BROKEN BYLAWS GATEWAY AT TEMPE

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1 Week of November 21, 2013 Vol. 100 Issue 14 StatePress.com PHOTO BY DANIELLE GROBMEIER, DESIGN BY VICTORIA HOWELL BROKEN BYLAWS ASU s undergraduate student governments have broken their own bylaws and may have violated Arizona s open meeting laws by not making documents related to their meetings publicly available. See page 4 GATEWAY AT TEMPE

2 Page 2 Weather The State Press Week of November 21, 2013 An independent weekly newspaper serving Arizona State University since 1890 EDITOR IN CHIEF Danielle Grobmeier [email protected] Thursday Friday Saturday MANAGING EDITOR Julia Shumway [email protected] ASST. NEWS EDITOR Shelby Slade COPY CHIEF Carly H. Blodgett [email protected] NEWS EDITOR Dulce Paloma Baltazar Pedraza [email protected] ASST. A&E EDITOR Maggie Spear DESIGN EDITOR Samantha Presley [email protected] A&E EDITOR Kylie Gumpert [email protected] SPORTS EDITOR Nicholas Palomino Mendoza [email protected] OPINION EDITOR Savannah Thomas [email protected] ASST. SPORTS EDITOR Justin Emerson ASST. DESIGN EDITOR Nathan Hammond ASST. PHOTO EDITOR Diana Lustig PHOTO EDITOR Dominic Valente [email protected] MULTIMEDIA EDITOR Erin O Connor [email protected] EXECUTIVE EDITOR Caitlin Cruz [email protected] Sunday Monday Tuesday Views in this newspaper are not necessarily those of the ASU administration, faculty, staff or student body. One copy of The State Press is free. Additional copies cost $.25 each. Copyright 2011 The State Press at Arizona State University. State Press Newsroom State Press Magazine On the Web Letters to the Editor Display advertising Classified advertising really! [email protected] boost your career Earn a master s degree in as little as 9 months from a top ranked business school. Accountancy Business Analytics Finance Global Logistics Information Management Management Real Estate Development Taxation wpcarey.asu.edu/graduate Police Beat Tempe Police reported the following incidents Nov 13-17: A 21-year-old Tempe man was arrested Nov. 9 on Mill Avenue and University Drive on suspicion of possession of marijuana, drug paraphernalia and narcotic drugs, according to a police report. Officers said a black BMW was traveling southbound on Mill Avenue, and it appeared that the front seat passenger had a glass bottle of beer in his hands. Bike police officers caught up with the vehicle and contacted the front seat passenger, according to the report. The man was in the rear passenger seat, and a small amount of leafy green substance that appeared to be marijuana was next to him, police said. Officers removed the man from the vehicle, according to the report. He gave officers permission to search him and police found marijuana on his person, along with a package of Swisher Sweets cigars, police said. The man said he had smoked marijuana earlier that evening and used the wrappers when he smoked it, according to the report. A search of the vehicle revealed a burnt marijuana cigar in the ash tray, police said. The man was transported to Tempe City Jail, and when he was strip searched, a plastic bag with a usable amount of heroin was found in his rectum, according to the report. He said the heroin was his and that he consumes it by smoking it, police said. The man was transported to Tempe City Jail, where he was booked and released pending charges, according to the report. A 24-year-old Tempe man was arrested Nov. 8 on the 800 block of South Rural Road on suspicion of aggravated driving under the influence, according to a police report. Officers contacted the man during a vehicle stop when he failed to stay in his lane, the report said. Police said he had bloodshot eyes and there was a distinct odor of alcohol inside his vehicle, according to the report. When officers asked to see the man s driver s license and vehicle papers, he fumbled with his wallet to locate his ID card and could not find the papers, police said. Police asked the man if his license was suspended since he only had an ID card and he said it was, according to the report. Police asked the man if he had consumed alcohol that night and he said he had been drinking five Vegas Bombers. The officers asked the man to step outside his vehicle and he could not stand or balance without swaying and there was a distinct odor of alcohol emitting from his breath, police said. Police asked him if he was drunk and he said he was, according to the report. The man submitted to Field Sobriety Tests that revealed he was impaired, police reported. The man s license had been suspended last year as a result of a DUI conviction. There was a second suspension later that year, and a third suspension earlier this year with an indefinite end date, police reported. The man was transported to Tempe City Jail where he was booked and held, according to the report.

3 The State Press Week of November 21, 2013 Table of Contents 3 FEATURE 4Athletics fee bill violates USG rules ASU s student governments violated their own bylaws and may have broken Arizona law by failing to publicize documents related to an athletic fee. 6NEWS Former inmate opens up about prison Shaun Attwood, who came to Phoenix from England in 2000, spent six years in Arizona jails and blogged about his experiences. 12 OPINION If you re a 90s kid, you ll get it Columnist Zane Jennings discusses the tendency of 90s kids and Millennials to over-romanticize aspects of their childhoods. & ENTERTAINMENT Youth take over hip-hop genre Teenage rappers are dominating the rap game with their ability to 22ARTS set trends, gain followers and add some freshness to the industry. Rapid Tattoo Removal with In a hurry to remove that old tattoo? PicoSure is the newest, fastest laser in the world for tattoo removal and Phoenix Skin is the only practice in Arizona that has it! 10% OFF 10% Off with Student I.D. Free Consultation Medical Surgical & Cosmetic Dermatology 5056 N Central Avenue Phoenix, AZ Phxskin.com Botox Chemical Peels Dermal Fillers Laser Hair Reduction Dermatology Acne A Reason For Being Here Illustrated by Zoe Sugg, this week s strip shows that not everyone 26COMICS knows their reason for being here. Where s the degree for that? Football closes in on South title The ASU football team is one win away from realizing its goal of 28SPORTS winning the Pac-12 South. Standing in its way is UCLA. we have a web get tangled statepress.com

4 Feature The State Press Week of November 21, 2013 Student gov ts break bylaws in passing athletic fee bill AMY ASU s undergraduate student governments have broken their own bylaws and may have violated Arizona s open meeting laws by not making documents related to their meetings publicly available. These include documents related to the newly passed athletic fee, Senate Bill 31, which all five student governments had approved by Oct. 29. The bill s passage is the first step toward the creation of a mandatory $75-per-semester student fee, which would be used to fund Sun Devil Athletics. The undergraduate student governments are in varying degrees of violation of their bylaws. Each campus government has its own set with unique stipulations. None of the governments have clearly accessible meeting agendas on their websites or OrgSync pages. Tempe, Downtown and West all have bylaws that state agendas must be publicly available before meetings by 9 a.m. the day of the meeting for the Tempe and Downtown campuses and 48 hours before the meeting for the West campus. Polytechnic s bylaws require all relevant information about upcoming votes and discussions be posted 24 hours before senate meetings. USG Tempe does not maintain a public calendar of meeting dates, times or locations on its webpage or its OrgSync. The State Press reported on Oct. 16 that USG Tempe had not updated the minutes section of its website since Sept. 25, That section has since been updated, but only through the Oct. 8 meeting. USG Tempe has had two regular meetings since Oct. 8. Minutes must be approved at the next meeting before they can be officially posted, but that still leaves USG Tempe one meeting behind. USG Tempe s bylaws also state that minutes from the last meeting are to be included in the public agenda for the next meeting. The legislation section of USG Tempe s website is also outdated. As of Monday, the last bills posted on the site were motions from early September to approve members of USG staff. The page does not provide a copy of SB 31, the Athletic Fee Bill, for students to read. USG Tempe Senate President Alexis Gonzalez said she puts all bills on the senators private Blackboard group and that she will provide any bills to students who a request for them. She said she didn t realize that USG bylaws require the senate secretary to release agendas to the public by 9 a.m. the morning of meeting days. It would definitely be our job to put it up on the website, she said.... I do take fault for that. State Law Title 38 of the Arizona Revised Statutes regulates public meetings within the state. A.R.S requires 24 hours of conspicuous notice to be given of any public meeting. The public body must post the notice to its website and can t cite technological problems as an excuse for not giving notice. Bodies must also post an agenda 24 hours in advance of the meeting. A.R.S requires minutes to be made available within three working days of a public meeting, and A.R.S nullifies any actions taken at meetings in violation of these requirements. Bodies can ratify those actions within 30 days of the violation s discovery and would have to give 72 hours advance notice of the new meeting. The Arizona Board of Regents, which oversees the state universities, is held to A.R.S. 38 as a public body. ABOR Policy states that while the Board does not have approval power over associated students constitutions, it can submit the associations to review and has veto power over their actions. It also establishes that student governments are not separate legal entities from their universities. ABOR and ASU administrators declined to comment on SB 31 while it is still in the proposal stage. David Bodney, an adjunct professor of law at Sandra Day O Connor Law School and the managing partner for Steptoe & Johnson s Phoenix offices, said determining whether student governments are subject to Arizona s open meeting laws is a matter of deciding whether they are a public body. As of yet, there is no case history to definitively classify student governments as public bodies, he said. However, Arizona is clearly a state that favors open meetings, Bodney said. There s a strong presumption in favor of open and public meetings in Arizona, he said. He said it is a matter of sound public policy to provide agendas and meeting notices. Without a case example, it comes down to interpreting whether student governments should be following Arizona s open meeting laws, but it makes perfect sense for them to do so, he said. As a matter of public policy, it only makes sense for student governments to hold open and public meetings, Bodney said. I think the open meetings law is broad enough to encompass student governments. KATIE DUNPHY THE STATE PRESS ASU s Undergraduate Student Government meets in a conference room on the Tempe campus. ASU s five student governments may have violated Arizona open meeting laws by failing to publicize documents related to its athletic fee bill. The fee will cost students $75 per semester if ASU administration and the Arizona Board of Regents approve it. HECTOR SALAS ALMEIDA THE STATE PRESS Public service sophomore and Undergraduate Student Graduate Downtown President Frank Smith III (middle) works with other students on his computer on the Downtown campus. ASU s five student governments may have violated Arizona open meeting laws by failing to adequately inform the public about documents related to its athletic fee bill. Student Government at UA Associated Students of the University of Arizona s constitution requires that its senate follow Arizona s open meeting laws. However, ASUA s senate site hasn t posted minutes or an agenda since Oct. 22. ASUA President Morgan Abraham said the senate likes to conduct a full referendum when it proposes new fees. He said this is more of a preferred than a mandated procedure that ends with students voting on the measure. When the measures come from the executive board, as ASU s SB 31 did, the procedure is different, Abraham said. Instead of a referendum, the outreach team will create focus groups and hold open forums, he said. Abraham said ASUA struggles to reach all 30,000 of UA s students, so it likes to get students as involved in the process as possible. He said he likes the involvement that comes with a vote, though voter turnout at UA only ranges from 10 to 25 percent. We re definitely able to hit some cliques on campus better than others, he said. That s why we like to open it up to a formal election where people who are more opinionated on the issue can let their voice be heard. USG s Efforts at Communication USG Tempe Senator Devon Mills said USG did all it could to reach out to students, adding that is inaccurate to say USG didn t try to involve students. It s a very extreme assumption to say that, he said. USG reached out to college councils, held town halls and launched a social media campaign, he said. No s were sent out because there

5 The State Press Week of November 21, 2013 Feature 5 ASU ELECTIONS: VOTER TURNOUT % % % % % % AVERAGE 6.6% MEDIAN 6.15% Numbers reflect undergraduate population KATIE DUNPHY THE STATE PRESS Members of ASU s Undergraduate Student Government meet on the Tempe campus. All five student governments endorsed an athletic fee which will cost students $75 per semester if its approved by ASU administration and the Arizona Board of Regents. is a long request process involved to send a mass to the student body, he said. USG tried to have individual colleges notify their listservs, but administration blocked them, Mills said. They shut out from us, he said. University spokeswoman Julie Newberg said requests for mass s to students must go through the provost s office and that on average, only one is sent every semester. Mills said he sent two s to the listserv of club leaders, which he does have access to, and only received one response. That response never went beyond an exchange, he said. It s easy to say we re not reaching out to all the students, he said. Reaching out to them is like reaching out to a small town. We do everything in our power to reach out to students. Tempe Undergraduate President Jordan Davis said in addition to holding town halls, talking to college councils and running a social media campaign, the government reached out to the representative Big Five student organizations for feedback. The Big Five are the Programming and Activities Board, Residence Hall Association, Greek Life, Student Alumni Association and Associated Students of ASU. The only group that didn t fully support the bill was Tempe s RHA, he said. We did it as transparently as we possibly could, he said. Davis ran on a platform of keeping fees and tuition low for students. He said he thought his administration has kept that promise, adding that a $125 per year fee is less than the usual tuition increase of 3 percent, or approximately $500. Initial news of the bill focused more on the fee than the positive aspects that will come from the resulting tuition reinvestment, Davis said. All (students) heard from reporters was fee, and that s a dirty word, he said. I would never push for something like this if I honestly didn t believe at my core that it would help students. PAB President Zac Donohoe said the diversity of PAB s members, which include graduate and international students as well students of many major affiliations, makes it adequately representative of the student body. He said Davis came to him a few weeks before the bill went public to PAB s thoughts and approval. They ve been pretty transparent through the whole process, he said. Which is good. I think that s what they needed to do when one of their big points for the bill is transparency. Donohoe said even PAB faces problems communicating with students. I think (USG) did all they could have without spending a ton of money, he said. You can engage the students, but it ultimately boils down to whether or not they want to come. Short Timelines Alexis Kramer-Ainza, a Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication senator at the Downtown campus, said she supports the fee but would have liked more time to get feedback from constituents. Kramer-Ainza withheld her vote when USG Downtown passed the bill, she said. She said she worries about the financial burden of the fee. I don t want it to be a sacrifice for students to pay that, Kramer-Ainza said. We re not going to please everyone, but I would at least liked to have gotten more feedback than what was given to us on such a short timeline. Katherine Lee, president of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences College Council, said opinion over the bill was split when CLASCC heard about it from its senators. It seemed abrupt and sudden, she said. It was definitely a surprise that this bill was coming forth, she said. Lee said the fee didn t seem fair after students were told tuition wouldn t rise and that the promised benefits seem hard to follow through on, adding that better ways, such as private donors, might have been found to fund Sun Devil Athletics. Sun Devil Athletics ran a deficit of $5.8 million dollars in 2012, despite receiving a subsidy of $10.3 million from the University, according to a report from USA Today. The Arizona Republic reported last August that the subsidy comes from the portion of ASU s operating budget that is not taxpayer-funded in other words, from tuition and grants. The Republic reported Friday that Sun Devil Athletics made a profit of $73,764 for fiscal year Lee said similar measures used to take weeks or months to move through the senate, but this bill seemed to pass quickly. While college councils are liaisons between students and senators, senators still need to reach out to constituents, because they have the most information about policy, Lee said. She said the council s opinion was still split over the bill when it was voted on, and at this point, it is hard to say if the bill will be good or bad. I am very anxious to see what they actually will do with it, Lee said. I don t think it should have to fall on the students to bail out the athletics system. [email protected] SEE MORE ONLINE M U L T I M E D I A Watch Undergraduate Student Government Tempe President Jordan Davis talk about a $150-per-semester student fee to subsidize ASU athletics and expand resources for other students at statepress.com

