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- Peanut agronomists share forecasts for 2012
- South Carolina
- Florida outlook
- In the questionnaire, Beasley asked the agronomists to consider the following three questions:
- Will acreage be up, down or steady in your state in 2012 and by approximately how much (percentage up or down) compared to last year?
- What will be the predominant cultivars in your state?
- What do you foresee as the most critical production issues (pests, soil fertility, water, marketing/contracting, etc.) in your state going into the 2012 crop?
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Scott Monfort of Clemson University predicts that South Carolina acreage will be up 10 to 15 percent, and that 70 percent of the acres will be planted in Virginia-types (Bailey, Georgia-08V, CHAMPS and NC-V 11, while 30 percent will be planted in runners, including Georgia-06G, Georgia Greener and Florida-07.
He expects major challenges to include an increase in new growers throughout the state, with some having problems getting contracts; soil moisture, especially considering that most of the state's acreage is dryland; and the potential for disease and other pest problems.
Naveen Puppala of New Mexico State University says acreage in his state could stay the same as last year or increase by as much as 10 percent, depending on soil moisture at planting.
Cultivars planted will include Valencia-C, Valencia-A, GenTex-136, GenTex-112, GenTex-118, GenTex-119 and GenTex-122 (all Valencia type).
Many farmers have shown an interest in growing peanuts, but not many have signed contracts due to dry weather conditions. Water is expected to be the major limiting factor in 2012.
Chad Godsey of Oklahoma State University thinks acreage in Oklahoma will remain about the same, somewhere around 20,000 to 25,000 acres, with the acreage split somewhere around 40 percent runner, 40 percent Spanish, and 20 percent Virginia.
Runner varieties will be Red River Runner, Georgia-09B, and Tamrun OL07; Spanish will be Tamnut OL06 and AT98-99-14; and Virginia will be mainly Jupiter.
Water and temperatures will be major challenges again this year, and growers also are hesitant about marketing.
Jason Woodward of Texas A&M University says acreage more than likely will stay the same in his state, with acres lost in one region being offset in others.
"Producers are reluctant to commit to peanuts due to the lack of rainfall, and little activity on peanut contracts also plays to the uncertainty. Cotton prices are still relatively strong and may garner acres in the High Plains.
"However, acres in parts of central Texas may come back into production. As for now, it is anyone's guess."
Cultivars planted will include: Runner (55 percent): FlavorRunner 458 (35 percent), Florida-07 (25 percent), TamrunOL07 (20 percent), TamrunOL01 (10 percent), Georgia-09B (3 percent), Red River Runner (2 percent), others (5 percent);Virginia (30 percent): Gregory (55 percent), FloridaFancy (25 percent), Perry (10 percent), others (10 percent); Spanish (10 percent): Tamnut OL06 (75 percent), others (25 percent); andValencia (5 percent): Valencia C (50 percent), others (50 percent).
Weather conditions undoubtedly will be the main concern for producers. Lack of adequate soil moisture at planting will deter producers from planting. Uncertainty with contract prices also will impact planting intentions.
Diseases, primarily the pod rot complex, as well as leaf spot and Sclerotinia blight can affect management decisions (weather permitting).
Mike Howell of Mississippi State University says acreage will be up in the state in 2012.
"We were at 14,500 acres last year, and from what I am hearing, we have over 50,000 acres under contract at this time, but that does not include anything from Hattiesburg south. If this number is correct, that would put us close to 60,000 acres.
"Honestly, I really don't see us getting quite that big. I think we will end up somewhere in the 45,000 to 50,000-acre range."
Most of the Mississippi crop will be planted to Georgia-06G with some acres of Florida-07, Georgia Greener and even less Georgia-07W.There will be a few acres of Georgia-09B if growers can get the seed.
Howell says the main challenge will be harvest, considering the new acres. "I am worried we will not have enough pickers to get the crop in if we have any weather complications. Also, we will have four new buying points in operation this year.
"I am concerned about having enough trailers and keeping peanuts flowing through the system at the buying point."


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Dugan replaces former Annville Chief Michael Burdge, who lost his job with the township after he was charged by state police with submitting falsified overtime records for state reimbursement. Cleona Chief Raymond Barry has served as acting Annville Township police chief.
Dugan has been a Fairview Township police officer since 1983 and chief since November 2004. Dugan two years ago submitted an irrevocable letter of resignation for purposes of retirement, said Fairview Township Manager Stephen Smith.
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The possibilities for the Buffalo Bills with the number three pick in the 2011 NFL Draft are pretty well known by now. Will it be Cam Newton, Von Miller, Patrick Peterson or someone else entirely? It's an interesting question, but it won't be the subject of this article.
What I will be doing is detailing some of the possible late-round selections for Buffalo. Late rounders are very important when building a team. They fill out the depth chart and every once in a while you identify a gem that can start for years. Unlike first-round selections, Buffalo has actually been fairly successful doing this in later rounds.
For the purposes of this article, I am defining a late round selection as fourth-round or later. I won't be including any of the prospects I highlighted in my 7 Round Buffalo Bills Mock Draft. Each of the players on this list have their flaws. If they didn't, they would be first-rounders. Even though I like all these players, I will try to give an honest evaluation of them. And since opinions on late-round guys vary so widely, I would be very happy if just one of the guys on this list was drafted by the Bills.


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Back in the 1990s, the World Food Summit set a goal of cutting in the half the number of hungry people in the world by 2015. Since then, the number of hungry people has soared from 824 million in the 1990-1992 period to more than one billion today, according to World Bank data. With the Summit's deadline just three years away, the problem seems to be getting worse.
There are many reasons why the number of hungry would be on the upswing. But a new study raises an intriguing possibility-perhaps the methodology for counting them doesn't always accurately measure who's hungry and who's not. The study was conducted by Nolan Miller, professor of finance and a faculty associate in the College's Center for Business and Public Policy, and Robert Jensen, associate professor of public policy at UCLA's School of Public Affairs.
The World Bank deems someone hungry if they get less than 2,100 calories a day. By that definition, one in seven people on the planet is hungry. But Miller and Jensen propose a second test-do people act like they are hungry? They tested their theory in China, and when they got done they found that acute hunger in China was becoming less, not more, of a problem. That's about what you would expect, given China's meteoric economic growth. But by contrast, other measures say China's hunger problem is getting worse.
A Measured Response
By any system, hunger is hard to measure. An elderly woman may not be getting the allotted 2,100 calories a day- but then again, she probably doesn't need that many. On the other hand, "A laborer may be eating a lot of calories, but not meeting his needs," says Miller.
One common-sense way to test whether someone is getting enough food is to look at what they eat. If they have enough money to buy meat, they're probably not hungry. If they were hungry,
according to Miller and Jensen's theory, they would take the money they're spending on meat and buy more staples such as rice. "When you get hungry, you start to veer toward the staples because they provide you with more calories at alower cost," says Miller.
Their findings are contained in a working paper, which is awaiting peer review required for publication. But the working paper has already received substantial attention in The Economist and
elsewhere. Miller and Jensen also outlined their findings in an op-ed piece for TheNew York Times.
The researchers want to provide another hunger measurement tool so that policymakers can better target the limited funds available to ameliorate hunger. "We're just trying to improve the way
hunger is measured and understood," says Miller. "We call people hungry if theyact like they're hungry."
Grains of Truth
The starting point for their research was Asia. "If you look at China and India, where incomes are going up, people should be better off," Miller says. Yet according to the standard measurement, hunger is increasing at the same time income is increasing. But when Miller and Jensen used their system, they found that people were indeed better off. "They haven't necessarily
increased their calories," says Miller. But they were able to diversify their diet, and eat less rice. That meant they were better nourished.
To test their theory, they spent months in China recording what individuals in 1,300 very poor households ate. "We asked them to tell us everything they had eaten for a 24-hour period, and we collected data three times from each family." All the families were picked from Chinese welfare lists. While there were some variations in income, all were living below the World Bank's extreme poverty line. The researchers combined their findings with a broader set of data from the University of North Carolina to draw conclusions for the country as a whole.
They found that when people were extremely strapped for cash, they would, out of economic necessity, get 80 percent or more of their calories from rice. That was the cheapest way to get the calories they needed and meet their other nutritional requirements "whether you're talking about the construction worker or the elderly lady," Miller says. But when their income went above 250 yuan per person per month (about $1 a day), they would diversify their diet and get fewer than 80 percent of their calories from rice.
The researchers also gave rice-subsidy coupons to some of the families. They did this to see what would happen if they artificially boosted family incomes by freeing up rice money to spend on other things. "When we did that, we found they spent more money on seafood. But they didn't buy more food-they diversified their calories." They also spent more on communications, possibly buying prepaid cell phones to call their friends andfamilies.
Food for Thought
From the coupon experiment, the researchers concluded that either people didn't need additional calories, or they needed additional calories and didn't know it. "If you think giving people more
money will solve hunger, their behavior indicates otherwise," says Miller. "It may be that you need to complement cash aid with nutrition education."
While their work raises questions about the existing yardstick for measuring hunger, the researchers are not suggesting that it should be scrapped. "We're not proposing our measure as an alternative to the existing system," says Miller. "But it could be used alongside the standard measure. So far, we've started to get more attention for our work, but I don't know if it's made it to the policymakers' radarscreens yet."


