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Student fees deadline could change, spring appropriations looming
By ALYSSA NEWTON Editor-In-Chief
South Alabama’s Student Government Association met for the fi rst time since
Christmas break and discussed an array of topics that will highlight the new semester.
One of the biggest topics in the SGA’s new business is a change in student fees and tuition. Currently, a workgroup is looking into having fees due a week before classes begin, instead of the current model, where fees are not due until the end of the fi rst week of school.
“The movement of the deadline presents advantages to students with very few disadvantages,” SGA president Ravi Rajendra told The Vanguard. “It ensures that sports being held by students who have not paid by the deadline open up to students earlier.”
Under the current academic schedule format, the deadline to add classes is before the tuition and fees deadline.
“It alleviates stress for students during the fi rst week of class and will decrease wait times in the fi nancial aid offi ce,” Rajendra said. “The changes will only affect students who pay their own tuition, not fi nancial aid, scholarships and etc. It seems like a defi nite win-win for students.”
According to Dean of Students Mike Mitchell, details are still being ironed out before the change is made offi cial.
In offi cer announcements, Rajendra updated the senate on past projects that were completed over the break or will be in this upcoming semester.
One of the completed projects are the pawprints on the university roads leading onto campus. Student-at-large Ashley Ford spearheaded the project and worked Mitchell to complete it before students returned.
“It was part of our promoting campus spirit initiative,” Ford said.
SGA will be taking the books collected in the “Book Your Ride to Troy” drive, to Greensboro, Alabama on March 2. The drive was held last semester, before the South Alabama-Troy football game.
The books will be a part of a “pop-up library” for Read Across America Day. The group will also read to children at local schools.
Vice President Dan Currie is spearheading a push to work on preventing smoking outside of buildings on campus, and said Humanities was the worst-affected building. The University became a tobacco-free zone in August 2015.
Currie said that SGA has sent emails to
professors and deans to encourage students to inform others of the tobacco ban.
Spring appropriations are coming up in the next few weeks. Groups who were approved in the fall need to turn in all receipts by Friday, Jan. 22, at 5 p.m. for reimbursement.
Appropriations meetings for the spring will be Jan. 25 at 2:30 p.m. and Jan. 29 at 5:30 p.m.
If students have any questions regarding the reimbursement process, they can contact SGA treasurer Marcus Williams at [email protected].
SGA meets every Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the student center ballroom, unless announced otherwise. You can follow the weekly meetings on The Vanguard’s twitter account @TheVanguardUSA.
White paw prints have been repainted leading onto the campus. Student-at-Large Ashley Ford spearheaded the project to promote campus spirit. (Alyssa Newton | Editor-In-Chief)
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Archaeology center focuses on local history
The Archaeology Department at South Alabama established the
Center for Archaeological Studies on campus, which promotes the study of archaeology and the preservation of archeological evidence in the north-central Gulf Coast region.
Research at sites such as Old Mobile, Port Dauphin, Dog River Bridge and Bottle Creek has revealed information about the earliest modern occupants of our region and their ways of life.
Students from South Alabama are frequently involved in such research projects, gaining fi eld experience in a different learning environment and using their fi ndings in the laboratory to gain a deeper understanding of the past.
Over 1,000 survey and excavation projects have been carried out by the staff at the Center for Archaeological Studies. The staff assists those in the surrounding areas with archaeological surveys, testing and mitigation, including data recovery and evaluations of any evidence found.
In the Mobile area, many artifacts from French colonial sites have been discovered, including Faience, a white earthenware delicately decorated in fl oral and geometric styles. In the eight colonial-era sites on
the northern Gulf Coast, many distinct groups of settlers have been identifi ed: the Spanish, Dutch, English, French and Mexican.
The Archaeology Museum on USA Drive South is home to artifacts from over 12,000 years of prehistory and more modern archaeological events, using life-size representations of the past’s archaeologists to give us a glimpse into the life of the past occupants of the area. These include the mound-building Mississippians, an African American family post-Civil War, and the early French settlers.
The museum is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. during the week, offering students at South free admission.
“The Archaeology Department works towards making history and education more interesting for students by putting together a coherently projected collection of artifacts,” said Teresa Condon, who works at the museum as a student. “I’m proud of what they’ve done with the museum and the department.”
Condon said the museum hopes to generate curiosity about the archaeological fi eld and to make history meaningful to young students from schools in the area. The students take part in multiple labs, including a bone lab, to determine the life and death of people from the area in the past using plaster casts; an artifact lab, to piece together the life a person may
have lead; and a rocks and minerals lab, to determine the geologic timeline of the area.
The Archaeological Department said it inspires awareness and appreciation of the region’s past by building a better understanding of our origins and offering authentic artifacts to connect generations and cultures.
In the past, the museum has hosted such exhibits as Selma to Montgomery, with Civil War-era photographs; Project
562 by Matika Wilbur of Native American tribes and the Alan Borg Rock and Mineral Collection.
At the end of the month, the museum is hosting Family Matters: LGBTQ Youth Perspectives, a photography exhibit on young LGBTQ identifi ers in Alabama.
The Center for Archaeological Studies accepts donations and volunteers, who can assist in excavations at local sites and help to document and catalog artifacts in the laboratory.
The Center for Archaeologial Studies brings Mobile, Gulf Coast history to South Alabama campus. (Photo | Vanguard Archives)
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As students made their way back on campus last week, they were quick
to notice an unusual sight.Speed bumps all over campus had been
removed, construction around the traffi c circle was still going and some construction rose around the Epsilon buildings.
