february 2010 issue

By Matt Davis,senior staff Writer

Its reputation is grow-ing exponentially and by now, Just Busted is practi-cally a household name in Chattanooga. Go into any convenience store and you’ll find it for sale at the register for $1… if it hasn’t already sold out. Publisher Wanda Gilham says they run out of papers weekly.

Open an issue of Just Busted and you’ll find a yearbook-esque clutter of mug shots; locals arrested for DUI, domestic assault, vandalism, public intoxication, possession, thef t and much more. The paper clearly states that, “All arrested are presumed innocent until proven guilty,” but many believe the damage is already done when a mug shot is published.

Logan Blakely, a pre-med student at UTC says, “I don’t like it. I think it’s tacky. I support the fact that people have a right to know who has committed a crime, but I believe the publishers who select which pictures go in need to raise the level of what warrants infamy.”

Blakely suggests that even though many mug shots are of ‘innocent’ people, the pub-lication of their face alone may cause a rouse among their friends, employer or future employers. Evan Bis-sonette, a contributor for the local news Web site Chat-

tarati agrees, “It’s one of those things where it’s fun until you’re in it. The mug shots may be public domain, but I feel like it’s distasteful. And in that regard, I’ll never spend my money on one.”

The purpose of the news-paper, according to Gilham is, “To help cut back on crime,

save lives and families.” Bis-sonette, who is also a com-munication student, argues that assertion, “[Just Busted] is not designed to help peo-ple. It’s designed to embar-rass them.” And though he thinks the publication is mor-ally wrong, he went on to say

he believed it was a good business model.

Publishing mug shots that cost noth-ing to obtain, Just Busted brings in big advertisers such as Cricket, Sticky Fingers, Rock 105, various attorneys, bail bondsmen and other local busi-nesses. In August, Just Busted began distributing issues in Memphis and in December, the news-paper began making job postings on the online classified site Craigslist looking for graphic artists to sup-port their expansion.

T he g r ow i n g reach of Just Busted has been made possible by the many who shell out the $1 to own a copy. Jonathan Hall, a broadcast student and DJ for Chattanooga State’s radio station, the WAWL, enjoys the publication. “It’s interesting to look through

Verdict Still Out on Just Busted

By Jessie KnoWles,eDitor-in-Chief

Talk to your favorite pro-fessor or instructor about the details of their job, and you might learn about one of the ‘joys’ they’ve faced recently; the joy of SACS.

SACS is the Southern Asso-ciation of Colleges and Schools. It provides Chattanooga State with its accreditation, mean-ing it makes Chattanooga State look good on your resume.

The Commission on Col-leges is the branch of SACS that looks specifically at high-er education. Belle S. Whee-lan, Ph.D., the president of the commission says, “When an institution has earned accred-itation by the Commission on Colleges, it signifies that it has a purpose appropriate to higher education and has re-sources, programs, and ser-vices sufficient to accomplish and sustain that purpose.”

How does Chattanooga State prove it deserves this high honor? It takes work to be this good! When you get your syllabus, do not just throw it away on your way out the door. Take a good look. It may look a little like a complicated math equation with numbers, letters and codes, but that is

The Joy ofSACS

By Matt nassar,Junior staff Writer

Admit it, you’ve been there: it’s three a.m., an im-portant class is looming in seven hours, there is still half a paper to be written, and for some reason you are click-

ing robotically through 300 pictures of a classmate you have not spoken to since ju-nior high - and for that mat-ter, barely spoke to while in junior high. Yes, you have found yourself on the Web site that needs no introduc-tion, Mark Zuckerburg’s

playground for the collegiate community (and these days, for their mothers and grand-mothers as well): Facebook.

Ah, Facebook, the black hole of college life that re-lentlessly swallows study hours, high school relation-ships and our ever-waning

ability to communicate face to face. What happened to putting pen to paper to el-egantly articulate one’s feel-ings towards someone one cared about? Or to the in-trigue of getting to know a person’s common interests as

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because in 2008, SACS up-dated their requirements for accreditation and teachers have had to change their syl-labi accordingly. There are things like ‘student outcomes,’ ‘instructional activities’ and other complicated terms that teachers have to link up to one another in a complex web.

SACS is taking our teachers to task. Each one has to prove that what they are teaching is deemed beneficial by a board of directors and that every activity results in the desired outcome. As one teacher put it, “we have to take out all the useful stuff for you {the stu-dent} and fill it with all this educational mumbo jumbo.”

Another said in jest, “We can skip over this part for now, but if you’d like to read it someday, it is wonderful.”

Some teachers spare us that confusion and take time to cre-ate another syllabus altogeth-er just for us, one that makes more sense in application. Ap-parently, we aren’t quite ready to experience the joy of SACS.

