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THE A&T REGISTER NCATREGISTER.COM WEDNESDAY MARCH 21, 2012 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF NORTH CAROLINA A&T SERVING THE AGGIE COMMUNITY FOR OVER 80 YEARS FREE VOLUME LXXXV NO. 19 theSCENE HUNGER GAMES ANYONE? The highly anticipated Hunger Games movies is coming out Fri- day. Check out previews and more. PAGE 12 theSCORE SMASHING BRACKETS March Madness started off with an unforeseeable bang. See if your bracket is still in tact. PAGE 10 High: 76° Low: 55° THURSDAY: Mostly Sunny | High 77° FRIDAY: Mostly Sunny | High 80° WEDNESDAY WEATHER theWORD ASK A BLACK GUY See this week’s edition of Ask a Black Guy as they talk about relationships and social medias. PAGE 9 theYARD WHO IS ON THE BALLOT? See the complete 2012-13 SGA ballot. PAGE 6 & 7 ONLINE SURVEYS AVAILABLE Keep up with breaking news on our Web site. Slideshows, videos and more are available online. www.ncatregister.com New policy enforced Students get a chance to meet and greet SGA hopefuls It was an evening of cheer, good food, and interesting ideas as the candidates vying to become the next members of the Student Government Association (SGA) gathered in Exhibit for the Meet-the-Can- didates night on Mar 14. After introductions from Denise Iverson-Payne, the As- sistant Vice Chancellor for Stu- dent Development, individuals were able to see the personali- ties behind the fliers and learn of positions on issues such as campus unity and overall stu- dent involvement. “It’s an incredible oppor- tunity for candidates to mingle with students in order to show- case their platforms and what they hope to accomplish in the upcoming year,” said Mi- chael Griffin a senior econom- ics major from High Point and current chief of staff for the executive board. The meet and greet was the first held in the history of stu- dent government elections on N.C. A&T’s campus. Among those in attendance were current SGA executive board members and candidates Reginald Johnson, Catherine Hamlet, Rhyan Marcus, Dar- rell Anderson, Michele Del- gado, Cheri Farrior, Sascha Gibson,Tiffany Carson, Jonte Douglas, Desiree Simmons, Dorian Davis, Timothy Exum, Devonta Woods, Jawari Boyd, and Allahquan Tate. The event not only gave students the opportunity to meet the candidates, but it also allowed them to share what they, as students, would like to see from their governing body. “I want to see SGA reach out to us more,” said Rachel Bivens a sophomore a supply chain management major from Charlotte. “ That opposed to us coming to them, I want to see them be more active about trying to get the general student body in- volved.” Candidate for senior class president Sasha Gibson seemed to agree. “The same spirit that we have trying to get people to vote for us is the same we should keep through out the year in getting individuals in- volved,” said Gibson. “It’s all about following through.” The candidates, many of whom have previous experi- ence on their class executive boards, hope that previous experiences will help them, if elected, run their desired posi- tions. Individuals can vote for the candidates of their choice on Mar. 28 in Exhibit hall and online. [email protected] and follow us on Twitter @ATRegister LILIANE LONG Contributor PHOTO BY TRACY DURANDIS• THE A&T REGISTER MADISON GIBBS talking to fellow students to vote for her in the upcoming election for Miss Sophmore on Wednesday March 14, 2012. Sebastian offers after-hours help Students at N.C. A&T will now be able to access free af- ter-hour health coverage. Sebastian Health Care Center and UNC Health Link teamed together to offer regis- tered nurses to assist students on the phone for medical ad- vice. Health Link is offered at eight universities in North Carolina. The solution was first sought after from the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, Melanie Pierce. A solution like HeathLink was looked into prior to the decision, but they could not find a reason to use it. Sebastian Health Center is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. to assist students with medical con- cerns. After hours, students have gone to the emergency room where they have paid an ex- cessive bill for conditions that are considered a “non- emergency problem.” Freshman Jok rdan Leg- gett, a sports and leisure stud- ies major from Dunn, N.C., thinks this service is a great idea. “I think it is good because if something happens at night and I need help, this will be a good place to provide it. This is a service I will use if I need help.” The service is only avail- able for currently enrolled students. The nurses practice nationally recognized medical guidelines for their advice. Advice will be giv- en whether the students needs medi- cal attention, antibi- otics or can seek help the next day during Se- bastian’s hours. It also practices confi- dentiality by not discussing any information outside of Sebastian and taking minimal information when given. Students cannot call on be- half of other students keeping up with confidentiality. Par- ents will not be offered any record unless the student is underage. After the student has called, a record will be made to Sebastian so they can con- tinue treatment with the stu- dent if necessary. A mandatory follow-up will also be performed. “This is the next best thing for students,” said Yvonne Parks, the nursing director. “Students may not know what to do. They feel like it’s an emer- gency and it may not be serious. If they had someone to call for advice or di- rect them, they could save money. Students run up bills because they are afraid. This gives them the accessi- bility for free.” Executive director Linda Wilson agrees with Parks. “Healthlink is that support when we are not open. Se- bastian’s goal is to meet the needs of our stu- dents and provide total heath care. Health link will help imple- ment that goal.” Students can call UNC HealthLink at (888) 267- 3675 or the locally at (919) 966-3820. [email protected] and follow us on Twitter @ATRegister Last fall, the N.C. A&T’s faculty senate approved a policy change that many students are not yet aware of. This rule states that a student must pass Math 101 with a C or better to go onto Math 102. This policy is effective for all levels of students, no matter the major. From recent years, many students have been failing, overriding or had to withdrawal from Math 101 and this has become a problem within the Col- lege of Arts and Sciences. The Math department informed David Aldridge, associate dean for research and graduate studies that in 2010, there was a 59 percent failure rate for students. This rate is deter- mined by the amount of students who receive grades of D, F, withdrawal or incomplete. Last year, with the addition to supplemental instruction adminis- tered mainly by graduate students and teacher’s assistants from the college of engineering, that percentage dropped to 35. “As parents you want your students to succeed…it’s a course of action and we just want to ensure the success rate of the students,” stated Aldridge. Each department has complete control over its curriculum as long as they send it their dean. Aldridge saw this policy and knew this could only increase the students’ success and it was approved. Students are having mixed feelings about this policy change because it is helping them to succeed but for others it is slowing their process to graduate. “I don’t think it’s that bad because a C is average and therefore you are learning and passing,” stated Gregory Smith a junior visual media and design student. “However, other students felt shocked and disappointed with this policy.” “It has not affected me but many of my friends that are seniors and took Math 101 now have to go back and take it because they received a D. This is re- ally hard on them because they have to start all over. Many of us know that it is hard to start over and learn things all over again. I feel bad for them and it really sucks,” stated Brad Parker a ju- nior criminal justice student. It is understandable that this policy will benefit students and the success of this institution but to apply it to all lev- els after they received credit can make the policy shaky. Many teachers in the Math department had no comments except for Edward Washington a Math 101 teacher. “It really makes sense,” said Wash- ington. “Are you really learning the material if you get a D in the course. This change of policy is beneficial for all students.” The success rates for A&T are up to its students. Math 101 and 102 are just the beginning; many other courses will begin the same pol- icy soon. [email protected] and follow us on Twitter @ATRegister NECOLE JACKSON Register Reporter JENELL MCMILLION Register Reporter SGA PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE TODAY 6 p.m. in New Academic Classroom Auditorium Tate Woods GE exec and Aggie alum to speak at spring commencement The board of trustees has announced the keynote speak- er for spring commencement. Dmitri Stockton, president and chief executive officer of GE Asset Management, a leading global investment firm, will deliver her speech to the spring 2012 on May 12, at the Greens- boro Coliseum. The ceremony will begin at 8:30 a.m. More than 1,000 students amongst the nine schools and colleges are set to graduate this year. As a 1986 A&T gradu- ate, Stockton is a 25-year GE veteran and has served as pres- ident and CEO of GE Capital’s global banking unit in London and Switzerland. Currently, he serves as a senior vice presi- dent of GE Company and is a member of the company’s Corporate Executive Council. Stockton is also a member of the Pension Managers Advi- sory Committee, the Executive Advisory Council at A&T’s School of Business and Eco- nomics and is on the board of directors for the GE Founda- tion, A Better Chance and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. He has been selected by Savoy magazine as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Blacks in Corporate America. In the past, Stockton has been selected as one of Black En- terprise magazine’s 100 Most Powerful in Corporate Ameri- ca in 2009 and 75 Most Pow- erful on Wall Street in 2011. Stockton is also an inductee in the National Black College Hall of Fame and has been recognized by the Beta Alpha Psi honor society as the Busi- ness Information Professional of the Year in 2005 and Beta Gamma Sigma with the Busi- ness Achievement Award in 2007. Stockton holds a Bachelor of Science degree in account- ing from A&T and currently lives in Raleigh, N.C., with his wife Renee and two daugh- ters. STAFF REPORT Register Stockton

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THE A&TREGISTER

NCATREGISTER.COMWEDNESDAYMARCH 21, 2012

THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF NORTH CAROLINA A&TSERVING THE AGGIE COMMUNITY FOR OVER 80 YEARS

FREE VOLUME LXXXV NO. 19

theSCENEHUNGER GAMES ANYONE?The highly anticipated Hunger Games movies is coming out Fri-day. Check out previews and more.