Confusion among students began to fl are and raise even more questions.
Randy Moon, assistant vice president of facilities management, said that the rain was an inconvenience for construction.
“We were hoping to be through at the end of the year; we should be rapping up though,” he said. “They’re paving the traffi c circle this week and next we’ll start doing the landscaping and grass that got damaged.”
Another project started beside the
Epsilon buildings. According to Moon, an electrical communication duct tank that ties the university’s power grid together, providing backup power to the dining hall, is being fi xed.
Construction plans to have that project completed and speed bumps paved over in the next couple weeks. The project was scheduled to be fi nished before students returned from the break.
“We’re trying to get through and get out so we can turn the streets back to normal,” Moon said. “I know it can be an inconvenience at times. We just couldn’t do it because of the rain.”
According to Moon, administration made a decision to take them out a couple months ago. He said he is not sure why, but most were taken out during Christmas break.
Speed bumps remain on Stadium Drive, between the Beta/Gamma Commons and the police station.
They aren’t scheduled to be removed until next summer.
Some students are unsure how to react to the speed bump removal. Elexis Stallworth, a senior Spanish major, said she isn’t sure about her safety now that there isn’t going to be speed bumps.
“I live in the dorms near the communication building and it's hard to cross from communications to humanities,” she said. “There was a big speed bump there and that was like the signal to start booking it across the road.”
Senior Kaitlyn Byrd said that she doesn’t like the idea of not having the bumps either.
“There might be wrecks, people aren’t paying attention,” Byrd, also a Spanish major, said. “They are texting while driving, like me. It’s easy to go over a speed limit when you’re not paying attention.”
There has not been word of anything for safety precautions, except instituting a 20 mph speed limit through campus.
Other construction plans include renovating Faculty Court South to move the Student Health Center closer.
Sophomore Juliette Falls said she liked the idea of a closer health center.
“I think moving the health center is great,” she said as she made her way to Student Health for a fl u shot. “I had to call a friend to come pick me up because I don’t want to wait for the JagTran and it’s a really long walk back to my dorm.”
When Student Health does move the old space, currently located at Research Park building 3, will be turned into rentable tenant space for Research Park.
Student Health will continue its services for students when they move into their new home.
Moon said that construction has some upcoming projects that are going to be fi nalized by the end of the semester and that students can look forward to seeing next fall.
Students react to campus construction, changes
By TORI BRACKETT Staff Reporter
By BRIA JOHNSON Staff Reporter
From speed bump removal to student health relocation, students split on campus renovations
Department allows students, visitors to gain deeper understanding of Mobile, Gulf Coast past
NATALIE FRANKLIN LIFE EDITOR
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Events of the Week
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No classMartin Luther King, Jr. Holiday
Core Focus, Student Rec Center, 12 - 12:15 p.m
Happy Birthday: Fairhope Brewery turns three
A total of 25 beers were specially brewed for the anniversary celebration. (Caitlin Smith | Staff Reporter)
Our goal is for people to say, ‘That is damn
good beer.’-Tim Heath
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Fairhope Brewery celebrated its third anniversary on Saturday, Jan. 16.(Caitlin Smith | Staff Reporter)
IMC Concert: Ryan CulwellSatori Coff eehouse 7:30-10:30 p.m.
Yoga Student Rec Center5:45-6:35 p.m.
Comedian Francissco RamosStudent Center Ballroom 7-9 p.m.
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Jags Aft er Dark: PJ Party and Old School Cartoons Student Center Ballroom 7-11 p.m.
Before 2009 craft breweries were scarce in the state of Alabama.
Post-prohibition laws that had stuck around kept us years behind other states in the brew game.
Now, just seven years later there are 28 craft breweries in the state of Ala-bama, but only one in lower Alabama: Fairhope Brewing Company.
Fairhope Brewery celebrated their three year anniversary on Saturday, Jan. 16.
They celebrated their anniversary the best way possible, with lots of beer.
What can be better than over 30 lo-cally brewed beers? A Fiesta themed party, that’s what!
Hundreds of patrons, and even a few dogs, came out donning tiny, fluorescent sombreros to celebrate and drink craft beer.
“We don’t want people to say ‘That’s good beer for Alabama.’ Our goal is for people to say, ‘That is damn good beer,’” Tim Heath, head brewer, said.
As a former engineer, Heath says that brewing beer is much more rewarding. “Going from your typical “The Of-fice” or “Dilbert” type job to this is the dream.”
Playing around with flavoring in beers and putting ideas into motion combines the engineering side of the brain and the creative side. “I get to do all of my favorite things.”
With a beard down to his belly button and a jolly grin, Heath’s appearance is far from “engineer,” but when you taste his masterpieces you can tell the reci-pes are meticulous, exact and made with passion.
Aside from the regular favorites on tap like the “I Drink Therefore I Am-ber” and the “Take the Causeway IPA” there were 25 beers that were brewed and created just for this party.
They also rolled out their “King Cake Stout” just in time for the Mardi Gras festivities. The Brewery brought out new kegs of beer every half hour so the se-lection was constantly changing, which
added an air of exclusivity to the evening. With a live Mariachi band and Mexi-
can food trucks, the fiesta theme really came together.
“I felt like the theme was quirky and fun, much like the brewery itself,” Arie VandeWaa said while drinking the “Grin-go Stout.”
“This stout is my favorite that I have tried by far. I have never had a white, vanilla stout before.” Hence the name “Gringo.”