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Although Edward Cheserek's quest for an unprecedented four national titles came up just short, his three championships (two relays and one individual) over the three day New Balance Nationals in N.Y. made him an easy choice to be awarded the Outstanding Boys Athlete of the meet.
Cheserek, a junior, split 4:07.5 as he came from behind on Friday night to give St. Benedict's Prep the victory in the distance medley relay in 10:10.08. He came back on Saturday with a 1:50.5 anchor to bring his team across first in the sprint medley in a a state record 3:25.88, No. 4 in U.S. history.
Then came Sunday's distance double attempt. Cheserek had no trouble winning the two-mile in 8:50.53 as he ran unchallenged for most of the race. Cheserek seemed destined to get his 4th title in the mile, but with less than an hour between races, he simply proved he was human and got caught by Brad Nye of Davis High in Utah with aboiut 15-20 meters left in the mile. Nye won in 4:08.67 and Cheserek was second in 4:09.07.
``My legs felt fine, but with less than an hour after the 2-mile I was breathing harder than usual in the mile,'' said Cheserek, the national 5-K record holder . `I tried to win it, but it just didn't happen. But that's okay. The important thing is that my team won 2 races and I won the 2 mile, so I am no dissappointed at all. I did the best I could.''
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Phillip Treacy has spoken about Lady Gaga's catwalk appearance during his London Fashion Week show, revealing that the singer came up with the idea herself.
The renowned milliner told the Vogue website: "I went to see Lady Gaga backstage after seeing her at Twickenham [for the Born This Way Ball], and I was telling her about the show and then she just suggested it.
"It was all her idea. She was going to be in Dublin the night before, so she said that she'd fly over for it. Playing to 80,000 people on one night and then appearing in my show the next? Amazing. Of course I agreed."
The popstar opened the proceedings with a speech toasting his first catwalk show in over a decade, wearing a bright pink burka that formerly belonged to the late Isabella Blow.
Treacy explained: "She had this whole concept, she said she was feeling like Isabella. She rang me on her way to the show to apologise for being late - you never see that any more. She really is like a 21st Century pop version of Isabella Blow."
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As the strict Game Master of a fantasy role-playing game, Scott (Sam Eidson) leads his friends in a weekly quest through mysterious lands from the safety of his grandmother's kitchen. But his mastery of his own domain starts to slip - along with everything else in his life - when neo-nerd hipster Miles (Garrett Graham) joins the game, winning over the group with his confident charm and dethroning Scott with an unexpected coup. Caught in delusions of grandeur, Scott must roll the dice and risk everything to expose Miles as the fraud he believes him to be. A darkly comedic fable of epic proportions, 'Zero Charisma' is an ode to nerds from every realm.
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The September membership luncheon at the Marvin House featured guest speaker Robert Plyler, arts critic for The Post-Journal.
Plyler, a Pittsburgh native, retired after teaching social studies and English for 33 years at Maple Grove High School. He has also been an adjunct faculty member at JCC and Mercyhurst College. Since 1978, he has been the arts critic for The Post-Journal, and he writes a weekly column on the arts called "The Critical Eye." He covers the arts in Chautauqua County, Toronto, Buffalo, Erie and Pittsburgh.
In his presentation, "The State of the Arts," Plyler discussed how fortunate area residents are to have the number of varied arts that are available in the area. In addition to productions at numerous theaters and on many local stages, area residents can also see concerts and programs from scores of local schools and churches. Chautauqua County's proximity to Chautauqua, Warren, Fredonia, Erie and Buffalo also make access to the arts a very affordable and worthwhile activity.
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Beth Trosper, President of the Marvin Community House, is shown with Robert Plyler and Jane Winter, a Marvin House board member. Plyler is the arts critic for the Post Journal, who spoke at the September meeting on "The State of the Arts."
Plyler views 200 varied performances each year and critically assesses each one. He emphasized that every performance is not great, and it would be a disservice to the performers, as well as to the audience, if he were not truthful and accurate in his observations. He also encouraged everyone to help support the arts locally with their attendance.
Door prizes were given to Marcia Bliss, Connie Flowers, Linda Hall, Jana McDermott, Helen Peterson and Karen Thompson. In recognition of their September birthdays, C.K. Hennon, Judith Stevens and Beth Trosper were each given a special cupcake and decorative candle. Sue Schifano greeted the guests and Grace Dorman gave the invocation. Bernie Elkin and Janet Gibson were the cashiers.
The next Marvin House luncheon will be at noon on Thursday, Oct. 18, with a panel discussion, "A Conversation on Breast Cancer." Brenda Munella, a certified women's health nurse practitioner from JAMA's Women's Health Office, will discuss the various issues concerning the disease. Mary Rappole, a retired certified women's health nurse practitioner and a Zonta Club of Jamestown member, will be giving information about "Lily's Hope," a Zonta project that offers wigs and heads coverings to women with illness-related hair loss. Jane Winter, a 25-year breast cancer survivor, will share her story on "having a second chance at life." Anyone attending is encouraged to wear something pink in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.