PAGE 12

theSCORESMASHING BRACKETSMarch Madness started off with an unforeseeable bang. See if your bracket is still in tact.

PAGE 10

High: 76°Low: 55°

THURSDAY: Mostly Sunny | High 77°

FRIDAY: Mostly Sunny | High 80°

WEDNESDAY

WEATHERtheWORDASK A BLACK GUYSee this week’s edition of Ask a Black Guy as they talk about relationships and social medias.

PAGE 9

theYARDWHO IS ON THE BALLOT?See the complete 2012-13 SGA ballot.

PAGE 6 & 7

ONLINESURVEYS AVAILABLEKeep up with breaking news on our Web site. Slideshows, videos and more are available online.

www.ncatregister.com

New policy

enforced

Students get a chance to meet and greet SGA hopefuls

It was an evening of cheer, good food, and interesting ideas as the candidates vying to become the next members of the Student Government Association (SGA) gathered in Exhibit for the Meet-the-Can-didates night on Mar 14.

After introductions from Denise Iverson-Payne, the As-sistant Vice Chancellor for Stu-dent Development, individuals were able to see the personali-ties behind the fl iers and learn of positions on issues such as campus unity and overall stu-dent involvement.

“It’s an incredible oppor-tunity for candidates to mingle with students in order to show-case their platforms and what they hope to accomplish in the upcoming year,” said Mi-chael Griffi n a senior econom-ics major from High Point and current chief of staff for the executive board.

The meet and greet was the fi rst held in the history of stu-dent government elections on N.C. A&T’s campus.

Among those in attendance were current SGA executive

board members and candidates Reginald Johnson, Catherine Hamlet, Rhyan Marcus, Dar-rell Anderson, Michele Del-gado, Cheri Farrior, Sascha Gibson,Tiffany Carson, Jonte Douglas, Desiree Simmons, Dorian Davis, Timothy Exum, Devonta Woods, Jawari Boyd, and Allahquan Tate.

The event not only gave students the opportunity to meet the candidates, but it also allowed them to share what they, as students, would like to see from their governing body.

“I want to see SGA reach out to us more,” said Rachel Bivens a sophomore a supply chain management major from Charlotte. “

That opposed to us coming to them, I want to see them be more active about trying to get the general student body in-volved.”

Candidate for senior class president Sasha Gibson seemed to agree.

“The same spirit that we have trying to get people to vote for us is the same we should keep through out the year in getting individuals in-volved,” said Gibson. “It’s all about following through.”

The candidates, many of whom have previous experi-ence on their class executive boards, hope that previous experiences will help them, if

elected, run their desired posi-tions.

Individuals can vote for the candidates of their choice on Mar. 28 in Exhibit hall and

online.

[email protected] and follow us on Twitter @ATRegister

LILIANE LONGContributor

PHOTO BY TRACY DURANDIS• THE A&T REGISTERMADISON GIBBS talking to fellow students to vote for her in the upcoming election for Miss Sophmore on Wednesday March 14, 2012.

Sebastian offers after-hours helpStudents at N.C. A&T will

now be able to access free af-ter-hour health coverage.

Sebastian Health Care Center and UNC Health Link teamed together to offer regis-tered nurses to assist students on the phone for medical ad-vice. Health Link is offered at eight universities in North Carolina.

The solution was fi rst sought after from the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, Melanie Pierce.

A solution like HeathLink was looked into prior to the decision, but they could not fi nd a reason to use it.

Sebastian Health Center is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. to assist

students with medical con-cerns.

After hours, students have gone to the emergency room where they have paid an ex-cessive bill for conditions that are considered a “non-emergency problem.”

Freshman Jok rdan Leg-gett, a sports and leisure stud-ies major from Dunn, N.C., thinks this service is a great idea.

“I think it is good because if something happens at night and I need help, this will be a good place to provide it. This is a service I will use if I need help.”

The service is only avail-able for currently enrolled students. The nurses practice nationally recognized medical guidelines for their advice.

Advice will be giv-

en whether the students needs medi-cal attention, antibi-otics or can seek help the next day during Se-bastian’s hours.

It also practices confi -dentiality by not discussing any information outside of Sebastian and taking minimal information when given.

Students cannot call on be-half of other students keeping up with confi dentiality. Par-ents will not be offered any record unless the student is underage.

After the student has called, a record will be made to Sebastian so they can con-tinue treatment with the stu-dent if necessary.

A mandatory follow-up will also be performed.

“This is the next

best thing for students,” said Yvonne Parks, the nursing

director. “Students may not know

what to do. They

feel like it’s an emer-gency and

it may not be serious. If they

had someone to call for advice or di-

rect them, they could

save money. Students run up bills because they are afraid. This gives them the accessi-bility for free.”

Executive director Linda Wilson agrees with Parks. “Healthlink is that support

when we are not open. Se-bastian’s goal is to meet

the needs of our stu-dents and provide

total heath care. Health link

will help i m p l e -

ment that goal.”

Students can call UNC HealthLink at (888) 267-3675 or the locally at (919) 966-3820.

[email protected] and follow us on Twitter @ATRegister

Last fall, the N.C. A&T’s faculty senate approved a policy change that many students are not yet aware of. This rule states that a student must pass Math 101 with a C or better to go onto Math 102. This policy is effective for all levels of students, no matter the major.

From recent years, many students have been failing, overriding or had to withdrawal from Math 101 and this has become a problem within the Col-lege of Arts and Sciences.

The Math department informed David Aldridge, associate dean for research and graduate studies that in 2010, there was a 59 percent failure rate for students. This rate is deter-mined by the amount of students who receive grades of D, F, withdrawal or incomplete.

Last year, with the addition to supplemental instruction adminis-tered mainly by graduate students and teacher’s assistants from the college of engineering, that percentage dropped to 35.

“As parents you want your students to succeed…it’s a course of action and we just want to ensure the success rate of the students,” stated Aldridge. Each department has complete control over its curriculum as long as they send it their dean. Aldridge saw this policy and knew this could only increase the students’ success and it was approved.

Students are having mixed feelings about this policy change because it is helping them to succeed but for others it is slowing their process to graduate.

“I don’t think it’s that bad because a C is average and therefore you are learning and passing,” stated Gregory Smith a junior visual media and design student. “However, other students felt shocked and disappointed with this policy.”

“It has not affected me but many of my friends that are seniors and took Math 101 now have to go back and take it because they received a D. This is re-ally hard on them because they have to start all over. Many of us know that it is hard to start over and learn things all over again. I feel bad for them and it really sucks,” stated Brad Parker a ju-nior criminal justice student.

It is understandable that this policy will benefi t students and the success of this institution but to apply it to all lev-els after they received credit can make the policy shaky. Many teachers in the Math department had no comments except for Edward Washington a Math 101 teacher.

“It really makes sense,” said Wash-ington. “Are you really learning the material if you get a D in the course. This change of policy is benefi cial for all students.” The success rates for A&T are up to its students. Math 101 and 102 are just the beginning; many other courses will begin the same pol-icy soon.

[email protected] and follow us on Twitter @ATRegister

NECOLE JACKSONRegister Reporter

JENELL MCMILLIONRegister Reporter

SGA PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE TODAY6 p.m. in New Academic Classroom AuditoriumTate Woods

GE exec and Aggie alum to speak at spring commencement

The board of trustees has announced the keynote speak-er for spring commencement. Dmitri Stockton, president and chief executive offi cer of GE Asset Management, a leading global investment fi rm, will deliver her speech to the spring 2012 on May 12, at the Greens-boro Coliseum. The ceremony will begin at 8:30 a.m. More

than 1,000 s t u d e n t s amongst the nine schools and colleges are set to graduate this year.

As a 1986 A&T gradu-

ate, Stockton is a 25-year GE veteran and has served as pres-ident and CEO of GE Capital’s global banking unit in London

and Switzerland. Currently, he serves as a senior vice presi-dent of GE Company and is a member of the company’s Corporate Executive Council. Stockton is also a member of the Pension Managers Advi-sory Committee, the Executive Advisory Council at A&T’s School of Business and Eco-nomics and is on the board of directors for the GE Founda-tion, A Better Chance and the Thurgood Marshall College

Fund.He has been selected by

Savoy magazine as one of the Top 100 Most Infl uential Blacks in Corporate America. In the past, Stockton has been selected as one of Black En-terprise magazine’s 100 Most Powerful in Corporate Ameri-ca in 2009 and 75 Most Pow-erful on Wall Street in 2011. Stockton is also an inductee in the National Black College Hall of Fame and has been

recognized by the Beta Alpha Psi honor society as the Busi-ness Information Professional of the Year in 2005 and Beta Gamma Sigma with the Busi-ness Achievement Award in 2007.

