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The student directed play, “Private Wars” has been rescheduled for some time in January.

The McNair program will have its induction ceremony on Tuesday, Nov. 5, in the Banquet Room. The ceremony will start at 11 a.m.

Also on Tuesday, there will be two speakers in Reynolds room 131 for the summer 2014 undergraduate program for entrepreneurship and research. The speakers will begin at 1:30 p.m.

Tuesday evening, the Ridiculously Reddie Scavenger Hunt will begin. Information can be found at the Rec. The hunt begins at 6 p.m.

This Wednesday, Nov. 6, brings another double feature to the Garrison. The first movie of the night will be “2 Guns,” which will play at 6:30 p.m. The next movie will be “Elysium.” This showing will start at 8:30 p.m., after “2 Guns.” Both movies will be played in the Lecture Hall.

This weeks’ coffee and conversation with Dr. Jones will be at the Captain Henderson House. It starts at 8:30 a.m. and will end at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 7.

Flu shots will be available Thursday, Nov. 7, for faculty and staff only, in room D202 in the Garrison. Shots will be available from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.

The fifth annual Battle of the Ravine blood drive will take place this week. Students can donate in the Day Gym on Thursday starting at 11 a.m. Please bring a student ID. The blood drive will last until 6 p.m.

There will be an informational on Thursday for the Miss HSU pageant. The meeting will be in the Galloway room during the dead hour.

The philosophy department will have guest speaker John Corvino in the Lecture Hall on Thursday, Nov. 7. The topic will be “Haters, Sinners, and the rest of us: The gay debate today.” The debate starts at 7 p.m.

There is another planetarium show scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 7. This one will cover Mars. The show starts at 7 p.m.

The movies in the Garrison from Wednesday night will replay on Friday in the Lecture Hall at the same times for students who can’t make the Wednesday showing.

Senior Day for the Reddie football team will be on Saturday, Nov. 9. The Reddies will play Southern Arkansas University at 1 p.m. for the last home game of the season.

Courtney Kemp Staff Writer Dr. Glendell Jones’ investiture ceremony took place last Tuesday in Arkansas Hall to make his presidency at Henderson official.

Many were in attendance to support and hear Jones’s address. Some of the names included Senator Mark Pryor, Governor Mike Beebe, former Henderson president Charles Welch, delegates from other universities, faculty, staff, students, honored guests and many of Jones’ family members. Reverend Stan Parris opened the speeches with an invocation, followed by Mr. Bill Wright, chairman of the board of trustees, with the welcome speech. Wright also swore the president in.

Phillip Turner, president of the student government association, gave the student greetings to the president.

Jacob Mills, president-elect of the staff senate, gave the staff greetings.

“Henderson is the school with the heart, but it will also grow in the heart of others,” Mills said.

Dr. David Evans, music professor and faculty senate president, summed up the president in his speech.

“Dr. Glen Jones is a calm, quiet and thoughtful leader,” Evans said. “He is a devoted, caring, husband and father who cares deeply about the commu-

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SWEAR HIM IN Dr. Glendell Jones was recognized with an investiture last Tuesday including a speech by Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe. nity, and has a clear vision for Henderson State University.”

The alumni association had a representative speak as well.

Dr. David Futrell spoke of Henderson’s rich tradition providing a quality education.

“We must highlight the excellence of HSU,” Futrell said. “We all share in that responsibility.”

Dr. Futrell explained that Dr. Jones plays a part in that responsibility.

“The president is not the boss,” Mike Beebe, governor, said. “It is all about service.”

Governor Mike Beebe gave the Investiture Address. Governor Beebe believes where there is no vision, the people

will perish. He believes that Glen Jones has a vision for Henderson State University.

“We all stand on someone else’s shoulders,” Beebe said.

“We didn’t get here on our own.”

Jones opened his President’s Address with many humble thanks. He stated that who he thanked would show who he was. He thanked the community, the campus, his extended family, his mentors, his past church, his present church, his wife and his children. Jones’ address focused on what he wants to do for the university.

That is to revive the Reddie Spirit.

