9/26/16 Issue

Henderson State University — Monday, September 26, 2016 Volume 111, Issue 6

SERVIN’ IT UP 1-HUNNIT Reddies volunteer throughout town for Reddie to Serve Day P. 4

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YOU GOT SERVED

Reddies and Tigers give back to the community through their coinciding serve days

KAPPA PI ON THE SIDE Honors art fraternity, Kappa Pi, paints up Arkadelphia’s sidewalk drain systems

HE’LL HAVE HIS REVENGE! Dax throws down on Street Fighter V

ALL TEAMS WERE GLORIOUS “Tonight we are victorious!” Reddies football and volleyball take more wins

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Sept. 26, 2016

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REDDIE NEWS

Constitution Day speaker at Garrison Story by Francisco Ochoa, Student Reporter

Last Tuesday the university commemorated the annual Constitution Day with guest speaker attorney Allen LeVar at the Garrison lecture hall.

Allen LeVar is an attorney at law practicing as a personal injury lawyer in Arkansas since 1996, helping innocent people who have been the victims of negligence and misconduct of others. He has also served as a public defender, prosecutor, and a local municipal court judge.

LeVar has been the led attorney in over 53 trials. He is a member of the national trail lawyer’s top 100 and also a member of the American association for justice and the Arkansas trial lawyers association. LeVar has Law offices in three locations across the state in Arkadelphia, Little Rock, and Conway.

LeVar began his speech about his backgrounds, important Supreme Court cases and lead to the Constitution, specifically focused on the sixth and seventh amendments. Handling criminal cases in his career he explained to the audience that the sixth amendment guarantees the rights of criminal defendants including the right to a public trial without delay and the right to an attorney.

He also explained that the seventh amendment is a part of the Bill of Rights and codifies the right to a jury trial in certain civil cases.

Throughout the audience was Sarah Helton, a sophomore engineering and physics major, attended LeVar’s Constitution Day speech for her American National Government class.

“I enjoyed guest speaker Levar’s Speech, it was very helpful and informative to help me better understand the aspects of the sixth and seventh amendments of the constitution.” Helton said.

Another attendee was Alex Lewis, freshman computer science major. “I definitely enjoyed listening to him speak about how important our constitution is and it helped me better understand it from a lawyers point of view,” Lewis said.

Samantha Harris, freshman, was also in the crowd during LeVar’s speech. “LeVar did an outstanding job and got me engaged in his speech. I was very attached on his experiences as a lawyer and the sixth and seventh amendments.” Harris said.

At the end of Levar’s speech numerous students and faculty were interested and asked LeVar questions about his speech discussing the important factors about the amendments of the constitution, Levar’s experiences as a lawyer, and many more.

Henderson State University

Student Activies Board Fall 2016 Events

Date

Time

Friday, September 23 Sunday, September 25 Friday, September 30

7pm

Sunday, October 2 Double Feature Thursday, October 6 Tuesday, Oct 11 Friday, October 14 Sunday, October 16 Friday, October 21 Sunday, October 23 Monday, October 31 Friday, November 4 Sunday, November 6 Wednesday, November 16 Friday, December 2 Sunday, December 4

2pm and 4pm

2pm 6:30pm and 8:30pm

7pm 2pm 7pm 2pm

7pm 2pm 7pm 7pm 2pm

Event The Purge: Election Year (R) The Purge: Election Year (R) Star Trek Beyond (PG-13) Now You See Me 2 (PG-13) Star Trek Beyond (PG-13) Now You See Me 2 (PG-13) Chris Carter Medalist Epiphany The Conjuring 2 (R) The Conjuring 2 (R) Ghostbusters (PG-13) Ghostbusters (PG-13) Henderson Halloween The Secret Life of Pets (PG) The Secret Life of Pets (PG) The Suicide Squad (PG-13) War Dogs (R) War Dogs (R)

Movies are shown in the Garrison Center Lecture Hall and are open to all members of the Henderson Community and families.