6 6 Local The State Press Week of November 21, 2013 Students research how to teach autistic children LOGAN One out of every 88 children is diagnosed with autism. Researchers are developing new techniques to help teachers better meet the needs of these children. Juliet Hart, a professor at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, has enlisted the aid of students in her classes to research how to better educate children with autism. Two of the students helping her are secondary education mathematics sophomore Shannon Cleary and journalism senior Tara Boyd. They both have really interesting ideas that they were able to generate and then talk through and clean, Hart said. Boyd has been researching apps that can help children with autism communicate more effectively. Children with autism often communicate by pointing at pictures or using sentence strips to form complete sentences. In the past, they ve used speech-generating devices that are kind of big and bulky and sometimes hard to manipulate, Boyd said. Boyd s experience with these students has predominately centered at a school that she has worked at throughout her college journey. I ve worked, for the past three summers, as a (paraeducator) in an autism classroom, she said. I just fell in love with the work. She has worked with first-graders and preschoolers. Boyd said often the children had behavior or speech issues, but it varied. Every day was kind of different, because it depended on the student and outside factors, she said. Boyd spoke of one boy who had with a speech problem. This is not rare, she said. In her research, Boyd is focusing on the communication facet. The boy used a bulky machine to help him communicate but often tried to play with an ipad. (I found out) that there were apps on the ipad that did the same thing that his other device was doing, Boyd said. That s kind of what sparked the interest in the actual research I did. This unique interest has made Boyd helpful to Hart s overall project on learning how to better teach children with autism. It s really been a great collaborative exchange, Hart said. (The student helpers) have particular interests in their own fields that I m not necessarily familiar with. The research can expand to a wider horizon of topics. Cleary s interest is focused on researching intervention strategies to help children with autism learn math skills. By using intervention techniques, researchers can determine if teaching techniques are useful in helping students learn and retain the material. The teacher will implement the strategy that they re using, Cleary said. Still in the beginning phases, Cleary is focusing on research. Next semester, though, she hopes to work hands-on with more children. We re hoping that next semester, I can implement an intervention strategy that we ve developed and actually see the results, she said. These techniques can be as simple as using number lines and mnemonics to remember numbers. Cleary has also found studies that incorporated a technique known as video-self modeling. The students would watch themselves on the ipad and then complete the math problem, she said. Cleary s work with children with autism stemmed when she visited her cousin, a preschool teacher who often works with children who have special needs. I visited her a couple summers ago, Cleary said. Seeing her in her classroom really solidified my decision to teach. Her research is moving forward. Cleary still has more than two years to complete her project. Boyd has also made forward progress. With the help of Dr. Hart, I put together a website, she said. The information is easily accessible for teachers to find online. She s not done, though. STATE PRESS STAFF THE STATE PRESS Juliet Hart, a professor at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, has enlisted the aid of students in her classes to research how to better educate children with autism. One out of every 88 children is diagnosed with autism. (The website) needs to continue to be updated, she said. With technology, everything moves so fast, it s probably partially irrelevant already. [email protected] Student moving on after being kidnapped on campus MARK Nov. 11 was a seemingly ordinary night for marketing senior Amita Padiyar. She drove to a parking lot near ASU s bookstore on the Tempe campus just after midnight to pick up a friend who works at Hayden Library. She had picked up her friend at that location in the past and said there wasn t anything unusual that Monday night. I was just sitting there with my doors locked, she said. My friend came up to my car, so I unlocked it for him. Padiyar said her friend got in the car and the two sat for a moment talking, but right as they were about to leave, they were accosted by two men. This man opens my driver s door and told me to get out (and) get in the backseat. They re taking my car, she said. Padiyar said she was in shock. I didn t have the impulse to run, and I was with my friend, so I just went in the backseat, Padiyar said. There she and her friend sat, unsure of what would happen. One of the men got in the driver s seat while the other sat in the back with them. Padiyar said she tried to covertly dial 911 on her cell phone between her legs, but one of the men told them to hand over their phones. She even tried to stall the man in an effort to get the call to go through but was unsuccessful. I tried to ask him if he could just take my car, take my money, or whatever, and just leave us, she said. Things are things, our lives are more important. But the men refused; the two were along for the ride. She said communication was difficult, and the two only had moments to whisper to each other. The longer they spent in the car, the fewer options they had. That s when she made a tough decision. We were driving down McAllister towards Apache so it was right by the dorms, and I manually unlocked the back door, Padiyar said. I looked at my friend, and I looked at the door so he knew I was going to open it and we were going to jump out. She counted to three, and they both jumped out of the moving car. Padiyar suffered severe road rash, cuts, scrapes and a concussion, while her friend was also injured. Some ASU students came to help the two and triggered a nearby emergency call box, she said. Paramedics arrived and treated both her and her friend, while police took their statements. Not long after, she said police had found her car and the two men. They had continued on in Padiyar s car, eventually crashing into a tree at the intersection of East 13th Street and South Farmer Avenue, where they were arrested, she said. Padiyar said in the week following the incident, her physical recovery has been going well, but the incident has taken a different toll on her. I m also dealing with flashbacks of being in that situation, of being in the car and thinking, How in the world am I going to get out of this? she said. Looking back, Padiyar said she wouldn t have done anything different but made no excuses that she and her friend were lucky. I m very lucky that everything is OK and we weren t harmed by jumping out of the car, she said. Padiyar said talking about the incident has helped, and she encourages students to not take their safety for granted. Especially at nighttime, there aren t that many people on campus, so I would just suggest being more aware of your surroundings, she said. She said having a strong support network has also helped her move forward from the incident. Linda, Padiyar s mother, said she was horrified to hear what happened to her daughter, but believes her daughter did the right thing. I m very proud of how they both reacted, Linda said. When it comes to the point (that) you don t have another option. It s one of those things where what is your choice? They did exactly the right thing. The ASU Police Department reported arresting Shaquille Davon Garner, 21, and Gregory Martel Williams, 26, on Nov. 11 in connection with the incident. DIANA LUSTIG THE STATE PRESS Marketing senior Amita Padiyar was picking up a friend near campus Nov. 11 when two men carjacked her. Padiyar and her friend were forced to move to the backseat but were able to escape the car and the two men totaled the car near South 13th Street and Farmer Avenue. Garner is facing charges of kidnapping, aggravated robbery, armed robbery and theft. Williams is facing charges of kidnapping, aggravated robbery, armed robbery, theft and unlawful flight from law enforcement. The men are scheduled to be in court next on Thursday, Nov. 21, according to Maricopa County Superior Court. ASU Police was not immediately available for comment on the incident. [email protected]

7 The State Press Week of November 21, Local Student helps Maricopa County identify skeletons ALLY When anthropology graduate student Andrew Seidel was in the third grade, he discovered his love for archaeology while digging up the foundation of an old building that was buried under the playground of his elementary school. It wasn t until years later, however, when he excavated his first set of human remains during an internship at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History that he stumbled upon his real passion. During his free time, Seidel works with Laura Fulginiti at the Maricopa County Forensic Science Center to help identify skeletonized or otherwise unrecognizable human remains. I m being trained pretty much better than anyone in the country right now, Seidel said. Even people who are getting their doctorate specifically in forensic anthropology are not seeing as many cases as I am. So I am exceptionally lucky that she has taken me under her wing. During a typical day working with Fulginiti at the Maricopa County Medical Examiner s Office, Seidel works mainly on biological profiles. This means that when a set of remains comes in that police can t identify, they look over the remains to find approximate age, sex and ancestry of the individual. We give that information to law enforcement, he said. Even if we only give them sex, that eliminates half of the missing person s files. That helps them to be able to sequentially narrow their missing person s files and match a person from there. Their work acts as a guide for the police, Seidel said. Then the police use other evidence and dental records to make a positive match. We have to figure out who we think it is before we get the dental records, he said. Seidel has been volunteering his time at the medical examiner s office for the past three years, and it does take a toll. It s a hard job, he said. And I think a lot of people don t realize that. There s a lot of glamor attached to forensic anthropology and it is cool. I like it. It s fun. But it s a hard job. There s a lot of stuff that you see that nobody else sees. Emotional Toll Seidel works on remains found in Maricopa County that can t be identified for some reason. These remains can belong to individuals who were burned, murdered, in a car accident or got lost hiking in the desert and have no identification. It really opens your eyes to a lot of unpleasant things that are out there that you aren t really aware of, and how you choose to deal with that is your individual decision, Seidel said. Seidel said the situations he is exposed to often cause him to detach emotionally. Sometimes you build up a little bit of a wall, he said. Or you don t really connect with people that well anymore because you ve seen things that they haven t and that you can t talk to them about. Or even if you do talk to them about it, they won t understand it. Seidel said he likes to focus on people being nice to each other. It helps to balance all the things that he sees that aren t nice. You never know what it s going to be that sets you off, he said, You develop a tolerance. You re like, Oh, it s another blunt force trauma case, and it doesn t faze you at all. And it should, right? This is a brutal act that ended somebody else s life and in a very violent way. That should affect you. While many things don t faze Seidel, he said sometimes a case will be especially difficult. Then maybe you see a scene photo or maybe it s something specific about that victim, and suddenly one of those cases gets through all of your defenses, and you re a wreck for a couple days, he said. It s a lot of weight to carry around. And I don t think people focus on that when they are like, That s so cool that you do that! But the job is not all bad. Seidel said he has been lucky enough to see the look on parents faces when their kids are returned to them, and what it does for that family. He is doing some amount of good, and for that family at least, a lot of good, he said. There s a balance to it, Seidel said. You see a lot of crap and a lot of ugliness, but you also see a lot of beauty and potentially do a lot of good. It s high risk, high reward. Seidel is on his sixth year of graduate school studying human osteology, bio archaeology and anthropology, but despite what he learns in the classroom, he said it is the field experience that will prepare him for a career. After seeing many cases that look the same, people start keying in on different things they don t learn in the classroom. Not everybody can do it, he said. And I was not aware if I could do it or not. I jumped into the deep end and came out OK. And since I can do it, I feel like I have a responsibility to do it. Glamorizing Death Christopher Stojanowski, a professor at ASU who teaches introduction to forensic anthropology, said forensic anthropologists also work after catastrophic situations like a plane crash, train crash or a bombing. The goal is identification when a simpler means of identification is impossible, he said. He said he has a few warnings for those who wish to enter the field. First, after a decade-long career in the field there are long-term, psychologically scarring effects of dealing with those grim aspects of modern life. Second, there is a disconnect between TV and real life, so don t expect the reality to be like CSI or Bones. There is no doubt that the popularity of CSI, Bones, or on the fantasy side of things, Skeleton Stories on the Discovery Channel, has helped enrollment, Stojanowski said. When he taught the class in person, he had 500 students, and now that it has shifted to online enrollment it is closer to 350 students. People who are doing forensic research can work in human rights work or military work as well, recovering G.I. s in foreign countries or identifying individuals after war crimes or genocide, he said. Cassandra Kuba received her doctorate from ASU in anthropology and now works teaching forensic anthropology at California University of Pennsylvania and also works as a consultant for cases on a parttime basis. Forensic anthropologists assist investigators with the search, recovery and analysis of skeletal remains or remains that are decomposed to the point that an autopsy can t be done, she said. Then, forensic anthropologists take the remains back to the lab to determine identifying characteristics, as well as any trauma related to the death. Kuba said certain parts of the job are harder than others. In the very beginning, it was difficult when looking at that decomposing mess that was once human, she said. Particularly children and the elderly. You get used to the smells and the feeling and the texture of death, but you don t get used to knowing that something horrible happened to the people we are supposed to protect. It s sometimes tough, but you learn to cope. [email protected] Identifying the Unknown What a case may look like Bones found in desert. If human, bones are collected, extensive notes taken about how bones were found. Forensic anthropologists analyze bones. Look at pubic bone, skull, or sternal end of 4th rib to estimate sex. Bones are examined for signs of surgery, healed fractures to compare to medical records Bones examined for trauma to determine how individual died Law enforcement eliminates those who don t match, narrow down search Identity returned to remains(bones) if all goes well Forensic anthropologists go to site to determine if bones are human or animal. Bones are sent back to lab, glued back together. Look at pubic bone, teeth or skull to estimate age at time of death. Look at the skull to estimate ancestry/race. Bones are also examined for signs of past disease. Information sent to law enforcement who compare to missing persons records. Dental records of matches are compared to teeth of remains(bones). If the person was murdered, investigation begins, if not their remains(bones) are returned to family.

8 8 Local The State Press Week of November 21, 2013 Practice makes perfect for ASU marching band JOEY It s Saturday night in Tempe, and eager fans have finally found their seats inside Sun Devil Stadium. An energy of anticipation is pulsing throughout the stadium as the fans fervently wait for the Sun Devil football team to take the field. Deep inside Tillman Tunnel, another kind of energy is felt. Nervousness and excitement surround the members of the Sun Devil Marching Band, adorned in maroon and gold uniforms, as they pack the tunnel, checking their instruments and going over their routines for the evening one last time. Then, over the speakers they hear the announcer s voice presenting The Pride of the Southwest to the crowd. The tunnel door opens to thousands of screaming fans, the nervous energy disappears and the performance they have been practicing for all week begins. Behind the half-time performance are weeks of preparation, dedication and hard work. Head Drum Major Joshua Beedle said people don t understand the amount of time the band rehearses, and it takes a lot of effort to put the final product on the field. I believe most people s perception of the marching band is we do the half-time show and are in the stands and that is all we do, he said. In reality, the band practices every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for two hours each day to prepare for what people see during the halftime show. With only a few home games each year, the number of performances may seem small, but a lot of work is required to keep up the standard the Sun Devil Marching Band has come to expect. We do five shows a year for every football season, and we put a whole show on in two weeks from two-hour practices three days a week, Beedle said. So it s a huge commitment, and we are very productive, and we get stuff done really quick and have to because we don t have much time. Beedle, a communication junior, said he sees performing for The Pride of the Southwest as an honor, because it means much more than halftime shows and performances in front of crowds at University games. So many other bands, high schools, universities from around the country know us for what we do and what we re about, he said. It s an honor to be known for what we do and our hard work, and it feels really good knowing that people, not just ASU fans and people that attend ASU games, not only do they appreciate us but people from across the country see what we re doing and appreciate us for what we do. The band s purpose at ASU serves more than pumping up the crowd and providing entertainment to the fans in Sun Devil Stadium on game day. The purpose of us is to do our best to rally the student section and the fans at games but to do that, since we re so large we re able to go around and meet the needs of many The ASU marching band practices at Wells Fargo Arena before an event on campus. people in our organization, Sun Devil athletics as well as school organizations that want to come out and need us for support of their events, Beedle said. Drum Major s Life Being one of the three drum majors for the Sun Devil Marching Band can be the most taxing position, as they re in charge of field activities and making sure everyone is on the same page. The most difficult part of being a drum major at ASU, with a band this size, would have to be the persistent communication and work ethic, Beedle said. To keep up the hard work at the beginning of the season when it s still fresh and you want to do it but also keeping up the hard work and the passion near the end. The drum majors are the leader of the marching band and are like the band director s right hands, Beedle said. We assist him with everything he needs whether it s on the field or off the field, he said. Paper work, administration stuff, running rehearsals, conducting, people are used to seeing us conduct on the podiums or on the field, but we do a lot of behind the scenes work that no one sees. Drum Major Riley Molloy said sacrificing oneself for the team is an important part of being a drum major. It means commitment to a program that deserves my utmost respect, attention and dedication, and I do all I can to sacrifice my- STATE PRESS STAFF THE STATE PRESS STATE PRESS STAFF THE STATE PRESS Percussionists in the ASU marching band play a number as they practice before a football game in Tempe. The band consists of percussionists, horn players, dancers as well as a full drum line.

