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Henderson State University - Tuesday, November 15, 2016 Volume 111, Issue 12

HALFTIME HEROES

The Tigers shredded our cover last week, and our team on Saturday... At least Showband pulled through. P. 8

THE ORACLE

THE ORACLE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF – Emily R. Bell FACULTY ADVISER – Mike Taylor NEWS EDITOR – Ashley Smith SPORTS/ONLINE EDITOR – Pete Tubbs OPINIONS EDITOR – Dax Guilliams PAGE DESIGNER – Angela Yang PHOTO EDITOR – Joshua Bradley STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER – Kristine Moore GRAPHIC DESIGNER – Natasha Cribbs BUSINESS MANAGER – Kansas Tye

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COVER Members of showband on the field for halftime during Saturday’s Battle of the Ravine.

Photo by Scott McKinnon

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RIDGE POINTE ROBBERY Our student reporter and editor in chief dig a little deeper into the events surrounding last week’s aggravated robbery

TIGER-STRIPED CAMO

One of our student reporters goes undercover as an OBU student during BOTR week to get the skinny on how they really feel about us

FRACTIONS OF SEARLES Professor Kasten Searles’ beautiful, meticulously designed show opens at RFA gallery

FOODIE NETWORK

Dax’s expresses his undying love for Guy Fieri, and how it all takes a dark turn when Bobby Flay appears

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Nov. 15, 2016

REDDIE NEWS

Students arrested for last Sunday’s robbery.

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Ridge Pointe robbery Story by E’lyse Thaxton, Student Reporter Excerpt from Sunday night’s original story by Emily Bell, Editor in Chief Aggravated robbery with a firearm struck at Ridge Pointe last Sunday, one resident and student targeted.

That same day, an email warning was sent out to students. Tonya Smith, executive director of the office of marketing and communications, told students a report was made to the Arkadelphia Police Department around 3:30 p.m.

The report was made by a student residing at Ridge Pointe building five, apartments owned

by Henderson.

“A student reported to the Arkadelphia Police Department that he answered a knock at his door of his apartment at Ridge Pointe Apartments to 3-4 males who then forcibly entered his residence, produced a firearm and then took his phone and other property. The suspects are described as black males,” read the email.

The males stole the student’s phone, wallet and PlayStation 4. The student described all of the males as black.

An anonymous source seemed confident the incident was over a possible marijuana deal, but nothing has been confirmed yet.

On Monday, Smith sent out another email, this time a campus notification update. In the

new email, she said that as of 12:25 p.m. that afternoon the Campus police reported all four of the suspects of the robbery were in custody and being held for questioning in Clark County Jail.

The four males were all freshmen, identified by the Clark County’s Sheriff ’s office’s online database as Drekerious Warren, finance major, Zachary McGhee, health and human performance major, Kameron Dolford, criminal justice major, and Joshua Broadway, aviation major. The intruders were carrying a firearm, but didn’t fire any shots.

Students in Huie Library may have witnessed the reported victim reaching out to a friend on the second floor of the Library, directly after the incident. The students identified the victim as Hagen Tucker, sophomore finance major.

“The guy was out of breath, clearly scared for his life,” said Dustin Lagaly, senior music composition major. Lagaly was one of the witnesses to the conversation between the possible victim and friend.

Lagaly was the closest student to the conversation, but still only heard bits and pieces. He said the most striking portions of the conversation were, “They came back, all of them,” “with a

gun,” and “they said if I call cops, they’ll kill me.”

After overhearing the conversation, Lagaly reported what he heard to the campus police.

Langaly was met by Charles Dickerson, public safety officer of university police.

Dickerson went to check out the library before taking the student’s statement. Dickerson heard statements similar to Langaly’s from other students still studying where the conversation took place.

It is possible the event at Huie Library, following shortly after the reported armed robbery described in the campus notification email, may be linked to the incident and involve the same student.

A fellow resident of Ridge Pointe apartments reported they saw Tucker packing his things and moving out of his apartment.