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REDDIE NEWS

Reddies serve you volunteer realness Story by Parker Hutson, Student Reporter

Photo by Parker Hutson Reddies gather on the quad Saturday morning

On Sept. 24, 2016, students and faculty of both Henderson and Ouachita Baptist went out into the community to give back to the residents and town who support them. Jobs given to help give back scaled from private jobs, like mowing a lawn for a resident of Arkadelphia, to a bigger scale of adding plants to the side of a highway to add color to the green grass.

Students and faculty of Henderson grouped together at 8 a.m. to have breakfast. After the cheerleaders showed their spirit with a few routines, the groups sectioned off and went to their location they were given to help out the community. Driving from the school to Walmart, one could see numerous groups on the side of the road, picking up trash and potting plants. Stopping at one of these plotting areas, a group of students and a few faculty members were found.

The group was from Ouachita Baptist, and

they spoke of how they felt about their serve day coinciding with that of Henderson’s.

“I think it’s important to get the kids out into the community to help the community that supports them. It gives them a chance to give back and to see how blessed they really are and to not take things for granted,” said Amber Chelette, OBU kinesiology professor. “We need to do more collaborations. It’s our whole community, so bringing the community together is always a good idea.”

Following the kinesiology group was the Humane Society. Arriving at the destination, the students were greeted with two dogs rushing out of the building with two girls close behind them.

While the dogs ran around the girls’ feet, one girl mentioned why she participates in Reddie to Serve Day. “You need to show that you care for your

community,” Katia Hughley, freshman elementary education major, said. “You’re not just in college to learn; you can help out while you learn. Show the community that you care.”

The dogs had big smiles on their faces, and one could see that it’s not only the humans that love Reddie to Serve Day. Seeing that the community was being taken care of, a trip was taken to a residence of a 15 year Arkadelphia resident, Marie Hornecker. Not only did her husband serve as a professor of HSU for 10 years, but she also helped plot plants and do community clean ups before Reddie to Serve was started. A group gathered around one of her husband’s pieces of architecture art, painting it to give it a special touch.

“Oh, it’s great having the kids around. I miss being around the students, so it’s a lot of fun,” Hornecker said. “When Matt was a teacher we would plant trees and do cleanups a lot like this.

Now that they are going beyond the campus and helping out the community is great. Education for service is the newest thing. It’s great on resumes, and volunteering, it’s important.”

Heading back to campus, more groups could be found doing numerous projects. Getting close to campus, a lawn mower could be heard, and it was a Reddie giving back to their fellow town resident.

“It makes Henderson State look really good and who you’re a part of. Like, say you’re part of baseball or cheerleading or other organizations.

People might stereotype a sport as bad, or the people in it, and we (sportsmen) show that’s not true by getting out and helping out people of the community,” Austin Ty Jones, baseball player and freshman criminal justice major, said. “I think it looks good on all of us, all students. I love it. It’s fun.”

It was common that the students enjoyed what they were doing on that Saturday morning. It is seen that it is always good to give back to the community that supports two colleges, and show appreciation for the support.

Sept. 26, 2016

ARTS&MUSIC

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Faculty showcase at RFA Story by Dennis Blackerby, Student Reporter The Matt Locke Ellis College of Arts and Sciences and the department of music, presented their annual Faculty Showcase on Sept. 20.

The Faculty Showcase was started at 7:30 p.m. in Harwood Recital Hall, located in the Russell Fine Arts Building. There were multiple faculty, staff, students, and guests in attendance, as this event was free and open to the public.

The showcase consisted of 10 different performances. Each performance was compiled with different faculty members, instruments, styles, and some even had multiple parts within that one performance.

This year, all of the music performed was from 20th century composers and arrangers. Of those composers, the most commonly known may have been Paul McCartney.

There were a total of 14 faculty members who performed in the showcase. Those names include: May Tsao–Lim, Hee–Kyung Juhn, Amy Laursen, Laura Storm, Algis Staskevicius, Bill Higgins, Todd Cranson, Steve Becraft, KyoungHwa Molinari, Jamie Lipton, Sarah Stankiewicz Dailey, Rick Diamond, Jennifer Amox, Shannon Clardy.

Laura Storm sang for the event, and Hee–Kyung Juhn accompanied her on the piano. They performed the Cantata for Voice and Piano, piece Ride on King Jesus, by John Carter.

