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COVER Nick Banks and Jasmine Ames at the Wild N’ Out comedy event that was held Monday. Photo by Paris Dugan, Junior Photo Editor.

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HSU and theThe campus flubattles rampant sickness Story by Tiara Burgess Student Reporter

The flu is hitting Arkadelphia pretty hard this year. If you are unaware of the symptoms of the flu, they consist of: fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, body aches, headache, chills, fatigue, and sometimes diarrhea or vomiting.

If you are experiencing any of these symptoms then you should set up an appointment with your doctor immediately or you can also go to the Henderson Students Health and Counseling Center that is on the first floor of Mooney Hall.

You must go to the doctor within three days of having the

influenza virus for the doctors to be able to give you Tamiflu.

Tamiflu stops the influenza virus that is in your body.

If you go to your doctor knowing that you’ve had the flu for more than three days then they will only be able to treat your cough and will give you some cough medicine.

According to the Henderson State University Influenza Policy, “The Clark County Health Department in Arkadelphia is currently providing the vaccine at no cost.” If you have not received the influenza vaccine then it is encourage you to go to the Health Department and get your free vaccine, there located at 605 S 10th Street.

There are many prevention steps you can take to avoid getting the influenza virus. You should stay away from sick people, wash your hands often with soap and water, and avoid touching your eyes.

If you are already sick with the flu then you can help others be less likely to get the virus from you if you limit your contact with others and cover your nose and mouth with you cough or sneeze.

According to the Henderson State University Influenza Policy, “CDC recommends that you stay home for at least 24 hours after your fever is gone, except to get medical care or for other necessities.”

February 20, 2018

Spring Fling

Comedians Ronnie Jordan, Darren Brand, and Tyler Widener striked some poses on stage.

Photo by Paris Dugan, Junior Photo Editor.

Wild N’ Reddie Story by Greta Goslee Student Reporter

On Monday, Feb. 19, Henderson’s Student Activity Board hosted the Reddies Wild N’ Comedy show for student and members of the community. The event featured stand-up comedians and ended with the student involved Wild N’ Reddie show.

Mr. Bankshot (@mr_bankshot), Nick Banks, hosted the event. Banks is an Atlanta-based comedian.

Featured comedians also included:

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Darren Brand delivered his own brand of comedy Monday night.

Photo by Paris Dugan, Junior Photo Editor.

SAB Hosted the Wild N’ Comedy show Monday

Nema Williams from Oakland (@ nemawilliams), Ronnie Jordan from Atlanta (@ronniejordan) and Tyler Widener (@tylerchronicles).

The show’s featured comedian is a recurring cast member on MTV’s Wild N’ Out and Joking Out. Darren Brand (@darrenbrand_) from Southern Pines, South Carolina, also known as Big Baby, is a member of The Freestyle Comedy Show. Brand was named of HBCU Buzz’s Historically Black College and University’s

Top 30 Under 30 in 2014.

Arguably, the most entertaining segment of the show was when Henderson students got involved in the comedy.

Ten student volunteers were split into red and gray teams that competed alongside the guest comedians in Henderson’s version of Wild N’ Out, Wild N’ Reddie.

Kayla Lewis, sophomore political sciences major, was one of the volunteers chosen by S.A.B. for the Wild

N’ Reddie segment. “I would say that my favorite part was ‘Lemme Holla’ and just being a part of something new on campus,” said Lewis.

Lewis also noted the warmth of the comedians. “They were very nice and laid back, I didn’t expect it,” she said.

Lewis was a member of the red team, which won at the end of the night.

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Tinker, Listopad, voices, and rights What is the New Voices Act?

Story by Bunky Raines Student Reporter

In 2013, Professor Steve Listopad and a handful of students from Jamestown, N. D. wrote a bill that reversed the Hazelwood court decision of 1988 giving student journalists the right to free speech. The bill, called the New Voices Act of N.D., was passed and has caught on at the national level.

Before the new voices act was passed, N.D. students were allowed to study journalism, but not practice it. “If your primary loyalty is to the university, It’s no different than if you work at walmart,” Listopad said. “What they’re really doing is public relations and they’re calling it journalism.”