He said that it is alive, but it “needs a revival.” Jones also said he cares about the students of Henderson. His primary goal is to reach students.

“Step up and step forward no matter the obstacles,” Jones said. “As we challenge you, we will be there to support you.”

Jones challenged the audience to join him in seeing his vision for Henderson through.

A reception followed the formal ceremony. Cake and punch was served for all who attended the investiture. The faculty and guests greeted the president with hugs and handshakes.

There were smiles upon all faces.

Family Science Night features student creations Moe Skinner Staff Writer

Fun broke out on all three floors of the Reynolds Science Center last Tuesday night during the fourth annual Henderson Family Science Night.

Students and faculty demonstrated several scientific and math experiments for the curious crowd. The collaboration of events kept children and parents both intrigued and entertained throughout the evening.

At any given time during the night, Josh White, senior and vice president of the society of physics students, could be spotted rolling along through the halls on a flaming two wheeled self-balancing personal transportation device, much like a Segway. White and his fellow students built the machine from parts with the help of Dr. Rick McDaniel, professor and chair of the department of physics.

“I finally got the right students,” McDaniel said, as he cut donuts in the classroom on the device. “This is the funnest course I’ve taught.”

White was excited to talk about plans for the next Segway-like device they plan to build.

“It’s going to have plexiglass,” White said, “and more than 700 LED lights.”

Down the hall, Shane Light, sophomore engineering physics major, had his life-size android, Jose, on display. Jose is an unfinished, one armed, blue eyed, top hat wearing skeleton.

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I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC Shane Light, sophomore engineering and physics major, exhibits his android, Jose.

Jose’s human interaction capabilities were a little slow, but proved impressive to the audience. Light spoke into a microphone that was hooked up to Jose, and a few seconds later, Jose spoke back to him. Jose also shook hands with Todd Baum, sophomore biology major. It took almost a month for Light to create Jose.

“He has a little bit of me in him,” Light said.

Across the room, Rachael Kew, junior biochemistry major, explained to the group how it was possible for the body to be able to lie flat on a bed of nails without being hurt, as she gladly demonstrated by doing so. Kew also assisted people with the bike wheel in a chair exhibit. As the volunteer sat in the chair holding the spinning bike wheel, Kew explained why

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the person in the chair would start to rotate as the person would change the wheel’s angle.

Upstairs, the math club students had a statistical data exercise for the children. Sara Watkins, junior math major, helped the children create origami jumping frogs from small pieces of paper. Then the kids practiced jumping their frog, measured how far it went and computed the data to find the mean, mode, median and range of their jumps. Watkins helped fold more than a dozen frogs during the evening.

The chemistry students on the third floor did not disappoint fans either. Chase Elkin, senior biology and biochemistry major, manufactured homemade silly putty for the youngsters. He poured a few

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ounces of Elmer’s glue, a couple of sprinkles of food coloring and a squirt of water into a Ziploc sandwich bag and asked a participant to gently mix the ingredients together in the bag until it was all one color.

Then Elkin added the final element, a couple of capfuls of borax and asked that they resume mixing the parts together. After just a minute or two, the substance started to solidify, and presto, the liquid transformed into silly putty right in the child’s hands.

After making silly putty, the children were treated to some dessert as Dr. Vince Dunlap and Dr. David Bateman, assistant professors of chemistry, produced liquid nitrogen ice cream.

Dunlap stirred whipping cream, eggbeaters and sugar in a mixing bowl as Bateman poured the liquid nitrogen. The ingredients looked like they were smoking as the nitrogen reacted with the elements.

The more liquid nitrogen Bateman poured, the harder it got for Dunlap to stir. Once they were finished, they treated the room with plastic solo cups of super sweet homemade liquid nitrogen ice cream. Bateman has been teaching chemistry students at Henderson for five years.

“We are always burning something or blowing something up,” Bateman said.

The event closed with three planetarium shows for the public.

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Features McConaughey, Leto poured themselves into their ‘Dallas Buyers’ characters PAGE 2

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Steven Zeitchik Los Angeles Times METAIRIE, La. _ The strippers were gyrating and the smoke machine was spewing its vaporous mist, but Matthew McConaughey just kept on staring straight ahead.