9 The State Press Week of November 21, 2013 Local 9 self to The Pride of the Southwest and putting on a show for a crowd that deserves it and a team that deserves it, he said. Entering the Field Coming out of the Tillman Tunnel this year has been a great experience, Molloy said. It adds an extra dimension to what it means coming through that door. The craziest part is when we step out of the tunnel and onto the field because it is like you re stepping into a different reality, he said. Drum Major Robert Mattix s first time running on the field didn t come from the Tillman Tunnel, but he said he remembers it fondly. Coming out the first time was really terrifying and thought it would be so cool, but I didn t even listen to hear my name even though I thought about it all week, he said. His first time out of Tillman Tunnel later in his career was a different experience. The biggest thing I remember about running out of the Tillman Tunnel was all of the alumni being in the marching band and returning to the traditions of the past, he said. The College Experience The preparation for game day and other performances stem from Sun Devil Marching Band Director James Hudson s unique style of motivation. He is an unbelievable band director, Molloy said. I think a lot of people don t appreciate him as much, because he seems distant and seems removed, but the truth is he cares so much. (He) has such a specific mindset of how the band should work and how to stimulate the program.... A lot of people just overlook it, and it s a naïve viewpoint in my opinion. Molloy said preparation is everything, and it all begins with the director. The way he prepares for rehearsal is so specific and so well-tuned, he said. He can afford to not ride us for a huge chunk of rehearsal since we have prepared so much and he has prepared so much. Hudson said his imagination and musical talent drive each member of the Sun Devil Marching Band to strive for perfection week in and week out, and the band represents ASU as whole. The purpose of the marching band at ASU is multifaceted really, he said. I always tell the kids we are ASU and we re a real cross section from the Poly campus all the way to the West campus, Downtown campus and of course Tempe campus. Hudson said he hopes the band represents the college experience when people hear the band play. We really represent ASU at all the sporting events we play, whether its football or basketball or volleyball, he said. Representing ASU is a difficult task, and Hudson s drive for perfection as the creator of the shows has extra meaning to him. When you write the music and write the formations, you know what it s supposed to sound like and supposed to look like, and if it s not perfect, it drives me crazy, Hudson said. It s just so important to put on a good show. Representing the school in the best light is the most important aspect, he said. If we are really what we say we are, which Trombone players in the ASU marching band stand in formation during a performance at an ASU home game at Sun Devil Stadium. is one of the top 5 college marching bands in the country... then every time we go out we have to be great, and if it s not perfect, for me it s not great, he said. Although the band has previously won the coveted Sudler Trophy, presented to the best collegiate band in the nation, it still has a lot of work to do, Hudson said. Members strive at every practice and every performance to be better than they were the day before, he said. The staff and the students are really the ones that make it work, and I m just a little speck in a great big organization, he said. The day you figure out how to be a band director... well, you ll never figure it out. [email protected] SEE MORE ONLINE M U L T I M E D I A Listen to Sun Devil Marching Band Director James Hudson talk about what it means to be in the band at statepress.com flutxes clarinets alto saxophones tenor saxophones baritone saxophones trumpet mellophone trombone baritone euphonium tubas snare drums bass drums tenor drums cymbals front ensemble dancers twirlers.. 02 drum majors STATE PRESS STAFF THE STATE PRESS 2013 Marching Band Members 352 Total Members

10 10 Local The State Press Week of November 21, 2013 Explosives detection dog helps protect ASU, Valley SAVANNAH Every day, ASU police Detective Parker Dunwoody comes to work with his best friend, a 55-pound yellow labrador retriever named Disney. No ordinary dog, Disney can detect more than 19,000 different combinations of explosives, according to her Facebook page, and is a certified Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives explosives detection canine. There are three ATF dogs in the Valley, Dunwoody said. These are single purpose explosives detection canines. Before Disney arrived at ASU in 2009, she served in Puppies Behind Bars, a program where inmates train and care for puppies. After graduating from that program, she went into ATF training, Dunwoody said. She did her six weeks of imprinting training after (Puppies Behind Bars), he said. And then we did another 10 weeks of handler-canine training. That covered everything. Any possible scenario they tried to cover so that the dog and the handler are aware of what s going on out in the real world. Dunwoody said at first, Disney backed away from him, as she was previously located in a women s prison. I go up to the kennel, and Disney backs away, he said. So I get down in there, and I put my hand down and let her smell it, and then her ears kind of perk up and she starts wagging her tail, and then I let her kiss me on the face and from there on we were best friends. Dunwoody cares for Disney 24/7. She stays in his home and rides with him to work every day. He said she easily fit into his family alongside his two-year-old son, dog and, until recently, a cat. My cat set the tempo, he said. Disney had never really seen cats before, but when she came into the house, she realized that my cat was the boss, so that was kind of interesting. But all of my animals they get along great. They play, and they re all part of the family. Disney s day-to-day duties include inspecting the Metro Light Rail, training and patrolling events, depending on the day, Dunwoody said. We assist the U.S. Marshals Service a lot with a lot of protection details, he said. Sometimes we have special events, like football games. Disney and I ve worked the Cardinals games. We ve worked ASU football games. We worked the Super Bowl in We ve done protection details for former presidents. We ve done large scale venues like the U.S. Open. It could be anything that happens. Disney trains multiple times a day, every day of the week so that she can maintain a healthy diet, Dunwoody said. Disney is a food reward dog, so she only gets fed when she finds something, he said. So I have to work seven days a week to make sure that she gets her daily complement of food. During training, Disney sniffs for odors that could be explosives or weapons. When she finds one, she is rewarded with food. Dunwoody said he also hides distracting odors that might throw Disney off, but she has always been fast at recognizing the correct odors. She s got a great nose, he said. One of the biggest cases involving Disney was the J. T. Ready murders, Dunwoody said. In 2012, police believed Ready killed four people and himself in a Gilbert home. Disney was called to support that crime scene, and we actually located explosives in the garage, he said. Disney was also called down to support the Gabrielle Giffords shooting in Tucson, but the FBI took over the crime scene by the time they got there, Dunwoody said. Although Disney resides with the ASU Police Department, she also assists in local, state and federal affairs because she is an ATF asset. Because she is an ATF dog, she is a federal asset and she can be called to go anywhere, he said. Disney works local events in the Valley and even works with other dogs, like Tempe s dualpurpose canines, Dunwoody said. We support anything local, he said. If anybody has anything that we need to help out with, we do. Christopher Speranza, Police Commander at the Downtown campus, put together the ASU canine program. I was lucky enough to have fun and put it together, he said. Creating the program took a great amount of research, Speranza said. I had to do a lot of research and contact various other agencies to figure out what they do, what worked well, what didn t, what they would do next time different, he said. And then (I had to) write a policy that coincided with what ATF believed how we should be handling the dog. Speranza said Disney is a good resource for ASU police, not just for her practical uses but for the added relationship with the community. Sometimes it s nice to be walking around with a dog and have people actually stop and they want to talk to you, where sometimes when you re actually walking around in a uniform, they kind of want to shy and turn away from you, he said. The original decision to start a canine program at ASU came from Chief of Police John Pickens. I was contacted by the Special Agent in Charge (at the) Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives about the program and partnership in 2009 to see if I was interested, Pickens said in an . Due to the fact that ASU hosts a large number of sporting events and other activities, it provided another method of providing security. Pickens said Disney offers a further connection to the community. Disney has had a very positive impact on ASU and Valley communities, he said. She does more than detect explosives; she allows people to play with her. She is like a rock star on campus. After Disney retires, Pickens said he hopes to have another explosives detection canine at ASU. It is my hope that the partnership continues with (ATF) and we get a replacement, he said. Disney still has a few solid years left until she KATIE DUNPHY THE STATE PRESS Disney sits while Detective Dunwoody explains the training and testing Disney had to go through to become an explosives detection k-9. Disney and her handler Parker Dunwoody must train everyday to keep their skill in top shape in case an emergency comes around. KATIE DUNPHY THE STATE PRESS Disney takes a break after a training exercise sniffing for explosives. She trains multiple times a day seven days a week. must retire, which usually happens around the 10-year mark, Dunwoody said. Until then, Dunwoody will continue his daily routine with Disney. That is the whole reason why I got into law enforcement, he said. I m a dog person. I ve had dogs all my life. And to be able to go to work with a dog is not work, it s just having a good time and gettin stuff done. [email protected]

11 The State Press Week of November 21, 2013 Local 11 British author shares experience in Arpaio s jails KELCIE Shaun Attwood came to Phoenix in 2000 from a small industrial town in England with the intent of becoming rich stockbroking. However, after feeling burnt out from the stressful job, Attwood began using Ecstasy. That choice would change his life forever. We were so arrogant when we were running around and doing these drugs, he said. We used to joke around that were above the law, and we felt we were living like this Pulp Fiction style of life. Attwood was later arrested and spent six years in Arizona jails, which prompted him to start a blog and, after his release, publish books. Attwood said England was in a recession when he finished school. I had two aunts living in Phoenix, and they said, It s booming out here, just hop on a plane, and you ll easily get a job with your accent, he said. I just came here with my student credit card. Attwood said it took him five years to be the biggest producer in the office where he worked. He was grossing $500,000 in commission annually. I became a millionaire, he said. I had enough money to retire. Attwood said he started to feel burnt out from the stockbroking business. It made him want some kind of relief. Party time Attwood said stress pushed him into the party scene. I started to remember doing Ecstasy as a student, and I wanted to get that feeling again to sort of relieve some of the stress I was having, he said. Attwood said he started dealing Ecstasy in Tempe. Attwood said more and more people started showing up to parties and that he was practically giving the drugs away at first because he wanted to show off. I thought I was Mr. Cool Guy from all the attention I was getting, he said. At the time, I had more money than common sense. Attwood said he started to see the business potential from drug dealing and applied everything he had learned from his business studies to dealing Ecstasy. Under the influence of drugs, he was having the time of his life. When Attwood started getting death threats from competitors, he began to realize the dangers of his new lifestyle. He said the money he was getting wasn t worth jeopardizing his safety. Locked up Attwood said it wasn t his brightest idea to break the law in Arizona. A year after he quit the Ecstasy business, a SWAT team came and arrested him at his apartment in Scottsdale. I was naïve to the statute of limitations at the time, Attwood said. Attwood was sentenced for nine-and-a-half years and served six. If I had gone to trial and lost, they would have stacked all my charges to a maximum 200- year sentence, he said. Attwood said his parents had to remortgage their house to come up with $100,000 to get a private lawyer. If you don t have a private lawyer, you re basically hung out to dry, he said. Jail was all about raw survival. Attwood said he was crammed into cells where violence was constantly breaking out. People s heads were getting smashed against toilets, bodies (were) thrown around and everything you had in your everyday life just goes straight out the window, he said. Attwood said in the beginning, he pined for his old lifestyle and resented getting caught. However, he said that over time, jail did him a lot of good. It made me see the harm drug dealing causes people, he said. Most of the guys in jail were all drug addicts, and they were further down the road of drug use than me. Attwood said two-thirds of those incarcerated were shooting up heroin and crystal meth and that many of them had Hepatitis C from sharing needles. I was constantly worried that someone was going to smash me, he said. I m not a tough guy, and if I had been there on my own, I would not have survived. Former ASU student Allan MacDonald was in jail with Shaun. He said he had heard that there was an Englishman in the yard and people wanted to scam him. There was a man who went by the name of T-bone who said he would protect Shaun, Mac- Donald said. Shaun was under the impression that this was true, but that was not the case. MacDonald said that he asked Attwood to start going to dinner with him. In jail, that means, He s with us, MacDonald said. MacDonald said he thinks Attwood is a good guy and that he simply made a mistake. He is an honest person who is trying to make amends for what he did, he said. His only weakness is that he is naïve and will believe anybody. Joe s Jail MacDonald said he has sued Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio several times. He is a piece of work, he said. He doesn t think the Constitution applies to him. Arpaio is known for his tough stance on crime. He has proclaimed himself America s Toughest Sheriff. According to Maricopa County Risk Management, more than 6,000 claims and lawsuits have been filed against Arpaio since he was elected in Maricopa County has had to pay $1.5 million to settle two federal lawsuits against Arpaio after he was accused of unethical and unconstitutional tactics. MacDonald said despite everything, he is not angry with Arpaio anymore. Attwood said green bologna and moldy bread was breakfast. Sometimes they were these crazy psychedelic colors and they looked like works of art, he said. But we were so hungry that we just brushed off the mold and put it in water to get it down. During the 26 months he was in jail, Attwood said he lost 28 pounds. I was basically living off peanut butter and Snickers bars, he said. Attwood said whenever Arpaio came into the jail with his bodyguards, everyone would yell obscenities at him. Some of the guards said they couldn t stand the guy, he said. One of them came up to me and said the real world doesn t understand what s going on in here. That s what motivated him to write about his experiences on a blog, Jon s Jail Journal, under a pseudonym to hide his identity. Attwood said he wrote what he saw and smuggled the journal entries to his aunt. His family members typed what he wrote into the blog. Journey through literature Attwood said he went through a big psychological journey and read many different books to understand himself. In the jail system, it was very difficult to get books, he said. Attwood said he was only allowed seven books in his cell. At one point, readers of my blog sent so many books, they were delivered to me in a wheelbarrow, he said. The guard who brought them to me said he would turn the other way and let me have them all. Attwood said thanks to the kindness of blog readers around the world, the prison library was filled with quality books. Attwood said his sister has a degree in classical literature, and when he told her in 2006 that he had read 264 books that year, she couldn t believe it. Her exact words were, You lucky bugger, he said. English lecturer Rosemarie Dombrowski read Attwood s blog, which she found when it was named Best Prison Blog by the Phoenix New Times. He could craft a narrative and tell a human PHOTO COURTESY OF LIBI PEDDER story with humor and authenticity in a way that I ve never really read before and my thought was, I have to talk to this guy, she said. Dombrowski said they talked a lot about writing, philosophy and spirituality through letters. I felt like we were peers and we were friends, and we were both struggling to become vegetarians, she said. After I got to know him a little bit, I started to recommend books to him. Dombrowski said she recently reconnected with Attwood on Facebook and was happy to do so because upon his release, he was deported back to the U.K. I was pretty certain that I was never going to meet him face-to-face at that point, she said. Freedom Attwood said people coming into and leaving prison get this crazy expression on their faces because of all the emotional undercurrents. I m wondering how I m going to adjust, he said. When I was finally released, it took me about a year to finally start thinking normally again. Attwood said in jail, he was conditioned to react to certain things and he had to readjust to everyday life. He said he remembers following his mother around like a puppy dog awaiting orders. Today, Attwood gives more than 100 talks a year at schools and colleges. Kids don t listen to their parents or teachers about drugs, but they seem to pay attention when I tell them my own story, he said. Attwood said talking to schools has helped restore his karma from all the mistakes he has made in the past. I can t change my past, so all I can do is move forward, he said. [email protected]

12 Opinion The State Press Week of November 21, 2013 EDITORIAL Todd Graham has earned his contract extension Win or lose on Saturday, ASU football coach Todd Graham has earned his contract extension. Saturday s game will be one of the biggest ASU has had in recent memory. A victory on the road against UCLA will clinch the program s first Pac-12 South Championship. Graham received an extension on Sept. 18, locking him up and giving him a pay raise each year through Some thought it was too soon, while others said he hasn t proven enough. The extension was more than a reward for the team s performance on the field this season, though. It also reflected a change in the program s culture, something Sun Devil Athletics hopes to further develop. What s impressive about the on-field product is that very few Sun Devils are Graham s players. He inherited a young team, including stars such as redshirt junior quarterback Taylor Kelly, senior defensive tackle Will Sutton and senior running back Marion Grice, from former coach Dennis Erickson. All three have become superb team leaders and have bought what Graham is selling. As a result, the rest of the team has followed, and the wins are adding up. Meanwhile, Graham s biggest recruiting success last offseason has immediately become a force. Redshirt sophomore wide receiver Jaelen Strong, a junior college transfer, has become Kelly s favorite target, and the success rate of their nearly-impossible-to-guard back-shoulder passes has been incredible. The difference between Erickson and Graham has been obvious and measurable, but just as important is the differ- Plea for letters ence between Graham in 2012 and Graham in Last year s bunch started 5-1 but then went on a four-game losing streak to fizz out the hot start. This year, his team started out 3-2, with two losses on the road but rebounded with a five-game winning streak, including two on the road, which has the Tempe faithful smelling roses. ASU is 16-7 during Graham s two seasons, including 10-2 at home with the last home loss coming more than a calendar year ago (against UCLA, ironically enough). Last year, ASU finished one game away from winning the Pac-12 South. Had the Sun Devils beaten UCLA at Sun Devil Stadium, they would have won the division on the last day of the season, when they beat UA. This year they have a chance for redemption. It s simple: Win on Saturday, and the Sun Devils will at the very least play in the Pac-12 title game. A loss wouldn t completely ruin their chances either, but they would need to beat UA and hope UCLA falls to USC in the last week of the season. If everything goes as Graham planned, ASU has four games remaining on its schedule, all of which would be monumental: a potential Pac-12 South clincher against UCLA, a home Territorial Cup game, the Pac-12 title game and the Rose Bowl. Graham and the Sun Devils still have work to do, but everything he has done up until now has been worth every dollar. All we can do now is hope the Sun Devils win and pray he doesn t take a position at UT. Everyone likes to receive letters, and we at The State Press are no exception. Now more than ever, an engaged and informed student body is essential for the well-being of our community and our world. The State Press wants your input. As our readers and fellow ASU students, your thoughts are invaluable. We abide by an ethos that emphasizes the role of our audience in the creation of our content. We especially want to include our readers in that creative process, from beginning to end. 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Let s talk about virginity LORRAINE In an era of progressive movements and rapidly expanding attitudes toward women s rights to their own bodies, the dialogue on female sexuality, and in particular virginity, seems to have hit a wall. Last week, The New York Times ran an oped piece by Amanda McCracken, a 35-yearold self-described token virgin among her group of friends. I knew I would much rather endure the pain of missing WE NEED TO SHATTER ANY DELUSIONS WE HAVE THAT FORCE US TO PLACE THESE RITES OF PASSAGE ON A PEDESTAL. out than suffer the deeper loneliness of having given myself out of love only to realize that the feeling wasn t reciprocated, Mc- Cracken explained to readers of her decision to remain a virgin. McCracken s story is nothing new. In a global context and amid our own swiftly changing social climate, it s difficult to define what even constitutes a virgin anymore. At one point, McCracken notes that feminists are likely to fault her for not taking advantage of her sexuality. McCracken s narrative opens up a door for conversation about our society while simultaneously highlighting a core problem: There is still a disturbing lack of real dialogue occurring for young people regarding their own sexuality and virginity. According to the Center for Disease Control, almost 10 percent fewer 15- to 19-yearolds are having sex now than they were in Additionally, individuals are putting off other important milestones such as TONY PELLUM THE STATE PRESS leaving home, finishing school, marrying and bearing children. These figures may not mean much to many people, but they do provide a stark contrast to the idealized picture of sex and the widely-held notions of when we are expected to begin having it and living our lives. As it stands, the reinforced concept of virginity seems to have clear emotional divisions among men and women. For women, it is an internalized process to be gifted to another. For men, it is an external experience to be lost to finally gain entry into manhood. Of course, this is a broad generalization that in no way sums up each individual s unique experience with virginity. Then again, isn t that the way society has evolved to make us feel about our own, unique sexual experiences? In an effort to break the mold on the stagnant conversation about sex, filmmaker Therese Shechter explores the issue in her documentary How To Lose Your Virginity. The film premiered Nov. 17 in New York City and attempts to debunk the myths and misogyny surrounding a rite of passage that many obsess about but few truly understand. Instead of turning young people s virginity into a gift or a burden to be shouldered, we should continue opening up avenues for conversation, as McCracken and Shechter have done. Reach the columnist at [email protected].

