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Series of events set for Hispanic Heritage Month KRISTEN STUCK UP MANAGING EDITOR @kristenstuck Hispanic groups on campus are holding a series of events through Oct. 15 to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month.

“One big event that we are going to be doing for the whole series will be our conversations,” Cynthia Parra, assistant director of student development and leadership, said. “It’s a panel discussion.”

The Education Initiative Association will hold a mixer, Oct. 8, and will also hold an event helping international students renew their deferred action for childhood arrivals, or DACA. “They are holding the DACA renewal affair here on Sept. 27,” Shelby Murphy, student director of multicultural programming, said. “They will be here all day, and basically, EIA members

will be volunteering and helping people renew their DACA status — helping with the paperwork and processing it.”

EIA will bring in lawyers for free to advise students and to help them with the paper work involved in renewing their DACA status.

“Last year, they processed about 35 students, so this year, they hope to exceed that,” Parra said. “Basically, they are just here to assist students so that they can come to school.”

The DACA status for a student allows them temporary status in the U.S. so they are able to get a job and go to school, Murphy said.

“DACA status doesn’t give you anything.” Parra said. “It just says you can go to school here and get a job.

“Faith. It’s a lot of faith. If you’re coming here illegally, at any point you can be detained. I guess you live like that every day. Depending on the immi-

gration officer, they can choose to not accept your status and lock you up anyways and send you back. That’s what a number of our students — whether they are international students or Latino students — have to deal with every day.”

Latinos at Lamar have only 12 percent representation and there are only five predominantly Latino groups on campus, Parra said.

“It has grown two percent in the last year, which says that these groups are actually doing some peer mentoring and helping each other with filling out their DACA status,” she said. “There are different rules for getting into school if you are not a citizen. (The groups) are very involved in helping their peers come to higher education.”

Jesus “Chuy” Negrete will speak in the Science Auditorium at 7 p.m., Oct. 1.

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AT YOUR SERVICE SGA President ready to lend a helping hand

Lamar will host its first “Thank a Donor Day,” 11 a.m.-6 p.m., today, in front of the Brooks-Shivers Dining hall.

“Thank a Donor Day” was created to educate students on the importance of the donations that the university receives.

The event will include music, fun, games and a scavenger hunt.

All students attending the event will receive a free T-shirt.

Students will also have the opportunity to write thank you notes to Lamar University’s donors.

CAROLYN KONDOS UP CONTRIBUTOR “I’m not in this position just to have the position,” Sabrina Lewis says.

Whether handing out T-shirts or cutting cake at events, the new Student Government president says she will be there to lend a helping hand to students.

A double major in sociology and political science, Lewis says she aspires to be President of the United States.

“This experience is really like a mock,” she says.

“It’s good practice with politics and dealing with people. You learn that not all answers are black and white.

Until you are in that seat, it’s completely different when making a decision. You have to think about the people.”

The Wichita Falls native says that part of her plan as president is to enable students to be more involved in the workings of the university and SGA. “I do believe there will come a time that every student will need to know something that the president or vice president may not know, but you need to know how to get those answers yourself,” she said. “That is why I try my best to bring the administration to meetings. When students feel that they are being heard, they are more likely to voice their concerns.”

Lewis says she will also look at ways to make student life on campus more appealing in order to retain students.

As a freshman, Lewis says she was quiet and reserved, until a friend “dragged” her to a pageant.

“I would go to the dining hall to eat, and then go to the library — it was my home away from home,” she says. “(But) in that pageant, you had to give information about yourself, and one of those questions asked about your career path. It got me to thinking about what I wanted to be. I had to write a speech, and I figured out that I wanted to be President of the United States one day.”

Her pageant ‘uncle’ was Quentin Jiles, a former SGA president.

“He brought out a different side of me that I had never seen before,” she says. “He remembered me when someone asked about an internship, and from that point I got involved with SGA. I became a class senator, then supreme court justice. I also ran for vice president, and then president.”

Lewis says her mother is her inspiration.

“She has nine kids, and she has been through a lot of things,” Lewis says. “Somehow, some way, she still manages to be a mom — even if not right away, she still manages.”

Her mother has worked as the first cook for the See SGA, page 5

‘Thank a Donor Day’ festivities to begin at 11 a.m., today

Deaf Comedian to Perform at Lamar, Sept. 27 LANE FORTENBERRY UP CONTRIBUTOR

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Student Government Association President Sabrina Lewis and her brother, freshman Chris Lewis, walk across the bridge at the John Gray Center, Sept. 15. When she is not serving the students of Lamar, she relaxes by spending time with her dogs, King Jay Jay and Precious.

Deaf comedian C.J. Jones has performed on thousands of stages across the world. And now he’s adding Lamar to his list.

Jones will perform in the Science Auditorium at 7 p.m., Sept. 27. Tickets are free and the event is open to the public.

“The story of how I became deaf is a story I share on stage,” he said in a video relay service interview. “I don’t want to spoil it for the people who are attending my performance because it’s all part of the act.”

Jones love for acting and performing came to him at a young age, he said.

“I started acting at 5-years-old,” he said. “I used to watch my brother act and it was pretty inspiring. When I was born I always loved being on stage. It’s my passion. I absolutely love making people laugh.”

He attended Rochester Institute of Technology and graduated with a business degree. However, he decided to take a different career path.

“I don’t really enjoy working 8-5 shifts,” he said, laughing. “The real reason I didn’t fully purSee COMEDIAN, page 8

Homecoming planning underway for Nov. 1 CAROLYN KONDOS UP CONTRIBUTOR This year’s Lamar University Homecoming theme is “Rise of the Red.” The event begins Oct. 27 and ends with the football game against Houston Baptist, Nov. 1.

The week leading up to the game will feature a variety of events under the title, “Nightmare on Red Street.”