Henderson is well known for many things and one of those is the music department. The university takes pride in having the talented student musicians that form “The Show Band of Arkansas.” That proves that our music department not only must have good students, but good educators as well.

The faculty has a huge role in the music department obviously.

However, the faculty usually is the people serving and working behind the curtains, so to speak. The faculty showcase allows the students and school see that those who are educating them and helping them are very talented composer, performers, and musicians.

The faculty put on an excellent performance that showcased modern music from talented performers who are our own teachers.

Although this may be one of the few shows that you will only see faculty, the department of music also offers numerous concerts throughout the fall. For the months of Sept., Oct., and Nov. there is a total of 18 concerts you can attend. These concerts include the HSU Wind Ensemble, the HSU Choirs, the HSU Brass Band, a tuba concert and costume contest near Halloween and various others that are worth attending.

Photo by Dennis Blackerby Dr. Laura Storm was one of many faculty members to perform at the showcase

Kappa Pi adds color to town’s storm drains Story by Lily Franklin, Student Reporter Kappa Pi, the International Art Fraternity, spent their Thursday evening on hands and knees as they worked on two sidewalk paintings. The locations were situated on portions of the sidewalk that sat on storm drains. One can be found on 6th Street and the other on Clinton Street near Dawson Education Cooperative. The plan had been in the works since last semester but had several setbacks.

“It had been up in the air for a while,” Joshua Emery, president of the fraternity, said. “I’m just glad we finally get to do it.”

The designs were created by Joshua Bradley featuring koi fish. A stencil was made of the most intricate portion of the design to help quicken the work on the hot, busy sidewalks. The manhole covers had been primed and the section of the sidewalk had been pressure washed in preparation.

Members of Kappa Pi came to downtown Arkadelphia prepared with paint, trays, cups and brushes to complete their sidewalk pieces. Although they had all their materials together they found they had underestimated how much paint would end up on themselves.

“Yeah, but I think as art majors we kind of accept our clothes are going to get a little dirty,” Natasha Cribbs, senior digital art and design major, admitted.

There are other sidewalk paintings being planned in addition to those done

by Kappa Pi. They are currently expected to be done by mid to late Oct. if everything goes as planned.

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FISTS OF GOD Opinion by Dax Guilliams, Opinion Editor

A common trend among modern fighting games is having “seasons,” which involve releasing downloadable content during a set period before taking a break.

Recently, “Street Fighter V” finished its first season and it was more amazing than I expected it would be.

The new characters that were released along with the story mode made a great fighting game even better and it really impacted the fighting game scene.

For several weeks, players have known who the new characters were going to be due to people data mining the game and finding the characters and because Capcom released the names of the characters earlier.

Each and every character they released were absolutely amazing and were perfect choices for the first wave of DLC characters.

The first character was Alex, the grappler from “Street Fighter III.” Alex more or less played the same way he did in those games, but with massive improvements across the board.

Next was Guile, a fan favorite of the series. I was surprised to see Guile with a new, improved look and an update to his simple, yet effective moveset.

One month after Guile was released, another classic “Street Fighter” character, Balrog, was released.

Balrog was so improved over his past designs that he might as well be considered a completely new character. Balrog has been considered by some players to be a boring character, but this version of Balrog is one of the best fighting game characters ever released.

Capcom improved everything about him from his look to his

OPINIONS moveset and his critical art is so effective. It’s a shame some people are still ignoring him because he is just so well-made.

Ibuki, another character originally from “Street Fighter III,” was came next. I haven’t gotten to use her too much, but she is improved all-around just like the others.

While I haven’t used her much, I do really like her new moves and her critical art looks really cool.

And after Ibuki came the most important character for me. Juri was released a month later and all was well with my world.

Juri is my absolute favorite “Street Fighter” character and she is was made perfect with her changes.

Her new moves are perfect, her new design is perfect and her role in the story mode was all I could ask for and more.

But as much as I love Juri, I still think the most improved character and the character that is worth downloading the most is Urien, the final DLC character.

Urien was released only a few days ago, but based on what I’ve experienced, he is the best character in the game. His moves have been improved to the point of making him godlike and his V-Skill and V-Trigger are possibly the best.

