 percent or better, and must renew one’s license ev-ery five years, Adams said.

Senior Janet Heismann, student senator for Psychol-ogy, Sociology and Social Work, explained why guns should not be allowed on campus.

She said allowing guns on campus would not pro-mote a safe environment. Prevention should be the

main focus of protection for the campus.

Texas Tech student Blake Rupard, a repre-sentative for Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, presented many facts to defend al-lowing licensed holders to carry guns on cam-pus.

“1995 was when the Texas Concealed Handgun License law passed,” Rupard said. “People said guns would cause more problems and, after 15 years, none of this held true.”

Mark McDaniel Staff Writer

As elections draw near, many students begin to decide who they want to represent them in Student Government Asso-ciation.

However, the majority of stu-dents will most likely not vote.

Assistant Pro-fessor of Political Science and Crimi-nal Justice Dr. Woo Jin Kang said that

the amount of students who vote on issues at ASU mirrors the nation as a whole, where a majority of the people does not vote.

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Photo by Ashley RomoSenior Allyson Wood presents a question to the panel during Tues-day’s Concealed Handgun Forum.

Photos by Ashley RomoCountry bands entertain students and faculty at the ASU lakehouse at the memorial fundraiser for the late James Varnadore.

The Ram Page welcomes submis-sions for the Life: In Focus Photo Contest from ASU students, faculty and staff.

The staff judges will choose the top two photographs in each category. The Ram Page will publish the winners April 22, in the final issue of the semester.

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Friday, April 1, 2011 Campus News

Photo by Pam BelcherDrivers manage traffic at the Rosemont Drive and the University Center intersection, UPD plans on making this intersection a 4 way stop in the next two weeks.


The University Police De-partment has planned to place stop signs at the Rosemont Drive and University Center Intersection.

There have been three re-ported accidents at this inter-section in the last two years, Chief of Police James Adams said.

“We began looking into this before Spring Break, when our officers started re-porting potential problems,” he said.

There are currently two stop signs running north and south, but the UPD plans to make this a four-way stop.

Some students said they think additional stop signs are a good idea, but people should be patient and more aware of what is going on around them.

“People need to pay more

attention,” senior Taryn Allen said. “Impatient people cause accidents.”

Others find this area con-fusing.

“It’s kind of confusing to figure out who has the right-of-way and who just needs to chill a minute,” senior Mad-eline Ridgway said.

Although only three acci-

dents have been reported to police, this area has caused several issues.

“Stop signs would en-force order in a very order-less section of campus,” Ridgway said. “I haven’t wit-nessed any accidents there, but I have experienced a lot of yelling and confusion at that intersection.”

Intersection: Plans for four-way stop

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The Hispanic population in San Angelo has grown to a record high, topping 38,000, or 35.7 percent of the population, according to the 2010 U.S. Census.

This growth follows a national trend, Director of the Center for Security Studies Dr. Robert Ehlers said.

“There are about 2,000 more Hispanics living within the city limits of San Angelo,” Ehlers said.

According to the ASU Mini Fact Book, the undergraduate Hispanic population at ASU has grown 9.5 percent in the past year, from 1,469 to 1,609 students.

The Hispanic population makes up 26.1 percent of the student body.

ASU has to obtain 25 percent to be considered a Hispanic-serving institution, Assistant Professor of Spanish Maria De Los Santos On-ofre-Madrid said.

“I think it is a good thing the hispanic population [at ASU] is increasing,” freshman Jessica Gon-zales said. “There will be more cutural events on campus and students will be able to have fun in new ways.”

Onofre-Madrid said she also believes students will see more culturally diverse events as the his-panic population increases.

“There may be more traditional hispanic events [in the future] to try and get students to learn and appreciate what other cultures have to offer,” she said.

Onofre-Madrid said the demo-graphic changes can be seen across Tom Green County.

“It’s pretty visible in the city,

especially if you go to the southern parts of San Angelo,” Madrid said. “The Hispanics are expanded all over the city, but there are certain neighborhoods where it’s mostly Hispanic population.”

The Hispanic population in the United States has grown 43 percent since 2000, over 50 million people, or 16.3 percent of the nation, U.S. Census Bureau officials said.

“Some Hispanics have been here [in San Angelo] for many, many generations, but there is also a very new group,” Ehlers said. “Those are the immigrants, and many of them are not here legally. This causes a really complex dy-namic in the Hispanic population.”

What makes San Angelo unique is the rate at which Hispanics are moving compared to non-Hispanic whites, Ehlers said.

“There are actually less [white people] moving into San Angelo now than there were in the past,” Ehlers said.

Ehlers said the influx of His-panics may change the politics of San Angelo.

“Changing populations will, over time, change the balance of politics or political power in the re-gion, or they may not,” Ehlers said. “If you look at Spanish immigrant groups, they tend to be very heav-ily Democratic. However in some parts of the country they tend to identify well with the Republi-cans.”

Onofre-Madrid said her main concern is the retention of the Spanish language as more genera-tions are born in the U.S.

“[In certain areas of town] you find that there are Hispanic fami-lies where the children don’t really speak Spanish,” Onofre-Madrid said. “If you want to get any busi-ness done or anything like that you have to speak in English.”

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The university finished a paint-ing project in the Administration building Tuesday that they origi-nally postponed due to color choice issues.

“Due to problems getting an in-terior designer to help with color selections, the project was delayed,” said John Russell, Facilities Planning and Construction director.

The project costs $17,000 from Plant funds, which the state desig-nates for physical plant upgrades and deferred maintenance, Russell said.

“It is our goal to maintain the facilities in good condition, and to make sure we have attractive and well de-signed facilities to meet the needs of the stu-dents, faculty and staff,” Russell said.

Some students feel time spent on students is of more value than on appearance.

“I know the aesthet-ics are an important part in attracting new students and their par-ents,” senior Amanda Fowler said. “I think it is incredibly frustrating to see how little is actually spent to make the time

of the students of any actual value.”The university installed theexist-

ing vinyl wall covering in the 1970s. “The interior was very dated,”

Russell said. “If we are to attract stu-dents and parents, we would like for their first impression of our facili-ties to be modern and well cared for. The previous colors were dated and gave the impression that we did not care for our facilities.”

“In the past few years, much work has been devoted to updating classrooms and academic facilities, as well as making the residence halls as nice as possible. We develop a five-year capital improvement plan for the entire campus and list proj-ects that are needed in the various buildings and develop that plan as funding permits.”

Administrationgets a new colorFresh paint: Former inte-rior dated to 1970s

Encourages: Changes offered to young adults

Stand-up: ‘Not a dry moment’

Photos by Ashley Romo(Top left): Wilma Bradley accepts her certificate for her Wonderful Women of ASU nomination. (Top right): Program Specialist Adriana Balcorta announces the contestants for the Wonderful Women of ASU awards. (Bottom): Students model casual wear at the Fashion Show during Women’s Appreciation Month.

Photo by Ashley RomoThe university paid $17,000 of Plant funds, funds used for maintenance, to repaint the Administration building.

Photo Illustration by Ashley RomoASU, partnering with the group Young Invincibles, educates students on their options for insur-ance coverage under new laws.