“Everyone on campus is really enthusiastic about this project and has gotten on board to help,” Courtney Horton, assistant to LU

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President Evans, said. Horton is helping organize the Homecoming parade.

“When our committee began making plans, we were a bit nervous about getting enough students involved to have a quality parade,” she said. “The tremendous response was far more than we dared to hope for and we are thrilled.”

When President Kenneth Evans joined the university in July 2013, he decided it was time to resurrect the parade.

“When I arrived, I asked about the traditions of Lamar,” Evans said, adding that he was

told of the Homecoming parade, and how much fun the event used to be.

Nearly 40 student organizations have committed to building floats for the parade, Horton said.

The Signing Cardinals won a drawing for $250 toward their Homecoming float budget.

“This is the student organizations’ opportunity to put their best foot forward to communicate to the Lamar community, and the Southeast Texas community — what they are

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LU’s 1963 Homecoming Parade went through downtown.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY “The paperback is very interesting butI find it will never replace a hardcover book — it makes a very poor doorstep.� — Alfred Hitchcock

Continued from page 1 His talk is titled “Songs and Images of Mexican Labor in the US.� “Dr. Negrete will come and, basically, through song and storytelling, he will talk about the labor issues in Hispanic culture,� Parra said. “He’s been here before. He came here in 2009 and his performance was about Latinos in politics.�

Negrete uses the guitar and harmonica to re-

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count the Mexican and Mexican-American experience through storytelling, poetic song and corridos (running verse ballads), and slides as he traces the history of Mexican-Latino experiences from pre-Columbian times to the present. “We were for tunate to get him,� Vernice Monroe, special assistant to the president for university multicultural enhancement, said, “He will be at the University of Houston, so this makes it great — he hits two schools. He’s been here before and it was a wonderful presentation.�

Hispanic Heritage Month started in 1968 as

Hispanic Heritage Week under President L yndon Johnson. Ronald Reagan expanded it to a month to cover a 30-day period in 1988.

The month begins on Sept. 15 because it is the anniversar y of Independence Day for the Latin American countries of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.

Mexico and Chile celebrate their independence days on Sept. 16 and Sept. 18 respectively.

Columbus Day, or Dia de la Raza, falls within this 30-day period, on Oct. 12.

For more information, call 880-8441.

— HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH EVENT SCHEDULE — Sept. 15-19 Kappa Delta Chi Rush Week Sept. 23-25 Voter Registration Drive hosted by E.I.A. Setzer Student Center Quad Oct. 1, 7 p.m.

Dr. Jesus “Chuy� Negrete Guest Speaker Science Auditorium

Oct. 9, 3-5 p.m.

Conversations: Issues and Challenges Setzer Center Ballroom Oct. 6-12 Phi Iota Alpha Hispanic Week Monday — Cake Cutting 11a.m.-1p.m.

Setzer Students Center Arbor Tuesday — Taco Tuesday Setzer Student Center Noon-3 p.m.

Poetry Night, Arbor 7-9 p.m.

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Horton said.

Many faculty and staff members serve as advisors for these groups and are an integral part of the process, Horton said. Additionally, dozens of staff and faculty members will be volunteering on parade day as marshals.

W.S. “Bud� Leonard is the Grand Marshal for this year’s parade. He will be accompanied by his wife, Charlene. Leonard came to Lamar University in 1948 to play football, and 66 years and three degrees later, he remains one of its most ardent cheerleaders.

In 2008, with the return of football, the field in the renovated Provost Umphrey Stadium was named Bud Leonard Field. “I am delighted that he and his wife, Charlene, will be leading the parade,� Evans said.

The parade will start at 11 a.m., Nov. 1, beginning at Jimmy Simmons Boulevard and Jim Gilligan Way, and ending at MLK Parkway.

Hundreds of high school band members will

Wednesday — Social Networking 210 Setzer Student Center 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Thursday — Unicef Informational Student Setzer Center Arbor 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Game Tournament Setzer Student Center Upstairs Lounge 6.30-9 p.m.

Saturday — Street Clean-up Jim Gilligan Way 10a.m.

perform with the university’s marching band. “The parade is competitive, and awards will be given for outstanding bands in each UIL classification — outstanding drum lines, outstanding drum majors, outstanding twirling lines, and color guard, and outstanding music,� music director Scott Deppe, said in an email interview. “Awards will be announced during our rehearsal during the afternoon. “All of the bands in the parade will be performing with the LU Showcase of Southeast Texas at halftime. I feel the high school bands will add an extra excitement to the Homecoming activities. We will be starting our Homecoming preparation a week or two prior to that weekend.�

Sabrina Lewis, Student Government Association President, and co-chair of the Homecoming Parade committee, said she hopes the opportunity to play with a college band will inspire the high school band members enough to enroll at Lamar University in the future. “Something like this at a Homecoming game is going to be a beautiful thing,� she said.

There will be plenty of events during the week of Homecoming to engage the students, Lewis said, adding that she is involved in organizing all of the activities and is looking forward to everything.

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Oct. 2, 6.30 p.m.

Association of Latino Professionals in Finance & Accounting Interest Meeting 210 Galloway Business Building Oct. 8, 6.30 p.m.

Education Initiative Association Mixer 206 Setzer Student Center Sept. 27, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

DACA Clinic hosted by Education Initiative Association Setzer Student Center

DJ Anthrax will perform at the Block Party, which will be held, 8 p.m. to 11 p.m., Oct. 27, in front of the Dining Hall. There will also be the Midnight Breakfast, Dodgeball Mania, Campus Cleanup, a bonfire, and a pep rally that week.

Activities scheduled for Nov. 1 following the parade include the Yount-Lee Equestrian Day at the Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum, complete with a Lucas Gusher reenactment, an art extravaganza show and sale, and an all ages painting workshop. Gray Library will host an exhibit of archival photos from past Homecoming parades.

