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Recital aims to promote LU piano program KRISTEN STUCK UP MANAGING EDITOR @kristenstuck The Mary Morgan Moore Department of Music will present a piano concert, Sept. 16, from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Rothwell Recital Hall in the Simmons Music Building. The concert will feature a duet with Jacob Clark, new Lamar assistant professor of piano, and his wife, Sujung Cho. Admission is free.

“I’m new here, so I want to kind of advertise the fact that I’m here and that I’m ready to really get things going with the piano program,” Clark said. “It’s not large yet, but I want to make people in the area aware that there’s a new pianist in town who is looking to build up the piano program. One of the ways to do that is by throwing a big concert, so people can see.”

Clark and Cho will perform in a one See PIANO, page 2

Lamar part of history in state’s largest college football crowd GRANT CRAWFORD UP SPORTS EDITOR @GrantLamarUP COLLEGE STATION — The largest crowd ever to watch a college football game in Texas, 104,728, were at Kyle Field when the Lamar Cardinals rolled into town, Saturday, for a non-conference matchup with Texas A&M University.

The week before, Lamar played in front of 9,520 people during their home opener against Grambling State University.

LU freshman Matt Godfrey attended the game and said it was much different than a game at Provost Umphrey Stadium.

“In a way, it was very intimidating,” he said. “Everywhere you walked you saw an A&M jersey, and maybe every so often you saw a Lamar shirt. It was very loud, and they were doing all of their chants, which were very elaborate — kind of strange, to be honest.”

Despite Lamar being overwhelmed 733 on the field, the Cardinal fans supported the team throughout.

“No one was surprised by the outcome, but we were sticking it out for the team,” Godfrey said.

Not everyone who attended the game was a Lamar student, or Texas A&M fan.

Lamar alumni Vickie Sauerwein said she was proud of how her alma mater played.

“The atmosphere there is completely different, because it’s just such a large college where they all go out to support their team,” she said. “We were hoping we would score a few more points, but we’re proud of Lamar.

I thought our players tried very hard, and we’re proud of them, too.”

The football team was not the only program to participate in Saturday night’s events. During the two hour lightning delay that occurred before kickoff, the LU band started the wave to pass the time. Eventually, Texas A&M fans joined in on the wave.

Sauerwein said the band’s performance was one of her favorite moments.

“It was nice to see the band there,” she said. “We really enjoyed getting to watch them play on the big field.”

Sauerwein said she thought the game gave Lamar the recognition they deserve.

Junior linebacker Mike Hargis agreed.

“I think it will open up a lot of people’s eyes, recruiting wise,” he said. “It gave people a chance to see what Lamar is about, and let them know we’ve got a football team, too.”

While the Lamar band passed the delay with the wave, the football team was much more serious.

“It almost made me sick, I wanted to start so bad,” Hargis said. “It was disappointing, but I just had to keep my focus and stay calm. I did my job, which was focusing on how to win the game.”

Hargis said he knew there was going to be a lot of people, but to actually be out there on the field and look up at the crowd was overwhelming.

“With that type of atmosphere, it even had me and my boys fired up,” he said.

While Kyle Field currently can hold more than 106,000 people, after post-season renovations are completed, the capacity will be 102,000.

The Cardinals return to Provost Photos by Matt Billiot Umphrey Stadium, Saturday, to host Texas College.

A large contingent of Lamar fans were part of the Texas-record crowd of The game kicks off at 7 p.m.

104,728 people at Kyle Field. Texas A&M beat Lamar 73-3.

Jacob Clark

Sujung Cho

LUTV purchases new equipment through city grant ELIZABETH GRIMM UP CONTRIBUTOR Lamar University Television has acquired new equipment that will enhance students’ experiences and expertise.

Communications chair O’Brien Stanley said the money came from a City of Beaumont grant, and because LUTV is a public access channel they were eligible for funds.

“It started out as a medium sized grant, a very good grant, but then the city said, ‘Do you need more equipment to make Channel 7 look better?,’” Stanley said. “The grant got up to $139,000.

With that grant, we bought cameras, new prompter gear — and now we’re getting a news server. It’s not at LUTV yet, but it will be a server specifically for newscast that ties together your story See LUTV, page 4

Study Abroad director aims to offer opportunities for all LAUREN VAN GERVEN UP EDITOR @thegerven

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Study Abroad director Jeffrey Palis aims to internationalize campus.

