09/03/13 Issue

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY

VOLUME 16, ISSUE 3

News Briefs Post-Labor Day classes will resume on Tuesday, Sept. 3, as normal.

IFC Rush will be going on throughout campus this week. Any questions concerning the location of a meeting can be directed towards the Information Desk or Veronika Salazaar, who is over the department of Greek Life.

Tuesday, Sept. 3, brings the opening day of intramural flag football. Teams can be either male, female, or coed. Schedules are available at the Rec. Peter Beilagus will be on campus Tuesday, Sept. 3, at 7 p.m. to give a lecture on financial awareness. The lecture will be in the Lecture Hall.

The movie in the Garrison Lecture Hall this week will be The Purge. The first showing will be Wednesday, Sept. 4, at 7:30 p.m. The movie can be seen again on Friday, Sept. 6, at 8:30 p.m.

A double feature of Iron Man 3 and The Purge will be shown Friday. Iron Man 3 starts at 6:30 p.m. in the Lecture Hall.

There will be a League reception on Thursday, Sept. 5, at 4 p.m. in the Ross Room.

The Reality Game Show will be on Thursday at 7 p.m.

The purpose of the game show is to inform students about drug and alcohol prevention. The game show will be held in the Day Gym. The International Alumni dinner is taking place this Friday, Sept. 6, in the Banquet Room. The dinner will begin at 6 p.m. It is being hosted by the Center for International Programs.

The women’s volleyball team will play Southwest Baptist University on Friday, Sept. 6 at 2 p.m. Shortly after that, at 6 p.m., the Lady Reddies will play Texas A&M Commerce. Both will be held at Wells.

The weekend is not over for the women’s volleyball team.

Starting Saturday morning at 11 a.m., the Reddies will take on the University of Central Oklahoma. They will finish up against Christian Brothers University at 3 p.m. at Wells.

This Saturday, Sept. 7, the Reddie football team will have its first kickoff of the season. The game against Southern Nazarene University will start at 6 p.m. down at Carpenter-Haygood Stadium.

Index

The Clark County Fair Pageant will take place Saturday, Sept. 7, in Arkansas Hall.

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Opinions

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Sports

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Photo by Ali Freeman

BLOODY GOOD Victoria Culliver, a senior English major, is shown giving blood at the Arkansas Blood Institute blood drive last week. The Arkansas Blood Institute supplies 20 hospitals with blood, 16 in Arkansas and four in Oklahoma, according to their website.

SGA elections are fast approaching Maegan Estes Staff Writer Henderson’s Student Government Association, also known as the SGA, will be holding elections for freshmen senators this fall.

“SGA is the voice of the students to faculty and administration, “Phil Turner, SGA president, said. “All needs of the students, great or small, can come through the SGA.” The organization is responsible for multiple improvements around Henderson’s campus.

Safety for students is of high priority to the SGA. They are responsible for safety additions to campus such as lighting, speed bumps, the bridge, emergency call boxes, Reddie Rides and multiple crosswalks across campus.

Other examples of decisions driven by the SGA include bringing Chic-Fil-A and Starbucks to campus as well as the $6.9 million, 48,000-square-foot Charles D. Dunn Student Recreation Center.

When election time rolls around, a copy of the application for the SGA will be sent to all students via email.

Applications will also be available at the Information Desk.

All applicants must have a minimum GPA of 2.75. The elections taking place during the fall semester will apply to freshmen only.

Two freshmen senators will be added to the senate. An election process for all other students will be held sometime during the spring semester.

Freshman candidates will have the opportunity to campaign. The student body may then vote for two representatives of their choosing.

Ricki Rebollar, Teacher’s

College representative, enjoys being involved in the organization.

“I really love being on the SGA because my voice is heard,” Rebollar said. “I am a representative of the Teacher’s College on the SGA senate, and I love all that we do. The SGA was the reason for the Rec, the dead hour on Tuesday and Thursday, between 12:15 and 1:30, and many more. I love being a part of such a wonderful organization that makes a change on HSU’s campus.”

