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National Chocolate Cake DayJanuary 27, 2012

Stephen Cogan Sports Editor

The Rams have won back-to-back games this past week at home to im-prove their overall record to 9-11 with and to 2-8 in the Lone Star Conference.

The Rams beat the Abilene Christian Wild-cats 65-59 on Saturday and the University of Texas-Permian Basin Falcons 72-60 on Tuesday.

“I’d give this one a 10

[rating] all the way,” junior guard Keenen Coleman said after the ACU game. “We needed this one be-cause we only had one win in the conference.”

Coleman was one of four Rams to finish with more than 10 total points with 13 points and two as-sists over 34 minutes of game time against ACU.

The other guard, junior Javae King-Gilchrist, led the team in scoring with 16 points and 37 minutes played.

“I just played aggres-sively and I had defensive intensity,” said Gilchrist.

The Rams were down five points at the end of the first half, making eight shots out of 27 attempts. They came back and tied the game at 52-52 with four minutes and 14 seconds to play, winning the game by six while making 15 out of 26 in the second half.

“We shot 15 or 16 3-pointers in the first half and maybe four or five in the second half and that was the difference,” Head Coach Rike said. “We started attacking the bas-ket. We got the ball in the paint more.”

In the second game

against UTPB, the Rams and Falcons both missed several shots and had sev-eral turnovers to start it off as a low-scoring affair.

In the first 10 and half minutes, a combined 12 points was scored with seven by the Rams and five by the Falcons.

“I haven’t seen this in a long time,” said one of-ficial, referring to the low scoring.

The Rams had a good deal of success with 3-point shooting, hitting 9-20 while the Falcons went 1-19 and the one shot they made was with

Basketball: Boys climb back into play-off picture

Rams win two in a row back-to-back

Adam Washington Contributor

The vice president for fi-nance and administration an-nounced Monday at the Student Government Association meet-ing that tuition rates could in-crease for Fall 2012.

Michael Reid said that the board is proposing a 2 percent maximum increase on tuition and fees.

“Tuition rates may not in-crease at all,” Reid said. The committee is pushing for little to no increase.

He said the cause of higher rates is due to multiple reasons such as, but not limited to: in-flation, student organizations, and maintaining new services offered to students.

The main issue with increas-ing prices is that the line of communication between ASU and parents of students is lim-ited. he said.

Parents paying for tuition are either misinformed or unin-formed of an increase in tuition.

Last year, tuition increased by 9.9 percent, he said.

“What most students don’t understand is that tuition doesn’t have to go up each year,” Reid said.

To help save money and cut back on unnecessary expenses, Reid said students should take an average of 15 credit hours per semester.

Taking at least 15 credit hours reduces the amount of time spent at college and reduc-es fees paid each semester.

Because the current average of hours taken at ASU is 12, most students will be at ASU for more than four years, which ends up costing parents and students hundreds of extra dollars in fees.

“I’m probably one of the few students who doesn’t see a prob-lem with an increase in tuition

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Committee: Pushing for little to no increase

Tuition rates may increase for fall 2012

Photo by Pam BelcherSenior guard Joey Lenox (24) Saturday pushes toward the basket against senior guard Zach Williams from ACU.

Mark McDaniel Photographer

The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas awarded a $1.12 million grant to ASU to fund a project

that will bring breast cancer detection and prevention ser-vices to women in the Concho Valley.

Dr. Linda Ross, execu-tive director of the Center for Community Wellness, En-gagement and Development and Dr. Leslie Mayrand, dean of the College of Health and Human Services, are head-ing up the program, Access to

Breast Care for West Texas – Concho Valley.

The pro-gram was start-ed through the Laura W. Bush Institute for Women’s Health at Texas Tech Univer-sity, Ross said.

“They rec-ognized that there was a problem with women in the area not re-ceiving mam-mograms and coming in with late stages of breast cancer,” Ross said.

Texas Tech obtained a grant from CPRIT to kick start a pro-gram that would help re-

solve the problem, Ross said. “They developed a pro-

gram to provide mammo-grams to underinsured and uninsured women,” Ross said. “They were awarded this grant last year, and we were able to take that grant and expand upon it here in the Con-cho Valley. It will eventually reach all the women in Public

Health District 9.”The program caters to un-

insured women, those who do not have access to health insurance, or underinsured women and offers free mam-mograms and other services, Ross said.

“Not only will the grant pay for mammograms, but if there is a suspicious lump, it will continue to pay for diagnostic testing until treatment,” Ross said.

Mayrand said the grant will pay transportation costs for women to obtain services, and will also fund a public education campaign available to all women in the Concho Valley.

“We will be holding edu-cational events all across the Concho Valley for women on the importance of mammo-grams,” Ross said.

Mayrand said there are many benefits to expanding upon the existing grant, in-stead of applying for a new one.

“You don’t have to re-spend money to do the same things,” Mayrand said. “I think that is one of the reasons we received the grant. [CPRIT] recognized the cost effective-ness of expanding on the pro-gram... They have a wonderful

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ASU awarded $1.2 million grant

SBDC turns business dreams into reality

Dillon Brollier Staff Writer

People often think of companies such as Wal-Mart, Apple and Micro-soft as some of the big-gest in the world.