Stockton holds a Bachelor of Science degree in account-ing from A&T and currently lives in Raleigh, N.C., with his wife Renee and two daugh-ters.

STAFF REPORTRegister

Stockton

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Music industry entreprenu-er workshopStallings9 a.m.

Black Family technology awareness dayMcNair Auditorium9 a.m.

Mr. & Miss a&t Forumharrison auditorium3 p.m.

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A&T honors achievement of studentsN.C. A&T took time out to

honor the achievements of its students last week.

The Honors Day Convoca-tion was held Mar. 15 in Har-rison Auditorium to honor both students and faculty.

Chancellor Harold Martin welcomed and encouraged the students to, “reach out and to reach back as an example to your peers and to inspire them to likewise achieve on recogni-tion.

This was not a message just to students. It was also meant to encourage faculty members to keep enriching their students’ education and critical thinking.

As discovery driven learn-ers, encourage them to cultivate strong study habits, participate in distinctive learning opportu-nities and engage in community collaboration”.

The address was delivered by ’69 alumna Sandra Daye Hughes. Today, Hughes serves in the department of journalism

of mass communication at N.C. A&T as the student outreach coordinator and lecturer. She has broken many barriers in journalism as the first African-American woman in the Pied-mont area to broadcast her own show and has worked for the local news channel WFMY for many years.

However, she says she takes great pride in honoring stu-dents who have accomplished the many goals they achieve for themselves in an academic setting.

In Hughes’ address, she de-fined an honor student as, “a critical thinker [who] loves to explore problem solving. An honor student always assists in understanding not just memo-rizing.

An honor student does not expect to be spoon fed required information they are self mo-tivated…honor students are down and simple go-getters. They don’t wait for you to give it to them, they go and get it.”

Over time it has been learned that students have had a great

teacher to get them to where they are today.

Six teachers were honored with the Outstanding Teach-er Award which include: Te-resa Styles in the College of Arts and Sciences, Steven Xiaochun Jiang in the Col-lege of Engineering, Kenrett Y. Jefferson-Moore in the School of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Lisa Gueldenzoph Snyder in the School of Business and Economics, Robin Liles in the School of Education and DeWayne Randolph Brown in the School of Technol-ogy. Also, Lemuria Carter in the School of Business and Economics along with Sonya Draper in the School of Technology were hon-ored with the Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award.

“It’s a great feeling to be honored,” said Liles. “I was very humble by what my stu-dents were saying. They are the ones that make sense for me. Beautiful.”

Mitchell Brown, a senior

business economics student said, “the honors program has given me many perks. I just got back from Africa yesterday and went to Singapore, Malaysia two years ago. It’s like a fam-

ily we all know each other and we all strive for excellence and greatness.”

[email protected] and follow us on Twitter @ATRegister

jenell mcmillionRegister Reporter

Photo by KenneTH l. HAWKinS, jR. • THE A&TREGISTER

SAnDRA HUGHeS was the keynote speaker for this year’s Honors Day Convocation. She is a professor in the journalism department.

Graduate studies hires new director

Dr. Dean Campbell has been named the director of the Stu-dent Transition and Retention (STAR) program.

Campbell comes to N.C. A&T, after working as a gradu-ate recruitment specialist at Morgan State University in Bal-timore. Morgan State received the 2011-12 Council of Histori-cally Black Graduate Schools (CHBGS) award for innovation in graduate recruitment and admissions during Campbell’s tenure there.

Before Morgan State, Camp-

bell served on a committee with Educational Testing Service and with the National Association of Graduate Admissions Profes-sionals.

Under Campbell’s new po-sition, he will report to the as-sistant dean and participate in leadership and management of the school of graduate studies with a focus on developing stra-tegic direction and managing the implementation of assigned projects to meet strategic servic-es provided to the students.

A&T Honda campus All-Stars ready to compete

N.C. A&T students will be participating in the Honda Campus All-Stars Challenge quiz bowl championship March 30-April 4.

The team consists of four members, three juniors and one senior: Franklin Foster (cap-tain), Mitchell Brown, Macey Morgan, and Megan Morgan. 48 teams from colleges and uni-

versities will be competing in the bowl.

Teams are broken down into eight divisions and play bracket style until there is a winner. The winning team gets a $50,000 grant from Honda for their school.

Teams that place second through eighth place teams will also win cash prizes.

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PARIS — A shooter who has killed seven people in France including three children at a Jewish school could be charged with terrorism, a federal pros-ecutor said Tuesday, amid re-ports that the gunman still on the loose may have filmed his most recent attack.

“It indeed appears that the circumstances of these three killings have caused a serious breach of the peace through in-

timidation or terror and can be characterized as acts of terror-ism in the sense of the definition contained in our penal code,” Francois Molins said.

He pointed to the premedi-tated and systematic nature of the attacks all the victims were shot point-blank “in the area of the head,” Molins told report-ers. The incidents may also have racist and anti-Semitic aspects, he said.

All the victims belonged to ethnic or religious minorities.

Speculation has been rife in the media that the attacker is a neo-Nazi with a military back-ground. But Interior Minister Claude Gueant warned against excessive guesswork.

“We still don’t know who he is. We haven’t gotten that far,” he said of the suspect.

Molins said all leads were being explored, noting that thousands of hours of video sur-veillance footage still have to be reviewed.

One witness told police that

the attacker had a mini camera strapped to his chest when he started shooting at the Ozar Ha-tarah school in the southwestern city of Toulouse on Monday.

Investigators have scoured the Internet for any corre-sponding video of the shooting but have yet to find anything, Gueant said.

Surveillance video shows that the suspect was wearing a “band” across his chest, Molins acknowledged, but said that the presence of a camera is “at this

moment only a hypothesis and nothing more.”

“It is clear that we are deal-ing with an individual who is extremely determined, who knows that he is hunted, who is capable of striking again,” he told reporters in Paris.

President Nicolas Sarkozy has placed the southwestern re-gion on the highest threat level of scarlet, denoting the risk of an imminent attack.

Molins noted that the inci-dents so far which also left two

people seriously injured have each happened four days apart.

The same semi-automatic Colt handgun was used in all three attacks. The suspect is also reported to have used similar looking scooters in several of the attacks, but Molins rejected reports that the police had infor-mation on matching registration plates.

Jewish and Muslim organiza-tions are planning to close ranks on Sunday by holding a joint si-lent march in Paris.

KIMBERLY HEFLINGAP Education Reporter

Serial shootings amount to terrorism, prosecutor says

GORENTAS, Turkey — Syrian rebel commander Ahmad Mi-hbzt and his ragtag fighters grabbed their aging rifles to fight Syrian troops advancing on their village, but soon fled under a rain of exploding artil-lery shells.

“We will fight until our last drop of blood,” Mihbzt declared a week later in this village across the Turkish border. “We just withdrew because we ran out of ammunition.”

Like Mihbzt’s men, rebels across Syria fighting to topple President Bashar Assad lack the weapons that can pose a serious challenge to the regime’s large, professional army. Some rebel units have more fighters than guns, forcing them to take turns fighting. Because of ammuni-tion shortages, some fire auto-matic rifles one shot at a time,

counting each bullet.Rebel leaders and anti-re-

gime activists say rising gun prices and more tightly con-trolled borders are making it harder for them to acquire arms and smuggle them into Syria. This could tip the already un-balanced military equation of Syria’s year-old uprising further in the regime’s favor.

The opposition has suffered a series of military setbacks as regime forces have repeatedly routed them in their strongholds, most recently the eastern city of Deir al-Zour on Tuesday.

The weapons shortage has grown so acute that the opposi-tion’s disorganized leadership say only military aid can stop Assad’s forces. Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Libya have spoken positively of the idea, but no country is known to be arming the rebels. The United States and many European countries have rejected sending weapons,

fearing that it would fuel a civil war.

The weapons problems re-flect the fractured, haphazard nature of the rebel movement. The uprising began a year ago with peaceful protests demand-ing political reform, inspired by the successful revolts in Tunisia and Egypt. Since then, Assad has waged a withering crack-down.

In response, some in the op-position began to take up arms to defend their towns and attack government troops. The local militias and breakaway units from the Syrian army mostly identify with the Free Syr-ian Army, a loose-knit umbrella group, but they operate indepen-dent of each other. The groups, numbering anywhere from a few dozen to a few hundred men, are largely on their own in finding weapons and supplies.