Kirsten Massey, Business College representative, describes the SGA as an easy way for students to communicate with the administration.

“It’s nice to be the middleman between the student body and the administration, Massey said. “If there’s ever anything we are worried about or concerned with, we talk about it as a senate, and I’ve never seen an issue go unresolved. The administration trusts us and always takes into consideration what we need.”

The SGA has an executive board in addition to their representatives from each college.

The executive board currently consists of Phil Turner, the SGA president, Zachary Noga, vice president of Academic Affairs, Alicia Richardson, vice president of Student Life, Pearson Redmon, vice president of Administration, and Raven Lockhart, secretary.

Zachary Noga, vice president of Academic Affairs, spoke of Phil Turner’s presidency fondly.

“Phil has been the SGA President for the past three years,” Noga said. “He is an amazing leader. He always wants what is best for HSU and always tries to get everyone involved.”

The Teacher’s College representatives are Ricki Rebollar and Chelsea Hail.

The Business College representatives are Kristen Bell and Kirsten Massey.

The Ellis College representatives are Jazzyneka Jackson, Lauren Dudley, Duy Ha and Jonathon Eagle.

The Graduate School representative is Jasmine Bishop.

The Greek representatives are Tyler Childs and Ungela James.

The SGA has high hopes of making an even larger impact on Henderson’s campus in the

years to come.

Its members encourage Henderson’s students to speak to their senators or attend SGA meetings.

“The SGA would love to hear more of what the current students want to see happen here on campus,” Pearson Redmon, vice president of Administration, said. “If you have a good idea, bring it forth and we will fight to get it implemented. I cannot promise that all ideas will be implemented, but what I can promise is that your ideas will be heard.”

Mentalist visits Henderson

Photo by Ryan Klare

INTO IT Craig Karges made his way to campus

last Monday. He performed using volunteers from the audience to demonstrate his intuitive and borderline psychic talents. See

more on page 2.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Moe Skinner Staff Writer Students and faculty lined the walls in the Garrison Lecture Hall last Monday evening. Everyone waited in anticipation for the performance given by Craig Karges, a mentalist.

A mentalist is a magician of sorts who performs feats that demonstrate extraordinary mental powers, such as mind reading.

Could Karges really read their minds? Did he know what they were thinking? Time and time again, throughout the evening, Karges illustrated his interactive mind-reading techniques on skeptical students.

“It feels like a process of trying to recall something on the tip of your tongue,” Karges said. “What do I know about this audience? Make a connection, it’s like a chain reaction.”

In Karges’ first attempt, the déjà vu experience, Karges asked a student to look over a book containing approximately 90,000 words. He asked the student to find one word and devote it to memory.

Karges grabbed his whiteboard and marker. In his first try, Karges did not guess correctly, but the student quickly gave him the answer, the letter G. After a series of questions and dialog, Karges wrote a word on his whiteboard, graveyard, the student’s memorized word.

A blindfold was used in his next few illusions, adding a wow-factor to the show. A new student from the audience was chosen, at random, to assist Karges in covering his eyes.

She stuck two coins to two pieces of tape and covered his

Photo by Ryan Klare

SHOW ME THE MONEY Craig Karges, mentalist, entertained students by

levitating tables and reading their minds. Above, Karges has coins, tape and a black blindfold over his eyes as he examines a $50 bill. A student volunteer watched eagerly as Karges spouted off the serial number printed on the bill. He accomplished this without previously seeing it. Karges performed several other tricks during his show at Henderson. eyes. She then added three more strips of tape to his face, preventing Karges from peeking.

In addition to the two coins and the five pieces of tape, she also fastened a black cloth around his head. Completely blind, Karges then asked her to use his whiteboard and draw a horizontal line across the board.