Student organizations that pre-registered in the spring must complete the full registration form on Orgsync by Friday. “We are keeping our fingers crossed for a beautiful, sunny day so students can show their Cardinal Pride and have fun with their classmates,�

Horton said. “We want this to be something they remember fondly when they think back on their years at Lamar. “We hope the entire community will come out to take part in this historic day in the life of Lamar University.�

For more information, visit lamar.edu/homecoming.

CALENDAR September 18 Alumni Advisory Board Fall Meeting Geology Building 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

September 20 CPR Certification Heart saver First Aid CPR AED Sheila Umphrey Recreational Sports Center 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Golden Circle Luncheon Honoring classes 1924 to 1964 Gray Library, University Reception Center 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Class of 1964 Reunion Gray Library, University Reception Center 12:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Football: LU vs. Mississippi College Provost Umphrey Stadium Kickoff at 7 p.m.

September 22 20th class day CPR Certification: Heart saver First Aid CPR AED Sheila Umphrey Recreational Sports Center 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

September 24 Team Building Seminar Michael Perez Executive Director of Salvation Army 101 Galloway Business Building 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.

September 25 CPR Certification: Heart saver First Aid CPR AED Sheila Umphrey Recreational Sports Center 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Internships Seminar 101 Galloway Business Building 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.

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DON’T FEAR THE UNKNOWN; STUDY ABROAD Going to college is a life-changing experience.

At university, students learn to think in different ways. They widen their horizons. They try new things, meet new people, and the list goes on.

The entire experience shapes one as a human being. When one makes the choice to go to college, it’s usually not something that takes too much thinking about. Nowadays, if someone has the opportunity to go to college, they go.

They go because they know the experience will allow them to do better in life.

Then why do so few students take the opportunity to study abroad?

Study abroad opens students up to an entirely new world, just like going to college does for a freshman. And in a way, it has many of the same benefits.

Study abroad gives one the opportunity to meet new people, to try new things, to widen one’s horizons — but on an entirely different level — a way higher level.

Study abroad gives students the opportunity to experience different cultures by being thrown in head first. Students find themselves in a city they don’t know, around people who speak a different language — and their family and friends are thousands of miles away.

Although this might sound a little intimidating at first, it is uncommon to meet a student who did not have a great experience.

Several University Press staffers have participated in various study abroad programs, and they all return saying the same thing: “I don’t want to sound like a cliché, but it was a life-changing experience.”

The fear for the unknown should have no chance against the possibility of having a lifechanging experience.

Lamar offers several study abroad programs of various durations in different departments.

With a new director of study abroad recently appointed, Lamar aims to increase these programs and make study abroad available for everyone on campus.

The opportunities are there — don’t be afraid to take them.

For information on study abroad call, 880-8144 or visit http://artssciences.lamar.edu/study-abroad/

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Global confusion surrounds peace-treatening group’s moniker They are all over the news, yet nobody seems to be able to agree what to call the group of radicals led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

ISIS is what I’m talking about, or ISIL, or the Islamic State, depending on what channel one has been watching, or what newspaper one has been reading.

The group, called “an imminent threat to ever y interest we have,” by Senator James Inhofe, was formed in 1999 under a different name.

Over the past 15 years, the group has gone through no fewer than seven name changes. Currently, the media seem divided between the terms ISIS and ISIL. CNN, Fox News, NBC and the New York Times all refer to the group as ISIS — the “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” — while news agencies such as the Associated Press, Reuters, Al Jazeera and also the White House go with ISIL — The “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant”.

The group’s name in Arabic is al dawla al islaniyye f ’il Iraq w’al sham, the problem with translating this term lies in the very last part; al sham. It is translated as the Levant — the north. In classical Arabic, this refers to a region that includes Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel and a part of Turkey. This region was known as the north to the first Muslim warriors who came from the Arabian Peninsula during the 7th century to conquer the Middle

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East, North Africa, and southern Spain.

To the ancient Greeks, and several other historical civilizations, al sham is known as “Syria”. In this context, however, Syria does not stand for the country as we know it today, but for an area that encompasses roughly the same area as Levant.

The problem with using the term ISIS, in this particular context, is that apart from historians and people with a specific interest in that area, the average person will automatically link the term Syria to the present-day country in the Middle East.

A second issue with the abbreviation ISIS, is that it’s a fairly popular term that can stand for a number of things. If you do a simple Google search of “isis,” first page results include Isis, the Egyptian goddess, Isis pharmaceuticals, and several other companies of the same name. One com-

pany, a telecommunications corporation, even decided to change it’s name to Softcard the day after the group beheaded American journalist Steven Sotloff.

To further complicate matters, several news agencies have started calling the organization the “Islamic State in Iraq and alSham,” which is conveniently abbreviated as ISIS. Although slightly less informative, it could be considered more honest, or is it not?

Maybe none of all these names popularly used in the media accurately describe this group of terrorists. Does a group of outlaws really have the right to call themselves a state? Recently Dar al-Ifta al-Misriyyah, a leading Islamic authority in Egypt, advised Muslims to refer to the group as “Al-Qaeda Separatists in Iraq and Syria,” and to no longer refer to them as “Islamic State” because of the group’s unIslamic behavior.

ISIS, ISIL, or something else? Who knows if the media will ever agree on a name. Former Marine four-star General John Allen, speaking of the threat posed by the group, said, “World War III is at hand.”

As long as journalists still have ink to waste on what to call this group, rather than reporting on their most recent deeds, he may be right.

Lauren Van Gerven is UP Editor @thegerven

Athletes should reap rewards for work The NCAA’s big money conferences, the Big Five (SEC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12, and ACC), combine to generate billions of dollars in revenue every year. You can thank the student-athletes for that. After all, they are the ones that Americans all over the nation tune in to watch each season.