Gaunt and mustachioed, the actor called for another shot of Johnnie Walker _ if he meant a prop liquid, the bartender didn’t seem to know it _ and tightened his facial muscles almost to the breaking point.

“Man, if you’re up there, you better be listening,” McConaughey whispered, candles from the table in front of him flickering shadows on his contorted face as he halfbeseeched, half-ordered the heavens.

A man with a camera on his shoulder lay sprawled out on the club’s stage, the lens poking between a dancer’s legs and aimed squarely at the actor’s face. “Send me a sign.”

A native son of Texas, McConaughey has convincingly inhabited a number of hereticalyet-charming cowboys in his two-decade film career. But as his intense focus and startling appearance in the strip-club scene for Jean-Marc Vallee’s “Dallas Buyers Club” demonstrates, he’s never gone to as dark a place with his character _ or as extensive a method with his preparation _ as he has in the AIDS drama, which centers on a real-life man named Ron Woodroof.

As the movie ups the dramatic quotient for McConaughey, it also poses questions about the benefits _ and limits _ of such preparation. Matching his single-minded focus in the film is Jared Leto, the actor-turnedrocker who returned to acting after a five-year hiatus to play Rayon, a transgender AIDS patient who becomes Woodroof’s unlikely friend and business partner.

Like McConaughey, he’s earned early raves and awards buzz for his character’s authenticity, but underwent an equally fraught process.

“Dallas Buyers” stars McConaughey as Woodroof, a homophobic Texas electrician who was diagnosed in the mid-1980s. Stunned, he began importing unapproved treat-

pearing in a Skype audition in character as Rayon, he, too, lost weight _ about 30 pounds _ and consciously changed his walk and his muscle movements. He moved his rock-star voice to an alto register, inspired by scores of conversations with transgender individuals.

The goal was to create a cross-dressing character who, though flamboyantly expressive, defied the stereotype of the on-screen drag queen.

“A lot of the time in movies we see the drag queen dancing on the table with a feather boa, screaming a clever line and running out of the room. I didn’t want to do that,” he said.

“I wanted to bring a real person to life.”

On set, Leto (who last shot a movie in 2007, the sci-fi “Mr. Nobody”) talked to crew members _ when he talked at all _ only as Rayon. (Vallee likes to joke that he only met Leto seven months after production wrapped, at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.) After a while, Leto said, “I even started dreaming as Rayon.”

Some might roll their eyes at these actorly conceits; after all, film acting is role-playing, not life-swapping. Are there limits to how fully a person can turn into another human being before it becomes self-conscious?

Leto agrees that the process can be emphasized at the ex-

pense of the result. “At the end of the day, staying in character, not staying in character, who really gives a.... It’s whatever gets you where you need to go,” he said.

But he also believes these techniques were necessary in his case. “Maybe a veteran can eat a taco and say something funny, then the camera goes on and he can scream at the heavens and make people cry. I can’t do that.”

Substantial weight change, meanwhile, though lending credibility to a part, is also such a time-honored acting tradition (Robert De Niro in “Raging Bull,” Christian Bale in “The Fighter”) that it has begun to verge on the cliche. Starving oneself for a role may be an act of self-punishment, but it can also be an act of vanity, a chance for an actor to flaunt his commitment.

The modern tabloid media has heightened the effect, raising the specter of a publicity gimmick.

“Here’s my feeling,” McConaughey said. “The weight loss informed my focus in the role.

But the length that an artist will go to is by no means a measure of excellence. It’s just the easy narrative, the shocking photo that’s going to get you to click on a gossip piece. And I hope the public’s 30-second, ‘What’s up, give me the one-liner’ attitude doesn’t lead the narrative.”

Or as Leto puts it: “It’s just a tool. There are much more impactful tools.”

And not to be dismissed, the actors say, are the personal consequences of a deep transformation. McConaughey said he would catch himself using Woodroof’s sharp-tongued patter when he returned to his wife and young children at the New Orleans home they rented during the shoot. It would startle his family, so he’d rein it in. And he said although the calorie-restriction made him mentally sharper, that wasn’t always a good thing.