The four were suspects were arrested for aggravated robbery, but as of Friday no criminal charges have been officially made, said Blake Watson, Clark County prosecutor.

Warren, McGhee, Dolford and Broadway have been released on bonds and will appear in court on Dec. 13.

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REDDIE NEWS

Tiger for a night: Reddie goes undercover at OBU Story by Parker Hutson, Student Reporter OBU tends to keep to themselves more often, but that’s just me.” Brandon Matros, freshman business finance major, said.

“Henderson is worse in the rivalry, we (OBU) are more sophisticated kids over here.

They (HSU) don’t want any of this. We’re smarter, we’re tougher, and they don’t want any of this…. We pay to be better.” Alex Pollock, junior sports management major, said.

“Henderson is definitely worse in the rivalry. We (OBU) are classier than they are, so, they’re way worse.” Austin Dixon, freshman quarterback and business major, said.

Starting to feel like I was really Cinderella, disguised with so many “sophisticated” people around me, I had to wonder what else they thought of Henderson, like how the game might go.

Graphic by Natasha Cribbs, graphic designer Instead of going to a ball and dancing with a prince for one night like Cinderella did, I decided to take a more adventurous route and dance with the enemy.

Dressing up in purple as my camouflage, I headed over to the OBU campus and watched over the tiger statue with the students of OBU. Many HSU students were there, but were grouped together most of the time.

Blending in with the rest of the purple dressed crowd, I had people chat with me openly about the rivalry, and were even okay with getting in an interview after being told it would go in the “paper.” Little did they know it was the rival’s newspaper.

From these interviews, one can tell what some of the OBU students really thought of Henderson during Battle of the Ravine.

“I think Henderson gets more heated….

“We’re smarter, we’re tougher, and they don’t want any of this…. We pay to be better.”

—Alex Pollock “I’m probably not going to sleep for the next two nights, I’m so ready for this game,” Zack Kelley, freshman receiver and engineering major, said.

“OBU is going to win the game without a doubt. I’m predicting 49-14, OBU,” Dixon said.

“We’ve both had our ups and downs this year, but I think that OBU will pull it off.…I don’t know about a landslide, but I like to keep my hopes up. I room with all football players, so I know them pretty well, so Henderson better bring their A-game,” Pollock said.

Seeing how the enemy sees HSU and what

they were willing to say, even in an interview, it was a new look on the rivalry and I couldn’t help but laugh at times during the interview along with the interviewees.

Though I was there to get the dirt on Henderson, I couldn’t help but enjoy myself to a game of volleyball and chat with groups of students.

“Henderson is definitely worse in the rivalry. We are classier than they are, so, they’re way worse.”

—Austin Dixon At one point in the night, people were even passing around hot cocoa to people to stay warm, which was very kind of them to do. It seems that the guarding of the tiger is not just a small gathering of students, but a student party that takes up the whole lawn around the tiger with music, tents, hammocks, s’more setups, volleyball, and a tent with Mario Kart in it with couches and groups of people dancing together.

Walking back to my dorm exhausted, I thought about the night that had just unraveled. Though OBU are our rivals and had some nasty things to say about HSU, maybe we should start our own tradition of having a student party to guard the Centurium on the south lawn like OBU does with the tiger.

Nov. 15, 2016

ARTS&MUSIC

Searles’ untitled piece was created using watercolors, ink, and acryllic.

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FOR STUDENTS, BY STUDENTS: Searles’ illustration class is working on a mural with a message in RFA. Soon, it will be finished and provide a beautiful addition to the building.

Pieces of fractions: professor’s show opens in RFA Story and photos by Lily Franklin, Student Reporter The Reynolds Fine Art gallery welcomed one of its own as Kasten Searles, assistant professor of graphic art and media design, opened her show, “Fractions,” to the public on Nov. 8. The opening reception at noon that day allowed attendees to talk to the artist as they viewed the show. It will stay in the RFA gallery where it is open to all students and visitors on campus until Dec. 8.