Syrian rebels continue to fight despite military setbacks

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan—Residents of an Afghan village near where an American sol-dier is alleged to have killed 16 civilians are convinced that the slayings were in retaliation for a roadside bomb attack on U.S. forces in the same area a few days earlier.

In accounts to The Associ-ated Press and to Afghan gov-ernment officials, the residents allege that U.S. troops lined up men from the village of Mok-hoyan against a wall after the bombing on either March 7 or 8, and told them they would pay a price for the attack.

The lawyer for Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, who is ac-cused in the March 11 killings of the 16 civilians, has said that his client was upset because a buddy had lost a leg in an ex-plosion on March 9.

It’s unclear if the bombing cited by attorney John Henry Browne was the same as the one described by the villag-ers that prompted the alleged threats. After a meeting at a military prison in Fort Leav-enworth, Kansas, Browne said Bales told him a roadside bomb blew off the leg of one of his friends two days before the shootings occurred.

A spokesman for the U.S. military declined to give any information on the bombing or even confirm that it occurred, citing the investigation of the shootings. He also declined to comment on the allegation that U.S. troops threatened retalia-tion.

“The shooting incident as well as any possibilities that led up to it or might be associated with it will be investigated,” Lt. Col. Jimmie Cummings, a spokesman for U.S. forces in Afghanistan, said Tuesday.

Bales, 38, is suspected of leaving a U.S. base in Panjwai district of Kandahar province, entering homes and gunning down nine children, four men and three women before dawn on March 11 in the villages of Balandi and Alkozai. Mokhoy-an is about 500 yards (meters) east of the base.

The shootings have further strained ties between the U.S. government and President Hamid Karzai who has ac-cused the U.S. military of not cooperating with a delegation he appointed to investigate the killings.

Karzai’s investigative team is not convinced that one sol-dier could have single-handed-ly left his base, walked to the two villages, and carried out the killings and set fire to some of the victims’ bodies.

The identity of the soldier who allegedly threatened the villagers is not known.

American soldier alleged killings seen as an act of retaliation, villagers say

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ORLANDO, Fla. — Following a day of protests calling for the arrest of a Florida neighborhood watch captain who fatally shot an unarmed black teen, the U.S. Justice Department announced late Monday it will investigate the case.

George Zimmerman, 28, claims he shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin last month in self-defense during a confron-tation in a gated community in Sanford, Fla.

Police have described Zim-merman as white; his family says he is Hispanic and not rac-ist.

Zimmerman spotted Martin

as he was patrolling his neigh-borhood on a rainy evening last month and called 911 to report a suspicious person. Against the advice of the 911 dispatch-er, Zimmerman then followed Martin, who was walking home from a convenience store with a bag of Skittles in his pocket.

The Justice Department said in a statement late Monday that the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Offi ce will join in the agency’s investigation.

“The department will con-duct a thorough and indepen-dent review of all the evidence and take appropriate action at the conclusion of the investiga-tion,” the agency said.

The case has garnered na-tional attention. Civil rights

activist Al Sharpton is expected to join Sanford city leaders in a Tuesday evening town hall meeting to discuss with resi-dents how the investigation is being handled.

The Justice Department said its community relations service also will be in Sanford this week to meet with authorities, com-munity offi cials and civil rights leaders “to address tension in the community.”

Earlier Monday, students held rallies on the campus of Florida A&M University in Tal-lahassee and outside the Semi-nole County Criminal Justice Center, where prosecutors are reviewing the case to determine if charges should be fi led.

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BEIRUT — Syrian rebels bat-tled regime forces Monday in a heavily protected, upscale area of Damascus, activists said, in a sign that the country’s out-gunned opposition is increas-ingly turning to insurgent tac-tics.

At least three people were killed in the fi refi ght, which was the most serious clash in the Syrian capital since the upris-ing began a year ago. The battle with machine guns and automat-ic rifl es brought the country’s violent confl ict to the streets of

a neighborhood that houses em-bassies and senior government offi cials.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has a network of activists throughout the country, said 18 government troops were wound-ed in the fi ghting and two later were believed to have died.

Rami Abdul-Rahman, who heads the Observatory, de-scribed the clash “as the most violent of its kind and closest to security centers in Damas-cus since the revolution began.” He said several “armed groups of defectors” came from one of the suburbs and fi red a rocket-

propelled grenade at the house of an army brigadier general. They then entered a building where they were chased by se-curity forces.

It was not clear whether the general was hurt, he said.

The state-run SANA news agency gave a different version of events, saying the fi ghting broke out when security forces stormed an apartment used as a hideout by an “armed terrorist” group in the Mazzeh neighbor-hood.

The report said two gunmen were killed and a third was ar-rested while a member of the security forces was killed.

Clashes rock Syrian capital amid insurgency fears

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SGA PreSident cAndidAte

DAvonTA

Wood

Senior, JOMC - Public Relations/Psychology Major , Charlotte, NC

Platform: Internal objective is to take President Robin-son’s “One Aggie” and turn it into “One SGA.” Wants to unite the different entities of SGA (E-board, Court, Class Presidents) in order to produce a stronger pres-ence. “We can’t help the campus if we’re not united.”External objective is to prepare Aggies to compete on a global level upon graduation.

SGA Experience: Freshman Class Parliamentarian, Senator, Senior Class President

Why you should vote for him: “I don’t make false prom-ises. I’m dependable, reliable, and I have good track record.”

2012-2013 SGA canidates

Junior, Architecture Engineering Major, Fayetteville, NC Platform: Reviving the Pride One Aggie at a Time & Governance You Can Depend On: “People are al-ways saying Aggie Pride is dead, it just needs to be revamped.” Tate plans to do that by highlighting aca-demic achievements and more.

SGA Experience: Freshman Class President, Senator

Why you should vote for him: “There isn’t another student that cares about this university as much as I do. If there is, they aren’t stepping up to do he things I want to do.”

In order to help the student body during their voting experience we have provided a breakdown of the candidates running for some of the biggest SGA executive board positions and their platforms. — Compiled & Designed by Sylvia Obell, Photos by Kenneth L. Hawkins

★VoterS Guide★

SGA PreSident cAnidAte

AllAhquAn

tAte

SGA VP-internAl AffAirS cAndidAte

nAeemAh

SiMS

Junior, Criminal Justice Major, Weddington, NC Platform: Project REACH: reaching out to the students by changing the linear flow of communication into a circle that the student body is an important part of.

SGA Experience: Senator for two years.

Why you should vote for her: Her experience stretches be-yond A&T’s SGA. She is a member of North Caroli-ana’s Association of Student Governments, which in-cludes leaders from all 17 UNC schools.

SGA VP-internAl AffAirS cAndidAte

CAnishA C.

turner

Sophomore, Agricultural Business/Marketing, Waverly, Va. Platform: Rebuilding the DREAM (Daring to Reinvent Everyone’s Ability to Move): Turner wants to prove that her generation isn’t as lackadaisical as it’s often perceived. “We can move in classroom, in senate, in the schools & colleges, financially in the Dowdy Building, etc.” She also wants to move towards a more proactive SGA constitution.

SGA Experience: Executive Assistant to Past SGA Presi-dent Wayne Kimball, Jr., Senator.

Why you should vote for her: Turner doesn’t consider her-self a politician but a stateswoman. “It’s not about pop-ularity for me, it’s about my fellow students.”SGA VP-externAl AffAirS cAndidAte

CheRi

fArrior

Junior, JOMC - Public Relations, Newport News, Va. Platform: Maintaining the Aggie Brand by building re-lationships in the community, creating strong bond be-tween campus organizations, networking, and assertive communication. Farrior also wants to work to make students active in the upcoming presidential elections.

SGA Experience: Senator

Why you should vote for her: Farrior feels her major in pub-lic relations major has given her the necessary skills to execute the job. She also believes her strong love for the university sets her apart.

SGA VP-externAl AffAirS cAndidAte

RyAn

MArcuS

Sophomore, Economics Marketing, Durham, NC

Platform: Marcus is all about continuing the legacy that the past two VPEA’s have begun. He wants to maintain a well balanced street team to let people know about events a ahead of time. He also wants to focus on service by getting people involved with the upcoming presidential elections. “I plan on bringing big names to campus.”

SGA Experience: Interned with current VPEA Chris Wade.

Why you should vote for him: “I’ve seen what Robinson did his year and worked closely with Wade this year so I’ve experienced what goes into creating GHOE and Aggie Fest.”

MiSS nc A&t cAndidAte

PReCious J.

BrAdley

Junior, JOMC - Broadcast, Jacksonville, NC Platform: Empowering the Lady Aggie: Bradley plans on implementing a five part program entitled “The Renaissance Woman” it will compile of different pro-grams focusing on the business woman, the educated woman, the political woman, the service woman, and the phenomenal woman which, will be a graduation/ball of sorts for all those who have participated.

