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THE FUTURE LOOKS GREEN Sustainability Task Force to bring recycling to the ‘Delph

BY ERIC CONNOR The average American will throw away over seven and a half times their body weight each year.

In fact, materials such as metals, plastics and paper make up just over half of all the materials a typical American can recycle within a day. So it’s important for students to understand recycling in order to leave as small of an ecological footprint on the planet as possible.

A few semesters ago, recycling bins for paper, plastics and aluminum could be found scattered across the Henderson campus, however recently it has been increasingly difficult to find said recycling bins.

Some have even speculated the bins have gone missing.

This however, is not the case.

Recycling bins can be found in every major building on campus.

“We have the goal of having at least one of each kind on every floor of every building but unfortunately they are not there yet,” John Green, committee chair of The Sustainability Task Force, said.

It seems through the years, recycling at Henderson has had a history of good intentions that for a variety of reasons did not last.

There have been student led efforts that

have unfortunately been short lived because of repeated difficulties.

However it is a relief that the Clark County Recycling Co-op is now a consistently reliable receiver. There is a level of interest with recycling flooding across the entire campus that is continuing to grow.

The Sustainability Task Force has become a standing committee and, thanks to Vice President Bobby Jones, has a small annual budget.

As committee chair, Green has made recycling his main focus.

He has also been intentional in not suddenly blanketing the campus with bins while simultaneously overwhelming the already hard working staff with new responsibilities.

“It is important to recognize that all recycling efforts depend entirely on them for success. It is my plan to keep maintenance supplied with bins so that they can meet requests as they come in,” Green said.

Any employee can request a new bin by emailing sustainability@hsu.edu.

Once received, the request will be passed on to Amy Cooley, the overseer of the custodial staff. It is her responsibility to care for the bins.

From there, the materials are picked up by

THE BUZZ AROUND McBRIEN Do you know what those bugs are doing? They’re bangin’

BY CRYSTAL CORDOVA For years students have seen swarms of tiny flying insects around campus. Lots of people thought they were just gnats, but they’re not. They are actually a swarm of randy midges.

They are true flies (Order Diptera) in the Family Chironomidae. The midges seen lately in front of McBrien Hall are a mating swarm, they are also known as leks.

“The mating swarms have occurred at this time of year for as long as I can remember,” James Engman, professor of biology said.

The leks are mostly comprised of males, who are rivaling for the chance to mate with a

female that may be nearby.

The males have bushy antennae that allows them to detect the frequency of the female’s wing beat. The midges pose no threat and do not bite humans, just some students find them quite annoying.

“Those bugs affect me when I walk toward McBrien they be all over my head and stuff, flying around,” Ashley, freshman nursing student said. “It gets irritating.”

According to a study by Dany Azar, biology professor at Lebanese University, there is an infraorder in the Order Diptera called Culicomorpha that do bite humans, this includes

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the grounds crew and are then transported to the Co-op trailers for pick up.

Most recently the Sustainability Committee has been working with the athletics department to ensure bins are available at sporting events.

Their main concern is to see the current efforts are well received, continuing to move forward and not fade away as has happened in the past.

Both Amy Cooley and Tammy Wardlaw, our Campus Maintenance Supervisor, are ex-officio members of the Sustainability Committee who have been enthusiastic and invaluable at turning ideas into reality.

Other institutions may be ahead of us in volume, but we are doing better than we ever have before and will hopefully always do so.

And for any students who may be interested or concerned about the recycling issue on campus, if there is a location that would benefit from a recycling bin, please seek out someone who works in the area about placing a request.

There is also a student sustainability club sponsored by chemistry professor Ingo Scharanz, who would be glad to hear from any interested students.

So much trash each year ends up in landfills that could take centuries to decompose.

Recycling that empty aluminum can or that pile of last semester’s scratch paper could lower your ecological footprint and leave a more positive effect on the planet as a whole.

Please consider recycling for the future of the planet.

the biting midge in the Family Ceratopogonidae and mosquitos in the Family Culicidae.

Midges are different from other true flies, they have only one pair of wings.

“In Diptera [which means two-wings], the hind pair of wings has been modified into small knob-like structures called halteres,” Engman stated. The halteres operate like a gyroscope to provide stability to the midge while it files.

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BRIEFS On Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the cheerleaders will have a cheer art sale on the quad.

The Reddie football pep rally will be Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Barkman house. All school organizations are invited.

On Wednesday, the movie “How to Train Your Dragon 2” will be playing in the Garrison lecture hall beginning at 6:30 p.m.

Immediately following the first movie will be a second movie called “22 Jump Street” which is set to begin at 8:30 p.m.

Thursday from 12:30 p.m. 1:15p.m. The Women’s Studies Reading group will meet in the Jones room.

Thursday, Sept. 18, evening starting at 7 p.m. there will be a planetarium show called “Saturn Jewel of the Heavens” in the Reynolds Science building in the planetarium. The show will play again next week on Sept. 25 also at 7 p.m.

Soprano Joohee Choi will perform in the RFA recital hall on Monday, Sept. 29 at 7:30 p.m.

Choi will also be holding a master class with HSU voice students at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 30. The class will be held in the Harwood recital hall.

Constitution day is Tuesday, Sept. 23. The ceremony will be at 12:30 p.m. in the Garrison Lecture Hall. James Rutherford, dean of the University of Arkansas Clinton school of public service, will be the guest speaker at this event.

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SUPERPOWERED MINOR It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a new minor

BY JASMINE THREATT Superhero movies are popular now.

However, some of you may know that they are just comic characters brought to life.

For those who don’t know, maybe you should educate yourself by taking advantage of a new minor that will possibly be offered at Henderson State called Comic Studies.

Randy Duncan of the communications and theater arts department, Travis Langley of the Psychology department, David Stod-

dard of the art department, Michael Taylor of the mass media department, and Eric Bailey of the English department, along with a few others were all on the committee of shaping the new idea for a minor covering comic studies.

Currently, this minor is in the proposal stage and will go to the Ellis College Curriculum next week.

It does not require a prerequisite and con-

THE OTHER “S” WORD Representative visits campus for suicide prevention presentation

BY MOE SKINNER Just how comfortable are you talking about it?