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• It's all Carlos Beltran, all the time as the Mets approach the July 31 trade deadline. That the team will deal Beltran, who reached his sixth All-Star Game earlier this month, is obvious. The recipient is not. Philadelphia, Atlanta and Boston all appear interested, with San Francisco and Milwaukee also reportedly in the hunt. The Mets hope to receive a serious prospect in return for Beltran, the most-coveted hitter currently on the trading block.
• On the plus side, David Wright returned Friday night. He missed more than two months due to a stress fracture in his lower back — and that was after he spent about a month attempting to play through it. If the team wants to remain relevant, they need Wright to play like his former All-Star self. With Beltran on the way out and Ike Davis still on the mend, the lineup is desperate to find some power.
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On Friday afternoon, the Mets promoted Satin, a 26-year-old from Cal-Berkeley who has been punishing Double-A pitching all season. In 94 games with Binghamton, Satin reached base 42 percent of the time and slugged .538 with 11 homers and 35 doubles.
The website FanGraphs keeps a statistic called pitch-type value, which measures how pitchers and batters fare utilizing or facing certain pitches. It's a way of measuring: "Who is the best fastball hitter on this team?" FanGraphs measures that using runs above average. Carlos Beltran leads the pack on fastballs. His 21.8 runs above average easily outpaces Jose Reyes' second-place score of 13.2. The worst fastball hitter among the regulars? Lucas Duda at -3.7.
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At Red Badger there has been a significant transition to open source technologies which are better suited to rapid prototyping and highly scalable solutions. The largest area of growth for us as a company is in Node.js development, there are a number of active Node projects, some of which are now in production.
Node.js has gained enormous traction since its inception in 2009, yet it is still an immature technology (although maturing rapidly) therefore 'best practices' in the context of Node do not really exist yet. Initially, we did not have the streamlined Continuous Integration and deployment process we were used to from the .NET development world, so we began to look for a solution.
The Tools
Historically, we made constant use of JetBrains TeamCity as a CI server on our .NET projects. TeamCity is an excellent solution for these types of projects, which we would wholeheartedly recommend. However, it was hosted and maintained by us, running on a cloud instance of Windows Server 2008. It was both a heavyweight solution for our now much simpler requirements (no lengthly compile step!) and also not ideal for building and testing Node.js and other open source technologies which run much better in Linux based environments.
In searching for a new solution, we considered:
- Jenkins – a well established, powerful and complex Java based CI server
- Travis CI – Extremely popular in open source, particularly among the Ruby community. Travis CI is a lightweight hosted build server which typically only works on public GitHub repositories, although this is changing with its paid service, Travis Pro
- Concrete – an extremely minimal open source CI server we found on GitHub, written in CoffeeScript by @ryankee
After making a few modifications to concrete, we deployed it to a (micro!) EC2 instance, set up some GitHub service hooks and began reaping the rewards of Continuous Integration once again! We set up build-success and build-failure bash scripts to manage deployment and failure logging, and all was working well. After running Concrete for a couple of weeks on a real project, we started to miss some fundamental features of more well established CI solutions, such as a clean, isolated build environment and even basics like email notifications. There were also a number of occasions where tests would time out, or builds would seemingly never start or get lost in the process. It became apparent that such a simple CI solution wouldn't cut it for a real project, and we should look to a more reliable hosted solution.
After a small amount of research, We found Capistrano. It quickly became apparent that Capistrano is a very refined and popular tool for deployment – particularly in the Ruby on Rails community. Capistrano is another gem (literally – in the Ruby sense) from the 37signals gang. Despite it's popularity in the RoR community, the tool is very generic and flexible and merely provides sensible defaults which suit a RoR project out of the box. It can be very easily adapted to deploy all kinds of applications, ranging from Node.js to Python (in our internal usage).


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Wolves starting to peak at the right time
Throw out all the records.
The past doesnt mean anything to the South Kitsap High School girls basketball team.
After securing the fourth and final playoff spot in the Narrows League Bridge Division last week, SKs drive to get to make a return trip to the West Central District will hinge on its loser-out, winnerto-districts game against the Bay Division No. 4 seed Feb. 22 at Bremerton High School, SKs opponents could be either Lincoln, Mount Tahoma, Bellarmine, or Wilson.
Three teams could be in a four-way tie for the fourth and final spot, depending on the results of their games last night.
Not that SK coach Mike Allen has a preference.
I like to focus more on us being prepared rather than preparing for a specific team, Allen said.
After falling by just five points to first-place Central Kitsap Wednesday night, Allen said he is pleased with the way his team has played over the last week and a half.
I think we played pretty darn well (at CK), Allen said. We are starting to peak as much as we can at this point. Things are starting to fall into place.
SKs lone battle in its 57-52 loss at CK was the free throw.
Though Allen wouldnt criticize the officiating, he did point out CK made 33 trips to the free throw line compared to SKs 11 trips.
We didnt shoot a free throw until the fourth quarter, Allen said. CK shot 21 free throws in the first half alone. It was just one of those nights.
Allen said hes liked the offensive balance hes been getting from his players.
Against CK, four SK players scored in double figures.
Leah Kendrick led the way with 12 points, with Jamae Feddock and Kristi Utter each chipping in 11 points. Loni Tostenrude added 10 points.
Kristi had three 3-pointers so shes been doing a pretty good job out there, Allen said. Her success opens up the inside for us.
As for the rest of the season, Allen said its a clean slate now that the playoffs have arrived.
Weve talked about that a lot, he said. At this point you throw out all the records. Some teams get better and some teams get worse. Right now were peaking and we need to sustain that.
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CLANTON, Ala. -- Two Chilton County men have been charged with murder after authorities discovered the body of an 18-year-old shot and burning in a field.
The Montgomery Advertiser reports that Chilton County chief deputy Shane Mayfield identified the victim as Steven Dorough of Marbury in Autauga County. The Chilton County Sheriff's Office says the slaying occurred early Sunday.
Mayfield says those charged with murder are 21-year-old Christopher Kroeger and 18-year-old Joshua Ready. They were being held in the Chilton County Jail under bonds of $500,000 each.
Authorities say Dorough was shot in the head with a shotgun and his body was set on fire. Dorough had completed basic training in July and was a member of the Army Reserve.


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Wick's has been in the baking business for over 60 years, offering to the food service and bakery industry, as well as the consumer, the highest quality bakery products available. Wick's formulates with the highest quality ingredients; we package in the most protective packaging material available; and back all sales with customer first service.
Beginning with hand production of twenty (20) pies per day, Wick's has now grown to producing a combination of over 10,000 pies and over 30,000 pie shells in an 8 hour production shift. In an average year Wick's will produce approximately 12,000,000 pies and pie shells. Although the majority of this product is pie shells which Wick's produces in over 35 sizes, shapes and formulations, Wick's is still best known for its "OLD FASHIONED SUGAR CREAM" Pies. Traditionally, an Indiana product, Wick's Sugar Cream Pie is produced from a Wickersham family recipe that dates back to the 19th Century farm. As the pie was made then, the same pie is made now, from the simple ingredients found on the farm -- Milk, Sugar, Flour, Shortening, Vanilla, and Nutmeg.
Wick's has used this same philosophy of simple high quality ingredients for its other pies (Southern Pecan, Peanut Butter Cream, German Chocolate, Pumpkin, and Pumpkin Chess) as well as all of the other pie products that Wick's produces.
Combining high quality ingredients, with the most protective package, and offering "Customer First" service, Wick's has evolved into one of the most respected quality bakeries in the industry, and delivers its products to over 25 states in the United States.
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Will Korosec had a two-run double and Silas Rudderow had two RBI as Allentown defeated Colts Neck, 7-5, in the Central Jersey, Group 3 first round in Allentown.
Steven Adams picked up the victory for Allentown, improving to 4-2. He went six innings, allowing five runs (two earned) on six hits with five strikeouts and five walks. Tom Malik then threw a scoreless seventh.
Alex Walenczyk went 3-for-3 with a triple, two runs, and an RBI for Colts Neck. Jon Baturgil and Paul Marinello also had an RBI each for Colts Neck.


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Plaquemines Parish emergency responders, many of whom experienced Hurricane Isaac in August, can attend a free Department of Homeland Security-certified training course in March to learn how to better develop plans before disasters strike.
The homeland security department and FEMA co-administer the Rural Domestic Preparedness Consortium, which Congress authorized in 2004 to develop and deliver all-hazards preparedness training to rural communities across the country. That consortium is scheduled to hold an 8-hour course from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 18 at the Belle Chasse Library, 8442 Louisiana 23.
The deadline to register for the free training is March 4, and can be completed by clicking here, or going to www.ruraltraining.org/training/delivery/21228. Those interested also can call the consortium help desk 24 hours a day, seven days a week, at 877.855.7372, or email firstname.lastname@example.com with additional questions.
The Consortium and its academic partners are led by Eastern Kentucky University's Justice & Safety Center. Jason Sirney, an emergency manager for Sacramento, Calif., and an instructor at that center, will lead the Plaquemines training class.


