The Cornell Daily Sun
For the first time since 2012, Cornell men’s hockey finds itself back in the NCAA tournament. This time, the No. 3 seeded Red was selected to play in the Northeast Region along with No. 1 Minnesota, No. 2 UMass Lowell and No. 4 Notre Dame.Preview the first round matchup against Lowell here, and get a scouting report of the entire region here. Follow below for live updates.Men’s Hockey NCAA 1st Rd – Curated tweets by DailySunSports
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March Madness 2017: Updated printable NCAA tournament bracket and live stream schedule
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The Madness has begun and we've got the official NCAA March Madness printable bracket and live stream schedule right here:
Print the official March Madness bracket here (.PDF)
And here's the complete live stream schedule for NCAA.com, where you can watch every game:
2017 March Madness Schedule
Regional Finals (Elite 8) Saturday, March 25
Regional Finals (Elite 8) Sunday, March 26
National Semifinals (Final Four) Saturday, April 1
Games (Final Four)
Date
Game Site
Time (ET)
Network
TBA vs. TBA
April 1
Phoenix, Arizona
6:00 p.m.
CBS
TBA vs. TBA
April 1
Phoenix, Arizona
8:30 p.m.
CBS
National Championship Game
Game (National Championship)
Date
Game Site
Time (ET)
Network
TBA vs. TBA
April 3
Phoenix, Arizona
9:00 p.m.
CBS
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Theta Tau presents second annual Theta Talks
The Reflector - news
The Kappa Beta chapter of Theta Tau, a professional engineering fraternity at Mississippi State University, is partnering with The Bagley College of Engineering to host it’s second annual “Theta Talks” event from 6-8 p.m. on March 28 in the Dorman Hall auditorium.
Beginning in October 2016, Theta Talks is a lecture series consisting of 10-15 minute presentations from multiple speakers. However, attendance for this event is expected to rise from the audience of 250 people in October, to 300 people.
The theme, “Tomorrow Builders: The Future Starts Now,” gives presenters the opportunity to elaborate on a specific field of study where they have worked, one they are currently involved in, or one they show genuine interest in. Each speaker’s presentation will show a road map featuring where the engineering field is now, and where the speaker thinks it is, or could be, headed in the future.
This year’s panel consists of Gates Cambridge Scholar Lucas Ferguson, who is a MSU microbiology and biochemistry student, MSU’s improvisational troupe, Labrats Comedy, Political Science and Public Administration Professor Dr. Jerry Emison, Jeffrey Rupp, director of outreach for MSU’s College of Business, and Dr. Lakiesha Claude Williams, a biomedical engineer.
Similar to this year’s line-up, last semester’s Theta Talk also focused on speakers from MSU faculty, staff, alumni and students. However, in the future, speakers may be on a more national scale.
Cristy Gerth, professional development head of Theta Tau, said the purpose of this event is to educate people on a diverse scale.
“We have and will always feature speakers from all walks of life and all majors,” Gerth said. “Even though we are an engineering fraternity, business, entertainment, ethics, and philosophy are still very important topics to discuss.”
Gerth said she would like to see Theta Talks continue as an annual event sponsored by the local community, faculty ...
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Police Blotter for March 24
The Daily Illini
CloseThe University of Illinois police on campus. Ryan FangRyan FangThe University of Illinois police on campus. ChampaignBurglary was reported on the 300 block of Springfield Ave around 5:30 p.m. on Thursday. According to the report, an unknown subject forced entry into the victim’s residence, stole electronic equipment and fled the area. Police did not apprehend the subject.Domestic battery was reported on the 1500 block of Springfield Ave around 12:45 a.m. on Wednesday. According to the report, the four subjects were involved in a domestic dispute.Criminal damage to property was reported on the 1300 block of Maplepark Dr around 6:30 a.m. on Wednesday. According to the report, an unknown suspect possibly broke the victim’s rear truck window with a BB.UniversityNothing to report.UrbanaA domestic dispute was reported on the 1000 block of Kerr Ave around 9:45 p.m. on Wednesday. According to the report, the 21-year-old male offender and the victim were formerly in a relationship and engaged in a verbal argument. A second unknown offender flattened the victim’s vehicle tire. Burglary was reported at Walmart, 100 S High Cross Rd. around 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday. According to the report, the arrestees entered the business, concealed several items and left without paying for the items. Officers located the arrestees on the roadway, and arrestees fled and later were located walking away from their vehicle. [email protected]
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Jeren Kendall powers Commodores to victory against Texas A&M
Vanderbilt Hustler
The Commodores (15-8, 2-2) won just their second weekend opening series game by defeating No. 23 Texas A&M (15-8, 0-4) in their first SEC home game. A solid start by Kyle Wright, a strong bullpen and a grand slam by Jeren Kendall powered Vanderbilt to a 4-3 victory on Friday night.
Wright, who entered the game winless, finally earned his first of the season while allowing three runs over five innings. The Aggies got six hits off of Vanderbilt’s ace and drew four walks, as they struck early with three runs over the first two innings. However, Wright would allow just two hits over the next three innings, tallying six strikeouts during the game.
“For tonight, for us to scratch a few runs and get him a W for the first time this year is nice,” Jeren Kendall said.
Just before Wright settled down, Kendall gave him the much needed run support he was missing in his previous starts. A leadoff single by Stephen Scott against Aggie starter Brigham Hill and two later walks loaded the bases for Kendall in the second inning. After falling behind 0-2 in the count, Kendall saw two more pitches in the at-bat, including one that he launched for a grand slam over the right field wall.
“It’s hard to say I was really sitting on anything,” Kendall said. “With two strikes, bases loaded, you’ve just got to try to make some defense, play some defense, just to put it in play and make an aggressive run at it.”
The Commodores are no strangers to allowing their opponents to score first, as the Aggies’ first inning run marked the twelfth game an opponent scored before Vanderbilt. However, Vanderbilt improved to 9-3 in such games, compared to just 6-5 when scoring first.
As Wright maintained the lead through five innings and 110 pitches, the ...
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UCLA bows out of Sweet 16 after 86-75 loss to Kentucky
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Playground Pauley: a day on Dennis Koehne’s court
When you look at Pauley Pavilion - no matter the time of day - it's likely that a man named Dennis Koehne is somewhere inside
Credit: Lexy Atmore
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Baseball and softball teams were busy over the spring break
Sports – The Signal Pitcher Wayne Wages warms up as teammates watch during a baseball game March 5, 2016.
Photo by Dayne Francis | Signal Archives
by Christian Critteden and D’Mitri Chin
Panthers struggle going 1-3 over Spring Break
The Georgia State baseball team split its games this week going 1-3. Their game against Savannah State was canceled. Their first game was against the No.12 ranked Cowboys of Oklahoma State. The scored four runs, scattered on six hits over nine innings. Centerfielder Ryan Blanton and first baseman Jarret Hood had two hits each.