Many people associate a negative stigma, shame and even a stereotype with the term.

For many others right now, it is the only way out, the only way to solve the problem and maybe the only way to deal with their demons.

It can affect anyone, at any age, any race and any gender.

So, why is a discussion about suicide and the prevention of suicide such a taboo topic?

Elizabeth Baker, senior community relations representative, from Rivendell Behavioral Health Services of Arkansas came to campus on Thursday to share information about the warning signs of suicide, knowing how to obtain help for a friend or loved one and statistics associated with teen and young adult suicide rates.

The hour-long presentation drew a crowd of almost 30 curious students, faculty and other guests. Some students were there to complete credits for classes like Kaylee Hearnsberger, freshman nursing major.

Hearnsberger said she thought it would be interesting to go too and she hoped it would help in her future field.

“The more I know how to help some-

body,” said Hearnsberger. “The better it will help me to help someone else in the future.”

Hearsnberger said she did not personally know anyone who had committed suicide but she did see a post on social media over the summer from a friend who had lost someone to suicide.

Baker collaborated with and received her training from the organization, Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide.

Baker said she wanted to share her knowledge not only with the administrators of the colleges she was visiting with but to open the communication lines with students as well.

During the program, Baker used statistics provided by the STPS such as, each year more than 1,100 college students are lost to suicide; it is the third leading cause of death for youth ages 10 to 24 and the second leading cause of death in colleges.

Baker said the risk factors for suicide include family history, exposure to suicide, a death of a peer under any circumstance and recent severe stressors.

Baker shared some warning signs such as depression, a person who is withdrawn and a person that threatens suicide.

She also gave some direct approach examples to asking someone if they had suicid-

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sists of different art, English, psychology, and theater courses.

For this minor, the each student will be required to take a Special Topics course on comics.

Langley actually has a special topics psychology course which is usually but not always a comic related course.

Langley plans to use popular culture to explain psychology during his special topics courses.

The word on the street is that Batman will be his spring topic.

For those who share the love of comics and graphic novels, the Comic Club is just the organization for you.

Comic Club meets every Thursday at 12:30 p.m. in Arkansas Hall, room 211.

With comic studies, there are different aspects of work that you can go into.

You can be a creator or an editor of comics.

You may even want to go into journalism and report on the comic industry.

“Spiderman is my favorite comic character,” Randy Duncan, communications professor, said. “He’s an every man sort of character…Peter Parker is. He was a teenager at the time I was a teenager and grew up to become a professor.”

If comic studies interest you, go ahead and get involved in comic club.

al thoughts as well as advice on listening to someone in need and referring them to the right people for example, a counselor.

Baker talked about her daughter during the presentation and the trouble that her daughter experienced when she transitioned to college her first year.

“We talked almost daily, but I didn’t see her or I would have known something wasn’t right,” Baker said.

Baker said it is important for student peers to be each other’s gatekeepers.

As a mother with a daughter away at college, she didn’t hear anything suspect over the phone when her and her daughter would talk but later found out that her daughter had been withdrawn from her friends and almost isolating herself because she was depressed.

Baker talked with her daughter and helped her work through her problems through open communication.

Henderson is a great place to attend school partially because of such a wide diversity of great people studying in one place.

We could and should take the lessons from Baker and apply them in our own house.

Keep an eye on each other and if we recognize any warning signs, we must learn to ask for help.

Someone’s life may depend on it. Just how comfortable are you talking about it now?

September is national suicide prevention month and September 10th is known as World Suicide Prevention Day. According to American Foundation for

Suicide Prevention ranks Arkansas in the middle with a suicide rate of 15.3 people per 100,000. Wyoming had the highest rate at 23.2 per 100,000 people and the smallest rate reported came from District of Columbia with 6.8.

If you or someone you know is experiencing suicidal thoughts or tendencies, there is help waiting.

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-TALK.

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MINIMUM RAGE Will the average workin’ Joe be getting a raise soon?

BY MARIAH DELAVEGA

What’s the talk about minimum wage?

Should minimum wage increase or decrease or just stay where it is now?

Today, families are struggling with supporting their children with minimum wage being so low. Minimum wage is $7.25, should it be any higher?

Jessie Jacoby, sophomore phycology major said it is hard to live off $7.25 and she finds it

“I get paid $7.25 an hour, and it takes me 20 minutes to get there. Basically I am getting paid to put gas in my car.”

difficult to support herself with that pay rate.

There was riot at McDonald’s in Little Rock, started by a protest that minimum wage should increase.

Eleven people were arrested in the minimum wage protest.

The protesters were marching down the streets on a Thursday morning in front of a McDonald’s in Little Rock on Sept. 4.

The protesters wanted to start getting paid 15 dollars an hour.

They were out there because that’s how some families make a living and getting paid $7.25, $8.00, or $9.00 is not going to support their families.

They insist that they get $15 an hour.

They were protesting for not only the minimum wage to increase at McDonald’s but also for it to increase all around America.

“I get paid $7.25 an hour, and it takes me 20 minutes to get there. Basically I am getting paid to put gas in my car,” Jacoby said.

Jacoby mentions that if gas prices go higher so should minimum wage.

She also says if minimum wage increases then everything else will as well.

“If minimum wage were to go up then everything else will too, so I guess minimum

wage should just stay how it is,” Jacoby said.

Most people start off at minimum wage because they are not experienced.

Victor Claar, professor of economics says that minimum wage is supposed to help young and unexperienced workers.

If they were to increase minimum wage then some people will be without a job and lose hours.

“If you ask an employer to pay somebody ten dollars an hour, that person better create something for the employer to turn around and sell for more than ten dollars an hour otherwise it’s a losing proposition,” Claar Said.

Young workers do need the opportunity to get skills by working for minimum wage places.

If they keep getting better at what they are doing then they will most likely get a raise or get a better job that pays more.

“If they can handle a minimum wage job, do a good job and get good references, learn how to treat customers well and do all those good things then they can move up to the next level,” Claar said.

“Cause again, if somebody is in a minimum wage job today it’s because they can’t get to the next level, yet. Even though it sounds bad to be working for a minimum wage job and I get that, but it is the stepping stone to the better job that lies beyond it.”

If the minimum wage were to increase in Arkansas then everything will increase as well.

