Local business owners Jeff and Lisa Simmons recently endowed a scholarship fund to benefit A-State students. The fund, known as the Sim-mons Family Scholarship and the Simmons Family Endowed Scholarship became available to non-music majors in the cho-ral department last fall and the business department this spring.

Totaling $30,000, the schol-arship will provide an annual award based on endowment earnings each year. It will rotate annually between the account-ing department and the choral music section headed by Dr. Dale Miller. Upon the retire-ment of Miller from Arkansas State, the scholarship is desig-nated entirely for the accounting department.

The scholarships rotate between departments each se-

mester and recipients receive $500 each. In order to qualify for the scholarships, candidates must be enrolled full time as a junior or senior level student and maintain a GPA of 2.5 or high-er. Those vying for the College of Business Accounting schol-arship must be an accounting major. However, the Fine Arts Choral scholarship recipient is not required to be a music major. Instead, non-music majors who perform in the chamber choir or in any chorus for A-State are eligible.

According to Jeff Simmons, the Fine Arts Choral Scholar-ship is designed to benefit stu-dents who may be overlooked in other categories.

“Non-music majors often get left out in the shuffle,” Simmons said.

The Fine Arts Choral scholarship will only stay with A-State for as long as Dale

Miller remains an instructor. Upon his retirement, the fund-ing allotted to that scholarship will be redirected wholly to the College of Business Accounting scholarship.

The Simmons family are long-time supporters of A-State. Both Jeff and his daughter are graduates. Their daughter is a former student of Miller as well as a non-music major. With Miller’s instruction, she became talent choral performer and went on to sing at the Vatican.

“He was really kind and pro-vided her a lot of opportunities that most non-music majors don’t get,” Simmons said.

Simmons and his wife be-gan discussing the possibility of creating a scholarship last year when they were approached by David McClain, the director of development at Arkansas State University.

“Part of my role is securing

gifts for things like that, pre-paring scholarships for students, and he basically said ‘tell me more about that’,” McClain said.

McClain explained to the Simmons how the process would work and got the ball rolling for the scholarship fund to be created.

Scholarship recipients are also eligible for renewal of their scholarship when it returns to their department. Simmons attributes his success as a busi-nessman to his beginnings at A-State. After graduating in 1990 with an accounting de-gree, Simmons has gone on to own and operate several success-ful local businesses including Crown Trophy. Simmons hopes to provide current students with a similar opportunity for success.

“ASU provided me with my degree and the opportuni-ty to make the money that I’ve earned,” Simmons said.

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After almost a year of prepara-tion, Howl and the A-State Spir-it squad celebrated success when Howl placed 6th in division 1A of the Universal Cheerleaders Association Collegiate Nation-al Championship in Orlando this year, the highest he has ever placed in the competition.

Howl finished among top mascots such as Brutus Buckeye from Ohio State University and Boomer from the University of Oklahoma, according to the Uni-versal Cheerleaders Association who announced the results.

The work for this year’s com-petition started last season, short-ly after Howl and the squad returned from last year’s compe-tition.

“We knew we had to up the ante from last year,” Paige Pau-ley, spirit squads coordinator and head coach, said. Last year, Howl placed ninth in the national com-petition, and was hoping to place higher overall.

The competition consisted of a video submission and a live per-formance. The video showcased community service, crowd-lead-ing and game involvement. The top ten video submissions qualify for the national competition in Orlando. According to the UCA website, 25 teams entered the competition. Howl placed 8th, qualifying for the live round of competition.

After basketball season, the squad started working toward the November deadline.

Choosing the theme of fire, the squad worked with the De-

sign Shoppe to engineer props including the outfit, fire truck, hose and hydrant. The video portion counted as fifty percent of the overall place for those ad-vancing to the top ten.

“Even before we found out we knew we were going to nationals we already had an idea of themes for the live performance,” Pauley said.

The squad practiced the live skit over break in the ROTC cen-ter, and placed special emphasis on musical cues and placement of props. “It’s much more than just picking up a prop and perform-ing,” Pauley said. “It’s about the overall flow of the music. It’s like telling a story.”

Because of the size limit on

props, the team had to engineer a way to open up the props once on stage, making it difficult to put on a full practice. “You can’t really complete your skit until you get to nationals,” Pauley said.

During the competition, Howl faced a challenge when one of the wheels fell off during the performance. Luckily, the mal-function was able to be worked out, according to Pauley. “It’s just something you have to prepare for,” she said.

The live competition, which was aired on ESPN, included a special fan-favorite category, decided by which mascot was retweeted the most on Twitter. Howl placed second in the cat-egory.

“Overall, it was a big sigh of relief,” Pauley said. “We reached our goal, and I’m very proud of everyone.”

For next year, the squad is al-ready working to submit the vid-eo portion.

Howl and the spirit squad hope to focus more on the pro-duction of the video for next year. “I think it will keep getting better as the years go on,” Pauley said. “If we can place higher in the video going in, we would like to break into the top three eventu-ally.”

Pauley said the competition has greatly helped bring national recognition to Howl as a mascot. “Everyone now know who Howl is and where he’s from,” she said.

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Denise Goldstein| Staff PhotographerThe Red Wolf mascot, Howl, videos the videographer at a Red Wolf basketball game. Howl finished 6th in the nation at the Universal Cheerleaders Association Nationals in Orlando, Fla.

Students have a new educa-tional opportunity at the Ar-kansas State University Muse-um. “Nanotechnology: What’s the Big Deal?” has begun its residence in the museum’s main gallery and will remain as an ex-hibition until August.

According to a recent press release, the exhibit is designed to illustrate how “nanoparticles reveal very unexpected proper-ties.” The exhibition explores the different ways scientists manip-ulate matter on an atomic scale. Approximately ten nanotech-nology exhibits can be found in the museum, with each exhibit describing different technolog-ical aspects. The exhibits range from describing how light can change the color of objects or how gravity and static differ to how a butterfly changes from brown to blue.

Museum Curator of Educa-tion Jill Kary sees the impor-tance of educating students on

the prevalence of nanotechnol-ogy.

“It could be anything you smell or feel. Everything around us involves nanotechnology,” Kary said.