Karges then told her to write

a word in the top half of the board and return the board to him.

She handed him the board with the word puppy written in the top half. With board in hand, Karges continued his conversation with her.

Soon he was scribbling the exact same word, puppy, on the bottom half of the board. Everyone cheered in excitement.

Still in the dark with the

blindfold in place, Karges next received a student’s campus I.D. card.

As he rubbed it in his hands, Karges identified the owner as well as some of his personal information listed on the card.

Karges, still blindfolded, took a $50 bill from another student.

He analyzed the money and identified it correctly. He also called out the correct serial number on the bill.

Throughout the evening, Karges interacted with several audience members, guessing names and birthdates of unsuspecting students.

“I don’t know if I believe it,” Julie Nix, junior dietetics major, said. “I don’t know how he does it.” During the show, Karges directly guessed Julie’s name, astrological sign and her birth date.

“I was so surprised,” Nix said.

“I don’t know how he knew my birth date?”

Doubtful students continued to ask each other how he did what he did, but nothing questioned the students’ beliefs like the tilting table.

As the doubters sat with their mouths open, Karges and four assistants levitated a small table across the stage with just their fingertips touching the table.

At one point, Karges held the table off the edge of the stage, with only his fingertips touching it. At this point one student screamed and ran out of the hall.

“I wanted to believe,” Garrett Torix, senior physics major, “but being a physics major, I was trying to figure out what was real, and I couldn’t. I was astounded!”

As the crowd was let out, the buzz was in the air. Friends gathered outside the hall and compared notes on what they had just experienced.

Karges continued to entertain a few of his fans by taking photos with students and selling a few books.

Karges, the author of “Ignite Your Intuition” and “The Wizard’s Legacy,” was named “one of the top five variety entertainers in the country” by Performance Magazine.

“You’re Next” proves best in group settings JD Roberts Staff Writer Truly good horror films are hard to find. Most are unoriginal, poorly executed or both, but it seems like 2013 could be year of great horror movies.

The year started out with the terrible sequel to “Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” but as it progressed, audiences were haunted by “Mama,” disturbed by “Evil Dead” and chilled with “The Conjuring.” Now at the end of the summer, up and coming director Adam Wingard dares moviegoers to see his home invasion horror flick, “You’re Next.”

Released at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival, “You’re Next” is a movie that people have been talking about and wanting to see since it’s premier two years ago.

After finally getting distributed, the internet created buzz for the movie that some were calling the next “Scream” and “The Strangers.”

“You’re Next” tells the story of the Davison family as they all come together for their parents’ 35th wedding anniversary.

Isolated from society in their getaway in the woods, the family attempts to tolerate one another and tries to act like a loving family. It isn’t long before they come under attack by three figures in animal masks.

Picked off one by one, the Davisons must fight for their lives as the killers play a game of cat and mouse with the dysfunctional family. Will the Davisons make it through the night? Why are the killers doing this? What secrets is the family hiding, and is there more going on below the surface?

“You’re Next” isn’t an original horror movie, but that is okay. It still succeeds in doing what it wants to do, and that’s showing the audience a good time.

What many people don’t know is that this movie was incredibly cheap to make. While 2 million dollars doesn’t sound cheap, compared to “The Lone Ranger” and “Iron Man 3,” it is chump change.

Wingard took the money he could get, casted a few friends and set off

to make a genuinely fun and unique horror film that people will be talking about for years to come.

The acting is appalling at times and the scares are cheap sometimes, but if you give “You’re Next” the same respect you give “Napoleon Dynamite” and “Sharknado,” you will really enjoy it. Most of the twists are predictable, but there is one that really makes for an interesting plot point.

The pace of the movie never really slows down, and it feels like something is always going on on screen.

Horror movie fans will really get into the movie because it feels like you’re watching a B horror film, and those are always fun to watch.

It isn’t as much “Scream” meets “The Strangers” as it is “Home Alone” meets “The Strangers.”