Food, gas prices, clothing and housing will all increase.

Vicki Taylor, director of financial aid says the minimum wage for work study at Henderson is $7.25 an hour.

Taylor says that Henderson pays work study students what minimum wage is, but the university can choose to pay more than minimum wage for their work study positions but that would mean that, the university would have to have discretionary dollars that they can devote to it.

Taylor mentions that prices have increased everywhere we go. Gas, housing, food and utilities everything continues to go up but minimum wage is still $7.25.

“The bad thing about minimum wage is that families and students and that low min-

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CHANGE HOPE WE CAN BELIEVE IN — $5.02 pictured above; about what the average minimum wage worker can hope to bring home in an hour after taxes. imum wage is not enough to support their living expenses, it’s just unbelievable,” Taylor said.

“You meet people all the time and you wonder how they survive on what they make, people with families and people without families but I don’t know how they live because their wages are too low.”

Taylor also says it has a terrible effect on families if they earn minimum wage it is hard for them to get by.

“You meet people all the time and you wonder how they survive on what they make, people with families and people without fam-

ilies but I don’t know how they live because their wages are too low,” Taylor said.

If minimum wage were to increase, some people will start to lose their jobs or lose hours because minimum wage increased.

Sophia Cansigno, senior spanish major says that she agrees that $7.25 is okay for her.

She knows that the economy is not doing so well right now and she respects how minimum wage is at this time being.

Cansigno worked for Cracker Barrel in Arkadelphia and a Country Club in Irving Texas.

She feels that if it is a hard job they should get paid more and if it is not a hard job then their wage should just stay the same.

She mentions that if she were to work in an office she should get a higher wage, but if she were to stay at Cracker Barrel or the Country Club it should stay the same.

“Depending on what kind of jobs people have depends on what they get paid,” Cansigno said.

For most, minimum wage does have its pros and cons, but if it were to go up then everything else will too.

Everyone will always have their own thoughts and opinions about minimum wage.

It will eventually go up as time goes on.

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ISIS GROWTH SURPRISING The Islamic State’s growth caught the US by surprise

BY MCT CAMPUS As Islamic State fighters from Syria blitzed across northern Iraq this summer, they swept thousands of fresh recruits from Iraqi Sunni tribal militias, prisons and insurgent groups into their ranks, nearly tripling the size of their armed force and catching U.S. authorities by surprise, U.S. intelligence officials said Friday.

Dismantling the lethal new alliances in Iraq will be a key focus as the Obama administration scrambles to push back the fast-growing extremist army, which has achieved major military gains, shows sophisticated command and control, and is exceedingly well-funded, the intelligence officials said.

In coming days, the U.S. military “will be more aggressive and shift a focus from what has been, to date, primarily defensive in nature to offensive in nature,” said Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary.

The still-emerging strategy calls for peeling away the Sunni Arab militias with cash payments and other overtures from the still-forming government in Baghdad, including creation of new local defense units in Sunni towns and villages and an increase in U.S. bombing to support Iraqi and Kurdish ground troops.

Airstrikes also will target Islamic State leaders for the first time, the officials said.

The campaign will reprise many of the tactics that helped defang Islamic State’s precursor group, al-Qaida in Iraq, after its deadly car bombs and brutal executions sparked a violent backlash by other Sunni Muslims and led to its decline after 2007 in what was dubbed the Sunni Awakening.

Unlike that now-defunct group, Islamic State effectively controls much of the Tigris-Euphrates basin, an area the size of Britain, with little interference until now.

In addition to freedom of movement, U.S. officials say the heavily armed group takes in as much as $1 million a day from illicit oil sales, smuggling and ransom payments.

“The problem now is that ISIS looks like it is winning,” said a U.S. intelligence official, one of several who asked for anonymity to discuss internal assessments. He was using one of several acronyms for Islamic State.

“We have to change that,” he added.

Islamic State can muster 20,000 to 31,500 fighters across eastern Syria and northwestern

Iraq, according to a new assessment by the CIA, up from an estimated 10,000 earlier this year.

The roster includes an estimated 2,000 foreign fighters, hundreds of them Europeans and about a dozen of them U.S. citizens.

Most of the new fighters are unemployed, disaffected Sunnis who have been battling the Shiite-dominated government in Baghdad for years, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.

Many don’t agree with Islamic State claims to hold religious authority over all Muslims in the world, or its beheadings and crucifixions, but they want to support an alternative to Baghdad’s Shiite-run central government, experts say.

“I don’t see long-term alliances between these organizations,” said Seth Jones, a former U.S. counterterrorism official now with RAND Corp. think tank. “They have different goals. ISIS has a focus on establishing an Islamic state that others don’t have.”

Speaking at a fundraiser Friday in Baltimore, President Barack Obama said he is confident that the U.S. and its allies “are going to able to push them back and ultimately destroy them.”

“Bags of cash to tribes ... can work, but that is a very short-term solution,” he said. “You are not buying the tribes.

You are renting them.”

He said a “silver lining” of the conflict may be a lasting coalition of Arab nations that will “snuff out” this kind of Islamic extremism.

U.S. officials had watched closely as the black-garbed guerrillas overran Sunni-dominated towns in western Anbar province in the spring and as they waved their banners in Abu Ghraib on the outskirts of Baghdad.

But U.S. intelligence agencies were stunned in June when several hundred militants captured Iraq’s second-largest city, Mosul, in only

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AMERICA #1! — An ISIS soldier appears atop a ‘70s era Scud missile in the captured city of Raqqa that serves as the group’s official capital. three days as the city’s supposed defenders, thousands of U.S.-trained Iraqi soldiers, shed their uniforms and weapons and fled.

“Clearly, I think a lot of people were surprised by the speed with which Mosul fell,” said Philip Gordon, Middle East coordinator on Obama’s national security staff. That’s when “an ongoing problem became an acute problem that we had to step in and deal with.”

“The reality is this group ... is not just a terrorist group,” Gordon said. “It’s an army.”

The situation spurred the White House to ramp up manned and unmanned surveillance flights over Iraq.

It also prompted Washington to order military advisers to return to Iraq, the first since the U.S. withdrawal in 2011, to assess the capabilities of the insurgents and the Iraqi army.