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Following a national search, Jeffrey Palis has been selected as Lamar’s first Director of Study Abroad.

Palis, who comes to Lamar after holding a similar position at Georgia Southern University, said that international travel and study abroad have always been his passion and an important part of his life.

“I grew up in North Carolina and I have always been able to travel,” he said. “My mother worked for the airlines, so we have always traveled a lot, and I was always disappointed that I was able to experience so much, to learn so

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much about the world and travel, whereas my friends growing up weren’t getting these opportunities.

That I couldn’t share this with them, that was disappointing.”

Palis had the opportunity to study abroad and intern in Austria while working towards his master’s degree in international studies.

“Having gone abroad as a graduate student really cemented in me that I wanted to come back to the United States and help other people,” he said. “I came back from Europe really wanting that experience for young people.”

After returning to the United States, Palis’ first job back in the country was at Georgia Southern.

“It was similar to this position, in the sense that we didn’t have a large centralized program at the

time,” he said. “It’s one thing to not have a huge international program available — not all universities do — but it’s another thing to have the full weight of the administration behind it, and this goes all the way to Dr. (Kevin) Dodson and President (Kenneth) Evans.

“When I interviewed for this position, I was struck immediately by the knowledge that Dr. Evans has about international education.

The experience he’s had with study abroad programs in the past, the commitment he has with making it happen, that’s impressive. That was one of the big selling points in coming here. I came here knowing that the administration didn’t need any convincing about how important inSee PALIS, page 2

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PIANO ••••••••••••••••••••••••• Continued from page 1 piano, four hands setting. “It’s just one piano, but two people playing on the same piano at the same time,â€? Clark said, “That’s the entire format of the concert. It’s going to be us playing together on one piano. We’re kind of specialists in that. That’s what we do our research in, and we do a lot of our performing in that. I do solo piano, too, of course, but that is kind of my favorite way, the four hands format.â€?

Clark said the format requires each performer to get into their partner’s head. “You mostly have to really listen carefully, because a lot of it is anticipat-

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Palis said that it will be his task to help increase the number of programs available, but also to help get the word out to students — to help them understand why these programs are important for them. “I want students to feel the way about international programs as Dr. Evans and I do,� he said. “Study abroad doesn’t just widen your horizons, it doesn’t just teach you about different places; it provides you with a challenge. It teaches you how to deal with different cultures and languages. It gives you the confidence to go out and make your way in a place where you don’t speak the language.�

Palis said that study abroad programs aren’t just about the number of people that travel abroad to study; it’s also about the experience they have. “It’s not just the quantity, but certainly it’s also the quality of the experience that we want to work on,� he said. “I want to know where (students) will be going, what they will be doing. That way, if President Evans

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ing what your partner is going to do,� he said. “If you’re somebody who is just solo minded and you’re not really paying attention, it’s never going to work. You have to match everything that your partner does and you have to listen for balance — that you’re not overwhelming them. Everything has to sound like one person is doing it.�

The duo, called Duo Korusa, are dedicated to playing lesser-known works, as well as new works. “I’m hoping to have a nice, big audience and that people hear something that they have never heard before,�

Clark said.

A Houston native, Clark moved from South Carolina State University to Lamar to get into a larger music program that offered a performance degree, he said.

“My previous institution didn’t have the performance degree, so I wanted to work somewhere where there was the opportunity to work with stronger and more serious music students,� he said. “Plus, we have a graduate program for music here. I was really excited when I saw they had a graduate program in music performance.�

Clark said he self-taught himself to play the piano at age five and began taking professional lessons at age 10. “I was kind of a precocious reader and when I was five, I dug out my parents old music books,� he said. “My mom played a little bit and I found all of her old piano books from the ’60s. I already knew how to read, so I started teaching myself how to play. I taught myself for about five years. I was starting to get pretty good and my parents

were like, ‘Maybe he should have some lessons.’ So, it went on from there.�

Clark said that he is looking to build up the program and have a studio of about 10 piano majors. “I’m also hoping to start an accompanying program where the piano majors can go out and collaborate with the other music majors,� he said. “We have a need for piano accompaniment for our vocalists and for other instrumentalists. I’m hoping when I can develop a large enough studio of piano majors, I can get them to start assisting other students. I’m hoping to get a thriving graduate program, too. We do offer the degree, but I don’t have many students doing it just yet.�

