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Are you happy with the additions of approximately 100 additional
parking spaces?
No, more needs to be done. 33%
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Casey RinaldiStaff Writer
Greenway will connect ASU, areas of Jonesboro
Yes, I fi nally have somewhere to park! 67%
OPINION, PAGE 2
Squirrels have month in spotlight
Ready. Set. Cook!
Photo by Lindsey Blakely/Photo EditorASU and Sigma Pi alumnus, Marvin Tackleberry situates his ribs on the grill after slathering
them with strawberry jelly in preparation for the barbecue competition on Saturday in Downtown Jonesboro.
Over 60 teams came from across the country to compete in this leg of the national competition. After cooking for two days, the competitors must present their dishes to six judges in hopes of winning a spot in the Kansas City competition.
The festival lasted all Friday and Saturday, with Rick Springfi eld fi nishing up the night on Saturday with free concert.
Jonesboro Parks and Recreation is continuing
the planning and construction process for a hiking and biking trail that will serve to link all major areas of the city, including running through parts of ASU.
Wixson Huffstetler, assistant parks director of Jonesboro, said the project is still in the construction phases as they look to plan the next section of the trail, which is currently in phase fi ve.
“Right now we’re in the process of building an extra 500 ft. across Turtle Creek Mall. Phase six will then be from the end of those 500 ft. to Matthews. Phase seven will hopefully go into engineering and design in 2012, and should span from Matthews to Nettleton. It will go up Stadium, through ASU’s campus, back across the new Cash River Bridge into downtown Jonesboro,” he said.
Though there are currently not a set number of phases, it was noted that the completion of phase fi ve would mark a fi nished 1.5 miles of the total 30 mile trail. There is also hope that phase seven will be completed by 2013.
Brad Welbourne, facility planner for the Jonesboro Parks Department, said the idea for a hiking and biking path here in Jonesboro was due to public demand.
“We did a survey back in 2004 that had approximately 1500 responses and walking,
running and biking all scored very high. We formed a citizen committee to specifi cally study the responses to that survey. We selected 5 different areas and there were a total of 90 citizens involved between them,” Welbourne said.
“The Parks and Recreation Committee chose citizens who were interested in the surveyed areas. After deciding a trail should be constructed, we worked with the city planner to set up an initial area of where we wanted it to go as we try to encompass the city, however this is a constantly changing process that I don’t think will ever get fi nished for a very long time,” he said.
The Greenway is currently part of the state’s “Vision 2030” plan, but Huffstetler doubts that it will be completed by that time.
Huffstetler said they received a $2.2 million federal grant for the project which was written by former Parks and Recreation Director Jeff Owens, of which around $200,000 has been spent.
There has also been a series of local grants, such as the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), which is worth $100,000 annually to help poor city areas.
There is also the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Fund from the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department (ATHD), which amounts to $200,000, as well as Safe Routes to School, which is granted by a partnership
See GREENWAY, page 4
Clarifi cationThis is to clarify infor-mation regarding the resignation of associate professor of metallurgi-cal engineering technol-ogy Zariff (Zac) Chaud-hury, as mentioned in the article "Metalurgy emphasis shelved,"
which was published on Sept. 22.Rajesh Sharma, assis-tant professor in renew-able technology, said Friday, after Chaud-hury resigned and stu-dents and faculty were aware of the situation,
Chaudhury's classes for summer 2011 were can-celed and the depart-ment searched for a re-placement for fall 2011. Sharma confi rmed that Chaudhury did submit his resignation to the proper administrators.
In the fi rst few weeks of school at ASU, there are a few things students will no-tice. Whether it’s the long lines to the caf everyday at noon or the seemingly endless construction, ASU has its quirks. One of which is the overwhelm-ing
population of squirrels. As squirrels start their yearly harvest
in the fall, they are often seen as goofy, playful and sometimes unnoticed little critters of the forest.
Squirrel Awareness Month is observed in October every year. But some students
on campus are well aware of the squir-rel community.
“It seems like they’re always watching, which is pretty nerve-racking,” said Michale Riggs, a ju-nior graphic design major of Cash. “I defi nitely make sure not to cross them if I can help it.”
