The Dartmouth men’s rugby team beat longtime rival the United States Military Academy at West Point to win the Collegiate Rugby Sevens Championship on Sunday. The 32-10 victory, broadcast nationally on NBC, marked a decisive end to the tournament, which was played in Philadelphia.

The Big Green dominated both halves of the match due to solid forward runs and repeated Army blunders. Co-captain Chris Downer ’11, who been injured with a cracked rib during the spring’s inaugural College Premier Division season, came up big in the match, and secured the team’s first try.

The Black Knights responded just two minutes later, but with neither team able to score its conversion, the score remained tied at five.

The Big Green took control soon after, as Nate Brakeley ’12, Bill Lehmann ’12 and co-captain Paul Jarvis ’12 each added a try to end the half at 22-5.

Dartmouth succumbed to one last Army run and try early in the second half, but was able to maintain its momentum to close out the dying minutes with two last tries from Downer and TJ Cameron ’11.

The Big Green’s win against Army comes just over two months after it ceded a 32-23 loss to the Black Knights earlier this spring.

Dartmouth was invited to the Championships after participating in last year’s tournament, in which the University of Utah came out victorious.

Dartmouth managed to overcome Utah in Saturday’s group play 17-12, and ended the first day of play undefeated by edging out the University of Notre Dame and Boston College.

The Big Green went on to vanquish semifinal opponent Central Washington University 24-12, converting its 17-7 halftime lead to a win and advancing onto the final game.

The Championships tournament was comprised of two 10-minute halves, markedly different from the Premier Division’s longer 40-minute periods. Played on a smaller field and with seven players per team compared to the Premier Division’s 15, sevens is a faster game that sees more ball movement and running, head coach Alexander Magleby said in an earlier interview with the Dartmouth.

Dartmouth is no stranger to rugby sevens, as Magleby is a former captain of the United States National Sevens team.

Indianapolis will play host to the Big Ten’s football championship game through 2015, the conference announced Sunday.

Beating Chicago in a bid to secure the game beyond its inaugural edition this year, Indianapolis will stage the Big Ten championship game at Lucas Oil Stadium, the home stadium of the Indianapolis Colts.

The city also was awarded the Big Ten men’s and women’s basketball tournaments in 2014 and 2016 in rotation with Chicago, which will have the tournaments in 2013 and 2015. Those games will occur at Conseco Fieldhouse.

Indianapolis has played host to the Big Ten men’s basketball tournament each year since 2008 and the women’s tournament each year since 2002.

Hey UCF medical students, instead of lugging around a heavy textbook, how about pulling the contents up on your phone? There’s an app for that.

Renal Physiology, a digital textbook application created by Dr. Jonathan Kibble, an associate professor of physiology at UCF, launched on April 19 as a less-expensive, high-tech alternative.

The launch is the culmination of a project started two years ago by Kibble and David Rogers, founder and CEO of Allogy Interactive, the Orlando-based mobile application developer.

“The idea was to explore what a next-generation textbook is really going to be,” Rogers said. “We wanted to step beyond simply displaying the content in a new media to doing something more powerful.”

The Renal Physiology app gives students the opportunity to have learning materials with them all the time. It is also designed with a coaching system to organize daily learning and self-assessment.

“There is something special about having your personal things, like entertainment and social networking, all in one place,” Kibble said. “Why not your class materials too?”

This idea allows people to see the inner workings of the kidneys through their iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches.

This app, an interactive version of part of Kibble’s textbook, The Big Picture: Medical Physiology, is just the first in a series about physiology, according to UCF News and Information.

The material was reformatted, and some new writing was done to create features like terminology, quizzes and clinical correlations, Kibble said.

The app will save students cash and aggravation.

“It saves students a ton of money and keeps their backpacks as light as their phone or tablet,” Colin Forward, communications director for Allogy, said.

Not only is it beneficial to medical students, but it can also be a valuable tool for instructors. It is a tool that can enable instructors to monitor their students’ progress.