An advanced journalism class of only six students was brainstorming ideas for a class project. Listopad said the idea had been on his mind for some time. When he presented it to the class, they decided to take on the project.

Over the course of the semester, they researched existing laws and looked at what was effective and what wasn’t. At the end of the semester the students wrote the New Voices Act. They set up a meeting with state legislators, presented it and the legislators filed it.

The bill wasn’t heard for another two years, during which the students graduated, but Listopad kept the ball rolling. In 2015, the New Voices Act was heard by the house and the senate and was passed.

People around the nation were watching to see if the bill was successful. “We knocked it out of the park,” Listopad said. “It was passed unanimously.”

N.D. was only the 8th state to win first amendment rights for student journalists, but the movement quickly gained momentum. In the following three years, six states passed legislation under the new voices banner. Prior to that, it took seven states 40 years.

What the New Voices Act does is restore the Tinker standard, which says even students have first amendment rights and the censor must prove the need for censorship. This came from the 1965 case of Tinker v Des Moines in which John F. Tinker and siblings wore armbands to protest the Vietnam war and were expelled when they refused to remove them. When the Tinkers won, the precedent was set for the free speech rights of students.

Mary Beth Tinker, John’s sister and namesake of the Tinker standard, is a staunch supporter

of the New Voices movement.

“If ever there’s a place where democracy should be practiced and celebrated, it seems it should be our colleges and universities which are training grounds for active citizenship,” Tinker said.

In 1988 the case of Hazelwood v Kuhlmeier dictated that the schools administration could censor students at will. Hazelwood spread like a disease from k-12 to higher education. In recent years, the hashtag #curehazelwood has been spreading through social media like wildfire.

Graphic courtesy of newvoicesus.com.

Arkansas has an anti-Hazelwood law, but it applies only to high school students. In this state, K-12 student journalists have much more freedom of press than college students.

It’s Listopad plan, with more and more states passing laws under the New Voices flag, that the bill will be heard in Washington D.C. and passed for all 50 states at once.

“It’s an important time for all of us who love democracy to stand for free press and that includes free press for our students.”

February 20, 2018

THe Delph & Beyond

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Dream a little dream Part II Daniel Mora awaits the DACA decision Story by Philis Dixon Contributing Reporter

As I pulled into the parking lot that day where I was supposed to meet Daniel, I tried to remember what he looked like the last time I saw him. He was just a young boy of sixteen: who had attended a boarding school with my son.

Daniel immediately caught my attention as a bright young man and quickly won my respect. Everyone who met Daniel knew that one day he would make something of himself in a special way.

Daniel had ambitions, goals and most of all was a highly principled young man. Daniel Mora was born in Guadalajara, Mexico.

He was five years old when his mom decided to cross over to the U.S. for a better life for his family.

The year was 1999. His dad was already in the United States.

There were four sisters, him and his youngest brother who was just a baby. They crossed through the dessert and they eventually made it to Phoenix, Ariz. Daniel still has memories from that day and describes it as a very tough cross.

He still remembers some of the dark nights.

Daniel recalls, “we had keep walking until we reached a certain point to rest. We had 2 guides (coyotes) with us that would lead the way.”

Mora started kindergarten in Northridge, Cali., and he lived there until his fifth grade year.

“I was in Kindergarten and our teacher would ask us what we want-

ed to be when we grow up and my dream was to become a firefighter.

As I grew my status never affected me until my teen years when all my friends started getting their driver’s license and I couldn’t, due to my status.”

Essentially Mora could not work like his peers or get a driver’s license. He describes to me living a life in the shadows of his peers who had those opportunities.

Daniel was brought on to America soil at only age five. He had no choice in the decision to dangerously cross the desert that night. His family—like so many others—came

to America with hope for a better life, hope for human dignity, and the work that would free them from desperate poverty.

Mora’s family moved to Arkansas in 2005, where he started sixth grade and eventually graduated from high school in 2012. Mora’s status also affected him during his high school years.

He vividly recalls not being able to that get a summer job like some of his friends. He also remembers it being tough applying for colleges, because—not being a citizen or permanent resident—he didn’t qualify for financial aid or student loans.

Daniel Mora at a photoshoot with photographer Pam Seiter.

