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Students on the first day of class checked their online classroom sources to find mental health awareness bulletins listed for each class, and professors placed the same bulletin in their syllabi. Some students may have asked themselves why there is so much recent awareness and why it has become such a big deal. The reality is, as a human being, you will have issues, said Dr. Steve Brown, director of the Counseling Center for ETSU. As a society, we are neglecting helping humans function, said Brown, who also teaches a class on campus called Solving the Puzzle of Life where he integrates counseling and education. Mental health awareness is centered on helping humans help humans. The reason this issue is so prevalent on college campuses is because there is such a large concentration of students in need of mental well-being. There is an opportunity on campuses to help students with any issues they may be having, and often for free. I think mental health has always been an issue for the college demographic, but the negative opinions of depression are decreasing so the trend is to talk about it, said Eriel McLaughlin, a junior. Other than negative opinions disappearing, mental health has become more acceptable to talk about on the ETSU campus because of the recognition that student and university leaders have given it. Students see this reception and are more apt to seek or give mental health advice. Were seeing more than twice the number of students weve ever seen here [at the Counseling Center], said Brown. And were also reaching more than four times the amount of students that have ever been reached through our programs were really doing our job. The activity that is seen at the Counseling Center parallels the examined statistics of ETSU students mental health. According to a memo sent out by ETSU PEAKS Project Director Jameson Hirsch, 34 percent of ETSU students have reported having depression symptoms and 48 percent of students have reported that they had briefly see Mental, page 2

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AT&T urges drivers to take the pledge not to text and drive on September 19, 2012. For years, AT&T has promoted their motto against texting and driving with plastic films plastered on their new phones reading TXTING & DRIVING...IT CAN WAIT. Verizon, Sprint and T-mobile have not gone to these lengths. Now, AT&T has gone further to make sure the roads are safer for everyone. Every pledge made is a commitment to be part of a movement that helps everyone make safe choices while on the road, said AT&Ts affiliated website, itcanwait.com. Texting and driving has become

an issue for drivers due the amount of accidents it has caused. According to dontdriveandtext.org, cell phone use is attributed to 2,600 driving fatalities and 300,000 collisions annually. Because of these large numbers, states have taken action. The Governors Highway Association reveals that 39 states, D.C., Guam and the Virgin Islands all ban texting while driving. This includes Internet surfing, app downloading and checking email. While there are other states that have more stipulations that include bus drivers and novice drivers, the state of Tennessee bans any cell phone see Text, page 2

usage by school bus drivers and novice drivers, including learners permit drivers as well as intermediate drivers. Text messaging, however, i s banned to all drivers while operating a vehicle. AT&T is doing what they can to help prevent phone related automobile accidents. They have even developed an ap-

ETSU updates technology for student use

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As the saying goes, An apple a day keeps the doctor away. The same could be said for the new Apple iMac computers found all around campus. An apple a day keeps the professor away. Fall semester 2012 brought along many new changes to ETSU in both large and small accounts. Parking and updates on old buildings were probably the most noticeable of these changes. One of the least visible changes happened in the computer labs all around campus. Theres about $2.7 million a year that goes into the student access fee, said Mark Bragg, Associate Vice President for Information Technology & CIO. It maintains the 53 labs [on campus]. Brand new iMac computers greeted students at the beginning of the semester boasting new software and faster speeds, as well as more memory. Apple was not the only company to get in on this reveal. Windows computers were given updated

software, as well, and the students are to thank for that. Changes to these labs were brought on with the help of the Technology Access Fee. The TAF is a Tennessee Board of Regents mandatory fee imposed on students. There is a committee that governs the use of the money brought in, Bragg said. The budget to replace units is around $1,300 per unit. There is a $112.50 expense paid per semester by every fulltime student, said Bragg. Thats rolled up into the students tuition. Computers and labs are updated on campus every three years to keep software new and fresh. This allows the students to be able to use the newest software and get the proper experience deemed necessary by TAF and TBR. Using out of date software on out of date hardware, youre not getting the best education, Bragg said. New computers and software are great things, but all of this newness begs the question of where the old ones went. Some students believe that the computers are dispersed to local schools while others believe they are see Macs, page 2

