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Splitting commencement Graduation activities to feature general, college ceremonies beginning December LAUREN VAN GERVEN UP EDITOR @thegerven Starting with fall commencement, Dec. 13, Lamar University’s graduation ceremony will be split up in two parts — one large ceremony including all graduates, and a second ceremony for each college.

The general ceremony, the “University Commencement Ceremony,” will take place in the Montage Center at 10 a.m.

“You’ll still have a guest-speaker, and there will be a student-speaker,” registrar David Short said. “All the doctoral students will be hooded

there and we will recognize our Plummer awards. It will be a lot shorter.

We haven’t had one yet, but our best guess is that it will be between an hour and an hour-and-a-half.”

Short said that the split-commencement is largely the result of Lamar’s growing enrollment.

“It’s everybody’s ceremony,” he said. “When you’re in there with a thousand other people, you kind of lose that.”

The split commencement gives the university the opportunity to put the focus back on the colleges, and to make the graduation experience more personal for students, Short said.

“When they’re able to go to their individual ceremonies in their colleges, they are going to be able to actually shake hands with professors that they dealt with on a daily basis,” he said. “The department chair is going to be shaking their hand going across the stage.”

Short said that the “College Conferment Ceremony” choices were left up to the colleges.

“Administration came up with the overall concept of, ‘We’re going to divide it this way,’ and we left a lot up to the colleges on how they want it,” he said. “It’s their ceremonies, so we want See GRADUATION, page 2

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Lamar University will hold a “University Commencement Ceremony” in the Montagne Center, above, as well seperate ceremonies for each college beginning in December.

DIGITIZING THE PAST LIBRARY CONVERTS NEWSPAPER ARCHIVE

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Members of the Lamar community who have tried to access the LUBigRed network on campus have often run into difficulties connecting their devices.

However, over the next few weeks, people will notice a difference in the campus wireless service.

“The IT division has done an analysis of dead spots and inadequate wireless services on the academic campus,” Cruse Melvin, vice president for finance and operation, said in an email interview.

“The enhancement project is a mid-range plan (up to 3-years) to greatly improve performance so that students, faculty, and staff can take full advantage of evergrowing tech based devices.”

The school is working with an outside vendor to expand the wireless coverage, Kevin Smith, senior associate provost, said.

The wireless expansion has been in the planning phase for about six months, Patrick Stewart, director of IT infrastructure, said, and is now being implemented.

Hardware, such as cables, routers, and access points are being installed as phase one of the roll-out begins.

“Really, what we want to do is expand our wireless network on campus,” Smith said. “We do have wireless in some of our buildings. It’s kind of spotty at best. It’s something we have to do for our students, to broaden our wireless access.”

Stewart said the network will be state-of-the-art, the very latest that the wireless technology market has to offer, adding that IT wants to be like the power company and just operate in the background. He wants the campus technology to run so seamlessly that no one even thinks about it.

Penny Clark and Charlotte Holliman look through old issues of the Lamar student newspaper, Monday, in Gray Library. The library received a grant to digitize the newspaper archives.

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Over the past couple of months, Gray Librar y has been working on a project to digitize Lamar University newspapers from as early as 1933 up to 2005.

Digitizing more than 70 years worth of publications was not a simple process.

“It was a ver y labor intensive process,” Penny Clark, university archivist, said. “We physically had to count and measure each paper, and when we’d start counting, I would start reading because all this is fascinating, then I would lose count and I‘d have to start all over again — so that was always a problem.”

During the process, the library worked with Arcasearch, a Minnesota-based company.

“We shipped the newspapers offsite to a venue near Minneapolis, Minn.,” Clark said.

“They made the newspapers digital through a photographic process, not through a scanner like we would have done.”

Clark said that the collection is incomplete, as the library does not have a full set of newspapers.

“We wish we had ever ything,” she said.

“There hasn’t always been a university archive, so there are gaps in our records. We digitized everything that we had in the university archives, then we worked with the University Press. They had some of the issues that we didn’t. I believe it’s from 1961-1962 on, that we have complete records.”

Clark hopes that some of the missing newspapers will still show up and encourages people to look for them.

“We are certain that more newspapers will be discovered,” she said. “They are probably in people’s homes, they might even be on campus.”

Clark said that it was Karen Nichols, coordi-

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Lamar to offer customized license plates to show spirit ELIZABETH GRIMM UP CONTRIBUTOR Lamar University students, alumni, staff and faculty have the opportunity to get customized license plates to show their school spirit.

“A large number of alumni have already expressed interest in purchasing the plates,” Linda LeBlanc, director of alumni affairs, said.

“I think the design itself is much more dynamic than the LU plates of the past, and that seems to be causing excitement.

They provide a way for alumni to show their ‘Cardinal Pride’ while promoting LU name awareness to prospective stu-

dents.”

The plates are still in the pre-registration stage, which will determine the next stage of the process.

“The launch has multiple steps,” Sean Kennedy, vice president of My Plates, said in an email interview. “The Lamar University plate is currently in a period where pre-registrations are collected in advance of the November TxDMV board meeting, where it will be presented for contingent approval. Pre-registrations indicate interest in purchasing the plate should it reach final approval.

“The number of pre-registered is important to the TxDMV Board when they are

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considering whether to allow the plate to proceed to the next step.”

If the LU plates are approved, then the process will proceed to pre-order stage, Kennedy said.