By hennie gunter,ContriButing Writer

Chattanooga State hand-ed out hope for the holidays. Each year the nursing stu-dents are involved with a project that helps to fulfill the needs of the community.

The senior RN students’ service project this year was

to raise awareness of the needs of the Community Kitchen and Day Center for homeless clients. The students collected more than 1,000 items to donate to this center.

They deserve our congratu-lations and support as we hon-or the work they do every day to help spread love and caring throughout our community.

By linDsey riggle,ContriButing Writer

In 2004, the Tennessee Board of Dentistry passed a law enabling Dental Hy-gienists to administer lo-cal anesthesia. Chattanooga State’s Dental Hygiene class of 2010 will be the first to graduate with this extra credential on their license!

Over the summer, 19 stu-dents participated in the re-quired local anesthesia certi-fication course. The students learned about the different types of injections and spent significant hours in the clin-ic practicing on each other.

One of the requirements of the clinical portion of the Na-tional Board exam is that the patients have significant build-up; therefore the use of local anesthesia is necessary. In the past, students have had to find somebody to administer the anesthesia to their patients, but this year the students will

be able to do it themselves. “The Tennessee Den-

tal Hygienists’ Association (TDHA) has worked tire-lessly for dental hygienists to legally administer local an-esthesia in the State of Ten-nessee. We are so proud to witness and be a part of the advancement of the dental hygiene professions” said Angie Maida, RDH, M.Ed.

Students in the Dental Hygiene program get clini-cal practice by treating pa-tients at the on-campus den-tal hygiene clinic located in the new Health Science Cen-ter. Services include x-rays, cleanings for children and adults, periodontal debride-ments, sealants, and other preventive services and are provided at a discounted rate. The small fee covers the cost of materials and sup-plies. New patients are always welcome. Call Chattanooga State’s dental clinic for an ap-pointment at 423-697-4444.

SACS:Hygienists Give It a Shot

Left to right: Hennie Gunter, nursing faculty; Delethia Levi, Ted Nelson, Brother Ron Fender, Community Day Center; Jeremiah Moore and Ken Anderson.

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to see if you know anybody. But also, it gives you a good idea about the good work the area law enforcement does.”

Those in favor of the pub-lication will point out that it publishes pictures and in-formation of missing chil-dren, sex offenders and doz-ens of help contact numbers to deal with any emergency situation. Just Busted is also printed on recycled paper.

Because of the rapid growth and popularity of Just

Busted, which only registered as a business last April ac-cording to the County Clerk office, it may soon become commonplace to see similar magazines in gas stations just as you see car classified maga-zines such as The Accelerator. Just Busted’s official contact email JustBustedMugs.com. If you have any opinions about Just Busted, we’d like to hear them: [email protected].

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LifeStudent

By Dorothy foster,senior staff Writer

Youth in revolt. No, not the latest Michael Cera movie, but California students protest-ing changes to the University of California college system. Since California is practically bankrupt, the University of California system has had to cut over $600 million from its budget, fire 2,000 faculty, and increase the tuition. There are talks of raising it as much as 30 percent. If this were not bad enough, the governing board is going to limit the amount of in-state students

because they can get triple the amount of money from out-of-state students. The students at Berkeley, the flagship school in the California system, are fighting mad and fueled with indignation. Many came to a protest rally completely naked except for the signs they were holding. In addi-tion to making a mock grave-yard across the street from the president’s house, they have also barricaded them-selves in classroom buildings, brought out only by police tasers and clubs. Whether their protests will have any effect remains to be seen.

“I certainly wouldn’t go the naked route, but

I’d try to see how we could get money back

to the schools.”

-Del Brown

“I’d just find a different school.”

-Janet Price

“I’d stay at home.”

-Dortha Hodge

“I’d write to my congressman and the Board

of Regents.”

-Brenda Talley

“I’m low on gas as it is. I wouldn’t have the

money to come protest.”

-Daniel Dunn

“I’d act up at the president’s house.”

-Drew Dobbs

“I’d make a list of names and complain.”

-Charles Cravey

“I’d just drop out and get a job.”

-Melissa Earls

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Youth in RevoltBy Dorothy foster,senior staff Writer

Although Chattanooga State has two fine instructors in the automotive tech pro-gram, Roy Morris and Duane Walker, the unfortunate fact is that they both will be retired by the time this article goes to print. New candidates have already been interviewed, but nothing is in place yet. Roy Morris remains confident that the program they have established will not suffer, but keep its superior quality. Even when he retires, he plans to work through the transition.