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Instructional coaches aim to bring technology into classrooms

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Education is undergoing a transition from the timehonored system of pencils and paper to the modern system of tablets and styluses. Instructors have struggled to keep up with ever-advancing classroom technology. One of the most effective changes in Hamblen County, Tenn., was the incorporation of instructional technology coaches. Many teachers under use or do not utilize technology at all due lack of knowledge, said Joe Ely, principal of Lincoln Heights Middle School. Instructional coaches open the doors for many teachers to allow technology in their classrooms. Lincoln Heights Middle School was once the only school out of 18 in Hamblen County with a Smart Board and mobile computer lab. Hamblen County strived to keep up with everchanging classroom technology, so Hamblen County Board of Education established new educational po-

sitions in 2009. These positions were specific to the realm of classroom technology. My job is to provide job-embedded professional development for teachers, said Jaime Greene, instructional coach for sixth- and eighth-graders. This involves training them in new strategies and techniques in their classrooms with their students. Greene also held the position of instructor before assuming her current role as instructional coach. She taught fourth grade for two years and middle school social studies and language arts for nine. Greenes main emphasis in instructional technology is introducing web-based resources for teachers. A typical day for her includes a daily meeting with the principals of all of the middle schools in the county. I help them troubleshoot instructional needs for their building, Greene said. I typically am working on a departmental training project of some sort. David Freeman, technology coach for grades K-12, fully integrates technology into the curriculum.

Part of my job is keeping abreast of emerging tech and how it can best be used in the classroom, Freeman said. Like Greene, Freeman was a teacher before he was an instructional coach. He taught third grade for 17 years. Freeman incorporated the use of iPads into the curriculum. Eighth-grade algebra students are learning upper-level math from podcasts made by the high school math department. These lessons are taught using a podcast-instructor hybrid format. Freeman, Greene and three other instructional coaches have had great success. Hamblen County Board of Education is on its way to fully incorporating a technological experience into the curriculum. Ely said that the actions the instructional coaches take are having both long- and short-term positive effects on the students. It is a language that they speak fluently, Ely said. Why not translate our curriculum into that language?

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it places in our lives. Sure, the construction has erased almost 300-400 parking spaces from our campus, but lest we not forget that we have that many spaces next to South Greenwood that went unused almost all of last year. And yes, most of us have to park further away from our classes than we have in four years, but we could all stand to use some exercise. On the argument of paying for it, freshmen, sophomores and juniors are the only students paying for it this semester because they will definitely be using it. For those that end up paying the miniscule fee tacked onto your tuition, see it as helping out your fellow future Buccaneers. Former students fees were once raised to build the mini-dome, and you certainly can appreciate that. Consider it a duty to help make your campus better for the future students. In a sense, you have to put up with the rain to get the rainbow. Just the same, we have to put up with the constant beeping of horns, turning of giant wheels, and buzzing of huge engines to get the parking garage we all so desperately need.

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thought of suicide in the past. Of those students, 13 percent have planned a suicide attempt, and 2 percent indicate that they will make a future suicide attempt. While many campuses offer health services to students in distress, Brown says that he wants to help students from the very beginning and not only when it becomes too late. When you do the outreach that were doing, when youre really trying to help students become more aware of what matters to them then its way beyond being invested in trying to look good, Brown said. We want to make a difference. Students reactions to the awareness of mental health have been positive. Not only has it impacted me and given me a different way to look at or think about things, it has also taught me how to step back and help the people around me, junior Jessie Deering said. From the push to inform students at the beginning of the semester, to the current growth in mental health awareness, ETSU is gradually making changes to instill acceptance and support for its students and their well-being. Brown said that attendance for the Counseling Center has reached over 10,000 just this year through their outreach programs, meaning 69 percent of the students on campus sought help from any of the outreach programs established by the Counseling Center. Working with students to help them improve the quality of their life is what we all enjoy, Brown said. But we have to do the hard work, too, which is confront people who are either going to take their own life or hurt somebody else. The Counseling Center is in Room 345 in the D.P. Culp Center and is available for appointments and drop-ins Monday through Friday 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. On nights and weekends, an on-call counselor is available. The number to reach the Counseling Center is 423-439-4841.