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Nov. 5, 2012
HAMPTON, VA - Fayetteville State running back Andre Montgomery (Fr., Goldsboro, NC) and linebacker Marquel Gathers (Fr., Smithfield, NC) have been recognized by the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association on its Football All-Rookie Team for the 2012 season, it was announced today by the league. Montgomery earned CIAA All-Rookie Team Offense honors, while Gathers was selected to the All-Rookie Team Defense. The team is voted on annually by the CIAA Sports Information Directors' Association. Montgomery finished the season second on the Broncos with 446 yards rushing and one touchdown on 86 carries. He appeared in all 10 games this season for Fayetteville State with five starts. Montgomery averaged 44.6 yards per game while averaging 5.2 yards per carry. He had a long run of 45 yards at Shaw on Oct. 6. Montgomery rushed for a career-high 123 yards on 20 carries at Chowan on Sept. 29 where he averaged 6.2 yards per carry. He recorded his first collegiate rushing touchdown in the Broncos' 28-17 home-opening win over Virginia Union on Sept. 15. The 6-0, 220-pound back also had nine receptions this season for 34 yards and one touchdown. His lone receiving touchdown came in the Shaw contest.
Gathers wrapped up his freshman campaign 11th on the team in tackles with 22 (15 solo, 7 assisted), while contributing one-half sack and 3.5 tackles for loss. He appeared in eight contests with one start in 2012. The 5-11, 240-pound linebacker recorded a career-high six tackles in back-to-back contests against Shaw and Johnson C. Smith. He posted his first career sack in Fayetteville State's 47-29 victory over Livingstone on Oct. 27, and tallied two tackles for loss against the Bears. Livingstone quarterback Drew Powell was named the CIAA Offensive Rookie of the Year while Bowie State's Curtis Pumphrey garnered CIAA Defensive Rookie of the Year honors.


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Anna Escobedo Cabral, the U.S. treasurer, was in Edinburg Friday, Feb. 3 to lend her support to the Minority Serving Institutions Research Partnerships 2006 (MSIRP'06) Conference at The University of Texas-Pan American.
Cabral, who was nominated in July 2004 by President George W. Bush for the position, will serve as the keynote speaker at a Friday evening barbecue for MSIRP'06 participants. During her visit, Cabral also visited an Edinburg elementary school and held a question and answer session with students.
The U.S. treasurer, who once served as deputy staff director for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee under Chairman Orrin G. Hatch and as an executive staff director for the U.S. Senate Republican Conference Task Force on Hispanic Affairs, said she has a long history of advocating for Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) and said the MSIRP'06 Conference is critical for those that want to work together to create a better future for the United States and its youth.
Cabral said her evening agenda will cover a number of initiatives Bush discussed during his State of the Union Address including, education and research, the state of the economy and the United States' relationship to the rest of the world.
"I'd like to share a little bit more details of his vision and talk a little about the economy and how well it is doing and what that means in terms of promise and opportunity for everyone living in any part of the United States and quite frankly how close we are in terms of our relationship to the rest of the world," Cabral said.
As part of the MSIRP'06 Conference, a Career and Student Expo was held that included 72 exhibitors representing entities such as government agencies, educational institutions, and businesses, most of which are on the cutting edge of technology.
The expo will continue Saturday, Feb. 4 from 9 a.m. to noon in the Health and Physical Education II Building.
Juan Brandi, a UTPA senior who is double-majoring in math and physics, attended the expo to find out more information about job opportunities and graduate programs. He said the expo opened his eyes to what is available to him.
"People over here are working on the edge of technology and the edge of business, and you're actually talking to those people about how it is and what it is you can do to get there," Brandi said.
Sam Jenkins, a project manager representing the NASA Headquarters Office of Education, said they attended MSIRP'06 to inform students about their agency.
"What we'd like to do is send a message out there to all the Hispanic students here at the University about our research opportunities, employment opportunities and mentoring opportunities," he said.
Jenkins did have the chance to talk to many students as they were drawn to the booth because it featured a simulator based on the International Space Station. The simulation allowed students to try and navigate the spaceship orbiter to a precise docking point on the space station. Jenkins said that although astronauts use a more advanced version, this simulator is a great educational tool.
In addition, Jenkins said he believed the expo was a good opportunity for students to network and make contacts with people from business, industry and education.
Tina Trevino, a UTPA graduate student in biology, said the expo gave her a chance to network with different organizations and people, as well as find out about how to apply for grants.
"It's pretty informative, looking at different opportunities that I can use with my graduate degree," she said. "I just found out some interesting research I could do in other countries."
Kendall Harris, associate dean of the College of Engineering at Prairie View A&M University, felt the expo was a great recruiting tool for recruiters as well.
"They know what they're going to get. They're recruiting quality students," he said.
Harris said the students he talked to asked the right questions.
"This really hones their communication skills in an environment that's still comfortable," he said. "It's not as intense as an interview, but at the same time, it's not as laid back as a social gathering. It really helps them with their network capabilities."
"Our country's survival depends on people in this country who are scientists and engineers. The opportunities (for those fields) will be there for the next 50 years. So please young students who are scientists and engineer want-to-be's continue to stay in that field because you will have a lot of great opportunities in the future," Miller said during the morning session.
In addition, Miller, who assists in discharging the responsibilities in the direction, guidance and supervision of Air Force programs for research, development and acquisition of systems, supplies and services, encouraged the small businesses and higher education institutions to look into possible partnerships with the U.S. Air Force through contracts, grants, and fellowships and internships for university students.
Clarence A. Johnson, principal director and director for Civilian Equal Employment Opportunity, Office of the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense (Equal Opportunity) at the Pentagon, served as the keynote speaker during the Friday luncheon sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD).
Johnson's interactive address explained that the DOD's responsibility is to deter hostile aggression against the nation, its allies and against national interests, as well as engage and defend the countries enemies if necessary.
"This luncheon is sponsored by DOD to assist us in closing the gap among our young Americans, especially minorities, within the department and to spread awareness that the DOD has an abundance of promising careers," Johnson said. "Part of our strategic planning is to ensure that we access, develop, promote and retain a DOD workforce reflective of the tapestry of our great nation."
Hispanics are the only race/ethnic group who are underrepresented in the DOD civilian workforce. While Hispanics comprise 13-14 percent of the national civilian labor force, they only comprise 6.5 percent of DOD's civilian labor force, he said.
"We also recognize the potential that exists in other minority groups - at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, at Hispanic Serving Institutions, at Tribal Colleges and Universities, and other Minority Serving Institutions - and we want to tap that very crucial, critical potential," Johnson said.
He concluded by telling the large number of engineering students in the audience that more than half of the DOD's engineers earn $67,000-$103,000, while senior managers may earn even more. Additionally, Johnson said in 2006 the DOD will need to hire 12,000 engineers.
Another special guest during the conference was Secretary of the Army Dr. Francis J. Harvey, who spoke to a packed house Thursday evening at a networking reception at the Shary-Shivers Estate in Palmview. He talked about the Army's efforts on the global war on terrorism and its commitment to MSIs and small businesses. He told the audience the key to a successful future is basic research, which Harvey said the Army has increased funding for from $24 million to $38 million.
"It is really the only way to ensure the long-term success of the business venture. The bottom line is the Army relies on basic research to build the foundation for continuing the modernization of our equipment. We rely on universities and small businesses as key partners in that effort. As the preamble to the Constitution says 'to provide for the common defense,'" Harvey said.
MSIRP'06 participants got an opportunity to learn more about where and how Minority Serving Institutions and small businesses can assist meeting a corporation's mission and goals during a corporate panel session Feb. 3 featuring representatives from Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman.
Moderator Jeff Goodman, university program grant manager at Raytheon, said they were at the conference to engage small businesses and minority institutions in establishing partnerships and learn how to contract with large corporations.
Barbara Osborn, who is Raytheon's Intelligence and Information Systems Supplier Diversity Business Leader and Small Business liaison officer, was the first of four speakers, all of who serve as supplier diversity program officers in their respective corporations. Supplier diversity officials are charged with identifying and including minority, women-owned and small business enterprises in their respective corporation's procurement processes.
"We want to provide maximum opportunities to small businesses to participate in procurement," Osborn said. Osborn provided an overview of the many programs and people available to assist those wanting to do business with Raytheon, an international industry leader in defense and government electronics, space, and information technology with 80,000 employees and 2004 revenue of $20.2 billion. She urged the audience to use online resources to learn how to do business with the corporation.
"You need to know how things are done and where to go to get assistance," she said, directing people to www.raytheon.com. Raytheon also provides a supplier online database.
Tizoc Loza, corporate project manager for Mentor-Protégé and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU's) and Minority Serving Institutions Programs, for Northrop Grumman Corporation in Washington, D.C., offered tips for gaining subcontracting opportunities with the global defense company.
Northrop Grumman establishes relationships with HBCUs/MSIs where they can provide learning experiences and research opportunities to faculty and students through projects. Loza said the corporation targets universities based on the technology they possess, as well as the potential of their students.
"We have people who are specialized to work with universities, who keep track of the university's progress and look out for technology they are interested in funding," Loza said.
Northrop Grumman offers a variety of collaborations with universities and colleges through its Mentor-Protégé Program, as well as a Technology Transfer Development Program, where they groom schools to provide specific services or courses of study from which they hope to glean future employees, Loza said.
"Through the Mentor-Protégé Program students can get real work experience and can go to our facilities and work with employees in areas such as engineering and information technology," he said, noting that the company operates in all 50 states and 25 countries. "We also use employees' education relationships as contacts for our partnerships as well."
The corporation needs subcontracts in engineering services, as well as training support in supply chain management, leadership training, business plan development, market analyses and strategic planning, among others, he said.
Osborn said Raytheon has used Minority Serving Institutions to provide some of the training for Mentor-Protégé Program companies. The University of Texas at El Paso, for example, has provided Geographic Information Systems training for one of Raytheon's protégé companies.
Vanessa Bull, manager for supplier diversity programs for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company and the advocate for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions for Lockheed Martin's Supplier Diversity Program, shared two success stories her corporation currently had with direct subcontracting opportunities with HBCUs and Minority Institutions.
"Lockheed Martin manages Scandia Labs for the Department of Energy and we have several direct contracts with local universities directly to Scandia - one in soil erosion testing," she said.
Bull said these relationships are formed more readily when the contractor is in close proximity to the university and when the university has designated business management personnel at the university to facilitate the terms and conditions of the contract.
"That is where the hang up usually happens in working with universities. It is to your benefit to set up a designated business management person to assist in that negotiation process," she said.
Bull said that Lockheed Martin, a global corporation dealing in integrated systems, information technology, electronics, space and aeronautics, has 130,000 employees worldwide including 50,000 scientists and engineers. Her company's goal, she said, is to be the world's top corporation in subcontracts with small businesses.
Her number one tip in becoming a Lockheed Martin supplier echoed Osborn's advice - do your homework in order to best match your business or product with the corporation's needs. She referred the audience to the corporate Web site www.lockheedmartin.com. Their site also includes a supplier database.
"Another key word is performance. We are looking for suppliers that can perform and that is essential," Bull said.
Following the DOD luncheon, the last full day of the conference, Dr. David Falconer, vice chair of the Department of Computer Science at California State University, Fullerton, said what he enjoyed most was the opportunity to interact with colleagues and find out what they are doing with similar problems and programs on their campuses. Falconer also had a compliment for UTPA students he had met while here.
"They were a very articulate and wonderful group of young folks and I really enjoyed speaking with them," he said. Linda Patton, director of the Office of Grants and Contracts at Cal State Fullerton, was a member of the conference's planning committee and brought a team of faculty, students and alumni. She said it has been a wonderful opportunity for her to see how the project evolved and how students could benefit from participating.
At the end of Friday's conference activities, Dr. Rodolfo Arévalo, UTPA provost and vice president for Academic Affairs, labeled the conference a success.
"From what I have seen we have accomplished the primary purpose of the conference which was to begin to get people to talk to each other, especially to get our faculty in discussion with faculty from other institutions as well as with agency heads from the federal government on how to get engaged in contracting type of activities," he said. "I have a sense it will carry forward and as it carries forward, it will do exactly what we intended it to do, which is hopefully to bring more resources to this campus."


