1/23/17 Issue

@HSUORACLE www.hsuoracle.com Henderson State University — Monday, January 23, 2017 Volume 112, Issue 1

COLOR ME OUSSIDE

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THE ORACLE

THE ORACLE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF – Emily R. Bell FACULTY ADVISER – Mike Taylor SPORTS/ONLINE EDITOR – Pete Tubbs OPINIONS EDITOR – Dax Guilliams PHOTO EDITOR – Joshua Bradley GRAPHIC DESIGNER – Natasha Cribbs BUSINESS MANAGER – Kansas Tye

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Have an opinion on an issue or response to what we said? Just want to rant about something for a while? Write us at ORACLE@HSU.EDU. We want to hear what you think. Hell, if it doesn’t suck, we’ll publish it in next week’s issue. Try to keep it between 400 and 600 words. Just like your Tumblr, we ignore anonymous submissions.

COVER Our editor in chief gets the coloring book treatment Graphic adapted from photo of Henderson Halloween by Natasha Cribbs

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EMPTY SEAT: QUADRYON GIPSON Students mourn the loss of their friend after the shooting at Hot Springs Cinema

SMILEY GOODBYES

Professor Patti Miley finished her last semester teaching here, officially retiring just before Christmas

COLOR ME DRAG

Professor Kasten Searles promotes her coloring book project for publication soon, and it’s all dragged out

DAX ON CES

Our opinion editor focuses on the smart phones presented at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show

ORACLE ONLINE Our online format has more stories and full galleries of the latest games, news, and events. Go hsuoracle. com and check out these latest stories:

• What did you hate the most last year? Poll • French classes pulled together to create an art and poetry exhibit last semester • Full list of award-winning theater students • Bitchpolar blogs on how to protest from home, and where to find trustworthy news on social media

COMIC ARTISTS Eager to share your skewed sense of humor with the rest of your peers? Email us your digital comic strips or scanned hardcopies to ORACLE@HSU. EDU. But first, check out our policies for comics online at hsuoracle.com.

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Jan. 23, 2017

REDDIE NEWS

New year begins with the death of student Story by Pete Tubbs, Sports & Online Editor A person’s college years are a time for the young and vibrant to soak up experience and knowledge. It is a time for people to transition from youth to adulthood and have experiences that will be with them forever. It is not, however, a place absent from sadness.

The loss of a student can rock a campus and remind the young that life isn’t something to be taken for granted. Quadryon Gipson, a 20 year old student at Henderson, was shot and killed in Hot Springs on Sunday, Jan. 15.

Gipson, his mother and his three brothers moved from Chicago to Hot Springs in 2007. After attending college, Gipson had wishes of becoming an NBA coach.

The murder was the first recorded for Hot Springs of 2017. It occurred outside of the Hot Springs Mall Cinema just after 9 p.m. Sunday night.

Gipson was taken to Saint Vincent Hospital in a private vehicle, but could not be saved. According to the Hot Springs Police Department, there is a person of interest; however, no arrests have been made.

HSU students were first notified on Saturday morning when Tonya Smith, Executive Editor of Marketing and Communications sent out the following e-mail: “We regret to let you know about last night’s death of one of our students, Quadryon Gipson of Hot Springs. The death is still under investigation by Hot Springs Police.

Our Reddie family is a close-knit one, and we were saddened to learn of our student’s passing. We have been in contact with family to offer our condolences and assistance.

The Henderson State University Student Health and Counseling Center is available for members of the campus community who are in need of counseling or assistance.

While this death remains under investigation, we are unable to share more information. We will update the campus community as we are able.

Thank you for your patience, concern and understanding.”

No information has been released on whether or not there will be a memorial for Gipson at Henderson. If you or anyone you know has any information on the shooting or of those involved, please contact the Hot Springs Police Department at (501) 321-6789.

Gipson loved basketball and had the talent to match.

Photo courtesy of KATV7 online

Gipson’s selfie with his mother and girlfriend.

Photo courtesy of KATV7 online

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REDDIE NEWS

Professor retires after three and a half decades Story and photo by Francisco Ochoa, Student Reporter

Dr. Miley gathers with friends and alumni for a photo at the FCS Open House event in December.

Dr. Patti Miley, a former Reddie and an alumna of Henderson State University has been teaching at Henderson since 1983. This year, the honorable Dr. Patti Miley will retire.

