The Alestle: Vol66, No. 7

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Thursday, September 26, 2013

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Volume 66, No. 7

Rep. Rodney Davis campaigns for re-election !

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On Monday, Rep. Rodney Davis of Taylorville, R-Ill., announced his decision to run for reelection to the United States House of Representatives.

Cleveland-Heath was chosen as Edwardsville’s venue for the representative to make his announcement. With nearly 30 people crammed into the restaurant, Davis made his intention for re-election official in Edwardsville. Davis said his decision to run

We must put our fiscal debt in order, not just for us, but for our future ... ! !"

Davis is currently serving in the 113th Congress as a representative for the 13th District of Illinois. He will again be running for the House of Representatives in the 13th District, which stretches across the central portion of Illinois and includes Urbana, Springfield, Litchfield, Decatur and Edwardsville. The election will take place in November 2014 and will be for the seat designated to the 13th District of Illinois in the 114th Congress. Davis stopped in several cities on Monday to make the announcement, including Champaign, Bloomington, Decatur, Springfield and Edwardsville.

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again for Congress was heavily influenced by his overall desire to protect the families of the 13th District from some of the major problems that Washington, D.C. is avoiding. Using the protection of families as a pretense for his objectives, Davis elaborated briefly on several issues facing Washington, D.C. today. “We must put our fiscal debt in order, not just for us, but for our future, our children and our grandchildren,” Davis said. Davis made his stance on health care extremely clear during the announcement. He wants to keep

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OutlinesOutloud app helps students study !

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OutlinesOutloud is an app that converts study outlines students create into spoken audio. It syncs outlines and other study documents from a user’s computer to their iPhone or iPad and gives them control over the playback, allowing users to jump forward and back, as well as skip sections. Freshman nursing major Jordan Nijim, of Paxton, said this app is perfect for her challenging classes. “Nursing is a lot of reading and repetition, and I easily get bored of just staring at a book for hours,” Nijim said. “This app keeps my interest a lot longer, and I don’t take as many study breaks.” An OutlinesOutloud spokesperson said this app promotes easier studying and potentially faster learning and lets the user study anywhere, anytime, without lugging around notes, books or even a laptop. Freshman nursing major Mel Escamilla, of Chicago, said this app is ideal

for his learning style. “I learn better not from seeing or reading things, but by hearing them out loud,” Escamilla said. The spokesperson said creating the outline will increase retention and reviewing the outline several times afterward will increase retention even more. The spokesperson also said the app offers a new and efficient learning pathway that many find more helpful than simply reviewing the outline visually. To get an outline on the app, users create the outline on their computers, save the finished outline into a Dropbox folder or drag it into iTunes. It will then appear on the iPhone after syncing. A downside, however, is that the app does not allow editing from the app itself. The user must edit the outline on their computer and sync it to his or her device again. Junior engineering major Mike Karen, of St. Louis, said another downside is that the app is only tailored to auditory listeners.

“This type of learning style is not effective to me,” Karen said. “I’m a visual learner, so if the app did something to the font of my notes or made it more interactive, I would probably get it.” The price is also a deterrent to some college students. Sophomore mass communications major Alex Johnson, of Kankakee, said the $4.99 price tag for OutlinesOutloud is much too expensive for him. “I don’t pay for apps, and this doesn’t seem worth the money if all it does is read to you,” Johnson said. Nijim, however, said that extra money is worth the ease of use that the app provides. “I use this app to study on the way to class on my phone,” Nijim said. “It’s the perfect refresher right before a big test.” # !$ # !$ ! " # # !$

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