“Pre-orders are where supporters of the plate will be able to go to our ‘Coming Soon’ page on MyPlates.com and actually pre-purchase their Lamar plate, including reserving a valued personalized message,” he said.

“Supporters will pay for the plate at the time of pre-ordering, but the term on their plate will not commence until it officially launches down the road. In order for the plate to launch, a

minimum of 200 pre-orders must be completed, so this is a critical step in the process.

“Assuming these discussed steps are all met, the Lamar plate would tentatively launch in late February.”

Kennedy said it could take three to four weeks after the launch for the plates to arrive.

“Once the launch date is reached, all pre-orders will be batched to the state, the plates [are] produced and shipped to the main County Tax AssessorCollector office of the purchaser’s county,” he said. “As with all plates, pre-ordered plates take about three to four weeks to arrive at the CTAC for the customer to pick-up and link

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to their vehicle.”

The cost of the license plate has not been finalized, Kennedy said.

“The Lamar University plate will likely be offered for one-, three-, and five-year terms, and pricing should range from

$50 to $450 depending on length of term chosen and level of personalization,” he said.

For more information, call My Plates at 888-769-7528.

To view the plate design or register, visit myplates.com/ register/lamaruniversity.

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nator of reference ser vices, who came up with the idea for the project.

“She suggested that we apply for a TexTreasures grant,” Clark said.

“And we did indeed do that. We got the grant, and it was for over $11,000.”

Some of the older newspapers are in a delicate state, Clark said.

“When you look at them, you see how fragile they are,” she said. “They are chipping away. Ever y time we would look at the newspapers, we would leave a trail of crumbs underneath the table — we were loving them to death.”

Before digitizing the newspapers, when people would call to get information, Clark and Charlotte Holliman, librar y associate, would have to actually look through the hardcopies. Now, anybody can go to the Gray Librar y website and look through the newspapers.

“You can search any topic you want, or you can search by name, or anything that you’re interested in,” Clark said. “We hope that more people will be able to use them, and it will also provide preservation for the newspapers.”

Clark said that there are two goals when archiving.

“The first things you want to do, is work for preser vation,” she said.

“And secondly, you want to work for access. This is the sort of project that provides both. Now we don’t have to go to the newspapers, you can look at it on your computer screen, you can be an alum in Australia, or a researcher anywhere in the world — and, they are fully searchable.”

The next stage of the project is to digitally archive the more recent newspapers from 2005.

“I’m not sure how that would work with the PDFs,” Clark said.

“The Portal to Texas Histor y has ver y stringent requirements, so I’ll need to double check and see what their requirements are.”

The library will also ship the files to the Portal to Texas History, Clark said.

“The Portal to Texas Histor y is sort of the Google for images of Texas history,” she said. “So, that will give us exposure and also bring people back to the Lamar University website.”

The digitized copies can be found in the Special Collections section of the librar y website, the archives are linked to the Search Digitized Collections. From there, one can browse for different editions and topics. A direct link will soon be available on the librar y website as well as the University Press website.

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

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

September 27 Football: Lamar vs. Sam Houston State Provost Umphrey Stadium Kickoff at 7 p.m.

C.J. Jones Live Science Auditorium 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

October 1 Last day to drop or withdraw without penalty

October 2 Ethics Seminar 101 Galloway Busines Building 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.

“Anton in Showbusiness” Studio Theatre 7:30 p.m.

October 3 “Anton in Showbusiness” Studio Theatre 7:30 p.m.

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GRADUATION ••••• Continued from page 1 it to be special, unique to each college.

Each college can put their own touch on it.”

The College Conferment Ceremonies will take place after the University Commencement Ceremony.

Depending on what college a student belongs to the college ceremony will take place either in the Montagne Center, the Sheila Umphrey Recreational Center’s McDonald Gym or the Uni-

versity Theatre. College ceremonies will take place at 1.30 p.m. or 4.30 p.m.

Short said that the split-commencement format is one that has been used at many other schools.

“This isn’t an unusual set-up,” he said. “Other schools do this, even in our system — they have been doing it for years. It’s not that we pulled it out of a hat and made this out of thin air.

This is a system that other schools utilize to deal with limited facilities.”

The same format will be used for May graduation. Because of a smaller population of graduates, the August

commencement will maintain the one ceremony format.

Short said that since the announcement went out there has been some feedback from students.

“We’ve had some limited reactions from students — I haven’t had the chance to personally direct any of them,” he said. “We usually don’t hear the positive. The day of, we’ll hear positive reactions. We hear the concerns — I know Dr. (Kevin) Smith made it a point to go speak to SGA, to address any concerns they might have.

“We’re doing our best to get the

word out soon enough, so that people can talk to us about it.”

Short said that he hopes that everybody will attend all the events.

“We want to encourage everyone to go to both ceremonies,” he said.

“We certainly aren’t going to force anyone to do anything they don’t want to do. They will get their degree one way or another, but I think (both ceremonies) have something unique to offer.”

For more information, call Short at 880-8060, or Ashley Glenn in the Graduation Office at 880-7596.

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HISPANIC HERITAGE Lamar is celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month until Oct. 15.

Hispanic culture in the United States can be traced back more than 500 years when Spanish explorers arrived. Many people are unaware that Hispanic culture had firm roots in St. Augustine, Fla. and New Mexico before the English arrived at Jamestown in 1607, or before the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts Bay in 1621.

Hispanics have had a profound influence in our country and their culture has helped to shape our national character with their centuries-old traditions that reflect the multi-ethnic and multicultural customs in their community.