Obama announced this week that 475 more military personnel are en route, boosting the U.S. military contingent to about 1,600.

Islamic State has proved to be a surprisingly effective fighting force.

“Its battlefield strategy is complex and adaptive, employing a mix of terrorist operations, hit-and-run tactics and paramilitary assaults to enable the group’s rapid gains,” Matthew Olsen, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said last week at the Brookings Institution.

The collapse of security forces in Mosul prompted Sunni militias and government opponents in towns like Baiji and Tikrit along Iraq’s northern oil corridor to fall in line with the extremists’ hard-line leadership. The

Naqshbandi Army and Islamic Army were among the militias that linked up.

Made up of aggrieved Sunni tribesmen, former members of the Baathist Party once headed by the late dictator Saddam Hussein, and more moderate members of the Sufi Muslim sect, both militias had fought against the American-led occupation and the central government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who stepped down last month.

The successor government, headed by Haider al-Abadi, estimates that Islamic State can field as many as 60,000 fighters, twice the size of the CIA assessment, Hoshyar Zebari, deputy prime minister, said in a telephone interview Friday from Baghdad.

Zebari believes the new Iraqi government can win back the more powerful Sunni Arab tribes in the north and west of the country.

Many Islamic State recruits are from what he called “peripheral tribes,” such as the Hadidi tribe in impoverished villages on the outskirts of Mosul, offshoots of the Jabour tribe south of Mosul, and small tribes around Talafar near the Syrian border.

Douglas A. Ollivant, the National Security Council’s former director for Iraq, said the first job is to stop the fighters’ momentum and to convince tribal leaders that the new government in Baghdad can protect them and bring jobs.

“Bags of cash to tribes ... can work, but that is a very short-term solution,” he said.

“You are not buying the tribes. You are renting them.”

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FROM HACK TO HERO A story about a journey to Nepal changed his heart

BY JEFFERY P. GILMORE Every year Henderson’s freshman class is asked to read a book, as part of the Reddie Read program and attend a lecture on the book by an expert.

Some years the students are as lucky as they were this week, and they got to meet the author of the assigned book.

Most of the assigned books over the years have been on the subject of the human rights in other countries and cultures.

This year was no exception.

The book “Little Princes” follows the tale of author Connor Grennan and his plight to save the “orphans” of the little children’s home in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Grennan was exposed to the plight when he decided to take a year off from school and travel the world.

What could be more fun than taking in some rays on the beaches of the Mediterranean Sea or the Chilean Pacific for a year?

But all of Grennan’s friends kept asking if he was going to volunteer somewhere.

The decision to volunteer came to Grennan not how most of his readers would think.

He was on a date with this girl, and things weren’t going well for him.

When she got up to leave mid date he mentioned his trip.

Her interest was piqued a bit and she sat back down.

“So, what are you going to do?” she asked.

Wanting to keep her at the restaurant, Grennan said, “I’m going to volunteer!”

“Oh! Where?” she asked.

“Nepal?” Grennan said, all while thinking, “What can I do there besides climb mountains?”

“What are you going to volunteer there?” she asked. This girl seemed to never be out of questions.

“I’m going to volunteer at... an orphanage,” Grennan said. “They do have orphanages in Nepal, right?” he thought to himself.

Now, isn’t that the story of how every person gets into volunteerism?

Many people take the plight of the children as the main topic of the book, but as Grennan spoke, in Arkansas Hall on Thursday, Sept. 10, the book began to make a different point.

“If not me, then who?”

This powerful statement was made time and time again that night.

Each time he faced a new opposition to what he was doing, Grennan would think to himself, “If not me, then who?”

What started as a fun trip around the world led to the creation of a man whose heart is for family and service.

“We would hike for days in the mountains in hopes of finding a village that one of our children might have been from,” said Grennan, as he told the students of the early days of Next Generation Nepal (NGN).

NGN was founded to reunite the “orphans” of Nepal that were stolen from their families for profit in the slave trade or adoption trade.

When Grennan started NGN, he thought there might only be dozens of the children.

He never expected there to be over 15,000 “orphaned” children, and possibly the worst part is that the list of “orphans” is never ending, because of the isolated nature of the mountain villages many families haven’t heard the horror stories and keep letting their children get taken away to be sold.

When most people would give up and say “I’ll help these five then I’m done.” Grennan hears the mantra of his heart, “If not me, then who?”

As Grennan told his story, he noticed that many were letting themselves be kept from serving by their own mind and the question of “Are my motives right?”

“It doesn’t matter what your motives are.

The people that you’re helping don’t care if you’re there because daddy made you, or you need something nice on your resume, or if you have a servant’s heart. All they care is that you came. You don’t need a heart for service.

Go! And the service will change your heart for you,” Grennan said as he closed the lecture.

“I read the book for a class last semester,” said Kate Patrick, a senior early childhood education major. “I would love to get out there and volunteer, but it seems like such a brave thing to do to leave home and everything you’re familiar with.”

Kate wasn’t alone many of the Henderson

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DAYS OF OUR LIVES— The children of Nepal changed the heart of Connor Grennan from caring only about his own life and the world immediately around him to changing the lives of an entire nation. student body felt the urge to give back.

“I loved the book. Coming tonight gave more detail,” said Cheyene Eslick, a freshman radiology major. “Because of the book it is now a dream of mine to go to Nepal.”

In addition to the few pictures in the book, Grennan showed dozens of photos of the children in the book.

He used his laser in group photos to bring each child’s story to life.

The passion in his voice was cascading out as he brought each new story to Henderson with more drive than the one before.

“I’m not normally a reader,” said Reynolds Beckham, a freshman aviation major. “It was a great novel and pretty inspiring and coming here and seeing him in person was pretty amazing.

There’s no telling what the future can hold.

Listen to him and how he wasn’t really into it, but then fell in love with it. It’d be nice to do that too.”

Grennan never expected his trip around the world to change the world, but yet it did.

Even though his motives weren’t “pure” lives were changed, families were reunited and hope was given to a country ripped apart by civil war.

He also never expected for his blog to be made into a book, but yet because a publisher thought, “If not me, then who?” thousands

of people each year are informed of societal injustice and prodded to do something about it.