According to the Arkansas Discovery Network’s website, museum patrons are invited ex-plore the concepts of nano-scale technology through various demonstrations. Visitors can witness nano-scale self-assem-bly by watching floating “mole-cules” move themselves into an orderly pattern on an air hockey table. Visitors also have the op-portunity for hands on demon-strations, including manipulat-ing the size of a quantum dot to see its changing properties and “curing” a cancerous tumor with “nano gold particles.”

Created by the Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network with support from the National Science Foundation, the program was made possible by a $90,000 grant the museum received from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The grant provided their con-

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Chelsea Hays| Photo EditorDr. Jill Simons, Dean of Unversity College, recieved First-Year Student Advocate Award by the National Re-source Center.

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A-State faculty and students continue to receive recognition for their outstanding perfor-mance. Dr. Jill Simons, dean of University College at Arkansas State University, was recently honored with a First-Year Stu-dent Advocate Award by the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition at the University of South Carolina and Cengage Learning.

For the last 26 years, the Na-tional Resource Center recog-nizes individuals on the nation’s campuses who are Outstanding First-Year Student Advocates involved in first-year student success. Simons was selected along with 10 other recipients from a pool of 116 nominations.

For Simons, the award is a great honor as both a faculty member and as a former stu-dent.

“The national recognition as a First-Year Student Advocate is tremendously important to me on a personal level. As a first generation college student, I understand the important mile-stone that completing the first year of college can be for stu-dent motivation,” Simons said. “On a professional level, this recognition will assist the FYE program with future initiatives such as seeking grant opportu-nities.”

Simons faced her own share of challenges as a student. She

began working with the univer-sity as a tutor in 1997, and has since advanced from director of Student Support Services to her current position as executive director of University College, where she established the First Year Experience advisory board. As an advisor, she applies this first hand knowledge to ensur-ing that students are success-ful in their academic careers at A-State.

“There are always challeng-es in any profession. However, when you work collaboratively

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Alcohol consumption is a powerful and divisive issue be-tween many people in our im-mediate society, including the student body and the Univer-sity.

There are essentially two main groups that stand on op-posing sides of this ethical di-lemma despite alcohol being a substance that has been a part of human life for thousands of years.

Many people view alcohol as an evil, a substance which caus-es illness, death and hardship when abused or used poorly.

It is this form of thinking which led to the 18th Amend-ment to the constitution and the era in U.S. history known as Prohibition.

This act made the importa-tion, transportation, creation and distribution of all forms of alcohol illegal in the United States (with some minor excep-tions including Communion wine).

If one looks into the histo-ry of Prohibition he or she will find that it was an absolute fail-ure. Organized crime received a major boost in power and funds during this period and dreadful stories of people dying from consumption of “bathtub gin” and other harsh chemical substances abounded.

In fact, John D. Rockefeller Jr., despite being known as a strong supporter of prohibition, wrote in a letter during its ab-

olition that “it is my profound conviction, however, that these benefits, important and far reaching as they are, are more than outweighed by the evils that have developed and flour-ished since (the 18th amend-ment’s) adoption, evils which, unless promptly checked, are likely to lead to conditions unspeakably worse than those which prevailed before.”

It is with this idea that I would like to make my argu-ment that alcohol and its pos-session on University property, specifically the residence halls, should not be banned for stu-dents who are of the legal drinking age.

A-State currently prohib-its possession of alcohol or any material that promotes its drinking in excess on any Uni-versity property unless it is giv-en written permission by the chancellor for special events. I strongly disagree with this idea and its foundation.

If I as a student am of the

legal drinking age and choose to live on campus, I should be allowed to own and consume alcohol in my area of residence.

The University states in its code that prohibiting on-cam-pus alcohol is complying with the federal Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities Act of 2004. This is a true state-ment to a degree.

The SDFSCA is primarily an act which seeks to limit drug abuse and violence in commu-nities and on college campuses; however, it does not ban the use of alcohol on such premises by those of legal age.

This is the fundamental flaw in the University’s logic in ban-ning alcohol on campus out-right.

If alcohol is allowed to be consumed only when the chan-cellor deems it acceptable, he is essentially taking control of our federal right to own alcohol.

As a student of legal age I am allowed to purchase alcohol, and the university has no prob-

lem with this. However, if I live on campus

and have no off-campus prem-ises to store my alcohol the uni-versity is essentially prohibiting my purchase outright.

The only response to this fact would be to purchase the alcohol off campus and then proceed to consume all of the alcohol I have purchased before returning to campus.

This essentially creates a pro-hibition era speakeasy-type at-mosphere where students must leave the safety of the campus to either drink overpriced cock-tails at bars or travel to large parties where alcohol is often consumed in extreme excess.

The fact is that for thousands of years humans have sought out and drank alcohol and this process will continue.

The solution to overcon-sumption and dangerous activ-ities for many members of the student body is to simply give a safer legal option where there is less travel on roadways and less

extreme consumption. It would logically stand that

it is better to have students drinking in smaller groups with trusted friends and a place to stay instead of at large parties with the ever-increasing dan-gers of extreme consumption, violence and sexual assault.

Not only for this reason, but for the fact of mentorship do I assert this idea.

When I first began drink-ing I had many older individu-als who knew their limits with alcohol to supervise me and ensure that I did not over con-sume or engage in dangerous behavior.

I, however, was not at college and separated (as many stu-dents are) from these parents or older individuals.

Allowing those of us who are of age to have access to alcohol will create these types of men-tors that can help introduce the new legal drinkers to safe ways to enjoy this beverage and fed-erally granted right.

This is the big question that is plaguing the international economy: what is happening to the falling oil prices? There are many speculations to this prob-lem, but one thing remains con-stant: the oil trading companies must do something about it.

The United States has taken action by creating a new pro-posal, called the Draft Proposed Program, to reallocate drilling priorities in an attempt to in-crease production.

While many politicians are exaggerating the implications of the DPP, the reality of the situation appears to be in favor of the proposal, and for many

reasons.Before we look into the

proposal, let’s first take a look at what exactly the United States government has in mind. Through this new proposal, the US is requesting a drilling site to be launched on the east coast, a location that has not been tampered with as nearly as much as other coasts in Amer-ica.

Drilling on the Alaskan coastlines will be limited fur-ther, as the United States wish-es to keep the environment of Alaskan waters in good shape.

According to a Jan. 27 press release from the Department of the Interior, DPP includes 14 potential lease sale sites.

In addition to proposing leases of sites in the Alaskan and Gulf waters, DPP prof-fers leasing a drill site on the outer continental shelf of the mid-Atlantic coast.