Today, the Hispanic population in the U.S. is estimated at 50.5 million people. According to the U.S. Census, Hispanic population grew 43 percent from 2000 to 2010, making it the largest and fastest growing minority group in the country.

Because of the rapid growth of the community, in recent elections, Hispanics have been dubbed the ‘sleeping giant.’ The Washington Post called the growth “the demographic story of the last 10 years and the next 10 years” in a June 4, 2013 article.

The ongoing immigration debate in Washington could wake the ‘sleeping giant’ by spurring an increased sense of a need for Hispanics to have their voices heard. If Hispanic voting increases, it could easily change the outcome of major elections in the future.

The mayor of San Antonio, democrat Julian Castro, could also sway the vote because of his potential to be nominated for the 2016 presidential election. Castro was the keynote speaker at the 2012 Democratic National Convention — the first Hispanic picked for the role in the party’s history.

It is easy to see that Hispanics are quickly becoming the new foundation of our country’s economic, political and social-cultural power.

This month, it is important that we acknowledge and respect the contributions of Hispanics in every aspect of our society.

A list of events is available at lamar.orgsync. com/org/multicultural/hispanicheritage.

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Biannual golf event more than just normal tournament It’s finally here. The two-year wait that every golf fan around the world has endured ends tomorrow, when 12 of the finest American professional golfers face Europe’s chosen 12 as they tee it up at Gleneagles Golf Club in Scotland to decide who will take home the Ryder Cup. In so many ways, the Ryder Cup is different from regular play on the PGA and European tours. When an individual sport becomes a team sport, and the most static crowd in sport become vibrant and loud, something magical is created.

As golf hasn’t been an Olympic sport — although that will change with its reintroduction at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro — golf fans don’t get a lot of opportunities to cheer on their fellow countrymen. Sure, one can cheer on players from one’s hometown or country on a weekly basis, but, let’s be honest — the chances that any professional golfer lists, ‘To make my country proud,’ as his No. 1 motivation are pretty slim.

It’s about lots of money, and personal achievements. Just last week, when Billy Horschel left Atlanta’s East Lake Golf Club $10 million richer after winning the FedEx Cup, he admitted that, ‘It really was about the money,’ that week. And there is no shame in that.

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out so much more. It has nothing to do with money. Every two years it’s about defending the colors of a continent, playing for a team, and pleasing a crowd, while the entire world watches. And it’s not just the crowd that appreciates this — it’s the players as well. Numerous times in Ryder Cup history, players from both continents have gone above and beyond expectations to achieve something unbelievable.

Just two years ago, Michael Jordan was following the Saturday fourballs in Chicago, Ill. as a spectator. He tried everything in his power to distract the Europeans by playing mind-games on Brit Ian Poulter. The Englishman, well aware of who he was up against, found a way to turn Jordan’s negative vibes around and made five consecutive birdies.

Ryder Cup history is filled with stories like this. It’s also full of stories of emotion and sportsmanship. One remembers Darren Clarke’s heartwarming reception by the crowd at the 2006 Ryder Cup at the K Club in Ireland, as he returned to golf just months after losing his wife to cancer. He ended up going 3-for-3 that week.

It’s almost impossible to name all the moments that stand out, because there are so many. One thing is for sure, this week will see more incredible moments be created, and the crowd and viewers back home will love it.

Personally, I will be cheering for Europe. I have no problem cheering for the USA during soccer’s World Cup — as long as they aren’t playing against Belgium, the country of my birth — but no matter how long I live in the United States, I will always be European.

Whether it will be this year’s favorite, Europe, or the USA — ready to make a return after back-to-back losses — who will take home the cup, only time will tell.

If you think you are not a golf fan, or that the sport is boring, check out the Ryder Cup and feel the magic.

Lauren Van Gerven is UP Editor @thegerven

Good presentations make (Power)Point PowerPoint presentations can be good — but they can also be ver y, ver y bad.

We have all had to sit through a class while a student or teacher goes through the information they are delivering in long-winded sentences that are accompanied by graphics that go with the speech or information that’s helpful to the listener on a PowerPoint.

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If the presenter puts too much information on the slide, goes through the slides too quickly, or reads the whole presentation straight from the slides word-for-word, the audience can easily lose interest.

Some students or teachers will rush through the slides before you can even read them, frustrating the audience. Some will even stand in the middle of the slide during the whole presentation, rendering the slides useless.

If done correctly, PowerPoint presentations help to guide the listener through the information, and if given during a lecture, helps the students know what to study outside of class. But, if done wrong, a PowerPoint can be disastrous to a student or teacher’s presentation.

Microsoft Business posted an article on their website, “Presenting with PowerPoint: 10 dos and don’ts.” They posted 10 helpful tips: • Hold up your end with compelling material.

• Keep it simple.

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• Minimize numbers in slides.

• Don’t parrot PowerPoint.

• Time your remarks.

• Give it a rest. Let the screen go blank on occasion.

• Use vibrant colors.

• Import other images and graphics.

• Distribute handouts at the end — not during the presentation.

• Edit ruthlessly before presenting.

With the semester gaining speed, we’re all getting our assignments for presentations for our classes. All of the pointers that Microsoft gave in the article are easy to follow and makes the PowerPoint easier to create.