All large corporations started out small, and nearly all of the founders needed help of some kind in the beginning.

The Small Business Development Center at

ASU has helped many people open their own businesses in the last 22 years.

In the last couple of years the SBDC has helped start or expand about 40 businesses in the area, SBDC Director David Erickson said.

Normally the SBDC sees around 500 clients each year, Erickson said.

Among these small business owners is the owner of Happy Trails Outdoor Goods & More, Garrett Baker. Happy Trails opened in Septem-ber of 2011.

Success story: Program helpscreate, openbusinesses

Photo by Dillon BrollierGarrett Baker, the owner of Happy Trails Outdoor Goods & More, Tuesday shows sophomore Sally Gore different backpacks. ASU’s SBDC helped Baker create his own outdoors goods business, which opened in September of 2011.

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Events Calendar

Get involved on campus! Here’s what’s going on this

week. Jan. 30Intramural and IM T-Shirt Design Information Session from 4 to 5 p.m.

Jan. 31El Cafecito from at 9 a.m.

Conversation Partners from 1 to 2 p.m.

SMART Workshop: Introduction to Blackboard and Ramport from 6 to 7 p.m.

Financing Options for Your SmallBusiness from 6 to 8:30 p.m.

Intramural: Racquetball and Table Tennis Sign Up and Registration Meeting from 7 to 8 p.m.

Feb. 1Census Day

SMART Workshop: Mastering Academ-ic Time Management from 6 to 7 p.m.

UCPC Mike Super Magic and Illusion at 7 p.m.

Feb. 2El Cafecito at 9 a.m.

SMART Workshop: Note-taking Tips from 6 to 7 p.m.

Essentials of Starting a Business from 6 to 8:30 p.m.

Planetarium: Passport to the Universe at 7 p.m. weekly

Planetarium: Expaned View at 8 p.m. weekly

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Dillon Brollier Staff Writer

On-campus parking of-ten frustrates students who have a hard time finding a place to park.

Parking Services Manag-er Kent R. Frazier said there is more than enough park-ing on campus, and there are no plans to change anything about the current parking setup, despite numerous protests from students.

Junior Jennifer Wilson said she hates having to park

far away from her classes. “It seems like the cars never move,” she said.

Parking near the middle of campus was always horri-ble. Most people are lucky if they get a spot near the Cen-ter for Human Performance, recent ASU graduate Donell Harris said.

One student does not feel the same way.

“Parking here is generally pretty good, especially when compared to larger cam-puses”, junior Erin Ellis said. “The only problem is usually the beginning of semesters.”

The Student Government Association is not ignoring the problem.

As of right now SGA is working on a plan to possi-bly get more parking closer to the main campus, Romo said.

“We have plenty of park-ing places right now,” Frazier said. “It may not be conve-nient, but we have parking lots that are not being uti-lized. To say we do not have enough parking is not an ac-curate statement.”

Student body President Hector Romo said he agreed with Mr. Frazier’s statement.

“I do know that there are more parking spots on cam-pus than there are cars reg-istered with the university,” Romo said.

However, the big-gest complaint about parking that the SGA receives is that the campus does not have enough parking, Romo said.

The issue may be more closely related to students having to walk from further away from their class-es, Romo said.

Both Romo and Frazier cited the parking lots near the Junell Center on Varsity Drive as largely unused.

Currently parking is set up in zones, Frazier said. “A parking is for faculty and staff, B parking is for com-muter students, and C park-ing is for students who live on campus.”

“There are two reserved lots that are referred to as D parking,” Frazier said. Those lots are reserved for off-cam-pus students who commute and they are guaranteed a spot in that particular lot be-tween 7:30 a.m and 3 p.m.

One of the D lots is lo-cated on Dena St. by the Academic building, and the second lot is located on the west side of the Carr Educa-tion and Fine Arts building, Frazier said.

Any plans approved by the SGA regarding parking will be sent to Dr. Valerio, who will then send the prop-osition to President Joseph C. Rallo, who will then assign the project, Romo said.

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SGA considers parking improvement

Civil War series analyzes Battle of Gettysburg

Dillon BrollierStaff Writer

For the 150th anni-versary of the Civil War, two professors analyzed the Battle of Gettysburg Tuesday at the CJ David-son Center in the UC.

At the discussion series, Assistant Profes-sor of Security Studies Dr. William Taylor gave a virtual tour of the Get-tysburg battlefield, and Assistant Professor of History, Dr. Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, spoke about the second day of the battle.

Taylor said he hopes attendees left with a bet-ter appreciation of the context of the Battle of Gettysburg.

It is important for people to understand the significance of the battle, Taylor said.

“With over 192,700

soldiers engaged and over 57,000 casualties in just three days of fighting, Gettysburg is arguably the most significant bat-tle in American military history,” Taylor said.

Wongsrichanalai said he would like the audi-ence to understand how important individual de-cisions can be.