“My head was chewing on everything,” he said. “I wasn’t taking the first answer from anyone. I was trying to get to the bottom of everything, which could be laborious for everyone around me.” He paused. “And for me.”

feld, give equally great performances. These two have worked with Hollywood greats before and will be around for a while.

Where the movie really shines is the visual effects.

Science-fiction films have to find a healthy balance of futuristic and realistic visuals. You don’t want something looking too real or too fake.

“Ender’s Game” finds a nice balance of the two and still manages to impress you with what is happening on the screen.

One really neat thing about the style and tone of the movie is that it’s an homage to the decade the book was released.

The book was released in 1985, and the movie does a great job of creating visuals and style that reflect that time period.

The look of the ships and creatures, as well as the weapons and sets all have a very 80’s vibe to it.

Even the title card that you see on all the posters and the opening sequence looks like it was pulled straight from an arcade game from 1985.

This is all thanks to director Gavin Hood.

If you don’t recognize his name, you will recognize the fanboy hate associated with it.

Hood’s last big film was the disaster that was “X-Men Ori-

gins: Wolverine.”

While it wasn’t entirely Hood’s fault, much of the blame is placed on him.

None of that matters anymore because the success of “Ender’s Game” is what he will be known for now.

One thing that must be addressed is the controversy surrounding the book’s author, Orson Scott Card. Card has given himself a bad name for his strong and outspoken position against the gay community.

Many have chosen to boycott the film due to Card’s beliefs, and that is noble and understandable. However, Card has long since made money from this movie and will continue to make money regardless of a boycott.

“Ender’s Game” in no way reflects the views of Card and ironically teaches everything that Card is against.

The ultimate message of the books and film is to see the humanity in everyone, to tolerate others even if they are different. One quote the movie’s theme stands on is this: “In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.”

“Ender’s Game” is a really enjoyable movie with a great message that shouldn’t be missed.

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WEIGHT,WEIGHT DON’T FAIL ME Jared Leto and Matthew McConaughey underwent dramatic weight loss for their roles in “Dallas Buyer’s Club.” ments, prolonging thousands of lives in the process.

To embody their characters, McConaughey consulted Woodroof’s diary heavily during the shoot, while Leto wore high heels continually _ even, sometimes, in his trailer.

Both men dropped significant amounts of weight to persuasively play sick people.

“It’s one of the most extreme transformations I ever made,” said Leto, no stranger to radical metamorphoses, having taken on junkie mannerisms in “Requiem for a Dream” and gaining 60 pounds to play John Lennon’s killer in “Chapter 27.”

“But it’s not about just ‘living as the person’ or some kind of affect, like a lot of people seem to believe. It’s about developing a level of concentration without having to wait for permission for a director to yell, ‘Action.’”

McConaughey knew early on he wanted to immerse himself in the part. But after trying to get the film made for nearly three years _ the project itself has a development history that dates back to 1992 and includes failed attempts by Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt _ McConaughey began shedding pounds even before a financier had committed. Watching their client grow more emaciated, the actor’s representatives scrambled to get money after an investor fell through. Cameras began rolling last November.

“What the weight loss did was give me a construct for the character,” said McConaughey, who lost more than 40 pounds.

The process led him deeper into Woodroof’s personality _ for practical reasons, if nothing else.

“For about 3 { hours a day, I’m normally either thinking about food, eating food or preparing food. So suddenly I had that time. I cut out social gatherings. And because Ron was so pale, I wouldn’t go out in the sunlight. That’s pretty much seven hours a day,” he said. “I’d reprogrammed my existence.

And then I needed something else to entertain my mind.”

That something became Ron Woodroof, who died in 1992.

McConaughey borrowed home videos from his family and gained access to the man’s diary, which included writings about the redneck-y personality’s unlikely interests, like big band jazz and “dreamer” aspirations, as McConaughey put it.

The actor consulted it before and during shooting, scribbling ideas for the character in his own journal. “It gave me Ron’s monologue, which allowed me to understand how he might be thinking in moments like the strip-club scene.”