Dr. Miley was a professor in Family and Consumer Sciences department in Proctor Hall and teaches a total of 10 courses including Foods, Introduction to Fashion Merchandising, Fashion Promotion and Merchandising, Meal Management, Clothing Construction, Apparel Quality Analysis, Historic Costume through the 19th Century to Present, Quantitative Fashion Buying, and Professional Image Development.

Dr. Miley received her undergraduate degree in vocational home economics here at Henderson State.

She later pursued her master’s degree in Fashion Merchandising from Louisiana Tech University and later taught for one year at Sam Houston State University, followed by another year at Delta State University before returning to this college.

During Dr. Miley’s tenure at Henderson, she continued her educational aspirations and

completed her doctorate in Fashion Merchandising at Texas Women’s University.

The Family Consumer Science Department had their annual holiday open house on Wednes day, Dec. 7 in Proctor Hall in honor of Dr. Miley and her over 33 years of service.

The open house had a welcoming environment with Christmas decorations and food provided by the FAC students as faculty, students, and former students of Dr. Miley paid tribute to her years of service.

“I would like to thank my coworkers Dr. Phelps, Dr. Horn, and Ms. Whelchel. We make a great team,” Dr. Miley said. “They were the ones who replaced everybody that left me when they all retired. I was here by myself and I was the soul of the department, so they are great people and great coworkers.”

Camille Leary is a former student of Dr. Miley and an alumna of Henderson State. Leary took several of Dr. Miley’s classes while she pursued her degree in Biology.

Leary remembered the most valuable lesson Dr. Miley every taught her. “She told us you learn everything you need to know in kindergarten: share everything, say you’re sorry when you hurt someone’s feelings, learn something new every day, put things back where you found them, don’t take things that don’t belong to you, and clean up your messes.”

Dr. Connie Phelps is the department chair of family consumer science who has known Dr. Miley throughout her career at the school.

“She is one of the most genuine and honest people I have ever met,” Phelps said. “She was my instructor when I went to school here.”

Graduate student creates fundraiser for organizations Summary by Emily R. Bell, Editor in Chief Graduate student of graphic design, Kelly Thomas, put her degree to charitable use last week. The 2015 graduate designed a logo, “Pussies Against Trump,” which she is selling online through RedBubble.com.

Customers can choose from a variety of shirts and hoodies, for any gender, with the colorful logo on the front or back. There are also sticker in assorted sizes.

Thomas receives 20% of the revenue, which she donates to organizations losing their government funding. This month, proceeds go to Planned Parenthood, and NPR and PBS in the future.

Check out her products online at redbubble.com/people/kellythomas325/ works/24932091-ps-against-trump.

Jan. 23, 2017

ARTS&MUSIC

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Sample pictures and early designs layouts for Searles’s coloring book project.

Drag it out Story by Emily Bell, Editor in Chief and Natasha Cribbs, Graphic Designer Assistant professor of graphic art and media design, Kasten Searles, has been on a creative roll lately, which has often received public recognition.

Last semester, Searles held a gallery of recycled, multimedia artwork, led a class to paint a promotional mural for the department, and had her students host their own “pop-up” gallery for just a day.

Now, Searles is looking to get her latest project published.

Searles is working on a coloring book promoting drag queens throughout the South. She first had the idea for this book six years ago when she and her friends would visit the Rose Room in

Dallas, TX. “I was inspired by the performances I saw,” Searles said.

Indeed, Searles hopes to encourage good design and further inspire expression through coloring with her book. “I can think of few subjects more colorful or expressive than drag performers.”

Searles draws the images by hand, with actual professional drag queens from Memphis and Little Rock for reference. However, she hopes to expand her project to other cities and is still looking for more queens to participate.

So far, Rhiannon Cortez, Aubrey Ombre, and Miss Beverly Hills are just a few on the list who have modeled for the coloring book.

Searles’s coloring book is now an official Kickstarter project approximately a week ago. As of Thursday, she already reached $1586 of her $2000 goal. Now the project has over her original goal at $2218 with 82 backers. There are many rewards included when donating to her Kickstarter, including colorable thank-you cards, signed limited edition copies of the coloring book, and custom coloring pages.

The project is “all or nothing” and will remain open for donations until March 7.

To make a donation, go to kickstarter.com/ projects/89059485/make-100-drag-queens-of-thesouth-a-coloring-book.

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OPINIONS

CONSUME! Opinion by Dax Guilliams, Opinion Editor At the beginning of the month, the yearly Consumer Electronics Show took place and some of the biggest names in technology showed off some of their products for the year. All kinds of devices were shown off such as laptops, televisions and smartwatches, even though no one cares about smartwatches.