That didn’t discourage him though.

“I always had faith and was fortunate enough to be able to get scholarships from a Catholic University. My first year of college was tough, because I didn’t have spending money and a car like the other students whose parents would give them that. I couldn’t get a job.”

Daniel was finally able to step out of the shadows when DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) was implemented in 2012.

Nearly 800 thousand individuals were allowed a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and renewable two years

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Mora when he graduated from St. Gregory’s in 2016. Photo by Candid Campus Photography.

Mora at a photoshoot with photographer Pam Seiter.

Dream a little dream Part II: Continued Story by Philis Dixon Contributing Reporter

for eligibility for a work permit.

Sometimes they are referred to as Dreamers for the Dream Act bill in 2001 that helped provided a pathway to legal citizenship for those who completed some college or military service. DACA recipients could not have felonies or serious misdemeanors.

For people like Daniel to apply for DACA he had to pay $495 and fill out many forms. He also had to pay for an attorney. DACA still does not provide a lawful status or a real path to citizenship and it does not allow recipients to receive welfare benefits of any kind.

But still thankfully President Barack Obama passed DACA and everything changed for Daniel.

He could finally acquire a driver’s license. This also allowed him to procure a work visa and get a job.

Daniel Mora awaits the DACA decision

Daniel also obtained a social security card and started paying taxes.

“I finally was living the American dream of being able to work and have a driver’s license and get the same opputunity as my peers. I was grateful to have the opportunity to attend St. Gregory’s University and graduate with a Bachelor’s of Science in Social Science.”

Daniels first job out of college was at his former High School, Subiaco Academy, were he become a residential assistant. Daniel describes loving his first job and being a mentor to the young boarding students like he once was.

Daniel wants to step out of the shadows and give back to a society that has given him so many opportunities. He wants to go back to college and get his teaching certificate and mentor young people. He wants to be like his former mentors.

“I want to be able to be a mentor to my students like some of my teachers were mentors to me; they motivated me to make something out of myself. I would relate to my students who would come from low income families, since that’s what my family was. I would teach those students to never give up and that anything is possible. “ During Daniel’s early years he won many awards in reading, science and Math. In High School he played football, baseball and was in the school jazz band. He also went on to play college baseball which allowed him to get scholarships.

Daniel has lots to offer his land, this land that he calls home: America.

Daniel wanted me to make sure I mention that he does pay taxes and they are taken out of his weekly check. He also has ambitions of joining the U. S. military but

currently DACA recipients can not join.

I asked Daniel the day we met what he would do if deported. Daniel bravely told me he would make the best of his life no matter the outcome. But he also described to me how difficult that may be: going to a country he really has little memory of. The wages are very low and there are not many opportunities.

My hope is that Daniel and other DACA recipients can not only step out of the shadows, but will be allowed a path to American citizenship. America has been called the great melting pot. Every human being in America descends from immigrants.

Why not give these productive young immigrants—who were brought here through no fault of their own—a chance to stay in the America that they call home?

February 20, 2018

ARTS & MUSIC

In the photo on the left, from left, Okoye (Danai Gurira), Nakia (Lupita Nyong’o) and Ayo (Florence Kasumba).

Photo courtesy of Marvel/ Walt Disney Studios.

Chadwick Boseman as King T’Challa in “Black Panther.” Photo courtesy of Marvel/ Walt Disney Studios.

“This movie celebrates its blackness” “Black Panther” is a huge step forward

Story by Easton Cowart Contributing Reporter

Few movies in the last few years have been as highly anticipated as the most recent installment to the Marvel Universe as Black Panther. The excitement however isn’t centered around the fact that it is a super hero movie, but the fact that this is an important moment for America culturally.

Black leading characters are scarce in mainstream show business, and the comic book movie industry is no exception. With the addition of Black Panther to the lineup, African American children can finally have a Black hero to look up to.

“We are seeing the same hype for Black Panther that we did for other white superheroes.” Said Diominique McKissick, a senior, innovative media major, and station manager of 102.5 KSWH.

“Little black boys have a superhero now.” Black Panther provides a genuine African American hero who is motivated by what is right and this is something we have seldom seen in the movie industry.