13 The State Press Week of November 21, 2013 Opinion 13 Is downtown Phoenix really ageist? DOMINIC ZANE Nostalgia is in the air, and there is nothing you can do to stop it. If you have been on the Internet recently, you have likely seen a link from BuzzFeed, an online media site that is host to a number of pop culture lists and articles pertaining to culture and news. BuzzFeed has been the online center for culture for a while now. The site s content is easy to digest and usually tugs on the nostalgic heartstrings of its readers to the dismay of others. In addition to hating on BuzzFeed, many artists have taken to disparaging the Internet in general. This act is one of desperation to preserve the perpetually dying sanctity of the past. Why? This obsession with an antiquated past has left some upset and with a sour taste in their mouths. This hipster-esque obsession with what has come and gone, to some, only serves to halt forward motion. Recently, NPR published an article written by Linda Holmes on the subject. Holmes says, (Nostalgia) is often just a dumb dance in which we pretend not to have learned what, in fact, we have learned. It is literally to pretend to be young and dumb. Is she right? Sure, but this cynical view is ignorant of the benefits and necessity for escapism. The social conscience of our generation is undergoing a very familiar process: romanticization. Romanticism of the past is the state of the The city of Phoenix s Office of Community and Economic Development has recently indicated its intent to recommend an award to a housing developer whose blueprints of a new complex are more than controversial. The empty lot on Second Street north of Roosevelt Street is the location in question, and the developer has plans to restrict the proposed living complex to those who are 55 or older. This, in effect, will cut out younger people and those who make less than $36,000 a year. Many members of the community as well as newspapers are speaking out against this proposition, proclaiming that the idea is ageist and goes against the ethos of an inclusive and eclectic downtown Phoenix. Wayne Rainey, owner of the monorchid Art Gallery and advocate for all things downtown Phoenix, has started a scathing petition, urging downtown residents to question the idea of an age-restricted apartment complex in an area that is so vibrant and everchanging. The idea of an age-restricted complex is an ageist idea in and of itself, and it is the antithesis of what downtown Phoenix represents. What s more, the apartment complex deters students from living downtown. In a market where the housing prices are beginning to creep up again and housing choices THE PLANS FOR AN AGE- RESTRICTED APARTMENT COMPLEX GO AGAINST THE ETHOS OF AN INCLUSIVE AND ECLECTIC DOWNTOWN PHOENIX. are already restricted for students (Taylor Place is far too expensive for a permanent living space, as is the over-priced Roosevelt Point), this apartment complex would take away from students as well as other people who want to live in the immediate area. If you re a 90s kid, you ll get this WHEN THE SOCIAL CONSCIENCE LOOKS BACK, IT CHOOSES WHAT TO REMEMBER. social conscience that transcends any generation. It serves as an escape from the harsh realities of today and provides a point of reference to when things were not so bad. Of course, things are always pretty bad and when the social conscience looks back, it chooses what to remember. Take the most recent obsession with the 90s, for example. The 90s were host to a number of great things. Grunge music wasn t calculated. Sitcoms, such as Boy Meets World, actually had soul and substance to them, unlike the onslaught of garbage we are presented with today. George W. Bush hadn t been elected yet, and passing notes was the primary method of communication during class. These attributes of the 90s make it very attractive for the 20-something who sees the world changing in ways that are unfamiliar and frightening. It provides a sense of security. The downtown Phoenix area has a problem of extremes. There are a few apartment complexes for the retired community, as well as low-income living for those who cannot afford to live at places like Roosevelt Point. On the other side of the spectrum, we have a handful of extremely expensive living options like Orpheum Lofts (where purchasing a two-bedroom condominium can run up to $100,000, or more than $800 a month for rent). We do not need another restricted housing complex, and we certainly do not need it to be on Second Street near Roosevelt Street. Those who live in the area, as I do, will agree that downtown Phoenix has a problem with empty lots. Acres of unused land riddle the area as a result of stagnant business growth, as well as apprehensiveness to build in a place that is not as dense as New York City or Chicago. Phoenix, you can do better. Don t build an age-restricted complex in this area. If you really need to build one, I m sure there are plenty of other unused lots that would be glad to have you. Reach the columnist at [email protected]. This fear of change is normal among any generation, but the speed of change happening with our generation is unprecedented in history. Most of us are either Generation Y or Millennials. Regardless of where you fall on this spectrum, the two cohorts have witnessed the most rapid expansion of technology in the history of civilization. With this incredibly fast-paced technological development, we have lost the wonderful simplicity of earlier times. Members of older generations see this and are scared as well. On Sept. 13, award-winning author Jonathan Franzen wrote an essay for The Guardian that aired grievances he has with the ever-connected world of the Internet. In addition, Franzen also sees the threat of digital media consuming sacred art forms. Franzen s worries predate many of our concerns, but the fear is still there: things are changing. Although Franzen would disapprove of our seeking refuge at BuzzFeed and other media outlets for nostalgic relief, I am sure he can empathize with our longing for the past. This nostalgia-obsessed culture that is being cultivated can be viewed as a bad thing, but it is a great thing. It offers people an oasis from the ironic environment developed by snobby music blogs, shoddy try-hard sitcoms and the general caustic nature of society. Reach the columnist at [email protected]. BOOS & BRAVOS Bravo to the ASU football team for remaining undefeated at home this season and more importantly, for putting itself in position to achieve one of its season goals by winning the Pac-12 South title at UCLA this weekend. Boo to Top Dawg Entertainment, who criticized GQ Magazine and subsequently removed Kendrick Lamar from a GQ performance, even though GQ put Lamar on the front cover of their latest issue. Bravo to Lady Gaga for her Saturday Night Live host/musical guest appearance. Gaga s costume choices and musical performances, which included an R. Kelly guest spot, were were second to none while her sense of irony and acting skills were flawless. Boo to the economic situation in the European Union. In the past five years, the unemployment rate for people 15 to 24 years old increased by more than 15 percent in several European countries, including Greece, Spain, Ireland, Portugal and Italy. Greece had the highest unemployment rate for those aged 15 to 24 at 58 percent. Bravo to the Make-A-Wish Foundation for turning the city of San Francisco into Gotham for a night while a 5-year-old boy with leukemia dressed up as Batkid for his wish. Boo to the alleged public executions of 80 people in North Korea on Nov. 3. A South Korean newspaper received information from an unidentified source that public executions were carried out in seven North Korean cities for crimes such as watching smuggled South Korean TV shows and possessing a Bible. Bravo to MSNBC for suspending talk show host and actor Alec Baldwin after he allegedly used an anti-gay slur against a paparazzo. Baldwin apologized, saying, I did not intend to hurt or offend anyone with my choice of words, but clearly I have and for that I am deeply sorry. Words are important. I understand that, and I will choose mine with great care going forward. Boo to Liz Cheney, Wyoming Senate hopeful and daughter of the former vice president Dick Cheney, for her comments about gay marriage. Cheney s sister, Mary, has been married to her female partner since Bravo to conspiracy theories in general because they test our ability to critically analyze situations and information. From JFK s death to theories that Elvis and Tupac are still alive, conspiracy theories range anywhere from dramatically serious to over-the-top hilarious, and at the very least keep us entertained. Boo to the practice of denying undocumented immigrants the fundamental right to marry as outlined in the U.S. Constitution. Multiple cases of this have been popping up in Alabama where lawful immigrants have been turned away after applying for a marriage license.

14 14 Opinion The State Press Week of November 21, 2013 Common Core will address holes in public education PETER The Common Core State Standards Initiative, a program rolled out by the U.S. Department of Education, is a good start for standardizing the expectations of students, teachers, parents and administrators. This initiative came to be during the fallout of the Bush administration s No Child Left Behind program. The Obama administration gave waivers to most states to get rid of the penalties for not reaching 100 percent proficiency by next year, as the law requires. In Arizona, the CCSI was adopted in 2010 and will be implemented during the school year, albeit under a different name Arizona retitled them it the College and Career Ready Standards. Truly, the future is now for Arizona schools. Although we should continually be improving access to quality education in this country, we seem to have halting and inappropriate means to solve this crisis. CCSI, I hope, will fix this superficial approach to solving the education crisis in this country that NCLB only furthered. The irony of this situation, however, is that CCSI was instituted as a patch for NCLB and not meant to be an entirely new program. The best to come of the old law, and the most applicable lesson that I think we have learned, is that success cannot be mandated from Washington. It must come from the communities that education serves. Success and by extension, education, must be a priority culturally and not just bureaucratically. In a recent address to state superintendents of education, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan made some controversial remarks about the idea of communitybased education policy. Some of the pushback is coming from, WE SEEM TO ONLY HAVE HALTING AND INAPPROPRIATE MEANS TO SOLVE THE CRISIS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION. sort of, white suburban moms. Their child isn t as brilliant as they thought they were, and their school isn t quite as good as they thought they were, Duncan said. The main reason for those controversial remarks is the American aversion to focus or control. The three tenets of the CCSI include focus, coherence and rigor. There s a focus here that allows for goals to be set and achieved without direct control from Washington. The CCSI for Arizona recognizes that by emphasizing required achievements, the Standards leave room for teachers, curriculum developers and states to determine how those goals should be reached and what additional topics should be addressed. Our education needs these things, mostly because there must be expectations for teachers and students. There should be a goal of, at least, being able to put together a cogent, coherent argument by the time you graduate high school. Opposition to the CCSI exists, for the most part, because it seems like just another Washington mandate. Here in Arizona, a group appropriately called Arizonans Against Common Core articulates the revolt against mandates. A document produced by the group attempts to liken CCSI to an international conspiracy. The group draws connections to the Obama administration, Intel and, most terrifying, the U.N. The group s claims are absolute malarkey and could use some common core itself. What this group does not understand, unfortunately, is that we need leadership in education policy today. If the federal government did not create an inclusive goal for this nation s education, who would step up and give us a vision? Reach the columnist at [email protected]. Reliance on technology creates high expectations BECCA As technology continues to advance, upcoming generations are developing new expectations for their mobile media experience. From Netflix to Nintendo, companies are beginning to tailor their products and services to keep up with this demand. Digital video recorders, more commonly known as DVRs, allow users to record shows to view later. In 2013, this is the expectation. Kids are becoming impatient with live TV as they lack the ability to fast-forward through commercials. Kids today don t know a world where they had to wait for a program, Tara Sorensen, vice president of children s series development for Amazon Studios, told The New York Times. The idea of TV my way is the next step for the technology-driven generation. In response, Netflix developed a Just for Kids section geared for children 12 and younger. KIDS OF THE 90S ARE QUICKLY GETTING LEFT BEHIND IN THE DUST OF MODERN MEDIA. The idea of Netflix and other outlets that let kids skip past commercials has become so ingrained in our culture, we have to wonder what may come of watching TV with that added anticipation, let alone the laborious process of reading through an entire book to come to a conclusion. A Common Sense Media study found that 72 percent of children age 8 and under have used a mobile device for some type of media activity such as playing games, watching videos, or using apps, up from 38 percent in Kids of the 90s generation once ruled the digital world but are quickly getting left behind in the dust of modern media. The Gameboy, one of the first handheld gaming devices, is now a hasbeen compared to the Nintendo 3DS, which is equipped with a camera and the ability to browse the Internet. Companies like Samsung and Leapster have created tablets specifically designed for kids, developing a whole market of games that often teach math, reading or writing skills. But because of this, kids would rather pick up a stylus than a pencil when it comes to practice. Smartphones have also become more childfriendly, as the digital market is swamped with apps geared toward entertaining tiny toddler fingers. Classics such as Angry Birds and Cut the Rope have provided countless hours of amusement for kids of all ages. However, has this once leisurely trend become a crutch for personal independence? Maybe Angry Birds is like potato chips: fun to eat occasionally, but not a lot or often or as breakfast. And definitely not in bed, wrote Dr. Claire McCarthy, a pediatrician. While the lure of evolving technology seems promising, this may be hurting future generations. Kids are most creative in their elementary age, however being consumed by surrounding media seems to be stifling this freedom. Lately, kids, including college kids, seem to be calling the shots in the world of technology. This digital generation is due for a lesson is originality and personal imagination, not prompted by animations on a screen. Reach the columnist at [email protected] We provide the stage, you provide the rage... Write us a letter to the editor at opiniondesk.statepress@ gmail.com

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16 16 Opinion The State Press Week of November 21, 2013 TODAY S BEST DEALS, ALL IN ONE PLACE. SAVING YOU MONEY AND TIME TO CRAM. Text SAVE to FREE COUPONS APP Attracting attention in selfie culture SEAN Have you ever taken a selfie? You know, a self-portrait that you ve uploaded to a social media website? Odds are good that you have, in fact, taken a selfie. The term selfie is so popular that it was recently deemed the Oxford English Dictionary 2013 word of the year. Yes, I have taken a selfie before, I ll admit it. I have three selfies on my Instagram account, for example. My selfies, however, were part of an innocent attempt to poke fun at one of my good friends who uploads selfies almost constantly. I maintain the fact that I have never taken a selfie for the sake of taking a selfie. My personal history aside, the concept of the selfie has begun to change this generation. On the surface, such a harmless Internet post seems trivial. I mean, what could be so wrong with a simple self-portrait? It has become, for many people, a means of self-glorification and a new avenue for them to self-promote their own physicality. I cannot even count the amount of times I have seen a selfie tagged with #selfiesunday, #nomakeup or #dolledup. People mostly girls, in my experience will upload selfies seemingly for the purpose of just uploading selfies. But they do have a purpose for posting them: We have a purpose in all that we do, whether we know it or not. Those who post selfies have a simple purpose: They want the likes. They want the attention. They want to broadcast to their followers, or friends, or whatever people on whatever social networking platform that they use, that they look good THE EMERGENCE OF THE SELFIE HAS ILLUSTRATED OUR CULTURE S CONSTANT DESIRE FOR ATTENTION. at that moment. It s a form of projecting physicality and an indirect acknowledgement of self-indulgence in an attempt to attract attention. You can quote the above sentence as my definition of the selfie, but wherever I go, the selfie seems to follow me. In my experience, it is now a rarity to find a woman without a selfie on her social media site. When you do find her, dear God, do not let her go. The discovery that a woman does not feel the need to daily project her beauty to her entire friend list should not be taken for granted. The growing popularity of the smartphone application Snapchat has somewhat alleviated this, by allowing selfies to take on a more private persona. With Snapchat, the pictures are shared not with an entire friend list but with specific individuals. I suppose this is better. I suppose the desire for attention does not necessarily apply here, at least in full force. However, the emergence of the selfie has illustrated our culture s constant desire for attention, and the lengths in which they ll go to get it. Ultimately, the selfie is a reflection of what our culture is continuously glorifying: attention. Just think of Kim Kardashian and what she represents: a fascination with easy money and one s physical beauty over other considerations. Whenever I see a selfie, I cringe because I know what it may represent and I am very saddened by the emergence of degrading Internet trends. Consider this my plea to you: Ask yourself why you are taking and posting your selfies before you post them and make sure you have an adequate reason. Reach this columnist at [email protected]. Copyright 2013 Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc. (VTB, Inc.) All rights reserved. Turtle Beach, the Turtle Beach Logo, Voyetra, and Ear Force are either trademarks or registered trademarks of VTB, Inc. Made for ipod, Made for iphone, and Made for ipad mean that an electronic accessory has been designed to connect specifically to ipod, iphone, or ipad respectively, and has been certified by the developer to meet Apple performance standards. Apple is not responsible for the operation of this device or its compliance with safety and regulatory standards. ipad, iphone and ipod touch are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the US and other countries.