So Henderson, “If not you, then WHO?”

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leadership and management training together with their other academic studies.

Once the cadets have successfully com-

a teacher because she feels like she’s contributing to someone else’s learning.

“She is not only dedicated to helping her students get better at their art and brainstorming their ideas”, Jordan Jones a junior digital art and design major said, “she is also dedicated to being an artist and a designer herself.”

“Maybe it’s just the students teaching me a new way to teach them,” Searles said.

She says that school is all about growing and she enjoys being in an environment where she’s constantly growing.

“She encourages her students to submit artwork for galleries via her facebook and shares different design sites and ideas there” Jones said.

What she loves about graphic design is that it’s everywhere in today’s society. No matter if you’re in a plain room you’ll end up seeing something with a label of a book with a graphic design.

“It’s one of those mediums you can’t get

away from,” Searles said.

One of the many design works that Searles is most proud of is the work in general that she has done for other artists. She said that she loves it because while she’s creating her own graphic design she’s also honoring what they do and getting the word out of what they do. She enjoys working with galleries and their artists.

“Seeing somebody do what they love is amazing because it makes them happy but it makes their work much better,” Searles said.

“I mean we can tell when we look at a painting and it’s done by somebody who really just loves to paint.”

Professors have a lot of influence when it comes to what a student learns and how much fun they make learning.

In the future Searles sees herself building the program at Henderson as well as building her own work. She believes both of those things go hand in hand with one another.

BY MACKENZIE STONE Despite the drastic climate change from Colorado to Arkansas, Hall likes it here so far.

“I like the small town,” Hall said. “The people have been extremely friendly and the colleges have been very welcoming to the program. It’s been a nice community to join.”

For the ROTC program Hall is in charge of teaching the juniors and managing the operations.

Nevertheless, he still interacts with all cadets regardless if they are juniors or not and they only have good things to say about Hall.

“He is very squared away and can give some great advice,” Blake Rouse, senior recreation-leisure services management major, said.

“He has definitely made the ROTC program more organized and we are glad to have him.”

Rouse is not the only one excited for the new addition to the department.

“Captain Hall brings a professional attitude to the program,” Casey Taylor, senior physical education major, said. “He is always working hard and trying to improve the cadets.”

The goal for the ROTC program is to not only recruit cadets but also to provide college students with the opportunity to combine

PICAS TO PROFESSOR Kasten Searles joins Henderson as the digital art professor

BY MONICA RODRIGUEZ The digital art and design program has a new graphic design professor. Kasten Searles, Assistant Professor of Graphic Art and Design joined Henderson last spring.

Searles received her undergrad at the Art Institute in Boston, Mass., at Lesley University and pursued her graduate degree at the University of Dallas.

“I think Henderson has a really charming campus and the students are great,” Searles said.

She wants to teach her students to utilize the time that they have at school.

She’s been working with students from

various backgrounds in art such as graphic design and studio art. She wants the students that she works with to go past what they’re supposed to do into the realm of things that are new.

She wants her students to thrive and to excel their abilities to the highest levels. She wants to help her students to succeed in the real world.

“We all have the ability to do it,” Searles said. “Sometimes you think you’re not talented enough to do something but really that’s not true. It’s about putting in the work.”

Searles said she always wanted to become

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pleted the program and graduated from college, he or she will then become an Army Lieutenant in either the Active Army or the Reserve Components. Captain Hall along with Captain Roezloff and Major Chapel are all here to get the cadets ready for just that.

“Our personal goal is to double the program while we are here,” Hall said. “We are looking to try and coordinate into having our own building for the program where we can have our own autonomy and space for classes.”

Despite the fact that the ROTC program is made up of not just two separate universities but rivals, it does not seem to be a problem within the program.

“The mixture of two colleges really doesn’t matter for us,” Hall said. “You have got red over here and purple over there but as soon as they put their uniforms on they are all green.”

Captain Hall said the main thing anyone who is aspiring to be an army officer should keep in mind is to always be flexible.

“It is a very dynamic world and things change very quickly for us,” Hall said. “The turn around time for an officer is often very short. But as long as you are able to react and not let it get to you, you will be successful.”

If interested in the ROTC program or just want some information stop by the department of military science, which is located on Ouachita’s campus in the Roy and Christine Sturgis Gymnasium building, room 303.

ROTC program gets a whole new instructional staff There is a new face that has joined the Henderson and Ouachita ROTC program.

On July 1st Captain David Hall, military science instructor, made his way to Arkadelphia from Fort Carson, Colo.

Hall was born in Grand Prairie, Texas, and attended college at Texas Tech University where he got a bachelors degree in arts in political science.

However, Hall had already planned on making a career out of the army long before attending college.

“I have a very strong military presence in my family,” Hall said. “But a big reason I joined was for the adventure.”

Hall has been deployed three times so far.

His first deployment was to Mosul, Iraq, from December 2008 through December 2009. His second deployment was shorter than his first and was to Basra, Iraq, from January 2011 through April 2011.

Hall’s most recent deployment was to Kandahar, Afghanistan, from June 2013 through December 2013. Once he returned he was stationed at Fort Carson, Colo., then came to Arkadelphia.

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AT EASE— Captain David Hall, military science instructor, is one of multiple new instructors who have joined the joint OBU-HSU ROTC program on campus within the last year.

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REDDIE FOR THE BIG SCREEN Henderson student goes from Arkansas to Hollywood

BY J. SCOTT MCKINNON Not many students can honestly claim that they spent this past summer being chased by a dinosaur.

Even if they could, they probably weren’t able to go to a movie theater and point themselves out on screen.

For Henderson student Cj Bernard, senior theatre major, both events were just some of the incredible experiences he was able to notch in his belt this year.

Bernard first realized that his life would revolve around acting during his sophomore year at North Pulaski High School, just outside of Little Rock.

His class trip to the Arkansas Repertory Theatre’s production of “Les Misérables” opened Bernard’s eyes to the idea of entertaining people for a living.

Since that trip, he has been in over 20 stage productions and just as many films, ranging from friends with a camera to major studio productions.

Over the past summer, Bernard spent most of his time living in hotel rooms as he travelled from one shooting location to the next.