The Panthers opened up Sun Belt Conference tournament with a three game set against the UT Arlington. UT-Arlington won the first game 10-7. Blanton, the leadoff hitter for the Panthers had two hits, and four RBIs on the day. Left fielder Jaylen Woullard added two hits to go along three RBIs. The Panthers scored all seven of their runs in two innings.Blanton and Woullard bother homered in the game.
The Panthers snapped their mini two game losing skid in game two of the series. Freshman Pitcher Hunter Gaddis took a no-hit bid into the 8th inning, before it was ended by a UT-Arlington home run. Gaddis went 7.2 innings, giving up two hits and one earned run.
The Panthers dropped the final game of the weekend series, 7-1. They were only able to manage four hits in the game.
The Panthers will look to get back on the winning track on Mar. 21st against Furman at the GSU Baseball Complex.
All work, no play for the Panthers’ softball team
The Georgia State Panthers’ softball team began Sun Belt conference play March 11, and they seemed to handle their business, as they currently have a 4-2 record in the conference.
The Panthers weren’t able to enjoy their spring break on a beach, but they enjoyed a winning record over the break, and it all ...
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Baseball hosts an 18 strikeout dub against the Citadel
www.thegeorgeanne.com - RSS Results in sports* of type article After a quick road trip to Charleston on Tuesday night where the Eagles would pick up a win against the Citadel 7-3, the baseball team had to come home to complete the sweep of the Bulldogs 1-0.Freshman right-handed pitcher Seth Shuman pitched another gem, totaling 6 strikeouts in 5 innings. Shuman is now 3-0 on the season.
As a team, the Eagles would throw a three-hit, 18-strikeout game, and senior Landon Hughes picked up his second save of the young season.The offense was obviously not as hot as the defense, for they would only earn 4 hits. The lone run for Georgia Southern came in the fourth frame by way of a Cameron Hankins RBI, his first of the year. Hankins would plate his fellow freshman outfielder Mason McWhorter.
These two midweek wins over the Citadel were good for the team to get under its belt before traveling to UT-Arlington this weekend for a three-game series with the Mavericks.
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SGA passes four new legislations in last senate meeting
NEWS – The Signal Student Government Association (SGA) senators packed their last university-wide meeting with legislation.
The March 9 meeting started with a presentation from Vice President for Student Affairs Dr. Douglass Covey, who gave a briefing on legislation passing through the Georgia House and Senate, as well as took questions from senators on commencement, confirming there is no way the location will change, and the Georgia State stadium — aka former-Turner Field.
The meeting closed with a moment of silence for DACA students who “don’t have a voice”, led by Sen. Sara Moreno Duque.
Getting down to business, the senators managed to pass three new bills and a resolution:
Attendance Clarification Act of 2017
The new bill, authored by Clarkston senator Jailyn Jackson would require senators from all campuses to be present in their respective campus’ meeting rooms so that they’d connect to university-wide meetings through WebEx. The legislation would take away senators’ current choice of connecting to the meetings from their homes or any other location, a change which some senators called “inconvenient.”
Newton Executive Vice President Daniel Detflesen, said the bill poses even more requirements for Perimeter campus senators, instead of incentivizing them to tune in to university-wide meetings.
Detflesen gave examples of senators from Newton that leave campus, and would then, if this bill was enacted, have to drive back, leave work or home, to attend the meeting from their campus’ designated conference room. A requirement which, SGA president Fortune Onwuzuruike said, would add a “professional vibe” to university-wide meetings.
Despite Detflesen’s objections and other senators’ objections, the bill was passed. Atlanta Executive Vice President Shamari Southwell said getting to a campus shouldn’t be an inconvenience for Perimeter students, as they’re already required to have that time alloted for the meeting.
“University-wide meetings are already twice a semester and you get those dates well in advance. I think ...
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Come Celebrate Carnaval Around the World
ISU News ISU Today
Come Celebrate Carnaval Around the WorldMarch 24, 2017Are you ready for a party?! Come and celebrate Carnaval and all of it's rich traditions from around the world at the HLA Global Night Event.Hispanic Latino Alliance hosts free food, performances and Carnaval traditions from different countries at 6:00 p.m. March 25 in the Dede's. The first 150 students are admitted free of charge. All others pay $1 or one canned good at the door for admission.
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University comment on Spanier trial decision
Penn State News - Top News
Penn State has issued a statement following a verdict in the trial of former University president, Graham Spanier.First and foremost, our thoughts remain with the victims of Jerry Sandusky.
Five years ago, as the crisis emerged, Penn State’s Board of Trustees took immediate action to change the leadership of the University, instructed the administration to institute new policies and procedures, and set in motion a process to ensure the University was doing everything it could to establish a model ethics and compliance culture meant to ensure the safety of the Penn State community. The University launched a series of new initiatives with the sense of urgency demanded by the Board, while at the same time waiting for the justice system to bring a measure of resolution to the criminal cases that emerged. With today’s decision, we have that closure.
A jury today found former President Graham Spanier guilty of one count of endangering the welfare of a child. Recently, two former senior level administrators, Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor of endangering the welfare of a child, reportedly stating in part that, in the case of Curley: “I pleaded guilty because I felt like I should have done more,” and Schultz: “I felt I had been deficient in not reporting it myself.” The verdict, their words and pleas indicate a profound failure of leadership.
Penn State has extraordinary expectations of our leaders, who must set and maintain the example for reporting, ethics and compliance that reflect best practices. In the view of the jury, with respect to Spanier, and by their own admission, as to Curley and Schultz, these former leaders fell short. And while we cannot undo the past, we have re-dedicated ourselves and our University to act always with the highest integrity, in affirming the shared values of our community.
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Five-Minute for charging enough for UMD’s Pionk?
Sports – Dakota Student
The officials served Pionk the five-minute major for charging UND’s starting goaltender, Cam Johnson, while in the goaltender’s privileged area shortly after UND jumped on the board 1-0 early in the first period.
Johnson, who was in a vulnerable butterfly stance during the hit, still managed to stop the shot. Even though he was knocked over and disoriented momentarily, he played for the remainder of the game. The hit was deemed dirty by the television broadcast crew almost immediately and the recent lack of attention to player safety was brought into play.
“It was a heated battle out there with two rivals going at it,” head coach Brad Berry of the penalty-filled game said. “You control what you can control and that’s the way you play on the ice. I feel very strongly that our team plays the right way.”
The 2016-2017 NCAA Ice Hockey Rules and Interpretations, Rule 43 (Physical Contact-Charging) states:
“A player shall not charge or otherwise foul a goalkeeper while the goalkeeper is within the crease or privileged area.”
The penalty is served as a minor or major at the discretion of the referees and a game misconduct or a disqualification can also be served at the discretion of the referees.