Riggs, who is now scared to death of squirrels, said one ran across the top
of her foot last year, making her paranoid ever since.
“They should never get that close,” Riggs said. “They throw their food down on people passing by. They’re just nasty, creepy little animals.”
Though it seems to some students on campus the squirrels have a vendetta against everyone on campus, others say the squirrels are just misunderstood.
Tracy Klotz, a graduate student in biol-ogy of Jonesboro, said squirrels are noth-ing to be afraid of or concerned about. If anything, they should be welcomed as campus is a safe haven for them.
“Students really shouldn’t be too wor-ried about the squirrels on campus,” Klotz said. “They’re here because of the pecan trees and because they aren’t harassed. We don’t bother them so they don’t both-er us.”
See SQUIRRELS, page 4
Beth BrightOpinion Editor
LET’S BE FRIENDS
The ASU Museum will host a program, on Tuesday, exploring soldiers stories from both sides of the Civil War.
The event, 150 Years After the Civil War, will be held from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. in the Military Gallery of the museum and will display letters recovered from the Civil War. The gallery is also the site of the new exhibit Coming Home, which will be unveiled the same day.
During the program, two local authors, Van Hawkins and Donald C. Maness, will speak about their books covering the correspondence of soldiers in the war.
Nearly 50 years ago, Tom Watson of Paragould found a box of old letters out in his shed. The letters were those of Benjamin Hyatt, a Civil War soldier of the Arkansas Third Infantry.
A selection of the letters found by Watson will be put on display at the Coming Home exhibit for a two week period to give people a chance to read them before they have to be put in storage for safe keeping. Some of the letters will be copied and hung on permanent display.
Hawkins writes about these letters in his book "Duty Bound." Maness book covers the letters of Seventh Ohio Volunteer Calvary soldier William McKnight.
Both authors’ books will be available to buy at the event and they will
be doing a book signing after they are fi nished speaking.
Jill Kary, museum curator of education, said that the event isn’t about sides or who won; it’s about the individual soldiers.
"Both Confederate and Union soldiers yearned
Exhibit brings Civil War to life
Photo by Megan Heyl/HeraldASU Museum Curator Julie MacDonald prepares a new exhibit focusing on letters from the Civil War.
Photo by Lindsey Blakely/Photo Editor
Photo by Abdullah Raslan/HeraldA squirrel perches on a tree, frozen out of fear.
The Herald is a public forum. Its content is written by students, for students, faculty and staff of Arkansas State University. Student editors of The Herald have the authority to make all content decisions without censorship or advance approval.OPINION
— Our View —
Consumed by technologyToday is National Tech Day and there is
clearly no shortage of technology here at ASU. With an ever-changing list of online and
web-assisted courses offered to students, it’s no wonder technology is such a big part of the educational experience now.
According to macobserver.com, as a part of the Teach for America organization, Apple has donated some 9,000 iPads to teachers across the country.
The program’s goal is to give students growing up in low-income areas the best education possible.
But is the push for technology such a good thing?
In just the past few years, ASU has come a long way in all that it offers technologically to its students.
With everything from alert systems to campus apps to using iPads for certain courses, the university seems to be keeping up with the Joneses (or in this case, maybe the Jetsons).
But students aren’t just taking advantage of these luxuries in the classroom.
Technology surrounds us in our everyday lives whether we have the most up-to-date smartphone or didn’t start to like reading until we got an e-reader. A device that is smaller than a note card can now manage our lives.
Whether you use your device to refill your prescriptions, you can’t function without your Sleep Cycle app or are honing your craft as an up and coming rapper with “I Am T-Pain”, life without technology seems impossible to remember.
However, as long as the educational aspect isn’t lost among the 0’s and 1’s of data, ASU should keep moving forward.
“Our View” is written by the editorial staff. The opinions are not necessarily reflective of the student body, faculty or administration of Arkansas State University.
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Texas Governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry sug-gested last week during a debate that opponent Mitt Romney (former Mas-sachusetts governor who ran for president in 2008 before dropping out) was uncaring for questioning his stance on allowing the children of undocumented workers to pay in-state tu-ition to attend colleges and universities in the Lone Star State.
Perry basically said those against such a propo-sition had no heart.