“I was in Atlanta, Michigan, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Memphis,” Bernard said. “It was absolutely exhausting.”

Bernard will be seen in the upcoming “Jurassic World,” being chased by a dinosaur. He thinks that there was a specific reason why he got the part.

“They put me in these tiny little shorts,” Bernard said. “They just wanted me for my assets.”

He also took part in an open casting call for next summer’s “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.”

He described the event as a “weird cattle herding” event that was very impersonal and slightly uncomfortable.

But, he impressed the casting director so much, he is being considered for a larger featured extra part now.

“Get on Up,” the film based on the life of James Brown and was released in August, was one of Bernard’s favorite experiences.

He was featured six times in the film that filmed in Jackson, Miss.

During filming, he was able to meet and chat with star Chadwick Boseman, comedian Craig Robinson, and actress Octavia Spencer.

Bernard takes pride in making Robinson laugh and Spencer blush.

So far in Bernard’s burgeoning career, the film “Outpost Bravo” stands out as the most memorable experience.

The independent film tells the story of a young man’s journey from his family farm to enlisting in the military and shipping out into combat.

Upon returning home, he struggles with PTSD while trying to reintegrate into his family. It was the first time he was asked to cry on cue, which he said he did flawlessly.

HEARTBEAT OF HENDERSON Radio station regulates student content

BY JACOB LANKFORD Earlier this year Henderson’s very own radio station, KSWH 99.9 FM the Pulse was upgraded from 99.9 to 102.5. Because of the upgrade the station is now able to reach a wider audience and can be picked up on more radios farther outside of the Arkadelphia and Caddo Valley ar-

eas.

The station is operated and run by student workers who are led and instructed by radio and TV adviser Paul Glover.

The station, located in the Garrison Center, runs for 24 hours, seven days a week, with each hour being the host for

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“I really have to pat myself on the back for that one,” Bernard said.

Growing up in a military family, the experience stands out for him because it gave him a chance to understand some of the experiences that his family members have lived through.

His grandfather, father and uncle have all served in the armed forces.

His family recognizes and acknowledges his talent and they are incredibly proud of him. They also constantly worry and stress out about his career plans.

Away from the stage and screen, Bernard says that it’s the little things in life that he enjoys, but he takes pride in being a nerd. For him, it’s all things nerd: anime, books, and especially playing Mario Kart.

Bernard hasn’t always been a Reddie. He began across the ravine at Ouachita before transferring to Henderson last spring. “It’s kinda like ‘Fight Club,’ we don’t talk about OBU,” Bernard said.

Now, he is totally focused on finishing his education.

He is absolutely sure about what he wants to do with his life after college, so he is dedicated to completing his last year at Henderson.

Since this is only his second semester in the Henderson theatre department, he is excited that Claudia Beach, professor of theatre arts, has returned from her sabbatical.

She is the only theatre professor in Arkadelphia that Bernard has not worked with and is looking forward to learning from her this year.

The one project outside of Henderson he remains involved with is a film called “Man Up.” The film tells the story of young black

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a different genre of music. The station plays multiple forms of music ranging from rock, urban, oldies, metal, rap, jazz, indie, holiday and classical. The Pulse also showcases live Henderson sporting events.

“I don’t care for emo, hardcore rap, contemporary country, contemporary Christian, Latin or pop,” Glover said. “I would like to hear more delta blues, Texas swing, music from the roaring twenties and local artists.”

Songs with offensive and obscene lyrics aren’t allowed to be played at KSWH

and the FCC, the Federal Communications Commission, demands that the station, along with all other FCC regulated stations, avoid certain words in general.

Student workers are eventually allowed to bring in their own music after they have been trained.

“It’s my job to bring in new classic rock and alternative rock,” Ashley Bles, junior mass media communications major, said, “I’m trying to bring in more music from local artists so I can introduce more people to the music being played around them.”

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men getting on the right track in life. The production plans to travel to Little Rock, and hopefully Las Vegas, to speak with ex-convicts to teens about making the right choices in their lives.

“There are so many kids on the wrong path and hopefully the film and our conversations can help them turn things around,” Bernard said.

Bernard can be seen performing on campus later this semester in the student directed play “Boys Life.”

The production, directed by Ethan Jones, senior theatre major, will run Nov. 23-24 in Arkansas Hall.

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STREET HARASSMENT Constant harassment causes problems on campus

BY ASHLEY BLES Let’s talk about street harassment.

Maybe it’s a girl you’ve never gotten the courage to talk to, some beauty with long legs she shows off in short shorts. Maybe it’s the cute guy in your class and you’re still getting the hang of your sexuality and don’t know how to flirt yet.

You’re driving by in your car, or they’re across the street from you. It could be noon or midnight.

Maybe you’ve had something to drink and you’re feeling confident. Maybe they’re alone and that makes it seem easier to approach them.

Maybe you don’t know what to say, so you whistle at them instead. Maybe as you’re flying by in your car you shout a quick compliment about their legs, their chest or their pretty face.

Maybe you just were joking. Maybe you just meant to compliment them. Maybe you would take it as a compliment if you were them.

Maybe you don’t realize how unnerving and scary this can be when you’re on the receiving end.

Street harassment is defined by the Virginia nonprofit organization Stop Street Harassment as “unwanted interactions in public spaces between strangers that are motivated by a person’s actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, or gender expression.”

Before SSH’s study, there weren’t many solid statistics done on how common street harassment, also called catcalling, is. It’s usually thought of as the woman in a short skirt and construction workers yelling as she walks by, but it can be so much more than that.

Street harassment is not just limited to yells and verbal harassment, just like it isn’t limited to just women. In a 2,000 person nationwide study conducted by survey firm GfK, it was found that 65 percent of women and 25 percent of men had been harassed.

Of those women, 23 percent had been sexually touched, 20 percent had been followed by a stranger and 9 percent had been forced to perform a sexual act. 57 percent of those surveyed who identify as LGBT said they were verbally harassed and 45 percent said they had been physically aggressively harassed.

September is campus safety awareness month, and it’s time we started being aware of the issue.What one person might see as a harmless compliment could be the other person’s third time in a day being told something sexual by a stranger. What might seem like a joke may be causing emotional trauma, stress or fear in another.