Though the Rayon character is a screenwriter’s construct, Leto became similarly submerged. After nabbing the role from a skeptical Vallee by ap-

‘Ender’s Game’ wins battle over controversy JD Roberts Staff Writer Nearly 30 years ago, the science-fiction novel “Ender’s Game” was released.

At the time, it was praised by critics and audiences alike and received some of sci-fi’s highest honors.

Now, after a long road filled with rights disputes, rewrites and controversy, one of the best-selling science-fiction novels has finally made it to the big screen.

“Ender’s Game” takes place in the near future after earth is attacked by an alien race known as the Formics.

Hoping to ensure earth’s safety, the military enlists gifted children and trains them through various games to enhance tactics and strategy.

Although they are all special, Ender Wiggin, played by Asa Butterfield from “Hugo,” stands out in every way.

Believing that Ender is the one to end future battles before they even begin, Colonel Graff, played by the great Harrison Ford, pushes Ender up through the ranks in hopes to make him the leader they need.

This isn’t easy for Ender.

He must constantly prove himself and become a leader while making enemies and challenging authority.

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1-UP Asa Butterfield and Harrison Ford in the film adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s novel “Ender’s Game.”

As he becomes a leader in battle school and makes his way to commander school, Ender begins questioning the military’s motives.

What did the Formics want?

Why hasn’t anyone attempted to communicate with them?

These questions lead him down a path of discovery. It isn’t long before Ender finds out that the game he’s apart of isn’t a game at all.

Surprisingly, “Ender’s Game” is a really enjoyable movie.

Of course it has flaws, but the good greatly outweighs the bad.

The only real major fault of the movie is some of the child acting.

This is always a risk when making a movie like this. Some child actors aren’t as experienced yet and the dialogue they are given is delivered flatly.

The moments of bad acting is enough to take you out of the movie for a moment, but it isn’t long before you’re back in.

Other than that, the movie is great. The performers that stand out are the biggest names on the bill.

Ford, Viola Davis and Ben Kingsley all give great performances, which is awesome considering Ford has been phoning it in the last few years and Kingsley takes on every role that is thrown at him.

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An opening for immigration reform? Obama must try Editorial Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Barack Obama can’t lose in the immigration debate.

If the president pushes for a comprehensive bill and it fails to advance, he can blame it on those difficult tea party Republicans. If he wins, and a long overdue reform of the nation’s immigration system passes, he can claim political victory.

But we think that political capital also will accrue to smart Republicans who support reform, such as U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the chairman of the House Budget Committee and an early supporter of changing the way the nation handles immigration.

That’s why we were heartened last week when Obama made a point of not only putting immigration back on the national agenda but also indicat-

ing he was willing to consider Republican ideas that would reform the system piecemeal.

We don’t think that’s the best way to do it, but progress is progress. Congress has been idling on this issue for too long.

It’s time to jump-start the process.

There is one non-negotiable: Whatever bills are considered, they need to provide a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million people who are in the country illegally.

White House spokesman Jay Carney noted that “the means by which we arrive at our destination is in some ways of course up to the lawmakers who control the houses of Congress.”

Yes it is.

Not that this won’t be a heavy lift in any case. The Senate bill, which provides a comprehensive package of reform initiatives, was dead on arrival prior

to the government shutdown, and despite the political damage Republicans sustained, there is little reason to think the basic thinking among the GOP caucus has changed.

Nevertheless, there are signs of action on the Republican side of the aisle.

The Washington Post reported last week that Majority Leader Eric Cantor and other House Republicans had been meeting to write bills that would change some parts of the immigration system.

Among their ideas: adding high-tech visas, revamping farm and low-skilled immigrant labor programs and ramping up border security. If those ideas could be married with a citizenship proposal, a deal might be within reach. We continue to believe that increased border security is a fool’s errand with little real payout aside from political grandstanding for Repub-

licans, but if that’s the price of a respectable reform bill, then so be it.