Pionk served his five-minute major and UMD killed off the penalty unscathed, but not without a loud eruption from the crowd of UND fans who thought five-minutes just wasn’t enough.
“I thought that Pionk knew what he was ...
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WKAR partners with local credit union and the Greater Lansing Food Bank to provide meals
MSUToday - Featured stories As part of the WKAR Radio Spring Fundraiser, which kicked off today, donations made to WKAR Radio will help feed those in need the community.
The campaign is a partnership with LAFCU Credit Union and the Greater Lansing Food Bank.
“Every spring, our listeners step up with financial support to provide news that matters and music that inspires for their community,” said Rebecca Walz, WKAR director of annual giving. “In these times, when there is so much uncertainty for so many, we’re thankful that LAFCU and the food bank have joined in to extend that support to have even greater impact in mid-Michigan.”
For each donation made by WKAR Radio listeners and supporters through April 4, LAFCU will make a donation to GLFB that covers the cost of 12 meals.
GLFB is a non-profit organization that provides emergency food to individuals and families in need in Ingham, Eaton, Clinton, Shiawassee, Clare, Isabella and Gratiot counties.
“We’re so glad WKAR and LAFCU reached out to us for this project,” said Joe Wald, GLFB executive director. “The food bank annually serves tens of thousands of people, many of them seniors and children. Our recipients also include the working poor — individuals who are employed but don’t earn enough to meet housing, health, transportation and food needs.”
LAFCU is a credit union serving the counties of Barry, Calhoun, Clinton, Eaton, Gratiot, Ingham, Ionia, Jackson, Livingston, Montcalm and Shiawassee.
“LAFCU’s mission is to support the ideal of people helping people, and this partnership with WKAR and GLFB helps us fulfill that mission," said Kelli Ellsworth Etchison, LAFCU senior vice president of marketing.
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Eat Clean at Wild Living Foods
Daily Trojan
Photo from Wild Living FoodsLos Angeles seems to be a mecca for healthy, clean foods, where everyone is up-to-date on the latest health trends. People will buy anything from cold-pressed juices to Kombucha to zucchini noodles if they see a nutritional benefit. There are countless places around the expansive city to find nutritional vegan or vegetarian meals: Cafe Gratitude, By Chloe and Zinc Cafe. However, some people think healthy food is inaccessible right in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. Many of the current options are either too expensive or too far from Downtown. To fix this problem, husband and wife Richard Torres and Lizbeth Sanchez created Wild Living Foods. The vegan restaurant is situated on Main Street in the heart of Downtown. Wild Living Foods was created with the purpose of making clean, plant-based food more convenient to people in the Downtown community.
Photo from Wild Living Foods
Many of my vegan friends raved about Wild Living Foods, so I decided to give it a try. The restaurant’s name is in recognizable pink and blue neon lettering. Upon walking inside, I was first struck by vibrant designs and decorations. The restaurant is also spacious, with high walls and lots of seating. One wall is a giant, colorful mural, the floor is an assembly of patterned tiles and there are ceramic decorations on almost every surface.
Photo from Happening in DTLA
I was skeptical about the menu at first, because everything is completely raw and vegan. I decided to order the New God Flow smoothie with cashew butter, cold brew coffee, vanilla, dates and mucuna power. I also ordered a delicious guacamole served with hopi blue corn chips and a spicy tuna roll made with almond tuna. The sushi was excellent, and I am now a new fan of almond tuna. The roll was savory, and the fresh tuna ...
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Baylor too much for women’s basketball, Cards’ season ends in Sweet 16
The Louisville Cardinal By Dalton Ray–Playing in the Sweet 16 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, one seed Baylor thumped four seed women’s basketball 97–63. BU’s size dictated the game as U of L struggled to shoot in the lane, pull down rebounds and defend the Bears in the paint. Baylor out-rebounded U of L 52-36 and shot 50 percent to Louisville’s 30.In the first quarter, Baylor separated themselves early. Ripping off a 11-3 run halfway through the quarter, Baylor jumped up 19-9. The Cardinals shot 4-of-16 from the field and at one point missed 8-of-10 straight shots. After four free throws to end the quarter, Baylor led 25-9.Baylor’s Kalani Brown dominated early, recording eight points and eight rebounds in the first 15 minutes. The Bears extended their lead to 34-17 as their size started to play a significant role.Sophomore Asia Durr, Louisville’s leading scorer, started 0-for-10 and didn’t score until late in the second quarter. With their offensive star struggling, Louisville trailed 43-31 at the half.For the Bears, Brown and Nina Davis carried the offense. The two combined for 25 points on 10-of-16 shooting with 12 rebounds to give BU a 54-38 lead in the third quarter.Durr started to heat up in the third quarter, but Baylor showed poise by rolling with the punches and continuing to strike offensively.Baylor lost to Louisville in the previous two Sweet 16 match-ups, but the Bears got their revenge in OKC. Kim Mulkey’s squad kept their foot on Louisville’s throat, pushing their lead to as many as 27 points in the third.Nothing changed in the fourth quarter as Baylor swelled their lead to 34.Durr finished the game with 21 points on 6-for-21 shooting. Junior Myisha Hines-Allen toted the Louisville offense during Durr’s cold streak, walking away with 10 points and six rebounds. Coming off a hot game against Tennessee, junior Mariya Moore ...
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SGA VP Candidate Lifts Verbatim Portions of Singh’s 2016 Platform
News – The Emory Wheel
UPDATE (3/24 at 10:56 p.m.): Scroll down for the original article.
The Wheel confirmed via revision history on Google Docs that Student Government Association (SGA) executive vice presidential candidate Natasha Armstrong (18B) added the attribution to SGA presidential candidate Gurbani Singh (18B)’s 2016 platform March 23 at 5:25 p.m. following Armstrong’s 4:30 to 4:39 p.m. interview with the Wheel.
UPDATE (3/24 at 8:11 p.m.): Scroll down for the original article.
As of March 24 at 4:30 p.m., an attribution appeared on Student Government Association (SGA) executive vice presidential candidate Natasha Armstrong’s (18B) campaign platform stating that proposed initiatives for safety and transportation, dining and academics are continued from those that SGA presidential candidate Gurbani Singh (18B) proposed in 2016 in her 2016 candidate platform for SGA executive vice president.
SGA executive vice presidential candidate Natasha Armstrong (18B) lifted verbatim approximately 42 percent — 459 words — of her 2017 campaign platform from SGA presidential candidate Gurbani Singh’s (18B) SGA executive vice presidential candidate platform last year.
Armstrong’s platform reads word-for-word the ideas and language of three major sections of Singh’s 2016 platform: safety and transportation, academics and dining. Despite the similarities between the platforms, both Singh and Armstrong denied that plagiarism occurred, stating they developed their platforms together.