Victims of street harassment may develop depression or even post traumatic stress disorder. They may stop talking to people or

TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY

The Oracle wants to hear both points of view

BY DAX GUILLIAMS

No one agrees on everything. That’s why The Oracle wants to hear each and every side of any view.

If anyone wants to share their view on an opinion story that has been published, they can send it in. Anyone can even share their view on an idea that hasn’t been published.

Make sure your view is between 400 and

600 words and make sure to title it correctly so our staff knows just what your view is on.

Now, this doesn’t mean you can slander or trash the opinions of others just because you don’t agree with them. Keep it professional so people will take you and your ideas seriously.

Before anyone asks, The Oracle does not accept anonymous submissions for any reason. Stand by your opinion by letting people

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feeling safe in public. They may stop going out altogether.

Imagine what that must feel like, to have a complete stranger (or group of strangers) who may or may not be sober follow you.

They ask you for your number, repetitively.

You may be alone and odds are they could overpower you.

Maybe they get upset when you ignore them, maybe they call you a bitch. Maybe they try to grope you and tell you to learn to take a compliment.

Maybe they call you a racial or homophobic slur. Maybe they try to hurt you because you don’t smile when they tell you to.

Maybe we should start treating this like a big deal.Street harassment makes our streets less safe. It makes women, and sometimes men too, feel uncomfortable or even scared for their safety.

It’s not about what someone is wearing or whether or not the person doing the catcalling or worse thinks it’s offensive.

Hold your friends accountable. Try talking to that guy or girl face to face instead of shouting from your car. Try using adjectives other than “sexy.”

Work to make the other person feel comfortable, not intimidated by your presence.

Call out people who you see harassing others. Report them if you see them lay their hand on another person, even if it’s just a “friendly” touch. Back off if the person doesn’t “know how to take a compliment” and learn to take no for an answer.

We have to work together to make our streets safe. We have to start changing this now or it will never get better.

know who you are.

Each side to any story is welcome and the most important thing is to explain why one feels the way they do. Provide as much detail as possible to give any and all explanation over your side.

Whether it’s over current events, “hot-button” issues, movie reviews or whatever, share what you believe.

The best part of having a views section in your local paper is writing your own view on anything one sees fit and someone else writing the opposite opinion so everyone can see both sides of an issue.

Share your views today and let all of Henderson know how you feel.

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FARE THEE WELL, ADG Arkansas Democrat-Gazette loses long-term subscriber

BY DR. MARCK BEGGS At the end of this month, I am unsubscribing to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, which claims to be “Arkansas’ Newspaper.”

What has pushed me over the proverbial edge are the rantings of Paul Greenberg.

I have subscribed to this paper for over two decades, and read both of its earlier, separate entities for much longer.

Unfortunately, since the great newspaper war of 1991 (the year I returned to Arkansas), Walter Hussman and Paul Greenberg have reigned supreme as the “voice” of Arkansas.

Greenberg, to his credit, won the Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing in 1968, writing for another paper (as mentioned several times per week in the ADG).

Clearly, his gift is gone. Yet, inarguably, he is the face and voice of this paper. I have numerous friends and former students who write for this paper and, to that end, I am heart-broken to break up with this newspaper.

The woman who delivers my paper is exceptional in her determination to deliver it under the worse of circumstances: not only through bad weather, but also in spite of the criminally low wages she collects from the ADG. I plan to give her a nice Winter Solstice tip at the end of the year for her troubles.

Nevertheless, Greenberg is a bully and a hypocrite, and he is held accountable to no one.

He has banned the New York Times’ col-

umnist Maureen Dowd’s columns from the ADG because she once used ellipses to alter the meaning of a quote from George W. Bush. In other words, he claims that she lied through omission.

But so does Greenberg on a regular basis.

Every time he partially quotes Hillary Clinton on the topic of Benghazi (“What difference does it make?”) completely out of context, or mentions President Clinton’s impeachment, while ignoring the fact that Clinton was, subsequently, acquitted, he partially lies.

When he referred to a President of the United States as “Slick Willie,” he engaged in juvenile ad hominem attacks that a freshman in college would not be allowed to use without consequence.

Greenberg regularly criticizes the New York Times, while his own paper reprints stories from it on a daily basis. And this is one reason (among several others) why I have begun to question the integrity of the entire newspaper itself.

At least once or twice a year, the managing editor feels compelled to explain to us dumb Arkies that the editorial and news departments are separate and that they never cross over. But for longtime readers of the ADG, that is not precisely clear.

Greenberg regularly rants against the legalization of marijuana (medical or recreational), and the ADG only reprints stories that em-

ANOTHER 3DS TO HIT STORES

Nintendo is upgrading their 3DS XL handheld

BY DAX GUILLIAMS If anyone is interested in getting a 3DS XL, they may want to wait to get one. Nintendo has decided to upgrade their current handheld system, the 3DS XL. Currently titled “New Nintendo 3DS XL,” the handheld system is scheduled to release in Japan on Oct 11 and an international release in 2015. This new version of the 3DS XL will include higher system performance, improved

screen technology and additional stick and button controls.

One of the most notable additions to this version of the 3DS is the inclusion of a righr analog stick and two new shoulder buttons labeled ZL and ZR. With these additions, new control schemes can be used for games both new and old.

Other features also include automatic

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phasize the problems that Colorado has faced since legalizing.

On the other hand, the New York Times ran an exhaustive multi-article investigative report on the topic, and it turns out that Colorado’s decision is working out quite well thus far.

While Arkansas debates building yet another $100 million prison (which will house a number of pot-smokers and dealers, and will, undoubtedly take away money from higher education), Colorado is raking in huge amounts of revenue via taxes and tourism.

Furthermore, drug usage among teenagers in Colorado is down. Yes, you heard that right.

Drug usage among teenagers in Colorado is down. Can the same be said about drug and alcohol use in Arkansas?

Why didn’t the ADG reprint the New York Times series in full? After all, it is a big issue here. In the last presidential election, medicinal marijuana nearly became legal (within less than 2 percent points).

Why doesn’t “Arkansas’ Newspaper” want to provide us with all the information we need to make informed choices?

Here is another small example of the hypocrisy of this paper. Over the summer, it ran an article about the performance group/band Pussy Riot and their protests against President Putin’s inhumane policies in Russia.

