4/24/17 Issue

Henderson State University — Monday, April 24, 2017 Volume 112, Issue 10

SOUTH OF THE BORDER

Photography students display photos from their trip to Mexico P. 4

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COVER

Erica Burrow, junior psychology major, shows of her minor’s work in photography at the Arkadelphia Arts Center.

Photo by Natasha Cribbs

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RELAY REPLAY A quick review at Friday’s Relay for Life event on the quad.

FLINGS TO BE FLUNG Check out what’s coming up this week for Spring Fling.

HE AND OTHERS

Last week’s two art shows framed the lives of those we never thought to know.

LOSE TO WIN

Softball loses the first game, but rallies back with a massive win.

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April 24, 2017 Life’s relay

REDDIE NEWS

Summary by Pete Tubbs, Online Editor Photos by Victoria Garibay, Student Reporter Clark County’s Relay for Life was held last Friday on the quad. The event is held annually across the nation for the purpose of raising money for and giving support to survivors of cancer and for cancer research. In 2015, the Clark County RFL raised $46,000 while last year over $50,000 was raised.

Participators in the Relay for Life walked around the quad until midnight to show how perseverance and support can come together to conquer cancer. The goal for 2017’s relay for life intake is $60,000.

It was feared that rain may deter visitors, but the bad weather didn’t begin until much later, so spectators and participants had no excuse but to strut their stuff around the quad and visit the many booths set up around the center of campus.

Participants in the RFL walked around the quad until midnight.

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Several booths were set up around the quad to encourage participants to stay as long as possible.

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REDDIE NEWS

Foreign photos exhibit at the Arkadelphia Arts Center Photos by Natasha Cribbs, Graphic Designer More exclusive photos of the Mexico-based art gallery can be seen on our online publication hsuoracle.com.

One of Brenda Hardee’s pieces.

Another example of Brenda Hardee’s work.

Morgan Baugh shows off his work to a visitor.

Spring Fling Story by Tyler Freeman, Student Reporter 4,000 dollars in prizes. Laser tag. Free food.

That is just a small part of Spring Fling this week.

“The office of student services and the student actives board is responsible for putting on spring fling,” Jason Smith, graduate assistant for student’s activities board, said.

Spring Fling is just a week of fun for the students and everything is free.

Spring Fling will kick off on Monday, Apr. 24 with laser tag on the quad from 4–8pm.

On Tuesday, prepare to have your mind blown. One of the world’s greatest mind readers, Christopher Carter the Mentalist, will perform in the lecture hall at 7pm. According to his website, Carter in not a psychic, he is just an incredibly skilled observer of human behavior. Carter has

had an interest in non-verbal communication and people reading since the age of eight. By watching his uncle play poker, he began to understand that people broadcast their thoughts in ways beyond words. Carter has appeared on The Martin Short Show and the Donny and Marie Show. In 2005, Carter earned the highest award in the campus activities industry, entertainer of the year.

On Wednesday, board game night will take place in the grand ball room at 7pm. There will be 4,000 dollars worth of prizes up for grabs during the evening. Before board game night, dinner will be served on the quad from 4:456:45pm and the dining hall will be closed on Wednesday night.

On Thursday, quad day will take place from

3-7pm. There will be fun rides, a blowup obstacle course, caricature drawings, wax hands, and wire writing.

“This year we are bringing Flossie’s Funnell Cakes from Hot Springs to provide funnel cakes, corn dogs, fresh squeezed lemonade, and cotton candy,” Smith said. All food provided by Flossie’s will be free to students, compliments of the student activities board.

Spring Fling will wrap up on Friday, with the Nu Fusion concert on the quad at 8pm. Nu Fusion is the Henderson jazz band and the concert is free.

“We have spring fling each year to provide a fun week of free activities for the students right before finals week,” Smith said.

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ARTS&MUSIC

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He is unwritten

Story by Cassidy Witherspoon, Student Reporter

Hays’ work symbolizes the ongoing struggle against society that everyone faces at some point.

Crash.

Being a senior art major and having a part-time job can be compared to juggling 80 feet in the air while balancing on a tight rope, blindfolded and on fire.

Cade Vallee and Katy Hays both know this suffering.

Cade Vallee spent the entire year working on his senior exhibit “He.” “Balancing work and school has always been a struggle for me,” Vallee said. “But I got really excited about my show so I put it first.”

The show is like a personal tour into his life as a transgender. He paints vivid pictures that reflect the grief he has felt in his life since he decided to take the step and physically transform his outer self to match his inner self.

He chose such a personal theme for his show to express to people that transgenders are normal people too. He had to get very vulnerable while working on this show to convey his true feelings.

Vallee has been doing art for a while and said it’s something he has just always been good at.

“My mom was an art teacher, so I have always been around it,” Vallee said.

Vallee urges beginning art students to not get frustrated and to not give up. He said that if there comes a point when a student doesn’t know what they are doing, it’s a good sign because that’s how you grow.

After graduating, Vallee plans to chill and take a break from it all.

Katy Hays works 35 hours a week, takes 3 studio art classes, and a writing intensive Spanish course.

Needless to say, she has been under quite a bit of pressure.

“While it’s extremely physically exhausting, it’s academically rewarding,” Hays said.

Her show, “Unwritten,” was mostly all painted this year.

Hays’ theme was to encourage people who struggle against the unwritten laws of society. She wanted to encourage people to become the purest forms of themselves.

“Acceptance is a universal struggle,” Hays said.