House Speaker John Boehner’s office released a statement that on its face wasn’t terribly encouraging: The House would not consider “massive, Obamacare-style legislation that no one understands. Instead, the House is committed to a common-sense, step-by-step approach that gives Americans confidence that reform is done the right way.”

But at least Boehner and his lieutenants are working on the issue.

That’s progress.

We think the president is right about one thing.

In remarks on immigration reform last week, the president said: “Good politics is good policy in this instance. If folks are really that consumed with the politics of fixing our broken im-

migration system, they should take a closer look at the polls, because the American people support this.”

Many business leaders do as well. Greg Brown, chairman of Motorola Solutions Inc. and head of the Business Roundtable Select Committee on Comprehensive Immigration Reform, said the time was right to get reform through the Congress.

“We agree with Speaker Boehner and the president that the time is now to fix our broken immigration system,” he said in a statement. “Our economy needs a boost, and immigration reform will help.”

We agree.

Lawmakers should seize the moment and fix a hopelessly broken system.

That would be a good thing for all Americans, and for those who want to become Americans.

Student proud to not urinate himself in fear Lynn Morgan Guest Columnist

I am no fan of a national holiday that promotes and celebrates horror movies and hideous monsters. For me, Halloween is a day when something always goes wrong.

I have always been terrified of any type of costumed character, like Jason from “Halloween.” My friends Marcus, Sam, Leconte, Franklin and I decided to go to a haunted house last year—with disastrous results.

“Man, Little Rock is a little too far to drive,” Sam said.

“We’d have to pay like $20 to get in the Haunted Cathedral.”

“Yeah, I don’t feel like paying that much to get scared,” Marcus said.

“There’s one in Gurdon,” Sam suggested. “It probably would be cheaper, and it’s closer.”

After multiple disagree-

ments, we finally came to common ground. Gurdon’s Haunted Trail seemed like it would be a horrifying experience for all of us. Knowing that I hated and had a bad history of terrifying, hideous monsters, I agreed to go along as well anyway.

On my 8th birthday, I had a Power Ranger birthday cake, and I received a red Power Ranger costume.

I was so excited to put it on myself because I loved to watch and imitate the Power Rangers.

What was supposed to be a special day for me turned into a nightmare when my tall, black uncle, who stands 6 feet, 6 inches tall, put on my red mask.

As I ran away screaming, a warm, wet sensation ran down my leg.

Having this one of many terrifying encounters and the embarrassment of wetting myself had me highly skeptical about

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going out on national trick or treat day. The dark and gloomy Halloween night came like a demon searching for a child’s soul. We all traveled to the Haunted Trail together.

As we drove toward our destination, it seemed like everything got darker and creepier.

Before I left the dorms, I made sure I had a clean pair of boxers on and had emptied my bladder so I wouldn’t have another mishap.

Upon arrival, I heard screams and cries in the dark winds. Being the man that I am, I tried to not show any signs that I was scared in my outer appearance, but on the inside I wanted to go back to my room and hide under the blanket.

“Lynn, you okay? You look like you about to pee yourself,” Leconte said.

“Shut up, old man,” I said.

The parking lot was just a big

grass field with one way in and one way out, with only street lights on the porch of a small trailer and on a creepy white house.

“Don’t you embarrass me out here,” Frank said.

“What you talking ‘bout, Cuz,” I said?

“You know,” Frank said.

Before we began the Haunted Trail, we had to go see a fortuneteller in a small, tin trailer house, to learn the history and plot of the Haunted Trail.

The trailer house was lit up with candles and lights, with a 70-year-old plus, wrinkled-as-aprune woman sitting at a small round table.

The old white lady wore some type of shawl and a black headband. I didn’t pay much attention to her while she looked into her crystal ball, because I was worried about something jumping out and grabbing me.

Constant creepy laughs and the pop-up surprises from Chucky out of a box filled the room.

Just being in the trailer was enough for me.

After the visit to the fortuneteller, we began the trail.

As we walked down the dark, dirt track, I tried my hardest to make it to the middle of the group so I didn’t have to be the leader.Leconte had the same agenda, but I was victorious.

Chainsaws, scarecrows jumping off the pole and ghosts had me running and wanting my mommy.