put into a recycling program. The truth is, its both. ETSU has three options on the disposing or recycling of old computers. These include disposing of the computers responsibly in a landfill, removing all of the carcinogens beforehand ensuring a responsible removal. Also, ETSU can sell the computers to the public. We used to have auctions and put 20-25 computers on a pallet, wrap it in shrink wrap and sell to the highest bidder which was maybe $20-$30, Bragg said. Further, ETSU has the option of donating the unused computers to local state institutions. These institutions are defined as a local public,

state-funded K-12 school in the area. I think its great that were benefitting future ETSU students, said senior, Brandon Fleenor, School children are now receiving a better education with the help of something ETSU could have thrown away. The program behind these donations is called Providing Area Schools Technology Assistance. According to Bragg, the list continuously grows each year on which schools to delegate the computers to. Currently, the list contains over 80 schools. Its a good service, it has changed a lot of local K-12s who have struggled with funding, said Bragg. Our trash becomes someone elses treasure.

Its no news to East Tennessee State University students that parking is drastically changing. College students are arguing constantly about how far away they have to park from their classes. The one thing many ETSU students havent realized is that it is going to get worse before it gets better. This semester, more than ever, the students voices are louder in their complaints against ETSU. All over Facebook, friends were posting all about ETSU parking on the first day warning everyone to leave an hour early or even more. Its no wonder that #etsuprobz was not trending on Twitter. Teachers are even getting in on the parking dilemma by having faculty parking spaces removed in front of the Treehouse. The faculty, however, is not as opinionated in this removal for obvious reasons. My question, though, is whats different? I have been at ETSU for four years now, and parking has always been an issue. Now, that our school is finally doing something about it, people seem to be complaining about the small obstacle

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plication to download on Blackberry and Android phones named DriveMode. This application allows the user to drive with no distractions. When enabled, the app sends a customizable auto-reply message to incoming texts, letting your friends know youre behind the wheel and will reply when its safe, said AT&Ts news release in October 2011. Further, by downloading the application, you are pledging to AT&T to not text and drive. With students at a college level, a phone is almost never seen without a hand around it. Smart phones have become a new appendage for the college students, and with emails from professors, texts from classmates and online classes, its no wonder. With such a large concentration of smart phone users, there is more of a risk for accidents on campus. Many students see texting while driving as a bad habit, but still decide to do so.

People dont realize how distracting it is, said senior Myra Miller. Its ingrained in us that drunk driving is dangerous, but texting and driving has become a norm. AT&T targeted members of social media on Facebook and Twitter. This allowed users to dedicate their status to the cause and pledge their commitment. In turn, all of their friends and followers would see this and do the same. Celebrities like Tyler Blackburn, Ryan Seacrest and Ryan Beatty have dedicated their Twitter feeds to their commitments on not texting while driving. With so much awareness, some ETSU students still did not know about the event. I do plan to participate, now knowing about this event, but I wasnt aware of it, said junior Jon Lester. AT&Ts event has definitely gotten many individuals attention. On top of the laws laid out by the Governors Highway Association., texting and driving is getting the attention many think it needs. And in East Tenn., it hasnt picked up quite the following, but only time will tell. We need to be more aware and conscious before we become unconscious, said Lester. The important thing is that we need to become more attentive on the situation.

In the heat of an election, it is easy to forget about a group of voters. In the 2012 presidential election, the group most forgotten is the univeristy students. Whether a vote is cast for Mitt Romney or President Barack Obama, its easy to see that this election ran differently from the 2008 presidential election. In 2008, MTV encouraged viewers to rock the vote. Putting a kind of fun spin on the election made new voters more apt to cast their vote. Having celebrities put their 2 cents in as to whom they were going to vote for helped, too.