Celebrating women

Organizations inform on health care options

Jason HelmsOnline Editor

A national organiza-tion called Young Invinci-bles coordinated an online campaign to inform young adults and their families about changes to depen-dant health care coverage.

The campaign, Getting Covered, is working to en-sure that all young adults and their families have the information to take advan-tage of a specific provision in the new health care law that went into effect in September 2010.

The provision extends the age that young adults are allowed to be covered under their parents’ health insurance from 25 to 26.

According to the cam-paign, this provision could potentially cover 15 per-cent of young adults in Texas that are currently uninsured.

The average total pre-mium increase for families to keep their children un-der 26 years old covered is

about $40, according to the campaign.

“I recommend stu-dents take advantage of [this provision] as long as parents can afford to keep them on their plan,” Ange-lo State Business Services assistant Anna Martinez said.

However, Martinez said she has seen situations where parents could not af-ford to do so, in which case she recommended that stu-dents take advantage of the health insurance offered by the school.

The university cur-rently offers health insur-ance to students through Academic Health Plans, a company that offers spe-cial premiums to students, Martinez said.

Martinez encouraged students to visit www.ah-pcare.com/angelo or stop by the Businesses Services office located on the sec-ond floor of the UC for more details.

Students can receive ex-aminations, diagnoses and consultation services at no charge due to the health fee ASU students pay each semester according to Uni-

versity Health Clinic and Counseling Services web-site. http://www.angelo.edu/services/health_clin-ic_counseling/

Some fees do apply to injections or other medi-cations and services such as labs and X-rays.

However, this does not cover students in case of emergency or other major medical care needs, such as injuries from a car wreck or any type of sur-gery, which, according to the Young Invincibles, can sometimes cost sev-eral thousands of dollars.

“You never know when these things might happen,” Martinez said. “Students need to make sure they are covered for them.”

The Getting Covered campaign also stressed the importance of young adults being covered, es-pecially under their par-ents’ plan if possible.

“I appreciate what the campaign is doing,” se-nior Nicole Tisdale said. “It’s obviously a good thing that they are edu-cating people about how the new laws affect us.”


Comedian Donald Glover performed his stand-up act Wednesday night at UCPC’s Club Cafe for over 300 people.

Glover is known for his role on NBC’s hit show Community and for his stand-up acts on Comedy Central.

Senior Kara Andrews said she stumbled across the event.

“I was just walking through the UC and when I heard how funny the comedy was, I sat down to watch,” she said.

Glover said his “I Am Donald” tour is sold out in many cities across America.

Glover attended New York University, where he said he talked his way out of many classes.

“If you know what you want to do, go for it.” Glover said. “Don’t waste time doing other things. Follow what in-terests you and you will learn more.”

Glover said he thinks college is impor-tant for its social aspect.

“It’s a critical time in your life and it’s impor-tant to be around people that are your age,” he said.

Andrews said she had not heard of Glover before, but thought he was entertaining.

“He was funny,” An-drews said. “Not a dry moment.”

TV Comedian brings act

Photo by Pam BelcherDonald Glover signs an auto-graph for Matt Lucero.


Photos by Ashley Romo

(Top) Students enjoy the lake from the deck before the evening activities of music, food, and dancing starts dur-ing the James Varnadore memorial scholarship fundraiser.(Middle) A student waits for the dropped football to float her way. She waded in for it shortly after.(Left) One of the evening’s cooks keeps a close eye on the beans as they prepare a brisket meal for the students and faculty members that attended the fund-raiser at the Lake House.

Photos by Ashley RomoMarine Stephen Steinke donates to help tsunami victims in Japan.


The Association of Asian American Women is collecting items and monetary donations in an effort to help Japan until the end of April.

“A group member has family in Japan whose house was destroyed be-cause of the earthquake,” AAAW President Rose Ng said. “We are able to send them supplies di-rectly, and they can help

others.”A lot of areas in Ja-

pan still do not have water and electricity following the earth-quake and tsunami that took place on March 11.

Diapers, soap, flashlights, canned food and baby wipes are all in high demand as well as monetary donations.

Donors may take items to Mathis Field, where there are boxes set up to collect these items.

“It is always en-couraging to hear that

s o m e o n e is go-ing out of their way and s a c r i f i c -ing either their time or money to help the people a r o u n d them who are in need,” senior Ben M a r t i n said.

Ng is w o r k i n g with other m e m b e r s of the group to ship items to

Japan as soon as possible.

The group asks that no clothing be donated,

Ng said. There is no one in Japan to sort through all of the clothing and shoes, and there are things that

they need more.“We have raised about

$750 so far,” Ng said. “If e v e r y o n e could do something, that would be great.”

Ng said the donated

money is used to pur-chase more items and ship them to Japan.

Donations: Basic necessities in high demand

Community memorializes student

Local group aids Japan

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Satterfield said getting the Lake House set up for the bands was difficult, but worth it.

“I understand that it is really rare to have live music [at the ASU lake house] and to get the electricity worked out in order to do it,” Satterfield said.

Raney said the bands had to stop playing at 10:00 p.m. due to a noise ordinance.

Throughout the day people dropped by to listen to music, eat barbe-cue, play games such as volleyball, or just to enjoy the weather and compa-ny of their friends.

“It’s a great event for a good cause,” senior Azalya Hernan-dez said.

Hernandez said she and her friends took advantage of the nice weather to enjoy the Lake House facilities, while others enjoyed in the water.

“People have been swim-ming, wakeboarding, kayaking, and going on the swings and stuff,” senior Rex Johnson said. “It has been a ton of fun.”

Donors provided free bar-beque to everyone who attend-ed.

Ward said there were 375 pounds of brisket, 100 pounds of hominy and 100 pounds of beans.

“[100 percent] of the briskets were donated and [Rob Raney’s uncle] cooked everything for us,” Ward said. “He’s a tremen-dous supporter of the geology program and has cooked for several of our events.”

Satterfield said the event was originally a Geology-spon-sored event, but the accidental inclusion of AMAS turned out to be a positive aspect.

He said once Ward made a verbal commitment to use the Lake House, he found out another organization actu-ally booked it first. That meant in order to host the event as planned, they had to join up with AMAS.

“So this was actually a combined Geology and AMAS event, which actually turned out to be great,” Satterfield said. “That was just one of many, many things that that had to be worked out before something like this could happen,”

Ward said the event has crossed cultural barriers.

“What I think makes this really spectacular is that it is crossing disciplines, crossing any kind of cultural barrier, and we were all together for one rea-son,” Ward said. “I think we’ve made tremendous accomplish-ments just in that,”

Ward said he hopes this is not a one-time event.

“It’s been something that’s been talked about between the two groups,” Ward said. “If we do something, it may be an an-nual picnic where we just play all day and enjoy ourselves. I think it’s a good time to hold it because the stress of school starts getting to people. It’s nice to get together and just not talk about school.”

Raney said that, as a com-munity, it is highly likely it will become an annual event.

“San Angelo just pulls to-gether as a community when stuff like this comes out,” Raney said. “Local businesses and in-dividuals were willing to help out. That’s one of the joys of live in a tight-knit community.”

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According to the re-sults of the previous spe-cial election for SGA presi-dent and vice president, only 1,030 of almost 7,000 students participated.