“Decisions about the placement of troops, the building of fortifications, and military tactics all have enormous conse-quences for the outcome of a battle, a campaign and the fate of

nations,” Wongs-richanalai said.

The actual field the Battle of Gettysburg took place in was the focal point of Taylor’s discus-sion.

Battlefield features such as Culp’s Hill, Cem-etery Hill, Little Round Top and Round Top all dominated the battlefield in a direct fashion, Taylor said.

“These terrain fea-tures played instrumen-tal roles in the intense fighting that occurred at Gettysburg from July 1

through July 3, 1863,” Tay-lor said. “As a result, the importance of the battle-field itself is the way in which it shaped the bat-tle that took place there, especially at the tactical level.”

The Civil War is cer-tainly one of the most defining moments in U.S. history, Executive Direc-tor of Library Services Dr. Maurice G. Fortin said.

Fortin moderated the discussion series.

Any time a nation goes through an event such as the Civil War it is something people will al-ways want to study, Fortin said.

“[The Civil War] set-tled the issue of states’ rights that the federal government is the ulti-mate authority; that each state could not do what it wanted to do in isolation from the rest of the states that had joined together to join a country,” Fortin said.

While Gettysburg was an important battle, it was not the Confed-eracy’s last chance to win the war, Wongsrichanalai said.

“The Confederate Army of Northern Vir-ginia managed to retreat intact and this meant that the desperate strug-gle would continue into 1864, a presidential elec-tion year and another critical point in which the Confederacy could have gained its independence,” Wongsrichanalai said.

Gettysburg has both a personal and historical importance for Taylor.

Taylor said growing up in Maryland gave him ample opportunity to vis-it and explore the battle-field of Gettysburg.

“I continued to visit Gettysburg as a Marine officer and scholar, taking my Marines there for bat-

tlefield studies and visit-ing repeatedly while re-searching the command structure of the Army of Northern Virginia,” Tay-lor said.

The next installment of the discussion series, “Emancipation, 1862,” will take place Feb. 12 at 2 p.m. at the Fort Concho Commissary.

Discussion: Factors such as terrain affected outcome ofbattle

Photo by Pam BelcherPreston Lewis speaks about his civil war experiences as Dr. Maurice Fortin, Dr. William Taylor and Dr. Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai look on.

Photos by Mark McDanielAt the “CSI Resurfaces” event, students could make Valentine’s Day cards, play video games, help themselves to snacks, cakes and a chocolate foun-tain, and participate in other activities. The Center for Student Involvement moved back to the UC basement after a semester of repair and renovation. The CSI staff celebrated being back “home” with a grand re-opening.

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Happy trails for small community businessContinued from Page 1

“I used SBDC in the past when I worked with Fam-ily Power Sports, and when I started with the idea to open my own business they helped me with a lot of the things I was not familiar with,” Baker said.

“I had the right idea,” Baker said. “I knew how to sell, how to order product and market stuff, but I did not have the tools as far as accounting, balance sheets, and profit and loss state-ments.”

It is really hard to get a loan from the bank, but SBDC helped organize all the detailed paperwork, Baker said.

SBDC Assistant Direc-tor Cindy Hartin is the agent who worked with Baker to make Happy Trails a reality.

“Garrett came to the SBDC about a year ago,” Har-tin said. “He and his fam-ily own Family Power Sports, but he wanted to do some-thing on his own.”

There are other stores in town that sell outdoor gear, but Baker thought there was

a niche that San Angelo was missing. Baker started re-searching the possibility of running a retail store and selling certain brands that he believed people would want, Hartin said.

“I have been in retail for the last 13 years,” Baker said. “If I wanted to stay in retail, I wanted to pursue a market that I was really interested in. I wanted to sell products that I was passionate about and not just sell stuff to make a paycheck.”

San Angelo has respond-ed very positively to having

a store like this, Baker said.

“So far the store has been extremely suc-cessful,” Baker said. “The store has exceeded the expectations that the SBDC and I came up with for the first four months of the calendar.”

The SBDC is a nationwide network, Erick-son said.

The regional SBDC offices in San Antonio created the San

Angelo branch at ASU when Harlan Bruha, the first SBDC Director, contacted the re-gional SBDC offices in San Antonio and requested a branch for San Angelo.

By adding a branch at ASU, the SBDC is able to pro-vide learning opportunities such as working with real businesses through intern-ships, class projects or as a student worker of the SBDC, Erickson said.

As one of SBDC’s success stories, Baker has not forgot-ten about his core values.

“I have always been a good ole boy,” Baker said. “As far as the way we have always done retail is simple, taking care of the customer. My dad is in retail and I took his values. That’s the way I’ve learned.”

The SBDC hosts busi-ness training seminars throughout the year to help prospective business owners learn how to run a successful establishment.

The next seminar SBDC will host is “Financing Op-tions for Your Small Busi-ness.”

The seminar will be held in the Rassman building in room 100 Jan. 31 at 8:30 p.m. The SBDC offices are in Rass-man, room 201.