While so many different products were shown off, a big focus of this year’s CES are some of the new smartphones from major developers.

LG had a lot to show off at the event, including several smartphones such as the LG Stylus 3, the LG G6 and a few smartphones that will be available at a moderate price.

Last year, LG released the LG V20 and it is an absolutely amazing phone. The phones that they showed off at the event look just as promising as the V20 did when it was nearing release.

In a huge surprise to everyone, a new Blackberry was announced at CES.

The Blackberry Mercury was shown off at the event and while I don’t really care for Blackberry phones, the Mercury is easily the best looking and best performing one. It’s nice to see that Blackberry could potentially make a comeback.

Last year, Huawei made a huge impact on the smartphone industry and they might do so again this year. The company revealed the Huawei Honor Magic, which is unfortunately only available in China so far, and the Huawei Mate 9 which will be available in the US along with Amazon’s AI, Alexa, installed into it.

Huawei is a great smartphone developer and I think they’re going to get even better. It’s just a shame that most of their phones aren’t available in the US. Based on what was shown at CES, smartphone enthusiasts have a lot to look forward to. There were plenty of other smartphones shown off which you can read about online. As a smartphone lover, I’m looking forward to the rest of the year.

Jan. 23, 2017

GAMES

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SPORTS

Back to basic-ball Story by Pete Tubbs, Sports Editor

Christmas break was, for some students, a great time to spend with their family and friends. For other students, it acted as a much too long hiatus in between basketball games.

The Reddies women’s basketball team has been fighting hard so far this season. Overall, the team stands with a win-loss record of 7-10.

The Southwest Baptist Classic, played in Bolivar, Mo., yielded negative results. The women played two games and came out with two losses against Southwest Baptist and Northwest Missouri State, respectively.

The next two games, played at home from Nov. 17 to Nov. 19, yielded much more satisfactory returns. The team defeated Southern Nazarene and Oklahoma Baptist with at least 15 points separating the teams in both accounts.

A pattern seemingly developed with the next four games, however. Mississippi College and the University of Arkansas Fort Smith both defeated the team on Nov. 22 and Nov. 26, respectively.

Just as before, the next two games displayed the Reddies’ resistance to further loss with two wins against East Central and Southeastern Oklahoma State.

These triumphs, however, became the much needed sunlight before darkness fell once more over the team with their next three games.

Rogers State, Texas A&M and Southwestern Oklahoma State defeated the women consecutively. Although the team was down, they never stop facing adversity with a smile and a clenched fist. They won their next two games against Northwestern Oklahoma State and SAU. The University of Arkansas at Monticello defeated the team by a mere two points on Jan. 14. The women returned with a vengeance on Martin Luther King Jr. day and beat their rivals, OBU, with a tight score of 75-74.

Although the team has lost their last two games, against ATU and Harding, there is little doubt in fans minds that they can return to form and come out on top. Their next game is this Thursday at 5:30 in Shawnee, Okla. against Oklahoma Baptist.

The men’s basketball team has faired a bit better in the late fall and early winter months. Their win-loss record stands at a nifty 11-6.

The men’s first game, against Arkansas State University, was lost at a score of 71-49. On Nov. 11, the Reddies won against Minot State.

The University of Nebraska proved to be a difficult challenge, as they defeated the men with nearly 20 points. The men wouldn’t take no for an answer, however, and won their next three games against Southern Nazarene, Oklahoma Baptist and Baptist Bible College.

On Dec. 1, East Central narrowly defeated the team with a score of 76-71.

The men then decided to ride another hot streak and won their next three games, two of them with surpluses of over 30 points. Southeastern Oklahoma State, Dallas Christian College and Ecclesia College all fell to the Reddies.

Southeast Missouri State proved too much for the men, but this was just a bump in the road before yet another big streak. Paul Quinn College, Southwestern Oklahoma State, Northwestern Oklahoma State and SAU all were defeated by the team from Dec. 31 to Jan. 12. The men would need these wins to comfort them through the next four games, however. UAM, OBU, ATU and Harding all defeated the Reddies from Jan. 14 to Jan. 21.

Head Coach Jimmy Elgas had a few comments on how the season has been and how it will be in the future, “We... are currently going thru a difficult stretch.

We... are confident that we will keep improving and put ourselves in position to be playing our best basketball during the month of February.”

Although the men haven’t won their last several games, fans can look forward to another potential winning streak with their next four or more. Their next game is in Shawnee, Okla. at 7:30 against Oklahoma Baptist University.