In the 2009-2010 SGA elections, an average of only 612 students, or about 10 percent of the popula-tion, voted .

Kang said apathy, that most people do not care enough about the govern-ment to vote, may be a big factor in the small turnout of voters at ASU.

“First of all, the genera-tion we are in is more individ-ualized, we are less involved in society or democracy,” Kang said. “To make mat-ters worse, you guys have technology. You don’t need to get involved because you can watch TV by yourself and you can communicate with friends easily with Facebook or Twitter.”

Senior Ryan Ward said he agrees that apathy is the major cause of such a low turnout rate.

“Personally, I don’t think it’s really that big of a deal,” Ward said. “It is not important enough to me to interrupt my sched-ule to take the time and vote, because it seems to make little difference who is elected.”

Other students feel dif-ferently.

“I think it is a very important thing to vote

in these elections now be-cause it is good practice for voting in our national gov-ernment,” freshman John Kelly said. “This upcom-ing SGA election is going to be a good one to vote in because of the issues at hand, like the guns on campus debate.”

Ward said if there were incentives to vote, he may be more inclined to partici-pate in the election.

“I mean, if I go vote, I do not directly benefit,” Ward said. “I may see posi-tive things come my way further down the road, but only after a long and drawn out political process. If somebody threw some money my way, or even something other than just a pat on the back at the polls, I would definitely go vote.”

Kang said this mentality is common and has even been debated on a national level.

“For example, if any student participates in vot-ing, we could give them incentives… [such as] fi-nancial incentives or some other form of incentive,” Kang said. “They will be much more likely to vote.”

Kang said that is similar on the national level and that many people feel vot-ing is not worth the time.

“Because of the eco-nomic downturn, a lot of people don’t have jobs and a lot of people have dubi-ous futures, and they want to focus on what they have to do today,” Kang said.

Mixed opinionson voting issue

“It is encouraging to hear that someone is sacrificing their time or money to help.”

Ben Martin, senior

News Briefs

Photos by Ashley RomoRose Ng raises awareness and seeks donations for Japan.

Gas Leak

ATMOS Energy re-ported a gas leak Thurs-day near the crosswalks on Johnson Street. They cut gas supply to the Cav-ness Science Building and Science III. The gas did not pose health or safety issues.

Tech closing branch

Texas Tech University will close April 1 its opera-tion at the Amarillo branch.

One Day Without Shoes

What: Awareness for impoverished kids,TOMS

When: Tuesday, 11:30 a.m.

Where: University Center

Who: AMASContact: 325-716-0727

Talent Show

When: Tuesday, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Where: C.J. Davidson Center

Who: UCPCCost: $2Contact: 325-942-2062

Evening of Brass

When: Thursday, 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Where: Dr. Eldon U. Black Recital Hall

Who: Music Depart-ment

Cost: FreeContact: jaxine.bol-

[email protected]

Sexual Assault Aware-ness Month

When: Events throughout the month

Where: ASU campus Who: Counseling ser-

vicesContact: 325-942-2171


Continued from Page 1 There are over half a mil-

lion concealed handgun license carriers in Texas, Rupard said.Rupard said the benefit of

carrying handguns on campus was personal protection.

According to the panel, there are 71 universities in the country that allow licensed holders to carry their concealed handguns on campuses. There have been no reported incidents at these schools.

Osmanski said that the per-son who was supposed to rep-resent the opposing side backed out last minute so SGA had to crambletofindareplacement.

“We contacted the DPS, SAPD, the Tom Green Co. Democrats, and multiple CHL course instructors and tried to have them come speak at the event,” Osmanski said. “How-ever, they all declined so we started to ask senators. Janet Heismann stepped up to the plate and took on the forum.”

Heismann is a former grad-uate senator and The Budget andFinancecommitteechairofstudent senate, Osmanski said.

“She only had about three hours to prepare for the forum and I think we did an exception-al job,” Osmanski said.

Heismann had the chance to call the original planned

speaker from Student for Gun Free Schools and discussed information for the forum, he said.

The Student Government Association conducted a survey in February and 11 percent of the student body responded.

SGA will conduct another survey soon for more student responses, Osmanski said.

Last-minutereplacement

Photo by Ashley RomoThe panel listens to the concerned public when the floor opens up for questioning.

Photo by Pam BelcherThe Concert Chorale performs during the 14th annual Showcase Concert Tuesday, March 29th.

FAME displaysvariety, talentEntertainment: Musicians, vocalists perform at the CJ

Lisa DeesContributing Writer

ASU Friends of Art and Music Education presented the 14th annual Showcase Concert Tuesday at 7 p.m.

in the C.J. Davidson Confer-ence Center.

The sounds of Jazz Com-bo, Percussion Ensemble, Woodwind Quintet, Con-cert Chorale, Brass Choir, Opera Music Theatre Work-shop, and Wind Ensemble entertained students and the public.

Junior Amy Fogleman and sophomore Jennifer

Valdivia said they enjoyed listening to so many talent-ed student musicians and vocalists.

They put in a lot of timeandeffort,andit’sfunwatching and hearing them perform, Fogleman said.

“I liked hearing the Per-cussion Ensemble and the Wind Ensemble because I know them from marching

band,” Valdivia said.Clark said he thinks the

concert is an awesome event for students and the public toattend.

“We are so lucky to have so many talented artists and musiciansthatattendASU,”he said. “Not many univer-sities have so many oppor-tunities.”

Director of Choral Ac-tivities Dr. Pa-mela Lee said she agrees that ASU students have a lot of tal-enttooffer.

“I have the best students, and I have a great job,” she said. “I love what I do.”

Clark said he hopes the public grows more aware of ASU’s talent sothey will con-tinue to and want to donate money to help students in the Department of Art and Music pay for college.

Photos by Pam BelcherThe Showcase Concert featured Jazz Combo, Percussion Ensemble, Woodwind Quintet, Concert Chorale, Brass Choir, Opera Music Theatre Workshop and Wind Ensem-ble. All tickets sales went to scholarships for students in the Art and Music Department. A plate auction was also held, and the highest bidder spent $80 on an art piece. Many instructors of Art painted plates for the event, including Mr. Benedict Sum, assistant professor of Art.


Photo by Pam BelcherFort Concho Elementary volunteers fill trash bags to help clean the river on World Water Day, March 26.

Photo by Pam BelcherJars of trash are collected as an art project to keep the Concho river clean.

Dana ChoiCopy Editor

Community members March 26, picked up trash and raised environmental awareness with art at the Concho River Cleanup.

This is not the first river cleanup, but this is the first time San Angelo officially recognized and celebrated World Water Day, said Dr. Christy Youker, education director for San Angelo-based Upper Col-orado River Authority.

“People are starting to really think about the crazy things that we’re put-ting in our river every day,” said Megan DiRienzo, assistant museum educator at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts. “This is also the source of our drinking water, so it’s really important to think about that.”

What comes off the street goes directly

into the river, Youker said.More than 100 volunteers waded and

kayaked their way through trash in the Concho River at around 9 a.m.

Volunteers covered a wide range of groups and institutions, including Fort Concho Elementary, Lee Middle School, Girl Scouts, Goodfellow Air Force Base and church groups, Youker said. There were many volunteers who simply came with friends and family.