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News BriefsASU surpassed $25 million in its first capital campaign Thursday, Jan. 19, according to a news release. TTUS Chancellor Hance and President Joseph C. Rallo revealed plans to extend the cam-paign’s goal to raising $35 million by the end of 2013. The campaign is raising funds to support ASU programs and initiatives in service to the region and state, focusing on nursing, teacher education and agriculture programs.

An episode of PBS’ “Nova” features Center for Se-curity Studies Director Dr. Robert Ehlers, along with other experts and WWII veterans. It aired earlier this year as well as in May 2011. Ehlers said in a news release that the BBC documentary, “Operation Crossbow,” was a good way to inform a broad audience on “the value of air intelligence, specifically, and how intelligence really shapes and drives operations.”

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said Joshua Dueñes, a sophomore biology major. “I have to pay for my education regardless; it’s a neces-sity.”

A meeting in March will determine the range and cap for tuition, and a meeting in May will set final tuition increase and costs.

Other topics discussed at the SGA Senate meet-ing:

SGA has open senate seats and encourages stu-dents to apply at the Center for Student Involvement located in the basement of the University Center.

Heather Valle, an ASU advisor announced that the CSI resurfaced Tuesday from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m., recovering from about 4 feet of water due to a flood.

Photos by Mark McDanielDr. Bryan Appleby-Wineberg plays “Two Portraits” by Joseph Turrin on his trumpet, accompanied by Dr. Leslie Spotz on the piano at the Eldon Black Recital Hall. Appleby-Wineberg is the associate professor of trumpet and head of brass at Rowan University in Glassboro, N.J., where he also plays in the Faculty Brass Quintet. Spotz is the associate profes-sor of music at Tarleton State University. Appleby-Wineberg performed from brass composers of the 20th century including Eric Ewazen, Joseph Turrin, Philipe Sparke, Joseph Horovitz and baroque composer Johann Freidrich Fasch.

Music duo performs

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website and call center that we will be able to take advantage of.”

Mayrand said it took a consider-able amount of coordination between all four hospitals to build a founda-tion for the program.

“As, you write the grant, you have to detail exactly what the plan is,” Mayrand said. “We had a lot of meetings… and that was the most dif-ficult part, especially when you have a number of partners. Although it takes a lot of time...it is the most ef-fective way to [operate] with a project this big.”

Ross said working with the four hospitals was relatively easy and was a great experience overall.

“All of them really stepped up to the plate,” Ross said. “They were all glad to work with us on this, which was a huge advantage for us.”

Mayrand said she feels the amount of cooperation between all five entities gave the program an edge when it came to obtaining the grant.

“We demonstrated a great deal of cooperation with the hospitals, and that really helped [get the mon-ey we needed] to fund the project,” Mayrand said.

Cooperation with hospitals gives edge in winning grant

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I’ll begin by saying that having not read the book, I was unbiased and neu-tral going into this movie.

As the plot unfolds, you find that the movie is not about 9/11, but about a young boy named Oskar (Thomas Horn) who is trying desperately to re-connect with his father. Oskar’s father (Tom Hanks) was killed in the 9/11 at-tack, which Oskar later refers to as “the worst day.” Growing up, Oskar would be tested by going on expeditions set up all across central park by his father.

After his father’s death, Oskar finds what he believes is a message left behind for him in se-cret. Oskar listens to a series of disturbing messages left on the answering machine by his father on the worst day. Keeping them a secret from his entire family, he uses them as motiva-tion to fulfill the journey set before him.

Throughout his expedition, he finds that his journey takes him way beyond his personal situation, and that he is not alone in his grief. Although he doesn’t find the answer he is looking for, his adventure does come to a surprising and un-predictable close after several major plot twists. At the climax of the film’s depressing moments, a window is opened up to both the viewer and Oskar that brings hope.

Aside from the drama-filled atmosphere, Oskar’s annoy-ing yet genius character, and Sandra Bullock’s small amount of screen time (sorry guys), this movie will take you on an emo-tional rollercoaster ride. Between the tragic and heartbreaking scenes, there is knee-slapping humor guaranteed to put a smile on your face. The movie never makes it clear as to whether or not Oskar has some sort of social disorder, but it is implied. His character is extremely talkative and very condescending.

Overall this movie was a heartwarming tale of a boy cop-ing with the loss of his father and a neglectful grieving mother that will keep you thinking for days. I wouldn’t say it’s one you will want to see again and again, but it is one you want to see.

‘Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close’

ElestalAbigail Williams

Since the world will end in 2012, or supposedly they say it will, we should at least have a good soundtrack for it, and Abi-gail Williams has provided the first track. “Elestal” is a horrifically beautiful storm that begins with a calm watery guitar and leads into a dark blend of thrash metal. Raging with drums and cymbals, the track relaxes into a steady groove like distant thunder.

Ziggy StardustDavid Bowie

What makes this song so great? The sparkling gui-tar that sounds like God is playing it? Is it David’s lyrics about spiders from Mars? Or maybe it’s the vocals that only Mr. Bowie has. Whatever the case might be, there is no de-nying how cool the name Ziggy Stardust and how good David Bowie’s music ability is.