We all know how awful a bad presentation can be to sit through and how easily someone can be distracted. By following these 10 simple steps while creating your PowerPoint, it can make not only your assignment easier to create, but also, it helps to keep the audience attentive to what you are saying. By timing your speech to your PowerPoint, it cre-

ates a continuity that can turn an OK speech into an amazing presentation.

Last year’s Distinguished Faculty Lecture by Catalina Castillion is the perfect example of what an excellent PowerPoint presentation can add to a speech.

Castillion used the program to her advantage to tease the audience with simple slides, mostly made up of a headline and a photo. By keeping the slides minimal, she was able to keep the attention of the audience by using graphics, but didn’t give them too much that it distracted them.

Putting too much information on the slides is one of the most common mistakes you see. If there is a lot of information on the slides, the audience tends to only read the slides and not pay attention to what the speaker is saying.

Another mistake presenters make is handing out materials at the beginning or during their presentation. The materials given to an audience member instantly takes the attention away from the presenter. Even if the speaker can get the audience’s attention back on them, they will be lost in the information.

The best thing you can do is keep it simple, though. Let the material of the speech itself keep the audience’s attention.

The audience comes to hear you speak, not merely stare at images and words tossed onto a screen.

Kristen Stuck is UP Managing Editor @kristenstuck

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Prepping for surgical career Beck Fellow Kollin Kahler travels to Ireland to study sports medicine FAITH ROLAND UP CONTRIBUTOR Kollin Kahler never imagined he would leave the countr y to gain hands-on experience with one of the world’s best sports medicine facilities.

However, that was before he was named a Beck Fellow.

Kahler traveled to Dublin, Ireland this past summer to work in a lab that focused on groin and ACL injuries in athletes.

When the Waco senior first started looking for research loca-

tions for his David J. Beck Fellowship application, he was initially discouraged because he didn’t have previous lab research experience. He decided to change his approach.

“I thought, ‘I’m just gonna go big or go home,’ so I typed in, ‘Best orthopedic center in Europe,’ and the place in Ireland was one of the first to come up,” he said. “After that, everything just fell in place. They basically said if I could get there, let’s do it.”

The bio mechanics lab, at the Sports Surgery Clinic where Kahler worked, saw patients who were suffering from bio mechanical issues.

The team he worked with would mark different areas of the patient with dots before sending them through a camera system that would show the patient as a stick figure, he said.

Once the patient was in the computer they were told to run, jump, and do other movements. Kahler would help analyze the movements to pinpoint the source of the pain to determine a course of treatment and therapy.

“Before this type of treatment, they would typically just go ahead and give the patient surgery,” Kahler

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Beck Fellow Kollin Kahler in front of the Sport Surgery Clinic in Dublin, Ireland.

said. “The surgery would cost the patient a lot of money and a lot of time off. They would then likely have to still deal with the pain. But now these advancements are more precise.

They can tell that it’s not anything surger y could fix, but simply that they’re weak in a certain muscle which could be built up.”

Kahler also did an independent study on Isometric mid-thigh pull. Patients were told to pull on a fixed bar while standing on two force plates that measured the force pulling through the legs as they pulled upward on the bar.

“I was trying to correlate, (that) if you pull really hard and have a lot of force coming through your pull, would that correlate into something like a dynamic movement like jumping?” he said.

As part of his experience, Kahler spent time in the strength and conditioning program working on athletic performance enhancement of younger athletes, and rehabilitation in older adults. He got to spend time with the patients’ physiotherapists and their MRI teams, and sit in with the physicians while they were with patients.

Kahler also sat in on 50 to 60 surgeries of backs, hips, necks, ankles, shoulders and knees, he said.

“I got to be right there in the surgery rooms standing next to the surgeons — those are really cool experiences,” he said.

However, it was not all work.

Kahler said he also got to explore bits of Ireland, and even take a small trip to London for a conference with his mentor.

“I spent time with this family that I met through my church family,” he said. “They took me in and showed me around, and I just had a blast. We went all around Dublin — I just got the chance to relax and be a part of the culture and soak up the Irish experience.

“The people there are just amazing. I would go downtown and have

no idea where I was going, but random people were just so friendly and helpful. I always thought Texas people were friendly but no, the Irish people are so friendly and amazing.”

Kahler is a fifth-year senior having come to Lamar on a football scholarship as a punter. When his eligibility and scholarship ran out, he started looking for something to help him financially as he finished his PreMed studies. His project mentor, Dr. Rick Carter, suggested applying for a Beck Fellowship.

The Beck Fellowship gives an academic scholarship for one calendar year and $10,000 to do research. The scholarship is academically competitive, so Kahler said he had to make sure his GPA was high enough. He planned two areas of research of equal strength in case one didn’t work out.

Kahler said the Beck experience not only helped him continue his studies, but will also help him in the future.

“Just being able to do the research and apply ever ything I’ve learned for my major in exercise science — the real life applications will stick with me forever,” he said. “This trip answered a lot of questions I had about medicine going in, and that’s probably the coolest thing. It gave me so much enthusiasm to be there every day and it told me, ‘Wow, this is what I want to do for a living.’ I really want to wake up every week and do surgery.

“That really motivates me. Now I see the reward for all the hard work.

It makes it worth while, especially to see the impact it has on people. If I can just combine my love for people and my love for medicine, I know I’ll be able to make a difference,” The deadline to apply for a David J. Beck Fellowship is Oct. 1. Applications are available where.

For information, call students. lamar.edu/academic-support/beckfellowships.html.