“It also coaches students all the way through the learning process, even providing reminders for important dates associated with the material, like exams,” Forward said.

After spending some time figuring out what will best help students understand and retain information, the team at Allogy took the content provided by Kibble and worked closely with him to determine the proper methods for displaying graphics, administering quizzes and coaching students through their studies.

“We start with development of a mobile application framework, and then add in the content, test it and find ways to improve the application,” Rogers said. “It is a constant cycle.”

Allogy has built apps for hospitals, nonprofit organizations working overseas and even the federal government. They are currently working on a project right now that is a next-generation mobile electronic health record, Rogers said.

As of now, all the apps created by Allogy are geared toward the medical field, but they have the tools and capability to create apps for any program at UCF. If any teacher or department wants to create their own digital textbook, Allogy can help them through the whole process, Rogers said.

“Our goal is to make textbooks more affordable, and that starts with the subject-matter experts,” Rogers said.

The app is now available for $9.99 from the Apple App Store.

Greg Brewer, 31, takes great pride in his job at the Auburn Fire Department. While Brewer is busy doing everything he can to better serve his hometown, his journey to becoming a career team leader is not as simple as it may seem.

After several years serving the fire department, the Auburn native decided he wanted to move into the forestry industry. Two years later, Brewer realized he made a big mistake leaving the career his heart never left.

“When I was a senior (in high school), I had really no direction to go,” Brewer said. “I walked into my house one day and my mom said, ‘Greg, you should be a fireman.’”

At the time, Brewer thought it was nothing more than a random comment. He looked into the idea and talked to a family friend who was the fire chief.

Brewer decided to participate in the Student Firefighter Program at Auburn University. The program is for college students who want to work for the fire department.

Once an application period is over, the department has interviews and takes about 10 to 15 applicants a session, according to Auburn Fire Chief Lee Lamar.

If an applicant is accepted, training begins in June and goes through early November. After training is completed, the applicant becomes a licensed firefighter.

“It was one of the worst summers in certain ways,” Brewer said. “It worked me to the bone.”

A huge benefit from the program is the AFD reimburses in-state tuition to students that maintain a 2.5 GPA, while at the same time, the students gain experience working for the department.

“It paid for my school,” Brewer said. “There’s no other way I could have gotten my school paid for. It gave me a full-time job, and it gives me something to be proud of while I go to college.”

Brewer started his secondary education at Southern Union, receiving a degree in two years in industrial electronics. He quickly realized he didn’t want to work in an industry. That decision brought Brewer to Auburn University where he pursued a degree in forestry.

“I love being outside,” Brewer said. “There was also a guy I grew up with that said, ‘Hey, I think you need to go into forestry.’”

While continuing to excel in the classroom, Brewer said he was getting extremely interested in things he was doing with the fire department.

However, there were some scenes that emotionally shook Brewer and made him question if he wanted to continue working with the fire department.

“There were several calls that I went to toward the end of my student career that really bothered me,” Brewer said. “I had a hard time getting over it. I really got down on the fire service.”

In the spring of 2004, as Brewer approached graduation, he said he decided to leave the fire department.

After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in forestry and an associate’s degree in applied science in business, Brewer got married and got a job in his field.

Brewer’s new employer was Baseline Forest Services in Wetumpka, which is partially owned by his father-in-law.

Brewer was the company’s procurement forester.

This job includes surveying land for possible trees, buying the trees, getting someone to cut them down and selling them to a lumber company.

Brewer also worked at a saw mill and ran a wood yard in West Point, Ga. However, Brewer said he wasn’t happy with his new profession.

He began speaking with Lamar about coming back to the fire department, but there were several complications.

No one had ever left AFD and returned. Brewer had been in forestry for two years. With that said, Lamar didn’t know if Brewer’s certifications were good.

After looking into the situation, Lamar discovered all Brewer had to do was pass a challenge test to be recertified.

When Brewer quit his jobs in the forestry industry, he began working at the Co-op in Notasulga.