This is film is unique in that from top to bottom this movie is almost entirely African American from writers to cast, and to director. This movie celebrates its blackness.

The movie was not the average super hero movie, in that it could have been the simple good guy vs. bad guy format, and it still would have more than likely been successful in the box office.

What sets this movie apart is that rather than making a standard super hero movie Black Panther saddled itself with the responsibility of making itself culturally impactful and it succeeded. “Black Panther doesn’t

put anyone down for race or gender, if he goes after you its because you’re just bad.”

This movie isn’t only important in the world of race, but of gender. The movie portrays female characters not as stereotypical “strong woman” archetypes but fully fleshed out characters that are badass.

Femininity and authority exist in the same space in this movie. The women in this film are powerful not in spite of but in addition to the strong male characters. No one in the cast bring each other down to put themselves up, rather they all shine together to provide an extremely unique, and nuanced cast.

Many African Americans showed for opening night around the country, showing up in cosplay to support the movement and the movie. Many theaters reported sold out shows and

box office records have been smashed. The movie also has received positive reactions from both regular audiences and critics alike.

The timing of this movie is perfect as well, as we enter murkier waters with race relations everyday. This film is representative of a movement away from checking off the diversity list, to make sure your film has enough people of color in it, and towards writing good movies centered around people of every color.

Hopefully this movie will encourage film makers to continue the trend of not just makind sure each race is represented through token characters, because this is not what audiences want. People want real characters that they can look up to, that look like them.

“We get to see a Black guy be the good guy.” Said Diominique, “We don’t ever see that.”

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Like a southern black baptist church

K-Love brought her own brand of poetry to campus last week

Story by Toryano La’Dell Student Reporter

“You have to treat my poetry like a southern black Baptist church.”

Kendria Harris, also known as K-Love, is a full-time poet, motivational speaker, and mentor.

Her hometown is Chicago, Ill., but she is a national performer. She performed in the Garrison’s Lecture Hall Monday night at 7 p.m.

Sophomore Occupational Therapy major, Makayla Tolliver said, “her poetry was satisfying in the sense that it was uplifting, empowering, healing and it brought out emotion.” With each different poem, K-Love gave a brief lecture on the background of the piece.

Students were very interactive

with her as she said that she likes physical feedback, not just snaps and hand claps. The pieces she performed on Monday night included; “Cellular Man,” “Million Dollar Melanin,” “Sarah Baartman,” and more.

K-Love captured everyone’s attention with the first line of “Sarah Baartman” exclaiming, “she got ass.” She admitted that the audience response was usually what she got when she read that line.

K-Love received a lot of love from the HSU students who showed up to her performance. Her YouTube channel and Facebook are klovepoetry and Kendria K Love Harris (K-Love the Poet) respectively.

Kendria Harris, a.k.a “K-Love,” performed on campus last week. Photo by Larry Massey.

No lions, no bears, just tigers

HSU Theatre to perform “Tigers Be Still” by Kim Rosenstock

Story by Ayanna Williams Student Reporter

Starting this week, a production like never before is coming to Henderson State University’s Theatre.

It’s a play called “Tigers Be Still”, by Kim Rosenstock.

This production features actors Madi Moore, Savannah Reynolds, Brandon Curtis, and J.L. Cason.

“Tigers Be Still” can only be described as a comedy about depression.

It focuses on the misadventures

of Sherry, an art therapist and recent grad student, who ends up finding herself back at her mother’s house, depressed and waiting for her dream job.

When she does find a job, however, there are issues that come along with it.

These issues include dealing with Sherry’s recently dumped and depressed sister, new boss, new patient with anger issues, and a tiger that recently escaped from the zoo.

Sherry shows the audience throughout the show how she gets over this depression regardless of the chaos going on around her. This production will surely be one to bring out a range of feelings within the audience.

“Tigers Be Still” will be coming to Henderson on Feb. 22-24 and Feb. 26 at 7:30 p.m., and on Feb. 25 at 2:30 p.m.. This production will be held in the studio theatre in Arkansas Hall.

“Tigers Be Still” will premiere in the AH studio on Feb. 22 at 7:30 p.m.. Poster courtesy of HSU Theatre and Dance.