Participants not only cleaned up, but also developed a certain attitude toward the river.

“People are walking in it, they’re be-side it, they’re looking at it,” Youker said. “It becomes their river — something to take care of.”

The Girl Scout troops and some com-munity members brought canoes to pick up hard-to-reach pieces of trash.

Some of the trash they picked up went into mason jars.

The collection jars went on display at Coop Gallery, located at 427 S. Oakes St., on the same day at 2:30 p.m., Youker said.

People will have a strong, visual represen-tation of some of the things in the river, DiRienzo said.

“We were thinking a lot about ecologi-cal art and how [we] can create works that are going to get people think-ing about really pressing eco-logical issues,” she said.

The trash is in preservation jars, she said, so viewers would reflect on natural resource preservation.

“At first glance [the river] looks pretty natural and open, like a park, but you can really see some of the destruction that some humans are wreaking on it,”

DiRienzo said.A large fraction

of the trash consisted of cigarette butts, she said.

“We have three or four jars that are just cigarette butts,” she said. “We have ev-erything from tooth-brushes to Christmas lights.”

Lee Middle School student Se-bastian Hama, son of ASU professors of English Dr. Mark Hama and Dr. Linda Kornasky, said he mostly found water bottles and pieces of cardboard.

Bottled water has a huge impact on the

environment, Sebastian Hama said, and the pieces of cardboard can harm wildlife that may try to eat them.

“This is just to make our town better,” he said. “There was trash strewn every-where, plenty of cigarette butts, it’s just disgusting.”

Sebastian Hama said this weekend was a good time to contribute.

“I just wanted to help San Angelo,” Hama said, “and I usually can’t do that at school because I’m stuck in there a lot. It’s the weekend…so we decided to clean the river and clean up San Angelo.”

Community member Theresa Cain said she found eight tires and 11 bags of trash when she waded in the river.

“I love water [and] anything to do with water,” Cain said. “I just know how important it is. We’ve got to protect it.”

Youker said she hopes the commu-nity will do this once or twice a year and focus on different parts of the river.

“I was excited to come here and see that [people in] San Angelo [are] aware of the troubles facing their water and are willing to come together to help fix it,” DiRienzo said.

The City of San Angelo, the San Ange-lo Museum of Fine Arts, the Upper Colo-rado River Authority and the Catholic Di-ocese of San Angelo funded the cleanup, Youker said.

Volunteer: Professors’ son helps clean river, create art

Community celebrates World Water Day

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Election Coverage Friday, April 1, 2011


Senior Hector Romo, student body vice presi-dent, and senior Vincent Perez, AMAS president and History department senator, are running for office for the next academ-ic year.

“Vincent and I plan to keep the momentum that SGA has gathered throughout this past

year,” Romo said.The pair would con-

tinue programs such as True Blue and fill up the Senate, Romo said.

“I would also like to enhance transparency of SGA’s actions for next year,” he said.

Romo said he started to send student senators to student organization meetings to deliver SGA updates this year, and will continue to do so after re-ceiving positive feedback.

“My experience as a student body vice presi-dent has shown me that the student’s voice with-in the administration is far more powerful than I expected,” Romo said.

“I have learned how to communicate well with both administration and students, and to project the students’ voice in an effective manner. All SGA actions will be with the students’ well-being in mind.”

He said the best way to address issues such as budget cuts and allow-ing guns on campus is to keep students informed, whether by forums, flyers, e-mails or letters.

“One of the biggest is-sues that we will be taking on is the possibility of stu-dents being able to carry concealed weapons on campus,” Perez said. “We will need to approach this

issue delicately, but also with the best interests of the students here on cam-pus in mind.”

Biology major Romo is involved in Beta Beta Beta Biological Honor Society, Lambda Chi Alpha Frater-nity, the Honors Student Association, RAMbassa-dors, and Order of Omega.

“Hector has already served one term as vice president and has done an outstanding job thus far,” Perez said. “He is prob-ably more qualified than anyone else.”

Communications ma-jor Perez is chairman of the Student Organization Eval-uation Committee, a men-tor for the Multicultural

Center, a representative in the Multicultural Advisory Council, and a member of the Student Organization Advisory Council.

Perez attends informa-tional university forums, most student-sponsored events, and most sporting events, Romo said.

“Vincent is a truly dedicated

young man to everything and everyone,” Romo said. “His vast experience in the field of student and administrative affairs, campus involvement, and outstanding leadership skills let me know that he was the best candidate

when I was selecting a running mate.”


Junior Will Boaz and sophomore Laura Perez, Political Science senators and majors, seek to close the gap between Student Government Association and the student body.

“Most students don’t understand what we do in [student] government,” Boaz said. “Both [Perez] and myself have very strong opinions that the only way we’re going to get anything done in the next school year is by kin-

ship between us and the student organizations.”

Boaz said, if elected, he will maintain a very close partnership with all campus organizations.

“That’s the proven way to engage students, increase campus pride and involvement, and promote community out-reach,” he said.

Boaz said he and Laura contacted several organizations already to discuss their ideas.

“All the presidents [of the student organiza-tions] say that’s been lack-ing in the past adminis-trations,” he said. “I think we’re the only candidates who are actually address-ing that.”

Perez said they hope to use RamPort as another way to increase commu-

nication between the stu-dent body and the stu-

dent government.“We’re trying to incor-

porate more of our initia-tives with the student body as a whole,” she said.

Boaz said they would also designate someone for a public relations po-sition for community out-reach. This position would release information to the

press, keep an a c c o u n t

of what is happening on campus, and brief the stu-dent body president, vice president and the senate.

Regarding issues such as allowing concealed handguns, Boaz said the concealed handgun fo-rum is a precedence to follow because it educates students on important is-sues. Any debate should

be presented from per-sons educated on the

subject, he said, so students can learn the facts and take a posi-tion.

“My job is to pro-vide that interaction for students,” Boaz said.

Boaz said, to ad-dress budget cuts, he will meet with many departments to see how measures to take

on budget cuts will affect students.

“Through [that], we can reach a workable con-sensus,” he said, “But I think many students un-derstand the necessity.”

Boaz is in the Judi-ciary Review Commit-tee, which is responsible for making sure the ASU constitution is up-to-

date, and the Committee for Student Organization Evaluation. Boaz said he is involved on campus through student organi-zations such as African Student Association and participates in various campus activities.

Perez was the coor-dinator for a community service organization at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash. Since she enrolled at ASU, she said, she joined the student senate, Philosophy club and Professional Organi-zation for Women’s Equal Rights. Perez is part of the Finance and Budget com-mittee and the environ-ment committee for SGA.

“We’re really here to represent the whole coali-tion that makes up ASU,” Boaz said.

Hector Romo and Vincent Perez

Will Boaz and Laura Perez

Jessica Shepard and Will Franke

Who will you vote for?Romo&Perez

&Perez

Boaz &Shepard

Franke


Senior Jessica Shepa-rd, a Communications major with Public Rela-tions specialization, and sophomore Will Franke, Sociology major, want to focus on rebuilding com-munications within the university.

Shepard said their platform revolves around

the current breakdown of communication in SGA between the executive and the senate, which resulted after the former student body president and vice president stepped down last semester.

While it is a good thing student senators are involved on campus, they need to be able to manage their time, Shepard said.