If things weren’t already stressful enough trying to get back with AFD, on the last day at Baseline, Brewer’s wife informed him she was pregnant.

With a lot weighing on Brewer’s interview with the department, it was a happy moment in the Brewer household on Jan. 8, 2007, when he was officially back on the team.

“Even in those two years, the fire department changed a lot,” Brewer said.

One major change was the fire department started taking calls of every kind. Prior to Brewer’s departure, they only went to fires and bad car wrecks.

Now, they respond to any call that comes in, including fires, call wrecks and medical issues.

Brewer had no experience with medical calls, so he decided to train to become an EMT basic and paramedic.

It took about two years to complete both programs, but he was reimbursed for tuition despite having to take leave to go to class. Brewer has also taken every class offered by the department to further his skills.

Last year, Brewer’s accomplishments earned him a spot on the Urban Search and Rescue team out of Columbus, Ga., along with five others at AFD.

Members of the USAR put 400 hours of training in for any situation in which rescue would be needed, other than in water.

Anytime there is a natural disaster and people are missing, the USAR is called to help find victims. Auburn is trying to get USAR station, Brewer said.

“I want to be the best that I can be for me, those guys and the citizens of Auburn,” Brewer said.

When Dwyane Wade sunk that three pointer from the corner of the floor with around seven
minutes to go, I was already preparing to write a post on his greatness. A player with 36 points,
six assists, five rebounds, and seemingly enough monster dunks to fill an entire dorm room full
of posters, deserves all the media credit. But alas, Dwyane Wade, your efforts, as valiant as they
were, were nothing compared to the dramatic conclusion the Mavericks wrote at the end of this
would-be laugher of a game.

I’ve used a lot of words to describe Dirk Nowitzki in my lifetime. Of the ones that can actually
be mentioned for the world to see, the list includes adjectives like soft, cry-baby, flopper, one-
dimensional, choke-artist and boring, just to name a few. Giving him credit for any victory at any
time in his career was sacrilegious for me. In the past, I would have said Miami collapsed rather
than Dallas mounted a true comeback. But after last night I had to take a long hard look at myself
in the mirror to come to grips with the truth — Dirk Nowitzki is a true competitor.

Sure, he still flops like a fish out of water, only plays defense when he wants to, and didn’t quite
show up until the second half of the game yesterday, but you could see how much he wanted,
nay, needed yesterday’s game. The haunting memory of the epic Finals loss four years ago to a
very different looking Heat team is engrained in the back of his mind. He won’t even watch a
single game from that series.

So the fact that Nowitzki ended the game with an elementary left-handed lay-up after a stellar
move to get around Chris Bosh, was the icing on the cake to the Mavs’ 15-point, seven-minute
comeback. He’s a fundamental player with a fundamental problem eluding him from entering
the discussion as one of the game’s best to ever play: he needs a ring. But he is certainly close.
Yesterday he took an underdog Mavericks team by the leash, and helped them cap off a 22-5 run,
including the team’s last nine, over the last seven minutes of the game.

Jason Terry, the Mavericks’ only remaining player from the 2006 Finals debacle, looked at
Nowitzki in the huddle right after Wade’s huge three and told him he didn’t want to go out like
that. He didn’t want to see Miami take this veteran team and dunk over them, celebrate after
every shot, and jam the lead down the Mavericks’ throats. He pleaded for Dirk to help save them,
and the Big German responded, hurt left hand and all.

On paper, his stat line was average: 24 points, 11 rebounds and a block. It was more of a been-
there-done-that type of game for him. But each one of those points, especially the last nine, were
fueled by the notion that he can’t be counted out. That despite all his team’s post-season failures,
despite his lack of flair, despite his continual inability to groom himself, Dirk Nowitzki will not
let his team lose without a dogfight. Not again. Not to the Heat.

Coaxing repressed violent or traumatic memories out of child refugees is an inherently difficult task, and the ever-present language barrier further hinders any counseling.