According to Emory College’s Honor Code website, “Plagiarism is the use of someone else’s words, ideas or work without providing proper credit. Whether the act is intentional or not, the Honor Council considers any form of plagiarism to be a violation of the Honor Code.”
Armstrong did not attribute the copied portions from Singh’s 2016 platform to Singh.
The Wheel downloaded copies of Singh’s 2016 platform and Armstrong’s 2017 platform as of March 23 at 4:30 p.m. The highlighted portions appear verbatim in both documents.
Gurbani Singh's 2016 executive vice presidential candidate platform
Natasha Armstrong's 2017 executive vice presidential candidate platform
In years past, the SGA presidential and executive vice presidential ...
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Syracuse, Le Moyne to form academic partnership in information studies, law education
The Daily Orange – The Independent Student Newspaper of Syracuse, New York
Syracuse University and Le Moyne College will be forming an academic partnership enabling students, faculty and staff at both institutions to tap into resources offered at each school, SU announced on Friday.
The partnership will establish a collaborative relationship where Le Moyne’s Madden School of Business students have access to SU in the areas of data science and information security management, while SU students gain access to Le Moyne’s health information systems and enterprise systems resources, according to an SU News Release. It would also allow early admission into SU’s College of Law for “extraordinary” Le Moyne College students interested in legal education.
Le Moyne is a small private Jesuit college located about three miles east of SU.
“This new partnership will benefit students and faculty at both Syracuse University and Le Moyne College,” SU Chancellor Kent Syverud said in the release. “Both institutions share a strong commitment to teaching, academic excellence and research. I look forward to the successful partnership moving forward.”
The information management and information systems program expansion plan is currently being developed and will be available to graduate students soon, potentially as early as the fall 2017 semester, according to the release. The program would enable students to create and pursue their degrees through “plug-and-play modules” — including Certificates of Advanced Study.
The law program, or 3 +3 program, would enable Le Moyne undergraduates with outstanding academic achievement to finish their undergraduate degrees and their juris doctor degrees within six years, per the release.
“This partnership will allow Syracuse’s College of Law to attract undergraduate students whose academic excellence positions them for great success in law school,” said SU’s Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly in the release. “ … This partnership is a win-win for Syracuse and Le Moyne, but, more importantly, an excellent and rare opportunity for Le Moyne students to have a jump start ...
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WMU fifth annual business pitch competition
Western Herald - news
This Friday, March 24, Western Michigan University will host its fifth annual business pitch competition. Students have submitted their business pitches and the organizers have narrowed the competition down to twenty-four semi-finalists who will present their ideas on Friday. For the semi-finals there will be six rooms and four 3-minute pitches will be presented, the winner from each room will move on to the finals which will be judged by a panel of local business owners.
The competition was inspired by and created to honor Dr. K.C. O'Shaughnessy, a professor of management in the Haworth College of Business and director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, who passed away in 2011. According to the organizers of the event, O’Shaughnessy’s work at WMU to the entrepreneurship major and minor, and the business accelerator program Starting Gate.
The competition is designed to be jumping off point for students to start thinking about a business idea they might have and how to execute it, Laurel Ofstein, an Associate Professor of Management and one of the organizers of the event, explained.
“The idea is to give students a chance to practice a pitch for an idea that they [students] have for a business that isn’t developed yet, though it can be one that is developed that they’re currently running but for most students it’s just a starting point for thinking about a business idea,” Ofstein said, “And they get practice boiling all the ideas in their head down to a three-minute pitch.”
The majority of the twenty-four finalists are either business or engineering majors, however this year they’re also theater arts and biomedical science majors in the competition. According to Ofstein, the competition has always been open to students of any major and they’ve been working hard to advertise the event in as many places as possible ...
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Friday, March 24, 2017
Lonzo Ball enters NBA draft, expected to be a top-three pick
Daily Bruin MEMPHIS, Tenn. – UCLA freshman point guard Lonzo Ball announced Friday that he will enter the NBA draft.
“That was my final game for UCLA,” Ball said in the locker room after UCLA was eliminated from the NCAA Tournament by Kentucky. “I appreciate all the fans and all the support.”
Ball, the USA Today National Freshman of the Year, is expected to be a top-three pick in the draft after averaging 14.7 points, 7.6 assists and 6.1 rebounds this season.
He had 10 points, eight assists and four turnovers in the Bruins’ 86-75 loss to the Wildcats on Friday.
“I didn’t make enough plays for my team,” Ball said. “Put that one on me.”
Ball, whose father previously guaranteed UCLA would win the national championship, said he did not view the season as a disappointment and emphasized the personal relationships he developed.
“This is a family, we’ll be together for life,” Ball said of the team. “The relationships I built – you can’t touch that.”
Coach Steve Alford, who said throughout the season he expected Ball to leave at the end of the year, said Friday’s game did nothing to change his opinion that Ball should be drafted first overall.
“I’ve said it from day one – in my mind, he’s the No. 1 draft pick,” said Alford after the game. “The way he can orchestrate a team is just phenomenal, so one night where things didn’t click I don’t think is going to change anything.”
Alford praised Ball for his coachability.
“He was just the absolute perfect individual to coach and you don’t see that a lot in the one-and-done era,” Alford said. “Never had a bad practice, never showed up just to put in time. He worked, he worked on his game, he watched film with us, he took care of his body.”
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Professor of violin performs at the Noon Concert Series
News – Vanguard
Tomas Cotik (right) is a professor of violin in the School of Music. Emma Josephson/PSU Vanguard
On March 16, Portland State’s School of Music featured Dr. Tomas Cotik, a professor of violin, for the Noon Concert Series in Lincoln Hall.
[embedded content]Watch highlights from the concert. Video by Emma Josephson
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Luke Maye's career night commands attention in UNC men's basketball's Sweet 16 win over Butler
State News PageOne MEN'S BASKETBALL: No. 1 North Carolina 92, No. 4 Butler 80
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North Carolina forward Luke Maye (32) points to the bench after draining a 3-pointer against Butler in the Sweet 16 on Friday.
Photo by Alex Kormann
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MEMPHIS — They announced his arrival in grandiose fashion, making a marvel of his entrance after his marvel of a performance.Or, something like that. Sort of.“Luke,” Brandon Robinson called out, making sure to drag out the name as long as he could. “Hurry it up — the people waiting on you!”And then he appeared, not in any spectacular fashion, but rather with a wet mop of hair stuck to his forehead and a goofy grin on his face. Robinson wasn’t wrong — it isn’t often that, on a North Carolina men’s basketball team with the ACC Player of the Year and other All-ACC-caliber players, Luke Maye commands a postgame media scrum.