“There’s not a lot of communication going on right now,” she said.

Ideally, the executive would be in the office dur-ing the mandated hours, Shepard said.

“When you’re in a leadership position, there are certain levels of com-

munication you are re-quired to give to your organization,” she said. “It’s expected of you to communicate within your group, and to work co-hesively towards goals. It doesn’t feel like that’s been happening.”

Shepard said she also wants to facilitate com-munication and improve relationships between the student body and the ad-ministration.

“I know a lot of stu-dents on campus feel that administration doesn’t listen to them,” she said. “I’ve also heard that they feel the student body president and vice presi-dent are useless.”

The student body president communicates with the Texas Tech Board of Regents as well as with the administration, Shepard said.

“I would really like students to come to the office and talk to us about their concerns,” she said. “We’re students too, and we’re not just here to be empowering and to make false promises.”

Shepard said she and Franke will continue with some legacies such as True Blue and follow new initiatives. She plans to work with Career Devel-opment and contact each department to develop an online internship data-

base students can access anywhere.

Shepard ran the Com-mittee for Public Relations for SGA. She said that all of her time is divided be-tween school and SGA and that she often attends forums to stay updated on what is happening on campus.

Franke was staff ser-geant of his platoon and has intense leadership ex-perience, Shepard said.

“I’ve always felt we need to be a visible pres-ence and not just an office with a door,” she said.

Franke was unavail-able for comment.

Photos by Pam Belcher

FeaturesFriday, April 1, 2011

Mariah Powell Features Editor

Three million eight hundred thou-sand people in Texas need the services of an adult education program, but only 100,000 are being served. According to Literacytexas.org, Texas has fallen from the 45th to the very last of states ranked by percent of citizens age 25 and older with a high school diploma or GED.

Facts show that American business-es are estimated to lose over $70 billion in productivity each year due to employees’ lack of basic skills and 75 percent of un-employed adults have reading or writing difficulties, said Marilynn Golightly, di-rector of Adult Literacy Council of Con-cho Valley.

How does this affect San Ange-lo?

“With the economic decline and un-employment up, we have to prepare indi-viduals to get jobs,” Golightly said.

Ken Stewart, professor of Sociol-ogy and University Studies working with Community Development Initiatives, said the service load of the ALC has in-creased by about 19 percent.

Golightly said 22 countries are rep-resented at Concho Valley’s ALC.

In the CommunityLiteracy Office Coordinator Molly

Owen of the ALC said they are teaching most people English as their second lan-guage.

“We teach them how to read, write and speak it,” Owen said. “We even have computer programs to work on compre-hension, speed and reading.”

Owen said the council utilizes an in-ternational program called Laubach Way to help people learn the language.

Although the ALC specializes in English as a second language, they also have basic literacy help, Owen said.

“Some people have gone to high school and graduated, but their reading and comprehension level does not meet college standards, so we help them im-prove to take entrance exams,” Owen said.

“I would say the average person comes in at a second grade reading lev-el and are 45 to 50 years old,” Golightly said. “We try to at least get them to an eighth-grade level so they will be able to

read signs, papers or pass a driving test.”Golightly said some of these people

have high school diplomas, but others cannot read at all.

“It could be as simple as not reading in a long time or they could have a dif-ferent learning style that no one ever took the time to figure out,” Golightly said. “Back then, people would predict that someone could not read, and the person comes in and discovers they can read but just needed different help.”

Golightly said the council meets the reader at his or her level and help him or her accomplish the goal they want to meet.

“The program has four levels and the majority of the people start at level one with basics such as sounds of conso-nants,” Owen said. “It normally takes a year for each level going by the book.”

The ALC is a nonprofit organiza-tion, meaning all tutors are volunteers, Owen said.

“Volunteers make the difference,” Golightly said. “They help individuals better their lives.”

Student VolunteersFreshman Lisa Dees is a board

member of the ALC.“I am not a consistent tutor, but if

there is someone who needs help I will,” Dees said. “It’s interesting to be on the other side tutoring.”

Dees said last semester she, along with school and board mate Lynette Car-rillo, was assigned to go by a woman’s apartment to help her prepare for a phar-macist test once a week for about three weeks and saw an improvement.

“I am really passionate about the council because my home-church has an ESL program, so I knew something about helping out,” Dees said. “Also because I’m a [CMMT] major and I have to be able to read and write – it’s touching when I see people learning the basics of that. It’s a rewarding experience.”

At Angelo StateAt the university there is a variation

when it comes to the reading and writing level, said Cynthia Burkhalter, lecturer and interim director of the Writing Cen-ter.

She said high school transcripts, ACT and entrance exams are ways to as-sess literacy.

“We have the developmental pro-gram that helps students,” Burkhalter said. “Our [130C English] is a pretty rig-orous class. We focus not only upon help-ing students become better writers, but also place focus on critical reading skills.”

She said students who take 130C get a headstart to English 1301, and may make better grades than those who do not take the developmental course.

“These students have gained skills and are able to function at a college level,” Burkhalter said. “They have that knowl-edge base, which they gained in 130C and the whole prospect of writing an essay.”

The Developmental English pro-gram is undergoing revision at the mo-ment to be more helpful to students, Bur-khalter said.

She said the program is also looking into placing trained student tutors in the classrooms.

Burkhalter said she started teaching the developmental class in the early 1990s and has taught it for four years since she moved back to San Angelo.

The program used to consist of one semester of critical reading and a second semester of writing skills before enrolling in English 1301, she said.

Now all is combined into a one-se-mester course.

“Those of us who teach 130C work closely with their students,” Burkhalter said. “We go over the rules repeatedly and in detail. Students going into 130C may have had problems before the college level, and, in many cases, were worked through the system, so they haven’t learned what they really need to know.”

130C instructors familiarize stu-dents with college-level writing, Burkhal-ter said.

“If a student begins to fall off in their work or attendance we try to help them get caught up,” Burkhalter said. “Sometimes students will respond to that and other times they won’t.”

Students usually repeat 130C be-cause they do not attend class or keep up with the work, Burkhalter said.

“It’s not a class that can drop so if they get behind and don’t get caught up they have to accept a failing grade,” Bur-khalter said.

She said the Writing Center is here to help students with any kind of paper assignment, including resumes and job applications.

How San Angelo, ASU fit in literacy rates

ASU EventsApril 1: ASU Grindhouse will take place from 6 - 10 p.m. in the Texan Hall Theater. Brought to you by the Center for Student Involve-ment along with SCREENERS. There will be two free showings of B-movies “Machete” and “Piranha.” There will be food, beverages and door prizes.

April 2: 5K Fun Run/Walk will be from 8:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. at the Super Slab. Registration is from 8:30 - 9:30 a.m., and the race begins at 10 a.m. Admission is $1 for students, $2 for faculty/staff and those 12 and under, $5 to the general public. Each division’s top three winners will be rewarded.

April 2: Circle K Soccer Tour-nament will take place at Glenn Middle School Field from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. All proceeds benefit Grassroots Soccer. Volunteers welcomed.

April 2: AMAS Dance will be at the Super Slab from 7 - 11 p.m. There will be all genres of music played throughout the night.