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18 18 Graduation The State Press Week of November 21, 2013 Career Services help seniors plan for the future SAVANNAH Every week, global health senior Govind Sanjay Nayar visits the career services at the Tempe campus to meet with his adviser, go over his future job and school options and use the computers located there. On Thursday, Nayar sat down with Jennifer Rhodes, his adviser, for his weekly visit to discuss his future. He said he dreams of someday becoming a hospital administrator, but after he graduates in December, he wants to work for two years before attending graduate school. I was getting my résumé looked over and we were discussing my future options with grad school, Nayar said. Nayar said he uses Career Services at the University because the department has the newest information on job markets. They have well-informed advisers who know what they are talking about (and) who work with this stuff every day, he said. Their perspective is much better than mine. Scott Berren, assistant director of research and assessment at the Tempe campus Career Services, said the one-on-one appointments are a way students can have access to the career development services at ASU. We have individual advising appointments for students to work on their résumés (and) work on their interview skills, he said. One challenge the department has is accommodating the multitude of students at ASU, Berren said. What we really try to do is say How can we reach the greatest number of students with our programs? he said. A lot of that has to do with Sun Devil CareerLink. We want to have every student have the opportunity to take advantage of career development and job postings with employers. Sun Devil CareerLink is an online website where students and alumni can register, see job descriptions and apply for jobs, Barren said. Career Services also offers webinars, workshops, employer panels and career fairs. The spring semester career fair will take place in February 2014 and will include 200 employers, Berren said. ASU alumni are not only allowed, but also encouraged to attend the fairs, he said. Workshops and webinars include How to Write a Winning Résumé and How to Successfully Interview, Berren said. I always like in-person interaction, so I think that coming to an in-person workshop is really helpful as well, he said. Berren said that while he sees more student appointments focused on graduation as it gets closer, the focus of career services never shifts. KATIE DUNPHY THE STATE PRESS Global health senior Govind Nayar meets with his adviser Jennifer Rhodes in Career Services. Nayar is looking at applying for graduate school, and Rhodes is walking him thorough the process. Our mission and focus stays consistent and that s to provide career development services and techniques all year round, he said. Seniors entering the job industry should apply for multiple jobs and not just set their sights on a single job, Berren said. Make sure that you give yourself a lot of opportunities, he said. [email protected] NURTURE YOUR CALLING We learn to take the health of the whole person into account at Bastyr. Nadia Kharas, ND (2013) Create a Healthier World Degrees Include: Naturopathic Medicine Psychology Herbal Sciences Human Biology Exercise Science Learn more: Well.Bastyr.edu BASTYR Seattle San Diego on the fly twitter.com/statepress wall-to-wall facebook.com/thestatepress

19 The State Press Week of November 21, 2013 Graduation 19 Students work to become first-generation graduates LOGAN Psychology and sociology senior Lesley Rodriguez did not always think she would one day graduate from college. In December, Rodriguez will become the first person in her family to get an undergraduate degree. I set up a plan for myself and went for it, she said. A California native, Rodriguez and her family moved to Guatemala when she was very young. She spent 11 years in the Latin American country. (The poverty level there is) a lot more clear, she said. It s a third-world country. I could see the constant need to help people. Rodriguez s family often needed help. She said that to attend college, she had to find extra finances. I was working, most of the time, it was full time, while I was going to school full time as well, she said. With work in the mornings and school in the evenings, Rodriguez fit homework in when she wasn t learning at school or teaching at an elementary school. Rodriguez said time management, however, was not the most difficult part of completing college. It was adapting to the American culture. My Hispanic culture is different from the American, she said. Business senior Yonathan Vivas, who will also graduate in December, is the first of five siblings to graduate from college. Vivas lived in Venezuela until 2008 when he moved to Arizona with his wife to attend university. Vivas said he too had a hard time adapting to a new culture. I feel very fortunate to have this opportunity to study in the U.S., he said. I m really, really proud of coming here and getting to this point. During his time at ASU, Vivas has interned at US Airways and APS, and has been actively involved in multiple clubs. Vivas did this while maintaining a 4.0 GPA through college. He was successful while learning the language. A lot of (English as a Second Language) students have to put in a lot of effort, he said. It requires a higher level of effort from people like me. He said that he had difficulty formulating a paragraph when he arrived. Vivas was the salutatorian in high school. He said the effort he put into high school studies, though, was minute compared to that of learning English in college. The level (of effort) I ve had to put in here is way beyond that, he said. Vivas said he would have liked to see more native English speakers be understanding of how hard it is to learn a new language. Try to understand a little bit, what a challenge it is for (ESL students), he said. [email protected] MURPHY BANNERMAN THE STATE PRESS Supply Chain Management senior Yonathan Vivas will be the first of five brothers to graduate from college. Vivas would like to work for Dell after graduation and stay in the U.S. Graduation new experience for international students EMILY For most ASU students, graduating means looking for a job and continuing the work that they ve just begin in college. But for international students, graduating means going back home, and returning to their old ways of life for the first time in four years. Abdul Bukshaisha, a senior civil engineering major from Qatar, said coming to the U.S. for college completely changed everything about his lifestyle. He communicates with his family through Skype, though he misses traditional Muslim holidays, during which his entire family would gather to celebrate. I ve never experienced Thanksgiving here but back home, it s huge, he said. Even second cousins I don t know well I still got to see at gatherings, and I miss that. Bukshaisha said he relies on many of the Middle Eastern restaurants in Tempe to get traditional food and give him a taste of home during these holidays. After graduation, Bukshaisha plans to return to Qatar to work with his father, who is also an architectural engineer. Communications senior Abdul Hussain is also from Qatar and said he plans to return home after graduation for work as a public relations official for an airline company. Staying four years away from everyone back home (and) traveling across the world just to get a degree makes me very proud, he said. What makes me even more proud was because I got my degree in English and not in my native tongue. Despite this pride in returning to Qatar, Hussain said he has mixed feelings about returning home. He felt that because of the vast amount of diversity in the U.S., he was able to fit in. I ve never felt like an international student here, he said. After four years (I m going to miss) the way of living here I don t like to say it, but there are a lot of people I probably won t see again after they graduate. Meshari Al-Aradi, an industrial engineering senior from Kuwait, said he worked very hard to make his way to ASU, as he took the English proficiency test six times, each time falling half a point below the passing rate. Finally, on his seventh try, he received the passing grade. But he said his experience at ASU has been worth all his perseverance and more. I would describe this experience as the most important experience I have ever had in my life, he said. This is the most important age, I have learned about things like self defending, a second language, seeing a second culture and living in it, challenging yourself to be self-dependent. After Aradi graduates, he plans to work for his father, who owns the Kuwait Oil Company. He said though he has missed his family, he feels going to college internationally was the best possible decision for his own personal growth, to better his English, and to VOTED BEST JEWISH DELI Readers Choice 2013 Phoenix New Times Best of Phoenix make himself more independent. I m enjoying every moment here, he said. It s a good feeling to know you re almost about to be done, achieving my goal, making myself and my family proud of me, and earning a degree you ll have for the rest of your life Hopefully my mom will visit me for my grad ceremony. 4 Locations - [email protected] BREAKFAST-ALL-DAY, LUNCH & DINNER 7-DAYS A WEEK Featured on Travel Channel s Man v. Food! CONGRATULATIONS, GRADUATES! 1160 E. University (Between Rural & McClintock) COME HUNGRY! For Special Offers and News:,,,, & club at

20 20 Graduation The State Press Week of November 21, 2013 Graduating students worry about student loans KAREN Graduation marks the end of a college career, and for some the beginning of the 10-year student loan payoff period. Melissa Pizzo, ASU s financial aid and scholarship services director, said 64 percent of ASU students have some kind of student loan. This year, there was was only a 1.8 percent increase in the amount of students borrowing money, down significantly from the 11 percent increase last year, Pizzo said. In our mind that s saying, Oh, students really aren t borrowing more, she said. They re actually finding other sources or finding other ways to pay. She said she attributes this to the economy, families finding stable economic footing and students finding other sources to pay for school. Families may be getting a little more on stable ground that they might not need to borrow, or might not need to borrow as much, she said. Pizzo also said the amount of private and parent loans students take has decreased by $5 million. New data for the academic year will be presented to the Arizona Board of Regents this week. It states that average undergraduate loan debt is $22,848. The College Board reports that the national average nation for public university student loan debt in the academic year was $25,000. This places ASU below the national average. Resident students, Pizzo said, are borrowing even less. They borrow $21,940 or 21 percent below the national average. Economics senior Nick Lowman will graduate this December. He took out $12,500 in federal subsidized loans for all four years of school and said he will pay it off by working immediately after graduating. I ll be working independently in Asia, tutoring English on the side, he said. Lowman is fortunate to have a job opportunity lined up after graduation. In April, the AP reported that half of 2012 college graduates are unemployed or in jobs that don t use their skills they gained in college. Pizzo offered some ways that students can avoid taking out too much money in loans. If students submit a FAFSA by the March priority date, they can obtain need-based aid. There are also scholarships available through ASU s scholarship search, which was just updated with more than 200 scholarships with deadlines beginning February She also said that many students work 20 hours a week, even at minimum wage, which can pay off half of a year s tuition. We want (students) to understand all that is available to them, she said. [email protected] DOMINIC VALENTE THE STATE PRESS Many students who are graduating in December are worried about student loans. Sixty-four percent of students have some sort of student loan. Carry on the ASU tradition. In your wallet. Congratulations, Graduates! Get your ASU card today. midfirst.com/asu

21 The State Press Week of November 21, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Campus Life A Night With CLAS Beginning at 4 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 2 come and join RHA CLAS Community Councils for A Night With CLAS! A picnic-style atmosphere will take over the PV Beach as free refreshments and snacks will be served. You will have the opportunity to play backyard-style games like ladder golf, bean bag toss, and bocce ball plus there will be academic-related clubs on hand you can connect with. This is the perfect event for you to de-stress and have fun before Finals Week. Community Mentor Application Open The application for 2014/15 Community Mentors is available. Community Mentors (CM s) are upperclass CLAS students that live in the residential college and provide support to our residential CLAS freshmen. You can access the application at housing.asu.edu under the Employment Study Abroad and Leadership tab. For more information please consider attending one of the following CM Information Sessions: Wednesday, Nov. 27 at 4 p.m. in San Pablo Hall, Monday, Dec. 2 at 7 p.m. in Manzanita Hall, or Tuesday, Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. in PV West. afterclas Workshops The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences is offering a number of workshops on a variety of topics right in your community! Held in the PV West SunSpot, located just inside the PV West main entrance, you can learn more about study skills, stress management, academic opportunities, SI sessions, sexual health and much much more. To see a full schedule visit current-students/first-year-programs and click on the First Year Program s calendar section. We hope to see you soon! visit the a list website Great American Smokeout Nov. 21, 11:00 a.m. 1 p.m. Location: Various Wellness Receive health information created by ASU students for ASU students. The A List is a student focused wellness website created by members of the Health and Counseling Student Action Committee (HCSAC) in collaboration with health educators from ASU Wellness. The A List represents a student approach to health and wellness and serves to dispel commonly held misconceptions students have about health as related to college life. ASU Events Emerging Artists II Nov. 22, 2013 at 6:30 p.m., Nov. 23, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. Campus: Tempe Cost: $8-$16; Herberger Institute students are offered free admission on tickets reserved in advance. Choreographer Tricia Ragsdale will present her work. ASU Wind Bands: From Dusk To Dawn Wayne Bailey, conductor, Andrew Pease, guest conductor and John Ericson, horn soloist Nov. 24, 2013, 2:30 p.m. Location: ASU Gammage, Tempe The ASU Wind Orchestra and Wind Ensemble present a program of music for wind band, ranging from the ski slopes of Colorado to the revolutionary streets of Prague. The program includes works by Paul All of the information presented on this website has been thoroughly researched and is linked to its references. At the bottom of every wellness page is a list of various local resources, such as ASU Health Services and student organizations, that students will find useful. Become an A Lister by choosing to make healthier choices and deciding that you want to be part of a movement that promotes a healthier college lifestyle! Hindemith, Carter Pann, Steven Bryant and Gustav Holst and features faculty soloist John Ericson on Pele for horn and wind ensemble by Brian Balmages. ASU Symphony Orchestra: Orchestral Tone Poems and Painting Timothy Russell conductor with faculty soloists Thomas Landschoot, cello, Katie McLin, violin and Nancy Buck, viola Nov. 25, 2013, 7:30 p.m. Location: ASU Gammage, Tempe The ASU Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Maestro Timothy Russell, presents a rare performance of Richard Strauss s epic tone poem Don Quixote featuring faculty soloists Thomas Landschoot, cello, Nancy Buck, viola and Katherine McLin, violin. This concert also includes Dvorak s electric Carnival Overture and Beethoven s cherished Pastoral Symphony. ASU Study Abroad Fair Featuring programs in the School of International Letters and Cultures Thursday, November 21, 11 am - 3:00 pm Location: Memorial Union Campus: Tempe Cost: Free and open to the public Whether you re a student or a businessperson, entrepreneur, retiree or other knowledge-seeker Arizona State University offers an opportunity to learn firsthand about language, culture, even social and economic issues, in locations worldwide via study abroad programs led by ASU faculty in its School of International Letters and Cultures next summer. To find out more, the public is invited to a Study Abroad Fair hosted by the ASU Study Abroad Office from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Nov. 21, in the Memorial Union on the Tempe campus. What better way to experience the complete and authentic character of another country than by going there with a faculty expert? asked Joe Cutter, director of the school. For students, it not only enhances academic learning but broadens their worldview in ways that last a lifetime. For those doing business globally, it equips them with a keener understanding of cultural influences behind the relationship or transaction. The school s study abroad programs are among the longest running and most prestigious at ASU, Cutter explained. Founded in 1981, all of the programs are directed by knowledgeable, world-class faculty. The programs also are open to non-asu students admitted to ASU for the summer term as non-degree seeking students at the Tempe campus. What separates our study abroad programs is that full-time professors, many of them natives of countries they visit, lead the programs and offer participants indepth experiences that are off the beaten path, Cutter said. The cultural immersion that students receive is broad-based and genuine and hard to duplicate elsewhere. This school s faculty-led study abroad programs in summer 2014 include the following: Spanish Language and Mayan Culture in Yucatán Culture and Text in 3Contemporary León, Spain Italian Language in San Severino Marche, Italy French Language and Québécois Culture in Québec, Canada Sichuan University Summer Chinese Language Program Florence, Italy Summer Program German Language and Culture in Regensburg Romania and Central Europe Spanish Language & Mediterranean Culture Summer Program in Brazil French Language and Culture in Lyon Summer Classics in Naples, Italy While most School of International Letters and Cultures programs include classes in the local language, approximately half of them also offer instruction in English. Participants either live with host families, or in apartments or dormitories, depending on the program. Most programs also include field trips to nearby cultural and historical attractions and other points of interest. Non-ASU students are welcome to participate but must be admitted to ASU for the summer 2014 term only as non-degree seeking students at the Tempe campus before they apply to the study abroad program. (Students will need the ASUrite ID you receive once you are admitted in order to apply to the summer program.) Non-ASU students can apply to ASU online through the following admissions portals: Undergraduate Admissions or Graduate Admissions. Apply to the Tempe campus (and not the online program). If asked to designate a college and/or academic unit, they should select the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the School of International Letters and Cultures. If non-degree seeking students have any questions about applying, they should contact the international coordinator who works with this program. ASU offers more than 300 study abroad programs in over 60 countries around the world offering students the opportunity to join others in studying the world s languages and cultures while earning ASU course credit. For more information, visit studyabroad.asu.edu.