SGA Experience: Senator

Why you should vote for her: Bradley feels she is down to earth and more relatable to students. “I’m an ordinary person trying to make an extraordinary change.”

MiSS nc A&t cAndidAte

miChele

delGAdo

Junior, JOMC - Public Relations, Hartford, CT Platform: Play Your Cards Right, Vote for the Queen of H.E.A.R.T.S (Helping, Each, Aggie, Reach, Total, Success): Delgado plans to have programs/initiatives throughout the year that tackle different aspects of col-lege life such as transitioning from college into the real world.

SGA Experience: Miss Junior

Why you should vote for her: “I have experience on the court. I’ve spent the year shadowing Miss A&T, I know what goes on behind the scenes.” Delgado also feels she is approachable and a well rounded student which, would make her a good representation of the student body.

MiSS nc A&t cAndidAte

CATheRine

HAMlin

Junior, JOMC - Electronic Media, Winston-Salem, NC

Platform: P.E.A.C.E. (Positive, Energy, Activates, Con-stant, Elevation): Hamlin is all about creating a posi-tive campus environment for students. Lifting spirits to create a better day. She wants to create programs talk-ing about self worth, service, and more. “Life during college can often call for the need of uplifting. When you create a positive atmosphere the only way to go is up.”

SGA Experience: Freshman Class Parliamentarian, In-terned with current Miss A&T Jasmine Gurley

Why you should vote for her: Hamlin feels her positive en-ergy is what sets her apart in addition to, “My genuine-ness, passion for service, and love for my Aggie fam-ily.”

MiSS nc A&t cAndidAte

Kibibi

HAWkinS

Senior, JOMC - Electronic Media, Bloomfield, NJ

Platform: Let’s Get Down to Business: The platform includes different components that exude service, edu-cation, a more pleasant environment for learning and more. It’s more interactive than others. A lot more so-cial programs that students care about such as basket-ball tournaments, double dutch, etc. to keep students on campus.

SGA Experience: Other experience

Why you should vote for her: “I’m a friendly person. I often get complimented on my personality. I’m approach-able and that’s something I’ve heard student’s don’t feel as though they get from past Miss A&T’s. I want to give the students what they ask for.”

Mr. nc A&t cAndidAte

ReginAlD

JoHnSon

Junior, Professional Theater, Greensboro, NC

Platform: Johnson feels understanding A&T’s history is the answer to “our current insanity.” He believes students lack of knowledge of the universities vast achievements is why they lack pride. He plans on bringing tasteful pride back to A&T and bridging the gap of communication between the student body and SGA

SGA Experience: Mr. Freshman, Mr. Sophomore

Why you should vote for him: “I was there for the establish-ment of this position. I was the very first Mr. Freshman and worked with the first Mr. A&T Austin James.”Mr. nc A&t cAndidAte

CAmeRon

Moore

Junior, JOMC - Broadcast, San Jose, Calif.

Platform: More Results, More Pride, More Service: Moore wants to enhance the campus experience by getting students more involved with the goings-on of campus including classes, campus organizations, pro-grams, and more.

SGA Experience: Other experience

Why you should vote for him: Moore says he is personable, down to earth, and always concerned about the needs of his fellow Aggies.

2012-2013 SGA candidates

MiSS nc A&t cAndidAte

megAn

MillS

Junior, Speech Language Pathology, Winston-Salem, NC

Platform: S.E.R.V.I.C.E (Student Encourages Respon-sible Values In Communication Enrichment): “I feel like service is a big part of being in college. It should be a huge part of what Miss A&T does.” Mills wants service to become an innate action versus a chore.

SGA Experience: Other experience

Why you should vote for her: “Integrity I’m a zealous per-son. Service is the core of my values. Also because I want to uphold Aggie excellence.”

otHer SGA cAndidAteS:

SecretaryPatrick MalichiDanielle Smart

TreasurerDesiree Simmons

Editor-In-Chief,Jonathan Erik VealKarmen Robinson

clASScAndidAteS:

Senior Class PresidentSascha GibsonAlisha Fairfax

Miss SeniorAlexandria Pouncy

Stanita ThomasRyale Grier

Miss JuniorTiffany CarsonTyler NewkirkMarcela FidelisGabriele Stuart

Junior Class King, Mr. Junior

Gitory BartellTimothy Exum

Darrell AndersonJonte Douglas

Sophomore Class PresidentJawari Boyd

Sophomore Class Vice President

Deborah GoddardAmbrose Wallace

Sophomore Class Treasurer

Asha Brown

Mr. SophomoreDorian Davis

Senate District #1- College of Arts and

SciencesKhalyn Jones

Senate District #2- School of Business

and EconomicsTevin Milton

Peter AkinleyeDanielle PetersonRandolph Brown

Senate District #3- School of Education

Isiah GuinyardMelanie ThompsonTaya Gaskins-Scott

Senate District #4- College of

EngineeringAllison Townes

SenAtecAndidAteS:

★ Voting will take place Wed. March 28 in Exhibit Hall 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. ★ Runoff April 4, 2012

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WASHINGTON — The nation’s security and economic pros-perity are at risk if America’s schools don’t improve, warns a task force led by former Sec-retary of State Condoleezza Rice and Joel Klein, the former chancellor of New York City’s school system.

The report, obtained by The Associated Press, cautions that far too many schools fail to ad-equately prepare students. “The

dominant power of the 21st century will depend on human capital,” it said. “The failure to produce that capital will under-mine American security.”

The task force said the State Department and U.S. intel-ligence agencies face critical shortfalls in the number of for-eign language speakers, and that fields such as science, defense and aerospace are at particu-lar risk because a shortage of skilled workers is expected to worsen as baby boomers retire.

According to the panel, 75

percent of young adults don’t qualify to serve in the military because they are physically un-fit, have criminal records or in-adequate levels of education.

That’s in part because 1 in 4 students fails to graduate from high school in four years, and a high school diploma or the equivalent is needed to join the military. But another 30 percent of high school graduates don’t do well enough in math, science and English on an aptitude test to serve in the military, the re-port said.

The task force, consisting of 30 members with backgrounds in areas such as education and foreign affairs, was organized by the Council on Foreign Re-lations, a New York-based re-search and policy organization focused on international issues. The report was scheduled to be released Tuesday.

Too many Americans are de-ficient in both global awareness and knowledge that is “essential for understanding America’s al-lies and its adversaries,” the re-port concludes.

“Leaving large swaths of the population unprepared also threatens to divide Americans and undermines the country’s cohesion, confidence, and abil-ity to serve as a global leader,” the report said.

Rice and Klein said in inter-views that they are encouraged by efforts to improve schools such as the adoption of “com-mon core” standards set in read-ing and math in a vast majority of states and the Obama admin-istration’s “Race to the Top” competition, in which states

compete for federal money in exchange for more meaningful teacher evaluations.

But, they added, the pace to improve America’s schools must accelerate.

“The rest of the world is not sitting by while we, in a rather deliberate fashion, reform the education system,” Rice said.

Klein said he hopes the find-ings will prompt discussions be-yond the education community that engage those in the defense and foreign policy establish-ments.

KIMBERLY HEFLINGAP Education Reporter

Rice and Klein tries to change educational system

NEW YORK — Apple is finally acknowledging that it has more money than it needs. But don’t expect it to cut prices on iP-hones and iPads. Instead, the company said on Monday that it will reward its shareholders with a dividend and a stock buy-back program.

Apple, the world’s most valu-able publicly traded company, sits on $97.6 billion in cash and securities.

The company has stockpiled the cash through a combination of great ideas and prudence.

Apple spends money, to be sure, building data centers, buy-ing parts for its products and pur-suing ambitious projects such as a new 2.8-million-square-foot headquarters that has been lik-ened to a spaceship.

It also invests in the research and development of new tech-nology and negotiates an occa-sional acquisition.

But Apple simply hasn’t managed to spend its earnings faster than people are lining up to buy its iPads, iPhones and other gadgets.

The decision to return some

of that money to investors is a clear signal that Apple is taking a different approach in the post-Jobs era.

Former CEO Steve Jobs re-sisted calls to issue dividends for years. He argued that the money was better used to give Apple maneuvering room to acquire other companies, for instance. Apple did pay a quarterly divi-dend between 1987 and 1995, but Jobs was not involved with the company at the time.

Jobs died in October after a long fight with cancer.

Since then, pressure had been mounting on new CEO Tim Cook. Apple’s ever-growing pile of cash was earning a paltry amount of interest and the fact that it was sitting there unused could have left the company open to charges of mismanage-ment and possible shareholder lawsuits.

On Monday, Cook said that, with as much cash as Apple has on hand, a dividend won’t re-strain the company’s options.

“These decisions will not close any doors for us,” he told analysts and reporters on a con-ference call.