In the past, student-athletes paid the COMMENTARY price for accepting financial compensation from universities, but now it looks like by those on the football fields and basketball courts will finally be able to profit from their play.

Judge Claudia Wilken of the United in violation of antitrust laws. Her ruling perStates District Court in Oakland, Calif., mits universities, if their conference ruled that the NCAA’s rules preventing col- chooses, to provide athletes with annual lege athletes from receiving payments were payments for the use of their names and likeness. The NCAA has since voted on allowing the Big Five to offer players between $2,000 and $5,000.

Many argue that the negative consequence of this ruling is that smaller schools will not have the revenue to pay their athletes, which could swing the competitive edge further into the big school conferences. Small schools that are now getting top high school recruits could be squeezed out by an annual payment incentive from other universities.

But, there has always been a hierarchy of the conferences competition-wise. The bigger schools have always received extra attention, and rightly so. This rule change just provides a thicker line between the tier one and tier two schools.

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Some may also argue that an essentially free tuition, along with housing and books, is enough for student-athletes. Still, the Big Five conferences have attracted the most interest in collegiate sports in the last decade. They generate staggeringly more revenue than smaller conferences, and the level of television coverage is greatly more extensive.

The benefits of a scholarship doesn’t always cover every expense of the average athlete. Meanwhile, the athletes are helping create millions of dollars for their school. It seems reasonable that those schools would be able to provide the players with an annual payment.

Still some envision the NCAA as an open market. Antitrust lawyer Jeffrey Kessler filed a lawsuit against the organization in March, hoping to begin a new era of competition between colleges, where a potentially immense amount of cash, essentially salaries, could be offered in return of players’ services.

However, that would be professionalizing amateurism, and college athletes are still amateurs.

An additional few thousand dollars to a player’s scholarship is one thing, but the establishment of player salaries would be taking the student out of student-athlete.

Grant Crawford is UP Sports Editor @GrantLamarUP

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‘Erring on the side of health’ University aligns wih TSUS, adds e-cigarettes to smoke-free campus policy BRANDIANNE HINTON UP CONTRIBUTOR Lamar has updated its smoke-free, tobacco-free campus policy to include electronic cigarettes, mirroring its sister campuses in the Texas State University System.

“Lamar University, along with all member schools in The Texas State University System, has become a smoke-free and tobacco-free campus,” according to an email sent to the LU community. “Lamar’s policy applies to all faculty, staff, students, employees of contractors and visitors to the campus and addresses the use of tobacco products as well as smokeless tobacco; electronic cigarettes or similar devices on university owned or leased premises.”

The Texas State University System includes eight universities.

Lamar’s membership means compliance is necessary.

“We were directed by the system to do that — when you’re part of a system, you can’t just do your own thing,” Stephen Doblin, LU provost and vice president of academic affairs, said.

“We changed our policy to conform to the mandate of the system.”

It reflects a technological change in cigarettes, Kevin Smith, LU senior associate provost, said.

Lamar has been a smoke-free and tobacco-free campus since June 1, 2012. The change to include e-cigarettes was instituted on Aug. 25.

“We brought it before the executive council, discussed the issue, and President Evans gave the approval to go ahead and change the policy,” Smith said. “Our policy was out of date. The other schools (in TSUS) already had this policy,” Technically, e-cigarettes neither emit smoke nor contain tobacco, but because there is little or no reliable research on what the vapor actually contains, the executive council ruled that the vapor was considered the same health hazard as cigarette smoke.

“The opinion is that it does represent a form of smoke, and we have a

smoke-free policy in the TSUS rules.”

Smith said.

He said that regardless of what may or may not come out in regards to the relative safety of the e-cigarettes, Lamar and TSUS are “erring on the side of health.”

While e-cigarettes are touted as a smoking alternative and cessation method, they are considered unsafe, if only for the lack of research available.

Smith said that, ultimately, the goal is to promote the health and wellbeing of students, faculty and staff by providing a safe environment for everyone.

Students who are interested in smoking/tobacco cessation should visit the Student Health Center for other options, Smith said.

“We want to do what we can to encourage students who are smoking to stop smoking,” he said. “To that end, we do have referrals to direct students to stop smoking. We want to encourage our students and employees to not take up the habit.”

Students, faculty and staff who are caught using e-cigarettes on campus will be asked to stop.

“It’s not a law, so you can’t be arrested, but it is university policy, so students would fall under whatever the student judiciary code is for not complying with policy,” Doblin said.

“We’re not going to become a fascist state and arrest students,” Smith said. “If the student says, ‘OK’ and puts it away or says, ‘I’ll go off campus and smoke,’ that’s the end of it.”

If the student says no, and if the employee chooses to call campus security, campus security will step in and make a second request.

“It has to be complaint based,” Smith said.

Rumors of students being arrested and fined are just that, rumors, Jason Goodrich, LUPD chief, said.

However, he said that every employee is responsible for enforcing the policy.

“So, if any employee sees somebody smoking, you’re supposed to ask them not to and let them know that there’s a policy,” Goodrich said. “Most

Lamar has added e-cigarettes to its smoke-free campus policy to conform with TSUS policies.

people are very compliant.”

Doblin, Smith and Goodrich emphasized that further actions will be taken if the problem persists.

“If it’s an employee who won’t stop, then they get referred to HR for disciplinary action,” Goodrich said.

“And if it’s a student, then we issue a student citation. Student citations are basically a referral we use for any student conduct violation. It’s almost like a ticket.”

Smoking e-cigarettes or using any tobacco products on campus is a violation of the student code of conduct.

Norman Bellard, senior associate

vice president, residence life; student conduct officer, said he addresses violations of the student code of conduct.

“Employees who violate the policy shall be subject to discipline or dismissal through appropriate university processes,” he said. “For student violations we would follow the processes and procedures as outlined in the Texas State University System Rules and Regulations.”