This years election has gone to a different audience. No more focus has been put on new voters, making the election less exciting for high school students and college seniors. The election has become less commercialized. I remember on a trip to New York City in the summer of 2008, there were places where you could buy anything with Obamas face on it. This list included umbrellas, shirts, tote bags and even condoms the package read, The safe choice for 2008. Needless to say, its doubtful the voters will be seeing Romneys face on a condom. This election has become focused on the older generation. With topics like Social

Security, welfare and global poverty, topics important to our younger generation have fallen to the wayside. Topics like marriage equality, college loan paybacks and job development for college graduates are discussed largely by local institutions and groups advocating their own personal beliefs. The topics, though, are conferred in a minimal value amongst the current presidential candidates. These are the issues we are currently facing as college students. They are immediate and breathing down our necks as we sit in class, wait in line at financial aid, and walk across the stage receiving our diploma. These are the matters that need to be discussed.

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When submitting my application for East Tennessee State University in the summer of 2008, I did so hesitantly. ETSU was not my first choice in schools, and it wasnt even my fallback school. The main reason behind this is a lack of pride. In Tennessee, there is one school that reins above them allUniversity of Tennessee. That is what most people think of when

they think of higher education in Tennessee. The main focus behind these thoughts is the overwhelming senses of pride UT students have.

have many friends that go to UT, and they are proud to say they go to a nationally recognizable university. My friends at ETSU seem to not be quite so proud. To which, I ask why. The driving factor behind UTs pride is their influence of football and other athletics. Once ETSU cut their football program, school pride seemed to plummet. Yes, and football IS to blame, said UT senior Shannon Drew. Have you seen as much publicity about UTKs logistics program being ranked

number 2 in the nation? Its easy to say that, especially here in the South, football is an athletic staple in any education institution. The same goes with higher education. I remember in high school you could see the whole town at the football games. The same is the case with UT, except more than just the entire city of Knoxville is in Neyland Stadium. This begs the question of whether or not our pride lays see Pride, page 4

The time has come to set out the pumpkins, unbox the sweaters, and figure out what youre going to be for Halloween because fall is here. In the Tri-Cities, fall is not quite as celebrated as Christmas, but it has its own little niche in the hearts of citizens in this area. There are plenty of things to do here in East Tennessee when it comes to fall. You just have to know where to look. The following list shares my top five favorite things to do during the fall season that can turn into an event for any amount of people. Bays Mountain Park. Right in out backyard, Bays Mountain boasts gorgeous views, wildlife and tons of trails for the active adventure seekers. For me, I prefer going up there with my camera, snapping a few photos and enjoying the different versions of orange their trees create. For only $3, you get access to the park as well as its resource center that houses the planetarium. Ansee Fall, page 4

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Technology influences newspaper industry

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Technology is slowly influencing every industry you can pinpoint. That means processes, people, and even pay stubs are being replaced with some form of technology. The newspaper industry is no exception. . There is a switch to how individuals receive their news. Newspapers have bulked up in coupons and advertisements to stay in print. Nowadays, any smart phone user could bring up Facebook, Associated Press or The New York Times, and in seconds they would be quickly informed as to what is happening in the world. Many of these luxuries are free, if not a small price to pay, and at least

cost less than a newspaper. Many aspiring journalists now not only have to excel in writing and photography, but they must also be computer literate, at least to the point where they can master advanced computer programs, set up and maintain a blog, tweet the most current breaking news and gather resources from the Internet in seconds just to stand out from the crowd. These are not the only ways technology is changing newspapers. Newspaper websites are beginning to move toward processes called pay walls. Pay walls essentially are what they sound like. Once you go to a newspapers website, not all of their articles will be available.

Walls will be put up on either particular articles or whole websites themselves, and only when the user pays a fee will the wall be brought down. Pay walls generate more revenue for the paper, and can then generate more jobs. More responsibilities are being put on each journalist, editor, or photographer. Pay walls may become a necessity due to the convenience technology has given newspapers to their audience. Technology is drastically changing the way we view newspapers and how we get our information. The industry is making claims to keep up, and while they are gradual, they are prevalent.