The east coast drilling plat-form would be one of the first of its kind in the area, drawing speculation that it could harm the eastern beaches that lie around the area.

The environmental implica-tions have been the twistable political weapon of the Dem-ocrats for decades, but their arguments lose water on the

DPP. Although this informa-tion is usually overlooked, the United States has restricted al-most 90 percent of their avail-able oil fields due to an attempt to reserve and maintain envi-ronmental standards across its coasts, according to information from The Washington Post.

This means that the proposal does not infringe on the envi-ronmental battle, as most Dem-ocrats claim it to.

With nearly all of the avail-able drilling sites off-limits, this leaves the United States with an extremely strategic set of choic-es as to where to place the next drilling site.

The international need for energy is substantial, and the United States is making this decision in an attempt to make up for the deficit in this recent energy boom.

In my opinion, the Unit-ed States is making the right choice by following through with DPP to open this new off-shore site on the east coast. The most logical argument? The United States has to.

In the efforts to appease en-vironmentalists, this proposal pulls out of the heavily afflicted areas in Alaska and along the Gulf of Mexico, and relocates it to an area that has a much

stronger and stable environ-mental coastline. If the drill site is to be placed in an environ-ment that is strong, in order to lessen the impact on the more affected environments of long-used drilling sites, then where does this plan go wrong?

Under the circumstanc-es, the plan doesn’t go wrong. While the United States and the rest of the world continues advancements in alternative en-ergy to oil and gas, DPP serves as a good patch to the injury that the falling oil prices have inflicted on the nation.

The proposal’s strategy to further limit Alaskan develop-ment silences the environmen-tal lobbyists in a time where environmental politics is rising internationally. While the pro-posal is not foolproof, it shows promise as an excellent way for the United States to shift the resources it has available in these changing times.

I applaud the Draft Pro-posed Program, as it shifts pri-orities toward addressing new problems facing the oil indus-try. Instead of the prices being too high, people are watching the US perform well with the situation reversed, with new variables, new questions, and new implications for the future.

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Sarah Wilkerson-Freeman| ASU Faculty Monica Campbell of Jonesboro, a graduate student in Arkansas State University’s history department, stands near the welcome sign at the entrance of the exhibition in San Francisco.

Rohwer Relocation Camp photo exhibit moves to San Francisco

Strickland Farm auction nets $1.9 million for A-State

2015 Delta Small Prints Exhibition announces winners

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The 2015 Delta Small Prints Exhibition, hosted by the Brad-bury Gallery, opened Thursday with winning selections being announced. The annual confer-ence drew artists from around the world, with 55 prints chosen from more than 800 submissions.

Originally founded by art pro-fessor Evan Lindquist in 1996, the conference has become a prestigious accolade for compet-itors. Before his retirement from ASU in 2003, Lindquist taught art, printmaking and drawing for 40 years. His personal works are mostly engravings, devel-oped from his original ideas, and because of his immaculate tal-ent for the arts, he was present-ed the Lifetime Achievement Award by The Society of Amer-ican Graphic Artists in 2010.

Since the founding of the ex-hibition, it has grown from most-ly regional artists’ submissions, to submissions being entered inter-nationally. This growth could be attributed to both its popularity along with the readily available information that the internet provides. Each year, a national-ly known expert in the field of printmaking is invited to choose works of art for that year’s show. Jurors are also responsible for de-termining the award statuses of

chored in Anchorage” by Donald Buelter; the Chucki Bradbury Art Purchase Award, “Charmed Out of Your Basket” by Aaron Coleman; the President’s Pur-chase Award, “Wacky” by Helen Cox; the Brackett-Krennerich & Associates Architects Purchase Award, “Ruined Ruins” by David Graves; the Senator Kaneaster Hodges Jr. and Lindley Williams Hodges Purchase Award, “Syn-aptic Sprout” by Karla Hack-enmiller; the Les Christensen Purchase Award, “Baby Doll and Gators” by Brian Kreydatus; Don A. Tilton Purchase Award, “Ob-scure Desire II ” by LUCE; The Cheryl Wall Trimarchi Purchase Award, “Pull” by Ellen Price; Chancellor’s Purchase Award, “Megan Draper’s LA with Drones” by Mary Ann Strandell.

The Bradbury Gallery was inaugurated in 2001 by Curtis Bradbury, Jr. The establishment was in honor of his wife, Char-lotte “Chucki” Bradbury, an alumna of Arkansas State Uni-versity, who was later selected to be a member of the ASU Board of Trustees, the second-largest higher education system in Ar-kansas. The current director of The Bradbury Gallery is Les Christensen, who is best known as a sculptor whose work offers a vision of universal experience.

Christensen has received many accolades for her work in the art

prints, including purchase priz-es. Purchase prizes later become part of the ASU Permanent Collection of Art, making this a highly esteemed honor for artists.

Ruth Lingen, the Director of Pace Paper in Brooklyn, NY, acted as juror for artist submis-sions. Lingen chose prints from various styles and techniques to create a unique exhibition featuring 55 prints from the hundreds of submitted pieces.

“The works I have included strike a balance between con-cept and technique,” Lingen said. “Ed Rusha once said that he liked art that had a bit of the ‘huh?’ factor – or, in other words, an inexplicable quality.”

Jurors selected the prints blindly, meaning that names and addresses of the submitters were retracted during their viewing, ensuring that all prints making it to the exhibition are selected due to the quality of the print.

The award-winning entries included the Lindquist Purchase Award, “My Monkey” by Maggy Aston; the Carol Thoren Chris-tensen Purchase Award, “Cyclone Cross-Section” by Ray Bishop; the Donna and Don Bowyer Purchase Award, “Space no. 1” by Dustyn Bork; the Beth and Scot Snodgrass Purchase Award, “The Great Awakening” by Amy Buchholz; the Teresa & Steve Owens Purchase Award, “An-

Upon their passing, A-State alumni Russell and Melda Strick-land from Black Oak donated their farm to Arkansas State Uni-versity to be used for scholarship funds.The Scholarship funds will help recent graduates of Buffalo Island Central begin their col-lege career. Upon Mr. Strickland’s death in 2012 and Mrs. Strick-land’s a year later, they bestowed a large piece of land to help the stu-dents of the institutions they were dedicated to in life. The Strick-land’s valued the importance of the quality of university educa-tion. They were strong supporters of the Arkansas State University and the Buffalo Island Central school district located in Monette.