Searles’ show focused around repeating and reflecting the same or similar imagers in the different pieces. She said she had formed them without a main concept in her artist statement, but also described many of the inspirations were natural. Bird’s nests and leaves feature heavily, as well as spiraling bed sheets and fabric that give the geometric patterns an organic feeling.

The details and complexities of the works impressed those who saw it. Some of the larger works, she described as being on stretched bed sheets, and others she stitched and cut meticulously together. “I made all these in about a year to a

year and a half,” Searles said. “I just kind of locked myself in my room and made art.”

The show featured many different approaches with similar mediums and themes. One particular work was a large circular piece, Untitled, described as acrylics on debris. Old tossed sketches, paper grocery bags and milk carton labels, among other things, made up the base for the acrylics above and the materials often peeked through. These materials aren’t noticed until inspecting it up close, which gallery viewers did after reading the peculiar description.

Her work featured quite a few stretched cotton canvases. One canvas seems to faintly be divided up into squares. “It’s actually quilted,” Searles said.

“If you look at the back, you’d see all the seams are sticking out.” She jokingly said that maybe she should say it’s reversible as the back stitching itself was interesting enough.

Searles’ work also displays circles heavily repeated, and she had framed several of her works

with circular mat boards. Students who attended, showed interested in the technical aspect of the process as the production room in RFA doesn’t have the equipment to cut circle mats.

Despite the care and effort in their creation, all of the art pieces in the show are untitled. “I feel like when I title things, it puts too much into the mind of the viewer,” Searles stated. She wanted to keep the viewers’ mind open to their own interpretations because of the show’s similarity in theme as a whole. There was also a more personal choice in the lack of a title as well, as she described getting tired of her titles too soon or wanting to change them too often.

Searles has an online portfolio which features much of her previous art, as well as videos of her previous installments and events. This includes painting and installment work, with a wide variety of materials and visual themed projects like “Paint Me” that takes a person’s social media presence and condenses it into an image.

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Opinion by Dax Guilliams, Opinion Editor I have a very strong love/hate relationship with the Food Network.

Over the past couple of years, I’ve seen a lot the network has to offer and it has made me feel many emotions, especially rage.

The Food Network is not something I say that I enjoy. There are a few shows on there that I like along with a few hosts that I think are en-

OPINIONS tertaining, but I just can’t stand most of the contestants.

I have no evidence to support this, but I think the better you are as a cook, the worse your sense of humor becomes. Almost none of the competitors who are on shows like “Chopped” or any of the baking competitions can tell a decent joke or make a pun worth something.

For one of those baking competitions, the bakers had to make a cake with nuts in it and everyone made puns using the word “nut,” but they were all awful. How do you take a

word like “nut” and be unable to make a funny pun? That’s the easiest word to make a pun with.

Thankfully, a lot of the hosts on Food Network make the shows watchable.

One of the main reasons I watch “Chopped” is because Ted Allen is such a wonderful person.

My absolute favorite show on the channel easily goes to “Cutthroat Kitchen.” If I’m gonna watch a bunch of unfunny cooks compete, then they might as well stab each other in the back for my amusement.

Now if they literally stabbed each other in the back, they would be even better. That would certainly make things interesting.

Another reason I enjoy the show so much is that the host, Alton Brown, is a pretty entertaining guy who can actually make a decent pun.

My Editor-In-Chief might have a strong distaste for him, but she’s not writing this article.

And, of course, I have to give respect to my main man, Guy Fieri.

Sure, a lot of people hate on Guy for the way he looks and dresses, and I did too in the past, but he’s a very good host and a good person.

Granted, Guy has an unusual taste in shirts and hairstyles, but he’s a really nice guy and I think he’s the best host on the Food Network.

Plus, who can hate a man that loves pizza as much as he does? No one, that’s who.

In a surprise to even myself, watching Guy Fieri drive to random parts of the country to eat at lesser known restaurants is very enjoyable.

The show that originally got me into the Food Network and watching cooks compete was “Iron Chef America,” which is on the Food Network because “Iron Chef Japan” is way too intense for American audiences.