“This is the most beer we have ever
brewed and the biggest party we have ever thrown,” Heath said.
This bodes well for 2016 and the years to follow.
If you have never taken a journey across the Causeway to the Brewery, put down your Bud Light and give local, craft beer a try.
They only sell and bottle a few of their beers in stores, so the only way to know what you are missing is to venture down to Fairhope and enjoy a cold one amongst great company.
By CAITLIN SMITH Staff Reporter
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Mosab Yousef is the “Green Prince. “(Photo | Wikicommons)
Mobile Jewish Film Festival review: “The Green Prince”
The Mobile Jewish Film Festival held a screening of “The Green Prince”
at Laidlaw on Wednesday, Jan.13.“The Green Prince,” despite its name, is
no fairytale. This gripping documentary tells the story of Mosab Yousef and his time as an Israeli spy. Yousef, the son of Hamas co-founder, Sheikh Hassan Yousef, eventually becomes a spy for the Israeli se-cret service.
The documentary features Yousef him-self, explaining his life story. The fi lm includes English subtitles because of Yousef ’s Palestinian accent.
Yousef stares directly into the camera for the duration of the documentary as he describes his time as a spy. This, along with the dark and ominous fi lm score, creates a chilling effect.
The documentary begins with Yousef describing his childhood and his relation-ship with his father. He deeply respected his father and believed him when he said he was doing Allah’s work.
Yousef also describes the immense hate he felt for the Israelis after Israeli soldiers arrested his father. His father was the co-founder of Hamas, a militant Islamic orga-nization that advocates the destruction of
Israel.It was Yousef ’s hatred for Israelis that
led to his arrest at the age of 17 and his subsequent life as a spy.
While in custody, a member of the Is-raeli secret service, Gonen Yitzhak, ap-proached Yousef and asked that he spy on his father and work with the Israeli secret
service. Yousef reluctantly agreed out of fear of what would happen if he said no. Yousef was sent to prison and placed with other Hamas members.
While in prison, Yousef witnessed Hamas members torture numerous people they thought to be traitors and spies. His status as Hassan Yousef ’s son kept him relatively safe.
After witnessing torture that his father’s people infl icted, Yousef began to question his father’s motives, and he fully commit-ted to being a spy for the Israeli secret ser-vice.
Upon his release from prison, Yousef became his father’s assistant, all the while working for the Israeli secret service. He was in a very dangerous position: if his cover was ever blown, he would be killed.
He was arrested and sent back to prison for six months in order to keep his cover. No one ever suspected him.
Throughout the documentary, real foot-age of suicide bombings and the ensuing aftermath are shown. These scenes are graphic and only add to Yousef ’s serious tone.
Yousef ultimately grew weary of his role in the Israeli secret service. He spent over a decade with the service, he was ex-hausted from constantly lying and he re-sented the Israeli agents for not trusting him, even though he was risking his life to
work with them.Yousef stopped working with the Israeli
secret service and fl ed to the United States. He moved to California, converted to Christianity and began a new life.
Yousef wrote a book about his role in Hamas and as a spy, and he came clean to his father, who publically disowned him. He faced deportation from the U.S. due to “incriminating material” and ties to terror-ists.
The government eventually dropped the charges against Yousef. He currently lives alone in California and has no contact with his family in Palestine.
Shame is a major concept presented in this documentary. Yousef constantly men-tioned how in his culture, working with the Israelis was very shameful.
During his time as a spy, the Israeli army was able to stop suicide bombings and cap-ture several terrorists. Even though he was following his own moral code and doing what he believed to be right, he still felt as if he was betraying his family.
He wrote his book, “Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Po-litical Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices,” in order to “fi ght against shame.” He want-ed his story to be told.
“The Green Prince” has received four awards, including Best Documentary Award by the Israeli Film Academy.
Mobile Symphony Orchestrapresents American Masters
American composers are the underdogs of the classical music world because they have
to compete with illustrious composers like Bach and Beethoven.
The Mobile Symphony Orchestra celebrated the American composers with their annual concert, “American Masters.” The concerted, hosted on Jan. 16-17, included pieces from Aaron Copland, who is considered the fi rst truly American Composer, Leon-ard Bernstein, who composed the music for the mu-sical “West Side Story,” and two newer composers, Christopher Rouse and Austin Wintory.
The show opened with Rouse’s “Rapture.” Rouse explained on his website that the whole piece is sup-posed to create a sense of bliss and make you feel as if the world has no darkness.
“It begins quite slowly but, throughout its dura-tion proceeds to speed up incrementally until the breakneck tempo of the fi nal moments is reached,” he said of his 11 minute piece.
Opening the show with a light, cheerful composi-tion put the audience in an elated mood and the show did not disappoint.
In 2012, Austin Wintory became the fi rst com-poser to win a Grammy for a videogame score. The Symphony played a piece from that score entitled “Nascence and Apotheosis.”
The work that Wintory does to bring modern,
pop-culture into the classical world with videogame scores is groundbreaking. “Video games are now a full-blown art genre right alongside literature and any other form of storytelling,” Wintory wrote on his website.
Hearing the orchestra play his score proved that to be true.
When you think of American composers, Aaron Copland should be the fi rst name that comes to mind. Before the orchestra played his piece, “El Salón México,” conductor, Scott Speck, explained that this piece was about Copland’s struggle to understand Mexican culture.
He traveled there many times and listened to the Mariachi bands that maybe weren’t the most classi-cally trained musicians but wanted to emulate that style of music in a classical way. He even composed in errors to make it more authentic.