Students will not be fined for violating the non-smoking and tobaccofree policy.

“We don’t fine our students for anything, except maybe library

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books,” Smith said. “We’re not in the business of fining students.

“Are we going to hire people to wander around and look into people’s cars to see if people are smoking? No, obviously not. But if there’s a complaint, we will act on policy. That’s all there is to it. We’re not going to have ecig patrols.”

At this time no fines would be assessed, Bellard said, adding that according to TSUS Rules and Regulations, sanctions could range from a verbal reprimand to expulsion from the university depending on the severity of the violation.

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Keeping an open mind Beck Fellow Keeley Townley-Smith spends summer exploring atomic spectroscopy ELIZABETH GRIMM UP CONTRIBUTOR Over the summer, Keeley TownleySmith performed spectroscopy research in Gaithersburg, Md., at the National Institute of Standards and Technology as part of the Beck Fellowship program.

Townley-Smith worked with the atomic spectroscopy group in the physical measurements lab.

“The group generates these really hot plasma environments in labs and looks to the light emitted from these sources to determine the chemical composition of the plasma,” she said.

Each atom has its own unique electron configuration. An atom is defined by the number of protons. It has an equal number of protons and electrons — so, according to the number of protons, the electron configuration is different.

“The energy of the whole atomic system is shifted just based on how much you have in this system — that’s why each thing has its own unique signature,” Townley-Smith said.

The Lumberton senior said the opportunities afforded by the Beck Fellowship will benefit her in the long run.

“I’m just really grateful for the opportunity to have gone,” she said. “Mr. Beck, what he does, is very important.

It’s a great opportunity and I’m so fortunate. It’s opened up a lot of doors already. It helped with being selected as a Goldwater Scholar, and it’s helping with me getting a paper out of this as well that will help with grad school.”

Townley-Smith, a double major in electrical engineering and physics, said she was familiar with NIST’s work through an online Atomic Spectra Database that she uses in her studies at Lamar. The database details important information such as energy levels, radiative transitions and transition probabilities for many elements and their ions.

Lamar has an optics lab in physics where undergraduate students are exposed to atomic spectroscopy, TownleySmith said.

“You get to look at hydrogen — you can actually see the signature of hydrogen, which is going to be these four pretty lines — they’re going to be blue, red and purple,” she said. “And those correspond with the transitions from the higher ones down to the second ground state energy level. That’s a little bit of what atomic spectroscopy is.”

Forensic researchers use atomic absorption spectroscopy.

“In forensics they use a flame to break up the sample into atoms and irradiate particular transitions from a light source of the particular element they want to look at,” she said. “They look at the light absorbed and emitted, and based on the intensity of the light, they can tell how much (light) was (absorbed) in that particular forensic sample. That’s been used to help solve crimes.”

Spectroscopy can examine elements and compounds in the atmosphere to get a quantitative assessment of nitrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide.

For her Beck project, TownleySmith applied atomic spectroscopy to astronomy.

“You have all these stars and distant stellar objects, and you want to know what they’re made of,” she said.

“We don’t physically have the technology or engineering to go to those places, so atomic spectroscopy is the way to look at these far-away environments and basically know more about them. You can assess the age of a star just based on what it’s burning off. As it goes through its fusion cycle, it burns off the lighter elements — such as hydrogen — and then down to the heavier ones.”

When she realized that the application deadline for the Beck Fellowship was near, Townley-Smith approached NIST to see if she could do experimental research there.

“I approached the group leader of the atomic spectroscopy group, Yuri Ralchenko,” she said. “I emailed him personally with, I think, a résumé and a couple of abstracts I had from presenting at some of the conferences, saying, ‘I have a background in atomic spectroscopy and I’d like to join your group.’

The response was very positive. One of the things I had to do to strengthen my application was ask for a letter of support from NIST. “From there, I was basically up for working with whomever in the group.

After I got the fellowship, I let him know. And then he’s like, ‘Would you like to do theoretical or experimental?’ I told him experimental. He got me into contact with Gillian Nave, one of the members of the group, and she was the one I worked with over the summer.”

Townley-Smith said the group was stimulating.

“It always is a little nervous at first — you don’t know how you’re going to like the people there, but the group was very friendly,” she said. “The atmosphere is hard to describe. It was incredible. Everyone was just so nice and I had so many good conversations that kind of stimulated my thought process.

(I was) with so many good scientists who have an attention to detail, or they look at something and say, ‘Oh no, that’s not acceptable; we have to do better.’ It was nice getting all these different perspectives.”

Townley-Smith said the Beck experience benefited her understanding of quantum mechanics.

“My project looked at the hyperfine structure of manganese II,” she said.

Another benefit was learning how to conduct herself and how to interact with other scientists.

Ultimately, the biggest benefit was from the results of her research.

“I’m going to be able to publish a paper,” she said. “That’s the main benefit. I gave a presentation at the end of

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Beck Fellow Keeley Townley-Smith examines argon in the Lamar University optics lab. the summer in front of all of NIST.” Townley-Smith said that she will carry a piece of advice throughout her career.

“It was a piece of advice my mentor gave me — ‘We’re so hung up on what we think the answer should be, that we sometimes are ignoring what our data is telling us,’” she said. “Over the summer, I would have this or this happen, and it didn’t make any sense. Maybe it’s trying to tell me something different.

“Your preconceived notion of what should be going on isn’t actually what’s going on. You have to be open minded enough to realize that. It’s very hard to

be dead-set in your ways. That was one of the pieces of advice that I’ll try to take with me in my scientific career.”

Townley-Smith said that part of her work involved building on other scientists’ research.