April 5: Percussion Ensemble Concert will be from 7:30 - 9 p.m. in the spine of the Carr Education Fine Arts Bldg. Admission is free to the public.

April 6: Monthly Movie Series: “TRON Legacy” will play twice in the Planetarium, starting at 6 p.m. and again at 9 p.m. Admission is free to ASU students but seats are limited so be early.

HopStarring: Russell Brand, Kaley Cuoco, James Marsden,

Elizabeth Perkins, Chelsea HandlerGenre: Action/Adventure, Comedy

Source CodeStarring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera

Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright, Russell PetersGenre: Action/Adventure, SciFi/Fantasy

InsidiousStarring: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Barbara

Hershey, Angus Sampson, Ty SimpkinsGenre: Horror

Facebook vs Twitter?

Question asked:

50 students were surveyed at random.

Facebook

Twitter

“Facebook is easie

r to function,

and has more optio

ns,”junior Kameron

Brown said. “Twitt

er has entirely to

o

much junk to try a

nd figure out.”

“I deleted my Facebook because it took

up too much of my time,” freshman Steph-

anie Ugo said. “It was a distraction so

I had to get rid of it to focus on my-

self and studies. I just have a Twitter

to make a background. I don’t understand

Twitter or what’s so good about it.”

All that agreed upon Twitter said it will become a better site once everyone joins,

but Tell us what you think at asurampage.com

Features Friday, April 1, 2011

brings new chill to San Angelo

Photos by Pam BelcherTJ’s Frozen Yogurt had its grand opening Thursday, March 24. There are multiple flavors including red velvet and cheesecake and they have already changed some out since they’ve been open. Cost is based on weight, so customers decide how much they want to pay. It has been very popular during its first week of opening.

Mariah PowellFeatures Editor

TJ’s Frozen Yogurt had its grand opening March 24 at 3347 Knickerbocker Road, in Knickerbocker Square.

“TJ’s is the best place in town,” freshman Aidaly Rodriguez said. “I’m glad there is a frozen yogurt place be-cause it’s healthier than ice cream. I feel like a kid at a candy store.”

What inspired the owners?Owners Tommy and Janet

Lay felt the town needed frozen yogurt, Janet Lay said.

“It’s a new trend in the bigger cities so we thought it was neat and wanted to bring it to San Angelo,” Lay said. “The community of San Angelo has been good to us, and this is a way we would like to give back.”

Lay said they lived in San Angelo for 23 years, where she has been in the real estate busi-ness and her husband owned College Hill’s Driving Range and Golf, which he sold two years ago.

TJ’s Frozen Yogurt will set forward community effort and is looking to do something with the elementary schools, Lay said.

“All the art on the Art Wall are things that I painted,” Lay said. “We want to feature local artists on that wall and next year we would like to feature children’s art and promote food nutri-tion, art and recycling.”

What do they have to offer?Lay said all flavors are either low

-fat or no-fat, and they have sugar free options. All of their fruit flavors have no added sugar.

Sophomore Dreshawn Murray said TJ’s Frozen Yogurt is great. He said it is healthier than ice cream and it tastes

better than Marble Slab Creamery.“They should consider a bigger

building already because it was packed both times we went,” Murray said. “It’s a nice place for a date and the location is convenient.”

The location was chosen because of its proximity to everyone, Lay said.

“I have no clue how many people come through, but we have been blessed with a lot of customers,” Lay said. “We have already had two people buy ten

and redeem their free yogurt from their punch card since we opened last week.”

Rodriguez said TJ’s had everything she could think of.

There are ten different flavors of yogurt, but including the twist flavors, there are fifteen, Lay said.

To go along with the yogurt, TJ’s of-fers 27 toppings.

“You can do any combination you want,” Lay said. “I don’t know if I could try all the com-binations in my life time. You can come in several times a day and still not try all of it.”

She said her fa-vorite is red velvet cake, though it is not a best-selling flavor.

“My favorite is the New York cheesecake-flavored yogurt with cheesecake toppings,” Murray said. “I tried red velvet, but it had a chocolate taste to it un-til I mixed it with the cheesecake and it made

life better.”TJ’s is hoping to do a contest where

people submit their favorite combination to get some free yogurt, Lay said.

Rodriguez said paying $5 to fill a 16-ounce cup of whatever mix she likes is a good deal.

The price sits at $0.42 an ounce.“I have been to other yogurt places,

and the prices are about the same, but TJ’s has more variety,” Rodriguez said.

“Plus, the people are really friendly and they take you through the steps. You can sample all the flavors and it’s self-serving so you mix and match as you please.”

A tip to ladies thinking about go-ing – make sure you have someone with you who is going to pay, so you can load it with toppings, she said.

After sampling three or four of the flavors, Rodriguez said she discovered her favorites are the original yogurt and cheesecake.

“I’m happy for them because they seem like nice people,” Rodriguez said. “I have a feeling they are going to make good profit.”

What sets the atmosphere?Lay said she did the decorating

from real estate staging experience.“We chose the colors after I did

some research,” Lay said. “Green is a happy color and orange is the color that makes people hungry.”

She said the music they play was hand-picked to make people feel good.

“You can’t hear it when it’s crowded, but there’s a lot of tropical sounding music and all the classics like The Beatles,” Lay said. “The whole idea is to create a place where people can come in and take a 15 to 30-minute vacation from everything.”

Lay said everything is done to make people happy.

“When we trained the staff we said, ‘Leave your problems in the car and they will be there waiting for you when you come back,’ and that’s the feeling we want everyone to have when they come in,” she said.

“I have been to other yogurt places and the prices are about the same, but TJ’s has

more variety.”

-Freshman Aidaly Rodriguez

A couple of flavors TJ’s offers

Country Vanilla Cable Car Chocolate Cookies and Cream

Cake Batter Tart

A couple of toppings ...Fresh fruit

Granola Chocolate Chips

Gummies Brownie bites Marshmallows

Candy Cheesecake bites

HoursMon. - Thurs. 11 a.m. - 10 p.m. Fri. and Sat.: 11 a.m. - 11 p.m.

Sun.: noon - 10 p.m.

Go to www.tjsfrozenyogurt.com and follow on facebook, twitter or yelp.


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“What, there is a nut shortage?!”

“I think it is because it’s April Fool’s Day.”

“Squeek squeeky squeek squeek.”

“It’s nuts! There used to be plenty!”

What do you think of the nut shortage on campus? “Sorry, I don’t speak

English.”

SidewalkSurvey

What’s

Planter McNutty,graduate student

Furry Flyer, freshman

Zippy Walnut,junior

Chomper Nutbush,sophomore

Hammy Pester,alumnus

on ?mindComment with your thoughts

on the combined tutor labs & other issues at

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Emphasizing the wrong topic

Scott DykowskiEditor-in-Chief

What’s more impor-tant, guns on campus or student drinking prob-lems?

The statistics say that at ASU, student drinking is a bigger problem.

Why do we address guns on campus more than drinking problems when the latter is more relevant? After all, ASU is a relatively safe place.

Look at the stats. Over the past school

year, only one student has been arrested, and that was for burglary. Over-all, there were 27 cases of burglary in 2010, which is up 35 percent. There were seven cases of assault, down 42 percent – not to

undermine the gravity of those cases, it’s relevant to note that the campus is fairly safe, especially compared to others.