Leonard Bernstein is most famous for compos-ing the music that the Puerto Rican gangs in “West Side Story”danced to. In the concert on Sunday, Julia Bullock, soprano singer, sang “Somewhere” from Bernstein's “West Side Story” as the orchestra played along.
The orchestra also closed the show with three pieces from Bernstein's musical “On the Town”.
Hearing the works from such esteemed American composers played by the Mobile Symphony Orches-tra was an excellent way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
If you missed out on this performance, the Mo-bile Symphony Orchestra will transport you into a fairy tale with “Mother Goose Suite” on Feb. 21.
By CAITLIN SMITH Staff Reporter
By NATALIE FRANKLIN Life Editor
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Book review: “Mindset” by Carol S. Dweck
“Mindset,” written by Carol S. Dweck, is a book that focuses on fi xed mindsets
and growth mindsets. Dweck is a professor of psy-chology at Stanford University.
She believes that teaching about growth mindsets creates motivation in the areas of sport, education and business. Bill Gates, one of the world’s most fa-mous billionaires, said that “Mindset” is one of the best books he read in 2015.
According to Dweck, everyone is a combination of both fi xed and growth mindsets. However, people who are more prone to fi xed mindsets are convinced that their characteristics, talents and abilities are al-ready established. When you’re in a growth mindset
you understand that even the most basic talents and abilities can be developed through hard work, good strategy, input and mentoring from others.
In a fi xed mindset you may think, “My intelli-gence is fi xed.” This thought can cause you to always ask yourself,
“Am I smart enough?” If you make a mistake, you’ll begin to think,”Will people think I’m dumb?”
You become obsessed with what level your traits are fi xed at. With a fi xed mindset, you are less likely to take risks and give up easily when hit with setbacks. Believing your abilities can be developed may cause you to just go for it. People end up accomplishing more when they have a growth mindset, according to Dweck.
There are certain triggers that activate a fi xed mindset. These triggers include being asked to step out of your comfort zone or when you experience
2016 Mobile Mardi Gras schedule
Friday, January 226:30 p.m. - Conde Cavaliers
(Mobile, Route A)
Saturday, January 232:30 p.m. - Bayport Parading Society,
Mystic DJ Riders (Mobile, Route A)
6:30 p.m. - Pharaohs, Order of Hebe, Conde Explorers (Mobile, Route A)
Sunday, January 242 p.m. - Krewe de la Heron Lakes
<kids> (Heron Lakes Circle)
Wednesday, January 2712:30 p.m. Mystics of Ashland Place
<kids> (Lanier Avenue)
Thursday, January 286:30 p.m. - Order of Polka Dots
(Mobile, Route A)
Friday, January 296:30 p.m. - Order of Inca (Mobile, Route
A)6:45 p.m. - Apollo's Mystic Ladies
(Daphne)
Saturday, January 30 10 a.m. - Hickory Ridge Kids Krewe
<kids> (Timberly Circle)2 p.m. - Mobile Mystics, Mobile Mystical
Revelers (Mobile, Route A)6:30 p.m. - Maids of Mirth, Butterfly
Maidens, Krewe of Marry Mates (Mobile, Route A)
6:45 p.m. - Knights of Ecor Rouge (Fairhope)
Sunday, January 312 p.m. - Mystics of Children <kids>
(Rosswood Drive)2 p.m. - Crewe of Woodmont <kids>
(Village Drive, Daphne)6:30 p.m. - Neptune's Daughters, OOI
(Mobile, Route A)
Monday, February 1 6:30 p.m. - Order of Venus, Order of
Many Faces (Mobile, Route A)
Tuesday, February 26:30 p.m. - Order of LaShe's (Mobile,
Route A)
Thursday, February 4 10 a.m. - Order of Impalas <kids> (St.
Ignatius Catholic School) 6:30 p.m. - Mystic Stripers Society
(Mobile, Route A)
Friday, February 56:30 p.m. - Crewe of Columbus (Mobile,
Route A)6:30 p.m. - Mystical Order of Mirams
(Orange Beach)6:45 p.m. - Maids of Jubilee (Fairhope)
Saturday, February 611 a.m. - Foley parade (Foley)
11 a.m. - Krewe of Kids <kids>, Krewe of Goats, Prichard Carnival Association
(Krewe of Goats Prichard route)Noon - Floral Parade, Knights of
Mobile, Mobile Mystical Ladies, Order of Angels (Mobile, Route A)
Noon - Mystic Revelers (Bay Minette)2 p.m. - Krewe of Mullet Mates (Mullet
Point) 5:30 p.m. - Mystics of Pleasure (Orange
Beach)6 p.m. - Mystics of Time (Mobile, Route
A)6:45 p.m. - Shadow Barons (Daphne)
Sunday, February 7 (Joe Cain Day and Super Bowl 50)
2 p.m. - King Elexis I Motorcade (Mobile, Route E)
2:29 p.m. - Loyal Order of the Firetruck (Daphne)
2:30 p.m. - Joe Cain Procession (Mobile, Route A)
5 p.m. - Le Krewe de Bienville (Mobile, Route A)
a serious set back. Some other triggers involve en-countering someone who’s much better than you at something you think you’re good at. You start to doubt your abilities.
Even people with mostly a growth mindset may be placed in these situations which in turn triggers a fi xed mindset. It’s important to be aware of the triggers that can activate a fi xed mindset. It is also im-portant to have an overall awareness about the types of situations which trigger a fi xed mindset.