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in the hands of our Athletics Department. Football is important with school pride in East Tenn., but I think most of it is because of tradition, said senior Eric Dyer. U.T. football and Rocky Top have been a well known staple of this area for years. My freshman year, I went to the very first mens soccer game match, and I felt more pride than ever. That is, until I arrived at the stadium and realized it wasnt even close to being half full. There went my excitement. Since then, I have refrained from sporting events here at ETSU, but I find my pride in other places like academics, extracurricular activities and community service. ETSU is a school in progress. What that means is that we are constantly changing for the better. Newer majors are being added like Digital Media, Bluegrass and Creative Writing. More service-learning projects are being completed by

students helping out at the local soup kitchen, Boys & Girls Club and Second Harvest. That is something to be proud of. More technology is being added into our curriculum at an alarming rate, and our campus is becoming smarter. With Wi-Fi throughout almost all of campus, ETSU is helping us stay connected. This is not my I love ETSU rant, because weve all had issues at one time whether is be with financial aid, class registration or something along those lines. But what school doesnt have issues like that? What I am trying to say is that we should be proud that an athletics department, as phenomenal as it is, doesnt define who we are as a campus. Our goals, our education and our ambitions do. Everything from academia to athletics should be considered as a supplement to the whole. Let what you do with your college support identify your pride, not what type of ball you throw.

The mobile industry has grown from bulky rock-like gadgets being lugged around in bags to shiny slabs of metal and glass with no buttons at all. These new products rolling onto shelves, though, come with a hefty price tag. While some people are waiting in line for the newest Android, Blackberry or Apple iPhone, others are going for a much cheaper, greener option. I had a refurbished Blackberry for two years, said Taylor Napier, student at Emerson College. It was fine. Phone companies are offering cheaper alternatives to their high-price items. These refurbished phones look, act, and function just like their more expensive twins. With technology moving forward and our economy moving backward, these phones aim to please the pickiest of consumers. Phones that are refurbished are not too different from their brand new counterparts. In fact, physically, they are the same. Refurbished phones are used phones that have been tested and restored to full working condition at a factory or authorized service center, said AT&T Sales Associate Jarrod Cumbow. They have met all the requirements that a new phone have met but are sold at a much lower price point. Refurbished phones are fixed specifically to rival their expen-

sive competitors. The reason behind their low price is simply because they have already been used. The only catch with this is that there are a limited number of refurbished phones available. We do not have the storage to house the new and refurbished phones, Cumbow said. It is also less confusing for the seller and the customer. Cumbow also attributes the low price to the fact that they are kept at distribution centers, and the carrier does not have to pay to ship them to stores. Tampering with these phones, though, like any other device could easily cause problems. Refurbished phones have been known to have some issues. Ive had six, said Asten Fuller, student at East Tennessee State University. None of them lasted more than a month. Fuller had six refurbished Android devices form Verizon Wireless until she settled on the brand new iPhone 4. Those refurbished devices include the Droid as well as the Droid 2. We see equal amounts of customer issues with brand new phones than we do with refurbished phones, Cumbow said. AT&T and other mobile phone carriers are offering more than refurbished phones to keep wallets heavy and lives a little bit greener. Recycling phones is an alternative to just throwing away old phones or letting friends use them.

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The Buccaneers out-shot the Bears 19-4, but Mercer made sure their shots got past Coulter. At the final score, Mercer made 50% of their shots with Ehjayson Henry scoring 100% of his. ETSU only made 5% of their shots making Geno and Nate Hodges the players with the most shots attempted at three each. Ehjayson Henry (Mercer) scored the first goal 17 minutes into the first half with assistance from Ryan King. ETSU finished out the first half with Itode Fubara attempting goals twice followed by Nate Hodges, with no score. Two minutes into the second half, coming from the sideline, Luis Calzadilla scored ETSUs first and only point with no assistance. Not to be showed up, Henry scored Mercers final winning goal with a setup from Sharpe Sablon. The only aisle that I saw was to take a good shot, and I took it, said Calzadilla. We had a good comeback, we just need to focus on the small details. The Buccaneers victory did not last long in the second half, and Calabrese says its due to the way ETSU reacted to Mercer. We made some changes from the first half, and then when you look at the second half, we had a strangle hold on the game, said Calabrese. We had a number of good chances, and we converted one. Calabrese says that the quick point into the second half from ETSU should have resulted in another score, one right after another. What it came down to was making big mistakes at critical moments. With these mistakes in these critical moments, all of the good that we did, in terms of our play, we left empty handed, said Calabrese. The entire game was filled with fouls on Mercer ending the first half with four and the second half with eight. Many of these fouls were due to Mercers aggressive nature in playing the game. King played a role in at least four of these fouls by jumping on ETSU playsee Mercer, page 6

