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Madison Parker will compete in the poetry slam Sunday.
Slam poets vie for five
spots on Mic Check team
By Kelsey Routh
tv. Poets involved with Mic Check,
a nonprofit spoken word group,
will compete this weekend to com
pete for one of the five finalist posi
tions in the Southern Fried poetry
festival this summer.
Madison Parker, president of Mic
Check, will be among the competi
tors this Sunday.
“I’ll probably be using some of
my poems that I have used more in
slams — ones that I have more ex
perience with and that I know the
audience likes,’’ Parker said. “You
kind of have to test out your poems
sometimes.”
Davis Land, vice president of Mic
Check and telecommunication me
dia studies sophomore, said people
can expect to hear personal pieces.
“At Mic Check we like to en
courage people to draw inspiration
from wherever and write about
whatever,” Land said.
Kalena Thwaits, Mic Check so
cial media officer and women’s and
gender studies junior, said repre-
MIC CHECK
what
Competition for 5-poet team.
when
8:30 p.m. Sunday
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senting Mic Check through the
slams is an honor for members.
“For them, to be able to compete
at that high of a level is amazing for
this community and amazing for
Mic Check and amazing to inspire
all poets around College Station,”
Thwaits said.
The finalists will be selected
through three elimination rounds.
During each round, poets will be re
quired to perform a different poem
lasting no more than three minutes.
Judges will be randomly selected
from the audience and will judge
the poems on a 10-point scale.
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CRUZ CONTINUED
substantially to the right of the American
center, it doesn’t matter that you’re substan
tially out of hne from where most people in
America are — you’re appealing to the right
of the right,” Edwards said. “So Cruz fits in
there — his views are compatible with many
people on the right.”
One possibility as to why Cruz declared
early is to secure donations and campaign
funding, said Paul Kellstedt, associate pro
fessor of political science.
“Him declaring early, I think, is an attempt
to thwart the donor money that is flowing
toward Jeb Bush right now,” Kellstedt said.
“I think Senator Cruz was concerned that if
he didn’t get his candidacy announced, more
and more money would flow to Jeb Bush
and the race would be over before it started.”
Edwards said Bush could be seen as slight
ly less right wing than Cruz, which could
have an effect on donor activity.
“You’ll notice some of the old hands, big
donors, et cetera, have gravitated toward Jeb
Bush, who they see as a more moderate con
servative and that’s correct on a number of
matters,” Edwards said. “They want to win
the general election but Cruz’s job right now
is to win the nomination and the nomination
is decided on the right of the right.”
Martin Medhurst, a former A&M profes
sor of speech communication who is now
a professor of rhetoric and communication
and political science at Baylor, said it is up to
the candidate’s discretion when they choose
to declare, but an announcement is usually in
light of some strategic purpose or advantage.
“Cruz is relatively unknown nationwide,
which suggests he needs to get out front and
get some name recognition,” Medhurst said.
“It makes perfect sense he would announce
early on. Someone like Hillary Clinton isn’t
under any great need to announce early.”
Medhurst said the decision to be the first
to announce is advantageous in that it helps
focus the spotlight on Cruz, but with the
spotlight comes greater attention and scru
tiny.
“The more exposure you have the more
chance you have of making a mistake,” Med
hurst said. “While Ted Cruz is obviously a
bright fellow, the fact is as soon as you turn
on the green light, every media outlet in the
country is going to be gunning for you.”
Overall, Edwards said he doesn’t think
the decision to announce early will be all
that significant. He attributes this to the sheer
number of candidates that haven’t formally
declared yet.
“I don’t think its going to be terribly sig
nificant, particularly because so many other
candidates are making the rounds — visit
ing Iowa, visiting New Hampshire, contact
ing donors — so the fact they haven’t of
ficially declared is something of an artifice,”
Edwards said. “It’s a full field —Jeb Bush,
Rick Perry, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul from
Kentucky, Mike Huckabee. There are a lot
of people who are sticking their toe in the
water and will no doubt have their toes in for
a good many months to come.”
COCKROACH CONTINUED
with the antennae method.
Jorge Gonzalez, an entomologist
who worked with the group, said this
method is more effective than those de
veloped in the past.
“When we implanted the electrodes
into the ganglia the period for becom
ing accustomed [to the signal] was much
slower,” Gonzalez said. “The other
thing is that after a short period of rest
you can start sending the signals again. ”
Gonzalez said cockroaches make for
a near-perfect organism when it comes
to this project. They are easily available
and tough — cockroaches can deal with
a surprising amount of physical stress.
In fact, after having the electrodes im
planted and later removed, the roaches
go on to live normal lives.
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allow for the cockroaches to be net
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of the situation. With this new foim of
surveying, Sanchez said lives could be
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slow to reach.
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