The automotive program is certified by the National Automotive Technicians Edu-cation Foundation (NATEF) and is recognized throughout the United States as a divi-sion of Automotive Service Excellence (ASE), certifying students as master automo-tive technicians. To obtain this certification, Chatta-nooga State students have to pass competencies in the areas of engine repair, auto-motive transmissions/trans-axles, manual transmissions and drivelines, steering and suspension, brakes, heat-ing and air conditioning and engine performance.

Mr. Morris says, “Each subject has a science to it. If you teach that science, the students can apply it to any type of car and work almost anywhere. Diagnostics is the basis of repair. Just as a doc-

tor, a mechanic has to know how something works before he knows why it doesn’t.”

The students have to stay on top of new technology, such as hand held scanners and data streams. Another innovation is the Controller Area Network, since the new-est vehicles contain a system of twisted wires. Now techni-cians can log into computers, bring up files and discuss the problems directly with GM or other car manufacturers.

Morris states, “Don’t un-derestimate the importance of technicians. The buses and cars couldn’t run without our

expertise. Automotive techni-cians keep Chattanooga going.”

As a bonus for students, faculty, staff and govern-ment workers, they also fix cars on campus. Bring your car to the automo-tive department and get it fixed up for a reduced cost.

Thanks go out to Mr. Morris and Mr. Walker for working so hard to keep ChattState’s automotive pro-gram on the cutting edge. We wish the best of luck to them and to the future instructors who will en-sure that the program will continue full speed ahead.

Automotive instructor Roy Morris oversees students Brian Marsh, Henry Lorenzo and Domiciano Melendez.

Photo by IsaacCraft/Communicator

Full Speed Ahead

By aMBer leWis,assistant eDitor

With the many economi-cal troubles haunting aver-age Americans today, it can be very difficult to choose a career, one with longevity and the assurance of a good salary. It is a decision that hangs over many students who are unsure of what to do with their lives. However, it does not have to be a bur-den. Many are turning to the ever-growing field of health care. Physical therapy is a profession that is becoming

more and more in demand. The Physical therapy as-

sistant (PTA) program at Chattanooga State first re-ceived accreditation in 1979 from the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE). Since then, it has blossomed into a successful program, turning out graduates who are thoroughly prepared to take the physical therapist assistant licensing exam. For the years 2006, 2007 and 2008, all of the students who graduated from the program passed their licensing exams.

The program consists of a 65-hour curriculum spanning two years, though students are strongly encouraged to take several of the initial courses prior to applying for the program. Science courses that would be helpful before starting the program include human anatomy & physiol-ogy and concepts of physics.

The local salary of a PTA ranges from $17-to-24 per hour, and the majority of ap-plicants find jobs within six

months of graduation. The duties of a PTA vary and can include such responsibilities as treating burns, wounds, athletic development, muscle weakness and children with developmental disabilities.

There are several things a student can do to get started in this program. If you are in-terested, talk to your advisor about the necessary prereq-uisites. Attend the upcoming physical therapy informa-tion session on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 at 3:00 p.m. in room 2029 of the Health Science Center.

While the physical thera-pist assistant program is an excellent choice, do not get discouraged if this field does not seem like the right one for you. There are a va-riety of career training op-tions available at Chatta-nooga State, both technical and professional. All it takes is some exploration of the programs. Do your research to make sure you choose the job that is right for you.

Let’s Get Physical

Photo Courtesy of DigitalSolutionsBerkeley students protest tuition hikes.

What Would You Do to Protest?

Phi Theta Kappa is hosting an interfaith seminar focused on the relationship between Christianity and Hinduism in an effort to promote discussions on religion and pluralism. PTK’s mission is to help students under-stand religious diversity through research, outreach and the active dissemination of information. The keynote speakers are Dr. Michael Krogman and Dr. Sarla Murgai.

Thursday, February 18 from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

in the Humanities Theater.

Phi Th eta Kappa Hosts Interfaith Seminar

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Pearls of Wisdom From Margie Margethose that talK BehinD your BaCK are the ones you oWe the Most

to. they only MaKe others taKe notiCe of you. your talent Will speaK for itself. in other WorDs, haters Can’t Keep

What’s for you – froM you.

LifestyleBy alvin poe,

Junior staff Writer

Every Student is capable of succeeding at Chattanooga State. It takes time and effort to make your life work, and academics are no exception. Each student is the quarterback of his own team here at Chattanooga State and with these few study habits one is sure to do well.

Sarah McDowell works in the main campus College Read-ing and Writing Center on the second floor of the IMC Build-ing. Peter Y. Peter works in the adjacent Math Center. They have shared some hints on how to succeed no matter what subject you are taking. These study habits are helpful ways to do well. They may seem like common sense but you would be surprised how many students do not follow them. Do not be one of those students.