Indeed, Apple can afford it. The dividend, which should

placate shareholders, will cost about $10 billion the first year. Apple generated $31 billion in cash in the fiscal year that ended in September and analysts ex-pect it to add another $70 billion to $85 billion this year.

Apple said it will pay a quarterly dividend of $2.65 per share, starting in its fiscal fourth quarter, which begins July 1.

The dividend works out to $10.60 annually, or 1.8 percent of the current stock price. Al-though Microsoft Corp., pays 2.5 percent of its stock price in dividends, and Hewlett-Packard Co. pays 2 percent, analyst Tav-is McCourt at Morgan Keegan said Apple’s dividend is rela-tively generous for a large tech-nology company.

Apple is reluctant to bring back overseas profits. In addi-tion to being taxed in their re-spective countries, those profits would be subject to the 35 per-cent U.S. corporate tax rate.

The dividend opens up own-ership of Apple shares to a wid-er range of stock mutual funds, potentially boosting the stock price in the long term. Many “value-oriented” stock funds are not allowed to buy stocks that don’t pay dividends.

Apple distributes money to open up ownership for higher stock price

PETER SVENSSONAP Technical Writer

WASHINGTON — Now here’s a tag team for the ages: Richard Nixon, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama.

The arc of history joins all three in the cause of universal health care, a goal promoted by Nixon four decades ago and advanced in laws enacted by Romney and Obama in turn. So where are the high fives between the president and the former Massachusetts gover-nor?

The most significant health care law since Medicare gets barely a shout-out from Obama. And when Romney must talk about the law he won in Mas-sachusetts, it’s because some-one’s got him on the defensive in the Republican presidential primary campaign.

“Big health care reform turns out not to be very popu-lar — and actually unhealthy for the candidates who did it,” says Robert Blendon, a Har-vard professor who tracks pub-lic opinion on the subject.

The Supreme Court will de-cide if the new federal health

care overhaul or any part of it is unconstitutional after argu-ments next week. If the law that Republican opponents call “Obamacare” survives, “Rom-neycare” will stand in the his-tory books as a guidepost for it, hardly the first time a state has served as a laboratory for national social policy.

The federal and Massa-chusetts laws share much, including a requirement that individuals carry health insur-ance, a provision that taxpay-ers provide help for those who can’t afford it and protections against denial of coverage. And ObamaRomneycare shares more with Nixon’s never-implemented approach — an insurance system anchored in the private market with a hefty government safety net — than with the Clinton administration initiative that collapsed in the 1990s under the weight of its own complexity and reach.

Obama and Romney are not overly modest men, but you might think so when it comes to this subject.

Health care got two sen-tences in Obama’s State of the Union speech, one more than he devoted to an unfair-trade case

against Chinese tires. Romney sticks to the Republican line that Obama’s law must be re-pealed, and gives so-so reviews of his own law. “Some things worked, some things didn’t, and some things I’d change,” he says when pressed.

Stuart Altman has been in the thick of it all as a health policy economist who advised Nixon in the 1970s and four more presidents of both par-ties since. He also co-chaired a Massachusetts task force on health policy in the prelude to Romney’s initiative.

“Poor Romney, he has to run away from it,” Altman said, simply because Republi-cans have made it their refrain that “Obamacare” must go, and Romney’s plan can’t easily be divorced from it.

Nixon declared: “The time is at hand this year to bring comprehensive, high-quality health care within the reach of every American.”

With the Watergate scandal soon to destroy Nixon’s presi-dency, health care was surely a topic he preferred to talk about. It’s just not one that Romney or Obama wants to talk about now.

Obama and Romney express health-care plans via Nixon’s structure

CALVIN WOODWARDAssociated Press

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Do titles really change the nature of a relationship?

Guy #1- I used to think it didn’t. However, I also use to lie to myself. I think offi cially putting a title on a relationship shows that everything between you and me are exclusive and there’s no other person. If titles didn’t mean anything then ex-plain why people get married. Why not just stay in a relation-ship, save money on a wedding, and go steady for 60 years? You get married because that wife title is more important than girlfriend, just like girlfriend is more important than boo thing. Titles are, and have always been, very important.

Guy #2- Sometimes it can. I think a lot of guys try to avoid the title because guys are just naturally afraid to commit. However, lately we have seen more and more girls start to do the same thing. I feel that titles help defi ne a relationship a lot better, however a lot of people have issues because they avoid the titles. You remain in a weird area of “I like you, I don’t want you to talk to anyone else, but I have freedom to do whatever I want and you can’t complain, and if you do complain then you need to chill out because you’re not really my girl.”

Guy #3- Not really. If you are with someone then it doesn’t matter what their title is. They are with you, you are with them, and as long as the two of you have an understanding about what’s going on then I don’t see the purpose to mess that up with titles. Titles actually confuse re-lationships more than they help them.

Do you think you should follow your signifi cant other on a social network?

Guy #1- I think so. I think it is important to know what is going on in each other lives. I don’t support stalking by any means. But I don’t see what is wrong with having access to them. I think if you block your-self from that, then you are po-tentially setting yourself up for failure. I don’t think you should stalk them, but you should have access to it.

Guy #2- There needs to be a level of privacy in every re-lationship. I don’t think it is that big of a deal to follow each

other on Twitter or be friends on Facebook, but I do think it is im-portant for the two of you to not stalk each other and read every single comment or wall post.

Guy #3- Absolutely not. If you follow your signifi cant other on Twitter then you are opening yourself up to nothing but jeal-ousy and misunderstandings. I followed a few of my girls on Twitter and now I regret it be-cause I always know what they are doing even when they are not with me. This makes things complicated because now I’m wondering who she is doing it with, why didn’t she invite me, etc. I think it makes life easier if you just didn’t follow each other.

Do you think it is a big deal to put “In a Relationship” on Facebook?

Guy #1- It absolutely is. People try to down play Face-book and Twitter, yet we all have one and we all put infor-mation up there. So to put some stuff up there and not your rela-tionship status, pictures of your signifi cant other, or anything, just shows that you don’t want the rest of the world to know you are in a serious relationship. Some people say it is not that big of a deal. However if it’s not that big of a deal, then why not just put it out there?

Guy #2- Facebook is not that serious. I don’t even have one. My girlfriend might have us listed but if she doesn’t then I really could care less. I think it would only be a problem if I was insecure in our relationship. Just because we are together doesn’t mean the whole world has to know to make it legit. I think that is one of the major problems with our society. We put too much private informa-tion out for the world to look at and criticize.

Guy #3- I think if you are in a relationship then there is noth-ing wrong with letting people know. This way you can show people you are serious about your relationship. It may just be Facebook but these social net-works are important. So to make it offi cial up there makes it offi -cial to everyone, even the peo-ple you don’t know. So I don’t see the harm in just making it offi cial for the cyber world and letting everybody know that you are no longer on the market.

A&TMZWill Hunger Games Conquer

The world was exposed to J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” in 2001 and Stephanie Meyers’ “Twilight” in 2008. Both have received tremendous revenue, record breaking box offi ce num-bers on opening week and have been named as two of the most profi table movie franchises in history. But a new franchise known as “The Hunger Games” is forming in 2012. Does any-one know anything about this movie?

“The Hunger Games” is the story of a girl who volunteers herself as tribute in her younger sister’s place to enter a game of twisted punishment for a past uprising and ongoing govern-ment intimidation tactics. Each teenage boy and girl plays sur-vival of the fi ttest, as they must fi ght one another until one sur-vivor remains.

I’m not so much a fan off the gate. Let’s be honest, the world of wizardry at Hogwarts and the vampires residence in Forks has pulled in so many individuals that people are not ready for a new fi lm interfering with their Harry Potter and the love of Bella and Edward…and Jacob.

But on the other side, “The Hunger Games” has books, memorabilia and a massive global following. The fi rst novel of the trilogy sold over 26 mil-lion copies in the US and spent

180 consecutive weeks on The New York Times bestseller list since publication in 2008. I see it is following the path “Harry Potter” and “Twilight” took so who knows what “The Hunger Games” will do within its three book rotation. Are we foresee-ing three fi lms to accommodate three books? Who knows, but if “The Hunger Games” wants the same reaction and possibly a #TeamHungerGames group to compete with #TeamTwilight or #TeamHarryPotter, it needs to have a sold out crowd among theaters worldwide. Though Harry Potter is fi nished, they are still getting awards and revenue. But “The Hunger Games” has to deal with the release of the fi nal Twilight fi lm, “Breaking Dawn Part 2” in November.

With Twilight conquering the award season year after year, ‘”The Hunger Games” will be a friendly competitor but gener-ally they will lose.