For more information, call 8808144 or visit lamar.edu/music.

says, ‘OK, I understand we have 10 students in Ireland, what are they going to be doing there, where are they going to be staying, who’s in charge of that?’ I want to be able to answer those questions. We need to be confident in these programs, and all of that is part of the strategic position.�

Although Palis’ job is a new position, he said that Lamar already has a lot of strong international programs. “We’re doing a lot of good international things already,� he said. “Part of my job is to put those in the spotlight. We have a handful of study abroad programs — China, France, Spain, Italy — all available for our students, so those need to be highlighted. The students need to be made aware of those, but also, I need to gain insight from our student body.

What kind of experiences do students want? How long do they want to go for? Where do they want to go? What kind of courses do they want to be taking when they are abroad?�

Palis said that it is his job to deliver what students want. “I want study abroad to be inclusive,� he said. “Inclusive to everyone on this campus, whether you’re un-

dergrad or graduate — if you’re in the arts, the sciences, the health field, or anything else — if you want to go for a week or two, or a semester or two. If we’re going to use this as a force, as a way to internationalize this campus, it cannot be for one small segment of the population.�

Palis said that he wants to create programs that are affordable, that offer credits students need at destinations students want to go, while maintaining enough diversity.

Palis said he wants to create partnerships that would enable longer duration programs. “I have a lot of experience with that,� he said. “I have partnership universities that I’ve been working with for more than a decade all over the world. For longer duration programs, (students would) enroll here, pay their tuition and fees to Lamar — it’s an exchange of tuition. There are details that need to be worked out in that, but we’ve made it work in previous institutions — we’ll make it work here.�

Palis said he is keen to work with faculty. “I want to design programs that students want to participate in, where

they will have a great experience, and where we can get faculty involved, because ultimately they will be leading a lot of the short-term programs, so we need to go where they have experience,� he said.

Palis said that he wants to get to students early in their college experience. “When Lamar University goes and recruits students, when we’re having an open house, students need to hear that there are international opportunities at Lamar,� he said. “I want students to get to campus and say, ‘I chose Lamar for a variety of reasons, and one of these is the fact that I can go abroad.’�

The program will design study abroad courses that offer some of the core classes that all students need to take, Palis said. “Let’s make programs that address the curriculum needs of students early on, so that study abroad is not peripheral to degree requirements — it’s not going to make you stay in school longer, it’s not going to make you take extra classes,� he said.

For more information, visit Palis at 215 Wimberly, or email jpalis@lamar.edu.

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CALENDAR September 12 College PanHellenic Council Formal Recruitment 2014 Setzer Student Center Through Sept. 15.

September 13 Football: Lamar University vs. Texas College Provost Umphrey Stadium Kickoff at 7 p.m. “Boadicea in Albion�

Art exhibition of paintings by Andy Coughlan Beaumont Art League 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

September 16 Duo Korusa Piano Recital Rothwell Recital Hall (Simmons Music Building) 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

September 17 Resume Seminar: Speaker Michelle Dorsey 101 Galloway Business Building 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.

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 Luncheon Honoring classes 1924 to 1964 Mary and John Gray Library, University Reception Center 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Class of 1964 Reunion Mary and John 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.

To submit a listing, click on the calendar link at lamaruniversitypress.com

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VOTING SHOULD BE OBLIGATION, NOT JUST RIGHT. With a campus visit from Secretary of State Nandita Berry, Aug. 29, the issue of voting has once again been brought into the spotlight.

Every year, and more importantly, on election years, students have teachers, professors and parents telling us how important our right to vote is. But, do we ever really heed their warning?

No matter who is in office, or what office they hold, there is always someone who is critiquing them. In today’s world, we see many of those critiques scrolling down our Facebook pages in the form of little jokes or a funny comic. It’s not an uncommon thing, though, that the person posting all of the satirical humor about the politicians in office never even voted to begin with.

Everyone wants to see a change in the world in some way, but how can we get that done? The easiest, and most important way, is to be involved in the politics that happen every day around us.

We have to get out there.

Do research into the politicians who are running. At the very least, be knowledgeable about who is running and what their main issues are. Then, it’s easy to go to the poll and cast a ballot without any questions.