Honestly, if there is one DLC character to get, it’s Urien. As great as Balrog and Juri are, Urien is better. Balrog and Juri may be the king and queen of “Street Fighter V,” but Urien is the god.

Capcom was generous enough to make it where you don’t have to buy the characters with real money. You can instead use the in-game currency to buy them.

Just playing the game for a few hours will earn you enough of the currency to buy most of them and a little more time and effort with the game will get you the others along with some extra stuff.

Along with characters, new

costumes, colors and stages were added as well. There’s not much to say about them. Some are good and some are just average.

The biggest DLC “Street Fighter V” got was the addition of the story mode. The story mode was released a few months ago for free and while it isn’t the best story, it is still very fun to play through.

You get to play as all of the characters, including the villains, and it even let players try some of the DLC characters before they were officially released.

While the story mode does have its fair share of problems, the fact that it’s free and gives you plenty of the in-game currency makes it worth completing.

Plus, it has a really cool ending that fans of the series will enjoy and it does set up a possible second story for the future. The story is worth

it just for the ending, but everything else in the story adds to it.

“Street Fighter V” was a great game when it was first released, but it was lacking in some content. Now that a lot of new content has been added, it is definitely a game worth getting into.

While some people have never been interested in fighting games, “Street Fighter V” is a cut above the rest of the fighting games that have an active community.

While I still think “Street Fighter III: Third Strike” is both the best “Street Fighter” game and the best fighting game in general, this one is still pretty amazing and it deserves its place as the top dog of the fighting game world.

Graphic by Natasha Cribbs

Sept. 26, 2016

GAMES

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Keep your mind sharp and10,your hours FOR RELEASE SEPTEMBER 2016 less numbing puzzle. Answers Los Angeles with Times this Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis in next week’s issue.

ACROSS 1 Object of Canaanite worship 5 Green Goblin portrayer in “Spider-Man” 10 Bolted down 13 Voice from a loft 14 Filing aid 15 Corporate bigwig 16 Put in stitches 17 Enjoy all the seasons 19 “This American Life” host 21 Hapless toon 22 Support providers 23 What some pros often do 24 Groundbreaking invention 25 Unbranded?

26 Relay link 29 Friend of Mozart 30 Army officers: Abbr.

32 “As if!”

33 Longtime CBS head 34 Catchy melody 35 Lon of Cambodia 36 Disguise 37 Swab 38 Doesn’t give up on 40 Former SSR 41 Draws out 42 Great expectation 46 Thunderstruck 47 Right part of a map?

48 Most, with “the” 50 Vocal support 51 Canadian singer Murray 52 School aide 53 Butter from the farm 54 Dead end?

55 Eclipses, to some 56 Totals

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DOWN 1 No-frills 2 Olds compact 3 Doing battle 4 One not likely to succeed 5 Forensic competition 6 Off the mark 7 Boston park, with “The” 8 Address ending 9 It’ll turn your head 10 Unthinking state 11 Game that’s hard to lose 12 It’s a real knockout 15 “You Make Me Feel Like Dancing” singer Leo 18 Gotten up 20 Spanish province or its capital 23 Mobster Lansky 25 Serious blows 26 Place for a bargain 27 Early inhabitant

Last week’s answers Friday’s Puzzle Solved

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28 Game played in whispers 29 Well-to-do types 31 The limit, perhaps 33 Indicates 34 They can also represent pounds 36 Vampire repellent 37 Faces, in slang

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39 Macbeth, vis-àvis Glamis 40 Commuters 41 Mixed dish 42 Great blue wader 43 “Blue __”: 1963 and 1977 hit 44 Starters 45 Takes ten 47 Review 49 “Rattle and __”: U2 album

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SPORTS

Reddies steamroll SWOSU 45-17 Story by Pete Tubbs, Sports Editor The powerhouse team that is the Reddies plowed over Southwestern Oklahoma State University on Saturday with a final score of 45-17. The game, played in Weatherford, Okla., brought the undefeated team to 4 wins for the season.