This is not the first time the Strickland couple has helped A-State. They allowed this same farm land to be use back in the Fall of 2002. The land was used by environmental science ma-jors to conduct research for an ecology class. Students used the land to study wildlife, time-ly sedimentation and nutrient studies. The property is located on state highway 18 between Lake City and Black Oak in Eastern Craighead County.

27 registered bidders from Arkansas, Alabama, Tennes-see, and Missouri gathered at a

live auction held at the Cooper Alumni Center on Dec. 9 to bid on a legacy left to Arkansas State University. The resulting $1.9 million gift will greatly help stu-dents heading to college in the North Eastern Arkansas area.

The Strickland Farm prop-erty was sold at auction on Dec. 9. The 233 acre property is prime, row-crop farmland, located be-tween Lake City and Monette. The land was sold in three tracts of various sizes ranging from 35 to 118.35 acres. Out of the 3 tracts, 98.5 percent of the land is cultiva-ble, irrigated, and precision-lev-eled. The farm also included 2 wells and a large shop building.

Erika Kennerich Chudy, Director of Planned Giving at A-State, sees the auction as a huge benefit to students. Ac-cording to a recent press release, Chudy hopes the Strickland’s legacy at A-State will be pre-served in their generous donation.

“The Stricklands were a visible presence on the Arkan-sas State campus for years,” said Chudy said. “Their love for A-State will impact the lives of the students the en-dowment will help and, in turn, those people the students will influence as college graduates.”

Students like Matt Barnett, a sophomore soil and plant sci-ence major of Paragould, agree.

“It is great that our college

and the students of BIC have such generous contributors such as the Strickland’s,” Bar-nett said. “The money raised will surely help students from the area for many years to come.”

The auction was arranged by Chudy, with marketing and auctioning assistance from Unit-ed County–Dynasty Auction & Realty. The first round of the auction came to a winning bid of $7,600 per acre. The second round came to a total of $9,000 per acre after competitive bid-ding between two bidders.

According to Joel King, prin-cipal broker for United Country–Dynasty Auction and Realty, the company was glad to pair with Arkansas State to auction off the land to help incoming BIC stu-dents. The auction drew 27 regis-tered bidders from Arkansas, Al-abama, Tennessee and Missouri.

The Stricklands were avid supporters of A-State. Both attended the university, and in their time after graduation, ac-tively supported the A-State museum and KASU radio.

“Russell and Melda were kind folks, always caring for others and seeing beyond them-selves,” said Mike Brown, exec-utor of the Strickland’s estate. “This $1.9 million endowment will provide an education to a countless number of students. What a great legacy to leave.”

A photo exhibition featur-ing the work of Paul Faris, in collaboration with Dr. Sarah Wilkerson Freeman, a history professor at Arkansas State Uni-versity, is currently on display in San Francisco. “The Art of In-justice” will be displayed as part of a ceremony paying tribute to the Military Intelligence Service ceremony on Veterans Day. The National Japanese-American Historical Society is hosting the display at their Presidio location, where it will remain until April.

The featured art chronicles the lives of Japanese-American internees at Arkansas’ Rohwer Relocation Center near the end of World War II. Arkan-sas housed two of the nation’s 10 Japanese relocation centers. Rohwer, located in rural south-east Arkansas, housed over 8,000 Japanese-American citizens after the establishment of President

Franklin Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, which enforced their internment in the months follow-ing the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Freeman was contacted by the children of Faris. Faris and his wife visited the camp in July 1945 and took the photos.

Freeman saw inspiration in the photos, which depicted the tragic conditions internees were subjected to. Faris’ wife, Ann, accompanied the photogra-pher in his visit and compiled meticulous notes on the con-dition of the camps. These in-credibly detailed notes allowed Freeman to reconnect names to many of Faris’ photographs.

Originally a “pop-up dis-play,” Freeman’s exhibit be-gan its residence at A-State before garnering attention from several local colleges.

In a recent press release, Free-man stated that the exhibition was designed to bring the Ar-kansas side of Japanese American internment history into the larg-

er narrative. Paul and Ann Faris were initially invited in 1945 to photograph artwork produced by camp internees for “Beauty Be-hind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Reloca-tion Camps” by Allen H. Eaton. Famed artist Henry Sugimoto was one of the interned. During his time there, Sugimoto began producing pieces of art on scraps of spare cloth, including bed sheets and pillowcases. Sugimo-to’s work was so striking that camp officers encouraged him to con-tinue his work, despite the nega-tive depictions of life in Rohwer.

“There is a lot of misinfor-mation about the relocation experience. A great deal of col-lective effort is being directed by Japanese-Americans and others towards ensuring that the his-tories of those whose lives were so painfully disrupted will be preserved for future generations to study,” Freeman explained in a recent interview. “This col-lection adds another perspec-

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tinued membership in the Ar-kansas Discovery Network, who provided the exhibit.

Kary recognizes the support given from the grant, as well as the funding from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation.

“I would like to thank them because without the money we are given, the museum would not have this opportunity,” Kary said.

The museum’s membership in the ADN allows for exhib-its like the NISE Network’s nanotechnology examination. After A-State’s museum com-pletes its turn with the exhibi-tion, it will travel to the next museum in the network.

Kary and her staff see the

exhibit as highly beneficial to students. Museum office manager Valerie Ponder be-lieves that nanotechnology is a great thing for everyone to learn about. After viewing the exhibition, Ponder admits that the concept can be a little in-timidating, but ultimately, the possibilities are endless.

“Having the nanotechnol-ogy exhibit opens up such a great opportunity to every-one, especially students that wouldn’t ordinarily have access to something so new and in-novative,” Ponder said.

Kary hopes that the infor-mative nature of the exhibits will appeal to children and adults alike. The exhibition’s

partnership with the ADN allows for area schools and educational organizations to arrange visits. Through hands on learning and informative demonstrations, Kary is con-fident the experience will be informative and entertaining for visitors.

“The exhibit emphasiz-es that sometimes it’s fun to learn,” Kary said.