Never miss class.Never be late to class.Be prepared. Have your book, calculator, pencil and paper.Establish a good rapport with instructors.Know where your teacher’s office is and visit. Pay attention in class and take detailed notes.Read the entire syllabus at the beginning of the semester. Make sure you understand the instructors’ grading system.Buy books in a timely manner. Read them.Do not procrastinate.Start the final project early in the semester.Study outside of class for at least one hour per class period.Ask questions if you do not understand.Be patient with yourself; you are learning.

GO TO THE COLLEGE READING AND WRITING CENTER7:30 a.m.–8:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday,

7:30 a.m. –4:30 p.m. Friday,9:00 a.m. –2:00 p.m. Saturday (fall and spring semesters)

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Simple Steps to SuccessBy aMBer leWis,assistant eDitor

This Valentine’s Day, re-member that love comes in many forms. There are plenty of dogs that need the love of a devoted owner, and they can bring joy and unconditional love to a lucky person right now! There are hundreds of thousands of homeless pets in the United States, which is why it is better to adopt than buy a dog at a pet store and be a source of demand for puppy mills and dog breeders.

Show your love and go to your local Animal Shelter and take home a loving fam-ily member today. Here are some adorable cuties from the Humane Educational Society

212 N. Highland Park Ave, Chattanooga 37404

423-624-5302Go to petfinder.com

Puppy Love

Amos

Colt

Dash

LadyBug

Malibu

Dove

Patriot

Suess

Amy

Charlie

Zoi

Simon

LadyBug

By Jessie KnoWles,eDitor-in-Chief

Amber Lewis, voted most fashionable Communicator staff member, knows a thing or two about what it takes to make an outfit work! Her accessories - the gray knit hat, chunky necklace, gold hoop earrings and stylish metal rim eyeglasses - per-fectly compliment each other without being distracting. They make her look sophis-ticated but fun! Accessories can make or break your look. Don’t go overboard. Choose a few simple pieces that go well together, and you’ll be stylin’ and profilin’ just like Amber.

Fashion ForwardAccentuate Your Accessories

Photo by Jessie Knowles/Communicator

part of a g r a d u a l pr o c e s s ,

not by way of a data dump? Or to the concept of delivering a personal invitation by word of mouth or script, rather than a mail-merge? It would ap-pear that such niceties have been relinquished along with other staples of old-world charm. The Facebook Revolu-tion signals a whole new era of meaningless interaction.

Facebook defines itself as ‘a social utility that connects you with the people around you’. Far from serving as an umbilical cord of friendship for the socially deprived, Facebook actively damages interpersonal relationships, harms job prospects, wastes time, and ultimately turns die-hard users into total re-cluses. It leads your girl-friend to ask questions about your photos, your friends to ask questions about your girlfriend, and her friends to ask her questions about your friends. You don’t need this headache. Nobody does.

Yet voyeurism and wan-ton exhibitionism keeps us hooked, and so we log on, hun-gry for more low-grade banter and drunken photo antics.

In the old days, I have to imagine that stalking in-volved a pretty high level of commitment: peering in windows, camping outside of houses, calling phone num-bers and hanging up upon re-ceiving an answer. But these days, it is possible to glean the cinematic preferences, hometown, phone number, photographs, and - if they are “status happy” - the location of a crush in mere minutes if you are brave enough to

“friend” them or lucky enough to be in the same network. Not that I know how any of this works. Either way, Face-book addictions are running rampant through universities all over our nation. It could be worse; at least there are enough of us that we could eas-ily carpool to therapy. Could someone assume a leadership role and set up a new group for this? We are going to need a means of facilitating drivers.

Those of us who are per-petually on the edge of new sometimes either want to ditch it when the vox populi show up in droves, or because it’s no longer the shiny new thing it once was. We thrive on beta. Facebook is a gold-mine of tosh – a monument to mediocrity. Once the preserve of institutions of higher learn-ing, Facebook now caters to the untutored masses – any-one with time on their hands and a keyboard beneath them.

I’ll be giving up Facebook for Lent. For forty days and nights, I will not be updating my status, becoming a fan, poking anyone or comment-ing on 25 Random Things. My decision has absolutely noth-ing to do with any religious fervor, other than being fer-vently grateful to the Episco-palian calendar for serving up a handy excuse to log off.

And yet my addiction is on the mild side, more like a low-grade fever than a full-on infectious case of Facebook-itis. I may have sampled the Social Media Koolaid, but I’m not chugging the stuff like many of the ‘tweeple’ I know. For 13 Signs that You are Ad-dicted to Facebook log on to CommunicatorOnline.net

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Photos Courtesy of HumaneSociety

There are a lot of dogs that need love at the Humane Society. Here are just of few that are ready to become a part of your family today.