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As a frequent visitor to the South Carolina shore, I can tell you from experience that, when properly prepared, there are few things tastier than fresh shrimp. Unfortunately, many of us make the mistake of overcooking them which is so unfortunate because they tell you themselves when they are done!
Most of the shrimp consumed in the United States comes from the waters off the southeast coast. After harvested, because of their short shelf life, any shrimp intended for consumption outside the immediate harvesting area is frozen either individually for the general public or in a block of ice usually intended for restaurants. So, if you are not in an area where the shrimp trawlers can be seen from the shore, consider all shrimp previously frozen.
Shrimp is low in calories and saturated fat making it a great protein alternative.
According to www.whfoods.org, "In just a four-ounce serving of shrimp, you'll receive 28.2 percent of the daily value for vitamin B12."
While many people with otherwise normal cholesterol levels shy away from shrimp believing it is cholesterol rich, some research has shown this reasoning to be somewhat unjustified.
When purchasing shrimp, you'll find a wide disparity between what some companies denote as "small," "medium," and "jumbo." The only consistent way to judge shrimp size is the number per pound. For example, if the package contains 10 shrimp per pound, they will be much larger than a similar package with 20 shrimp per pound.
Cooking shrimp could not be easier as they carry with them their own internal thermometer. Raw shrimp are grayish in color and translucent. However, they will turn opaque and pink when fully cooked. Overcooking them will result in an unpleasant tough consistency, so be sure to remove them from the heat as soon as they turn pink.
"De-veining" is really unnecessary in small shrimp, but the gritty material in what is really the shrimp's intestinal track, should be removed in large and jumbo shrimp.
By definition, a "wiggle" is anything "done in a hurry." According to James Beard in American Cookery, "For many years this (recipe) was in the repertoire of every cook with a chafing dish and every girl who had a beau to cook for."
That may be because it's not only easy, but fast and delicious. (My understanding is that, with the addition of a bit of fresh dill, this recipe also works with tuna.) So, whether you're cooking for a friend, family or just yourself, I hope you'll give the following recipe a try. Enjoy!
Shrimp wiggle
4 servings
1 pound fresh shrimp
Juice of 1/2 lemon
4 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons flour
1/2 teaspoon dry mustard, or as desired
1 1/4 cups milk or half-and-half
1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce, or as desired
Salt and pepper to taste
1/2 cup frozen peas
Peel and devein shrimp. Mix shrimp with lemon juice.
Heat butter in a large skillet over medium heat and sauté shrimp until they turn opaque (about 2 minutes). Remove and reserve.
Mix flour with dry mustard and add to skillet, stirring to form a smooth roux.
Add milk and bring to the boil, whisking constantly to produce a smooth sauce. Season to taste with Worcestershire, salt and pepper.
Add frozen peas, return to the boil and cook 1 minute, or until peas are done to taste.
Return shrimp to skillet to heat through and finish cooking (about 1 minute).
Pour mixture into serving dish. Serve over rice or toast points.
Chef Debi Llorens is graduate of the Connecticut Culinary Institute. She welcomes questions or suggestions for columns at firstname.lastname@example.com
Chef Debi Llorens: Shrimp easy and nutritious
on June 02, 2011 at 10:55 AM
As a frequent visitor to the South Carolina shore, I can tell you from experience that, when properly prepared, there are few things tastier than fresh shrimp. Unfortunately, many of us make the mistake of overcooking them which is so unfortunate because they tell you themselves when they are done!