They Always Fly AwayBlouse

Like a strange dream that seems to linger in your head as the day continues this bouncy little tune is creepy and peaceful. From the first beat, Blouse grabs your attention with a Gorl-liaz like hum that keeps you guessing for the next change.

How Do You DoMouth & Macneal

How can you not like this song? A perfect one-hit wonder throwback from the golden age of the seventies, this joyful tune is dangerously catchy. In fact, the song should come with a caution. WARNING: MAY CAUSE ONE TO SING “NAH NAH NAH NAH” EXCES-SIVELY.

Freelance FiendLeaf Hounds

From the minute the gui-tar rips right through the speakers to the cowbell clanking around, you will be hooked. With Led Zeppelin like swagger and the Blue Oyster Cult like groove, Leaf Hound deserves some respect. Crank up the radio and jam out with these forgot-ten legends.

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Graduation does not neces-sarily mean the end of home-work. Ideally, graduates find fulfilling, life-sustaining work in the field they devoted their four years of studies to. However, it is not that easy; there is competi-tion. A job interview is an op-portunity to shine and get hold of your dream job, but many may jeopardize their chances by letting nerves get the best of them, not being prepared and etc. Getting Hired, Pt. 2 focuses on being the best one can be in a crucial stage of getting hired.

Confidence

Some may wonder whether it is better to be more assertive or more submissive during a job interview.

The kind of personality that is preferred, whether asser-tive or compliant, depends on the interviewer, said Elizabeth Stinnett, recruitment specialist and Human Resources facilita-tor for Shannon Medical Center. There are always exceptions, but most interviewers do not look for either extreme, she said. It is best to strike a balance between the two, but the most important thing is confidence. One can gain confidence before a job in-terview by doing some research.

“A lot of it boils down to how much you prepare for the inter-view and how eager you are for the position,” Stinnett said, “and not just because you need a job, but because you really want this job.”

The applicant should get the feel of the company by research-ing the company’s vision, mis-sion and etc. through resources such as the company’s website.

An interviewer looks for someone who is communica-tive, will have a fit for the com-pany, and has a sense of what the

job is about, she said. Applicants should not claim to be more qualified than everyone else be-cause they “don’t know that.”

“That would be something I, as an interviewer, couldn’t buy into,” she said.

They should, however, be confident in their skills and show that they really want the job. Eagerness shows in an in-terview, Stinnett said.

Practicing speaking with an-other person or in front of a mir-ror also greatly helps, Stinnett said.

“If you tend to be a little more nervous in front of peo-ple…then having that practice is invaluable,” she said.

On the other hand, if some-one is more talkative, he or she may have to practice not talking as much, she said.

“You have to be careful about not taking the interviewer over,” she said.

It is normal for people to feel nervous going into an interview, but they do not have to fear be-ing nervous in front of the in-terviewers, said Eddie Salcido, director of SAISD human re-sources.

“There’s a lot on the line in their eyes and we understand that,” he said.

Salcido said a goal of human resources is to facilitate a posi-tive environment, optimizing the interviewees’ opportunity to show their best.

“We want you to be your best, because that’s what we want to see,” he said.

First Impressions

Colleges and universities do an excellent job of preparing students, Salcido said, but some students make the mistake of not taking advantage of avail-able resources.

“Listen to the people who come and talk to you,” he said. “Take their words and use them.”

Salcido and Stinnett said they have both had people dressed in jeans and T-shirts.

“I’d be amazed,” Salcido said.Salcido said that while such

a mistake in outfit choice will not totally take an applicant out of consideration, it would not help the applicant’s odds.

“Because again, I’m looking for your best,” he said.

How a person is dressed or whether the person has tat-toos or piercings may affect the outcome of the job interview, Stinnett said, but it ultimately depends on the business or in-stitution. Companies that serve a broader variety of customers will pay more attention to such body modifications as opposed to places such as Pac Sun or Star-bucks, she said. Businesses in general, though, are becoming more and more relaxed about it since tattoos have become so common.

Salcido said, though he does 300 to 500 interviews in a typi-cal year, there are the occasional applicants who stand out posi-tively.

“I’ve sat through an inter-view with a young lady and we didn’t hire her for the position,” he said. “But I kept her in mind because she had done a superb job.”

When another position in another field opened that she was certified in, Salcido said, he looked for her specifically. He said she had impressed him with her knowledge and passion.

“I ended up hiring her,” he said. “I tell kids all the time, ‘You never know what you may spark.’ You may not get that job, but you may spark something in somebody that, down the road, is going to pay off.”

Questions

Some students might worry that they do not have much formal, relevant work experi-

ence, but they do not necessarily need to have had full-time work, Stinnett said. It can be hard to work full time and go to school. Employers want to see that the person has been committed to something and has goals and has moved forward in his or her life, she said.

Even volunteer work or ex-perience as a teacher’s assistant are good things to present to the interviewer(s), she said.

Depending on their style, in-terviewers may ask many yes-or-no questions, Stinnett said, but it is common for interviewers to use behavioral questions, which pose hypothetical situations, to gauge the ability to think criti-cally and problem-solve.