There were echoes of boos and other disapprov-ing outbursts from the largely white, conservative audience to the governor’s statement.
Romney responded by claiming that being against Perry’s stance meant one had a “heart and a brain.”
It was the second time in a week that Perry faced pressure for policies run-ning afoul of the increas-ingly-rigid Republican mindset.
So, what about it?
Should the children of undocumented parents be able to go to school and pay in-state tuition like thousands of others do from year to year?
Or, does the availability of higher education extend only to people whose fami-lies are officially citizens?
To my way of thinking, Gov. Perry is positively correct in arguing for edu-cational accessibility to young people who seek to improve themselves and contribute their talents, abilities and potential to the greater community, state and nation.
The mere fact that one’s arrival in the United States does not involve parents with official papers should not deprive said individual from pursuing the vaunted American dream.
I can hear the wailing of anti-immigration activists - “These people are taking our kids’ educations!”
Hmm. Sounds eerily similar to the same lament about “illegals” taking “our jobs.”
From my perspective, the vast majority of undoc-umented workers take on things like picking produce that stock the shelves of our favorite grocery stores, laying brick and tile with great precision for wages
many natives would scoff at and being willing to work as many hours as it takes to put food on the table for their families.
There’s no great sense of entitlement.
Aren’t self initiative and personal responsibility two of the Republican Party’s so-called valued principles? What about family values? Fiscal responsibility?
The answer to these questions is, of course, yes.
The Grand Old Party once claimed to believe such things, but no longer.
These days, the party of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Ronald Rea-gan has been overtaken by the likes of Sarah Pa-lin and other entertainers masquerading as politi-cians.
Finding someone with credible experience in pub-lic life is as hard as getting the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville to play oth-er in-state schools on the football field or basketball court.
Let me clarify some-thing, though. It is not as if I find President Obama all that inspiring.
He has, I believe, been far too reluctant to use his considerable influence to make comprehensive im-migration reform a prior-
ity. Until that happens,
the situation will remain unsettled and highly divi-sive.
George W. Bush and some level-headed Repub-licans joined with Demo-crats to push for reform a few years back before find-ing themselves cornered and forced to shelve it.
It was comforting to see a leading Republican refuse to back down in de-fense of human decency on the tuition matter.
Do I expect him to stay on track? Only time can provide the answer.
Education is the gate-way to knowledge, possi-bilities and so much more.
Scapegoating people whose backgrounds aren’t the same as affluent white suburbanites by stirring up passions among middle class and poor whites is disgraceful.
I’m not voting for Perry. Ron Paul is the only Re-publican I could support at this point.
As for Romney, well, backing him would mean shutting off my heart and brain.
Childress is a graduate student in political science of Jonesboro.
“... does the availability of higher education extend only to people whose families are officially citizens?”
Anthony Childress
Have Republicans forgotten past ideals?The Herald
Tax plan brings hopeShop around for textbooks
It’s tough work finding good deals on everyday things. “Thank God for Wal-Mart,” I think some days because they really do have everything you might possibly need as a college student.
Sadly, however, Wal-Mart lacks in one area for me—textbooks.
Finding cheap textbooks can mean a fight to the death for a lot of college students. When it comes to money, I’m pretty much a “don’t-pay-more-if-you-can-help-it” type of person.
If I have to buy some-thing, then I’m going to find the lowest possible price and here’s why.
This semester I’m tak-ing an Accelerated Span-ish class, which means I’m taking two Spanish classes in the time it normally takes to do one.
I enjoy my Spanish class, but we’re coming to the end of the first half, which means we are finishing up our current textbook.
For the second half of the semester, we will have to buy another textbook, as well as the online lab that comes with it.
The cost of said textbook is $122 at the Campus Bookstore, and that’s just the binder version.
I made a mistake my very first semester here at ASU of purchasing all my textbooks through our
bookstore. Having spent nearly
$650 on books last fall, I vowed never to buy books there again.
It’s not that the book-store is bad. I’ve bought several supplies there
that I needed, and it is pretty handy considering it’s on campus. I have a couple of friends that work there and honestly, it’s probably a fine business to work for.
But that’s just the prob-lem.