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Lamar film students hold open casting

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MEAGAN HENRY UP CONTRIBUTOR Lamar film students are looking for a few good men — and women — to star in a series of short films.

An open audition for nine short films will be held Sept. 27, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., in the Communication Building Lounge.

“We will have sides ready, which are pieces of the script, that someone can study, so they can determine if it’s something they want to do,” Clinton Rawls, LUTV-7 broadcast programming manager, said.

The nine advanced level film students will shoot from their own material. There are a variety of roles available. The number of characters in each film range from one to 15.

Actors can audition for as many parts as they like.

“We’re not really looking for a type or any individual in particular,” director Mizzael Avila, Rio Bravo, Tamaulipas, Mexico senior, said. “We just hope that everybody shows up and there is a different variety of people, maybe some first-time actors that want to experience the craft — we will welcome them.

We will also welcome older people that are already established in the local acting community. We really want to participate with everybody who wants to join in.”

Casting sheets, which list a short synopsis of the story, a character description and the physicality of each character, will be available.

“In each of our minds eyes, we have views of how the film is going to turn out,” director Wesley Gifford, Orange junior, said.

“We definitely do have a view of what we are looking for, but obviously what we want and what we can get are sometimes two vastly different things. We are using these casting call auditions to find what we can, so that we can we can fill these roles and make the film happen.”

Rawls said the audition process is a chance for the filmmakers to experience the casting process in a professional way.

“I just want them to have the experience of sitting down and seeing people come to them, see actors read their material, network, meet more people in the area and develop themselves as storytellers,” Rawls said.

“This way they can all have the chance to learn what it is like to audition actors, give them feedback, see what opportunities they have available to them and how many people are out there.

“At the audition I’ll have the students tell the actors, ‘Here is when I’m shooting, are you available at this time?’ Then the actor can tell them right then and there if they are available or not. I’ll also tell the students that within a few days they have to pick who they are going to cast and to contact them right away.”

The films have no budget, but actors can use the experience to build their résumés.

“We can’t really guarantee them any benefit money wise,” Avila said. “But if they request a copy of the final product, or if they want us to make a reel out of whatever footage we have of them, we can definitely provide them services in that way. As of right now, we can’t promise anything beyond a thank you and a copy of the film.”

Gifford said the directors plan to show their appreciation for the actors who commit to the project.

“If you are a part of the cast, you will be treated like a star on set,” he said.

The nine directors will write, shoot and edit the films. Although they are class projects, Avila said the directors are approaching the work in a professional manner.

“We do not want to call them ‘student films’ because there is a negative connotation,” he said. “People think it’s going to be cheap and it’s going to be low budget. Of course, we have no budget, but that doesn’t mean what we are going to shoot is going to be zero-budget looking. We are actually going to do our best to make it seem like a short film, so I think that it is better if we say nine short films rather than nine student films. We have a lot of professional equipment, so I think we can pull this off.

“Everything is going to be done this semester. We are going to shoot in October and edit in November, and by December, we are going to be showcasing these at our annual film showcase. It is almost like instant gratification, in the sense that some productions take years to finish, where as this one is going to be done in less than two months.”

The showcase will take place Dec. 3 in the Communications Building. Details will be announced at a later date.

For more information, call Rawls at 8807385, or email james.rawls@lamar.edu.

As part of Hispanic Heritage Month, Jesus “Chuy” Negrete will present “A Celebration of Hispanic History and Culture through Storytelling and Music” on Wednesday, at 7 p.m. in the Science Auditorium.

A nationally recognized entertainer and educator, Negrete is the founder of the Mexican Cultural Institute.

“Dr. Negrete visited in 2009 for Hispanic Heritage Month, and we were so impressed by his outstanding performance that we invited him to return,” Vernice Monroe, liaison to the president on University Multicultural Enhancement, said. “He incorporates storytelling and presents in both English and Spanish for the audience.”

Incorporating songs, slides and images of Mexican labor in the United States to portray a genuine viewpoint on Mexican history, Negrete will discuss the history of MexicanLatino experiences ranging from pre-Columbian times to the present.

A Smithsonian and Bannerman Fellow, Negrete attended the University of CaliforniaBerkley where he earned his doctoral degree.

He has also earned degrees from University of Illinois and Chicago State University with concentrations in educational anthropology and ethnomusicology.

For more information, visit the Multicultural Programming website at lamar. orgsync.com/org/multicultural.

No business like ‘Anton’

LU theatre to present backstage comedy, Oct. 2-5 CAROLYN KONDOS UP CONTRIBUTOR When three actresses are cast in a production of Anton Chekhov’s “Three Sisters,” they find there is a lot more to theatre than just what is on stage.

Audiences will get to share their backstage adventures as Lamar theatre presents the comedy, “Anton in Show Business,” beginning Oct. 2 in the Studio Theatre. Performances are set for 7:30 p.m., Oct. 2, 3 and 4, with a matinee at 2 p.m., Oct. 5.

The play, written by Jane Martin, focuses on the three actresses — a seasoned veteran from New York, a fictional famous television actress, and a young girl fresh out of a Texas college.

“Throughout the process, we never see the play for various reasons, but we learn a lot about them, and a lot about how the play parallels with their lives, and how their lives parallel with the play,” director Brian LeTraunik said. “It’s a play about theatre.”

On the surface, it is a backstage comedy, LeTraunik said, adding that the show deals with the role of women in art in society, and how life imitates art.