The start of a new franchise is erupting and starts this Friday as “The Hunger Games” comes to theaters. So will leading lady, Katniss Everdeen of “The Hunger Games” survive among the rest or will Twilight’s Bel-la Swan take the throne once again? The battle of the movie franchises has begun again with a newcomer. Which team you on, #TeamTwilight or #Team-HungerGames?

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ERIK VEALOnline Editor

This has been one of the worst fortnights in the increas-ingly unhappy 10{-year Afghan war for NATO and, above all, the United States and its ally, Britain.

First there was the burning of the Korans at Bagram air base, which unleashed a wave of religious fury and revenge killings of U.S. troops. Then came the deaths of six British soldiers, incinerated by a giant Taliban bomb last week, which pushed the British death toll in the war over the symbolic 400 mark. Support in Britain for an increasingly unpopular war fur-ther deteriorated. Now comes the shooting in Kandahar of 16 Afghan villagers many of them women and children al-legedly by a rogue American soldier. All this can only have increased the determination of Prime Minister David Cameron and President Obama, his host for talks in Washington this week, to speed up their exit strategies.

But for the majority of Af-ghans, distressing as these events are, there are perhaps more pressing concerns. What will happen when the Ameri-cans and the rest of NATO pull out?

Afghans already feel that electoral considerations are more important to the West than the key question of whether the raw, new Afghan National Army and the Afghan National Police will be up to the task of

guaranteeing the country’s se-curity, especially if Pakistan’s intelligence agency, the ISI, continues to back the Taliban.

Although the U.S.-led surge at the end of 2010 reversed the military balance in the Taliban-infested, drug-rich Kandahar and Helmand provinces, the Taliban has since retaliated by extending its grip in the previ-ously secure north. Now, hardly a week goes by without some prominent government offi cial, police or army chief being am-bushed or blown up in Kunduz, Mazar-i-Sharif or even Kabul.

The hemorrhaging IED and suicide-bomb attacks like the assassination in September of Karzai’s top peace nego-tiator, former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, by a supposed peace envoy with a bomb hidden in his turban has generated a climate of fear and pessimism.

The assassin is said to have been dispatched by the Taliban, who, with its backers, the ISI, are probably the only optimists in Afghanistan. The ISI sees its long-term strategy of manipu-lating the Taliban insurgency to install a pro-Pakistan govern-ment in Kabul as fi nally paying off.

For this observer, a foreign correspondent for Reuters and Independent Television News for nearly 40 years, the situa-tion conjures up memories of the end of the Vietnam War. National security advisor (and later Secretary of State) Henry Kissinger had to negotiate with his North Vietnamese adversar-

ies from a position of weakness that not even he could disguise. By then all American com-bat troops were long gone. I watched the North Vietnamese march into Saigon on April 30, 1975; they not only took over the old capital but the whole of the south as well.

Is that what will happen in Afghanistan? Will the Taliban move to fi ll a vacuum, with Pakistani and ISI backing? One hopes not, and of course it would not happen in one fell swoop as it did in South Viet-nam. Many Afghans and non-Afghans fear a Taliban take-over could well lead to civil war. Whatever happens in the Pashtun south and its capital, Kandahar, the Tajik and Uzbek north will almost certainly fi ght rather than submit to another Taliban dictatorship. Memories of the massacres that accom-panied Taliban rule from 1996 until 2001 are still too vivid for any northerner, and many southerners, to want to see the militants back in power.

Ahmed Shah Massoud, the Northern Alliance leader who was assassinated by al Qaida suicide bombers two days be-fore9/11, managed to defy the Taliban for fi ve long years de-spite receiving precious little support from the United States. He left behind plenty of disci-ples, and many of his old muja-hedin commanders are said to be stockpiling arms. One such commander, Masoud’s succes-sor, Marshal Mohammed Qas-sim Fahim, is Karzai’s senior vice president. Whereas Fa-

him, reputedly a multimillion-aire, could always take refuge abroad, many ordinary former mujahedin would see little op-tion but to stay and fi ght, no doubt supported by Russia and Iran, which don’t want to see another Taliban government in power in Kabul. Nor do the former Soviet republics to the north.

But short of civil war, is an extremist Islamic state, jeopardizing Western-inspired achievements in education and women’s rights, inevitable? Gen. David Richards, chief of the British defense staff who commanded coalition troops in Afghanistan in 2006-07, does not think so. “I don’t think we are losing, by the way,” he told me. “We are just not succeed-ing in the time frame that suits and is acceptable to Afghani-stan or Afghans and is accept-able to our population and our politicians. So what can we do? Well, since we have only now got the resources to do this correctly, I think we have got to give ourselves more time. People talk about a bit more strategic patience.”

He added: “I believe where we have got the balance right, we are already turning the cor-ner in practical terms.... Which is why, I think, give us a bit longer; 2015 is probably do-able, for example. We have just started to get it right, and we might yet succeed.”

But will the politicians give the generals that long? In the light of recent developments, it is doubtful.

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How will it finally end in the war in Afghanistan?

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Crystal Pratt

In the seemingly interminable campaign for the 2012 Republi-can nomination, one result after another has been called “defi ni-tive” or a “breakthrough,” only for those superlatives to be dust-ed off again after the next round of voting.

But the outcome of Tues-

day’s primaries in Alabama and Mississippi does seem to mark a milestone: the beginning of a two-candidate race between Mitt Romney and Rick Santo-rum.

True, Newt Gingrich, who fi nished second to Santorum in both states, says he isn’t going anywhere and even attempted to portray himself and Santorum as an anti-Romney tag team.

That doesn’t alter the fact that, based not only on Tues-day’s results but also on his earlier showings, Santorum has established himself as the “un-Romney” to whom the front-runner must pay special atten-tion.

The result could be an edify-ing sharpening of the debate as Romney is forced to engage a single opponent on the issues,

in the process defi ning himself more clearly not just for Repub-licans but for the general elec-torate.

Such a play-it-safe approach might work, even if Gingrich changed his mind and with-drew.

Romney still seems to be on what Los Angeles Times staff writer Mark Z. Barabak called “a slow, steady march to the

party’s nomination,” one that in the next several weeks will pass through states more hospitable to Romney than Alabama and Mississippi were.

Why change course?One reason is that defi ning

his differences with Santorum might redound to Romney’s ad-vantage in more moderate states such as Illinois and Pennsylva-nia.

A failure to distinguish him-self from Santorum in the com-ing weeks could hurt Romney with voters in the fall.

With no disrespect to Ging-rich or Ron Paul, the Republi-can race is down to two serious contenders.

Republicans aren’t the only ones who deserve to know, and in detail, how they differ.

MCT CAMPUSContributor

It’s Romney and the un-Romney Party in 2012

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Jerry Eaves has been re-moved from his duties as the head coach of the men’s b a s k e t b a l l team. Director of Athletics Earl M. Hilton made this an-nouncement in a press release Mar. 13.

E a v e s ’ contract was intially set to expire on May 30, 2013.

“I thought our men’s basket-ball program needed a new di-rection,” said Hilton.

Taking over a one-win pro-gram of the men’s basketball team in 2003, Eaves accom-plished major wins in his coach-ing career leading the Aggies to wins over SMU, DePaul, Middle Tennessee State and 2-0 winning streak against cross

town rival UNC Greensboro.He finished his time at A&T

with a 99-120 record over his nine-year tenure. He is the third coach to be on the program’s all-time wins list.

Shooting guard Roger “RJ” Buck was caught by surprise as were the rest of his teammates when the news of Eaves’ release was announced to the team.

“We were upset and it caught us off guard and something we were not expecting,” said the ju-nior criminal justice major. “For the junior class, we have been playing for coach Eaves for the last three years and now we are just thinking who will be the next coach to come in?”

Assistant coach, Scott Boll-wage will serve as interim head coach until a permanent replace-ment is hired. Bollwage was not available for comment.

“It would be nice to keep a coach that everyone is familiar with, he does a great job as an assistant and we know he will do a great job taking over,” said Buck.

The Aggies finished the 2011-12 season 12-20 overall after losing to Howard 51-50 as the seventh seed in the first round of the MEAC Basketball Tournament at Lawrence Joel Coliseum in Winston-Salem, N.C., on Mar. 6.

“I want it to be known that I have a tremendous amount of respect for Jerry Eaves and what he did for this program,” he con-tinued in a press release.

“He has blessed the lives of so many young men through his associations with them as a mentor and as a positive male role model. Eaves’ integrity as a man, a father, a husband, a coach and a professional are immensely impressive. I truly wish him the best in his future endeavors.”

A nationwide search for Eaves’ replacement will begin immediately.

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Eaves fired as head coach of men’s basketball teamerik veal

Online Editor

Madness at its best: brackets shatteredAfter an historic first night

when one team (Western Ken-tucky) overcame the largest last five-minute deficit (16 points) and another (Brigham Young) came back from the largest deficit (25 points) to win, fol-lowed by a Friday that included the unprecedented exacta of 15 over two that took out Missouri and Duke, rationality returned to the NCAA Tournament Sat-urday and Sunday.