February 2010 • The Chattanooga State Communicator


Entertainment ReviewsBy Jessie KnoWles,

eDitor-in-Chief

The Hot Chocolatier, a Chattanooga business owned by ChattState alum Wendy Buckner, celebrat-ed its one-year anniversa-ry on December 18, 2009. They are in full swing just in time for Valentine’s Day, ready to offer the hippest, hottest and most artistic chocolates that you can find.

“I never really knew what I wanted to do, but I knew I wanted it to be art-related,” says Buckner, who majored in “undecided” at ChattState. She studied with teachers like Michael Holsemback, Kim Page and Denise Frank, focus-ing on painting and drawing during her time at the college. Holsemback, Buckner says, really allowed her to explore her artistic interests, which led her to encaustic paint-ing – painting with beeswax.

After graduating from Chattstate, Buckner married and travelled to Iowa City where her husband, Bran-don, was attending graduate school for painting. Feeling

the need to be the breadwin-ner for the family at the time, Buckner took a job at the uni-versity hospital, but soon re-alized her heart lay elsewhere.

Buckner had always loved to bake and found herself “experimenting at home, making chocolates,” she says. Eventually, she be-gan selling chocolates to her coworkers at the hospital.

“I was so concerned with having a career that I thought I should apply to medical school,” Buckner says, but af-ter a disappointment over not being accepted due to lack of experience, she decided to go to school for what she loved and attended The French Pastry School in Chicago.

After graduating, Buckner worked in a small chocolate shop in Asheville, North Car-olina before her husband got a job teaching at UTC, bring-ing her back to Chattanooga.

With the help of Create-Here and the Chattanooga Opportunity Fund, she was able to rent a space in the Small Business Center on the corner of Cherokee Boulevard and Manufacturer’s Road.

Buckner says that these orga-nizations made it really easy for her to start the Hotchoco-latier business, even in the face of a recession. In fact, the day she signed the lease was the day the recession was officially announced! Dur-ing the Great Depression in the 1930’s, chocolate was ra-tioned. People would line up to get their chocolate. Buck-ner says, “There was always a chocolate shop on the corner. Chocolate always did well.”

More than a year later, the Hot Chocolatier is still run-ning and has the best-tasting, most unique chocolate in town. The experience that Buckner had with encaustic painting at Chattanooga State helped her to make chocolate sculp-tures that boggle the mind. “Chocolate has a similar con-sistency to beeswax so it was an easy transition,” she says.

For Valentine’s Day or any-time, the sweets offered by the Hot Chocolatier make an exciting alternative to a plain old box of chocolates. For the art lover in your life, go the www.hotchocolat ier.com

Chocolate Art for Your Sweetheart

Photo by Jessie Knowles/Communicator

ThroesBy Ryan Tyler

Blue lips in the midnightBlood red in the morn’Now I’m not alone inside herOr under burden borne

She spares the sheets a strangleAnd I, the hips, releaseShe’s warm inside my armsAnd has yet to set me free

A rush of blood to sink meA plea of sheathing skinAll gentle invitationTo lure me further in

A shadow of a different painThan I will ever knowAbets a smile hiddenIn her sigh and skinny rose

Rub wet hair from her foreheadUnlock me from her feetConvince her eyes to openAnd lip from ‘twixt her teeth

As I slip her velvet clutches,My home in heaven’s throes,Those mortal missing piecesWill fire pain to prose

A book that propped the bed upShe now pretends to readWe glisten at the fall of dawnNo hunger left to feed

I check my scars for bodyAnd she will do the sameWhile one will dream of last night’s kissAnd one, tomorrow’s name

And this, they will rememberTo soften autumn nightsThe eyes of earth offensiveThis intimate polite

Hearts will holiday to dreamRecall a slender breathBut the heir of such a momentWon’t soon let them forget

Life begins at perception

I LOVE...By Margie Penn

I love...snow when it’s falling, apples that are green, jazz in the evening, fresh clothes that smell clean,rain in the summertime,stars shining bright, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter seen on a clear dark night.Breakfast in the evening, ice cream when it’s cold, fireplaces and picnics, and even growing old.Lazy, crazy people, lying in the sun, smelling babies bellies, laughing when it’s fun.Listening to silence, speaking to God when afraid, procrastination when I wake up, before the bed’s been made. The smell of charcoal burning, hosting family and friends, just hanging out with nature and sailing the Caribbean. Colorado and its mountains, playing the piano when I’m sad, rolling my eyes at you, whenever I get mad. Firecrakers and incense, Hawaiian sand between my toes, crying when its over...... and you, I suppose.