“The audience gets a peek at the backstage process, things they don’t usually get to see,” he said.

“Some of it may seem exaggerated or kind of outrageous, but it’s not that far from the truth.

“I tell the actors all the time, ‘You might think this outrageous, but I have 30 years experience as a professional actor and the truth is a lot stranger than fiction.’”

Natalie Sell plays Casey, the veteran actress.

“She has been in 200 plays without ever being paid a salary,” Sell said. “She has got a lot of experience and is a little bit broken in this profession — it has beaten her down. But she keeps doing it because she loves acting. She’s not exactly bitter and she does have some humor. She is surprised to see good things happen, but doesn’t get her hopes up, because she feels like she is going to be let down.”

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Natalie Sell, left, Shelby Dryden, Chloe Sullivan, Tracie Van Law and Lexi McDonald, rehearse a scene from “Anton in Showbusiness,” which opens Oct. 2 in the Studio Theatre.

The character is different from how Sell sees herself, she said.

“I try to hide my disappointment and she just lets it out,” Sell said. “She has been around the block sexually and she is not afraid to admit it. She’s blunt — more than me. She is really fun to play.

She is one of the oldest characters I’ve played, I am typically cast younger than I am.”

Lexi McDonald and Shelby Dryden play the other “sisters.”

Rebecca Aswell, Hannah Barker, Chloe Sullivan and Tracie Van Law round out the all-female cast.

“It was a big draw,” LeTraunik said. “Those plays are rare. Each one of those roles is a good solid role — it fit the demographic of our department very well. We were looking at plays that were female heavy across the board. All seven women have very solid parts, very solid characters to play.”

Despite the all-female cast, LeTraunik said the play will appeal to everyone.

“It’s not a woman’s play — some of them are playing men — that’s just the way it’s written,” he

said. “There are comments made in the play (that) there are a lack of female roles in theatre, not many good female roles — it’s done for an effect.

“It’s a human play. It’s about art, passion and dedication.”

LeTraunik said the actors who play the male characters are embracing the opportunity.

“They are having a ball,” he said. “It’s a great acting challenge.

They have to embody these people.”

Both Aswell and Sell have previous experience with Chekhov, having appeared in last year’s production of “Uncle Vanya.”

“It has its similarities because it has about the same writer,” she said. “Chekhov writes about the same thing — realism. But the tone is different. Even though ‘Uncle Vanya’ has its comedic moments, ‘Anton in Showbusiness’ pokes fun at the theatre.”

LeTraunik said that while the show is about theatre and why people do theatre, it is also about people having a passion others might not understand.

“Whether it’s arts, athletics, business, science, math — I think if people have a passion for something that people might not understand, this gives them a glimpse into why people put up with the things and sacrifice, and why they dedicate themselves,” he said.

“The play speaks to that. Why actors live these crazy lives, having to travel hither and beyond, taking jobs for little or no money. This play examines a lot of that. It’s out of love, passion — the need to do it.”

Sell said audience members will enjoy the show.

“The play is hilarious,” she said. “They are going to get a bigger sense of what it’s like — the process of putting on a play — everything that goes into it. It forms a connection between real life and putting on a play.”

Tickets are $7 for LU students, $10 for faculty, staff, students and seniors, and $15 general admission.

For information. Call 880-2250, or visit http://www.lamar.edu/theatre.

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SPORTS UP SPORTS BRIEFS Cross Country Leigh Lattimore became the second Lamar Lady Cardinal in as many weeks to earn Southland Conference Women’s Cross-Country Athlete of the Week honors, the conference announced Tuesday.

The senior led Lamar to the team title at the Texas A&M Invitational on Saturday, as she finished sixth overall in a time of 14 minutes, 19.0 seconds over the 4,100meter course.

“Leigh had a tremendous day at Texas A&M,” Lamar cross-country coach Darren Gauson said. “Everybody is running well for us right now.”

Lattimore follows Lamar junior Verity Ockenden, who was honored by the conference last week.

The Lady Cardinals are ranked sixth in the South Central Region by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association, the highest of any Southland Conference squad.

The Men placed second at the A&M Invitational. Freshman Jan Lukas Becker led the Lamar men with a seventh-place finish over the 6,100-meter course in 8:44.0. Alex Dunbar was ninth in 18:47.3, followed by Michael Kershaw in 10th place.

The Cardinals finished with 56 points, just beaten out by the Aggies, who had 54 points. Stephen F. Austin was third in the 11-team field with 94 points, while Texas Tech was fourth with 95 points.

Men’s Golf The Lamar men's golf team made their second trip to the state of Illinois in as many weeks, and will leave this time with a much better impression than their first trip to the Land of Lincoln. Led by sophomore Mans Berglund's one-under 209 the Cardinals carded a threeround 289-286-284—859 to finish tied for sixth with Purdue.

The Cardinals return to action Sunday when they travel to South Bend, Ind., to compete in the Fighting Irish Gridiron Classic, hosted by Notre Dame. The three-round tournament will run through Tuesday.

Women’s Tennis Lamar’s Hanna Elfving fell in the finals of her singles draw at the Solinco Houston Open on Sunday.

Elfving, competing at No. 5 singles, dropped a 6-0, 6-1 decision to Angela Lorenzo of Houston.

In doubles play, Elfving and teammate Anna Spengler fell to the duo of Charlotte Phillips of Houston and Valeria Tarentyeva of Stephen F. Austin by an 8-3 score.