“There may be questions that you may have to think about, and that’s okay,” she said.

Stinnett said such a behav-ioral question might be: “Have you ever not gotten along with a coworker, and how did you han-dle that?”

What the interviewers want to know is whether the applicant can be a team player and address situations appropriately, she said.

She gave another example: “You’re the manager of a project that is due in a month, and your team is behind. How do you communicate to your team what all needs to be done?”

“You’re going to have to think about that response be-cause you may not have had anything like that happen to you before,” she said.

These kinds of questions give the interviewer an enor-mous amount of information about how the applicant pro-cesses information, critically thinks, and how he or she will fit in a group, she said. The ques-tions may intimidate, but the applicant won’t want to show that.

“Breathe deep, think about it, and answer honestly,” she

said. “A mistake some folks make is they try to give the an-swers they think the interview-ers want.”

Life experiences can apply to these questions, she said.

“A lot of people forget that life experiences prepare us for these things,” she said.

Stinnett said it is obvious when answers are not genuine most of the time. Selling oneself to the interviewer(s) by being oneself is different from selling oneself falsely, she said.

NonverbalCommunication

“You should know, going into [the interview], who you are and how you are,” Stinnett said.

Stinnett said people should be more aware about how they communicate nonverbally. If they do not know how they present themselves nonverbal-ly, they should ask their friend about their body posture, any fidgety habits and etc.

“Most interviewers can for-give nervousness for sure be-cause they were there once too,” she said.

However, Stinnett said she sometimes finds nervous hab-its such as fidgeting and hair-touching distracting after a while.

“What [interviewers] can’t forgive are your words not matching your nonverbals,” she said.

About a quarter of a message is nonverbal, according to some studies, Stinnett said.

“There can be amazing miscommunications and you wouldn’t even know it,” she said.

If a person says he is terri-bly interested in the job and he would be the best person for it, but he is slouching, the vocal and nonverbal communication would not match.

“You’re being false, nonver-bally,” she said.

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“Technically, you couldn’t fix it. We are very limited in space.”

Eith Huerta,junior

“Students should have priority.”

Taboderick Runels, sophomore

How would you fix over-crowding in the parking lot?

SidewalkSurvey

OPINIONS

“We need to level Concho.”

Thomas Moreno,sophomore

“We should purchase some of the land around the school and make more parking.”

Maria Barron,sophomore

“We need to find or buy more parking space. Lower park-ing prices would be nice.”

Besspher Mannah,sophomore

Friday, January 27, 2012 Page 5

One of the chief complaints on cam-pus is the availability of parking. While we realize that parking problems are almost universal, we have de-cided to define the spe-cific reasons we dislike the parking at ASU and offer some possible so-lutions.

First of all, we rec-ognize that there tech-nically are more park-ing spots available than there are registered cars. However, if the spots are only available where it is improbable for students to park, then this abundance is useless to many stu-dents. Students that have classes scheduled back-to-back on dif-ferent ends of campus need close and avail-able parking spaces to make it to their classes on time. If students cannot find parking for their first class, though, they need to be on campus earlier. For a first class, the burden of finding a spot is on students. However, if

a student has to run across campus between back to back classes, then the burden should fall on the university to fix the parking prob-lem.

We do not think reserved D lots are as beneficial to the school as they are supposed to be. It is obviously beneficial to those stu-dents that have permits for these lots. The lots are also monetarily beneficial to the school because the permits for these lots cost $60 more than standard student parking for the year. However, the majority of the student population should take precedence over minor monetary gains and a small percentage of people.

Another problem is “floaters,” or people that wait in a lot for someone to pull out. While we do not par-ticularly like being held up behind floaters, as long as people are not holding up traffic, we do not see anything

wrong with inching forward in the parking lot, waiting for a car to move. Proceeding cau-tiously is much safer than speeding through each lot, looking for a spot.

Some people might argue that the 10 min-utes people spend looking for parking places could just as easily be used to park farther away and walk to class. This is a valid point. Parking should not have to be im-proved for the benefit of lazy or late students. However, as we men-tioned before, this is not a probable solution for students with back-

to-back classes on dif-ferent ends of campus.

One possible so-lution for the parking problem is to convert the D lots to B lots. An extreme, but not improbable solution would be to move the annex buildings, and turn that area into more parking. If not for the current stu-dents, we hope that as ASU increases enroll-ment numbers, they will also begin to in-crease the number of parking spaces. If en-rollment keeps up its rate of increase, park-ing will soon be a very big problem, and be-cause it takes quite a

while to establish new parking lots or even purchase existing lots, ASU should really nip this in the bud and start increasing park-ing availability now in-stead of scrambling to do so much later.

We realize that at least for the immediate future this is something we have to deal with. There is no magic but-ton to fix these prob-lems, and we appreci-ate that ASU is also concerned about park-ing to an extent. How-ever, if we as students do not let our opinions be heard now, nothing may ever be done about this problem.

Staff EditorialWhat a pain in the park

Mark McDanielPhotographer

So I was watching the movie “Moneyball” last weekend, and there was a great quote that really got me thinking.