However, artists from Durham are using art as a form of therapy to help Burmese refugee children in the Triangle adjust to life stateside.

The ramifications of political unrest from 1962 in the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar can still be felt today in Raleigh, Chapel Hill and Durham. As a result of renewed ethnic persecution and violent civil unrest, 48,600 civilians fled to bordering Thailand or Malaysia from 2008 to 2009, according to a report by the UN.

The Burmese population that lived in North Carolina during a spark in civil unrest in 1988 has acted as a support network for new refugees fleeing persecution, according to Art Therapy Institute Executive Director Kristin Linton. In January 2008, Linton started working with a small classroom of Burmese students on a grant from UNC to study and counsel the mental health of the young refugees. Now in its third year, the Art Therapy Instituteis working with over 80 students from Myanmar.

“The students we are working with are different ethnic minorities from Burma,” Hillary Rubesin, art therapist, said. “A lot of these students are Karen, an ethnic minority being persecuted in Burma right now.”

The Karen has historically been subjugated in Myanmar, evident in the etymology of the word, “Karen,” which means “wild unclean man” in Burmese. This open inequality demonstrates the misfortune the Karen people have endured; they are a community without a country, constantly fleeing borders. For the past half-century, many have come to accept civil war as a normal part of their lives.

“It’s been difficult for these students because they can’t express a lot of their grievances in English,” Linton said. “Art is a way to surpass this. They can express a lot of the really terrible things they’ve experienced without having to talk about them, in their own language or in English.”

Through May and June, The Art Therapy Institute is holding an exhibition for the students’ work at Cameron’s Gallery in Chapel Hill. The therapists and their students met for a reception at the gallery May 22 to celebrate their work thus far.

“I enjoyed the exhibition and I think it was a good way to share the stories of these children with the greater community,” Sonya Deulina, senior in psychology, said.

Deulina works as an intern with the institute and said she sees art as a way for children to verbalize themselves.

“It’s important because the students can have someone to talk to, especially when they are coming in and adjusting to American culture and recovering from adversity in Southeast Asia. A lot of them need someone to talk to or to communicate with,” she said.

The artwork featured in the gallery shows recurring themes of triumph and nostalgia as well as the word love written in both English and Karen. Many of the students also wrote accompanying poems about their pieces.

“We would put art materials out on the table, and they would start drawing,” Rubesin said. “They drew the mountains, scenes from refugee camps in Thailand, and sometimes a lot of war imagery as well. A lot of those images seemed to be a safe place for them to start the process of drawing, and it shows a collective identity in the work.”

The art allows the young refugees to think about their pasts and articulate their feelings in a creative way. Chir Htoo, a middle school student, painted a picture of his childhood in a refugee camp in Thailand and wrote a story to complement his art.

“I wrote a story of the past,” Htoo said. “This was in the camps, with my mother. My father, he is left.”

Htoo’s English faltered, but his father died when Htoo was a child in the camps.

“I wanted to write about it, but I didn’t know how. The painting makes me feel better and sometimes I’m happy. But it’s hard to think about it because the memory makes me sad…hard to remember.”

In addition to the children’s projects, the Art Therapy Institute has started new programs to provide more thorough support for the refugee community, both from within and outside of Myanmar.

“Not only are we working with the kids, but we do intakes with the families. We have a women’s group working with the mothers; We’ve tried to reach out to their entire community,” Rubesin said. “We’re also working with students from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Bhutan.”

AT&T and Deutsche Telekom recently announced they have entered an agreement that will allow AT&T to acquire T-Mobile USA for approximately $39 billion. Of that amount, $25 billion will be paid in cash, while the rest will be stock.

The merger will serve as an opportunity to improve both networks’ quality in the short term, while preparing to meet what has and will continue to be a rapid growth in mobile broadband, according to AT&T’s website.

With this potential merger, AT&T is expecting to provide around 55 million additional people with 4G LTE coverage, according to its website.

Though the merger has been eagerly anticipated by both sides, the entire merger could still end up being nixed by the Obama administration.