To Th e Humanities Th eatre

HUMANITIES THEATER FEBRUARY EVENTS

Friday Night Improv with “Ba-Dum-Cha”Every Friday in February at 7:30 p.m.

(February 5, 12, 19, 26)Based on audience suggestions

Performed by the second-year students of the Professional Actor Training Program

Admission is Free

Three Words, Eight Letters By Colleen Casey

When I tell you that I love you, I don’t want to say it out of habit.I don’t want to tell you because you said it firstOr to make the conversation go better than it is.When I tell you I love you, it’ll be for real.I’ll say it to remind you that you are the best thing that has happened to me.I don’t see that changing anytime soon.

Mal-entineBy Ryan Tyler

Roses are deadAnd violets are, tooCut down in their prime for you

You don’t deserveA teddy bearYou’ve earned a Grizzly, fair and square

I would not prayFor Cupid’s dartTo pierce you near but through the heart

My only wishThis special dayIs I hope your cat pees on your computer and it dies

Coming In March

On Tuesday, February 9, 2010, Dr. Asa will be com-ing to Chattanooga. Dr. Asa is the host of the nationally syndicated radio talk show Dr. Asa ON CALL and author of the book Empowering Your Health. He will be sign-ing copies of his book at Nutrition World from 1-4 p.m. at 6201 Lee Highway and will be on the ChattState cam-pus from 6-7:30 p.m. Tickets are required for admission, and will be reserved on a first-come first-serve basis due to limited seating. To find out more about these events and Dr. Asa himself, logon to CommunicatorOnline.net.

Dr. Asa Visits Chattanooga State

Official PressPhoto

Wendy Buckner shows off her chocolate art.



Editorials OpinionsBy lee lunsforD,

senior staff Writer

February 14 is a day sur-rounded by love, romance, cheesy cards, giant puppy dog stuffed animals, chocolates and romantic comedies. But what about people who are not in a relationship? Febru-ary 14 is just another day, like Christmas for the non-Chris-tians, just another day with the same boring everyday ac-tivities. It is sickening how ev-erybody can put on the lovey-dovey façade. I mean what is so special about February 14?

It is another over publi-cized holiday. Doesn’t anyone find it odd that Valentine’s Day cards were available right after Christmas? We still have one month until the stupid holiday so why push the idea so early? I just bought my girlfriend some jewelry for Christmas so why do I need to focus on buying something else a month from now? A three-week minimum grace period would be nice. Let the credit limit on my Visa card increase a little bit before I go out and buy a four-foot-tall stuffed puppy with I “heart” you on the front.

There needs to be a prop-er balancing act between the holidays. In today’s world, we go from the Fourth of July

to Christmas, skip all the way over the Michael My-ers Halloween marathon on AMC and rush straight into the Tim Allen Santa Clause marathon on ABC Family.

I have a conspiracy the-ory for you. The meteorolo-gists are in cahoots with grocery store chains. When that four-letter-word (snow) is mentioned, Lord help you - go to Food Lion, and when you get there, I hope you don’t need milk and bread because it’s all gone! What’s the deal with milk and bread anyway? Shouldn’t it be milk, sandwich meat, and bread? Honestly, what are we eat-ing a bowl of milk, dipping our bread in it like a chip?

It is crazy the way the world is run, simply be-cause it is the way everybody thinks. Everybody thinks of the future. Today, as I write this on January 15, 2010, even though I am happy with my girlfriend, there is no guarantee she will even be talking to me February 14, so I am not going out tomorrow to buy a Valentine’s Day card. Does that make me a bad boy-friend? I honestly don’t think so. I believe it makes me cau-tious. Just like the people who swarm the grocery store to buy milk and bread.

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Hold onto your highly-regimented gender role; that fuzzily sexist, heart-shaped holiday has arrived! Here’s a man’s how-to guide for Valen-tine’s Day. If you’re of the fe-male variety, then this column is undoubtedly not for you.

On Valentine’s Day, every encounter with a woman is booby-trapped. (And not in a good sense.) Since gals blame men at large for their suffering you can be certain that your girlfriend or current hook-up buddy (which invariably con-structs the acronym CHUB) will closely survey every-thing you do. Tread carefully or you’ll find yourself asking God for your damned rib back. Valentine’s Day is all about manufactured, scheduled, universal romance, which means actually making it romantic is rather difficult. The artificial nature of the holiday, however, is utter-ly trumped by its ubiquity and women the world over have become accustomed to certain treatment on Val-entine’s Day. As a result, you must begrudgingly buy them candy and/or flowers

or face serious consequences. You know, it doesn’t real-

ly matter where this custom originated, although specu-lation is rampant that the greedy executives inside the hallowed halls of Big Choco-late conspired with the cun-ning charlatans of Big Flow-ers to lobby Congress to make laws that would require every adult male to purchase choc-olate and flowers for their sig-nificant others on February 14. The legislation didn’t make it past the Supreme Court, but women caught wind of the effort and decided that it didn’t matter whether there were laws in place; they liked their chocolate and flowers. To the delight of the choco-late and flower cartels, men today dutifully purchase such gifts under the watchful eye of these needy creatures.