If you haven’t seen it, the movie is about the Oakland A’s general man-ager Billy Beane’s attempt to put together a baseball club by analyzing play-ers’ stats with a computer and drafting or cutting them accordingly. This new method proved to be just as effective, yet signifi-cantly cheaper to manage.

Beane’s method was considered so far out there and so against everything that was baseball at the time, that everyone be-lieved he was destined to fail. No one would take him seriously. However, when his unconventional methods prove effective, the MLB community lash-es out because they feel threatened.

One of the characters is talking to Beane about the situation, and gives him a small, yet signifi-cant, piece of insight on why his method is causing such a fuss.

“Really what it’s threat-ening is their livelihood, their jobs. It’s threatening the way they do things...and every time that hap-pens, whether it’s the gov-ernment, a way of doing business, whatever, the people who are holding the reins - they have their hands on the switch - they go...crazy.”

We can find great truth in these words. When you look at it on local level, in the case of baseball, we can understand why the own-ers and managing staff of the teams would be throw-ing a fit over a change in the game.

If you apply this con-cept to a global level, in countries like Libya or Syria, their dictators are trying (or at least tried, in Gaddafi’s case) to keep a hold of their power, be-cause after all, their power is what defines them. Their power is what keeps them wealthy, keeps them safe, and keeps them in the top tier of society. They will do anything to keep their safety net intact.

Now, if you bring this concept closer to home in the U.S., it is a little more difficult to see. But when you dig deeper into the depths of our governmen-tal structure, it becomes much clearer.

The main problem our country is facing is the fail-ing economy. Our excessive governmental spending and unbelievable amount

of national debt is causing our economy to crumble. Our currency is no longer sound, inflation is going through the roof and our job market is shrinking. All of it is stemming from our government’s addic-tion to spending.

To put our governmen-tal spending in perspec-tive, if you remove eight zeros from our national budget, and look at it as if it were a household budget, our annual income would be around $21,000 but our credit card debt would be an insane $142,000.

This is a huge problem. The way I see it, our

Congress keeps approving these unbalanced budgets because they are a form of job security. As long as our economy is in shambles, many people will continue to look to our government to fix it. This allows our government to continue spending and keep up the facade that they are actu-ally helping, when in fact it is this very idea that is destroying our country.

Within the unbalanced budgets are provisions for excessive congressional pay. Members of Congress are accepting huge pen-sions while the rest of our country is suffering from an ailing economy.

Because our represen-tatives refuse to acknowl-edge their spending is the source the problem, obviously they won’t even think about making sig-

nificant budget cuts, espe-cially when their own pay is in jeopardy.

If we are ever going to see true change, we must rethink who we are elect-ing to office in Congress.

But even the slightest threat to their power will send them into a rage. Ca-reer politicians will fight tooth and nail to keep their security within reach.

So, much like Billy Beane’s take on baseball, sometimes more spending isn’t always better. Smart spending and efficient re-source management is the key to restoring America’s prosperity.

We have to start some-where. My challenge to you is to rethink the way our government is spending our tax dollars. After all, on our household budgets, we have to live within our means. So why shouldn’t we hold our government to the same standards?

Like I said, we must start somewhere. We must break the wall and change our mindset on how we spend our money.

“I know you are tak-ing it in the teeth, but the first guy through the wall... he always gets bloody... always. This is threaten-ing not just a way of do-ing business... but in their minds, it’s threatening the game.” - “Moneyball”

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Did you make some new semester resolutions?

Since the university is going to grow does anyone know if there is going to be a consistant [sic] architecture theme to any new buildings in the future? Tech has a lovely campus and is ASU going to do something similar?

Philo Behto

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Friday, January 27, 2012Page 6 SPORTS

Stephen CoganSports Editor

The ASU Rambelles are now 10 to 7 with a 75 to 64 win over the Abilene Christian Wildcats Saturday.

“It’s a good win for us,” junior Mor-gan Youngblood said. “We did a great job of crashing offensive boards, and we had a lot of steals.”

Freshman Haylee Oliver had a great game scoring 18 points to lead the team despite shooting just 5-15.

She had five free throws, three 3-pointers, a steal, an assist, and seven rebounds over 27 minutes of playing time, but Oliver said she thinks she needs to improve from this perfor-mance.

“I need to improve on my defense,” Oliver said. “The girls have been pa-tient with me and are helping me out.

I know I make a bunch of fresh-man mistakes. I’ve messed up on the rotations and the girls have been help-ing me out and covering for me, but that’s what Coach Brooks has me on now.”

Oliver leads the team with 198 points scored, but also in turnovers with 51. She has 11

blocks, 18 steals, and 82 rebounds on the year.

“Gotta love her,” Head Coach Sally Brooks said after the game.

Oliver said that she thinks she’s gotten better as the season has pro-gressed and Brooks agreed.

“Her minutes were limited at the beginning because she didn’t play very good defense,” Brooks said. “That’s a process. You don’t have to play defense and rebound like that in high school. Offense comes naturally to you. Its de-fense and rebounding that doesn’t so she had to learn how to do it and now that she can do it, she can stay on the floor more.”