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Frustrated by Tim Wakefield making the All-Star team, baseball fans? Think his spot should have gone to someone else, like that ever-popular Texas Ranger, Kevin Millwood?
Well, take a wave at the wacky wobbler he winged last night.
With the anti-Wakefield sentiment still alive and well (check out the comments under this Rob Neyer ESPN blog entry, for example), Timmay went to work last night, throwing a knuckler that looked disgustingly unhittable at times and recording a season-high eight strikeouts. Just ask A's shortstop Orlando Cabrera, who had this to say after the game:
"I was telling George (Red Sox catcher Kottaras) behind the plate, 'How do you even catch that ball?'" Oakland shortstop Orlando Cabrera said. "He was like, `I just close my eyes.'
"And I said, 'OK, I'm going to try that one, I'm going to close my eyes and swing.' And nothing."
Of course, it wasn't Wakefield's most dominating start by any stretch. He gave up 10 hits in six-plus innings, and was forced to pitch himself out of the following jams:
Second inning: Runners on the corners with no outs and one run already in
Third inning: Runners on second and third with one out
Fourth inning: A runner on third with one out
Sixth inning : Runners on the corners with two outs
The total damage? That one run in the second is the only one that scored, although two unearned runs scored in the seventh after Wakefield allowed two singles to start the inning and Nick Green got his Julio Lugo on, committing a costly error.
Regardless how much tap-dancing Wakefield had to do to get through the Oakland lineup, he now has his 11th win of the season, the most he has ever had at the All-Star break.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Milwood fans.


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Short Stories
Since the inception of the printed word and eons before, the human experience and life lessons and truths have been shared, recited and transmitted through stories. Nothing captures the imagination and lingers longer in the human consciousness than memorable short stories—those well crafted myths and fables, biographies or documentaries—which reveal the deeper truths and mysteries of life and call listeners to act. Jesus and great religious leaders of other wisdom traditions knew the transformative power of short stories and often relied on them in their teachings.
Marshall Ganz, a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government on organizing and public narrative, says this about stories:
All stories have three parts: a plot, a character, and a moral. What makes a plot a plot? What gets you interested? Tension. An anomaly. The unexpected. The uncertain and the unknown. A plot begins when the unknown intervenes. We all lean forward because we are familiar with the experience of having to confront the unknown and to make choices. Those moments are the moments in which we are most fully human, because those are the moments in which we have the most choice.
In a story, a challenge presents itself to the character who then has a choice, and an outcome occurs. The outcome teaches a moral, but because the character is humanlike, we are able to identify empathetically, and therefore we are able to feel, not just understand, what is going on.
A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept, but as a teaching of our hearts. That's the power of story. That's why most of our faith traditions interpret themselves as stories, because they are teaching our hearts how to live as choiceful human beings capable of embracing hope over fear, self-worth and self-love over self-doubt, and love over isolation and alienation.
Thus, in the long tradition of our religious teachers, sages and griots, and wise women and men who have come before us, CommonUnity will use the creative art of short stories, retell some ancient ones and make space to create new ones to teach life lessons and illuminate the perennial truths of the sacred, humanity and the mysteries of life.


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Engine trials have been completed on the USS Independence, the littoral combat ship built at the Austal USA shipyard on the Mobile River, Austal and General Dynamics Corp. said today.
Successfully starting and testing the engines clears the way for a builder's trial later this month, said Bill Pfister, Austal's vice president for external affairs. The partners hope the U.S. Navy will then conduct acceptance trials on the Independence in August and take delivery in September, Pfister said.
"With the main propulsion system now ready, we're well on the way toward getting this ship to sea," said Jeff Geiger president of General Dynamics' Bath Iron Works, in a statement.
Before builders' trials, the companies plan dockside trials for the ship, meant to be a fast patrol vessel that can operate close to shore. The ship, which will be based in San Diego, is meant for missions including mine detection and anti-submarine warfare.
Austal employs about 980 people at its Mobile River shipyard, while General Dynamics employs about 100 people in Chickasaw.
General Dynamics is the lead contractor for the team that includes Austal. The team is bidding to win as many of the 55 projected littoral combat ships as possible, and has been awarded a second ship, the USS Coronado.
(For more information, see Tuesday's Press-Register.)


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Folks made some strides to help children in Haiti.
A special walkathon was held in Allentown Saturday to raise money for the Love Haiti's Children Orphanage in Port du Prince.
The founder of the orphanage is an Allentown resident who flies down to the country each month.
Organizers say the money raised Saturday will go directly to the 14 children at the orphanage.
Organizers hope to raise $40,000.