In “Mindset,” Carol S. Dweck studied students at a university who were experiencing depression. She found that students with a fi xed mindset started to let things go. For example, they didn’t do chores or they didn’t turn in their papers on time.
The students with a growth mindset forced themselves to get up, shower, do their chores and study for tests even though they were experiencing
depression. The students with a growth mindset didn’t let their mood take control of them. These students felt they could still function and when their mood did lift, their life was still on track.
Dweck also found in another study that people with a fi xed mindset did not like to put in any effort. They felt that if they were good at something, then it should be easy.
Dweck asks that, in these cases, we look to our heros. Sometimes people think that their hero is someone who has coasted to greatness on unprec-edented talent. However, in most cases, you’ll fi nd that your hero worked harder than anyone else, had setbacks and overcame those setbacks. That’s how they got to where they’re at now.
For a more in depth understanding of growth mindset you can check out the book “Mindset” by Carol S. Dweck at the Marx library.
By JAMESON CRABTREEContributing Writer
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Ken WIlliams scored his 1,000th career point and the
Jaguars pulled out an overtime win against one of the top teams in the Sun Belt in an eventful week for South Ala-bama’s men’s basketball team. The Jag-uars moved to 7-10 overall and 2-4 in Sun Belt play after losing to Texas State 78-67 on Thursday night and beating the University of Texas-Arlington 88-85 in overtime on Saturday.
Thursday night saw a rough start for the Jaguars as the Bobcats of Texas State opened the night on a 14-1 run. However, the Jaguars fought back by hitting the next nine points and even-tually tying the game at 32-32 just be-fore halftime, but Texas State’s Ethan Montalvo drained a corner three and was fouled by Nick Davis. Montalvo missed the shot from the charity stripe, but Texas State headed into halftime with a 35-32 lead.
USA head coach Matthew Graves said “Getting down 14-1 set the tone for the game. I was really proud though. Our guys fought back, got it to 32-32. They got a nice play there at the end of the half to hit a three, but the problem with that is when you spot a team 13, you play in catch-up mode the entire game, and in the second half we never could jump out on top of them.”
In the second half, the Bobcats
were able to rattle off 11 straight unan-swered points, including three straight three-pointers. The streak eventually hit 16-3 after Anthony Roberson fi n-ished a put-back layup, giving Texas State a 61-44 lead.
Graves said “We just got really frus-trated with when they scored a couple baskets, we sped up on offense instead of slowing down and getting the right shot for the right person. We let some adversity affect our play for that mo-ment.”
The Jaguars made a late effort to get back into the game by going on a 15-4 run, but the Bobcats were too good from the free-throw line making four of their last fi ve shots from the charity stripe to win the game 78-67.
Emani Grant and Ethan Montalvo led the Bobcats in scoring with with 22 points and 18 points respectively. Mon-talvo fi nished shooting 6-16, 4-12 from behind the arc after being held to 2-7 in the fi rst half. Grant shot 8-13 and had 14 rebounds.
Junior Ken Williams led the Jaguars in scoring with 13 points. During the second half, the guard scored his 1,000th career point for the Jaguars.
Graves said, “It’s a wonderful ac-complishment for Ken halfway through his junior year to score 1,000 points...I’m really proud of that, and he should be proud of that milestone. Hopefully, by the time he’s out of here, he’ll have another 1,000 for us.”
Williams would be honored with a
pregame ceremony on Saturday be-fore the game against the University of Texas-Arlington. Graves presented Williams with a commemorative bas-ketball honoring his 1000th point.
“It’s a great milestone and I hope I can accomplish plenty more, but it’s a great milestone for me.” Williams said of his achievement.
UTA came into Saturday’s game with a record of 13-2 and 4-1 in Sun Belt play. The Mavericks had posted big out of conference wins on the road at Ohio State and Memphis, making them one of the top teams in the Sun
Belt Conference. The Jaguars were able to amass a
nine-point lead at the end of the fi rst half led by 14 and 10-point perfor-mances from Nick Stover and WIlliams respectively. Georgi Boyanov made his way to the free-throw line six times in the fi rst half and sank all six shots.
With 11:43 left to play in the half, UTA took the lead after scoring 11 straight points. The run eventually ex-tended to 16-2 to give the Mavs a 66-60 lead. The Jags rallied with 3:22 to play. In the fi nal 3:05 seconds, Boyanov and WIlliams combined for 8 of the fi nal 9
points including an open three by Wil-liams with 1:41 left to cut the lead to 78-75.
“Georgi had dribbled middle, and I came baseline and called behind, some-thing we work on everyday in practice.” Williams said, “So he kicked it out I just took my time and made sure I elevated enough to lift the ball and I’m glad it went in.”
In the extra period, Williams and Boyanov continued their strong play. Williams fi nished a layup and Boyanov fi nished two from the stripe to give USA an 85-82 lead. UTA’s Erick Neal responded with a three to tie the game.
Williams found Shaq Calhoun, who drained game-winning three-pointer on the right wing on the Jaguars’ fi nal possession, giving them and 88-85 lead. UTA couldn’t score on their fi nal pos-session after missing three three-point attempts.
Graves said about the game win-ning shot, “It was a very mature play by (Ken),” Graves stated. “In the past, he would have forced that off the ball screen and maybe thrown up a fl oater, tried to shoot a contested shot. He had the maturity to come down off the ball screen, he didn’t have the play, he pitched it to Shaq and Shaq stepped up and made a huge shot.”