ETSU Bucs lose first A-Sun game

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Mercer Bears came to Summers-Taylors Stadium to win on Sept. 30, and they clawed their way by the East Tennessee State University Buccaneers to victory. With an aggressive game play, Mercer (6-3-1, 1-0-0 A-Sun) took the game 2-1 scoring their last winning goal five minutes into the 2nd half for their first game of the Atlantic Sun Conference. We started the game fairly slowly, so we allowed Mercer to dictate the type of game that would be played, said Head Coach Scott Calabrese. They had quite a few set pieces, and we really wanted to avoid that. We had to possess the ball. In the first half of the game, Mercer kept control of the ball and made every shot count scoring one out of the three shots they made. With nine shots, ETSU (45-1, 0-1-0 A-Sun) scored none leaving Mercers goalie, Greg Ranjitsingh seeing more of the ball than Ryan Coulter, ETSU goalkeeper.

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other great attraction is the wolves. These wild animals really show their colors against the fall foliage. Meyers Pumpkin Patch. You have to go to at least one pumpkin patch this fall, so why not make it one thats the closest? Myers Pumpkin Patch, located in Bulls Gap, is a perfect place to pick your pumpkins or get your corn maze fix whether it be haunted or not. They sell tons of homemade products ranging from scarecrows to candy. It is simply not fall

without a good candy straw of honey from Meyers. Frightmare Manor. Undoubtedly, one of the scariest things Ive ever been through was this nightmare of a maze. Their claim to fame is that if you pass all levels of the fright, you get your money back. I believe you should also get a medal. Located in Talbott, Tenn., just outside of Morristown, this haunted house is a nationally recognized haunt, and once you have been through it, you will know why. The National Storytelling Festival. This festival, held in Jonesborough, Tenn., is home to hundreds of storytellers

who come from around the nation to share the art on storytelling. Other than the great stories being told, you get a chance to visit Historic Downtown Jonesborough with its many shops, including a toy store, a candy store and a very tasty cupcake shop. All of these things, including a walk down Main Street with your friends, make for a wonderful fall day. The Unicoi County Apple Festival. This fall festival is a great blend of food, family and fun. The food obviously centered on apples brings wonderful tart tastes to any dish. The fun lies in the live music, contests and other great crafts

and activities available to the visitors. Family is what is really a focus here. With this time of the year beginning to focus more and more on family, the inclusion of relatives, both friends and family, ignite a warm fall feeling in all of us. These festivals, events and simple places to go are what really exude a fall feeling, and with them being so close to our area, its simple to visit one or all if you choose. They may even become a tradition amongst you and your friends and family.

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East Tennessee State Universitys basketball kick off for both mens and womens team, Bluenanza, was literally all fun and games, as well as some free food for over 1,500 fans and supporters at ETSU/ MSHA Athletic Center on Thursday, October 18. Bluenanza is an event where the Bucs and Lady Bucs of ETSUs basketball program are showcased. Campus and community participation are welcomed and not hard to come by when ETSU is offering giveaways, prizes, contests and great food, all for free. Included in the fifth-annual Bluenanza are contests that include shooting and dunking for the mens and womens teams, as well as scrimmages amongst the two teams. Its nice to have a bunch of people around going up against each other, rather than

just practicing when the gyms empty, said Brianna Bogardi, sophomore Lady Bucs point guard. Starting off Bluenanza was a run through of each member of each team. Lights were shut down, music was turned up, and the players as well as the fans were pumped. Music played for each player, and they were able to show their own personality while some waved and others danced their way to the lineup. After the players, it was the coaches turns. Each spoke on how they were going to do this season, as well as the changes that have gone through the teams. Mens head coach, Murry Bartow, says hes excited about the upcoming season. Theres a lot of excitement, but a lot of uncertainty because weve gotten so many new guys, Bartow said. Weve got see Blue, page 6