“Society says that people are only accepted if they act or look a certain way.”

Vallee’s work shows his vulnerability and represents his own life as a transgender.

Hays said she chose oil painting for her medium because there are no permanent mistakes.

Hays has been making art since she could first hold a crayon and it is something that she has always enjoyed.

After graduating, Hays wants to teach art at a public school and possibly open her own studio.

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OPINIONS

Opinion by Dax Guilliams, Opinion Editor / Graphic by Natasha Cribbs For the past couple of months, the biggest news in smartphones has been everything related to Samsung’s next flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S8. After months of rumors and hype, the phone has finally been released and it is a great one.

The Galaxy S8 and its larger variant, the S8 Plus, were treated as if it was going to be the phone to give Samsung redemption after the trouble they had with the Note 7.

I never believed that Samsung had to make a great phone to make up for the Note 7. Yes, some caught on fire, but Samsung recalled the phones and let people swap them.

It was an accident.

However, the S8 and the S8 Plus are good enough to make up for the Note 7 fiasco for people that were upset by it.

Now, while I have not purchased either version, I did test a S8 Plus and I was very impressed with it.

Samsung is kind of looked down upon because a few of their phones run slower than other high-end smartphones, but the S8 ran very well the whole time I used it.

I’ve always really like the design of Samsung’s devices and the S8 is the best looking one yet.

One of the newest trends with smartphones is for companies to design their devices with almost no bezels, which are the parts on

the front of the phone where the screen ends, and the S8 follows this trend.

Plus, the S8 Plus has a 6.2 inch screen. Bigger phones are better and I will always believe this.

If the Plus variant is too big at that size, the smaller version is supposed to run just as well. The only difference between the two is the size and the price, so you can get a smaller, more comfortable phone that is also cheaper.

Cameras are almost never something I focus on with smartphones, but for the purpose of this review, I

made sure to play with the camera of the S8 Plus. While it’s not the strongest smartphone camera on the market, it’s easily the best camera on any Samsung device.

If the camera is important to you and you really want the S8, you shouldn’t be disappointed.

Also, if you buy the phone, you get a pair of very good earbuds and a VR headset. I didn’t get to mess around with the headset, but the earbuds are so nice.

The earbuds are actually better than the ones that came with my LG V20, so when it comes to additional accessories, Samsung is currently the best.

My two biggest complaints with this phone is the placement of the fingerprint sensor and the new Samsung smart AI, Bixby.

The fingerprint sensor is located on the back of the phone to the side of the camera. It’s not the worst place to put a fingerprint sensor, but it’s the worst place on any phone I’ve ever used.

While Bixby is a decent AI for a newly released smartphone, it’s still not as good as any of the other ones.

The main reason for this is because Bixby doesn’t recognize voice commands which are extremely useful for AI on smartphones.

However, Samsung is working on giving Bixby the ability to recognize voice commands, so it should get better once Samsung really puts more into it.

Now while the Galaxy S8 is a great phone that left a great impression on me, I still wouldn’t buy it if I was in the market for a new smartphone. The reason for this is that there are a lot of rumors that Samsung is going to release the Note 8 later this year.

The Note 8 is rumored to have a larger screen size than the S8 Plus and it comes with a stylus like the other Notes.

Since I enjoyed the use of my Note 7 when I had it, I would rather wait for the Note 8 instead of getting the Galaxy S8.

That being said, the S8 is still

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GAMES Keep your mind sharp and17, your hours FOR RELEASE FEBRUARY 2017 less numbing puzzle. Answers Los Angeles with Times this Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis in next week’s issue.

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SPORTS

Softball battles OBU yet again Story and Photos by Pete Tubbs, Sports Editor

No. 11 Ashleigh Erb swings for the fences in the first of the two games against OBU. The Reddies women’s softball team played another double header against their rivals, Ouachita Baptist University, last Tuesday at Dee White Field. The games were 50/50 as the women lost the first but won the second.

The first of the two games began at 4 p.m. on Tuesday. Fair weather and promising competition brought a crowd of 123 people in total for the second Battle of the Ravine.

Cassie Cantu from OBU advanced to second and sent Daniella Brantley to third and Macy Wilson home for the first score of the game in the second inning. Brantley then scored after Cantu advanced to third.

For the home team’s only score of the game, Rebekah Teel grounded to third base, sending Alexis Morton to score. The first game ended with a losing score for the Reddies at 2-1.

The second game began at 6 p.m. and attendance to this one rose by 14 people. The first score of the game came in the first inning by way of OBU’s Kelly Powell crossing home plate off of a Wilson single.

Olivia Trapp then reached on a fielder’s choice and sent Alexis Morton to score for the Reddies. Still in the first inning, Selena Mendoza sent a

homer over the fence and gained three scores by way of Trapp, Teel and herself.

This brought the Reddies to four against the Tiger’s one. Bethany Allen doubled down the rightfield line to advance Brooklynn Jimeson across home plate which brought the final game score to Reddies 5 OBU 1.

Although the women won one of the games, they need to start winning a lot more if they want to turn the season around. As it stands, the softball team has a win loss record of 20-28 with a conference record of 14-22. The opposing team’s current conference record, by comparison, is a paltry 1224.

The outcome of this OBU double header was much better than the first one earlier this year. On April 4, the softball team lost both of the games in the DH against their rivals.

The softball team competes again today against Northwestern Oklahoma State in a double header, the first of which begins at 10 a.m. and the second at noon. The women have six games left until the competitors for the GAC tournaments is decided.