With that win the Jaguars moved to 6-9 on the season and 2-4 in the Sun Belt. They open up a three-game road trip on Thursday at Louisiana-Laffeyette.
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Junior guard Ken Williams scored his 1000th career point for the Jaguars against Texas State. He was honored with a pregame ceremony against UTA on Saturday afternon. (Alyssa Newton | Editor-In-Chief)
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Marquita Daniels led the Jaguars in scoring with 13 points in a 59-55 win over the University of Texas at Arlington. (Alyssa Newton | Editor-In-Chief)
Last week, the South Alabama women’s bas-ketball team let huge lead slip and bounced
backback to win a close game at home. On Thurs-day the Jaguars lost to Texas State 73-71. On Friday, they regrouped to win a tight matchup against the University of Texas-Arlington.
The Jaguars tipped off at 11 a.m. on Thursday after, a seemingly unusual time for a college hoops game, but this was USA’s fi fth annual “Pack the House” game. Students from local middle and el-ementary school’s were brought to the game and fi lled the lower deck of the Mitchell Center. The crowd of 2,861 sounded much closer to capacity as the kids created a raucous atmosphere for the Jag-uars.
“Thanks to the University of South Alabama for providing an unbelievable atmosphere for our stu-dent-athletes; the attendance was 2,880 but it felt like 5,000.” said USA assistant coach Dan Pressel, who was fi lling in for head coach Terry Fowler who was forced to miss the game with an illness.
USA jumped out to an early lead, leading 27-15 at the end of the fi rst quarter, shooting 71.4 percent from the fi eld. Shooting trailed off in the second half, with the Jaguars only making 3 of 13 shots, holding on to a 38-26 lead at the half.
With eight minutes to play in the third period, USA lead 44-26, but Texas State went on 13-2 runs
Women’s hoops bounce back after last minute-loss
on two separate occasions in the second half to take the lead.
The Jaguars trailed 73-71 with 23 seconds to play. Juliann Miller was able to get a three-point at-tempt from the right side of the arc, but her shot rimmed in and out as the buzzer sounded, giving UTA the 73-71 victory.
“We played well to start and were up 18 with eight to go in the third [quarter]. Texas State went to a 2-3 and we really got stagnant.” Pressel said. “We were not able to get the stops required to win the game. We pride ourselves on playing great defense
Track breaks two records to open indoor season
USA faces three of four SBC bowl teams in 2016
South Alabama opened the indoor track and fi eld season by breaking two school
records when they traveled to Nashville for the Commodore Invitational on Friday and Satur-day. Rafael Scott and Sean Collins both broke school records in the 60-meter dash and pole vault respectively.
In an interview with USAJaguars, "I knew they were going to do well, but it was a pleas-ant surprise," Jag head coach Paul Brueske said. "We knew what Sean was capable of, and Rafael has worked extremely hard and continues to im-prove; he broke the record of Ahmed Awesu, a conference champion. That gives us a weapon in an event that we haven't done as well in."
Scott fi nished third in the 60-meter dash fi nal with a time of 6.72 seconds, breaking Ahmed Awesu’s record of 6.74 seconds posted in 2007. Scott’s previous personal best was 6.80 seconds set in 2015. Scott placed seventh in the 200 me-ters with a time of 21.91 seconds, putting him at fourth on the Jaguars’ all-time performing list.
Collins recorded a 5.35m mark to win the men’s pole vault in his collegiate debut while also breaking Thomas Fowlkes record of 5.21m, set in 2006.
Multiple Jaguars recorded individual marks. Ravaughn Pope recorded a career-best 8.15 sec-onds in the preliminary heats of the men’ 60m hurdles, tying Tyler Agee for the fourth best time
in USA history. Four Jaguar men placed in the top 10 in the
weight throw, three of them accomplished the same in the shot put. In the weight throw, Re-naldo Frechou led the team with a fourth-place fi nish after recording a 17.40m mark. Jan-Louw Kotze fi nished sixth with a throw of 16.70m, a personal best for him. Zach Blahnik recorded a mark of 16.10m, earning him a seventh fi n-ish. Thomas Boyd rounded out the top 10 with a mark of 14.64m. Kotze, Matt Weinhold and Blahnik fi nished seventh, eighth and 10th in the shot put. Weinhold’s 14.95m throw in the shot put was a personal best for him. Blahnik record-ed a 14.64m mark in the shot put, resulting in a personal best for him in both events.
On the women’s side of things Kaitlyn Beans fi nished fourth in the triple jump after posting a 12.66m mark. Jordan Friz fi nished sixth in the pole vault with a mark of 3.75m. Kayla Carlile fi nished 10th after recording a personal-best of 3.60m. Megan Hall placed in the top 15 in the weight throw, with a career-best 14.45m mark.
Marina Swanepoel led USA in the 400-meter dash with a time of 58:47 seconds. Tiombe James recorded a career-best in the same race with a time of 59.79 seconds while Sara Jern-felt matched her personal-best with a time of 1:00.01.
Some Jaguars will compete at the Samford Stand Alone Multi on Wednesday and Thursday. The next full-squad meet will be the Privateer Invitational is set to take place on Sunday Jan. 31 in Birmingham.
Last Friday, the Sun Belt Conference an-nounced the conference opponents for
the 2016 football season. The Jaguars are set to face three of the four SBC schools that appeared in bowl games this season during the upcoming year.