Talk about time to spare. With three seconds left on the clock, East Tennessee State University freshman forward Emmanuel Wilson, tied up the game against Wake Forest University on Tuesday at Summers-Taylors Stadium in Johnson City, Tenn. In the end, there are a lot of teams who would have said, OK, well, theres this much time left, its done, but we didnt, said Calabrese, ETSU Mens soccer head coach. We fought back, and we were able to get the goal. The Buccaneers took a lot of risks at the end of the second half, Calabrese said. These risks paid off and sent the Demon Deacons and the Buccaneers into a 20-minute overtime ending with a 2-2 tied score. This was ETSUs first time playing the 2007 National Champion and No 15 ranked soccer team. Both teams were equally matched. Wake Forests reputation did not scare ETSU away one bit. The Buccaneers went into this game unbeaten against their last five ranked opponents, so the Demon Deacons were not scaring anybody. Our goals are to play and compete with these sorts of teams, and each year weve built toward that, said Calabrese. If you want to be a top team, you have to measure yourself against them. This just gives us an indication that were heading in the right direction. Calabrese tries to measure his team against ranked teams like Wake Forest and Furman to determine their abilities in his attempt to make ETSU one of the elites in college soccer. I think its great that we fought back and dominated towards the end of the game, said junior forward, David Geno. I think that really speaks a lot for our teams character. More firsts came from the game between ETSU and Wake Forest. Geno beat former ETSU Buccaneer, Aaron Schoenfelds career record for most goals. Already 30 minutes into the game, Geno scores his record-breaking goal with an assist from junior Blaike Woodruff. Geno was very humble about the record-breaking goal, saying that it was a team effort and he was just glad they were winning. It was a good team accomplishment, Geno said. It means a lot. Humble as Geno is, it was easy to see his enthusiasm after he scored the first goal. see Soccer, page 6

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Foul for foul, nobody screws you over like Belmont. The ETSU Buccaneers faced the Belmont Bruins in the semi-final Atlantic Sun Conference game to determine who plays against Jacksonville in the championship finals. Ending the game 69-65 in favor of the Bruins, Belmont won against ETSU for their last year in the conference with only seconds to spare. The points, though, were not the most important part of this game. It was the tension. In the final 38 seconds of

the game, ETSU looked to be taking home a win against Belmont for the second time since joining the Atlantic Sun Conference in the 2005-2006 season. The Bruins had some ideas of their own, though. Within the last few seconds, the Bruins, thanks to technical fouls on the Bucs, took free throws that allowed them to take home the win. Fouls were a-plenty in the last moments of the game, and they all happened to be directed to ETSU, and some would say these fouls were wrongly placed. ETSU senior forward Kenyona Swader started off the the tie. Furman was great prep for the Buccaneers, said Calabrese. Furman are athletes, and theyre physical, so I thought that was great to get us ready for Mercer, who can be very aggressive, and theyre not afraid to put a body on you, said Calabrese. ETSU Buccaneers face their second Atlantic Sun Conference opponent, North Florida, in Johnson City, Tenn. at Summers-Taylors Stadium on October 5, 2012.

foul spree with a forceful gesture considered being physical against No. 20 for the Bruins. Swader swung his elbow around the Belmont player, and it looked just for a second like Swader was going to take a swing at Belmont. However, no swing was technically taken, but a technical foul was. All throughout the play before the foul, both teams were playing hardball. The score stood 65-64 in favor of ETSU. The crowd could see how aggressive the players were being. There was a threat of a small brawl, the kind young brothers share when there is one piece of pizza left, amongst the play-