22 Arts & Entertainment The State Press Week of November 21, 2013 The secrets of The Slacker s Guide to Undergrad MOLLY Grades, sleep and a social life. So the saying goes, you can only have two. Sometimes it feels like you can only have one. But what if there s a way to balance all three without a sacrifice? That would be called time efficiency, a skill Creighton University graduate Robert Berry mastered during his time in college. He mastered it so much so, he went on to spread his knowledge through his booklet The Slacker s Guide to Undergrad. Inspired by Tim Ferris s time efficiency book, 4-Hour Workweek, Berry s booklet takes about 30 minutes to read and was written especially for the college crowd. One thing I got better at as I went through college was getting through my academic workload time efficiently so I could pursue other interests, Berry said. One of Berry s most emphasized points in his booklet: professors. Those of us with at least a semester or more of college experience under our belts have learned the wrath of poor choice in professors. It is worth it to take some time to research your classes and professors and form a decent schedule. But the process doesn t end at choosing your professors. Instead of a one-semester-experience with a professor, as Berry says, create a lasting relationship with your professors. Creating that relationship isn t just important for your time in college. Talking to professors allows you to gain a personal connection with them, and you can use them for references or networking later, Berry explains. In his own college experience, Berry was met with professors who were very willing to help. Another one of Berry s important tips is about how students can use their class time to really focus on the PowerPoint presentation. Almost every teacher uses them nowadays and many post them online, in ASU s case, to Blackboard. In his booklet, Robert talks about using class time for courses of lesser importance for your degree to really study those slides instead of trying to write down every word your professor is saying. Later you ll be able to devote time to some of your more difficult courses and be done with your workload earlier. Art History junior Bryan Gottman says one of his more difficult time management tasks is finding a balance between work and classes. Many students can definitely relate to his struggle, which is why taking time to plan out a strategy for each of your classes is exceedingly important. One last important tip is scheduling out assignments, especially the big ones. Biochemistry freshman Michelle Culbertson practices this by writing out her assignments in her planner. I would just kind of like to make sure I have time to finish things and leave space in my schedule, Culbertson said. With bigger assignments, leaving yourself enough extra time in case something happens is crucial. Berry preaches the importance of planning out when to work on each assignment and being sure to finish assignments a day and a half before the due date. If something comes up, you ve given yourself a decent chunk of time to problem solve. If nothing comes up, you ve spared yourself the panic ridden all-nighter that follows procrastination. Above all, though, Berry encourages each undergrad to pursue what they actually love. Really go after what you re passionate about for your major. Do something you enjoy, Berry said. [email protected] PHOTO COURTESY OF ROBERT BERRY Wondering where your lab partner was today? Check Police Beat, Page 02. in the Make Your Ideas Happen class, you can make (add your own idea here) Learn how to make just about any idea a reality in this one-credit hour class for undergraduate and graduate students of any major. Gain access to a variety of mentors and prototyping equipment to move your ideas forward. Learn more and register at innovation.asu.edu/makeclass

23 The State Press Week of November 21, 2013 Arts & Entertainment 23 Young artists set new standard for hip-hop music KAYLA SHAWN RAYMUNDO THE STATE PRESS A crowd of students gathers in Tempe for a local hip-hop show. Young rappers have been dominating the hip-hop scene as of late, with artists such as Tyler, the Creator, Chief Keef and Pro Era. It s safe to say that, for the past few years, older rappers have been on the backburner while the younger ones are garnering the majority of the hype. The rising popularity of young artists can be proven by picking up a magazine or turning on the radio. These youngsters are taking over the rap game at the same time they re getting ready for their junior prom. Don t bxelieve it? Just take a look at Pro Era, a group of Brooklyn rappers, producers and singers who blew up while they were still in high school. The group signed with the label Cinematic Music when frontman Joey Bada$$ was just 16 years old. The prominence of young rappers isn t an entirely new phenomenon; Bow Wow had his music videos streaming regularly on MTV when he was 11 years old. What is new is the dominance that young rappers are exhibiting over the game. Their popularity marks an important shift in the demographics of hip-hop artists, and with the age shift comes with different visions. It seems as though more creativity is coming with the younger crowd. The lyrical content of younger artists differs greatly from those who have been in the game a while and tend to lean away from some of the gangster tendencies glorified in older hip-hop. Pro Era, and another rap group called Underachievers instead rap about spirituality, individualism, chakras and meditation. Toure Masters, a 22-year-old rapper from Phoenix, is the epitome of this new version of hip-hop. I see my music as three things: a tool, a weapon and a cure, Masters said. As he experiences the music industry first hand, Masters believes he is especially able to analyze why young rappers are coming to the forefront of hip-hop. Young artists have the power to reach the future, Masters said. They are in a position to influence minds to think just how they think. And it s true. Almost more so than the rappers who came before them, young artists have a powerful ability to set trends, gain followers and add a fresh, relevant legitimacy to the music of their older predecessors. Take a look at any modern hiphop song by an older artist, and you ll most likely find that a young artist was the sole collaborator. Chief Keef, an 18-year-old rapper from Chicago, has a giant fanbase and a catalog that, along with a few mixtapes, includes works with some of hip-hop s legends. Keef has collaborated on a number of songs with hip-hop connoisseur Kanye West. West reached out to Keef for all the features, not the other way around. Why would Kanye West, a millionaire who has been in the rap game since 2000, need a rapper like Chief Keef on his song? Perhaps West recognized that young artists are the key to several things: good music, a broader variety of listeners, extensive radio play, and a spot in every teenagers itunes library. Young artists also realize that, when it comes to ranking highly on the hip-hop charts, promotion is everything. If your music isn t on the hottest websites, your name is unknown and your songs aren t getting downloads. Rick Sanchez and A.K.T Aktion, creators of phoenixhiphop.net, specialize in scoping out good music. With over 700 artists posted on the website, Sanchez and Aktion created the site to keep developing the local rap and hip-hop scene and youth culture. There s a lot of young kids getting more radio play, Sanchez said. We have a lot of young people taking over and dictating all the trends. King of setting trends is Tyler, the Creator, the frontman of rap collective Odd Future. At 18, Tyler released his first album Bastard, which ranked 32nd on Pitchfork s list of the best albums of Yonkers, the first single off his second album, Goblin, catapulted his career and captured teenagers who are now diehard fans. Tyler, The Creator aside, the entire collective of Odd Future is one of the most popular rap groups of today, and it s not just necessarily because of their music. More than a group of African-American teenage rappers, they are individual artists with mismatched personalities that resonate highly with youth. The members of Odd Future are social media champions and are able to reach out to their audience more effectively than most. They refer to themselves as being too black for the white kids, and too white for the black kids, meaning they re misunderstood by most; it makes sense why their fans are so committed to them. Youngsters aren t only taking all the spots in the rap game, but on the turntables as well. Rashaad Johnson, a conservation biology and ecology freshman, is a college student by day and disc jockey by night. Also known as DJ Fudge, Johnson thinks of himself as the modern day conductor, and regularly sings the praises of working in hip-hop as a young artist. There s a big difference between an old DJ and a young DJ, Johnson said. I m able to grab my laptop and mix four different songs at once, whereas an old DJ is used to using classic records so he s only able to play two songs. He s only able to do so much. Is there room in hip-hop for older artists at all? Of course. Should all rappers in the game over 30 years old retire? Absolutely not. But will a rapper who puts out his first mix tape when he s in his 40s make it further than someone who released theirs when they were still in high school? Probably not. Rap veterans like Nas, Jay-Z and Wu- Tang Clan will never be forgotten or replaced, but they will have to adapt to the rap market s changing needs. It was clear when a 17-year-old Joey Bada$$ was compared to Big L, one of the biggest rappers in the 90s, that young artists have the key to this thing we call hip-hop, and they re taking over like never before. [email protected]

24 24 Arts & Entertainment The State Press Week of November 21, 2013 Watch for Rocks raises awareness for Movember JESSICA The month of November is also known to some as Movember, a movement that strives to bring awareness to men s health issues and encourages its male participants to grow mustaches for the duration of the month. Watch for Rocks, an indie-rock band composed of ASU students and employees, is lending its support to the charity with a benefit concert this Friday. Just created this year, this is the group s second benefit concert as it continues to give back through music. Lead singer Sarah Robinson, who is also an education and outreach program manager of EarthScope which is housed at ASU, said it was a group decision to donate all of the funds from the concert to Movember. It s good to create awareness for a good cause, Robinson said. The mustache is meant to be a catalyst for men s health awareness, just as the pink ribbon is for breast cancer awareness. Because men tend to be less likely than women to regularly visit their doctors and report health concerns, such insouciance has exacerbated health issues and led to deadly results, including shorter lifespans. As Movember gains popularity, it is not uncustomary to see men proudly grow mustaches and beards throughout the month as they partake in the life-changing metamorphosis of men s health. Supporters around the world dedicate November to the cause and raise funds for the official global charity. Guitarist Andrew Ryan, who is pursuing his Ph.D. in geological sciences, said he noticed how Movember has gained momentum in recent years and wanted to contribute to the widespread awareness the charity aims to accomplish. Danny Foley, a planetary geology research analyst for NASA at ASU, is the band s bassist and manager. He created the event in an attempt to champion for men s health. I was inspired by the month of October and what it s done for breast cancer and women s health awareness, Foley said. I really wanted to continue that on to November for men s health awareness and just continue that good spirit of charity and make the world a better place through music. With the lives of men being tragically cut short, it is Movember s intent to quite literally change the face of men s health, as it does with the sporting of facial hair, and provide men with the resources to regain control over their health. The cause is primarily focused on prostate and testicular cancer, and it includes awareness, education and research for the diseases. In addition to Watch for Rocks headlining performance, the night will feature music by Sister Lip, Darkness Dear Boy, The Upper Strata and Ghetto Cowgirl. It s going to be a great lineup, Ryan said. The Rogue Bar in Scottsdale, which Foley calls one the band s favorite places to play, will hold the event that is only open to those 21 and over. All of the proceeds from the show s $5 cover charge will go to the Movember charity, but Watch for Rocks will also have a donation jar for concertgoers wishing to add to their donation. For those unable to attend the concert, the band has registered with Movember, PHOTO COURTESY OF ERINNE BLAKEMAN and donors can directly send their funds via the band s website. The concert begins at 8 p.m. and Watch for Rocks will be supplying fake mustaches for the crowd to sport. [email protected] Tainted Love challenges stigma of interracial dating KATIE Rachel Anderson, a 35-year-old who works in real estate in Phoenix, always had to deal with racism in her family. In July 2010, she went public about her interracial relationship with Akil Williams. Engaged to Williams, Anderson felt she had to hide it from her racist father, and for three months, she did. But before her father even had a chance to meet her fiancée, Williams passed away because of a heart attack. Today, Anderson wishes to bring her story to the world by making a film, using local actors and filming in the East Valley. The film is titled, Tainted Love, which she calls a modern day Romeo and Juliet. The idea of turning their story into a film started before Williams passing. The two planned to write the story while Williams was in jail for driving under the influence, but he later suffered a heart attack while playing basketball. Anderson continued writing the story and eventually finished the screenplay. Anderson created a website to attract attention to auditions. The actors, all local, are now cast and will portray characters based on real people involved in their story. I am so blessed to be part of this film, because I too have a dad that was, and still is to some degree, not accepting of interracial dating, said Mindy Jackson, the actress who will play the character representing Anderson. Everyone involved in the filmmaking process is focusing on keeping the film close to Anderson s true story. The main struggle I see is the way people think of these relationships, Jeff Grunow, the film s director, said. I am finding that there is still a lot of hesitations to understand people and feelings; it s still about skin color. Anderson said they should start filming by the end of December, but the crew is waiting on some financing for the film. Tainted Love has a donation page set up where Anderson explains her story and urges viewers to help by donating. I think people like to relate to movies, Anderson said. Reality is huge and people like a movie based on a true story. Her mother loves the film, and her father has yet to hear about it. While working to make the film come to life, Anderson is also working on turning the film into a book, which is already in the process of being written. She said it should be done close to February I d love for the audience to see that people have a purpose, and we don t have forever, Anderson said. If you re in love with someone, don t hide it because of what other people think. Be true to yourself. The trailer for Tainted PHOTO COURTESY OF LEONLYN DESIGNS Love can be viewed on YouTube, and the project has a Facebook page with information about the film and ways to donate. [email protected]

25 The State Press Week of November 21, 2013 Arts & Entertainment 25 ASU junior explores professional video production ADRIANNA Camaron Stevenson, like most journalism students, is just trying to get ahead of the game. From his own video production company, Ansre Entertainment, LLC. to his most recent venture, a pilot episode shot for a unique sketch comedy show What Just Happened? that is currently being pitched to national television networks, Stevenson is up for creating anything to build his portfolio. Created in 2012, Ansre Entertainment is Stevenson s vehicle for becoming a multi-talented producer through his video production of short films, music videos and What Just Happened? Working with New York comedian Brian Havig, Stevenson filmed the show s genre-bending pilot episode that blurs the lines between sketch, improv and hidden-camera pranks. Stevenson, a junior, describes the show as Portlandia meets Trigger Happy TV, as it will supplement street comedy with kamikaze-style improv as host Brian Havig incorporates The Daily Show -style interviews with New York City passers-by. I d say Portlandia probably is good at capturing that sort of unique sense of humor to it.... You could also mesh it with the group Improv Everywhere, Havig said. Stevenson, 25, said that it s just a more narrative style of hidden camera, and that each episode would assign a twist to commonplace street comedy. It s out in public and you get reactions, but there s actual story lines and arcs, and there s reoccurring characters throughout episodes, Stevenson said. Arizona native, comedian and writer, Brian Havig said that it would incorporate more flash mobs as well as skits that would mesh to create a unique comedy show, but it s going to depend on the funding. This could end up going nowhere, nothing but a couple YouTube videos, or we could actually sell a pilot, get on TV, get on a national network or a local network, Havig said. Ansre Entertainment undertakes a hodgepodge of video production assignments, like the music videos he has released for bands Calabrese and Ending Ali and Appartitions, as well as his concert video production for Authority Zero, Hoobastank and Smash Mouth. All of this allows Stevenson to build a solid portfolio as a young entrepreneur, but nonconventional topics are what allow him to innovate, adapt and grow as a producer. The creative projects usually bend things to kind of test my capabilities or try something new, Stevenson said. The whole reason I do the projects like commercials or stuff that might be kind of boring is so I have money to do what I want to do. For him, graduating and getting a degree just isn t as important as gaining experience. People who are involved in film don t care if you have a degree; they just care that you know what you re doing, Stevenson said. It s because of this that Stevenson decided to go his own route with Ansre Entertainment. Though Havig s a bit older than Stevenson, the two share common ground as individuals making a name for themselves. You have to get your foot in the door somehow, and doing a show like this, where it s hidden camera, where it s very low budget, is your best way to do it, Havig said. You just kind of go and you try things out, and if it works out, it works out. If not, you try the next thing. Havig said that after organizing his ideas and speaking with other comedians he was able to refine his ideas and pick the best skits to film. We decided that would be a good way to try and get our foot in the door somehow, him as an aspiring producer and me as an aspiring comedian, Having said. Stevenson recognizes the advantage that comes with being an entrepreneur, building a brand and creating original content. In 2010, he worked with feature film producer Marcelo Grion on upcoming science fiction film The Prototype. I could see that he had a lot of potential, Grion said. When you re hiring people you re assembling a team and I found a good person to delegate and to trust. For Stevenson, success comes with time. It s not the people who get lucky breaks or the people who are super talented that are successful, Stevenson said. It s just the people who work at it the longest.... Everyone knows the idiot person who works at their job, and the reason they re there is because they didn t quit. Havig agrees that a true innovator makes power plays in their career field even as an undergraduate. When you re young like that, you re not afraid to take those big swings and really just go for it. Havig said. [email protected] SEE MORE ONLINE M U L T I M E D I A Watch ASU art students show off their work in a senior exhibition, Phantasmagoria, at statepress.com. PHOTO COURTESY OF CAMARON STEVENSON PHOTO COURTESY OF CAMARON STEVENSON PHOTO COURTESY OF CAMARON STEVENSON