Oliver not only wants to improve on the court physically, but also wants to earn her team’s confidence in her during the game at all times.

“By the end of the season I just want to have the trust of all my team-mates and they can put the ball in my hands when the game is on the line or in a tough moment in the hard pres-sure games,” Oliver said. “I just want to personally know that I’ve made that improvement. Just be an all-around better player than I was coming out of high school.”

The ‘Belles were tied 33-33 at the half, but pulled away to win by 11 in the second half.

“We continued to play good de-fense and rebound and we made some shots,” Brooks said. “In the first half we shot 29 percent and in the second half we shot 50 percent. It’s not rocket sci-ence. You make your shots and you win.”

‘Belles rule home court with win over ACUBasketball: Girls get closer to playoffs

Week at a Glance

Wednesday, Feb. 1Women’s BasketballCameron - 5:30 p.m.

Men’s BasketballCameron - 7:30 p.m

Thursday, Feb. 2SoftballRollins @ neutral field in San Antonio, Texas - 5 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 3SoftballEast Central @ neutral field in San Antonio, Texas - Noon

Softball@St. Mary’s - 4 p.m.

BaseballOuachita Baptist - 5 p.m.

Photo by Pam BelcherFreshman Haylee Oliver (no. 15) prepares to rebound the ball during ‘Belles’ match against ACU, Saturday.

Stephen CoganSports Editor

ASU added another success story to its his-tory as a former Ram full-back officially became a professional football player in the Indoor Foot-ball League (IFL) for the Omaha Beef franchise on Oct. 24, 2011.

John Norcott played two seasons for the Rams from 2009-2010 and in his senior year, he was chosen for the 2010 All-Lone Star Confer-ence 2nd team and Don Hensen Super Region 3rd team.

Norcott said he was thrilled about his oppor-tunity.

“I’m looking to con-tribute to both side of the ball,” he said. “Signing with Omaha is very excit-ing, and I’m looking for-ward to proving myself at this level. I hope to help Omaha excel in playoffs and to a championship.”

Norcott is not only a football player, but a five-time National Champion in power lifting and a

weight room fanatic. The news of his achievement did not surprise anyone who knew him at ASU.

“The guy has been a real standout player,” ASU weightlifting coach Kelcey Hite said. “He was a terrific fullback and he progressed a lot as a football player and as an athlete since he got here. I wouldn’t have been sur-prised if he had gone free agent to the NFL.”

Chad Herring, Hite’s assistant, said he was proud of him.

“I only saw him play one season, actually, but [I] knew he was a very hard worker and one of his dreams was to play football professionally,” Herring said. “He earned it. I think he deserved it.”

John Norcott’s dream became a reality and it was not an easy task as his power lifting abilities were not helping him on the football field.

“When he got here, he was a strong guy already, he was already a three or four-time national cham-pion as a power lifter, but that kind of strength that he had didn’t translate to the field as well as it should have,” Hite said.

“He was a really good power lifter, but doing some of the things that we do here and focus on like using his hips was where he had a weak-ness and he worked hard to correct that. He came up here four days a week at six in the morning to work on his hips, his flex-ibility, working on block-ing technique; doing things that would help increase his strength.”

John Norcott’s work ethic caught the eye of his coach and offensive coordinator Russell Gas-kamp, as well as his fel-low teammates which transitioned him into the role of a leader.

“He pushed guys to work hard in there,” Gas-kamp said. He was kind of a teacher down there. That was probably where he had the greatest effect. He was very optimistic, very positive, he helped rally the troops, and the guys gravitated toward him because they liked being around him.”

As John Norcott pre-pares for his new role with the Omaha Beef, he can rest assured that he left an impact on the men in the Rams locker room

Football: Alumnus moving on up

Former ASU Fullback Goes Pro

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left in the second half when the Rams had a significant lead.

Keenen Coleman led the team in scoring again with 20 points from four free throws, two 3-pointers, and five other field goals.

“I’m glad we’re at home,” Rike said. It’s great to have five of our last eight games on our home floor. We have a chance to make up some ground against teams that are on the road.”

The Rams now only have Lone Star Conference games ahead of them with the UTPB game being the last of the nonconference games.

The players are aware and know what they need to do in order to win in the future.

“We need to work our game,” junior forward Hanif Nixon-Hughes said. “Just doing what we need to do. Executing and rebounding, working our offense to a ‘T.’ When we do that, I don’t think nobody can beat us in the Lone Star Confer-ence.”

The team’s coach also feels they need to do other things in order to win in the future.

Rike said they need to work on, “Half-court execution of-fensively, and defensively we got to hedge ball screens bet-ter.”

Rams getting it done on the court

Photo by Pam BelcherSenior forward LaDonn Huckaby (no.5) Saturday attempts a 3-pointer against ACU.

Photo by Pam BelcherJunior guard Javae King-Gilchrist (no. 11) protects the ball.

Photo Courtesy of John Norcott

Photo by Pam BelcherSophomore Lauren Holt (no. 4) drives the ball to the rim dur-ing ‘Belles’ match against ACU Saturday.