“I had to look through several different papers,” she said. “I had to kind of pick through who to trust. You have to be careful about who you’re working with and their standard as well. If you’re taking a measurement this way, and you’re very particular about this to try and eliminate systematic error, you also have to make sure they’re taking the necessary precautions, too. Otherwise,

it’s not going to fit well when you compare your data.

“Sometimes, it’s hard to see if they’ve made a mistake until you repeat it yourself. Which was kind of one of the things I had to do. I had to go through, pick a couple of their values and repeat the results until I could finally trust what they had gotten.”

Townley-Smith said being a Beck Fellow was an incredible experience.

“It definitely opened up my mind,” she said.

Deadline to apply for 2015 is Oct. 1.

For information on the Beck Fellowship, call 880-8400.

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Lewis says her new job will teach patience, and develop her communication skills.

“I thought my patience was good, because I grew up in a family of nine kids,” she says. “My communication skills have improved a lot. When you are communicating with a whole group of people, you have to switch your skills to match the audience. I feel like I have multiple personalities, because I have to switch my communication skills, but not my opinions.”

When the pressures of the job build, Lewis turns to her faith.

“When things go wrong, my favorite scripture is Psalm 91,” she says. “I think about all my current blessings, such as being elected by the students, making it to college, my health, and my family. I know my current situation is nothing compared to my purpose.”

While Lewis says her duties as president leave little room for down time, she loves to run and do water aerobics. She also cites two other hobbies.

“I love eating — a lot. Lots of barbecue,” she says. “I have two puppies, JJ and Precious. Precious is a Chihuahua, and JJ is fluffy — I’m not exactly sure what he is.”

Lewis volunteers with Bruised But Not Broken, an organization that advocates for victims of domestic violence. She also helps out with the AAMP boys whenever needed.

Lewis says she truly cares about the students at Lamar University.

“I will hold an open conversation with you about almost anything,” she says. “I am a person that is willing to listen. I will fight for anything that you need — and needs that you don’t even know you need, I will fight for.

“I will work days without lunch breaks, and I love my barbecue.”

Lewis’ office is located in 211 Setzer Student Center. Hours are 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday.

Email her at S.Lewis@Lamar.edu.

Wind Ensemble to perform in Nederland, Tuesday

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Student Government Association President Sabrina Lewis holding her Chihuahua, Precious at John Gray Center, Sept. 15.

Lamar University’s Wind Ensemble will present its first concert of the year at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, in the Nederland High School Performing Arts Center.

The performance will feature classic wind music, new music and a world premiere composition. Admission is free.

Selections include Nancy Galbraith’s “Febris Ver,” John Mackey’s “Sheltering Sky, and Hector Berlioz’s “Hungarian March,” featuring guest conductor Russ A. Schultz, dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communication.

The Wind Ensemble will present the premiere performance of Adam Haskett’s “Adagio.” Haskett, a music education major from Beaumont is now in his junior year at LU’s Mary Morgan Moore Department of Music.

The concert will conclude with “Australian Up-Country Tune” and “The Cutting of the Hay,” lesser-known works from prominent 20th-century composer Percy Grainger.

The performing arts center is located at 2101 18th St. in Nederland.

For information, call the Mary Morgan Moore Department of Music at 880-8144, or visit www.lamar.edu.music.

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Men’s Tennis Lamar sophomores Nikita Lis and Michael Feucht advanced to the quarterfinals in doubles competition at the Racquet Club Collegiate Invitational over the weekend in Midland.

After receiving a bye in the first round, the Lamar duo posted a 6-3 decision over Sean Baklini and Rodolfo Jauregui in the round of 16 before falling to the TCU combo of Trevor Johnson and Blake Wiggins by a 6-1 score in the quarterfinals.

The Cardinals return to action on Friday for the first of three days of competition at the Rice Fall Invitational in Houston.

Women’s Tennis Lamar sophomore Katya Lapayeva advanced to the women's singles consolation semifinals of the Marco & Co. Catering Islanders Open hosted by Texas A&M-Corpus Christi this past weekend in Corpus Christi.

In the doubles competition, Lapayeva teamed with sophomore Anna Spengler to reach the second round.

The Lady Cardinals return to action Friday for the first of three days of competition at the University of Houston Invitational.

Soccer heads to SLC play with win

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Bouncing back

Volleyball The Lady Cards dropped a 3-0 decision to Oklahoma, Saturday, in Norman.

All three sets came down to the wire, with Oklahoma claiming a 2523, 25-22, 27-25 victory. Cortney Moore and Autumn Taylor had nine kills apiece for Lamar (0-9). Taylor added 10 digs, while Ashley Ellis had 24 assists.

The Lady Cardinals return to action when they compete at the Rebel Classic in Oxford, Miss., Friday and Saturday.

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CARDINALS PUT UP 73 ON TEXAS COLLEGE, RETURN TO WINNING WAYS GRANT CRAWFORD UP SPORTS EDITOR @GrantLamarUP The Lamar football team bounced back from their 73-3 loss to Texas A&M, by beating Texas College 73-0 in Provost Umphrey Stadium, Saturday.

“I was proud of our team for putting last week’s game behind us, and not hanging around with our lip poked out all week,” Coach Ray Woodard said. “A concern of mine during the week, was whether or not we were going to have a hangover.”

Woodard said he had hoped to see a big improvement against a school from the NAIA conference, compared to the SEC competition in College Station.

“Anytime you play a team like A&M, any weakness that can be exposed is exposed, that happens,” Woodard said.

“But tonight, with a game like this, you get away with a little more than you should. You can benefit from both (games), and you want to see your team get better in areas that weren’t where we wanted them to be last week.”

The Cardinals started the game strong with a 45yard touchdown run by sophomore Emmitt Raleigh, who only carried the ball four times for 75 yards before leaving the game with a separated shoulder. With Kade Harrington still out, and Michael Handy receiving an injury as well, junior Carl Harris was the last running back left for Lamar.