By the time Sunday night’s games ended, the Sweet 16 included 14 teams from five of the power conferences and along with the Atlantic 10’s Xavier, a team that finally got it right after a season of getting it wrong and Ohio, a team from the long forgotten Mid-Ameri-can Conference.

The Big Ten dominated, get-ting four through with a record of 9-2. The Big East is 11-5 after Cincinnati topped Florida State, 62-56. The champions of the two leagues (Michigan State and Louisville) are still

playing along with Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio State, Marquette and Syracuse.

The other power teams are Kentucky (what seed would they get in the NBA’s Eastern Conference?), North Carolina, Baylor, North Carolina State, Florida, Kansas and Cincin-nati.

The SEC is 5-2 and the ACC fell to 5-3 after Cincinnati beat Florida State.BEST TEAM

Still, Kentucky. That 10-min-ute run against Iowa State in Louisville? It was 42-42. Then,

UK scored 36 points in the next 10 minutes and won comfort-ably. It was devastating. If this team makes jump shots, nobody has a chance.

In two games, UK is 61-for-110 (55.4 percent) from the field. If that keeps up, it is over.UNLUCKIEST TEAM

Has to be Missouri. Since the three-point shot came to the tournament in 1987, every team that has shot 50 percent or more, made 10 threes and had fewer than 10 turnovers has won _ until Mizzou did that in its 86-84 loss to Norfolk State, a 21

{-point underdog.The key play down the

stretch was a Norfolk State air-ball that resulted in a three-point play. Norfolk State, a 31 percent three-point shooting team, was 10-for-19 from the arc.

Norfolk State, which did not even win the MEAC regu-lar season and lost, 68-36, at Illinois State on Dec. 18 while shooting 21.7 percent, absolute-ly deserved to win. The Spartans played a beautiful game with great heart, but you have to feel a little sorry for Mizzou, a team that got caught up in something

that was unprecedented.MOST IRRITATING TEAM

Has to be Wisconsin. The Badgers drove Vanderbilt cra-zy in a three-point win, taking charges, running the shot clock down, taking 33 threes, chasing down the misses and refusing to let the Commodores get any of-fensive rhythm. The only team Bo Ryan probably does not want to play is his alma mater, Chester (Pa.) High, which has won 56 straight. Instead, the Badgers get an easy one Thurs-day in Boston against No. 1 seed Syracuse.

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The A&T Register’sguide to what’s going

this week in arts and entertainment.

hunger games is finally coming to a big screen near you. After being a big hit on the bookshelves, “Hunger Games” is now being released in movie form. Though the film does not feature big name ac-tors, it is worth going to see. In the film, Katniss Everdeen, a 16-year old from a poor ter-ritory that was once Appala-chia, becomes a gladiator in a reality-show that is a battle to the death against other teens from the 12 districts of the for-mer United States.

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Latoya Luckett will be on campus next Thursday at 7p.m. This event is being hosted by S.U.A.B. It will be held in the Harrison Auditorium. If you are a fan of the ex-Destiny Child singer, you will have a chance to meet her during a meet and greet earlier that day. The location for this event has not yet been finalized. Be sure to follow SUAB on Twit-ter @SUAB11_12.

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1. Are you still blaming it on “Spring Break”? 2. You know that was over two weeks ago ? 3. Did you know Spring began yester-day? 4. Did you know cuffing season is over? 5. Do you find yourself all of a sudden listening to a lot of Adele? 6. Have you seen your girlfriend going to class half-naked? 7. Do you attend “Wild Out Wednesday”? 8. Do you not know what that is either? 9. Would you take your man to the strip club? 10. Are girls still going to class in their club attire? 11. How many non-students have you seen on campus? 12. How many of you are depressed over your March Madness brackets? 13. Duke fans still on suicide watch? 14. How many grown women were screaming for Diggy Simmons in the cafe? 15. Seniors, how many of you are suffer-ing from senioritis? 16. Do you even want a cure? 17. Did you know probates are outside this year? 18. Was that supposed to be a secret? 19. Are you concerned about this year’s SGA ballot? 20. Are you even going to vote?

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This song has been released just in time for the Spring weather. The single has undeniable talent layed on top of a fast-pace, ener-getic beat. Ryan Leslie isn’t only just singing, he is also rapping along with Fab. This song is worth adding to your playlist for that hit everyone wants to hear at the up-coming cookouts.

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whet your appetite for ‘the hunger games’

In case you have not been watching television or have not been paying attention to the New York Times Bestseller’s list, “The Hunger Games” is about to take over the world.

What many may not know is, this film is based off of a book trilogy.

Just like the latest novel/movie hits “Twilight” and “Har-ry Potter,” this movie is set to

break records at the box office this weekend.

“The Hunger Games” which cost $80 million to make is set to be a four-movie franchise and is projected to make over $90 million its opening weekend.

If those numbers become a reality, this movie will beat the numbers from the first “Twi-light” movie.

For some it may seem like the popularity of this movie came out of nowhere, but more than 24 million copies of “The

Hunger Games” trilogy are in print in the United States alone.The first book stayed on the New York Times bestseller for 180 consecutive weeks. About 9.6 million copies were in cir-culation domestically when the movie’s marketing campaign intensified last summer.

The success of this franchise has been a long time coming, with the early promotion for the film began in 2009.

Though the film has few big name established actors, it is ap-

parent big names are not always needed to make a movie a suc-cess.

Young names Jennifer Law-rence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth play the main characters in this film who bring the story to life.

This film is sure to boost those young names’ careers in the movie realm. Regardless of who is in the film, the buzz behind this movie is worth go-ing to see, just to make sure the buzz is credible.

If you are a fast reader, try to read the first novel of the se-ries to compare and contrast the book with the film. If not see the movie and then read the book.

Whichever you chose, it is time to build up your appetite for “The Hunger Games.”

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Character list:

Jennifer Lawrence plays the main character Katniss Everdeen in the film. She lives in District 12with her mother and her sister, Prim-rose. Her father passed away when she was 11. Katnissprovides for her family by ille-gally hunting outside the district fence and by trading at the Hob,a black market. The movie takes off when Primrose is picked for the 74th annual Hunger Games and Katniss takes her place.

Josh Hutcherson brings Peeta Mellark to life in the film. Mel-lark is also from District 12, but from the Merchant area. His par-ents are bakers, and he once pur-posely burned bread so he could give it to Katniss and her family, who were on the verge of starva-tion. It is evident to everyone but Katniss that Mellark has a long time crush on her.

Liam Hemsworth plays Gale Hawthorne, Katniss’ best friend in District 12, Gale lost his father in the same mining accident that killed Katniss’ father. He illegally hunts with Katniss and provides for his mother and younger sib-lings. He vows to protect and care for Katniss’ family when she goes to the Hunger Games.

Learn How to Play!

Once a year, every district child ages 12to 18 has his or her name placed in a

lottery. One boy and one girl are chosenfrom each district in a televised ceremony.

Those selected are known as tributes.Some children, known as careers, train

their whole lives for the Hunger Games.But poorer children are most likely tobe chosen because adding your name

more than once to the drawing nets youa tessera — a stingy supply of grain andoil. A teen may do this for each of theirfamily members as well, and the entries

are cumulative.

Once a child is chosen, they are given just a few minutes to say goodbye to familyand friends. They are then swept off to the Capitol via train, where they are given amakeover and introduced to the country by television. Those who gain favor fromwealthy viewers can receive sponsorships of food, supplies or medicine during the

survival game.

The Hunger Games are played in an outdoor arena, of sorts,but the landscape varies each year. It’s part of the challengepresented by the head gamemaker. Cameras capture tributes’

every move so the whole nation can watch as the children fight for their lives.

Katniss Everdeen

Peeta Mellark

Gale Hawthorne

Welcome to panemPanem is what is left of North America, years

after droughts, storms and rising sea levels devastatedthe food supply. Battles for what remained

resulted in an authoritarian government based inthe Capitol, in an area presumed to be near theRocky Mountains, with 13 districts spread out

from there.About 75 years before the first novel begins, a

rebellion known as the Dark Days took place. Thedistricts rose up against the Capitol, but they were

unsuccessful, and District 13 was reportedlywiped out completely. All the districts are surrounded

by fences, and residents are not permittedto travel between them.

Following the Dark Days, the Hunger Gameswere established as both a punishment

and a warning to never again rebel.Other important characters:

Primrose Everdeen: Katniss’s younger sisterEffie Trinket: the official escort for theDistrict 12 tributesHaymitch Abernathyt: District 12’s only liv-ing Hunger Games victor.President Snow: The evil leader of PanemCinna: The assigned stylist for District 12 whobecomes a trusted friend and ally to Katniss


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