On a different note, over the past school year one student has died – which brings me to my point. The student, a be-loved, well-known indi-vidual on campus, didn’t die because of a shooting, or even a gun accident -- he died because of a drunk-driving accident.

In 2010, there were 76 reported alcohol vio-lations on campus. Even though that’s down 8 per-cent, its’ still higher than any other crime or acci-dent reported on campus.

Think about all the stu-dents you know who drink on the weekends.

Wouldn’t our time as a community of students and as a student gov-ernment be better spent promoting organizations such as Rams Actively Protecting Students? Shouldn’t we, as a cam-pus, hold forums pushing students to drink respon-sibly, and not to drink

and drive? It’s not that we

shouldn’t discuss guns on campus – it’s a valid issue that needs to be re-

solved. I’ts that we should

place more focus on the things that affect students every day.

We think a central, inclu-sive tutor center would be con-venient, but not at the expense of limited computers.

This move may put much more stress on the remaining computer facilities.

Students usually have to line up at the MCS computer lab to wait for a computer to become available. The library computer lab is not much bet-ter, and a student who found no luck in either lab will not find it in the learning com-mons on the library’s first floor.

The current number of university laptops would not make up for the loss of a part or all of the third-floor lab. Even if there were enough laptops, laptops cannot han-dle processes such as video-

editing and podcast-creating as well as desktops with more powerful processors. Also, the required Adobe suites will take up a significant amount of space and affect a laptop’s per-formance. Students who are not affected by the setbacks of a laptop will probably be in-convenienced when they only have two choices: wait in line, or check out and babysit a lap-top.

Even if the combined tu-tor labs would not take up the library lab, would including tutor centers of every single department be beneficial? For instance, if the math tutor lab was in the MCS building, why relocate it five to 10 minutes away in the top floor of the library? Also, a student might

get more out of tutoring if the labs were separate because they would be more intimate and less crowded.

While it is probably more cost-effective to move all tutor labs to one location, getting rid of a computer lab will only cre-ate more problems. ASU wants to keep students on campus, but they might actually drive them off because students will be more likely to use their own computers at home. At this time, the campus does not have a solid plan to accom-modate the traffic that the 100 computers take in now.

Combining tutor centers is a good idea for the most part, but the location needed more thought.

What do you think about the 3rd floor library computer lab converting to a tutoring center?

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I do not like this idea at all. I thought we were undergoing budget cuts?? If we are, why spend even more money on this?? There are not enough computers in the “commons” of the library to take away the 100 computers on the 3rd floor. I have seen people lined up waiting for a computer in the 1st floor. Having all of tu-toring together will be convenient, but in my opinion, wait till the university is more stable. The grant would be beneficial in other ways.

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There are not enough computers in the computer labs com-bined already. What comes after this? A plan to install another computer lab?

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I’m for it: all my tutoring in one place!

Against: We need that lab.

I never use that lab.

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Friday, April 1, 2011 SportsRams continue to ‘fine-tune’ marks

Track: Sophomore takes first place in 400-meter dash

Andy AtterburySports Co-Editor

Angelo State track and field took first in one event and improved on provision-al marks and personal bests in the North Texas Spring Classic on March 26 against mainly Division-I opponents.

Sophomore sprinter Isidro Gar-

cia finished first with his 48.01-second 400-meter dash and sophomore jump-er Austin Slone, senior thrower Wade Goode and junior thrower Jayda Spencer all bettered their NCAA Division II pro-visional marks.

“We had some kids run some season-al bests in events they had been strug-gling in,” Head Coach James Reid said. “It was also good for their confidence to get some good marks.”

Slone’s 50’4.5” triple jump was the best jump by any Division II athlete this

year and a personal best.“When I was on the runway, all I

could think about was getting a legal mark,” Slone said. “It felt great. I looked over at Coach and told him what my mark was and he started fist pumping.

Goode threw his discus farther than any other D-II athlete this year with his 174’7” toss.

Junior jumper Jacob McDonald’s 15’5” pole vault was his best all season and gave him second place in the meet. Senior jumper and javelin thrower Tyler

Orlando also hit a season-best and took third place with his 193’3” javelin throw.

Spencer’s 147’5” discus throw was a season-best for her and is the third-best in Division II this year.

The squad heads to the Lubbock March 2 to participate in the Texas Tech Open.

“We’re going to continue to push on,” Reid said “Try to get ourselves to the point where we’re ready to win a conference championship in May. We’re going to be fine tuning things.”

Robert HummingbirdContributing Writer

Angelo State's sophomore Shane Holmes finished fourth in the blue decathlon and posted an NCAA provisional qualifying total while former Belle Chrystal Ruiz finished second at the Ange-lo State Spring Break Multi-Event Meet at the LeGrand Sports Com-plex Friday.

Lindsay Lettow held off for-mer Angelo State Rambelle and current graduate assistant Chrys-tal Ruiz who finished runner up in the competition with 5,459 points, just shy of qualifying for the USA Outdoors Championships.

Ruiz, who did not work out or compete since the NCAA Di-vision II Indoor track and field

championships, was excited to go out there and compete at the Le-Grand Sports Complex one more time.

“I did really well,” Ruiz said. “I scored my second highest point total off of not really working out after indoor nationals, had decent marks but there is improvement which is nice to know.”

Holmes hit his first NCAA provisional point total (6406) on his first Multi-Event meet of the year.

“Coming into the first meet, my goal was to hit 6300 so throughout the day I was check-ing my score to see where I was sitting as the end of the second day got closer and closer,” Holmes said. “When I saw my final score, I couldn’t be happier.”

Other rams to compete in the Multi-Event meet were Don-ald Macarthy (ninth) and Junior Carrasco (10th). The Angelo State will host another Multi-Event meet April 14 through 15.

ASU scores high at Multi-Event meetTrack: Men, women compete in several events to score points

Photo by Ashley RomoSophomore Junior Carrasco readies for his turn to pole vault, while freshman Donald Macarthy waits on deck during ASU’s Spring Break Multi-Event.

(Top): Photo by Ashley Romo Sophomore Junior Carrasco runs hurdles dur-ing the Spring Break Multi-Event at ASU on Friday, March 25.(Bottom left): Photo by Pam Belcher Graduate student Chrystal Ruiz runs the 800 meter dash which she took first place in.(Bottom right): Photo by Ashley Romo Freshman Donald Macarthy throws discus during the meet.

Friday, April 1, 2011 Sports

StandingsBaseball

Southeastern OKTarleton St.Southwestern OKIncarnate WordCameronA&M- KingsvilleWTAMUAbilene ChristianAngelo StateCentral OKEast CentralEastern NMNortheastern St.

School Overall

17-1121-724-8

18-1018-1015-1321-1017-13

Conf.

13-515-615-615-611-712-910-810-8

11-106-155-164-142-19

17-1511-18

9-217-193-23

Softball

Angelo StateAbilene ChristianTarleton St.Incarnate WordWTAMUTexas Woman’sA&M- KingsvilleEastern NM

School Overall

27-320-16

16-12-1 18-15

25-821-1220-1610-23

Conf.

7-26-3

5-4-05-44-54-53-62-7

Rambelles disrupt TexannsSoftball: Women prepare for No. 3-ranked Midwestern St.