Our bookstore is still a business, seeking to make a profit, but because it is part of our campus, it seems to have the tendency to overcharge on just about everything, especially new books.
So I began a random search on the Internet.
To my severe disap-pointment, no digital ver-sions of this Spanish text-book exist. I often wonder why publishers seem so hesitant to make digital versions of their textbooks- maybe it’s a money thing.
Regardless, we may still be quite a way from put-ting all our textbooks on something as small as a Kindle or Nook.
I continued looking on the Internet for the best possible price on this Span-ish textbook.
I began my search on the regular sites: Amazon, Alibris and some other used book websites. It took me several searches to fi-nally realize that the edi-tion I needed had just been printed in June, which means there were very few used copies available.
I was forced to settle on my only option—new, the dreaded three-letter word that spells financial head-aches to college students.
After a little while, I fi-nally decided that my best bet would be for the Ama-zon version, which sold the textbook and lab for $102.
Not bad, I thought, con-sidering I could save my-self $20. But I decided to look just one more place—Barnes and Noble.
I’m not a regular Barnes and Noble shopper—they sometimes like to price their books higher than Amazon. But oddly enough, Barnes and Noble sold their version of the book at the exact same price, and it was eligible for free ship-ping.
It was all I needed to complete the deal. Sure I only saved myself a few bucks – nothing to get too excited over. But little things add up fast.
Hopefully by now, you get the idea.
If you are a freshman hearing this for the first time, then I strongly ad-vise you to consider other options before purchasing books from our bookstore.
If you have a PO Box, look online for your text-books, new and used.
Finding the right text-book at the best price is a skill you will be forced to learn, like it or not, during your time here at college.
Keep at it, though. We’re all in the same boat.
Davidson is a sophomore education major of Bryant.
“Finding cheap textbooks can mean a fight to the death for a lot of college
students.”Jeff Davidson
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The word “tax” brings a sick feeling to most peo-ple’s mind. It is that con-stant deduction from your check that you dread see-ing every pay period.
But as we all know hav-ing taxes is essential to supporting our country.
We know that some-thing needs to be done so the country can climb out of debt and there is no comfort in learning that President Obama has “de-manded that the richest Americans pay high taxes,” said The Sun.
This plan would mainly hit the upper-income tax-payers and zero in on loop-holes and funding that is used by several larger cor-porations.
Obama’s plan also men-tioned that programs such as Social Security and Medicare would not be
cut. Obama is very adamant
about seeing this plan through as he “promised to veto any effort by congres-sional Republicans to cut Medicare benefits…”
This promise in a way stomps on Republicans’ enormous tax cuts in pro-grams such as Medicare.
According to CNN, this plan could also include a new tax surcharge forced upon millionaires.
This charge is called the “Buffett Rule,” named after investor Warren Buf-fett, who argues that the richest Americans are not taxed enough, said cnn.com.
CNN says the wealthy have a lot of their income wrapped in stocks and because of this pay lower taxes.
I agree with Obama’s tax plan.
We need all the help we can get to pull out of this 3 million dollar deficit.
Leaving entitlement programs like Medicare untouched is a good idea.
There is no point in cut-ting such valuable pro-grams without a plan to increase the revenue our country receives.
Yes, republicans are usually recognized as the wealthier percentile in our country, so they should con-tribute more to help pull the country out of debt, but Obama should not demand that the wealthy be taxed more.
Our president is a dy-namic speaker so a delicate topic such as this should be addressed with gusto and fairness to give a more fair representation of what the plan is about.
By expressing his views in a more balanced way, the president’s message of helping our country rather than “beating up on the Republicans” will be a mes-sage that the Republicans see as a worthy plan and the public can support.
Reese is a graduate stu-dent in journalism of Con-way.
“We need all the help we can get to pull out of this 3 million dollar
deficit. ”Brittany Reese
SPORTSPAGE 3 Monday, Oct. 3 The Herald
The Thrill of VictoryASU Press Release
Arkansas State running back Derek Lawson’s one-yard touchdown plunge with 43 seconds remain-ing capped a wild fourth quarter and lifted the Red Wolves (3-2, 1-0) to a 26-22 victory over the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers (0-4, 0-1) Saturday afternoon at Houchens Industries - L.T. Smith Stadium in the Sun Belt Conference opener for both teams.