Then again, it isn’t often that Maye plays the way he did Friday in UNC’s 92-80 win over Butler in the Sweet 16. Actually, he’s never played this way. Not once. But when you post your first career double-double in the NCAA Tournament — 16 points (a career best) and 12 rebounds in 25 minutes — maybe it warrants an introduction like this.So Maye grabbed a chocolate shake from one of the managers and shuffled his way through the throngs of reporters to his spot in the locker room, way back in the corner. He couldn’t hide his goofy grin. If anything, it grew, widening and widening with every new question or bit of attention.It didn’t help, of course, that his teammates taunted him the whole time.“Sixteen and 12?” Kennedy Meeks hollered from two lockers down. “Sheesh!”Some kept it more subtle, like Aaron Rohlman, who flicked his tongue back and forth at Maye whenever ...
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Coalition of Graduate Workers urges MU to consider becoming a ‘sanctuary campus’
The Maneater: Latest Stories The Coalition of Graduate Workers is composing a list of demands that would urge MU administrators to make the university a “sanctuary campus.”A sanctuary campus is often defined as a college or university campus that pledges not to refer students who are undocumented immigrants to federal authorities unless a warrant is issued, although the exact definition can vary. Cities, counties and states can also be designated “sanctuary” jurisdictions.
Missouri currently has a law that denies funding for cities that declare themselves to be sanctuaries. This means that Columbia cannot become a sanctuary city. MU, however, acts as a separate entity.
According to CGW spokesman Joseph Moore, the graduate rights union hopes to urge the university to adopt policies that would prevent the university from sharing students’ immigration statuses with organizations such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They also hope that the university would consider lobbying for Missouri Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals students to receive financial aid, an ability they lost due to a state law passed in 2015.
After President Donald Trump’s first immigration restriction plan was released earlier this year, Moore and other CGW members decided to start discussing making MU a sanctuary campus.
“We’ve seen an uptick in deportations, we’ve seen instances of students being rounded up by ICE, including students who are DACA,” Moore said. “So we felt like now was the time to do something about it.”
According to reporting by the New York Times, two draft memos signed on Feb. 20 by Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly show an immigration plan with the intention to deport large numbers of undocumented immigrants by increasing ICE agents and ending the prioritization of convicted criminals.
There have also been multiple reported instances of people who fall under the DACA qualification being arrested by ICE agents, despite Trump’s assurances that DACA would still be ...
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London students share experiences of attack
The ObserverThe Observer Top Stories Following an attack on London’s Houses of Parliament, the University confirmed the safety of ND abroad students.
Students studying abroad in London this semester were put on lockdown in the midst of an attack Wednesday near the British Houses of Parliament and Westminster Bridge. The University confirmed the safety of all 167 students currently studying in London less than an hour after the incident, including nine students interning at Parliament at the time of the attack.
Junior and Parliament intern Jim English was at work when the attack occurred and said he had a view of some of the action from his office window.
“Outside my window on our ground floor office, there is a parking lot where a lot of [members of Parliament] park their cars,” he said in an email. “I was just chatting with my supervisor and another colleague when there was shouting out in the lot, and … [a] few seconds later, Prime Minister Theresa May was rushed through the parking lot and guided into a car where she was eventually taken away. We then learned that there was a shooting and the policemen were yelling for everyone to stay in their rooms.”
Junior Hadyn Pettersen is studying abroad at St. Andrew’s University in Scotland this semester, but he was in London for a brief visit with his dad and uncle. Pettersen said in an email that he saw the aftermath of the attack firsthand.
“I was on a tour bus with my dad and uncle, who had flown to St. Andrew’s earlier in the week to visit me,” he said. “… While on Westminster bridge, another passenger pointed across to the sidewalk and gasped. I looked and saw several people on the ground. A few had gruesome injuries. A few were motionless. I first thought a driver had lost control of his car, but looking ...
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Sizzle Reel (Ep. 20 – Iron Fist, Reboots and more)
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Join Hank Kilgore, Chris Garcia and Makenzie Stallo as they change things up on the new and improved TCU Sizzle Reel that covers everything TV, movie and streaming combined.
This week, we discuss the wave of announcements regarding franchise reboots, as well as our Iron Fist and Legion impressions. We also talk about recent developments regarding Beauty and the Beast, Mulan, Rogue One, Power Rangers and Netflix’s April releases.a
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Students’ pre-college academics meet gen. ed. requirements
The Louisville Cardinal By Megan Brewer —One of our professors once said that today’s generation, our generation, can’t focus. He said we “can’t be taught.” We can’t sit in a class room for an hour and focus on the class at hand.I hate to say it, but he’s right to some extent. We can’t sit for an hour and focus on a professor that lectures us about something we don’t really care about – anything we learned in high school.High school: five classes a day, one in each subject, for four years. We’ve spent years upon years learning the same things, and then we came to college in hopes of learning something new, but instead we get the wonderful list of classes we must take: general education requirements.Why should a student who wants to learn about cells and the human body have to be taught the history of Spain for a second or third time? Why should an English major have to do the same math that was done in high school? Why should an engineer be forced to take a theatre or art class?General education requirements are three words that every college student dreads. A whole year or more of your college career is spent fulfilling the course requirements the college feels everyone should take. Yet, we learned all of this, once, twice or maybe five times. So why must we learn it again?We pick classes that have nothing to do with our selected major, because we have no choice but to do so. We go to the classes, because we have to, but we don’t look forward to it. We’d rather become brilliant in our field of study by taking classes in our subject area.We enter college classrooms in hopes to gain an astonishing education from ...
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CCU’s visiting ethicist to discuss equality in politics
Coastal Carolina University - University News
Mark LeBar, a visiting ethicist and professor of philosophy at Florida State University, will give a talk at Coastal Carolina University about equality as a political ideal on Thursday, March 30, at 4:30 p.m. in the Wall Boardroom in the E. Craig Wall Sr. College of Business Administration. The event is free and open to the public.
“Equality as an Ideal” explores how equality, or the lack of it, has played an outsized role in recent political discourse in the United States.
LeBar is the author of “Equality and Public Policy and “The Value of Living Well.” He earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Arizona. His research interests include moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, and ancient Greek philosophy.
The Wall Boardroom is in Room 222 of the Wall College of Business, located at 119 Chanticleer Drive E. on the main Conway campus.
For more information on the event, contact Brian Edgerton, assistant director of the Jackson Family Center, at bjedgert@coastal.edu or 843-349-4149.
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HAGOPIAN | Third Time’s a Charm
The Cornell Daily Sun
I have a job at a campus eatery called Temple of Zeus. “Zeus,” as it is colloquially known, closed early on Thursday because of an event in Klarman Hall. During my shift that morning, my boss informed me that the event was a send-off for Interim President Hunter Rawlings. Rawlings has been president of Cornell twice before; he first occupied the position from 1995 to 2003, stepping in again in 2005 after the resignation of Jeffrey Lehman. One mordant customer told me, “I won’t begrudge Hunter his retirement party… for the third time.”It does seem a bit, as the kids are saying these days, extra. While stocking the shelves of Zeus with coconut water and gluten-free Larabars, I heard a few notes of music from across the hall. Not a melody, but a distinctly inharmonious sequence of notes. Eventually I realized that a piano had been brought into the building, and that the piano was being tuned.