A merger this size could potentially create a monopoly, which could cause a restraint of trade. In other words, it would force other competitors from the market, while limiting overall choices for the consumer.

By combining both networks, AT&T’s 96 million customers and T-Mobile’s 34 million customers can expect better coverage and faster service. AT&T will also surpass Verizon Wireless as the world’s largest carrier. Combining both networks will also reduce the number of major wireless carriers to three: AT&T, Verizon Wireless and Sprint Mobile.

Customers of both AT&T and T-Mobile will likely see several service improvements, most notably voice quality, as a result of increased cell tower density and an $8 billion expenditure on network infrastructure, according to the AT&T website.

There will be some changes for T-Mobile subscribers. For example, T-Mobile users will be unable to get the iPhone right away and they will also lose their unlimited data plans.

However, they will be privy to other features like better phones and rollover minutes.

Even though the merger has been agreed to, no customer can expect changes right away. There is still a long way to go, and both companies expect the merger could take up to 12 months to complete.

The merger could have good effects on the surrounding Auburn area. Customers should be able to expect better coverage in rural areas, while also maintaining their 3G and 4G speeds in more populous areas of the city. For some Auburn students, this could come as a pleasant surprise.

Andrew Kinney, junior in history education, said that he has lived in Auburn for more than a year and has frequently experienced service issues with AT&T.

“It’s OK at times, but mostly it goes in and out,” said Kinney, who owns an iPhone 3GS.

“I live just off Thach, and for the most part my 3G is pretty spotty. Hopefully this merger will improve our service.”

Whether this merger goes through remains to be seen, but if it does, big changes for both AT&T and T-Mobile can be expected.

T-Mobile users should be able to get some of AT&T’s better features, while AT&T customers should be able to enjoy the more stable service that could follow with this merger. More information about the merger is available on AT&T’s official website.

The fall 2011 freshman class will be the most international in the university’s history and for the first time under half the class is from California.

Director of Admission Kirk Brennan attributed the increase in international students to more students’ applications and more students’ intent to come.

He said admissions received approximately 4,400 international applications this year, compared to 3,500 last year.

“There’s a trend nationally for international students to be coming to the U.S.,” Brennan said. “We offer a unique set of programs that attract international [students] and have been known to enroll international students at high levels for a long time.”

Additionally, he said generally around 30 percent of accepted international students come to USC, but around 45 percent said they would come in the fall.

“We have, for a couple of years, had some dedicated recruitment staff working on the ground in some of our more popular areas,” Brennan said. “We also have, for the first time, hosted some receptions for admitted students internationally like we do domestically. We had them in six cities in Asia.”

Brennan also said this is also the first year “in anyone’s memory” that will see less than half of its students coming from California.

“We see this as a major shift,” Brennan said. “Decades ago it was probably two-thirds Californian students, so it’s a big deal even to see a single percentage point shift.”

Last year’s freshman class had approximately 52 percent Californians, but Brennan said they anticipate 47 to 48 percent of the class to be California natives.

“It’s a surprise to a lot of people because there’s a long history of Californians coming to USC,” Brennan said. “Southern California’s a great place to live, and studies show people often live near where they went to college. We think people who come to study will come to stay, so it may not change our alumni base too much.”

Both the number of applications and places for the class entering this fall increased. The number of applications increased 4 percent, from 35,794 to 37,164 applications. Admissions expects approximately 2,650 students to enroll this year, compared to 2,600 last year.

The acceptance rate hit an all-time low this year, 22.7 percent, offering 8,450 students admission. Last year’s acceptance rate was 24.3 percent.

The anticipated incoming freshman class is about as ethnically diverse as last year’s class, with 21 percent coming from under-represented minority populations (black, Latino or Native American), compared to last year’s 22 percent.

Brennan also said that USC expects about 15 percent of its students be the first in their families to attend college.

“We’ve also seen a sharp rise in the percentage of first generation college students attending USC in the past couple of years,” Brennan said. “This isn’t something we always think about when we think about USC, but the classroom experience is filled with all different kinds of diversity.”