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College Student Booted From Frat For Being Gay? Or Not Being In Touch With God?
CAMPUS CHRISTIANS — Greek life on college campuses carries a reputation of homophobia. (As well as homoerotic hazing.) So what to do when you're a gay student looking to join a frat like any other fella: Keep your sexuality a secret, or, you know, just be your damn self? For one University of South Carolina student, he tried doing just that while rushing Alpha Gamma Omega — and was summarily introduced to a religious mindfuck where he was told "the fraternity is not affirming of homosexuality, because they are Christians and follow the scripture." Guess who's not getting in to AGO?
Here's Isaac Ahn's letter to student paper The Daily Trojan explaining what went down (emphasis ours):
I would like to share my experiences participating in Spring Rush 2009. On my fifth and final day rushing Alpha Gamma Omega, two AGO brothers confronted me about my sexuality. That is, two AGO brothers confronted, questioned and attacked my sexuality. Although I was honest with them about my being gay, I was made to feel extremely uncomfortable. From these conversations, it became inescapably clear that AGO would not extend a bid to me because I am gay, an instance of blatant homophobia. As a member of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community at USC, I am appalled by the actions of these two AGO members, especially considering USC's national recognition as an LGBT-friendly university. This experience has been an extremely painful one for me, leaving me with real feelings of inadequacy. I have still have not fully recovered from the shock of what I experienced.
Below is a brief description of the incident:
AGO Brother #1 and I were talking about how the bid process works. He asked me about my relationship with God. I told him I learn things every day, among other things. He further questioned me by asking what I learned. He said something about my involvement in the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Assembly and how that wouldn't work well with being in AGO. I told him I never was in GLBTA. He asked me if I was gay. I said yes. He asked me how that factored into my relationship with God. I explained how it used to be a struggle and how it isn't anymore. He said that people base their relationship with God on their relationship with other people.
AGO Brother #2 came into the conversation and took me to his room. He closed the door and proceeded to tell me how he struggled with his sexuality since he was a child. He asked me about my relationship with God. I told him what I told AGO Brother #1. He told me that he entered the fraternity a "broken man" and how the fraternity has helped him to improve. He also said that the fraternity is not affirming of homosexuality, because they are Christians and follow the scripture. He also said that since tomorrow is bid night, they want to know how my relationship with God is. He asked me what my thoughts were. I said that I wanted to leave. He wanted to show me out the back door so no one could see me leave but I said no. I grabbed my umbrella from under the couch in the common room where people were "worshipping" and left.
From this incident, I hope the blatant homophobia is acknowledged. In trying to resolve my issue privately with the Interfraternity Council, I wrote to the IFC Judicial Board and met with them twice. I asked them for assistance with the following three things:
– An IFC investigation of this incident coordinated by the IFC Judicial branch.
– AGO leadership must admit their two brothers acted wrongly in this situation, and the organization as a whole should take full responsibility for what happened. In addition, the two men involved must issue a written apology to me noting their discrimination.
– AGO should work with the IFC Judicial branch and Diversity Encouragement Council to institute an intervention strategy to prevent a situation like this from happening again.
After hearing both sides of the story, the executive vice president of Judicial Affairs notified me that they would not help me with my requests. No apology or admission of any wrongdoing was given to me from either the IFC or AGO. He told me that the IFC Judicial Board did not think any discriminatory actions occurred, although they thought the remarks were insensitive. He said I was unsure of how the rush process worked. The only ruling that IFC made was to require the two brothers who approached me to attend Diversity Encouragement Council meetings. He did not give me a formal decision on paper, instead choosing to tell me in person. To add insult to injury, I was told that my case would not be recorded, completely diminishing the gravity of my case.
The day after I received the decision from IFC, an AGO alumnus who is back at USC taking pre-med classes approached me. He waited for me at my workplace to tell me that I would not get the results that I want by going through the administration. He also felt the need to share a Bible verse about mercy and forgiveness with me. While I can't say who sent him, I think it is safe to assume that he came to my workplace to stop me from pursuing my issue further.
With everything that has transpired, I still feel that I deserve the three items I originally requested from the IFC. As a council that regards itself as "one of the most diverse, exciting and well-respected systems in the country," IFC needs to reconsider how homophobia fits into that definition. I am both frustrated and frightened by the ignorance and disrespect that was expressed in dealing with my situation. With all the diversity that exists at USC, why is integration so hard? Bureaucratic systems such as the IFC certainly do not help, and are part of the problem. The IFC and AGO will both say that they are not homophobic and are accepting of the LGBT population on campus, but that could not be further from the truth. In fact, during the IFC hearing, an AGO leader told me they have several members who are "dealing" with their homosexuality. What does that even mean? My experience is only one of many homophobic incidents I've heard of in fraternities on campus. Despite what anyone might say, or any exceptions to the rule, there is a palpable anti-gay attitude within the IFC, evident especially in the fact that they condoned what happened to me.
My fellow Trojans, I shared my experience and anger to hopefully revitalize you to speak up whenever you see something discriminatory happen. I am currently working with USG Diversity Affairs to settle my issue, and I will not give up until I get what I deserve.
We, as the LGBT and ally population on campus, need to work together to ensure that no one is constrained in what they can achieve at USC.
Isaac Ahn
Junior, creative writing
And what does Queerty think USC should do?
While I don't agree with how the school's IFC and the leadership of the school's chapter of AGO handled this… after some preliminary fact finding about the fraternity which is a good idea to do when joining any organization I'm not entirely surprised.
From their main website "Believing in the Lord Jesus Christ as our personal savior,
we as Christian young men of Alpha Gamma Omega Fraternity
purpose that it shall be the aim of this fraternity to…" In addition one of the awards members can be put up for is a Commitment to Missions Award which is associated with, well, missionary work. I'm not saying that the fraternity's and IFC's actions were appropriate – certainly not IFC's – but the attitudes of AGO based simply off of their national website should be a clear warning sign of a hotbed of LGBT hostility.
There are a number of friendlier fraternities to the LGBT community I wasn't a member of a social fraternity so I can't speak from personal experience but as Isaac presumably was looking for a fraternity that entailed a stronger focus on character building and community service – which is why I'm guessing he was looking at AGO – then I'd recommend the APO chapter (Alpha Kappa) at USC as I'm unaware of any APO chapter being unfriendly to our community and certainly the national organization would not tolerate any actions like those described in his letter. Sorry I was a national delegate for my chapter twice so I haven't entirely kicked the habit :) His best bet is probably to talk with the Dean of Student Life or whatever USC's faculty equivalent is and discuss what can be done. Though I must admit to some surprise as when I visited USC it reminded me a lot of A&M with a kind of Stepford Wives vibe though that probably was just the tour guides.
Why would you want to force a homophobic religious fraternity to become gay-affirming? It's a bit like trying to "open up the KKK" to gay and black members… waste of time with no purpose.
Granted its hard to say how he can go about redress without knowing more about USC policies regarding fraternities as every school has a slightly different set of regulations and degrees of oversight. Since the IFC and the fraternity are student run and they have treated his concerns as of little importance he should definitely seek out the administration however he should notify the IFC so they have an opportunity to reconsider their position.
@Brian Miller: I agree with you that there's not really any way he could get changes in AGO's fundamental outlook but the behavior of the two active brothers seems out of line to me and certainly the fact that USC's IFC was doing all this off the record that seems wrong to me. I agree with little reservations to his first two requests however his third request is problematic as private organizations are entitled to establish the guidelines on which they select members and his third request comes at odds to this principal though certainly I think it would be appropriate to require a greater degree of communication between the IFC and the Diversity Encouragement Council to make sure all student adjudicated functions are done so in an approppriate manner.
All fraternities have some sort of Christian background. However, many have taken stances supportive of gay brothers. The overarching issue is whether your college has sexual orientation as part of its nondiscrimination statement. If this is the case and this fraternal organization is a recognized club/fraternity by the university, certain actions may be taken by the university. The Lambda 10 Project, since 1995, has developed many resources for LGBT and ally members of fraternities and sororities. Go to http://www.gaygreek.org
USC has 2.5 out of 5 stars on the National LGBT-Friendly Campus Climate Index at http://www.campusclimateindex.org. According to the Index, USC also has sexual orientation in in its nondiscrimination statement, which should apply to all clubs/organizations (unless it has an exception for religous based organizations). Or the fact that it is South Carolina and the university will not want to address this in an outward manner due to State politics.
mmm i love frat guys, theyre sexy, but a little airheaded haha
@shanewindmeyer – While I am far from an expert on "greek life", not all fraternities have a christian background, although if you are speaking about the oldest ones I am sure that is true. I did have a friend who was in a Jewish fraternity during his undergrad.
Is it common for juniors to join fraternities? I thought it was usually restricted to freshman and possibly sophomores. That was just always my impression. Anyone familiar with greek life?
Also, haven't there been several cases of certain universities not acknowledging (funding as well presumably) fraternities that discriminate against non-christians. For some reason I thought there was a rather well publicized case in the carolinas. Chapel Hill possibly?