I love it because it’s such a wellmade cooking show, but I also hate it because it introduced Bobby Flay

into my life.

Bobby Flay is, without a doubt, my most hated chef and host for any show. One of the only things left in this world that brings me joy is watching him lose.

The whole reason I watch “Beat Bobby Flay” is to see him lose and imagine that he goes backstage to cry.

I don’t know if I hate Bobby Flay because of how he behaves or because his face reminds me of the second circle of hell.

In probably the most appropriate casting known to man, Flay is also the host of “Worst Cooks in America.” It’s appropriate because Flay is the worst cook in America.

That’s right, I’m calling you out, Flay. I’m officially putting Bobby Flay on blast.

Of course, Bobby Flay is neither going to answer my call out or even read this article because he has a lot more important stuff on his plate.

Get it? Plate? Because he’s a chef ?

Now that’s how you make a pun.

Look, all I’m saying is that Robert Flavor is no friend of mine. Also, I like calling him Robert Flavor because it sounds funny.

But even with my undying rage towards Flay, I still like watching the shows he’s involved with. Maybe he’s not so bad after all.

Actually, no, he is. He beat Iron Chef Morimoto on an episode of “Iron Chef America” and I still refuse to accept it.

There are plenty of other shows on the Food Network that are entertaining along with those. Overall, the entire network is something I like to sit down and watch no matter what’s on.

Sometimes I’ll even put it on and not watch the show that’s on. It makes for some good background noise to whatever I’m doing. Oddly enough, the other thing I end up doing is never related to cooking.

Maybe one day I’ll actually learn to cook something from it.

Nov. 15, 2016

GAMES

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Keep your mind sharp and17,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 Studio department 8 Fills with mortar, as tile 14 Invite 15 Traditional slow cooker 16 1963 Best Actor 17 ’70s-’80s sitcom roommate 18 “By all means!”

19 Central California county 20 Contract details 21 Slips on 22 Put down 23 Latin I word 24 Pen output 25 __ warning 26 Formulation in Newton’s “Principia” 30 Jokingly 31 “Coming Out of the Dark” singer 35 Height is an exception to it 37 Stylish beach resorts 40 Sanctuary part 41 Eponymous 2001 album 42 MBA subject 43 Part of a name on the 1989 album “Dr. Feelgood” 44 Congo jungle denizen 46 Sprint and others 48 Ice cream baron William 49 NSA home 50 “You had your chance!”

51 Certain permit holder 52 Pitching pro?

53 Mahmoud’s PLO predecessor 54 Lose freshness

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DOWN 1 First person indicator 2 Without dissent 3 Rundown areas 4 Revered emblem 5 Brown is one of them 6 Triage basis 7 Lab warning 8 First, second and third 9 Norah’s dad 10 Like solitaire 11 Hue and cry 12 Uvula neighbor 13 Regular 15 “Paradise Lost” style 19 Bart Simpson’s grandma 21 One whose business is growing 24 No gentle giant 25 Novel ending 27 First book of the Great Plains trilogy 28 Key chain attachments

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29 “Say no more” 32 Roller coaster named for a mountain 33 Like some storage shelves 34 Wetsuit material 36 Sonata, e.g.

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SPORTS

Losing the battle

Winning the war

Story by Pete Tubbs, Sports Editor

Story by Rebekah Teel, Student Reporter

The eleventh game of the season turned out to be a bust, albeit a close one. The ninetieth famed Battle of the Ravine occurred last Saturday, and the score did not come out good for the Reddies as the final count displayed on the scoreboard showed 30-27.

The packed game began with intense hype and crowd participation.

The weather was perfect and the pergame tailgate prepared many Reddies students for the game of the season.

The first quarter briskly rushed by, and there wasn’t a score to be seen until about 12 minutes into the game. Courtney Whitehead received a 24 yard pass from Andrew Black for a touchdown and Houston Ray, of course, kicked a successful field goal for the Reddies first score against Ouachita Baptist University.

OBU put forth the first score of the second quarter with a 31 yard run from Drew Harris for a touchdown. Cole Antley kicked a field goal to tie the board at 7-7.