“We’re depleted at tail back,” Woodard said. “If Carl went down we were probably going to have to take a defensive player and put him at running back. Carl kind of got in the dog house after the Grambling game. Then we lost Kade and needed someone to step up, and he has stepped up and has done a very good job of holding on to the ball.”

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Harris ran the ball 26 times, and finished with 153 rushing yards and a touchdown.

“In this day and age, on a one back team — that’s a lot of runs and he did a good job,” Woodard said. “He’s about the only healthy running back we’ve got, and I think the more he plays, the better he gets.”

All three Lamar quarterbacks saw time against the Steers. Senior Caleb Berry threw for 112 yards, two touchdowns, and scored on a 32-yard run. Sophomore Robert Mitchell was two of three for 30 yards. He also ran the ball for 81 yards and two scores. Rex Dausin was one of two for 26 yards, and also carried the ball four times for 49 yards and a score.

“Part of the plan was to bring Robert in early and try

Motorcycles honoring the military were on the sidelines, left, as Lamar took the field to play Texas College, Saturday, at Provost Umphrey Stadium. The cheerleaders led the crowd as the Cardinals reached the goal line for another score during the 730 win.

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and get him some experience,” Woodard said. “We like to put him in there so he can run around with it. You’ll see him early on in games to come.”

Lamar’s defense was led by sophomores Corbin Carr and Koby Couron. Both players finished the game with

seven tackles. Carr also ended the night with 3.5 tackles for losses. The Cards had 27 players sharing time defensively. “(The SLC) is so physical, that there are going to be weeks when you need some backups to play,” Woodard said. “We’re trying to develop

some depth. Defensively we were able to play more people tonight. We had a lot of people able to roll in and out.”

The Cardinals return to action Saturday, when they host Mississippi College.

The game is set to begin at 7 p.m. at Provost Umphrey Stadium.

GRANT CRAWFORD UP SPORTS EDITOR @GrantLamarU The Lady Cardinal’s soccer team snapped their fivegame losing streak with a 4-0 win over visiting Texas Southern Monday. Senior Bailey Fontenot made seven saves, and tied the Lamar record with her 12th career shutout.

“The key was her confidence throughout the whole game tonight,” Lamar coach Orlando Cervantes said of Fontenot. “She was very aggressive and very physical tonight.”

Monday’s postponed match was the teams last nonconference game. The Lady Cardinals returned from their 7-2 loss the day before at Louisiana-Lafayette.

“To come back without any rest and play as well as we did was great,” Cervantes said.

“We needed a game like this to boost our spirits heading into conference.”

Senior Kimmy Albeno led the Lamar offense with two goals, her first arriving before the third minute. Freshmen M.J. Eckart and A.V. Vigil each scored their first career goals for Lamar in the 74th and 76th.

“I thought we had a much better second half,” Cervantes said. “We scored early in the first half and seemed to get away from what worked. We stayed to the plan in the second half.”

Lamar is now 4-0 all-time against the Lady Tigers.

The Lady Cardinals host Northwestern State, Friday, in the Southland Conference opener for both squads.

Cross-country teams look to repeat at SLC champs JOSHUA LA SALLE UP Contributor Lamar’s men’s and women’s cross country teams both captured their respective Southland Conference titles last season and coach Trey Clark has high hopes that both teams will be back in the winners circle.

The men are looking to earn their eighth crown in nine years, and the women are looking to become back-toback champions.

“We expect to be competitive on the regional level, and then to have outside opportunities to maybe get in the national meet as a team this year,” Clark said.

The teams face a tough schedule this season and will compete against some of the best teams in the country, Clark, said.

The teams opened this the season in College Station at the Aggie Opener, Aug. 29. Both the men and women finished in second place.

The event gave Clark and his staff a chance to look at the younger talent on the teams.

“What we have seen with our history of success, the recruiting class that we brought in may be the best one since I’ve been the head coach,” Clark said.

“We’re seeing an elevation of the talent in the athletes that we’re bringing in, and mixing that with athletes with experience and talent as well.”

Freshman Jan Lukas Becker and graduate student Tobias Riker, who is in his first season in the U.S., stood out among the rest of the team as the pair placed second in the men’s race, which was set up so that each athlete would run 6,300 meters. Becker and Riker

combined to finish the 12,600-meter course in 37:05.3. The event featured duos from Texas A&M and Stephen F. Austin.

The women’s race saw each individual run 4,200 meters. The LU duo of sophomore Belinda Aguilar and junior Kaitlynn Warren came in fifth place.

They were the top non-Aggie duo, with a time of 30:22.6. Sophomore Megan Flanagan and freshman Chaynee Atwood finished in seventh at 30:32.7.

“On the women’s side, we’ve got three or four new kids that are really doing well,” Clark said. “They haven’t really stepped out, and aren’t ready to go yet. They’ll really enter into it this weekend at Texas A&M. They are doing well in workouts, but let’s see how they can perform under a little pressure and expectations, once they put the uniform on.”

“Overall, we have some depth, and not just a couple of good guys, in men and women, but we’ll have five, six, seven or eight in each program who are quality performers.”

The teams competed at the Justin F. Cooper Memorial Rice Invitational, Friday. Graduate student Verity Ockenden’s fourth-place finish in the 3,950-meter course helped the women earn fourth place in the event.

The men finished in eighth, behind the second place finish of LU’s Sam Stabler. He finished the 5,620-meter course in 17 minutes.

“Now it’s time to go for real, so this weekend, if we perform well, I expect to see a boost out of that one,” Clark said.

The Cards’ schedule includes another trip to Texas A&M, Saturday. “(The first time at Texas A&M,) the majority of our quality kids did not even

Harriers sweep SLC honors Lamar University swept the weekly Southland Conference Cross-Country Athletes of the Week, the conference announced Tuesday.