February 20, 2018

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OPINIONS When there are no excuses

Jae-Kur on last week’s school shooting

Opinion by Jae-Kur Lockhart Opinions Editor

At the age of 19, we’re all usually on the cusp of trying to establish a false sense of independence and freedom – but not Mr. Nikolas Cruz.

While some of us may have been spending 2018’s Valentine’s Day alone, or with someone special, Cruz was opening fire on a South Florida High School as if he were a regular at the local gun range.

“Its sad to believe that you can’t even feel safe at school these days,” Malik Thrower, junior accounting major said “it is a very fearful situation.”

Cruz even took much pride in knowing that he single-handedly

carried out one of the nation’s most horrific school shootings.

Seventeen…. That was the number of people that went to school that day, not knowing that they would never return home.

Some students, parents, and friends had to say goodbye to these people without any warning.

It’s been said that Cruz had a troubled past and these excuses were reason enough to validate his mass execution.

“I’ve been bullied and I know people that have been bullied,” Tatiyanna Toney, freshman, said “but would that have given me or them to green light to go and open fire on innocent people?”

Honestly, how on Earth do

Graphic by Jesi Kane, courtesy of MCT Campus.

you validate a guy going from classroom to classroom – emptying the clip of his AR-15 assault riffle on unsuspecting people?

Well I’ll tell you, You Don’t!

Would you believe that Nikolas Cruz went so far as to hide in plain sight – trying to run with the crowd of terrified people?

After the conversation on the school shooting took flight, some people somewhat overlooked the shooting and focused more on how Cruz was being treated like a human simply because of his skin tone.

“Let’s not act like if that shooter were black that he wouldn’t have already been sentenced to forever and a day… well then again, if he were of any race besides Caucasian, he might’ve been shot execution style right on the spot,” Kierra McDaniel, junior health science major, said.

Maybe McDaniel has a point, but I guess that’s neither here nor there at the moment. The primary concern now is gun control and not making excuses for young men that terrorize schools and other areas.

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OPINIONS

From Nazis to Snowflakes

Opinion by Bunky Raines Contributing Reporter

In the ocean of objectivity, it can be hard to keep your head above water with FOX news and MSNBC spewing tidal waves of propaganda.

If you’re not even trying to swim, you’re bound to drown.

It’s human nature to accept the ideology you were handed and demonize those who haven’t accepted it. Tribalism, the behavior and attitudes that stem from strong loyalty to one’s own tribe or social group, has been around as long as humans.

To rise above this brute mentality takes willingness to look at an issue from different angles with objectivity.

I watch right-leaning and left-leaning shows: Tucker Carlson,

Stephen Colbert, Ben Shapiro, Trevor Noah, etc. and sort out for myself what’s fact and what’s one-sided BS. I feel it gives me a more informed view.

Neither party is all good. In fact, they’re both messed up to the core.

If you accept one side uncritically, you’re voluntarily blinding yourself to one side of every issue and losing sight of the big picture, which is this: both sides are trying to control what you think for political gain.

They twist the truth. When that doesn’t work, they lie. They’re unscrupulous. They don’t really care about the issues for which they fight. They’re just vying for control of the thoughts of people who aren’t thinking for themselves.

Either side is positively giddy to fill a thoughtless head with their own ideology.

Some mindless fools buy everything their chosen propaganda peddler has to sell. I suspect they would kill or die, enthusiastically, if Sean Hannity or Rachel Maddow said it was the thing to do. Even smart people get caught up in the mob mentality and throw rationality

How to become less one-sided

to the wind. I want America to be better than that.

In his state of the union address, Donald Trump called for unity. I thought it was the best thing he could’ve said, but I watched as half the room sat thinking Trump said it so I don’t like it. I don’t blame people who don’t like Trump. I think he’s a douche, but I don’t think we should let it cloud our judgement to the point that we don’t know a good idea when we hear it.

The growing gap between the left and the right has given regular people like you and me a reason to

“We don’t have to choose between being a Nazi or a snowflake. I suggest a third option. How about we strive to be rational and objective?”

hate each other. It wasn’t always that way. I remember a time when, if two people had differing political opinions, they might engage in a calm, intellectual exchange.