Georgia State and Georgia Southern will both make trips to Mobile next season to take on the Jaguars. Georgia Southern fi nished with a record of 9-4 last year and fi nished third in the Sun Belt with a record of 6-2. GSU traveled to Ladd-Peebles Stadium in December to take part in the GoDaddy Bowl. The Eagles trounced Bowling Green, the team that beat USA in the 2014 Ca-mellia Bowl, by a score of 58-27.
Georgia State was also a bowl team last season after fi nishing 6-7 with a record of 5-3 in the con-ference. The Panthers fell 27-16 to San Jose State in the inaugural Cure Bowl in Orlando Florida.
Troy will head to Mobile to try and wrestle back the belt that USA won on the road last sea-son. The Jaguars beat the Trojans 24-18 in the inaugural “Battle for the Belt” fi rmly cementing the rivalry between the Sun Belt’s two Alabama schools.
New Mexico State will travel to Mobile for the fi rst meeting between the two schools.
The Jaguars will take a road trip to Louisiana to take on both Louisiana-Lafayette and Louisiana-Monroe. The Jags beat the Ragin’ Cajuns 32-25
in Mobile last season. The last time USA played Louisiana-Monroe was in Mobile in 2014. The Jaguars beat the Warhawks 36-14.
The marquee Sun Belt road game for the Jag-uars will be their trip to defending champion, Ar-kansas State. The Red Wolves fi nished the season with a record of 9-4 and a perfect 8-0 record in Sun Belt play. However, the Red Wolves fell 47-28 to Louisiana Tech in the New Orleans Bowl.
The Jaguars remaining in-conference road games will be against Texas State and Appalachian State. Texas State fi nished second to last in the Sun Belt with a record of 2-6 in the conference, 3-9 overall. The Jaguars fell to Texas State in San Marcos 36-18. Appalachian State beat the Jaguars in Mobile in their fi nal game of the season 34-27. The Mountaineers posted an 11-2 record, 7-2 in Sun Belt play. They traveled to Montgomery, Alabama in the postseason to play in the second ever Camellia Bowl. USA played in the inaugural edition of the bowl in which they lost to Bowling Green. The Mountaineers squeaked out a 31-29 victory against the Ohio Bobcats.
The full schedule, including dates is expected to be released in early March.
The out of conference schedule for the Jag-uars sees Nicholls State and San Diego State trav-eling to Ladd-Peebles Stadium, while they face two massive SEC opponents on the road in Lou-siana State and Mississippi State.
USA fi nished last season with a record of 5-7 and 3-5 in the Sun Belt. The Jaguars fi nished in fi fth place, just outside of a bowl bid.
in the half court and tonight we were unable to live up to the standard that we have created.”
Miller fi nished the night with a career high 21 points, shooting 66 percent from the fi eld. Miller also made four of her fi ve three point attempts. Genesis Perrymond fi nished in double fi gures with 14 points. Perrymond also grabbed fi ve rebounds on the defensive end.
On Saturday afternoon, USA welcomed the University of Texas-Arlington to the Mitchell Cen-ter in an attempt to bounce back from Thursday’s devastating loss.
The game was a back and forth affair. Marquita Daniels and Chyna Ellis led the Jaguars with 13 points a piece. Ellis was one rebound shy of a double-double, bringing down nine. Daniels came up with four steals. Daniels leads the team in steals with 24, but had not registered one in either of her last two games.
“I watched fi lm on the last few games and I was letting people get past me instead of taking that ex-tra step. So I took that extra step, and everybody else was there to be in a gap with help.” Daniels said.
USA lead 57-55 with 39 seconds left in the game. The Jaguars stopped the Mavericks four times on their fi nal possession. After a missed UTA three-pointer, Ellis blocked Rebekah VanDijik’s layup, giv-ing her 5 blocks on the night. Ellis leads the team in blocks and is averaging 2.8 a game. After another missed three-pointer, Cierra Johnson turned over the ball and Green quickly fouled Juliann Miller. Miller hit two free throws to extend the lead to 59-55, cementing the win for the Jaguars.
Head coach Terry Fowler said, “We told our team yesterday in practice that we should be on a four-game winning streak, but we’re not...We have to keep moving on, we go to Louisiana next week, so I’d like to build some momentum and keep go-ing. I think the kids are understanding what it takes to prepare, and they are executing it on game day.”
The Jaguars are currently 6-9 on the season, 2-4 in the SBC. The Jaguars head to Louisiana-Lafayette on Thursday to start a three-game road trip.
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Cell phones offer instant gratification at the cost of emotionCell phones offer instant gratification at the cost of emotionA comedian uses late-night television to share his take on cell phones and daily life
Whenever I hear the word “addiction” I rarely think of cell phones, yet according to a poll sponsored by the National Safety Council in 2015, 82 percent of Americans believe cell phones are addictive.
“Our addiction is relatively harmless when we’re using our phones to talk or surf the web from our couches,” said Deborah Hersman, CEO of the National Safety Council. “But when we’re behind the wheel, our addiction can be lethal.”
If we can infer that cell phones are relatively addicting, and that addiction itself typically car-ries a negative connotation, why do we bind ourselves to cell phones? This may not be a popular opinion, but I believe that it is becom-ing progressively easier for us to rely on our phones for comfort, thereby needlessly avoid-ing anything that could disrupt our daily lives.
In some ways, cell phones provide us with instant gratifi cation. When we want something, we get it, whether it be the number of restau-rants closeby, to the location of the gas station with the cheapest prices or pictures of our fam-ilies and friends via popular apps like Snapchat or Instagram.