Lawson’s touchdown put the finishing touch on a nine-play, 66-yard drive that seemed improbable af-ter Western Kentucky ap-peared to have picked up a first down at the ASU 31 with just under three minutes remaining in the game.
With the Hilltoppers facing third-and-10 at the Red Wolves’ 41 and leading 22-19, WKU quarterback Kawaun Jakes scrambled to the ASU 31 for what was initially spotted as a first down for the Hilltoppers.
Video replay officials de-termined that Jakes was actually downed at the 32, the ball was re-spotted and on fourth-and-one, the Red Wolves’ defense stopped WKU running back Bobby Rainey for a one-yard loss, giving ASU possession with
2:39 remaining.From there, quarter-
back Ryan Aplin directed a nine-play drive, complet-ing five passes on the pos-session, including an 18-yard completion to wide receiver Josh Jarboe on third-and-17 from the Hill-topper 29.
Aplin then found wide receiver Dwayne Framp-ton for a first down at the WKU one, and on the next play, Lawson crossed the goal line for what proved to be the winning score.
“We certainly rejoice with our kids who found a way to win a football game,” said ASU head coach Hugh Freeze.
It’s been a long while since that’s happened to us…I hurt for (WKU head coach) Willie Taggart,” Freeze continued. “He is a good friend of mine and I know what he is trying to accomplish here. To lose like that is gut-wrench-ing.”
The Red Wolves took a 16-14 lead on the first play of the fourth quarter when Aplin and Framp-ton hooked up on a 33-yard touchdown play, and ASU kicker Bobby Zalud stretched the A-State ad-vantage to 19-14 when he booted a 43-yard field goal with 11:12 to play.
Western Kentucky re-gained the lead when Jakes connected with Rain-ey on a 42-yard touchdown pass with 10:10 to play to put the Hilltoppers on top 22-19, and after a missed ASU field goal, looked to be in control until the Red Wolves held on downs fol-lowing the re-spotted third down.
The Hilltoppers opened the game with an 11-play, 81-yard scoring drive that put them on top 7-0 when fullback Kadeem Jones scored on a two-yard run.
Arkansas State an-swered early in the second quarter with a 14-play, 86-yard possession, tying the score on a 23-yard touch-down pass from Frampton to Aplin.
The Red Wolves took a 10-7 lead into the lock-er room at the half after placekicker Brian Davis knocked through a 26-yard field goal with 9:40 to play in the second quarter.
Western Kentucky re-gained the lead in the third when Rainey passed complete to wide out Dex-ter Haynes for a 17-yard touchdown with 2:42 to play in the period, but the Red Wolves answered on their next possession, tak-ing the lead again on Ap-lin’s 33-yard touchdown
pass to Frampton.Aplin finished the night
37-of-49 for 396 yards and a touchdown.
His 37 completions set a new ASU record, and his 23-yard touchdown recep-tion in the second quarter was the first reception of his career.
He completed passes to eight different receivers on the night, led by Frampton with 126 yards and Jarboe with 112.
Senior safety A.J. Hills recorded a career-high 11 tackles to lead the ASU de-fense.
The A-State defense was the first this season to hold Rainey under 100 yards rushing.
Rainey finished the night with 86 yards on the ground, snapping a string of eight consecutive 100-yard games for the WKU back.
The Red Wolves have not allowed an opposing player to top the century mark this season.
Arkansas State will re-turn to action Oct. 8 when the Red Wolves travel to Monroe, La. for a 6:00 p.m. SBC contest against the Warhawks of Louisiana-Monroe.
ASU Sports InfoSenior running back Derek Lawson (22) dives into the end zone at Houchens Industries-L.T. Smith Stadium Saturday with 43 seconds left in the
game for the winning touchdown. The Red Wolves won 26-22 to improve their overall record to 3-2 and 1-0 in conference action.
ASU Press Release
The Arkansas State vol-leyball team won its third straight Sun Belt Confer-ence match Saturday night after defeating Troy 25-17, 25-11, 25-20 at the HPESS Facility.