There is nothing women don’t make unnecessarily complicated, including gifts. They love that you bought them chocolate. They love eating chocolate. They hate themselves for loving to eat chocolate so much. A woman has more nuanced feelings toward a Cadbury bar than you have toward your own mother. Don’t let your undy-

ing devotion to appeasing her scam you into buying expen-sive jewelry. You probably wouldn’t pick out the right thing, and she’s planning on dumping you soon anyways. And you’ll look like a fool walking around campus with flowers. I personally like to give goldfish. It’s a little some-thing different that says, “I’m ready to take our relationship to the level where we share a pet, but not to the level where I trust you with any-thing I care about.” What’s more is that the guilt trip potential is enormous once the goldfish inevitably dies.

If you haven’t already made dining arrangements, then you’re screwed. (And not in a good sense.) If you have, remember that it’s your job to eat a consider-able amount more than her at dinner. Girls don’t like it when their appetites are big-ger than guys. Oddly enough, they also don’t like it when you tell them they should go on a diet — even if it’s true. During dinner, you may be asked to express — in full sentences — what it is you’re thinking. This is a daunt-ing task for most men, as we must frantically empty our

heads of the few thoughts we do have and fill them with non-sexualized meanderings before we can respond. (I recommend practicing a few days ahead of time.) The ex-ception is if your woman talks about her own problems: say absolutely nothing, indicate that you sympathize, memo-rize a handful of important and trivial details in case she tests how well you listened later, and encourage her to tell you more while you zone out.

After chowing down, watching a romantic movie is an appropriate excuse to turn off the lights and endure two more hours of this disparag-ing holiday. All chick flicks must have four things: an impending wedding, medio-cre humor, a Stepford hunk, and a right-in-front-of-her-nose-the-whole-time mo-ment. The Notebook, Titanic, You’ve Got Mail or Sixteen Candles are all sure bets to satisfy her whimsical desires. You can attempt going over the top, but let’s face it guys: we’re not good at exceeding bare minimum efforts. And remember, a woman may swoon over romantic gestures in the movies, but without a soundtrack, professional

writers and Hollywood looks, you’ll probably just come off looking creepy or dangerous. The statuesque nice-guy im-age does not win out here. Your only hope is to lower her expectations. Don’t try pull-ing out all of your romantic antics and quips all at once. The reason why taking things slow works so well with wom-en is that it gives them time to realize how inept you re-ally are and to adjust their expectations accordingly. Be advised, women often say or do the opposite of what they mean. This is probably a systemic guerrilla tactic used to disrupt the normal operation of patriarchal soci-ety. But if you follow my ad-vice tomorrow you just might be lucky enough to wake up with a woman that fell prey to your calculated ad-vances and shallow entreat-ies. Good luck, gentlemen.

By Matt nassar,Junior staffe Writer

No doubt you’re read-ing this article begrudgingly, thinking, “what a revolu-tionary and original idea,” with sarcasm dripping down the side of your mouth. This time, however, it’s even worse. On Tuesday, Novem-ber 10, 2009, Jon Stewart of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show lambasted Fox News’ Sean Hannity for trying to make the GOP anti-health care reform protest appear more heavily attended than it was by recycling old footage of a larger rally, claiming it as footage of the most recent GOP protest. This type of de-ceit has become par for the course for America’s most-watched cable news service.

Stewart called to atten-tion how Fox News’ anchors claimed all day that between 30,000 and 40,000 people attended the rally, while The Washington Post reported the turnout as no more than 5,000 to 10,000. He aired footage from Hannity’s show, pointing out how a clip of a few protesters approaching the rally on a sunny day with no leaves on the trees was im-mediately followed by a wider angle of a huge rally under cloudy skies, surrounded by bushy green trees. The foot-age was ran side by side with film from Glenn Beck’s rally in September, the one Han-nity used to misrepresent the GOP protest. It was identical.

The next day, Hannity ac-knowledged the incident. He claimed the swap of footage was “inadvertent.” Come on. This is just another in a sad

history of dishonest, decep-tive and deceitful “inadver-tent” mistakes. I’ll be the first to admit, there are enough lies heaped upon the Ameri-can people in the pursuit of political agendas to topple the Watergate Hotel itself. We all cope with them in our own way: some ignore or accept, and others are skeptical. Prob-lem is, people keep watching.