“Nanotechnology: What’s the Big Deal?” is currently on display at the museum locat-ed within the Dean B. Ellis library and is free to students and is open the public. The ex-hibition will remain on display through the remainder of the semester.

to reach a common goal, it is much easier to manage hurdles,” Simons said. “I attribute the A-state stu-dent-friendly environment to my re-cent recognition. Despite occasional opposing views, the individuals I work with are genuinely concerned for the welfare of A-state students.”

Simons was appointed the first director of the Wilson Advising Center in 2000. During her time there, she spearheaded several ac-ademic endeavors to promote the success of first year students. Simons initiated programs for undecided majors and students on academic suspension/probation and imple-mented a campus-wide early alert program for students in academic distress.

Recently, Simons began working with the First-Year Experience pro-gram to develop a common reader and service-learning component. The FYE program is designed to en-gage first year students during their first semester of enrollment.

“All first-time, first year students are required at A-state to participate in the FYE program their first se-mester of enrollment. This program is successful as it links students to

their major, to a faculty mentor, and introduces students to college level learning,” Simons said.

The FYE program allows stu-dents to be enrolled in it during their first semester.

“Students enroll in an FYE class within their chosen discipline. For example, an incoming first year history major will enroll in the his-tory FYE course,” Simons said. “This allows all students to become acquainted with their academic department their first semester at A-state.”

In a recent press release, Chan-cellor Tim Hudson emphasized the significance of Simons’s recognition, given that the university is striving to raise A-State’s profile as a school of choice and boost student retention. Hudson sees her innovative ideas as head of the First-Year Experience board as as testament to her success.

“Through the efforts of Dr. Si-mons and her associates, first-year students are having a very positive experience when they come to Ar-kansas State,” Hudson said. “The innovation in the First-Year Expe-rience, particularly the use of Apple technology, to create a digital cur-

riculum for the courses is defining A-State as a national leader. Her dedication to assisting new students with adjusting to life on a destina-tion campus is very deserving of this recognition from the National Re-source Center.”

Simons says she plans to contin-ue to work with students to provide more educational opportunities to fledgling college students. Simons hopes to see the college experience expand to incorporate more com-munity and industry opportunities for students to gain career-related experiences while obtaining the ed-ucation.

“College is an imperative step as it allows individuals to advance their career skill set and further develop their interests for professional gain and lifelong learning opportunities,” Simons said. “A college education ensures a greater likelihood for ad-vanced job opportunities, increased job satisfaction, and higher earnings over a life-time compared to individ-uals without a degree.”

Simons will be formally honored in a ceremony Feb. 8 at the annual conference on the First-Year Experi-ence in Dallas.

world, including being featured in exhibitions at the Fowler Mu-seum in Los Angeles, California, and the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washing-ton D.C. Since the expansion of the gallery has reached out from local to international artists, it is clear that the shaping of ex-hibitions every year grow in or-der to create a more diverse and culturally diffused showplace.

“The slow but steady shift has most likely been caused by the easily shippable nature of the art form, combined with a readily available dispersal of in-formation about the show via the

web,” Christensen said. “No mat-ter the cause, this slight change is an interesting reminder of how interconnected we all have become, and an increase in the exchange of ideas and imagery with artists from any location is always an enriching experience that helps us to better under-stand our world and our lives.”

This year’s exhibition is dedi-cated to Brackett-Krennerich and Associate Architects, including the two founding members, Jerry Brackett and George Krennerich, and two new principal archi-tects, Kyle Cook and Jeff Herren.

“They have consistently sup-

ported the gallery and specifically the Delta National for many years. They are our patrons, friends, and advisers, and for that we are most grateful,” Christensen said.

The exhibition continues through Feb. 27. Images also will be available for viewing on the gallery’s website,www.bradburygallery.com. Hours for Bradbury Gallery in Fowl-er Center, 201 Olympic Dr., are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, 2 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, and by appointment. Admis-sion is free. For additional de-tails, one may contact the Brad-bury Gallery at (870) 972-2567.

tive to the history of internment.”Sugimoto’s art was featured in

an exhibit at several Arkansas col-leges, including Harding University. During a presentation there, Free-man learned of more of Sugimoto’s journey after camp life. She began scouting locations in San Fran-cisco, where Sugimoto lived prior to his imprisonment in Arkansas.

The exhibit eventually found a home in the Military Intelligence Service’s Historic Learning Center. As part of her plan to “follow the Sugimoto trail,” Freeman hopes to find a home for the exhibit in New York after its time in San Francisco. Sugimoto spent much of his life post-interment in New York as a successful artist, and

Freeman hopes her exhibit will shed new light on an often over-looked part of American history.

“By bringing the photos to light, those involved in the project hope to preserve something of the visu-al evidence of the unconstitutional treatment of Japanese-Ameri-cans while demythologizing the camp experience,” Freeman said.

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One of A-State’s very own is trying out for the famed show American Ninja Warrior. Kyle Biggers, a senior business management major of Jones-boro, sent in his application Jan. 11 and has been working hard to prepare for the chal-lenge.

According to the Es-quire TV website, American Ninja Warrior is a television show created by NBC and Es-quire Network that “follows competitors as they tackle the world’s most difficult obstacle courses.”

Biggers said he wasn’t aware the show existed until last year. “One of my fraterni-ty brothers in Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity is also the president of the Rotary Club, and he was trying to set up a fundraiser last year using obstacles similar to the obstacles from Ameri-can Ninja Warrior,” he said. “I helped him build the obstacles and became interested in trying them out, so we started practic-ing on the obstacles.”

The obstacles used for the show are built to require intense physical and mental concentration and strength in-

cluding climbing a 30-foot wall using only hands and feet.

“I grew up climb-ing trees and walls around my house, so once I saw the ob-stacles on the show, I thought I could do it too,” Biggers said. “I built a set up to train in my shop, which is also my apart-ment. I built monkey bars; I’ve

got hanging boards set up and ropes with softballs hung on them where I have to go across them about 15 feet or so.”

Biggers said his main inspiration on the show is Kacy Catanzaro, a 2014 finalist on American Ninja Warrior. “She is 100 pounds and 5-ft tall, and she has gotten farther than any

woman on the show. If she is that short and can do most of those things, then I can work hard and try my best to do the same,” he said.

The main part of the application is a video of the applicant performing activities similar to those he would be doing if accepted to the show.

The applicant also must show their personality in the video so the casting officials can see if they will be interesting and exciting people to work with.