The same is true of students who are the first in their families to attend college: 13 percent of committed applicants this year and 12 percent of matriculating students last year.

In a press release, USC Dean of Admission Timothy Brunold said he was pleased with this year’s pool of applicants.

“Our incoming freshman class promises to be the highest-quality, most geographically and socio-economically diverse in USC’s 131-year history,” Brunold said.

The university attributed the overall increase in applications in part to the availability of financial aid, which increased this year, and need-blind admission, which admits students regardless of ability to pay. More than 60 percent of the student body currently receives some form of financial aid.

The university increased its undergraduate financial aid budget by 7 percent and plans to distribute more than $200 million.

“As our popularity has grown and reputation has continues to rise, we’ve become more attractive to students in other parts of world both nationally and internationally,” Brennan said.

The Peer Health Advocates presented World No Tobacco Day in the Memorial Union Quad on Tuesday, May 31, providing information regarding health risks of tobacco use and informing students of the policy change at Oregon State University shifting to a smoke-free campus in September.

According to the World Health Organization website, World No Tobacco Day informs the public about the dangers of tobacco use, the business practices of tobacco companies, what WHO is doing to fight the tobacco epidemic and what people can do to claim their right to health and healthy living and to protect future generations.

“For the World No Tobacco Day, (WHO) wants people to try to be smoke-free for at least one day on May 31,” said Sadoe Kim, a senior Peer Health Advocates volunteer.

May 31 has been set as the World No Tobacco Day every year. On this day the booth in the MU was full of pamphlets, carabineers, a giant fake cigarette and pledge sheets.

“We have little pledges that people can sign about people going maybe 24 hours, so people can try and quit smoking,” said Jenny Helm, a freshman volunteer for Peer Health Advocates.

Peer Health Advocates is a peer-to-peer volunteer organization that provides information and resources to Oregon State students on many health-related topics.

“We are trying to give facts about the policy on campus, as well as about how next year in September the smoke-free campus policy is in effect,” Helm said.

The volunteers explained that not everyone feels comfortable stopping at the booth to ask questions or get information, so they also provided a white board with information.

“We have a board where people can write out benefits of not smoking,” Helm said. “That way maybe people who walk by, even if they don’t want to stop, can see them.”

According to the LA Times, the World Health Organization states nearly 6 million people die from tobacco use each year, including 600,000 non-smokers, and without action those numbers could rise to more than 8 million by 2030. World No Tobacco Day exists to help prevent that from happening.

The presence of the Peer Health Advocates in the MU Quad goes along with the thoughts of the World Health Organization, to provide information and encourage action to prevent deaths from occurring.

Luke Fickell’s expected five-game coaching stint has become a full-season audition.

After NCAA violations and investigations prompted the resignation of 10-year Ohio State head football coach Jim Tressel on Monday, Fickell has been named the interim head coach for the 2011–12 season.

Fickell, who played nose guard for OSU from 1992–96, was selected to coach for the first five games next season following Tressel’s suspension. He now will coach for the entire 12-game season.

“It will be difficult,” Fickell said in March, referring to coaching the first five games of the season. “We have to know whose team it is. It’s our team. It’s the seniors’ team.”

Despite the mixed emotions surrounding Tressel’s departure, OSU football historian Jack Park thinks fans will rally behind the new leader.

“I think everybody will get behind Luke Fickell,” Park said. “I’m sure this is not the way he wanted this at all.”

Whether or not he wanted them, Fickell has the coaching reins next season. The coach for the 2012 campaign is still uncertain, but the Columbus native has 2011 to prove he is the man for the job.

“It is an opportunity for him to earn the head-coaching job at Ohio State,” Park said. “He’s got a year. He doesn’t have to build a staff. … The staff is in place. They have been working together pretty well.”

Fickell likely will lean on his experienced assistants.

“We coach by committee,” Fickell said. “It never has been, never will be, about one person in particular.”