I’m not writing this to point out the evils of conser-vatives and convince you all to come to the liberal’s side of the health care debate. If the thought of a public option makes you want to spit cof-fee out of your “Ronald Rea-gan for President” mug every morning, fine. But I thought you Republicans were the ones who said, “If someone hits you, hit back.” Well, Fox News is hitting you, logical-minded, well-spoken conser-vative. They’re beating you up like the kid in middle school who wore Coke bottle glasses and was picked last in dodge-ball, making the conservative ideals you stand for look ridic-ulous. Isn’t it about time you showed us what you’re really made of? Stop watching their spin and they’ll stop spinning. After all, they wouldn’t do it if it didn’t get them viewers. So all of you Republicans reading this: Stop walking so damn softly. Let’s see that big stick you’re always bragging about. Maybe the landslide victory in the 2010 elections you wish for every time you throw a penny into a fountain — if you’ve any left after all those taxes us mean old Democrats made you pay — will come true and Congress can finally get something done. Thanks.

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By aBel isiDro, sports eDitor

The fall semester grades have all been handed out and a new semester has ar-rived; and so too has the bas-ketball season been graded.

The Lady Tigers played against our rivals, the Cleve-land State Cougars, in the last game of the semester and came out with a narrow 78-74 win against our neigh-bors to the north, ending the first half of the season with a five-win, two-loss record.

The first game back from winter break was against the Raiderettes of Roane State Community College. Though the Lady Tigers lost a closely contested game it may be fair to say that it’s time to shake off some of the winter cobwebs.

The Lady Tigers have some players now eligible to get on the court after having lost Chasity Welch late in the first semester to a knee in-jury. They look to work hard and play harder. Hopefully, they’ll gain momentum go-ing into the Regional Tour-nament later in the semester.

Their overall record of five wins and three losses

doesn’t reflect what can’t be put on paper; that these la-dies have hustled and worked to beat the odds they face on the basketball court. One of those obstacles is be-ing an undersized team.

Overall, the first half of their season merits a B grade; let’s see what the sec-ond half of the season has in store for these ladies.

The men’s team is harder to grade overall. First, you have to take into consider-ation that the team is ranked number 17 in the entire na-tion. The first game of the season was against the Roane State Raiders. Alex Dean threw down a thunderous dunk as time ran out, put-ting emphasis on an other-wise lackluster win at home.

Bundle that with a cou-ple of early season losses and it is a recipe for disap-pointment. At least that is the sentiment of a couple of players on the team. Ask any-one of the fans or coaches and they would say that the losses are bad, but not some-thing that can’t be overcome with hard work and practice.

One of the things that the men’s team found out was

that they have a big target on their backs for their num-ber 17 ranking at the begin-ning of the season. As most teams that came to play our Tigers showed on the court, they are poised and ready to take down the giant of their division. One team had the fortune of following through with those plans, while the rest found out it is easier said than done. The Tigers learned that they have to keep the pressure on. They are not simply going to win every game just because they were recognized at a national level. Instead, they must revisit the fundamentals and build that confidence every second of every game. With this they will be able to showcase their abilities as stellar athletes.

For this report I too share the sentiment of some of the players on the team and would give them a grade of B- overall. The eight wins against two losses are good for any team but not for this particular team. Finishing with a strong record and some swagger going into the Regional Tournament is a certain recipe for success.

Tigers Fight to Up the Grade

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Intramural Spring OutlookTeam Sports

Basketball Season: January 25 - February 24

Bowling season: February 10 - April 14Register by February 2

Ultimate Frisbee season: February 18 - March 25Register by February 9 • Captains meeting February 17

Indoor Soccer season: March 1 - April 14Register by February 16 • Captains meeting February 17

Flag Football season: March 2 - April 20Register by February 16 • Captains meeting February 17

TournamentsRacquetball: Ladder runs from February 1 - April 16

Kickball: Play February 1 - February 3

Ping Pong: Play March 1 - March 4Register by February 23

Spades: Show up and play February 10

March Madness: Using either Facebook or hard paper; host a NCAA Pick’em Bracket

Outdoor Recreation

Frisbee Golf: March 20

Rock Climbing Trip: February 11 and February 25(UTC and Urban Rocks)

River Park Bike Ride: March 27 and April 10

Paintball: April 1 Register by March 23

Hiking/Mtn Biking/Canoeing: April 3 Register by March 24

White Water Rafting: April 17 Register by April 9

Lady Tigers #23 Beneidra Colbert throwing ‘bows’ against a Roane State player.

B.J. Frazier goes in for the jump shot.

Alex Dean #23 with a hanging dunk.

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