I’ve met President Rawlings briefly at Zeus; he seems like a nice guy. I’m sure he’s cognizant of the silliness of the situation. Maybe he’ll even make some jokes about it in his speech to the trustees — “Third time’s the charm, right gents?” Yet the event’s still happening while the graduate student union is being denounced, a student grocery store that was envisioned to combat food insecurity is kept from getting off the ground and a “mental health week” is paraded in front of architecture students that sleep ...
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Crime report: Public intoxication, traffic collision
News – The Daily Aztec Close Will Fritz, Senior Staff WriterMarch 24, 2017
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Public Intoxication
Officers were notified of a man stumbling and falling into bushes near the Exercise and Nutritional Science building after 7 p.m. on March 16. The man, a non-SDSU student, was arrested and transported to county jail for public intoxication.
After 8 p.m. on March 18, campus police responded to a report of a caucasian man in a burgundy suit harassing passersby outside of Aztec Lanes. Upon making contact with the man, officers determined he was unable to care for his own safety, SDSUPD Cpl. Mark Peterson said.
The man, later identified as Associated Students College of Arts and Letters representative Nicholas Elliott, was arrested for public intoxication and taken to county jail. A.S. President Jamie Miller said Associated Students did not have a comment on the matter.
Traffic Collision
A vehicle was left on its side after a major collision near the intersection of 63rd Street and Montezuma Road, around 9 p.m. on March 18. Campus police assisted San Diego city police officers in responding to the incident.
Burglary
At 9:42 p.m. on March 17, police were notified a vehicle was burglarized in Parking 7 at some point after 6 p.m. the same evening. The rear driver’s side window of the vehicle was damaged, and a suitcase, bag and makeup box were reported missing.
Police were informed of another vehicle burglary in Parking 7, the morning of March 18. The incident was reported as having occurred between 6-9 p.m. on March 17. Gloves, cleats and other sports equipment were reported missing.
A break-in was reported at the Office of Housing Administration at 4:37 a.m. on March 20. Computing equipment and gift cards were among the items reported missing, Cpl. Peterson said.
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Well-balanced Fairmont State seeks DII men's basketball title
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - When Jerrod Calhoun arrived in Fairmont, W. Va., before the start of the 2012-13 season to coach Fairmont State, he spoke the words of many young, hungry college coaches who have a vision to help a program reach heights never seen before.
Calhoun talked about bringing a national championship to Fairmont State. It was an ambitious goal. After all, he inherited a team that was coming off an 8-19 season in the 2011-12 school year.
“We really believed it,” Calhoun said. “I think a lot of people laughed at us because they won eight games.”
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In Calhoun’s first season, Fairmont State went 23-9 in 2012-13 and has won 20 or more games in each of his first five seasons.
From the outside, it looks like a classic rag to riches story for the Falcons, who will play for its first NCAA Division II national title at 3 p.m. ET Saturday at the Sanford Pentagon against Northwest Missouri State.
Calhoun knows a lot of hard work from a lot of people have made Saturday’s opportunity come to fruition.
“It is a group effort,” Calhoun said. “This is not a one-man show. This is not your Calhoun Show. It is about the players. This is about a community. To build something, you have to have people involved. This community got involved. We did it the right way. We upgraded our facilities. Our administration has been great.”
And finally, it takes players who believe in the process and believe in each other. The Falcons definitely showed their belief in each other in their quarterfinal win over Rollins and semifinal victory against Bellarmine.
In each game, Fairmont encountered foul trouble to key starters and each time somebody stepped up. In the 79-68 win against Bellarmine, junior D’Ondre Stockman came off ...
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Review: ‘More Life’ proves Drake hasn’t lost his edge … yet
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For once, I am able to write a review for an artist who needs no introduction. After dropping one of the most anticipated projects of all time last year, Drake is back with what he considers to be a “playlist” of new music he cleverly titled “More Life.”
Drake is not fooling anybody here – it is clear that all of these tracks are mere leftovers from studio sessions for “Views,” which still feels like a fresh release.
With a whopping 22 tracks to process, it is nearly impossible to see what direction Drake is trying to go with this release, but one thing is clear: It almost feels like Drake is dropping his rap image altogether.
The track “Free Smoke” starts the project off on a really strong note. This kind of song brings me back to what I feel to be the best Drake project of all time, “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late,” where hard-hitting, brutal production meets pull-no-punches bars.
“No Long Talk” continues in this general direction. It is by no means as impressive as the previous ensemble, but it begins to feel as if Drake may have put together another praiseworthy project.
It’s tracks like these that renew my respect for the mainstream, but such a renewal did not last long.
The next six tracks completely revert to the generic, atmospheric dance-hall style Drake has been known for lately. It is boring, unoriginal and instantly feels like something that will plague the radio for the next year to come.
Each of these tracks is practically indistinguishable from the next. That includes what others have considered to be standouts, such as “Passionfruit” and “Blem.”
The project never fully returns to the kind of energy present on “Free Smoke,” and perhaps this is what is most frustrating about ...
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Kid Cudi’s “Passion” deserves more praise
The Louisville Cardinal By Roya Fathalizadeh–Kid Cudi released his sixth studio album “Passion, Pain, and Demon Slayin’” on Dec. 16. Over three months later, I am still shocked to see the lack of acclamation he has received since.Like many artists in the industry, there is almost always an absence of complete cognition between what the artist is trying to convey and what the audience hears. It is vital to have some sort of understanding of what the artist is going through behind the glitz and glamour.Just a year before, Kid Cudi released “Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven.” The 26-song album had fans confused and disappointed, which could also lead to why many didn’t even give his newest album a chance. Lyrics like, “hate the drugs but I love the numb,” “everything, everyone sucks,” and “I’ll be happy getting sh*tfaced by myself” all established a befuddling tone set apart from the music he has made before. The rock star vibe he tried to administer mimics those from hip-hop artists in the past, and did not go well with fans either.As a result of the huge amount of backlash he received, he went silent. We didn’t hear much from the Grammy winner until this past October when he announced he would be checking into a rehabilitation center for depression and suicidal thoughts. Suddenly, those despicable lyrics became a true depiction of his cry for help.Since, countless fans and musical artists have reached out to show their support, which he thanks one by one on his Facebook page. “Passion, Pain, and Demon Slayin’” doesn’t steer much further from the pain he tried to describe on his previous album. Yet, it was the way in which he used his lyrics to illustrate his struggles as well as connect to the everyday person which made this album so phenomenal.His use ...