Agreed. And with that thought in mind, why would any self-respecting, openly gay person even want to put himself in a homophobic religious fraternity?
Square peg. Round hole.
@Charles – Agree, but to me it seems like this kid is still very young and finding himself and his way in the world. It is probably not a choice he would make with a few more years of experience. He does seem pretty mature and sure of himself though and certainly has a good head on his shoulders. He possibly has never experienced homophobia and doesn't feel he should be a victim of it now. Just something to think about.
Who would want to be in a fraternity with those assclowns anyway? I wouldn't.
The first fraterny Phi Beta Kappa grew out of an older organization, founded in 1750, named the Flat Hat Society. These organizations and the ones thereafter were subsequently founded on Christian principles. You are correct, there are Jewish fraternities. The first Jewish fraternity was founded in 1898. The reason Jewish fraternities were started was the fact that Jews were excluded from joining existing fraternities because of the sectarian practices which prevailed at the end of the nineteenth century in the United States.
As far as nondiscrimination statements, there have been several cases challenging such policies on college campuses, but all have been settled out of court or have met with other fates. The UNC Chapel Hill case ended like this: "Federal judge in North Carolina had dismissed a Christian fraternity's lawsuit against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill."
Now I am not suggesting that in the courts of NC/SC that the university would prevail. I am merely asking: "What weight does a nondiscrimination statement have if a student recognized organization does not need to abide by it."
I believe a fraternity that is solely religous in philosophy and who chooses to not uphold the nondiscrimination statement should have a separate recognition process (or not be recognized). This would limit the access to public services and funding. I am not sure the policy at USC but it seems that they are part of the IFC which does not seem fair given the situation described above.
Again, the Lambda 10 Project has been doing this work since 1995. I encourage anyone to check out the site for additional resources at http://www.gaygreek.org
I agree, these discriminatory organization can exists, but off of school property (included housing if applicable) and certainly no funding or involvement within the schools auspices. I know at Harvard there are NO officially sanctioned fraternities, although there are many organizations / secret societies that exist outside of the schools realm, control and funding.
Hi all
Just a little correction…it's University of Southern California
not South Carolina
Point of clarification the USC in question is the University of Southern California hence the letter being in the Daily Trojan. There may well be a USC in South Carolina but this one is Cali.
@shane – I checked out your website briefly. While I personally had no interest in greek life as a student, your site seems to be an excellent resource for those that are at university and wish to get the facts.
Have you perhaps read "'Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals'". I found it an excellent book, although I must say I am partial to the school.
Best of luck with your book and site.
@Petted – OOOOOOOOOOOOOO you are right. Us northeasterns see USC and assume South Carolina I suppose. This makes the situation that much worse in my opinion and of course all of us are familiar with this USC. "The trojans" meant nothing to me. Well little. LOL
@Sebbe: Anyone who is an active student can join a fraternity – the thing is though since most fraternities do voting by secret ballot to determine whether or not to extend a bid (offer to join, full membership subject to a subsequent vote) it can be easy for intolerance to be cloaked as most fraternities have very loose voting guidelines for membership.
@shanewindmeyer: Its tricky because private organizations have a right to determine membership policies, likewise universities have rights in how they recognizing organizations operating on campus. A non-discrimination policy will apply to all school clubs excepting fraternities which will likely be operating under a different policies under the IFC which serves as an intermediary between the administration and Greek life. As a rule of thumb fraternities do not receive school funding as such they are allowed to determine their own membership however in some cases fraternity houses may be owned by the school – usually there's some very detailed contracts behind it stipulating requirements and obligations between the parties (at my school I only knew of one fraternity that owned outright their house which allowed them to finagle some of the rules and regulations, mainly regarding alcohol… ) which may give the faculty some ability to lean – I'll dig and see if I can find USC's fraternity policies.
Lol. I had the same reaction as you did.
To me, it looked like many of the universities and colleges I see in the Phillipines, which is a Third World Country.
Good dialogue everyone. The fact that it is University of Southern California is indeed troubling. The campus has five stars out of five stars on the LGBT-Friendly Campus Climate Index (www.campusclimateindex.org).
I would hope the college administration would try some sort of policy enforcement to the extent they can. Fraternities are complex organizations and they operate differently and are recognized differently on each college campus. Not all fraternities are run outside a campus setting. Many use college facilities and some receive college funds.
One Major Point: Being a private institution USC has great latitude in what they choose to do with this as far as their campus policies. I am curious if there has been any more communication beyond this article.
"The following policies have been adopted by the University of Southern California to make clear the university's expectations of behavior for those fraternal organizations with which it has entered into a relationship of mutual pride and respect."
"Policy 10.
Guests and visitors in fraternity and sorority houses and at chapter sponsored events shall be treated with the utmost respect and courtesy at all times. No such guest or visitor shall be assaulted, harassed, intimidated, degraded, threatened, coerced, or be made the butt of cruel or lascivious jokes, or be prevented from leaving at any time. The chapter shall be held responsible for the treatment of guests and visitors by its individual members."
It's possible some additional guidelines might exist covering discrimination but it seems unlikely that they wouldn't be referenced in the above standards for Fraternity/Sorority recognition. However I think Isaac may be able to make a case under policy 10, though at best I think it would result in a public apology (with underground resentment), and sensitivity classes for the chapter.
@petted – thank you for taking the time to look that up.
As an openly gay fraternity man who has served as Chapter President and on the IFC Executive Board (ironically as the VP of Judicial Affairs) i think i would have handled the situation a little differently but believe the outcome is right (diversity training).
To me it seems like this guy was looking for a fight. There are plenty of gay friendly chapters out there why pick the most conservative religious fraternity on campus? However the way the chapter handled the situation is wrong, thats why i think they need some diversity training, but you cant make them accept the guy into their chapter.
Dear Gaygreek, thanks for ghettoizing us other gays.
This idea we all got to stay in our place, out of sight of real people, that gays can't be christian is crazy talk hons. You saying gays can't respond to perjudice? This is silly and racist in it's appeal to many organized southern christians in american, and we are talking about the deep south right?
So uncomplicated is it to stay away from homophobes? So easy to hide in our small groups of friends at school? You really saying don't bother the animals in the zoo or they will get you at a college frat party? LOL.
This showing up at work is an old southern device to threaten people. Threats are what kept segregation in the south going for all these years.
@Merlin – It seems we assumed wrong and it is Southern California. Worse in my opinion?? But, I agree with your statement no matter where it is.
Next time, more research first, and a converstation with the fraties to see what their stance is. Seems rose colored glasses/jumping in the pool before checking to see if there's water, may have gotten in the way in this case. I do respect his tenacity, and if anything gets better for the GLBT community because of his work on this, great.
OMG! Thought this was the south carolina. Have always heard how bad it was in Southern Cali, didn't know this type of thing exists there too? at a public university? GET OUT! With all the bad things happening to that state, you would think that human rights would not be one of them………….
SEGREGATION IS KNOWING WHO WILL HARM YOU! while trying to avoid those that will hurt you.
@Merlin: I am not saying that at all. I am the only openly gay person in my chapter, an i am not staying out of sight. I am just saying i dont understand as a gay person why would i want to be a member of a fraternity that believes im going to hell and would try to convert me.
I love being in my fraternity, i love spending time with my brothers, i enjoy living with them, I wouldn't enjoy being in that fraternity because of their believes.
Good reply, Gaygreek.
And hence, the old expression, "Birds of a feather flock together".
Makes perfectly good sense to me.
Why sleep with pigs? One only winds up smelling like one, right? lol
This kind of thing makes me really worried. It's no different than the Evangelical's talk about the "War on Christmas." It's not ghettoizing, it's not self-segregation, it's not assimilation: it's accepting that there exist people who disagree with you.
I can accept that there exist people who disagree with me.
What I cannot accept is that these exist people who will bar me from an education, product or service that is available to anyone else who can afford to pay for it, simply because they disagree with me.
And…I cannot accept that there exist people who will take away my civil-rights, also simply because they disagree with me.
Would you disagree with that?
I personally know Isaac, in fact he is seating right across me in our advanced writing class. I can say that no matter what a person does in life, a room for spirituality should always be welcomed, especially by someone who makes the effort to unite two struggling identities.
Also, the frat is in the University of Southern California NOT South Carolina.
@Sebbe: Hi, I would just like to correct that this frat actually is at the University of Southern California, not South Carolina as the article states.
I live in SC. I went to USC from 199-2001 before dropping out. This isn't surprising. And they try to keep a lid on this stuff, but it happens CONSTANTLY. Every school in this state- and that is the biggest one- lets shit like this go on, then they lie and cover it up and pretend they are "all inclusive." Don't believe a word that comes out of the mouths of any official from any of these places. They care about their fucked up version of God, not people.
ETA- I see its California, not SC. sorry. Surprised that this happened in CA.


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