Now, it’s as if the whole nation has been doused in gasoline and any little spark can set it off. If things continue this way, I don’t see how we can keep from burning the whole shithouse down with us inside.

The people I appreciate most are those with the capacity for rational thought who make their voices heard amongst the jumbled cries of ridiculous extremists who shout things like “Jews will not replace us” or “I hate racism, sexism and white men!”

Oh, the caucasity!

We don’t have to choose between being a Nazi or a snowflake. I suggest a third option. How about we strive to be rational and objective?

What if we found a middle ground where we could all accept each other? Let’s stop tailoring our thinking around what political parties preach and start thinking for ourselves. We’re better than this.

February 20, 2018

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sports Spirits vs. Weevils Story by Jordan Williams

The basketball teams took on UAM last week

Monticello as well in what would be a close game that would see regulaWith just three games left in tion end and go into overtime. Monthe regular season for the Reddies, ticello was able to force overtime in each dribble seems to garner more what can only be called a nail bitter and more importance. Every game of a basket as Keelin Jackson tipped gives each team a glimpse and what in a missed 3 point attempt by his could more than likely be their post teammates as time winded down. season form with the GACC tournaOnce in overtime, Monticello ment just around the corner. seemed to have no problem taking But before they hit the road for care of a team that was both menthe GACC tournament the Reddies tally and physically exhausted with have to take care of business one the final score of that game being last time facing off against Ouachita Monticello 91 – Henderson 84. Next Baptist University this Tuesday with up was Arkansas Tech, a game that the women’s game tipping off and would see senior Kaylon Tappin starting the night at 5:30 p.m.. going on a scoring rampage.

Starting off things at home the Tappin finished Saturday night’s Women’s team faced off against game in Russellville with a state line University of Monticello a game of 34 points, shooting 54.5% from that was in question up until the the floor (12-22 FGM), making third quarter. Coming out of the 7 3’s (7-11 from behind the arc), half, Monticello was just 5 points along with 7 rebounds and 6 asbehind the Reddies with the score sists. He not only secured the win, being 27 – 32. Almost as if a switch with the final score of the game behad been flipped, the Reddies went ing Henderson 83 – Arkansas Tech from a halfheartedly disconnected75, but he also showed everyone ed effort on defense to a lock down why he is the leading the GACC in unit that forced six turnovers in scoring this season. the 3rd quarter alone.

With the postseason fast apThe final score in this game saw proaching, though, the Men’s team the Reddies come out on top with will need more than heroic efforts the score being Henderson 80 – from one player if they hope to Monticello 65. Key contributions make it past the first round of the came from Hailey Estes with 20 tournament. One can only hope points (6-11 FGM, 3-5 from 3), that fellow guards Chris Parker and 2 blocks and 3 steals, Pink Jones Josh Jones get fired up any hid perwho had 15 points and 2 steals and formance and help carry that fire Bree Bossier who had yet another Guard Kaylon Tappin and fellow Guard Josh Jones faced off against UAM’s through the rest of the season. double-double with 13 points, 15 Boll Weevils last week. Photo by Paris Dugan rebounds and 3 blocks.

Sports Reporter

This game seemed to serve as an example of just how dominating we can be when we set our mind to it. This was demonstrated by just how easily we began to take control coming out of halftime.

Next up was a road trip to Russellville to take on Arkansas Tech University for an unusually close affair. The game saw both teams struggle form the floor with Tech having shooting splits of 36.8% from the floor and 21.4% from 3. HSU had 38.5% from the floor and 36.7% from 3, though the true downfall of the Reddies would be ball control.

We had 14 turnovers on the night giving tech all the possessions they needed to stay in the game. The final

moments of this one saw a single free throw with time running down to give Tech a three point lead with the final score being Arkansas Tech 68 – Henderson State 65.

There was assuredly a playoff atmosphere to this game as Tech is ranked just one spot above us in the GAC standings, but it almost appeared as if the atmosphere of the game sapped the mojo out of our offense with no one except Haleigh Henson. She shot 9-16 on the night and having 24 points, scoring all the efficiently which is something that cannot continue to happen moving forward.

The Men’s team laced up Thursday evening to face off against