“They don’t just want to know that I’m a physically fit person. They want to know how I communicate with people, that I’m a plumber at Nuckles

& Sons Plumbing, who also sponsors me for this, and that I’m a student at Arkansas State University,” Biggers said.

Biggers said he trains whenever he can to prepare for the challenge, but he hasn’t heard back from them--yet. The application process takes time, and he believes he will hear back from them sometime between February and June.

“I think the biggest challenge for me would be to not be chosen, but I still plan on walking on in Houston if that does happen,” he said. “As long as I make it through the course without falling I will get to be a competitor in the Las Vegas round, and then I can move to the Japan round if I pass that one.”

McKenzie Catt, a sophomore social work major of Jonesboro and girlfriend of Biggers’, said, “I think it’s really interesting. I know that he can do everything on the show, so why not give it a shot?” Catt plans to attend the Texas round to watch him perform.

Biggers plans to par-ticipate in the Houston round on March 27. “I have a lot of supporters who think I can do this, so I’m going to do my best,” he said.

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Blake Rylant | Staff PhotographerKyle Biggers, senior business major of Jonesboro, practices at the ROTC building Thrusday Jan. 22 for the American Ninja Warrior tryouts. Biggers is trying out for the popular TV show over spring break March 23-27.

A-State’s American Ninja Warrior

College is a time for firsts. For some, it’s the first time be-ing on their own; for others, it’s their first love. But, unfortu-nately, this is also a time when many experience their first STD scare.

Just like bad break-ups and crazy exes, STDs are a part of life, though open-ly talking about them has been taboo in the past. Did you know, according to the School of Nursing’s website, one in four college students has an STD? That’s 25 per-cent of the student popula-tion. With 13,000 people enrolled at A-State, simple math will tell us approxi-mately 3,250 of our fellow Red Wolves are testing positive for STDs. But, the scariest aspect of it all is you might have one and not even know.

As much as we would all like to believe STD tests are unnecessary because we’re clean and our partners are as well, it may not be the case. College is the time for exploration and mis-takes, and your sexual partner may not be honest with you.

Any bumps, itching or burn-ing sensations could indicate a possible STD. In some cases, you might not have any symp-toms whereas your partner does. Your best bet is to not take chances and get checked out. Even if you used a condom, you should get checked annually. STDs are a lot more common than you may think.

According to the Cen-

ter for Disease Control and Pre-vention, a whopping 34 percent of Americans between the ages of 20-24 were infected with gonorrhea in 2013, and in the same year, 39 percent had chla-

mydia. With numbers like that, chances are you probably know someone who has had one or the other, and whether someone has slept with one person or 20, they are still at risk. But before you judge someone, remember it only takes one time to catch a disease.

Often people avoid getting checked because they think they would know if they did have something. You should never assume you are free of an STD based off lack of physical evidence. In some cases, stu-

dents are too scared to get tested for fear they might actually have something. But, facing reality is easier than ignoring it in the long run. If left untreated, STDs can do some serious damage.

They could potentially lead to cancer or infertility ac-cording to the Health Cen-ter’s website.

In the end, they are dis-eases just like the flu or measles. And just like if you get any other disease, you should seek medical attention. Luckily, getting checked is easy, so there is no excuse. Students can get checked at the Student Health Center on campus. The testing can usually be done by a urine or blood test, and most of the time a prescription to antibi-otics can clear you of any STDs. According to the A-State website, gonorrhea and chlamydia testing at the Student Health Center costs $45 and the charges are applied to your student

account. And don’t worry, it’s all confidential – not even your parents will know.

However, it is your respon-sibility to inform your previous and current sexual partners if you do have an STD, and en-courage them to get tested as well. While it may be awk-ward and possibly damage your future relationship with that person, you ultimately did the right thing by informing them. STDs should always be taken seriously, as not all of them are curable.

The reality of STDs

“Ms. Mills and Ms. Blanca-flor:

Thank you for considering Fuse Literary in your search for representation. I appreciate you giving me the opportunity to re-view your work. Unfortunately, it is not right for my list. However, I wish you the best luck in your search for the right agent (and hope to see you in print soon).

Best,Emily S. Keyes” That was our very first rejec-

tion letter in all its glory. My best friend and I decided

we wanted to write a book our sophomore year in high school. After two years, four rough drafts, three complete story changes, two peer-reviews and a multitude of nights spent want-ing to bang our heads against the computer, we finally began the long and painful process of get-ting our book published. Or at least attempting to get our book published.

We started by writing a query, which is basically a sales pitch to convince an agent that you are worth representing. We read every article and blog post about how to get published that we could find. Long hours were spent researching how to write a query, where to look for agents, what kind of agent was a good agent, should we consid-er self-publishing online… we looked up everything.

Months later, we had our query revised, our list of agents at the ready and our computers

prepped to send out a multitude of queries. We were hopeful; surely after all this work, getting published would be easy, right?

Well, not exactly. The prob-lem with our big plan to get pub-lished was that we had forgotten about one very large part of the publishing process: rejection. After that first rejection letter, I’m fairly certain we both cried; I know I did. We had come this far with a manuscript and a que-ry; how could they possibly not like our story?

The first rejection was only followed by more. We had orig-inally sent out 12 queries to dif-ferent agents. By the end of the month, there was a nice pile of 11 rejections to match.

I know what you’re thinking: “Only eleven rejections means that one agent agreed to rep-resent you!” Negative. It’s been over a year, and we have still not received an answer from that last agent. We assume that they used silence in lieu of their answer.

For a really long time, we let that pile of rejections define the worth of our story. We stopped sending queries, we stopped re-vising and we stopped writing in general. After everything we had put into this book, it was easier to give up and assume that all of those rejections meant there was something wrong with our story than to trudge through another batch of agents explaining why they just didn’t think they were the right agents to represent us.

Then something remarkable happened. Back when we had first started sending out queries,

one of the websites we looked at was www.queryshark.blogspot.com. An agent, Janet Reid, ran the blog in her spare time, fix-ing queries and giving advice on how to continue on the road to getting work published. She only picked a select few queries to revise; only the stories she was convinced could make it to pub-lication were chosen. We sent ours in as a joke more than any-thing; even back when we were so hopeful to get published, we never dreamed our query would end up on her website.

But it did. She chose our query for revision. Here was this amazing agent who has repre-sented dozens of published au-thors telling us that she thinks we have a great story, and she wants to revise our query so that we can get the agent we deserve. Needless to say, we were ecstatic.