My friends were embarrassed to even be with me because I was latching on to everyone like a raccoon latching on to a tree to keep from getting spotted.

But eventually we reached the end, and my pants were dry.

That seemed like victory to me.

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HSU’s defense steps up to remedy stalling offense Kaitlyn Kitchens Sports Editor Henderson State University (9-0 overall, 8-0 Great American Conference) played ArkansasMonticello and walked away with their ninth win of the season on Saturday in Monticello.

The Reddies won 37-21, while having five interceptions in the first half.

There was no doubt that Henderson’s offense was struggling in the game Saturday afternoon, but the defense came back and only let UAM get 69 yards in the first half of the game.

Arkansas-Monticello began the game with the ball, but with 14:13 left in the first quarter, Christian Love intercepted the ball from UAM’s quarterback Cody Trimble.

The Reddies made a touchdown only two plays later with a rush by Daniel McCoy for 43 yards with 13:41 remaining in the first quarter and the score being 7-0, Henderson with an early lead.

The Reddies defense did not let UAM get very far when Gary Vines made an interception from Trimble to run the ball back 69 yards and score a Henderson touchdown, to make the score 14-0 with 10:59 left in the first quarter.

With 8:14 remaining in the first quarter, Carlos Gonsalves made a good field goal attempt from the 39 yard line to make the score 17-0, Henderson leading.

McCoy rushed the ball for five yards for a touchdown with 1:57 left in the first quarter to make the score 24-0 for the Reddies.

In the second quarter, quarterback Kevin Rodgers made it down to the fourth and goal line, when he made an incomplete pass to Darius Davis, but Gonsalves’ field goald attempt

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STAYING STRONG Henderson State Reddies are undefeated in their season and are now 9-0 overall and 8-0 in the Great American Conference. The Reddies defense nabbed three interceptions in the first half against UAM that could have been the difference in one of the Reddies’ closest games this season. was good form the 33 yard line to make the score 27-0, the Reddies in the lead.

With 6:24 remaining in the second quarter, Gonsalves made a good field goal attempt to make the score 30-0 for Henderson.

With 1:02 left in the first half, Rodgers had a pass intercepted

by UAM and returned for 61 yards for a touchdown to make the score 30-7, the Reddies still in the lead to end the first half.

With 9:44 left in the third quarter.

Reagan Wise made a 44-yard punt and Al Lasker returned the ball for 63 yards and a Henderson touchdown to make the score 37-7.

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scored a touchdown with a rush for 1 yard to make the score 37-14, Henderson still in the lead with 1:45 left in the third quarter.

In the fourth quarter, UAM made the last touchdown of the game with 1:58 remaining when Nick Williams rushed the ball for one yard to make the final score of the game 37-21, Henderson winning the game.

With Henderson winning this game, and Southern Arkansas winning over Ouachita Baptist, Henderson State reached at least a share of the Great American Conference title for their third league title in the last four years.

UAM had 240 yards in the second half of the game on of-

fense, but the Reddies defense was too much for them to handle.

Henderson’s offense had the lowest output of the season.

The offense totaled with just 346 yards, including 194 yards passing.

Rodgers totaled 21-of-34, passing 194 yards.

Davis led the receivers for the Reddies with 78 yards and seven receptions, passing his 1,000-yard receiving mark breaking the record of only being the third receiver in HSU history to make 1,000 yards.

McCoy lead the Reddies with 16 carries for 93 yards and added two touchdowns.

Vines had nine tackles and two interceptions to help lead

the Henderson defense. Keaton Stigger had nine tackles in just one half of the game and Blake Lopez had a career-high of 11 tackles.

The Reddies had 12 penalties for 200 yards in the game.

Henderson State University will play at Carpenter-Haygood Stadium on Saturday, Nov. 10 to play host to Southern Arkansas starting at 1 p.m.

The game will be Henderson’s last regular-season game along with 23 of the Reddies being seniors and playing their last game at Carpenter-Haygood Stadium.

They will all be honored prior to kickoff.

Additional reporting by Troy Mitchell.