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Broncos sacrifice bodies for the greater good of the team
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“Oh, yeah right here,” senior defenseman Taylor Fleming said, showing off a callused over cut that stretches between his thumb and index finger. “Almost broke my thumb this season from [blocking] a puck,” Fleming explained.
Blocked shots are a crucial statistic in the game of hockey, usually lost among the flashier ones such as goals, assists and saves. Yet, blocked shots can also be the deciding factors in games.
The Western Michigan University Bronco hockey team has a knack for blocking shots. The Broncos went into Friday’s game against the University of Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs having blocked 505 shots on the season. They ranked third in blocked shots in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference only being beaten out by the Bulldogs (511) and the University of Omaha Nebraska Mavericks (539).
To most people, standing in the way of hockey pucks that have been known to reach up to 100 miles per hour is insane. To players, especially defenseman, it is a mindset, Fleming said.
“I guess it is a mindset, especially being a defenseman our job is to keep the puck out of the back of the net,” Fleming said.
Blocking shots however does come with a risk; one Fleming has dealt with a few times in his hockey career.
“This weekend I got one to the face, fortunately we are wearing full shields so you don’t get much to the face, but back in juniors I lost my two front teeth taking a shot to the face. So, I’ve had a few bad experiences where blocking a shot hasn’t gone well, but it’s for the best interest of the team,” Fleming said.
Fleming is second on the team in blocked shots, putting his body in front of a puck 48 times this season. In fact, the team has 15 players who have blocked double digit shots blocked this season. The ...
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Police Blotter for March 23
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CloseThe University of Illinois police on campus. Ryan FangRyan FangThe University of Illinois police on campus. ChampaignBattery and attempted robbery was reported on the 1300 block of Springfield Ave around 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday. According to the report, an unknown suspect battered the victim and attempted to rob him.Attempted burglary was reported on the 1400 block of Springfield Ave around 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday. According to the report, an unknown subject unsuccessfully attempted to enter the victim’s residence.Burglary was reported on the 400 block of Edgebrook around 10:15 a.m. on Wednesday. According to the report, the offender stole copper pipes from apartments.UniversityNothing to report.UrbanaTheft was reported at Cinema Gallery, 120 W Main St, around 5:15 p.m. on Wednesday. According to the report, two unknown offenders took a donation box from the business. One of the offenders, a 27-year-old male, was discovered to have an active warrant after being stopped by police and was arrested.Lost articles were reported at Lincoln Square Mall, 201 Lincoln Square, around 5:15 p.m. on Wednesday. According to the report, the victim left his backpack on a mass transit bus and now the backpack and its contents are missing.
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A response to Trump’s budget
The Appalachian Online President Donald Trump finally figured out who was going to pay for his wall, and, as expected, it isn’t Mexico. It’s the American people.
But that shouldn’t have surprised anyone, especially with his track record of keeping his other campaign promises.
Everyone should have seen it coming after his Jan. 11 press conference, where he said that Mexico “in some form, and there are many different forms, will reimburse us, and they will reimburse us for the cost of the wall.”
It should have been explicitly clear that Mexico wasn’t paying when Mexican President Enrique Peña said, “It is evident that we have some differences with the new government of the United States, like to the topic of the wall, that Mexico of course will not pay.”
But now it’s been made absolutely clear that is the American people who are paying for the wall with his proposed budget plan released Thursday.
According to the plan, Trump wishes to “invest” $2.6 billion in “high-priority tactical infrastructure and border security technology, including funding to plan, design and construct a physical wall along the southern border.”
So there it is, 2.6 billion taxpayer dollars are going into building a wall that, according to the Pew Research Center, only 35 percent of Americans are in favor of.
With the question of who is paying sorted out, attention must be turned to how Trump will pay for his wall.
He’d pay for his wall by making $54 billion worth of cuts to parts of the federal government and a variety of government programs.
While the wall accounts for roughly five percent of the cuts, where would the rest of the money go?
To defense funding of course, specifically to the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense.
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Devin Vainer and Will Kilgore talk their transition to a Georgia State
Sports – The Signal Many changes came along with the merger of Georgia State and Georgia Perimeter. A lot of new students, a couple of new campuses, and a bunch of student-athletes who didn’t have an athletic program to be a part of anymore. One of the biggest changes from the merger was that Perimeter’s athletic program would be no more, leaving many student athletes with tough decisions to make. Two of those student-athletes, Devin Vainer and Will Kilgore, joined Georgia State’s baseball team, and are both featured in prominent roles as the starting pitcher and starting second baseman respectively. Both in their second year at State and happy to have found success on their new team, they both admitted transition was not an easy one, in particular on the field.
“The competition is a lot harder here,” Said Kilgore. “The teams we play are more consistent and on a higher level here.”
Division one schools feature better players and tougher teams compared to junior college, so it is not surprising that Kilgore admitted that. He also thanked Georgia State’s coaching staff and facilities for helping in aiding the transition athletically. The transition academically was also a rocky one, but help was once again there.
“The classes are harder, but the teachers are more willing to work with you,” Said Vainer. “Everybody is here to support you. If you need study hall, you’ll do that. If you need a tutor, you’ll get a tutor. At Perimeter, it was a harder process to get those things.”
Along with the educational benefits Georgia State provides, Kilgore and Vainer enjoy the support the baseball team receives from the campus, something they didn’t get much of at Perimeter.
“I think the team gets more support here because number one it’s a bigger school and a whole lot of the students ...
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Baseball Beats The Citadel on the Road
www.thegeorgeanne.com - RSS Results in sports* of type article The Georgia Southern baseball team on Tuesday defeated The Citadel Bulldogs 7-3 at Joe Riley Park in Charleston, South Carolina, improving the Eagles to 11-9 this season.Game SummaryGS senior outfielder Jordan Wren had a big game offensively with two hits - one of which was an RBI triple - and two runs scored. Wren scored the first run of the game on a Citadel throwing error, and his triple came in the third inning off Citadel sophomore starter Alex Bialakis. That made the score 3-0, Eagles.
Eagle senior shortstop Evan McDonald hit an RBI single in the fourth, driving in senior catcher C.J. Brazil.The Citadel scored its first run in the fourth inning off a throwing error by GS. The unearned run for the Bulldogs was scored by sophomore first baseman Ben Peden.In the fifth inning, GS scored on a wild pitch and a sacrifice bunt. Senior first baseman Ryan Cleveland scored first after a wild pitch, then Wren scored his second run of the game off a sacrifice bunt by Brazil.The Citadel narrowed the margin to 6-3 in the sixth inning when freshman second baseman J.D. Davis singled to right field with the bases loaded, driving in two runs for the Bulldogs.Two innings later, GS junior outfielder Logan Baldwin drove in what would be the game's final run with a single to score senior infielder Cal Baker.GS redshirt junior right-handed pitcher Adam Kelly allowed two runs over four innings, earning the victory in his first decision of the season. Senior pitcher Jacob Condra-Bogan closed the game for the Eagles, pitching the last two innings and striking out five of the seven batters he faced.Bialakis (0-2) was the losing pitcher for the Bulldogs, who fell to 7-13 this season with the loss.