The game was supposed to kickoff at 6 p.m., but because of weather it was delayed until 8:30 p.m. The first score came rather late in the first quarter, and was in the form of a 31 yard field goal by Houston Ray kick.

The second quarter started off with a 36 yard field goal from SWOSU’s Tyler Peterson, tying the score. Courtney Whitehead made the first touchdown of the game from an 11 yard pass from Andrew Black and a successful Ray. SWOSU did not want to go quietly into that good night, as with a little over two minutes left in the first half they scored a touchdown and a field goal. This brought both of the team’s scores to an equal 10 points.

Not a team to be showed up, the Reddies ended the half with a touchdown coming from a 31 yard pass from Al Lasker to Andrew Black. Adding another point from a Ray field goal, the Reddies went in to the third quarter with 17 points against a point count of 10 for SWOSU. Jeremy Wilson gained the first touchdown in the second half

for the Reddies with eleven minutes left in the third, a Ray kick ensured a wide gap between the teams with the Reddies 24 SWOSU 10.

The next score for the Reddies was gained by a 74 yard interception by Sheldon Watson and another Ray kick. The penultimate quarter was closed with another 7 points put on the board for the away team with a 5 yard run by Robert Thomas and another Ray kick.

Going into the fourth quarter, the scoreboard showed a point count of 38 for Henderson and 10 for SWOSU. The home team attempted a comeback by adding 7 points to their score, but seeing as this was their last point gain, it wasn’t enough to make a difference.

Jeremy Wilson, with 25 seconds left in the game, scored another touchdown which allowed the final Ray kick to bring the final game score to 45 to 17.

Needless to say, this has been an extremely satisfying season for Reddies fans so far, and things are looking to get even better. With a win-loss ratio of 4-0, fans can take worrying about the greatness of their team off of their list of concerns. Next Saturday, the Reddies will play Arkansas Tech University in Russellville. ATU stands with a win-loss ratio of 2-2, and the Reddies look to add a third loss to their record.

Volleyball gets first 3-0 win of season Story by Rebekah Teel, Student Reporter The Reddies volleyball team defeated the University of Arkansas-Monticello Cotton blossoms with 3 sets to 0 on September 20 at Duke Wells Gymnasium.

The Reddies had a nice start by gaining a 5 point lead in the first match. HSU kept up momentum and took the set 25-18.

The second match, however, was a nail biter. HSU was falling behing 18-15 until a few Reddie kills and UAM attack errors propelled the Reddies to the lead 20-19.

“Next, I want to get player of the week.”

The teams went back and forth with points until the teams tied it up 24-24. Freshmen Courtney Bolf had two exciting kills that pushed Henderson to victory 26-24.

Bolf knew during those last few plays that she had to help her teammates out. “I was thinking in my head that if I get set this ball I need to kill it. Not only for myself, but for my team.

The third and final match did not kick off to a great start for the Reddies. The away team trailed UAM which made the Reddies take a timeout. Henderson gained momentum from then on out and would defeat the Blossoms 25-18. This would be the first time since 2012 that HSU would have a 3-0 victory.

Junior Sydney Skelton believed

that the team’s strongest pioint was bing able to make quick changes when needed. “I definitely think we’re strongest at changing rotations,” Skelton said. “If something doesn’t flow well or we’re having trouble in that rotation, we’ll make a quick change to find the easiest way to score.” Skelton had an impressive 19 digs for the night.

Reddies had a total of 43 kills.

Courtney Bolf lead the team with 15 kills while Sharon Tukuaoga had 9. Tukuaoga believes that playing at home is always beneficial because of the environment and the fans.

“I believe that I play better at home,” said Tukuaoga. “I am so used to practicing in the gym and the environment. I also believe that I play better because of the crowd. I definitely love the support from the people who come out and watch us play.”

Sophomore Gabby Ginapp was announced as the GAC top performer in attacks for Tuesday night.

“Getting top attacker for the GAC was a real honor,” said Ginapp. “It made all of the hard work I have put in these past few weeks and during pre-season really worth it.

Next I want to get player of the week.”

Fans can support the women’s volleyball team as they take on Ouachita Baptist for the battle of the ravine on Thursday, Sept. 29 at Duke Wells Gymnasium.