Mizzou forgets recent losses and dominates Tennessee touchdown passes to each of his big wide-receiver targets: L’Damian Washington, Dorial Green-Beckham and Marcus There’s an adage in sports, Lucas. especially football, about not alIn their most complete game lowing a loss to beat you twice. of the season, the Tigers domiThe idea is expressed by nated with their running game coaches after a disheartening and defense. defeat, one that can end dreams Even the first half’s surand alter aspirations. real moment _ kicker Andrew Coaches and players can say Baggett doinking a last-second the right things in the aftermath 29-yard field-goal attempt off of a letdown, such as Missouri’s the left upright, the same action to South Carolina last weekend that ended the South Carolina that punctured the Tigers’ per- game _ provided irony, not forefect season. boding.

But for a game fueled by emoBut maybe none of that tion, the tank and the sentiment would have happened if the Tican seem empty. gers weren’t in the right place Mizzou, late in its Big 12 emotionally, and offensive years, got caught in the spiral. guard and team free spirit Max Not this time.

Copeland insisted they were, The Tigers reacted to last starting last Sunday. week’s gut-punch with deter“We extracted the lesson mination and an edge Saturday, from the loss and we had to pounding out a 31-3 victory shuck the shell, and remain in Photos Courtesy of Shane Keyser/Kansas City Star/ MCT against a Tennessee team that the present,” Copeland said. was good enough to beat the “That’s how we bounced NOT LOOKING BACK Missouri Tigers running back Russell Hansbrough Gamecocks two weeks before back. We remained in the pres(32) breaks through the line of scrimmage to score a touchdown in the second half they shocked the Tigers. ent. We asked ourselves, ‘How against Tennessee at Faurot Field on Saturday, Nov. 2.

Missouri did plenty right Sat- were we going to win today?’ “ urday, and the outcome was de- By realizing what’s ahead.” cided by halftime after quarterTigers coach Gary Pinkel tivities while attending the meMissouri lost the next week yanked out the Tigers’ heart. back Maty Mauk had thrown missed last Sunday’s team ac- morial service of his mentor, at home to Oklahoma State and That made Missouri a mysDon James. then got blown out at Texas the tery team this week, and so When he returned Tuesday, week after. did the quarterback situation. he laid it out for the Tigers.

In 2010, Blaine Gabbert’s fi- Injured starter James Frank“The only thing I told them nal season, Mizzou improved to lin warmed up and appeared was why in the world would you 7-0 by knocking off an Oklaho- to throw without stress on even think about last week’s ma team that was ranked first his sprained shoulder. Would game?” Pinkel said. in the BCS standings. Those Ti- Franklin trot out with the start“Are you kidding me? We gers climbed from outside the ers and provide an emotional were 7-1 and 3-1 in the league, rankings to No. 7 in the polls in boost? and we’ve got four games left in a matter of weeks.

There was no need. Mauk November. I’ll take that for the But a week after the conquest found his favorite targets, and rest of my career, forever.” of the Sooners, Mizzou lost at nearly everything else worked.

“Maybe it wasn’t necessary, Nebraska. No real harm, until And because it did, the Tigers’ because I trust these kids.” the next week, when the Tigers primary objective of winning The bitterness of blowing laid an egg at Texas Tech. the division remains in reach. last week’s 17-0 fourth-quarter The Hangover, Part II. If Mizzou wins out, it will lead was wiped away, and MisThe conditions of 2013 un- take the East and play in the souri also left some history in folded in eerily similar fashion. SEC championship game with the dust.

Missouri, a preseason pick to a BCS Bowl berth on the line.

Recall 2008: In Chase Dan- finish sixth in the division, had That’s in play because the Tiiel’s final season, the Tigers reached 7-0 and No. 5 in the gers didn’t suffer successive crushed Nebraska in Lincoln, BCS standings after knocking setbacks. improving to 5-0 and jumping to off Georgia and Florida in sucThey didn’t let a loss beat Missouri defense coordinator Dave Steckel No. 3 in the polls. cession when South Carolina them twice.

Blair Kerkhoff The Kansas City Star