A-State (13-6, 4-1) dom-inated the second set and scored 11 straight points to build an 18-6 edge.
Senior Cayla Fielder had five kills during the rally and Amanda Chaparro had two service aces. Troy (12-6, 2-2) never recovered from the ASU rally and eventu-ally dropped the set 25-11.
“This is probably the best we have played all sea-son and everyone came out with a lot of energy,” Field-er said.
“I was pretty pleased with the way I played to-night. Each night I try to think about how I can do something a little better and that helps me improve in each match.”
In the first set ASU bat-tled the Lady Trojans ear-ly on before building a 16-
11 edge. Troy pulled within 18-14,
but the Red Wolves pulled ahead to win 25-17.
Fielder led the charge for A-State with five her match-high 18 kills.
ASU controlled the pace for much of set three. The Red Wolves jumped out to a 13-10 lead, but Troy man-aged to keep the score close and never trailed by more than five.
Fielder had eight kills in the set as A-State pulled away for the 25-20 victory.
“Fielder was certain-ly great for us tonight, av-eraging six kills a game for us with no errors and that is just fantastic stuff,” ASU volleyball coach Justin In-gram said.
“Her numbers also speak a lot to our passing because if our passing is off we can’t get the ball to her and our other middles enough,” In-gram continued.
“Our passers were good tonight and our defense re-mained constant and I think things certainly picked up to-day and we gave good effort.”
Taylor Szypulski fin-ished with eight kills for ASU, while Jasmine Terry added seven.
Allison Kearney added 39 assists, while Megan Bas-ka had 12 digs.
ASU will finish its five-match homestand Oct. 7-8 with matches against Den-ver and North Texas.
Both games will start at 7 p.m. and will be played at the HPESS Facility.
Volleyball sweeps Troy to win fourth straight at home
Abdullah Raslan/HeraldSenior Cayla Fielder battles for a spike against Troy Saturday. Fielder
earned 18 kills in the win.
Red Wolves defeat Western Kentucky in final minute of first conference game
Ryan SimpsonStaff Writer
If you have ever attend-ed a football or basket-ball game on the Arkan-sas State University cam-pus, you have probably no-ticed the ASU marching or pep band.
These bands give the at-mosphere of any game a lot of energy, for not only the crowd, but the home team as well.
On Sept. 27, the ASU band debuted at a Lady Red Wolves volleyball game against in-state rival Arkansas - Little Rock in the HPESS Building.
The HPESS gymnasi-um was packed with stand-ing room only and the crowd was electric as they watched the match, with the most notable aspect of the crowd being the band.
As they were playing it was very obvious that they
were giving the Lady Red Wolves a great home court advantage.
Even when the band was not playing, they were still a major source of cheers for the home team.
“This was basically an experiment to see if it worked,” Director of Ath-letic Bands Ken Carroll de-scribed the band’s appear-ance at the match.
As for the fans and the players, it seemed to be an-other tool to make the Lady Red Wolves feel that they have the support of their fellow students.
Following the game, the Lady Red Wolves ran to the band and thanked them
The band’s expansion begs the question: Where might we see them next?
“It is usually not a mat-ter of what we want to do, but just a matter of where we fit in,” Carroll said.
Pep Band makes jump to volleyball home games
Ashley Helliwell/HeraldThe ASU Pep Band performs at the Sept. 27 home volleyball game
between Arkansas State and Arkansas- Little Rock at the HPESS.
ASU Press Release
The Arkansas State women’s soccer team bat-tled Western Kentucky into double-overtime but gave-up the game-winner with less than five min-utes remaining in the sec-ond overtime period to fall against the Hilltoppers, 3-2 Sunday afternoon.
The loss drops the Red Wolves to 3-7-1 with a 1-3 league record. The Hilltop-pers improved to 7-5 over-all with a 2-2 Sun Belt re-cord.
“It’s a tough loss to take after putting up such fierce resistance against a pe-rennial powerhouse,” said ASU head coach Tafadzwa Ziyenge.
Senior Michele Clark took a pass from freshman Christina Fink and con-verted the scoring chance to give the Red Wolves a 1-0 lead just 30-seconds into the second half (45:30).