The Lady Cardinals continue their fall tennis season when they compete at the Northwestern State Invitational, a two-day event that gets under way Friday in Natchitoches, La.

Women’s Soccer Lamar women’s soccer players Kimmy Albeno and Bailey Fontenot were honored by the Southland Conference for their efforts in a pair of wins last week.

Albeno, a senior forward, was named the offensive player of the week, while Fontenot, also a senior, was named the goalkeeper of the week.

Albeno scored three goals and added an assist to help the Lady Cardinals post a 4-0 win over Texas Southern and a 4-1 win over Northwestern State in the Southland Conference opener.

Albeno leads Lamar with 11 points and five goals, and became the first player in program history to reach 30 goals for her career.

Lamar (3-5 overall, 1-0 Southland) returns to action this weekend with a pair of conference roadgames. The Lady Cardinals are at defending regular-season champion Stephen F. Austin at 7 p.m. Friday before traveling to Houston Baptist at 1 p.m. Sunday.

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CARDS ROLL INTO SLC LU PUTS 55 ON MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE IN FINAL NON-CONFERENCE GAME GRANT CRAWFORD UP SPORTS EDITOR @GrantLamarUP The Lamar football team defeated Mississippi College 55-10 in Provost Umphrey Stadium, Saturday. Coach Ray Woodard said he was worried about the speed of Mississippi College’s offense early on.

After giving up 10 points in the first half, the Cardinals returned from the locker room and shutout the Choctaws in the second.

“I thought our defensive coaching staff and players all did a heck of a job of adjusting as the game went on,” Woodard said. “By the second half we had seen most of their plays and blocking schemes.

So as they kept running the ball, we got better and better against them. I was proud of how we improved during the game.”

Woodard said he wasn’t surprised by the Cardinal’s level of play on offense.

“Offensively we came out and played at a high level like I thought we could,” Woodard said. “I knew we were going to be a force on offense.”

Senior Caleb Berry finished with 379 passing yards and three touchdowns.

Lamar ended with 282 rushing yards. Sophomore Carl Harris had 134 of those yards and had a career high three touchdowns. One of his scores came on a 37-yard run.

“The O-line up front blocked that play to perfection,” Harris said. “It was basically just like a walk in touchdown — untouched. It gives me a lot of confidence that I can make plays in the running game. I haven’t scored three touchdowns since high school.”

Carl Harris has taken the majority of the touches in the running game since Kade Harrington’s injury.

“We knew Carl was going to take the bulk of the load tonight, as long as he could stay healthy,” Woodard said.

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“He did a heck of a job and he’s learning how to hold on to the ball now, which is good to see.

Carl has had the opportunity to step up and he has stepped up.”

Woodard said Lamar drew too many flags.

“We had a lot of penalties,” Woodard said. “We usually like to have five or six. Tonight we had eleven, we’ve got to cut that back down. I think the officiating crew may have had a little to do with that, they like to throw a lot of flags. You don’t want to blame it on the officials too much though.”

This was Lamar’s last nonconference game, going into Southland Conference play 3-1.

Carl Harris said the offense is ready for the SLC. “We’re really excited to start conference play,” Harris said. “This offense is very talented across the board.” He said the past four games have made him ready for the next eight.

Carl Harris, above, stiff arms a Mississippi College player during Lamar’s 55-10 win, Saturday, at Provost Umphrey Stadium. The Cardinals, left, are now 3-1 on the season as they head into Southland Conference play at home against Sam Houston State, Saturday.

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Woodard said he thinks these non-conference games have his team where it needs to be when Sam Houston comes into town Saturday, but doesn’t want to appear cocky.

“We got out of these 4 games what we wanted,” Woodard said. “We’re going to

need to play better when we get into conference play against teams like Sam Houston, and we know that. They have a number of good players back from last year. We know what we’re getting into. The intensity is going to be there and we’ll be ready.”

Lamar will kick off their first SLC game against the Bearkats in Provost Umphrey Stadium, Saturday. The game is set to begin at 7 p.m.

“This is conference play,” Woodard said. “These are the games we play for. These are the ones that count.”

Men’s tennis returns seven, looks for strong season LANE FORTENBERRY UP Contributor The Cardinals are looking to start this tennis season strong. After having success last year, the team doesn’t plan on slowing down.

Men’s head coach Scott Shankles said seven players are returning from last year.

“Our top two players, Nikita Lis and Michael Feucht, will play at the same position,” Shankles said. “Then Juuso Laitinen and Jeandre Hoogenboezem will fill the middle part out.

Last, Mikko Rajamaki, Steven McMullan, and Trey Crysel will finish the bottom portion of the line-up.”

After having their best season since 1987, overall 14-13 — losing the Southlan championship match — Shankles has greater expectations for this season.

“After we finished last season on a strong note, our expectations are higher,” Shankles said. “We feel that this year’s team has a good shot at competing for a regular season title and tournament title.”

Shankles said the Cardinals have

had a great summer followed by some successful practices.

“As a team we had a good summer with results,” Shankles said.

“Nikita and Michael played a lot and did real well, especially at the Future’s level tournament of the ATP Tour.

“The past two weeks we have had great practices. It usually takes a week or two for my European players to adjust back to the heat and humidity, but they are all doing great now.”

Shankles said his team has plenty of time to prepare for the

Spring and feels confident about this year.

“I feel by April, when our conference season begins, we will be playing our best tennis,” Shankles said.