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28 28 Sports The State Press Week of November 21, 2013 POWER RANKINGS ASU, UCLA clash for Pac-12 South Pac-12 Power Rankings: Stanford upset by USC, Oregon on top Stanford sat atop the Pac-12 power rankings but relinquished its spot to Oregon following a loss to USC. Here are the Week 12 power rankings by State Press football reporter Danny Shapiro: 1. Oregon (9-1, 6-1 Pac-12) 2. ASU (8-2, 6-1 Pac-12) 3. Stanford (8-2, 6-2 Pac-12) 4. USC (8-3, 6-2 Pac-12) 5. UCLA (8-2, 6-2 Pac-12) 6. OSU (6-4, 4-3 Pac-12) 7. UW (6-4, 3-4 Pac-12) 8. WSU (5-5, 3-4 Pac-12) 9. UA (6-4, 3-4 Pac-12) 10. Colorado (4-6, 1-6 Pac-12) 11. Utah (4-6, 1-6 Pac-12) 12. California (1-10, 0-8 Pac-12) on the fly what we re tweeting, you should be reading twitter.com/statepress STATE PRESS STAFF THE STATE PRESS Senior safety Alden Darby prepares for a play during an ASU football game. If the ASU football team wins against UCLA in Pasadena, Calif., on Saturday, it will go on to play in the Pac-12 Championship game. JOSH Saturday s tilt between No. 17 ASU football and No. 14 UCLA is the closest you can get to a Pac-12 South Championship game. The Sun Devils (8-2, 6-1 Pac-12) head into Pasadena, Calif., with a one-game advantage over the Bruins (8-2, 5-2 Pac-12) in the division standings. If ASU wins, it clinches the Pac- 12 South and punches a ticket to the Pac-12 Championship game. If UCLA wins, the Bruins own the tiebreaker over the Sun Devils and would have to hold it against No. 23 USC for one more week. ASU is just one game away from accomplishing its season goal of winning the Pac-12 South with UCLA standing in its way the same way it has been for the past two seasons. If you want to win the South, you have to beat the team that won it, ASU coach Todd Graham said. They ve won it the past two years in a row. Our guys know that. They know you re going to have to play your very, very best game to go into the Rose Bowl and get a win against the Pac-12 champions. In 2011, the Sun Devils fell to the Bruins at the Rose Bowl on the heels of redshirt junior kicker Alex Garoutte s three missed field goals, including a last-second attempt with the game on the line. In 2012, UCLA sophomore kicker Ka imi Fairbairn hit a lastsecond 33-yard field goal to give the Bruins a win over ASU in Tempe. UCLA won the Pac-12 South in 2011 with a two-game lead over ASU and with a one-game edge in As a team, UCLA is third in the Pac-12 in scoring offense behind ASU, averaging 37 points per game. Defensively, the Bruins hold their opponents to 23.7 points per game, which is 0.7 less than what the Sun Devils allow. Other than in rushing offense and pass efficiency, ASU leads UCLA in just about every major statistical category. The Sun Devils are the least penalized team in the Pac-12 and have committed just 37 penalties, while UCLA has been flagged 88 times, the second-most in the Pac-12. UCLA redshirt sophomore Brett Hundley leads the way for the Bruins spread offense as a dual-threat passer. The Chandler High School product s 67.8 completion percentage is the highest in the Pac-12 and his 50.2 rushing yards per game average is the second highest of all quarterbacks in the conference. Graham praised Hundley for his ability to keep the ball and run and said he helps spread UCLA s offense vertically. Graham said Hundley will be the best quarterback ASU has faced all season. The key for us is not give up cheap ones, and we got to not let him get comfortable, Graham said. There s a lot of factors that go into that. Our game plan is always designed around their best players and stopping them, so with their offense, you have to start with him. The Sun Devils also have to deal with UCLA freshman linebacker Myles Jack, the newest college football sensation who has gained attention for doubling as an effective running back. In the past two games, Jack recorded 179 rushing yards and five touchdowns as well as recording 13 tackles on the other side of the ball. I haven t, in a while, seen a freshman play like he s played, Graham said. Tremendous athleticism on both sides of the football. Very impressive runner as a tailback. Meanwhile, the Sun Devils aren t fazed by the hype surrounding Jack. Senior safety Alden Darby is confident in the defense, which gives up the second-lowest yards per game in the Pac-12. We just got to welcome him to Division I football, Darby said. He s a good player. I knew (out of high school that) he s a good guy with good character, but we got to go out there and do what we do best. On offense, the Sun Devils see that the Bruins defenders often gamble, so senior tight end Chris Coyle said ASU is planning to take advantage of that. They have a lot of athletes, Coyle said. We have to attack. They like to play instinctively. Sometimes they ll make a play, sometimes spin out of a block the wrong way. Blocking downfield, we have to redirect and let the running back see where the holes are opening up and just have to trust it. This game means a lot for ASU s veterans like Darby, who still thinks about giving up a crucial back-shoulder fade on a third down that helped UCLA score its final touchdown in He said he watched the play again this week to remind himself how badly he wants to win this year. After two years of falling short, the Sun Devils are ready to erase their bad memories and knock off the team that s been standing in the way of their goal. It s like a little grudge, Darby said. It s time to get back at them. I just want to go out my senior year as Pac-12 South champions knowing that we re going for the Pac-12 Championship. That s how I want my senior year to go. I know me and my team are going to give all we got and go out there and leave it on the field. [email protected]

29 The State Press Week of November 21, 2013 Sports 29 ASU cross-country teams just miss NCAA bid LORENZO Women s: The women s cross-country team failed to make the NCAA Championships this past weekend after finishing in sixth place at the NCAA West Regional Championships. The team didn t get the automatic bid but had hoped to sneak in with an at-large bid based on points they had earned during the season. On Sunday when the teams were announced, ASU was left off the list. The team had solid performances throughout the season but fell short of qualifying with the combined points. Coach Ryan Cole said the team lacked experience but was confident it could qualify for the tournament. We felt we were a pretty strong team if we re firing on all cylinders with the girls we have, Cole said. We re not extremely deep as far as our talent and our roster goes, but when people are running the way they re capable of on our team, I think we re a really good team. Cole said inexperience was a challenge this year, but the experienced gained by the younger girls will help next season. We really don t have a ton of experience on our team, so I think that bodes well for our future, Cole said. They ve progressed, they have been doing it, and I think it s a special group. I just think they need more time to gain fitness and experience. Junior Shelby Houlihan had another strong season for ASU, as she was able to earn an invitation to the NCAA Championships from the Western Region. Houlihan anchored the women s team this season keeping the team alive with her performance and leadership. It s a very talented team. They re determined to be good, and they love running, Cole said. I think this year was a continual step forward in that process (for the championships) for us. Men s: For the fourth straight year, the ASU men s cross-country team fell short of the NCAA Championship. Qualifying for the NCAA Championship in cross-country is one of the toughest challenges in any sport. Only 18 teams automatically qualify and only 13 more get in based on teams they ve beat and points accumulated during the season. The ASU men s cross-country team fell short of the 31st spot for the fourth year in a row after finishing fifth overall at the NCAA West Regional Championships. With high expectations headed into this season the team failed to make a big enough push at Regionals to get over the hump. Freshman Bernie Montoya was the team s big offseason addition, and many hoped he would help the team get into the championships this year. Montoya fared well individually as he adjusted from high school to his first collegiate KATIE DUNPHY THE STATE PRESS Junior Shelby Houlihan, freshman Miranda Kewley and junior Payton Schutte start to run sprints on the Joe Selleh Track. The ASU cross-country team finished just short of the qualifications for the NCAA Championship for the fourth year in a row. season, but the team as a whole could not get past some of the more talented teams in the West region. Montoya took home All-Region honors for his performance at the team s last meet of the season, finishing 20th overall. With the team losing most of its upperclassmen next season and now that the freshmen have a full season under their belts, the future looks bright for the Sun Devils. Next season, Montoya will be expected to improve upon what he started as the team looks to break into the NCAA championships for the first time in five seasons. [email protected] Maturing UCLA football eyes Pac-12 South title ERIC If there s one thing UCLA is really good at doing over the past few years, it s winning the Pac-12 South. With a win Saturday, the Bruins (8-2, 5-2 Pac-12) are once again in a position to claim the Pac-12 South, in large part due to the evolution of redshirt sophomore quarterback Brett Hundley. As a redshirt freshman last year, Hundley was sensational, throwing for 3,740 yards and 29 touchdowns with 11 interceptions, as well as rushing for another 355 yards with nine touchdowns. With a year of starting experience under his belt, Hundley has only gotten better. I think last year the offense was a little basic for me as a redshirt freshman, Hundley said. This year it s more dropping back, going through everything, reading defenses and really maturing as a quarterback and understanding the game plan and what we re trying to do. His advanced comprehension of the offense is paying off. So far this year, he leads the Bruins in both passing (2,384 yards, 20 TDs) and rushing (502 yards, seven TDs). Thanks to Hundley s maturation, UCLA has the third-ranked scoring offense in the Pac-12 behind Oregon and ASU, averaging 37 points per game. But Hundley isn t the only one who has been coming into his own. Under the watch of coach Jim Mora, the team as a whole has come together and matured. We just had a lot of buy-in, Mora said. It sounds really simple, but I think it is really simple. You get good players, and they work hard, and they trust in what you re telling them, and they try to be the best they can every day, and I think they have a chance to be a good football team. It s not really as complicated as you might think. It s just an attitude. With their new attitude and solid quarterback play, the Bruins will be looking to repeat their victory they had over ASU in Tempe last year. Mora has also taken time to let the team know exactly what the importance of Saturday s game is. I addressed it but they also understand the significance of it, Mora said in the Pac-12 coaches teleconference Tuesday. We kind of started talking about having to get into playoff mode after we lost to Oregon, so I think we ve been acutely aware each week of the significance of each game, and this game is the same. e [email protected] STATE PRESS STAFF THE STATE PRESS UCLA sophomore place kicker Ka imi Fairbairn prepares to kick a field goal during a game against ASU. UCLA and ASU go head to head Saturday in Los Angeles.

30 30 Sports The State Press Week of November 21, 2013 The Edge: DANNY ASU, UCLA even on Saturday SHAPIRO The State Press Quarterback Edge: UCLA Running Back Edge: EVEN Wide Receivers/ Tight Ends Edge: ASU Offensive Line Edge: EVEN Redshirt junior Taylor Kelly struggled for the second straight game, throwing two interceptions and no touchdowns passes in the win over OSU. It s tough to think Kelly will struggle for three consecutive games considering the year he s had. Kelly is still averaging passing yards per game and a final total around there against UCLA will be necessary for a Sun Devil win. Redshirt sophomore Brett Hundley threw for just 159 yards last week against UW but had two touchdowns. Hundley torched ASU for 274 yards and four touchdowns last year in Tempe but is averaging just passing yards per game this season. Hundley s ability to run the ball is something the Sun Devils defense has yet to really see this season. ASU coach Todd Graham called Hundley the best quarterback his team will have faced so far this season. Senior Marion Grice has 901 rushing yards and 20 total touchdowns after his 118-yard, two-touchdown performance against OSU. Grice has really turned it on over the past four games, rushing for 506 yards. Redshirt junior Deantre Lewis didn t see any touches against the Beavers, but sophomore D.J. Foster carried four times for 20 yards and picked up his first rushing touchdown of the season. Two weeks ago, the Bruins didn t know who was going to step up for injured redshirt junior Jordon James. Freshman linebacker Myles Jack has been extraordinary in place of James, rushing for 120 yards and a touchdown against UA then for 59 yards and four touchdowns against UW last week. It s possible Jack, who is averaging 9.4 yards per rush, is a better running back than linebacker, which is saying a lot. Redshirt sophomore Jaelen Strong is back to 100 percent, which is great news for ASU. Strong caught seven passes for 106 yards, including 66 on the opening drive of the game, against OSU. His return to pre-injury form plus the continued emergence of sophomore Richard Smith (seven catches vs. the Beavers) provides a good one-two punch for the Sun Devils. Seniors Chris Coyle and Kevin Ozier have continued to catch passes in key situations as well. Redshirt senior Shaquelle Evans is the Bruins best receiving option, catching 36 passes for 524 yards and seven touchdowns this season. The Bruins have a solid number two in sophomore Devin Fuller, who has 453 yards and four touchdowns himself this season. Redshirt sophomore Devin Lucien emerged last week against UW, catching his first touchdown pass of the season. Kelly was sacked twice against OSU and pressured for most of the night, but the line continued to go a good job of blocking for Grice, springing him for a 40-yard run at one point. It s still hit and miss with the line, but senior Evan Finkenberg and redshirt junior Jamil Douglas continue to be consistent leading the attack for the offense. The Bruins offensive line gave up two sacks against UW and has allowed 23 total for the season. There s nothing special about the Bruins line, but it is still opening up holes for Hundley, Jack and others to average 37 points per game. Defensive Line Edge: ASU Linebackers Edge: UCLA Secondary Edge: ASU Special Teams Edge: UCLA Even without redshirt junior Carl Bradford for most of the second half, the ASU defensive line did a good job to pressure OSU junior quarterback Sean Mannion. The line had no sacks on the night, but seniors Will Sutton, Davon Coleman and Gannon Conway did a good job to limit the Beavers rushing attack, allowing just 2.7 yards per rush. Add an angry Bradford to the mix, and the line will continue its impressive run. Senior Cassius Marsh is the leader of the Bruins defensive line with three sacks and 6.5 total tackles for loss. Redshirt senior Keenan Graham is the Bruins statistical leader for lineman in sacks with five. Freshman Eddie Vanderdoes and sophomore Ellis McCarthy have chipped in 8.5 total tackles for loss and 2.5 sacks. Senior Chris Young once again led ASU in tackles with nine against OSU, two for loss. Redshirt freshman Salamo Fiso was right there with Young, totaling eight tackles and looking more comfortable with another start under his belt. The one-two combination of Young and Fiso will have their work cut out for them against Jack. Redshirt junior Eric Kendricks leads the Bruins with 87 tackles, 19 more than any other Bruin, but he s not even the best linebacker on the team. Senior Anthony Barr is having another monster year, racking up 14.5 tackles for loss, including seven sacks. Then there s Jack, who has chipped in five tackles for loss, an interception and is tied for third on the team with 67 tackles. Senior Jordan Zumwalt is also second on the team with 68 tackles. Graham said senior cornerback Robert Nelson had the best game of his career against OSU and the numbers don t lie. Nelson had a fumble recovery and two interceptions, including the game-sealing pick-six against the Beavers, earning him Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week. The secondary totaled four interceptions on the night against Mannion, who had thrown just six all season prior to facing ASU. Sophomore cornerback Ishmael Adams leads the Bruins with four interceptions on the season. Fellow sophomore and safety Randall Goforth is second behind Adams with three interceptions, which includes one last game against UW. Redshirt junior cornerback Anthony Jefferson has two interceptions and has been the cog of the secondary with 67 tackles. Freshman Zane Gonzalez nailed his 14th consecutive field goal against OSU and senior punter Alex Garoutte averaged 40.2 yards on his four punts, which is a considerable improvement. Coleman blocked a 48-yard field goal attempt in the fourth quarter that would have cut the OSU defecit to one possession. Sophomore placekicker Ka imi Fairbairn is 12 of 16 on field goals and none of his misses have been from less than 45 yards. Freshman punter Sean Covington has had an outstanding season, averaging 41.4 yards per punt.. Overall EDGE: EVEN The Sun Devils can clinch the Pac-12 South title and earn a chance to play for their third-ever Rose Bowl with a victory. Can the Sun Devils exact revenge on the twotime defending South champion Bruins on their home turf? All the pieces are in place and the Sun Devils have shown the ability to win on the road lately. The Bruins are undefeated at home but haven t faced an ASU-level opponent this season at the Rose Bowl. This is the matchup of the year in the Pac-12 South, but there s no clear favorite.