ers. The Bucs let it get the best of them, as seen in Swaders performance. The crowd went wild after the technical foul. The ETSU boos were just as loud as Belmonts cheers. ETSU head coach Murry Bartow looked like an air traffic controller his hands were flying around so much. All was settled after the Bruins took their free throws making the score 65-66 when Swader went up to the line to take his shots. Swader almost turned into a diamond there was so much pressure on him. Unfortunately for him, Swader did not make the shots, and

the Bruins were able to get ahead psyching the Bucs out. To quote Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the only thing ETSU had to fear was fear itself. Bartow and his players worked so hard to get that close to beating Belmont, when the foul was given, it set them back quite a bit. Had the Bucs not strayed from the original path they were set on by Bartow, ETSU would have no doubt been heading to Jacksonville for the championship, and Bartow would have taken home his second win against Belmont sine entering the league.

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ers as well has continuing to play after jumping onto Simon Schroettles back. Kings antics resulted in him receiving a yellow card 27 minutes into the second half. ETSU was not without the tied game at Furman, ETSU fans waited to see if they could keep up the scoring in the second half, only to watch as Mercer was the team to break

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I was confident that David would break that record, Calabrese said. I was not surprised. David is a constant threat against any team. He deserves it. By the end of the first half, the game was tied 1-1 with the Buccaneers having taken three shots compared to the Demon Deacons whopping seven. This makes ETSU shotgoal percentage much higher than their game against Mercer measuring it five percent against Mercer and 33 percent against Wake Forest. At the end of overtime, the amount of shots taken had bumped up from three to 13 for ETSU and seven to 15 for

Wake Forest. All together, the two teams fared well against each other and came close to each other in almost every statistic. Both teams shared the same amounts of corner kicks, and were only one off of each other in their fouls. The Buccaneers have had many games in the past couple of weeks, and Geno said that they have been working on being dangerous and accurate with their shots. Going into our next game, were going to try to be more dangerous, Geno said. We had a lot of shots, we made two goals, but hopefully we can keep being lethal. The Buccaneers will be playing their next game against Lipscomb in Nashville, Tenn. on Saturday, October 13, 2012.

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Marcus Dubose (top) and Brianna Bogard (left) are presented to ETSU basketball fans on the night of Bluenanza 2012.

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a really challenging schedule. Virginia Tech is the first one, so thats really the one Im most concerned with. Another game on Bartows mind is against Virginia Commonwealth University. He says it is going to be the highlight of the Bucs home-game schedule. After the first shooting contest including the coaches and fans, the womens scrimmage squad shows the fan what theyve got. While the scrimmage is another way to showcase the players abilities, spectators in the stands could tell there was a light-hearted air about the Lady Bucs, seeing that they were passing more smiles than basketballs. This [scrimmage] is more fun, Bogardi said. You want each other to look good out there, so youre not

trying to play a hard defense. Between the mens and womens scrimmages, the three-point shot contest was held which placed Bogardi against sophomore guard, Cara Bowling. For the men, sophomore guard, Rashawn Rembert was put up against freshman shooting guard, Mario Stramaglia. Moving on to the finals in the contest, to be played after the mens scrimmage was Bogardi and Stramaglia. Between the two of them Bogardi made 11 threepoint shots, while Stramaglia only made six. Bogardi said it felt good the beat the boys. Three point shots are what I do, Bogardi said. I was a little nervous at first, but I wrapped it up in the end. Unlike the light feeling of the womens scrimmage, the men had a more serious feeling. This feeling was translated to the crowd who reacted much more to the men than the women. Abilities were showed off, but

not like the Lady Bucsit was more like a friendly competition between brothers. Following the scrimmages were more contests, which included a mens dunking contest where Jarvis Jones, redshirt-senior shooting guard, put the competition to bed with his dunking skills. Jones hopes to be able to show off more this season with his dunking as soon as he gets the chance. Presently, he is looking forward to playing with the Bucs this season Everybody likes to play hard, doing what the coach tells us to do, Jones said. Weve been going at it since this summer. With ETSUs Bluenanza behind them the Bucs gear up for their first game against Virginia Tech on Saturday, November 10 in Johnson City, and the Lady Bucs are preparing themselves for their first game on Saturday, November 10 against High Point University.