“You’re Next” is a fun movie, but it is a movie that should be watched with a bunch of friends in the comfort of your home. Wait till it comes out on DVD and make a game/drinking night out of it. Put bets on who will die next and take a drink when an actor gives a bad line. This is a movie made by friends that was meant to be watched with friends.

While it is an entertaining movie that will likely become a cult classic, “You’re Next” would be excellent with the company of friends and witty commentary from the couch.

Photo courtesy of Lionsgate Films

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Generation Why? I hate these blurred lines Ashley Loftin Columnist

It’s been a big week in news.

In the midst of the deadly chemical attack in Syria and the Miley Cyrus twerking debacle, my Tumblr dashboard has been a mix of a man grieving over the bodies of his two small children and Internet memes of Miley gyrating on the disgusting Robin Thicke.

America has taken this opportunity to mostly ignore foreign affairs, at least until we learned that we’ll more than likely be invading Syria soon, and instead focus on making fun of the 20-year-old America’s Sweetheart turned wild, black culture appropriating pop star.

I am not saying that what Miley did wasn’t problematic.

The use of black women as props parading around the stage in teddy bear costumes has garnered attention from some feminist groups.

If you take to Twitter, you don’t have to look far to find many black women none-toohappy.

While I understand that Miley is part of a media machine, and her actions are in part to tell the world she can do what she wants and in part to gain publicity, it is disgusting that this is what a woman must do to get media attention.

She is 20 years old.

Where did she learn this?

Which images are we supporting that tell Miley Cyrus and the people who tuned into the VMA’s that this behavior is not only acceptable, but also necessary?

However, some good may

come from this VMA pop culture phenomenon.

Though I had to trudge through the Internet memes of Miley grinding on famous paintings, cruel illustrations of her butt hanging out of her Spanx and photo manipulations of Billy Ray Cyrus crying, the backlash against Robin Thicke, while not as immense as the backlash against Cyrus, has restored some of my faith in our culture.

Robin Thicke has taken popular radio by storm with his single, “Blurred Lines,” an anthem

to the blurred lines of consent when it comes to sex, in which Thicke compares women to animals and, as some would posit, glorifies rape.

Indeed, with the recent sentencing of a 49-year-old Montana man to 30 days in jail for sex with a 14-year-old student who later killed herself, it seems to me that America hates these blurred lines, too.

We spend more time blaming the victim than the rapist.

While there are many things disturbing about the VMA mash-up with Cyrus and

Thicke, most of the jeers have been made toward Cyrus.

In fact, some blame has even been placed on her for twerking on a 36-year-old marriedwith-children man.

I believe what we should be asking ourselves is, “Why is a 36-year-old married-with-children man allowing a 20-yearold woman to grind on him, and why is this appropriate?”

I opened up this debate in my pre-modern women class, and heard some interesting feedback that I’d also like to explore here.

When a pedophile or other sex offender moves into our neighborhood, our skin crawls.

We feel a brief wave of fear.

At least, you do if you’re a woman.

Yet, we perpetuate the image of Miley Cyrus on stage, dressed as a child with pigtails twisted atop her head, prancing around teddy bears and servicing a grown man with her body.

We perpetuate this image of little girlhood, and that it’s what men want, or should want.

We’re sending the message to young girls that this behavior is okay and desired by men, while telling men that it’s okay to desire young girls.

While Cyrus is a 20-year-old woman, the Montana victim was not, and as much as the rapist and the judge would like to claim the 14-year-old was in control of the situation, it is just not possible. The girl was below the age of consent, which is statutory rape.

Rape is rape.

I’m not saying that the media images are to blame in their entirety, but we’ve historically set a precedent about how women should be treated and the accountability of men, and we see that precedent reinforced in the case of Miley Cyrus and in the case of the Montana rape.

Robin Thicke is disgusting, but what is more disgusting is the fact that he is not held accountable, just as Stacey Rambold, the Montana rapist, is not being held accountable.