Western Kentucky evened the match at 1-1 when Chrissy Tchoula con-verted a shot from 25-yards out at the 51:52 mark of the contest.
Fink converted a re-bound off the cross bar to retake a one-goal lead for the Red Wolves, 2-1 in the 63rd minute (62:15).
With just over five min-utes remaining in the game Western Kentucky’s Mal-lory Outerbridge scored the equalizer to knot the game at 2-2 and force overtime.
Outerbridge scored the game-winner in the 106th minute (105:23) to cap the game and steal the win for WKU.
The Hilltoppers out shot ASU, 23-12 including hold-ing an advantage of 12-6 in shots on goal.
Clark and Lyndsey Pat-terson led the Red Wolves efforts with three shots each.
Junior goalkeeper Aja Aguirre made five saves playing the first 57:17 for the Red Wolves.
Senior Megan Stoltz-fus finished the game play-ing the final 48:06 of action and made four saves.
The Red Wolves return home to face Louisiana-Lafayette on Friday at 3 p.m.
Lady Red Wolves soccer falls to WKU in double overtime
Vs. Louisiana Lafayette
ASU soccer complex Oct. 7, 3 p.m.
Vs. Louisiana Monroe
ASU soccer complex Oct. 9, 1 p.m.
at South Alabama Mobile, Ala. Oct. 14, 7 p.m.
at Troy Troy, Ala. Oct. 16, 1 p.m.
Soccer schedule for Oct. 7 - 16
NEWSPAGE 4 Monday, Oct. 3 The Herald
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with area school boards and allocated them $200,000.
Huffstetler said that they needed to meet with university officials in or-der to determine where the path will exactly run though the campus, but that it could serve to im-mensely benefit the stu-dent community.
“I see a lot of growth, especially within the In-ternational Department, and I know that a lot of those people can’t get driv-ers licenses or vehicles,” he said. “This is really go-ing to help by being a re-cruiting tool for ASU to use to show the interna-tional people that we have a safe and easy way to get around besides just walk-ing down Caraway with no sidewalks.
“The main goal of a Greenway is not just to circle the city, but to get people who cannot afford transportation or are dis-abled from their homes to points of interest by pro-viding them with a safe route to travel.”
Welbourne also stated that the second main pur-pose of the Greenway was to help maintain commu-nity health.
“We also want to help children who current-ly walk to school on roads that have no sidewalks by
allowing them to have a safe route to the trail and be able to use it to get to school,” he said.
“The trail will run through institutions such as Nettleton Junior High School, Huffstetler said.
“Some of the main things we were looking for were following rights of way, creeks, major pow-er lines and the idea was to get away from regular traffic as much as possi-ble, even though we inter-act with it. We also want-ed to get into some areas where people could actu-ally see some green, which is where the term “Green-way” comes from,” he said.
Huffstetler noted the cause of all of the uncer-tainty concerning the proj-ect’s completion is mainly due to a very likely lack of future funding.
“The main problem with completing this, from what the Mayor’s told me, is that our federal funding is going to be slacking off in the next few years be-cause of the economy, and the main way we build this is through federal grants,” he said.
Despite the potential funding issues, there is still anticipation for the Greenway’s construc-tion and its usage by the Jonesboro community.
“I just want people to
get excited to use it and to be able to get out and enjoy having a safe place to take their family and spend quality time and also for people to get to the points of interest that they need to be at without having to walk down the main roads of Jonesboro and have to
deal with being hit by a ve-hicle,” Huffstetler said.
“In my eyes I see our main bikers and runners of Jonesboro using it, as well as kids running around and playing, so everyone can get some use out of it,” Huffstetler added.
Projected greenway routes around Jonesboro, as part of the “Vision 2030” plan.
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comforts and the day-to-day routines that they left behind. All were afraid. All desired to live through the war,” Kary said.
Benjamin wrote these wonderful letters to his mom and his family, Kary said. Kary noted that on one of the letters was a Union stamp for which Hyatt apologized to his mother commenting that he’d even write on Yankee paper if that’s what it took to send her a letter.
The exhibit will also have letters, quotes and pictures of soldiers coming home from other wars on display.
An authentic meal will be served at the event. Kary said that each item was picked for its significance to the war.