Senior Sam Stabler was named the men’s Athlete of the Week, while junior Verity Ockenden won on the women’s side.

Both Lamar runners were honored for their performances at the 39th annual Justin F. Cooper Memorial Rice Invitational. It is the first award this season for both Lamar student-athletes.

Stabler had the second-fastest collegiate time at the meet, covering the 5,620-meter course in 17 minutes, 2 seconds as the Cardinals finished eighth as a team.

Ockenden finished fourth in the women’s race with a time of 13:36 for 3,950 meters to help the Lady Cardinals finish fourth in the 14-team field.

run,” Clark said. “Most of our quality kids have yet to open. We’ve had a few here or there. That was a meet because we needed to get one in.”

Clark said that he was unsure if the team will learn anything new about themselves this weekend, but they will get a chance to learn about the people they are competing against.

“We get the chance to see what A&M and Baylor have competitively at the regional level,” he said. “We will be able to see what Stephen F. Austin has at the conference level. We have a pretty fair understanding of what our capabilities are, we just want to see what we’re up against in terms of the other teams.”

The teams will travel to Fayetteville, Ark., Oct. 4, for the Chile Pepper Festival. Approximately 80 teams are expected to compete at this event. It is also the site of the NCAA South Central Regional to be held at the end of the season.

Verity Ockenden

Sam Stabler

The men’s tough slate will continue when they travel to compete in the Wisconsin Adidas Invitational, Oct.17.

The women’s team will get the opportunity to test out the national championship course when they compete in the Pre-National Invitational in Terre Haute, Ind., on the same weekend.

Clarke said that the team is very confident and looking forward to the tough schedule.

“Anytime you run against people that are important and you beat them, you’re going to get the adrenaline from it,” he said. “So I think you have to be in those situations where you get the adrenaline going, get the nerves pumping. But I think were really confident in our capabilities.”

The Cards will put their Southland titles on the line, Nov. 3, in Natchitoches, La. “Winning never gets old, it just makes you greedy for more,” Clark said.

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COMEDIAN ••••• Continued from page 1 sue it was because of a job I had.

I was promoted many times, then I applied for the manager position. I was told that because I couldn’t talk on the phone, they needed to hire someone else for the position. After that, I decided to make a career move to focus on my acting.”

Jones signs during his act and has an interpreter working with him for those who cannot understand signing. He said sign language is his first language.

“I never really found it frustrating growing up learning sign language,” he said. “I learned it because both of my parents are deaf. They sign, so it was pretty natural. I learned American English as my second language.”

Being a comedian isn’t Jones only creative outlet. He also acts.

“A great honor was the group Tony Award we won for performing the comedy ‘Three Black Musketeers,’” he said. “It was a tour that went all over America. The whole play was

University Press done in sign language with voice actors following the actual actors. The newspaper reviews were ver y positive and complimentary of the actors.”

Jones also runs two businesses when he isn’t on the road.

“I’ve worked to start up my company, Sign World TV, because I think both hearing and deaf people need to, and should, work together,” he said. “Programs and movies need to have captions and voice overs for people who are watching. I decided it was about time to create a program. I’d like to make movies and documentaries for the world of deaf and hearing, and how we all need to work together. It’s one of my passions.

“Hands Across Communication is a nonprofit organization that brings together non-skilled workers to give them motivation and encouragement,” he said.

“People who can paint or make art, we let them do just that.

Even people who can make music or movies, we let them do that. People can benefit from this because it’s nonprofit. It’s really about giving people the inspiration to live out their dreams in the entertainment business.”

Jones said he doesn’t have

any down time, that everything he does is part of what he does.

“Right now, I’m focusing on developing new theater, different radio programs and tr ying to pick my brain for new ideas,” he said. “I’ve been making videos for sign language, too.

My free time is really devoted to sign language and teaching children. I have a pretty full schedule, even during my down time, so technically I don’t really have down time.

“Something interesting I’ve been working on is horror movies. I’ve been making sign language for the whole movie, then putting in captions and voice-overs for ever yone to enjoy who don’t really know how to read signs.”

Jones’ performance is part of Lamar’s Deaf Awareness Week activities.

“Deaf Awareness Week is really important to me,” he said.

“Many communities have no knowledge of it and have no programs to help. It’s amazing to me how many things are overlooked. It’s about respect, and I like to make sure as many people as possible are aware of that.”

For more information, visit www.cjjoneslive.com.

Visiting scholar lands prestigious position in China Hongbo Gu, a previous visiting scholar at Lamar from Harbin Institute of Technology in China, accepted a job as an assistant professor at Tongji University in China, which is one of the leading universities in China.

“Owing to the supervision of Dr. Guo and the achievements obtained during my stay at Lamar, I got this position,” said Gu. “I am thankful for the support I have received from Lamar, and I appreciate the help received from Dr. Guo and Dr. Wei. They are great mentors in my life.”

A native of China, Gu obtained her bachelor’s degree with a major in Polymer Science and Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) in China in 2008.

Gu went on to obtain her doctoral degree from HIT as a joint student with the support of the China Scholarship Council program for two years. Gu came to Lamar as a visiting scholar

where she worked with associate professor John Zhanhu Guo in the Integrated Composites Laboratory and was co-advised by Suying Wei from chemistry and biochemistry.

“While at Lamar, I obtained a lot of achievements,” said Gu. “As an author and co-author, I have published almost 40 peer-reviewed papers in my chosen areas of research. I have participated in four international conferences and given oral and poster presentations.”

In addition, Gu has earned the prestigious Student Participation Fellowship from the 2012 National Science Foundation Engineering Research and Innovation Conference, sponsored by the National Science Foundation’s Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI).

Gu said being a visiting scholar at Lamar has taught her how to conduct research and has been a great experience in her life.

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