With just a few words written in an email, we were reminded that the value of our work was never measured by the rejections sitting on our desks. No, our names are not on the cover of a shiny new book yet, and no, we are not raking in some serious cash like J.K. Rowling. But we haven’t stopped trying.

It may take a million queries to a million different agents, but someone is going to believe in this book as much as we do. So if you’re sitting at your desk con-vinced that your work will never get to the printing press, just re-member that a million rejections mean absolutely nothing when that one person says yes. Don’t give up.

Rejection: The road to publishing a book

ALLISON NICHOLS#LIFE EDITOR

Men’s basketball stumbles twice to conference foes

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After a rough stretch of Sun Belt Conference action, the Red Wolves men’s basketball team is back on the normal Thursday/Saturday schedule.

They started off playing at home against in-state rival UALR, then went on the road Saturday against Georgia State.

Against UALR, the Red Wolves started the game off quick, and looked like they were never going to look back after they jumped out to a 15-5 lead in only five minutes.

The next 10 minutes was all A-State, as they kept their lead around 10 points until the final minutes of the half when the Trojans went on a 9-2 run to cut A-State’s lead down to one at the break.

The final basket of the half came after UALR’s lead-ing scorer, junior guard Josh Hagins, hit a jumper with 11 seconds left.

At the half, junior guard Sean Gardner led the Red Wolves in scoring with 10 points, go-ing 2-2 from behind the arc. Sophomore forward Anthony

Livingston led A-State in re-bounds at the half with five.

The Red Wolves came out of the break quickly again. Junior guard Cameron Golden hit a jumper to extend the lead to three, but that was the last time A-State would have the lead.

It was tied 50-50 with 10 minutes to go, but then the Trojans turned it on going on a 12-0 run to make the score 62-50 with 7:37 left to play.

A-State never got close after that and the final score was 75-65 UALR.

Golden led the Red Wolves

in scoring with 17, followed by Gardner with 15, and Living-ston with 10.

Livingston also grabbed 11 rebounds for his 10th dou-ble-double of the season.

A-State then traveled to Georgia State to face the Pan-thers once again.

The Red Wolves started off the exact opposite of how they did against UALR. They went 0-7 to begin the game before Golden finally busted a three pointer, but GSU already had a 10-3 lead.

Nothing could drop for the

Red Wolves, who shot 20.4% for the game and 25% from be-hind the arc.

The Panthers were only 1-8 from long range for the game, but they shot 70% from the free throw line and 49% from the field.

The Panthers ran all over the Red Wolves and ultimately won by a score of 74-43.

A-State never led during game and GSU’s largest lead came with seven minutes left when they led by 33.

Livingston led A-State in scoring with 10 points, followed

closely by Golden and Gardner with nine points each.

A major stat difference was in the assist and steals. GSU had 16 assist and 10 steals vs A-State’s six and two respec-tively.

With this loss, the Red Wolves fall to 9-12 on the sea-son and 4-8 in conference with eight games left until the con-ference tournament.

The Red Wolves next game is Thursday, Feb. 5 as they play Troy at home in the Convoca-tion Center with the tip-off set for 7:30 p.m.

The Red Wolves track and field teams found great success at the A-State Invitational held at the Convocation Center on Friday and Saturday.

Two days filled with 25 personal records amongst A-State athletes made head coach James Patchell proud.

“I thought we had a great meet overall,” said Patchell. “It was our best team performance of the year.”

The Red Wolves men’s and women’s teams claimed a combined 19 first place finishes and 40 top three finishes over the course of the two-day meet.

Winners for the women included sophomore Erin Farmer in the weight throw, freshman Kristina Knott in the long jump and 200-meter dash, junior Emenderlyn Iwuji in the 55-meter hurdles, sophomore Erika Christian in the 400-meter dash, senior Rexi Parcells in the 800-meter run, junior Abbey Dixon in the 3000 meter run and senior Tilda Helgesson in the 5,000-meter run.

Helgesson set not only a personal best, but also a meet record during her race Saturday evening.

Distance Coach Kyle Chandler said that going into the race he knew Helgesson could set the record. “Tilda ran fantastic, one of the best races I’ve seen her run during her career at A- State.”

Helgesson was paced through the first portion of the race by Parcells.

She smashed the meet record by more than 15 seconds, running a 17:26.37 on the indoor track.

“I encouraged her to keep working to catch up and then pass the early race leader, which she did. After that I encouraged her to keep running aggressively by passing lapped runners and running hard to the finish,” Chandler said.

Other highlights for the meet included men’s winners freshman Jalen Bacon in the 55-meter dash with a time of 6.38 seconds, junior Billy Ellis in the 55-meter hurdles with a time of 7.60 seconds and freshman Rickus Jacobs in the

mile with a time of 4:18.26.Also standing out in

the men’s competition was graduate Richard Chavez who won the men’s shot put and weight throw with throws of 18.30 meters and 19.61 meters respectively.

Chavez’s performance in the shot put moved him to rank number eight in the country.

Another highly notable performance was sophomore Roelf Peinaar in the long jump.

Pienaar jumped 7.97 meters on Saturday, a jump that set the school record and currently ranks him first in the NCAA.

Many more impressive times, heights, and distances were achieved for the Red Wolves on Saturday, including wins in the Distance Medley Relay and the 4 by 400 meter relay for the women.

“Everyone is steadily improving,” Patchell said. “We hope to continue this progress through the conference meet.”

The Red Wolves will be back in action next weekend at the Nebraska Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational and the SIU Invitational.

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19 Red Wolves finish first in A-State Invitational

Sarah Thompson| Staff PhotographerFrederic Dure, junior of Montreal, Quebec, passes the ball in Thursday’s basketball game against UALR at the Convocation Center. Thursday was A-State Pride Day and many students came out in support of A-State basketball.

Red Wolves get run over in GoDaddy Bowl

Lindsey Mills| Sports WriterSenior Rexi Parcells helps pace teammate, senior Tilda Helgesson, to a personal best and meet record in the 5,000-meter run at the A-State Invitational Saturday at the Convocation Center.

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Denise Goldstein | Staff PhotographerHannah Quedan, senior of Farmington, looks to pass during a defensive play. The Red Wolves were victorious over the Trojans, 70-69

Brett Whitman | Staff PhotographerHead football coach Blake Anderson speaks to a referee during the game against Lousiana-Monroe. Ander-son and his staff are currently putting the finishing touches on their 2015 recruiting class.