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Getting off the ground — ASUI Senate allocates funds to NORE to aid the organization’s upcoming project
The Argonaut After some contentious debate, ASUI unanimously passed a bill Wednesday to allocate funding to the Northwest Organization of Rocket Engineers (NORE) of the University of Idaho to help the group prepare for the 2018 Science Board America Cup (SBAC).
UI student and NORE co-chair Daniel Furman said NORE initially approached ASUI for support in February at a funding board meeting, where they were awarded $1,685 to create small model rockets.
Furman said NORE applied for further funding from ASUI to create a larger rocket, so they would be able to compete at the 2018 SBAC and bolster their organization by providing members with more hands-on experience.
UI student and NORE co-chair Bailey Lind-Trefts said NORE originally asked the senate for $5,000 from its allocations budget to gather as much funding as possible, but after a reassessment, they dropped their asking price to $1,635.
“We realized that we didn’t exactly need the full amount that we were asking for just yet,” Lind-Trefts said. “What we got is exactly what need to get (NORE) off the ground.”
Furman said NORE also recently applied to NASA for a grant of $25,000 to benefit and expand the organization and its projects even further.
ASUI Pro-Tempore Mattie Cupps said the senate would not have been able to provide NORE with the original $5,000 because it would have drained the entire budget and she was not comfortable with giving the entire fund to just one student organization when it’s supposed to help a variety, so she believed the new amount of $1,635 was much more reasonable.
During the meeting, Sen. Jordan Kizer moved to amend the fund by an additional $165, changing the total amount to $1,800 to give NORE some “wiggle room.”
Kizer’s amendment was met with a lengthy debate from several senators, but was eventually vetoed.
Sen. Danny Bugingo, who writes for The Argonaut, said he disagreed because he did not ...
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The transgender community deserves protection
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President Donald Trump rescinded bathroom protections for transgender and gender nonconforming students. With his decision, Trump has managed to lose the already doubtful trust of the LGBTQIA community.
This action was signed off and approved by secretary of education Betsy DeVos, the very person who should have the best interest of all students at heart—transgender included.
Trump and DeVos have been known to flip-flop on the issue. Both parties were originally on board with bathroom protections for transgender individuals. The sudden change of heart is a detrimental blow to the transgender population.
The original bathroom protection plan was an Obama-era federal guidance that allowed students to go to the bathroom with the gender they identify with. This action was a step in the right direction toward protecting transgender youth in school. Now that these protections are taken away, transgender students are forced to feel ostracized and marginalized when using the restroom and locker rooms.
Some argue these protections increase the potential danger that women will be sexually assaulted by men who pose as transgender women in the bathroom. However, these arguments have no factual basis and just promote prejudice against the transgender population.
“Over 200 municipalities and 18 states have nondiscrimination laws protecting transgender people’s access to facilities consistent with the gender they live every day. In some cases, these protections have been in place for decades. These laws have protected people from discrimination without creating harm. None of those jurisdictions have seen a rise in sexual violence or other public safety issues due to nondiscrimination law,” said a collection of the nations leading women’s violence organizations in a statement about transgender rights.
However, there have been many cases of adverse school environments and absurdly high suicide rates for transgender youth.
A study from the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network found most transgender students attend school ...
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Men’s tennis falls to Alabama on the road
Sports – The Tropolitan
(PHOTO/ Zenith Shrestha)Two singles matches went unfinished for the Trojans on the road against the Crimson Tide, leading to a 1-4 loss for Troy.
Michael Shipma
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The Troy men’s tennis team traveled to T-Town on Sunday, falling to SEC foe Alabama 1-4 in a road contest.
Wins were few and far between for a Trojan team that is now in the midst of a three-game losing streak dating back to March 8. Troy picked up just one win in both singles and double play, as the Crimson Tide kept Troy at arm’s length the whole day.
The Trojan’s lone point came from freshman Jaigi Duan, who defeated the Tide’s Langford Hills in two sets. The only other victory for Troy was Duan and Andy Lau’s 6-3 doubles win over Zhe Zhou and Edson Ortiz.
While five of the six singles matches of the day resulted in losses for Troy, Lau and teammate Pablo Moreno’s matches went unfinished with the Crimson Tide ahead. Wins in those matches would have turned the tide for Troy, and possibly could have given them the victory on the road.
Freshman Amer Bedwan, who started his dual match career with a perfect 10-0 record, has dropped three of his last four contests. One of those came Sunday, when Bedwan lost a 6-4, 7-6 match with Alabama’s Spencer Richey.
The Trojans now look forward to playing four of its last five regular season matches at home, the first of which is double header matchup with conference opponent Georgia Southern and Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. Troy will face Georgia Southern at 11 a.m. before taking on
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Clarinet Day fine-tuned for Saturday
Arts & Entertainment – The Tropolitan
(GRAPHIC/ Kathleen Egbert)Troy University’s Clarinet Studio will be hosting the 10th annual Clarinet Day on Saturday, March 25, in Long Hall.Draven Jackson
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Troy University’s Clarinet Studio will be hosting the tenth annual Clarinet Day on Saturday, March 25 in Long Hall.
Clarinet Day brings together college and high school clarinet players to play in a large clarinet concert, and learn more about the clarinet and playing the clarinet from guest artists and clarinet specialists.
Timothy Phillips, associate professor of clarinet, began Clarinet Day 10 years ago in order to give high school students an opportunity to come to the Troy campus and see exciting clarinet performances.
“Clarinet Day is a good learning experience for the high school students and the college students, and I am personally excited to have all of these students here to see what we do,” Phillips said.
He said the artists that come to Clarinet Day are among the best in the world.
“I am really proud of the high level of performers that come here as guest artists and that to me is one of the best parts of Clarinet Day,” Phillips said, “because some of these students have never heard a professional clarinet player before and they are always totally entranced by how good these people are.”
This year, there will be many different visitors coming to Troy University to be a part of Clarinet Day.
Florent Héau and Gabor Vega, who are travelling all the way from France and Hungary to Troy, are two of the guest performers for the event. Ramón Wodkowski, a mouthpiece craftsman, will be doing a lecture on the history of mouthpieces and mouthpiece acoustics,ww and will also be around to work on mouthpieces for clarinetists at the event.
Some of the other guests playing at Clarinet Day will be Katrina Phillips, Jennifer Fraley, Wonkak ...
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