For most people, getting involved is a daunting task. Find someone whose views you agree with and get involved with their campaign in some way. Volunteer to make phone calls, go door-to-door and talk to people about the politician. Contact the campaign and find out what you can do to help.

According to nonprofitvote.org, voter turnout among people 18 to 29 reached a high of 51 percent in 2008. However, in 2012 the number dropped to 45 percent.

The 2008 election was extremely publicized and people made sure to get out and vote. Every election needs to be that way. No election should go unnoticed in America. We must get out and vote.

It’s the only way to create the world we want.

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LEAVING THE COMFORT ZONE MOLLY PORTER UP STAFF WRITER @Mollykp3 One of the most commonly touted claims about studying abroad is that it changes people.

For many years, I regarded this claim as nothing more than a cliché.

This summer I had the opportunity to study abroad. I participated in a “Victorian London” literature course, part of the British Studies Program hosted by the University of Southern Mississippi. The program was based in London and included trips elsewhere in the United Kingdom.

Having never been out of the country before, I wasn’t sure what to expect. The program directors held sessions about how to prepare for the upcoming trip.

They discussed how and what to pack, how to get our documentation in order and how to budget our spending money. Of course, they also trotted out the same old cliché: this program would change me.

Again, I didn’t really take it seriously. After a month out of the country, however, I’m beginning to understand.

My study abroad trip was the experience of a lifetime. It changed my perspective on life — both the grand and the mundane — in ways that I didn’t think possible.

I gained a new perspective on both my course materials and the culture on which they were based. A study abroad program is neither simply a vacation nor a class, but rather a blending of the two, and this dynamic means that one is truly immersed in the culture one studies. As a tourist, one can understand a modern city, but in the course of studying, London’s Victorian roots

were laid bare.

My trip to London was more than simply studying, though.

A month in a foreign city is enough time to begin to truly settle in — to tap into the societal norms, to begin adopting mannerisms without realizing it, and to begin to truly get a feel for the vibrancy of the culture.

London is a very diverse city. Its streets are both uniform and eclectic. Its attitude is both proper and loud. This can be easy to miss in only a week or two, but studying abroad in London — rather than planning a short vacation there just to check it off my bucket list — gave me a chance to truly experience the pulse of the city in a way that I could not have done if I hadn’t spent as much time there.

My travels also gave me perspective on what it means to be an American in a foreign country, something which I hadn’t considered. It helped me to understand where I fit in with the culture of the city, but it also helped me understand how I relate to the culture of the rest of the world.

Frankly, it made me feel small.

My study abroad trip made me realize, in a greater context, that I’m only one of seven billion people in the world. It made me understand the value of human connections more than I ever had in the past.

I was forced out of my comfort zone, and it’s helped me to contextualize the way I live my life, and the things I sometimes take for granted.

It’s not a cliché — the program did change me. I understand the true value of a dollar. I understand the value of a good pair of walking shoes. I’ve made close friends with whom I’ve

Molly Porter visits Karl Marx’s tomb in Highgate Cemetary, London. shared unforgettable experiences. I can get lost in a major city and not feel frightened. I can say that I’ve seen a play in one of the best centers of theatre in the world.

Ultimately, though, the program directors were right. I’ve learned things about myself that I could have never imagined.

Studying abroad has helped me to grow and break out of my shell, and it’s changed me for the better.

With all of the resources available to Lamar students, everyone has the chance to study abroad. You never really know who you are until you leave your comfort zone.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Editor: America is called the melting pot because it is boiling with diversity — you can have a Japanese-American neighbor to your left and a Mexican one to your right, you can have friends with ancestors from every country on the map. Despite this, we are all Americans, “one nation under God,” but it does not always feel that way.

Southeast Texas is not the most culturally diverse area. Due to this, many people around here do not know much about other cultures or religions.

However, in my experience, many in Southeast Texas are willing to learn and are kind enough to accept you regardless of race, religion, or sexual orientation.

There is also a minority of southeast Texans who are angry, bitter, or unwilling to believe other than what they know or have heard on television. This minority proudly displays their beliefs on their trucks with “Obama, traitor, liar, MUSLIM” covering the entire back

windshield. Others get tattoos and bumper stickers that mock Islam saying, “Kafir — American Infidel”.