The Reddies quickly followed their opposing team’s score with Jaquan Cole taking the ball 4 yards for a touchdown, and Ray added a point. At this time in the game, the odds seemed to be in the Reddies corner, and fans showed their optimistic hope throughout the remainder of the quarter.

Ouachita’s La’Darius McElroy ended the quarter with a touchdown run in the form of a 20 yard pass from Lucas Reed. Cole Antley added insult to injury and tied the score up once more with a field goal.

At the end of the second quarter,

the score was 14-14.

After a spectacular showing from both of the school’s bands in a halftime that included tunes from “Star Trek,” “Star Wars,” and a bravura performance of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” OBU made the first score of the second half with a 4 yard safety by Demetric Jennings.

Ouachita’s Logan Morris completed a pass to Reed for a run and a touchdown to further add pointage against the Reddies with a little over fifty seconds left in the third.

Evan Lassiter attempted to curve the score back to the home team’s favor with a run for a touchdown, but with a rare failed Ray kick, things did not look good for the Reddies.

OBU’s Antlley acheived a 40 yard long field goal, which brought the score to 30-20. A 33 yard long pass from Lassiter to Cole for a touchdown and a successful Ray kick brought hope to the home team, but with no further scores after this one, the game ended with a score of OBU 30, Reddies 27.

This was a harsh loss for the Reddies. The team was hoping to be the winner for the second year in a row, but OBU is now the two year champion of the historic match-up.

Perhaps next year will bode better for the Reddie spirit. As for this year, the final regular season count stands at 8-3.

The Reddies still lead the overall Battle of the Ravine record, however, with 43 against OBU’s 41 and 6 ties.

The Reddies volleyball team had a successful last home game defeating Southern Arkansas 3-1 on Nov. 10 at Duke Wells Gymnasium.

Since it was the last home game of the regular season, the team celebrated senior night. The team had two seniors to celebrate, Jessie Jacoby and Leila Whaley.

Jacoby has enjoyed all the opportunities that playing volleyball at HSU has brought her. “The best part about playing for Henderson the past four years has been the opportunities I have been given to reach so many people,” said Jacoby.

“I’ve built some great relationships through and around the program.”

Leila Whaley is from Elverta, California and transferred from American River College. She has 57 kills and 101 digs her senior season.

Whaley’s teammates gave her some of her favorite moments this season.

“My favorite moment was when I was going through a tough time at the beginning of the season, barely knew my teammates, and they all came and helped me and cheered me up,” said Whaley. “Teammates like that are what make this support amazing.”

Henderson had an upsetting loss at SAU earlier this season, so once the senior night festivities ended the redemption game began.

The first match was an easy 2515 victory for the Reddies. The Muleriders and Reddies would tie the game a few times at the beginning of the match, but it would be HSU who strung together a few

points that SAU could not come back from.

Match two would prove to be a tougher fight between both teams.

HSU and SAU would tie the match 24-24. The Muleriders fought to the end and took the match 27-25. With the Mulerider’s victory, the score was tied at 1.

The Reddies took a quick lead in match three with a score of 17-8.

Southern Arkansas would not get much closer than that. Henderson had a dominating victory, outscoring Southern Arkansas 25-14. The Reddies would take back the overall lead 2-1.

The fourth and final match would be another close game between the teams. The score was tied at 9 when the Reddies started to take the lead.

The Muleriders were not going to go down without a fight. SAU would cut the lead to one, 18-17. Henderson and Southern Arkansas would go neck and neck until Henderson would finish it off 25-23. This would allow for the Reddies to get the redemption win, 3-1.

The top performers for the night were Freshman Kamra Jackson who had 19 kills, Freshman Haley Higgins who had four service aces and 31 assists, Sophomore Gabby Ginapp who had six blocks, and Junior Sydney Skelton who had a game-high of 23 digs.

For the first time ever, the Reddies will be heading to Hot Springs, Arkansas to compete in the Great American Conference Tournament on Nov. 17-19.