And now a child is dead, and a man is facing a sentence that so outrageously doesn’t fit the crime, it’s vomit inducing.

I hate these blurred lines.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Henderson football picked to repeat in coaches’ poll Troy Mitchell Sports Information Henderson State was the unanimous choice by the coaches of the Great American Conference to repeat as football champions, released by the league office Monday.

The Reddies received 10 of the 11 possible first-place votes and 100 points total.

Coaches were not permitted to vote on their own team. The Reddies, who claimed the 2012 conference title last with a 10-0 regular-season record, return 11 all-conference selections including Offensive Player of the Year quarterback Kevin Rodgers, and Freshman of the Year linebacker Tim Llewellyn.

“It will be a big challenge for us to repeat,” said Coach Scott Maxfield.

“We play a 10-game conference schedule and everyone will be giving us their best game. This league is much better than a year ago and we will have to be ready to play each week.”

The Reddies, ranked No. 9 in Lindy’s Preseason Top 25 poll and No. 16 by the Sporting News, return eight starters from an offense that led Division II in scoring (50.4 points per game) and was third in total yards (516.8 yards per game) and passing yards (377.6).

Despite losing its leading rusher, Henderson returns four of its top receivers along with running back Kevin Nichols.

Nichols rushed for 340 yards and scored 13 touchdowns in 2012.

Robert Jordan returns for his senior season at wide-out. The 2012 First-Team All-GAC pick and preseason All-American led the league with 65 receptions for 1074 yards and 10 touchdowns.

Dustin Holland returns for

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his junior season after grabbing 59 passes for 864 yards while earning First-Team All-GAC honors as well.

Juniors Darius Davis and Israel Valentin, both All-GAC honorees in 2012, possess great speed and will again see action both as receivers and return specialists.

Davis caught 27 passes for

522 yards and scored nine times.

As a kick returner, the Frisco, Texas product averaged 20.5 yards per kick return.

Valentin, who is a preseason All-American selection as a return specialist, totaled 339 in return yards for an average of 33.9 yards per game.

He returned two kicks for

touchdowns including a 97-yard return against East Central.

The Fort Worth, Texas native also caught 33 passes for 363 yards and four touchdowns a year ago.

Rodgers, who finished sixth in the Harlon Hill voting in 2012, will attempt to duplicate his numbers from last year.

The Rockwall, Texas native

passed for 4,002 yards with 41 touchdown strikes and completed 271-of-409 passes.

Rodgers will be protected by four All-Conference linemen including guards Doug Despain and Ricky Gonzales, tackle RJ Taylor and center Kelton Hays.

Defense will be the key to Henderson’s success.

It was the Reddie defense that secured wins against Harding and Southern Arkansas with a pair of goal-line stops.

Keaton Stigger lead a defense that allowed just 21.2 points per game and was successful in preventing opponents from scoring when within the red zone 37 percent of the time.

Stigger had 103 tackles in 2012.

Llewellyn will also be a big part of the defense.

The sophomore from Dallas, Texas totaled 46 tackles including three for lost yardage.

Glennon Bobo led the team in tackles for lost yardage (13.5) during Henderson’s championship season.

The junior defensive end from Ashdown, Ark. ended the season with 37 tackles and six quarterback sacks.

Southern Arkansas, which finished the season with an 8-3 record overall and 6-2 in league play, totaled 85 votes and is picked to finish as the league runner-up.

Harding, which is coming off a second-place finish last year and a NCAA playoff appearance, was tabbed third, garnering 83 votes from the coaches.

Ouachita Baptist was fourth with 73 votes, followed by East Central (65), Southeastern Oklahoma (49) and Southwestern Oklahoma (47).

Rounding out the 11-team conference is Arkansas Tech with 37 votes, Arkansas-Monticello (31), Northwestern Oklahoma (18) and Southern Nazarene (17).