“That is the great thing about being a spring sport, you have plenty of time to get yourself better for the most important part of the season. We are hopeful that the Commissioner will be awarding the regular season title and tournament title to our team. I feel strongly we can accomplish those goals. It will be a lot of fun and exciting for our fans to see.”

Men’s Tennis The Lamar University men’s tennis team had a solid weekend at the Rice Fall Invitational.

Lamar’s Nikita Lis reached the semifinals in the singles competition, while Lamar’s two doubles teams went undefeated.

“I’m very proud with our overall performance,” Lamar coach Scott Shankles said. “We played a lot of good tennis and posted some quality wins.”

Lis went 4-1 in his singles matches on the weekend, Yannick Junger of UTSA.. and Ford Zitsch and Dusty Boyer of Nebraska.

Lis rallied for a 2-6, 7-5, 11-9 win over Jason Jaruvang of Arizona in the quarterfinals before being edged by Rice’s David Warren 7-6 (2), 7-6 (3).

“Nikita had an excellent tourney,” Shankles said. “For him to beat players from the power conferences is very impressive.”

Steven McMullan, left, Nikita Lis and Juuso Laitenen practice at Cardinal Courts, Tuesday.

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WIRELESS •••••••••••••••• Continued from page 1 With the climbing enrollment and the push toward more technologybased learning in the classroom, and concerns for enhancing students’ social involvement, the need for wireless expansion has never been greater, Stewart, said.

“This is costly, but a necessary service to the students and faculty,” he said.

Funding will be supported by the current student IT fee and HEAF, and has been identified within existing sources, Melvin said.

Smith said that the school is mindful of the need for students to have easy access to wireless services.

“Typically, students can’t afford unlimited data plans that are out on the market, nor should they, especially in so far as the technology plays some role in their collegiate experience — the academic and social experience,” he said.

It is the trend in student use of wireless technology, and is very important, Smith said, adding that while it is an expensive investment, it is not a risky one.

Priscilla Parsons, vice president for information technology and chief information officer, said the changes will help students and faculty.

“Obviously, what we are wanting to do is enhance both the academic capabilities of our faculty being able to utilize some of those newer techniques and technologies in the classroom, as well as enhance students’ capabilities to study, potentially in groups, and things like that, in some of those more open spaces in some of those academic buildings, as well as enhance campus life by increasing some of the coverage in some of our more popular green spaces,” she said.

For wireless expansion to be sufficient, the IT department must calculate at least four devices for each person on campus. With students, faculty, staff, and even visitors to Lamar, accessing wireless service at any given time, the need is great.

“The presence of devices that access wireless Internet services is not slowing down,” Parsons said. “You think of everyone just having one device, but that’s not the case, because students and faculty and staff come on campus with their cell phones, with their laptops, with a tablet, with a touch iPod, with numerous other devices.

“So, when you start counting those things up, you may have four devices per person that are accessing, and especially if they have those devices turned on to automatically connect to a wireless network, then you have a huge demand.”

Currently, Lamar’s network is open and unsecured, which means that it can be accessed by anyone at any time, which is a drain on the wireless network meant for the exclusive use of the Lamar community.

“We want to make it secure, but user-friendly,” Stewart said.

Stewart said that eventually, all users of LUBigRed will be required to provide a code, likely their L number or employee number, to access the system. However, students, faculty and staff will only have to enter their code once for their device to be recognized and registered in the system.

“It’s our desire, at some point in the not too distant future, to also pull in some of our open spaces, our public spaces,” Smith said. “For example, the Quad is a great one. Right now, we would like to see students take advantage of the Quad, but we really need wireless coverage or they’re not going to sit out there on a pretty spring day or pretty fall day. We want to have open space coverage as well.”

The Galloway Business Building, the Education Building and Gray Library will be the first academic buildings to receive the expansion. On the social side, public and social areas, such as the Setzer Student Center and Brook Shivers Dining Hall, will be included in phase one.

“We’re going to move into some very popular student venues first,

those kinds of places where students tend to congregate,” Smith said.

“We’re going to take baby steps and make certain we do it right, and make certain our technology is state of the market.”

After testing and tweaking the systems, the second phase will begin.

By the start of the spring semester, other academic buildings and open areas will also have state-of-the-art wireless service.

“At that point, we’re going to then step back and talk to students about whether it’s working and get some performance feedback,” Smith said.

Surveys will be given to students and faculty throughout the semester to get feedback on the wireless service, and see what kinds of improve-

ments need to be made, if any.

“If we successfully hit our targets there, we’ll immediately deploy that to the rest of the campus,” Parsons said.

All of the pre-work — running cable, purchasing access points, and supporting equipment and back-end servers — will continue during the initial implementation.

“We’ll be ready as soon as we know that the technology that we’re using has delivered, based on our performance criteria,” Parsons said. “As soon as we’ve verified that with that survey, then we’ll be able to roll out to the rest of the campus very quickly.”

Stewart said 500 wireless access points will be installed across campus as part of the initial roll-out, and they are the latest in broadband technology.

The ultimate goal is to have full coverage all over campus in open areas and green spaces such as the Quad and even in parking lots, though the teaching spaces are the priority, Stewart said.

The goal of full campus coverage is expected to take up to three years to accomplish, though results of the first phase will be noticeable within three to four weeks.

“In the long-term future — longterm as defined by IT is a fairly short period of time — we would like for the entire campus to have coverage, and that’s our ultimate goal,” Smith said.

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