On Jan. 29, the A-State women’s basketball team was able to knock off bitter in-state rival UALR, the current conference leader, by a final score of 70-69.

Senior forward Jasmine Hunt was able to knock down two free throws with five sec-onds remaining to put the Red Wolves up by one, and that was how the game would end.

With the victory, A-State improved to 14-7 overall and 9-2 in league play.

Arkansas State is now just one game behind UALR in the Sun Belt Conference standings.

“This is a great win for us because of how good Little Rock is,” A-State head coach Brian Boyer said. “We’ve played some of the best this year in a top-20 Mis-sissippi State, a Chattanooga team that is in the top-25 and Florida Gulf Coast team that

should be in the top-25 and UALR is as good as or better than all of them and that gives you an idea of how big this win is.”

The Red Wolves re-ceived contributions from many different players on their roster in their victory.

Junior guard Aundrea Gamble finished the game with a game-high 19 points, and scored 15 of those in the second half of the contest to help the team close out the game.

Senior guard Hanna Qedan had a huge night as well as she tied her own Convoca-tion Center record by going a perfect 3-3 from three point range.

Junior Brittney Gill also turned in a huge performance by scoring 10 points on the of-fensive side of the court.

She also made a huge im-pact throughout the night on the defensive side of the ball, helping contain the Trojans’

guards. Hunt was also able to con-

tribute nicely on the offen-sive side of the ball with nine points, and junior Amanda Lawson also kept pace with the rest of the team by adding eight points of her own on the night.

“I thought we took good shots and smart shots and never really had a time where we took a desperation type shot,” Boyer said. “It was really different players at dif-ferent times stepping up. Jas-mine Hunt had a really good night, Brittney Gill hit some shots and Hanna hit some big 3-pointers and all of that with everything else helped when UALR went on their runs and allowed to not let them go too far out in front.”

The Red Wolves car-ried its momentum into At-lanta on Jan. 31 when facing the Georgia State Panthers to close out this week’s action.

They did not disappoint as

the team went on to defeat the Panthers by a final score of 61-47.

A-State was paced by Gam-ble and Hunt offensively as the two playmakers combined to score 27 points together.

The team was able to close out the game strong as they scored 32 points total in the second half and dominated in the paint where they finished the game with a 32-20 edge in paint scoring.

“It was a huge start to the half and we got up by 15, then they were able to get some stops and got it back down to single digits on their home court and that gets you a little nervous,” Boyer said. “We settled down after that and stayed in our defense and that helped us withstand that run and close the game out and get a win.”

The Red Wolves will return to action on Feb. 5 against the Troy Trojans. Tip off is set for 5:05 p.m.

Women’s basketball wins tight battle over UALR

The A-State football team is hosting a Recruiting Roundtable event on Wednesday Feb. 4 at the Convocation Center.

There is no charge for admission to the event and all fans are invited to attend.

The doors open at 4 p.m. and the event will last from 5-6 p.m.

Wednesday is National Signing Day for college football recruiting.

There is a lot of excitement surrounding this recruiting class for A-State, which is rated by rivals.com as the best class in the Sun Belt Conference.

The Red Wolves currently have 26 players committed to play for the program in 2015, including six junior college recruits who have already signed their National Letter of Intent.

Head coach Blake Anderson and all the assistant coaches have put in a lot of work this year to build this great class.

Another top recruiting class is the first step towards continued success for the football program, which is coming off its fourth consecutive winning season and bowl appearance.

Coach Anderson and his staff will be in attendance at the Recruiting Roundtable and fans will be able to ask Anderson questions about the 2015 signing class.

Members of the coaching staff will also speak, along with interviews with a current offensive and defensive player.

Video highlights of the signings will also be shown.

“We have a great program planned, and we would like to invite our fans to enjoy this Signing Day experience with us and the Red Wolves’

coaching staff,” said Associate Athletics Director for External Relations Jason Martin. “There is a lot of energy surrounding the program after appearing in a bowl-game each of the last four seasons, and we are looking forward to the interaction with our fans at this event.”

Throughout the day, fans can keep up with the signings on AStateRedWolves.com.

The website will be updated throughout the day as each player signs with the Red Wolves, and will include bios and highlight videos of each player.

Coach Anderson will speak about the signing class at a press conference at 3 p.m.

It is not open to the public, but will be shown on AStateRedWolves.com.

The entire Recruiting Roundtable will be streamed online as well for fans who cannot attend the event.

Anderson and coaches prepare for National Signing Day, Recruiting Roundtable

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LIndsey Mills|Staff Photographer Red Wolf fans came out to support the men and women’s teams at the basketball game against UALR Thursday night at the Convocation Center. Many fans dressed in their best A-State gear to cheer on the teams.

A-State celebrates Pride Day

A-State held their annual Pride

Day on Thrusday, Jan. 29 hosted by the Student Activities Board.

The day began in the first floor of the Student Union where students

had the chance to play games and win prizes. There was also an office-decorating

contest where offices throughout the Student Union decorated in honor of the men and women’s basketball teams. The winner of the decorating contest was the A-State

Recruitment office. The night ended with students having the chance to dress up in

their best A-State gear and cheer on the men and women’s basketball team against UALR.

Lindsey Mills|Staff Photographer Thursday’s game against UALR was full of mascots including A-states own Howl and Scarlet. The mascots took turns at free throw shooting during a break in the game.

Denise Goldstein |Staff Photographer The women’s basketball team celebrates as Jasmine Hunt’s free throw lands them a single point, breaking the tie with five seconds remaining in the game.

Lindsey Mills| Staff PhotographerThe Naked Guys throw up their Red Wolves during a freethrow at Thursday’s basketball game against UALR.

Kaori Kitamura | Staff PhotographerThe A-State dancers perform during half time at Thrusday’s pride day game against UALR.

Sarah Thompson|Staff Photographer The Red Wolves women’s basketball team celebrates their win against UALR thursday night at the Convocation Center. The Red Wolves won against UALR 70-69 at the game, which was on A-State Pride Day.

Lindsey Mills |Staff Photographer Freshmen Parker Sitton, Erin Nunan, Brennan Koester and Sophomore Mark Talarico throw up their Red Wolves at Thursday’s basketball game against UALR at the Convocation Center.