31 The State Press Week of November 21, Sports Wrestling to battle Bloomsburg, Pa. after 2-1 start ERIC After a tough opening set of matches, the schedule for the Sun Devil wrestling team doesn t get any easier. ASU (2-1) opened the season with a pair of wins over Southern Illinois University Edwardsville 32-3 and Ouachita Baptist University 31-6 before dropping a close contest to No. 8 Illinois Despite the loss, ASU coach Shawn Charles said he was still happy with what he saw from a team that doesn t have a single senior. I feel that we have made a lot of progress from last year to this year, Charles said. We just wrestled the No. 8 team in the country, and we won three matches decisively, they won three decisively and then we had four matches where it could have gone either way. The closeness of the matches against Illinois gives Charles and the team hope as it moves in to its next dual meet against Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. However, beating the Huskies will be no small feat. Bloomsburg has four wrestlers ranked in the top 20 in the country according to intermat. com and wrestle with a style that ASU isn t used to seeing. We re expecting a team that s going to come out and wrestle hard on their feet, but I think they re predominantly going to be tough on top, Charles said. They re going to try to ride us, hold us down. That s East Coast wrestling, a lot of mat wrestling. So, the expectation is they re going to come out there, get on top of us and wear us down and try to turn us. After wrestling Bloomsburg on Friday, the Sun Devils will have little time to rest. On Saturday, ASU will head to the University of Pennsylvania to compete at the Keystone Classic on Sunday. It will be another chance for the Sun Devils to get some experience competing against East Coast wrestlers, which could pay dividends in the long run. It s a good tournament for us. We get to see a lot of East Coast wrestlers, Charles said. East Coast wrestlers wrestle a little differently than Midwest and differently than West Coast, so it s an opportunity to get that feel for them and get ourselves more prepared for our conference and national tournament at the end of March. For redshirt junior Kevin Radford, the weekend is a chance to prove how good ASU really is. The score for Illinois didn t show how good of a team we actually are, Radford said. If we go out there against Bloomsburg and wrestle hard, get our shots off, we can upset them. [email protected] DIANA LUSTIG THE STATE PRESS Junior Tyree Owens and sophomore Ares Carpio wrestle during a practice match at the Sun Devil Fitness Center in Tempe. The ASU wrestling team started the season off 2-1 and now heads to Pennsylvania on Friday to wrestle against Bloomsburg. Volleyball emphasizes serving for UCLA, No. 8 USC BENJAMIN The ASU volleyball team recorded just four aces in its last two home matches against Colorado and Utah. Sophomore middle blocker Whitney Follette had three in the first set against the Utes. Senior libero Stephanie Preach was the only other Sun Devil to record an ace all weekend. Service line success isn t always represented in service aces. Quality serves can also lead to scoring opportunities in other ways, but ASU didn t do that either. We ve got to serve better, Watson said. We ve got to create pressure in other areas, and I think our serve is something that we ve relied on. And with sophomore setter Bianca Arellano, arguably ASU s best server, still recovering from an ankle injury, the Sun Devils can t rely on her jump spin serve. Right now, I m not too into the topspin jump serve, just because I don t want to tire out my ankle, Arellano said. I d rather be more 100 percent during the game, during defense, during transition. Arellano said she will try to speed up her jump float to create more pressure. But a team-wide goal is to drive the ball to the final third of the court when serving. Although that was the same game plan against Utah, Arellano and company didn t necessarily execute it. Putting on more pressure with the serve, though, does carry inherent risks. You have to accept the errors. We get some errors because of that, but we ve just got to be able to drive it into that last one-third with some speed, Watson said. We re just spending too much time in that mid one-third. Watson said that the big focus is on creating scoring opportunities, not necessarily inflating service ace numbers. We re more after scoring points than we are direct scoring of points like aces, Watson said. We think that if we can get 10 points from the service line then we re playing the game really quite nicely. The Sun Devils don t focus much on numbers, but Watson said a one-to-two ace-toerror ratio is effective. Arellano injury status Arellano said her ankle is 90 percent healed and that she would consider herself completely healthy if she could jump at full capacity. My ankle s getting stronger every day, Arellano said. In terms of pain, I m not hurting when I m out on the court and of course the adrenaline kicks in. More middle practice The ASU coaching staff has designed several drills to force Arellano to set to the middle blockers in order to diversify the offense. We ve written a couple of practices this DIANA LUSTIG THE STATE PRESS Sophomore setter Bianca Arellano sets the play during the ASU women s volleyball game against Utah. Arellano recently injured her ankle, causing her to have to perform regular serves instead of her usual jump serves. week where, in order to win the drill, in order to have some success, you have to be able to set the quick, Watson said. With Arellano still recovering, Watson said the tendency is to set the left side, where she is most comfortable. I think when you initially come back you re comfortable setting the left side because you just do it so much, Watson said. It s harder to set quick, and it s easier to set the antennas. The Sun Devils are back in action at the UCLA Bruins on Friday at 7 p.m. [email protected]

32 32 Sports The State Press Week of November 21, 2013 ASU football shouldn t be smelling roses quite yet IAN The ASU football team travels to Pasadena, Calif., this weekend to take on the No. 14 UCLA Bruins in a game that could clinch ASU s spot in the Pac-12 championship game. As the season draws to an end, ASU fans have legitimate aspirations for a berth in the Rose Bowl for the first time since But this isn t the time to get ahead of ourselves. The Rose Bowl, if it s in the cards for the Sun Devils, is at least two very difficult wins from becoming a reality. If ASU beats UCLA on the road this weekend, it will seal its place in the Pac-12 Championship. That game will pit them against the winner of the Pac 12 North division, likely Oregon or Stanford, both of which are ranked in the BCS Top 10. While the Rose Bowl is a tantalizing idea for this team, it is still very far off and there are still hurdles to clear before that possibility becomes a reality. So ASU must keep its focus on the gridiron, not the implications this game will have off of it. UCLA poses a very difficult challenge for ASU. Winners of three games in a row, the Bruins will be one of the best teams if not the best team the Sun Devils have played all season. Coming off two games in which they didn t play to their full potential, the Sun Devils head into Pasadena needing to break out of their rut if they want to have a hope at upending the Bruins. The distractions will be there for ASU as it heads on the road to play in the stadium that will play host to the Rose Bowl in January. If it wins this game and come out on top in the conference title game, it will return to the same field to (most likely) play the Big Ten conference champion. The smell of roses will assuredly be in the air and the thought of a BSC bowl game will undoubtedly be in the back of the Sun Devils minds as they match up with the Bruins. AS CLOSE AS THE ROSE BOWL SEEMS, IT IS STILL A LONG WAY OFF. Already, local and national writers are talking about ASU being worthy and capable of heading to the Rose Bowl. Arizona Republic columnist Paola Boivin wrote after ASU s victory over Oregon State last weekend that the Rose Bowl seems possible for this team. While I don t disagree with her, Boivin s column illustrates a big problem. We shouldn t be worried about the Rose Bowl. Not yet at least. Whether or not playing in that game is a possibility for this team is largely irrelevant at this point in the season because there are still three extremely difficult games ahead. Kyle Kensing, a featured columnist for Bleacher Report, started the Rose Bowl speculation a week ago after ASU squeaked by Utah While his article talked a lot about the matchup against UCLA game, he didn t touch on the conference title game much, as if this game against the Bruins is ASU s chance to clinch a spot in the Rose Bowl. That s just not the case. As close as the Rose Bowl seems, it is still a long way off. If ASU does pull out a win on the road against UCLA, the Sun Devils will still have to go toe-totoe with either Oregon or Stanford in the title game. Oregon has only lost once all season and Stanford has already beaten ASU in Don t get me wrong, I am as excited as the next guy for the chance to see ASU playing in Pasadena twice this season. I want to see this team in the Rose Bowl as much as everyone else. But I don t want us to get distracted by the allure of a BCS Bowl game when we still have a long way to go before we get there. Beating UCLA is up first on the docket. These two teams are pretty evenly matched but have been trending in opposite directions in the last few weeks. ASU has struggled offensively in its last two outings, while the emergence two-way player Myles Jack has sparked a fire in UCLA s offense. Shaking off the rust will be key for ASU. UCLA hasn t lost at home this season and if the Bruins get ahead early, it could be difficult for the Sun Devils to come back. But victory this weekend does not necessarily equal a Rose Bowl berth. So the Sun Devils need to enter this game with their minds clear of the postseason. Just win this next game then worry about the conference championship game. Only then can roses be on their minds. Reach the columnist at [email protected] Devil Dish Ben Margiott Reporter Evan Webeck Reporter Danny Shapiro Reporter Justin Janssen Reporter The ASU men s basketball team drew more than 1,200 students in its season-opening rout of University of Maryland Baltimore County at Wells Fargo Arena, according to a tweet sent out by the 942 Crew, a student group that aims to bring at least 942 students to every ASU men s basketball home game. But I m not impressed by selling out the student section with barely more than 1,200 students. First off, the fact that Sun Devil Athletics only allots students 1,200 seats to a student body of more than 70,000 is absurd. Wells Fargo is an arena that has the capacity for more than 10,000, and with men s basketball rarely selling out with the general public, Sun Devil Athletics can afford a few more student seats. But that s beyond the point. My biggest issue is with the general student body at ASU, for its overall lack of involvement and disregard for our basketball team. It s not like the on-court product is bad. You get to watch future NBA first-rounder Jahii Carson showcase his skills on a team that has a legitimate chance of making the NCAA tournament. So what s holding back all the fans? I wish I knew the answer to that. In the meantime, find me at Wells Fargo, adorned in gold. For once, things seem to have gone as expected in the NFL this season. At least at the top. Amidst the Houston Texans and Atlanta Falcons falling apart both literally and figuratively two teams have held steady as Super Bowl favorites since the training camp. The Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos are clearly the top two teams in the NFL. It may have taken until Week 11 for some to come around, but I, like most, thought so from the start. The Broncos have faced less adversity and fewer injuries, but are more proven than the Seahawks. Meanwhile, Seattle has had its ups and downs this season. Its lowest low was the same as its likely Super Bowl counterpart, losing to the Indianapolis Colts on the road. The Seahawks, however, haven t reached their highest of highs yet. They had been playing since Week 2 without their Pro Bowl left tackle Russell Okung, and the entire season without wide receiver Percy Harvin. Both returned in last week s win over the Minnesota Vikings. With a bye week to get even healthier, this Seahawks fan has a message for the Broncos: See you in the Super Bowl. A crowd of 64,715 was announced for the Trojans Oct. 26 matchup versus Utah, but photos showed a stadium that looked barren and bored. Fast forward to last Saturday s matchup versus defending Pac-12 champion Stanford. The coliseum, filled with 93,607 raucous fans, saw the Trojans upset the Cardinal 20-17, and the crowd stormed the field. Frankly, Trojan nation doesn t deserve the success interim coach Ed Orgeron and his team have given it. Along with the lack of attendance support, fans were booing the team, even after the Lane Kiffin era ended. Sure, there are the diehards who stuck with their team, but attendance speaks for itself. The Coliseum has drawn quite well for years now because of the national power USC has been. Playing for the national championship will do that. One bad stretch and the Coliseum was suddenly less popular than Steve Bartman in Chicago. So, to all the Trojans fans that stuck with the team, bravo. And to the bandwagoners, please tell me where you were on the afternoon of Oct. 26. In the past three seasons, the Falcons earned the NFC No. 1 overall seed twice. In 2013, the Falcons have gone from first in the conference to worst in the conference with a 2-8 record. The easy answer is to say injuries are the cause, and there were costly ones to wide receivers Julio Jones and Roddy White, among others. But it s not just the injuries. There are deeper, fundamental issues with this team that, in the past, were masked by an exceptional passing offense. Football comes down to blocking and tackling, and the Falcons can t do either. The Falcons rank near the bottom of the league in most major statistical categories: scoring defense (29th), rushing offense (31st), rushing defense (30th), turnover margin (31st) and pass defense (22nd). Fourth-string running back Antone Smith ran for a Falcon season-best 88 yards on Sunday, and he needed only two carries. At the time, I thought the Matt Ryan megacontract was good for the team, but the ninefigure contract meant the Falcons had to spend cheaply with everyone else. Cutting John Abraham (six sacks in last three games) and losing two cornerbacks in the offseason hurt significantly. It s clear the Falcons have a lot of issues to address in the offseason.

33 The State Press Week of November 21, 2013 astrological forecast By Jennifer Shepherd Week of November 18-24,2013 Aries: March 21-April 19 Sometimes you need to look at the past to figure out what to do with your future. A moon opposition is encouraging you to consider past romantic situations and explore how you handled those relationships. You ll learn something important about yourself. Taurus: April 20-May 20 You ll enjoy an easy flirtation with someone, courtesy of Venus. Maybe you ll chat with a stranger on your morning train or at your favorite coffee place. Be open to sharing some light banter with someone cute and interesting and see where things lead. Gemini: May 21-June 21 The sun could be creating some feelings of uneasiness for you, but try not to panic. You might be worrying for no good reason at all. If you re stressed out about something, discuss your concerns with your honey in a loving and calm way. Cancer: June 22-July 22 Venus is opposite your sign for a few weeks, and this means you should avoid making any big romantic moves. It s not the greatest time to make decisions like whether you should get married or have kids. And your emotions could be all over the place. Leo: July 23-Aug. 22 You ll enjoy being on the move as the sun increases your craving for travel. Take your sweetheart out of town for the weekend. Visit a location that inspires you and lifts your spirits. Do something that allows you to be in a fun environment. Virgo: Aug. 23-Sept. 22 Someone could have a crush on you, and you re likely to find out about it this week. The moon is creating some flirtatious moments. You ll have to decide if you share this person s interest or if you d prefer to remain more casual friends. Libra: Sept. 23-Oct. 23 You re in one of your restless moods, thanks to the moon. Even if you re enjoying a great romance with someone, you might still find yourself wondering what it would be like to date some other people. Try not to ruin a good thing. Scorpio: Oct. 24-Nov. 2 Trust your intuition this week. Mercury is making you super sharp, and you could pick up on some subtle signals that everybody else around you is missing. And if you get the sense that someone is romantically interested in you, chances are that you ll be right. Sagittarius: Nov. 22-Dec. 21 You ll want to express yourself in sexy and sassy ways, thanks to the sun. Arrange a romantic meal where you and your honey can discuss various seductive scenarios. Write a love letter to a gorgeous stranger, if you re single. Capricorn: Dec. 22-Jan.19 You and your sweetheart will enjoy being alone together this week as Venus kicks up the passion. Try to take time off from work if you can. Turn off the phone, the computer, and the TV. Focus exclusively on that special someone. Aquarius: Jan. 20-Feb. 18 Group situations could be stressful for you just now. Pluto is encouraging you to spend some time by yourself. You need to play the hermit for a bit so you can figure out how you really want to handle that complicated personal relationship. Pisces: Feb. 19-March 20 You could find yourself in a position to make a big difference in someone s life as a generous moon fills you with grand ideas. Play guardian angel to someone and do something kind. Bring your honey along to help out and contribute. Complete the grid so each row, column and 3x3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve sudoku, visit uk 2011 The Mepham Group. Distributed by Tribune Media Services. 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