With that in mind, is there something to the notion that people are becoming, or have al-ready become, “The Walking Dead,” as sym-bolized by the herd-like movement of college students milling around campus with their at-tention held only by their cell phones?
Perhaps now is the time to put down the cell phone and realize there’s more to life than tex-
ting and photo-sharing apps. The effects of prolonged cell phone addic-
tion have become so prominent that they are even the topic of discussion on late night televi-sion. For instance, comedian Louis C.K. shared his thoughts on cell phones during an interview with Conan O’Brien.
I had barely fi nished watching the interview before deciding that Louis single-handedly de-constructed many people’s sad cell phone ad-diction.
After satirically lamenting about how he be-lieves children become meaner human beings more quickly through using a cell phone, Louis suggested that the reason people are on their phones all the time is that they’re afraid of be-ing alone.
He said he believes that there are moments when the awareness that we are alone begins to slowly creep into our mind. This feelings incites a tremendous amount of anxiety and forces us to whip out our cell phones and to talk to someone.
People are far too afraid of being alone with their own thoughts for any extended period of time.
Perhaps his characterization of society is harsh, but is he wrong? I certainly don’t think so. His points are easy to agree with, especially in consideration of my own experiences.
I’ve retreated into my phone in the past, scrolling endlessly on Twitter and Instagram, viewing people’s Snapchats nearly as soon as they submitted them and not understanding that perhaps the reason was that I was more interested in becoming a voyeur into someone else’s life rather than focusing on my own.
With this in mind, I defi nitely believe that a
fair amount of other cell phone users are too afraid of being alone and resort to their phones as a means of comfort.
As the interview came to a close, Louis re-called an instance where he was driving and a song came on the radio that he reminded him of high school. The song elicited such emotion that Louis’ fi rst refl ex was to grab his phone and distract himself from such emotion.
Instead, he let it wash over him to the point where he actually had to pull over on the side of the road and sob momentarily.
Only by letting himself be crushed by this wave of nostalgia-laced emotion was Louis able to refl ect on where he is now in life as compared to where he was in the past, with-out a family or career. Only then, in that tiny
moment, did he experience a second wave of emotion-- happiness.
So think about it, is hiding behind a cell phone during a moment of distress worth it? Consider Louis’ fi nal comments: “Because we don’t want that fi rst bit of sad, we push it away with a little phone, and you never feel complete-ly sad or completely happy.”
Your apps aren’t going anywhere and your Snapchats can wait. Go out there and experi-ence the sadness and happiness that living en-ables us to do, rather than run away from sad-ness or desperation.
If you choose refl ection over instant gratifi -cation, perhaps you too can enjoy the rush of emotion as Louis C.K. unexpectedly did in his truck that afternoon.
According to a poll by the National Saftey Council, 82 percent of Americans think cell phones are addictive. (Alyssa Newton | Editor-In-Chief)
There are plenty of ways students can deal with stress, however one method is much more harmful than expected.
College students who smoke marijuana might be mistaken into thinking that smoking helps anxiety and depression, but it only makes things signifi cantly worse.
According to Richard Boyum, EdD., when a person has multiple anxiety attacks consecutively, the attacks begin to damage or bruise the ner-vous system. Meanwhile, it takes a while for the nervous system to heal back to its original state.
Thus, the effects of anxiety and depression last longer.
Some individuals who experience severe anxi-ety but don’t smoke marijuana can attest to hav-ing more than one anxiety attack, or panic attack,
in a day. Just imagine a college student who has anxiety attacks regularly, smoking marijuana.
According to Harvard’s Medical School, if a person who suffers from anxiety smokes mari-juana, they’re getting twice the brain damage on an increasing scale both every time that they smoke and every time they have an anxiety attack.
Additionally, many students struggle with keeping track of class times, exam dates, and homework. This is likely even more diffi cult for students smoking marijuana.
Contrary to popular belief, marijuana’s effects last beyond just that one day. The side effects continue even days or weeks beyond initially smoking the drug. Essentially, students who do smoke marijuana on a daily basis aren’t function-ing to their full potential as students, according to the Harvard Medical School.
This information shouldn’t be taken lightly, because it doesn’t take much for an A to drop an F. Some say that marijuana makes people lazy,
which is just another way of saying that students and individuals who smoke are affected by Amo-tivational Syndrome. This affects the student’s ability to master what might be an already chal-lenging task.
While a student who doesn’t smoke marijua-na may already face diffi culty with an assignment, Boyum said students who smoke marijuana suf-fer from the Amotivational Syndrome and, more times than not, the student never does what needs to be done.
Marijuana also affects the attention span, and this effect is worsened if a student who already has been pre-diagnosed with an attention defi cit disorder smokes marijuana.
For example, students who smoke marijuana may experience the side effect of not being able to listen without interrupting in a conversation. They tend to act on impulse with whatever they are thinking is a good idea, to say it at that point and time and to say it without taking into account
if what they are about to say is inappropriate or not.
This kind of behavior is not tolerated on the college level and could result in the student being ejected from the classroom.
Students who consume marijuana might be trying to repress a recurring discomfort in their life, but a student trying to avoid an unpleasant thought pattern or memory by consuming mari-juana and experiencing its extensive side effects will likely feel much worse.
Using marijuana on or off campus has conse-quences that could be avoided if the student just took care of the emotions in a constructive way, instead of a destructive way.
The life of a college student can be stressful even without marijuana in their lives. Going to college is like having a fancy car--the car needs to be maintained. Going to college under the infl u-ence of marijuana is like driving that fancy car, blind.
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