Members of Pussy Riot spent years in Siberian prisons for speaking out against Putin; they are serious in their intentions and they were punished for practicing free speech.

Yet the ADG, reprinting an Associated Press story, would not print the name of the band. Instead, they continually referred to them as “a punk band.” When I took jour-

brightness adjustment based on environmental lighting, improved battery life and wireless transfer of media files between the handheld and any PC.Faster download speeds will also be possible because of the inclusion of a more powerful CPU. The new CPU will also allow for improvments in graphics.

An improved web browser built into the system will include video playback support and a content filter that parents can use to make sure their children do not access mature websites.

The New 3DS XL will be slightly larger than previous models of the handheld, but it will have less overall weight.The New 3DS

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BEGGIN’ FOR MERCY — Dr. Beggs expresses his disappointment in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette due to one specific writer. nalism in high school, I learned that the first rule of any article was to include “who, what, when, where, and why.” The ADG took the “who” out of this simple equation.

If you did not know who the band was, you would have no idea what the article was about. Even papers in Utah reprinted the band’s name.

But here is the real kicker. Next to the article, the ADG printed a large picture of the women in Pussy Riot being viciously horsewhipped by Russian Cossacks.

Apparently, a picture is not worth any words. Goodbye, ADG. This consumer has moved on to greener pastures.

XL will still have backwards compatibility, allowing users to play DS, 3DS and downloaded games.

One past game for the Wii, Xenoblade Chronicles, is scheduled to be ported onto the New 3DS XL due to its higher level of possible performance.

Gaming on the 3DS is looking to become even better than the past few years. Whether you own a 3DS or not, the New 3DS XL will be a great purchase for anyone wanting to play portable games.

Nintendo is doing everything they can to dominate in the gaming industry and with the New 3DS XL, they should do just fine.

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BIG SHOES TO FILL Everything is bigger in Texas — Including the expectations of Dallas Hardison

BY TAYLOR DANIELS Behind every great quarterback is someone learning the tricks of the trade along with their own style of playing while waiting for their moment to shine.

Such is the case for Henderson’s football team.

Not everyone can have a mentor like Kevin Rodgers, and that is why Dallas Hardison will be more than ready when it becomes his time to shine on the field.

Hardison had his season debut against Southern Nazarene on Sept. 6 with eight completions, two touch downs, and an interception for 156 yards.

The Reddies beat Southern Nazarene 72-7.

“Honestly, it’s a great learning experience to be able to watch someone like Rodgers who is a runner for the Harlon Hill award,” Hardi-

son, sophomore marketing major, said. “And a potential NFL draft pick is a great honor but it is tough not to play, but that comes with time.”

When Rodgers graduates there will be this anticipation to see another great quarterback come through for the team and the school to help lead the Reddies in their future seasons, and Hardison feels confident.

“I think at first it is going to be tough only because of actual playing time but I know I can do what I need to do. As for being two different quarterbacks we do not quite play the same but I am learning a lot from him and I feel ready especially with the trust of my teammates,” Hardison said.

Being his high schools star quarterback and then coming to college only to learn and develop has been a ride, at first, dreaded and

TEEING OFF Both golf teams began their season including Allyson Harris’ first career hole-in-one

BY MADISON MACNEW The 2014 Reddie golf season is officially underway. With a number of new golfers on the men and women’s team, along with the returners, there is much to look forward to from the golf teams this season.

“I have been impressed early with the level of play from our freshman and transfers. I think they will play big roles into the success of this season,” Forrest Schultz, director of golf said.

The teams practice as much as possible to become better golfers with each day. “We put in a lot of hours on the course each week to get prepared for our tournaments. Golf is a very difficult sport and it takes a lot of practice to see improvement,” Schultz said.

Practices include extensive morning workouts, drills to perfect each player’s short game, hitting on the driving range and playing against each other to prepare for tournaments.

Both teams traveled to Olathe, Kan., to play in a tournament over the weekend of

Sept. 6. On the trip, senior Lady Reddie Allyson Harris had an experience that changed her golfing career.

During the practice round, Harris and a teammate came to the 16th hole and realized that her eight iron was missing.

She sent her coach to retrieve the club and decided to use her nine iron in the meantime.

Without even teeing up her ball, Harris hit the shot that turned out to be not only surprisingly decent, but her first career hole-in-one.

“It was a pretty exciting moment considering many golfers never get the chance to make a hole-in-one and it was definitely a great way to start my senior year at Henderson,” said Harris, a family and consumer science major.

The men’s team will have a total of six tournaments this fall and the women will have five. “We have high expectations every season not only to be the best team in the Great American Conference but to also be competitive at a national level,” Schultz said.

then greatly appreciated.

Some things came easy to Hardison, while others did not.

“The most important thing I needed to learn while I was redshirting was the playbook. To be able to get it down and packed was something amazing because not only do I need to be aware of my job, I had to learn what my offense, defense and both lines were doing as well,” Hardison said.

Being the quarterback is being the eyes on the field. Seeing things others may or may not see while knowing what the team is doing is great communication.

Henderson athletics is known for their football program the most which brings in aspiring athletes from across the country.

“The only difference between high school and college [football teams] is that every year 50 to 60 new guys come in and if they stay we only have five years to develop with each other, but there is always that natural bond being on a team with a bunch of guys who love football,” Hardison said.

High school intensity of game play is not

quite the same as it is on the collegiate levels.

“Tempo, tempo, tempo. The game is extremely faster and the athletes are better along with the guys being much older,” Hardison said. “Being 18 playing with 22-year-olds was intimidating at first, but it gets easier and I am always learning more.”

Being in a high paced environment over time allows Hardison to be able to slow down the game and be able to compete with his oppenents.

A successful team always buys in with trust from their coaches and teammates.

Without trust and respect a team has opportunity to fail no matter who they are.

“Earning the trust and respect of my teammates will be my biggest goal because it creates chemistry and with that in mind everything else will fall into place,” Hardison said.

This week the Reddies won 27-10 over Nicholls and Hardison hopes to get more experience especially to prepare for their first home game and the CBS Sports Network Game of the Week against Southeastern Oklahoma State University on Sept. 18.