What to watch for:4-1: SB vs Midwestern St. 12:30 p.m. BB at Northeastern St. 1:00 p.m. SB vs Southeastern OK 2:30 p.m. BB at Northeastern St. 4:00 p.m. 4-2: SB vs Central OK 11:00 a.m. BB at Northeastern St. 1:00 p.m. BB at Northeastern St. 4:00 p.m. Track at Bobby Lane Inv. All day Track at TTU Open All day


The No.1-ranked ‘Belle softball team beat Tarleton State two games to one in a Lone Star Conference showdown on March 26.

“Tarleton has always been a tough place to play, but I feel like we pitched very well,” Head Coach Travis Scott said.

Junior pitcher Claire Molina (13-0) got the nod in the Friday match up and struck out seven batters and allowed one run through six innings of work.

The game was tied 1-1 through six in-nings until sophomore catcher Kacie Eas-ley launched a three-run home run. Fresh-man infielder Morgan Spearman followed with a two-run homer to give the ‘Belles (27-3) (7-2) a 6-3 win.

“We’re sitting here at 27-3 and really still playing well in all aspects,” Scott said. “We’re sitting at the top of the Lone Star South right now which is big.”

In Game One on Saturday, the ‘Belles and the Texanns (14-12-1) (6-4) were all tied up through six until junior first base-man Elsa Apo knocked in a run to give the girls a 5-4 lead. Senior centerfielder Brit-tany Astle added two more insurance runs in the inning and the ‘Belles won 7-4.

Apo and Astle both went 2-4 at the plate with two RBIs each in Game One.

“Every year you hit a little slump where you don’t play well,” Scott said. “We haven’t done that yet so hopefully we can overcome that this year and keep roll-ing.”

Tarleton scored three runs in the first inning of Game Two to start things off ear-ly. The ‘Belles tied it up in the fifth, but a TexAnn’s home run sealed 4-3 loss for the girls. Molina tossed six innings and had five strikeouts in the loss.

The ‘Belles will play five games against conference opponents in Lone Star Conference Crossover Tournament at the Texas Bank Complex in San Angelo April 1 through 3. No.3-ranked Midwest-ern State is first on the schedule at 12:30 on April 1.

“[The Midwestern game is] one of those games where yeah, you want to win it, but at the same time if you don’t it’s not the end of the world,” Scott said. “We’ll see them again in the conference tournament. This is going to be the first of probably sev-eral big games between us and Midwest-ern this year.”

After the Midwestern game the girls play Southeastern Okla. at 2:30. On Satur-day, Central Okla. steps up to the plate at 11:30 a.m. and on Sunday the ‘Belles play Cameron University at 10 a.m. and East Central University at 2:30 p.m.

“It’s going to be an exciting week for softball in San Angelo,” Scott said.


Ram baseball lost a Lone Star Con-ference series 3-0 against Tarleton State March 25 and 26.

The losses give the team a school-re-cord eight-game losing streak and mark the first time in school history the Tex-ans (20-7) (15-6) have swept the Rams.

“It’s tough to take those losses, es-pecially in a sweep,” junior left field-er Garrett Harris said. “If we would have came out and at least taken one [game] after those two losses at least we would have had something to look forward to. It’s going to be a grind this next week of practice; we need to get back to the basics.”

The Rams (17-15) (11-10) committed 14 errors on Friday night to break the Divi-sion II record in an 18-6 loss to the Texans.

“Right now we’re not finding ways to win ball games,” Head Coach Kevin Brooks said. “We’re not do-ing anything right now up to the level I think we’re capable of do-ing it.”

The Tex-ans took Game One of Saturday’s double-head-er 11-1.

In the sec-ond inning the Rams loaded the bases after two walks and a hit batter, but the Tex-ans struck out s o p h o m o r e catcher Brian B r a d e m a n to send ASU back to the dugout. Ju-nior outfielder Tate Allison hit a sacrifice fly to left field in the third in-ning to score

the only Rams’ run of the ballgame. Senior pitcher Payden Bravenec start-

ed his first game for ASU in Game Two. He gave up one run in the first, but the Rams came back and scored three runs without a single hit. Three walks, an er-ror, a wild pitch and a sacrifice fly from senior designated hitter Travis Lites gave the Rams a 3-1 lead at the end of one in-ning.

ASU took a 4-2 lead on an RBI single from sophomore shortstop Brent Denny, then added another run in the fourth in-ning on a wild pitch to go ahead 5-2 through four innings.

Tarleton chipped away at the lead for the rest of the game and scored five runs in the ninth inning off of sophomore pitcher James Conlee (4-1) to win 11-5.

The Rams drop to ninth in the LSC

standings, but only remain one game out of the sixth playoff spot.

“[The playoffs] aren’t a far reach,” Harris said. “We have to have every guy [step up]. [Hitters] one through nine, pitchers… [players] on the bench – doesn’t matter who you are. Step up and do your job. We have the chance to do it.”

Coach Brooks said on paper the Rams have an easy schedule remaining.

“But if we play like we have been, we won’t win,” Brooks said. “We really need this week of practice. [It’s going to be] a hard week and a good week of practice. I think the guys will come back ready to fight, work and get better.”

Next, the Rams will journey to Tahle-quah, Okla. to play a four game series against Northeasterm State.

Men drop series 0-3

Brad Stevens let the dogs outAndy

AtterburySports

Co-Editor

Brad Ste-vens might look like a high school sopho-more, but he coaches like a

wily veteran. At 33, he became the second-

youngest head coach to reach NCAA Championship and youngest to reach two Final Fours.

If you’re reading this and still drawing a blank, Brad Stevens is the head coach of the Butler Bulldogs who play VCU in the Final Four on April 2.

He’s the sharp, business-looking whippersnapper on the Butler side of the court who looks like he has never sweated in his life.

Stevens started his career with But-ler as the coordinator of basketball op-erations in 2000. In 2001 he moved up to assistant coach, where he remained until he took over the head coaching job in 2007.

His first year on the job he posted a 30-4 record, making him the third-

youngest coach post 30 wins in a sea-son. Overall, he has a 116-24 record as a head basketball coach. He keeps his eyes glued to the film and analyzes ev-erything he can to keep his team ahead of the competition.

The thing I respect about Stevens’ Butler squad is they knock off higher ranked teams full of top draft pros-pects and superstars using team-ori-ented basketball.

The thing I respect about Stevens as a man is he has said time and time again that he intends to stay at But-ler.

Once Butler had its champion-

ship run rumors started to swirl that he would take a job at a larger school. Instead of bailing for a na-tional powerhouse, Stevens signed a contract to stay a Bulldog through 2022.

I know that doesn’t mean he is going to coach there until 2022, but it gives me hope. A coach staying loyal to the team who gave him his start in-stead of bolting town is rare.

Butler is hardly considered a Cinderella team anymore, but I’ll still root for the Bulldogs as long as Smooth Operator Stevens is the young man in charge.

Baseball: Angelo State falls in Lone Star Conference standings

Photo by Ashley RomoJunior Rick Reyna throws for a strike against Tarleton State on Saturday, March 26.

Photo by Ashley RomoPlayers and coaches meet on the mound to plan their next move.

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