Stew and hardtack (hard crackers) will be served because it could be made in large quantities to feed soldiers. Fruit salad will be served because during the war many soldiers stole
fruit. When soldiers were wounded, they were given a piece of gingerbread and a cup of lemonade, and coffee was considered a treasure among soldiers so gingerbread, lemonade and coffee will also be made available at the event.
Jamie Fleming, a senior history major of Ashdown, said, “I’m excited to see the exhibit, especially the letters being put on display. It’s a glimpse at these soldiers lives.”
Fleming recalled reading a Civil War diary in one of
her history classes. “When you read stuff
like that, it connects you to that person. You connect on an emotional level that makes history more than just facts,” Fleming said.
Joe Key, professor of history, said, “it’s always a good thing when we can find out more about the soldiers and what they thought.”
“This was a war soldiered by humans and theirs is a story worth telling,” Kary said.
As for the fear of disease, Klotz said if you encounter a squirrel you will not come in contact with any health risks.
“Our squirrels don’t car-ry rabies, I’ll say that right now,” Klotz said. “If they feel threatened, they may bite and yes it will hurt, but that’s about all that will happen.”
Klotz said squirrels have played a significant role in our lives.
“Historically, squir-rels have been a source of food,” Klotz said. “But for the ones on campus, they serve more as amusement. They’re playful and people like that.”
The squirrels on campus are quite peculiar to those on campus because, they have learned to coexist as a part of the ASU commu-nity. Being around people doesn’t bother them any-more.
“Once while standing near the arch in the middle of campus, I had a squir-rel jump on my leg and stay there for a good few minutes,” Klotz said. “It then ran away, but for a good while he just sat and stared at me like it was no big deal.” The squirrels on campus are actually a lot friendlier than people may realize.
“Freshman year, my sis-ter and I got really attached to a squirrel on campus,” said Zach Elledge, a se-nior history major of Poca-hontas. “We would feed it peanut butter and it got to where the squirrel would eat right out of our hands.”
Elledge, an advocate for squirrels’ rights, said he loves squirrels and doesn’t understand why people would be afraid of them.
“They truly are more scared of us than we are of them,” Elledge said. “Just because they throw acorns at you doesn’t mean they are out to get you. It may, however, mean that you are a bad person and they’re just warning others.”
As a child, Elledge found a squirrel that had been hurt by a neighborhood cat.
He and his sister raised it and the squirrel quickly became a part of their fam-ily. He said it hurts him to think what the world would be like without nature’s lit-tle ninjas.
He went on to say that the squirrels might be try-ing to tell us something.
“On campus, we dis-placed so many squirrel families when we cut down trees for the new liberal arts building,” Elledge said. “They don’t have homes and we can’t use that build-ing so, maybe they are tell-ing us to be good to Mother Nature.”
According to squirrels.org, when a squirrel sens-es danger, its first instinct is to stand motionless. It will then proceed to find a tree and circle it with its body pressed tightly to the trunk. This can be taken as a warning to others.
In other situations, they will erratically change di-rections when they feel they are being chased. Sad-ly, this is usually a bad de-cision when what’s chasing them happens to be an on-coming vehicle.
Though it seems like a lot is out to get the squir-rels in their daily lives, sometimes trouble just finds them.
When Maria Biancama-no was leaving a class re-cently, she saw two baby squirrels fall from a tree to the sidewalk.
“There was obvious trau-ma and broken limbs,” said Biancamano, a senior po-litical science major of El Paso, Texas. “I just felt so bad for the mother because she was watching us scoop her babies up and take them away.”
Biancamano and a friend took the baby squirrels, or pups, to Petco to be treated for their injuries. Though she’s not sure of the actu-al cause of the fall, she said squirrels are mischievous.
Whether you support the ever-growing squirrel com-munity on campus or fear for your life when you come face-to-face with one, one thing is for certain – the squirrels are here to stay.
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The Multicultural Center held a meet and greet Thursday evening for international students, faculty and staff to learn about diversity events coming to ASU.
During the event, faculty members also had the chance to introduce themselves and students had the chance to hear about what the center has to offer and learned about plans for improvement.Photo by Staci Vandagriff/Herald
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