Although they are a minority, they have an incredibly strong presence because they are not afraid to parade their opinions around.

For the victims of discrimination and racism, the minority can easily be mistaken as the majority.

Psychologically, human beings remember negative emotions more strongly, which is why it is so easy to focus and treat the minority’s perspective as the majority’s opinion.

What people need to realize is that this is reflected all over the world.

In this case, I’d like to take ISIS into consideration.

They call themselves the “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” although a quick internet search or conversation with a local Muslim will show you that Muslims do not in fact associate themselves with ISIS nor do they consider them Muslims.

Why? Because they are a minority. An extremist minority that kills Christians, Muslims, and Jews alike. According to an FBI report, out of all of the terrorist attacks on America 6 percent were by Islamic Extremists. The other 90 percent were all carried out by non-Muslims.

I personally believe that terrorists and criminals should not be identified by their religion or race because they are not accurate representations. They are terrorists — end of story.

They are not Muslim, they are not African American, they are not Christian or Latino.

They are nothing but criminals and should be reported as such.

This is the case with ISIS. ISIS is a terrorist group, period. The Ku Klux Klan and the Westboro Baptist Church do not represent Christianity. Kach and Kahane Chai do not represent Judaism. In the same way, ISIS does not represent Islam and the guy with the anti-Muslim bumper sticker does not represent the Southeast Texas population.

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LUTV ••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Continued from page 1 with your video, and also puts everything in the news script and then it helps you stack the stories.”

The idea is for students to have a more professional experience when on campus, Stanley said.

“It brings a much more state-ofthe-art feel to LUTV,” he said. “We never let ourselves fall behind. Having said that, this really helps us keep up more effectively. We have done everything we could to buy modern equipment in the TV studio. We have good digital editing systems over there, we have about eight computers that students can edit on — we’ve got a lot of cameras for students to use, but this helps us get more modern cameras.

“The switcher is only a couple years old; it is a modern HD switcher.

But, the cameras were older analog cameras, so we had to use standard definition signals going to the switcher. Now, the cameras are going to be HD. The stuff we do from the computers, like our reporting, can also be HD if we want to.”

Studio operations manager Gordon Williams said LUTV is constantly striving to get more up-to-date equipment.

“We’ve had some of the equipment for quite a long time,” he said.

“It’s definitely lighter, definitely a lot less bulky. Also, we’re getting closer to what students are going to see in actual film, and I think that’s the most important thing.”

The new equipment will allow for easy accessibility in comparison to the old equipment that was heavier, Stanley said.

“We got those, I want to say, in ’96,” he said. “They had done their job and hung in there, coming on 20 years. Now (cameras are) all mounted on wheeled devices, kind of like a bigwheel tripod — you can move them around.

“We got new light-weight tripods, new prompters, and with some of the money we were able to remodel the TV studio — putting high-definition monitors behind the anchors.”

The acquisition took time, Clinton Rawls, broadcast programming manager, said.

“We knew that there was money there, and so when I was hired, one of

my first tasks was to contact the city and to do a lot of research,” he said.

“We had been told initially that the grant would be for about $50,000, and I was doing a lot of my paperwork with that amount in mind. But I wanted to be certain, so I called the city and asked them how much is it really going to be? And they said, ‘Well, it could be 50. It could be more, could be less. Shoot for the moon.’ I was a little frustrated by that, because I didn’t know where I could stop and I just kept adding and adding.

“We did a lot of research and when I submitted it, they just about approved everything. They only buy capital items, so the only thing they didn’t approve was a licensed subscription for a music library for our productions. It was a long process. I started work here in April (2013), and we just recently have gotten all of the stuff.”

Rawls said the new equipment will allow students to stretch imaginations.

“It allows the students to train on more state-of-the art equipment, to more fully realize their visions,” he said. “I think it opens their minds, it excites them. It gets them thinking something they want to make is so much more obtainable now than it ever was.

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Gordon Williams, LUTV studio operations manager, works with Enoma Agbongiasede, Houston Senior, during a class in the LUTV studio, while Clinton Rawls, broadcast programming manager, fits a camera to a new slider, Sept. 5.

“In regards to the television studio, with our closed-captioning teleprompter software and hardware, it allows the students to work on something that they will encounter in the real world, because every television station has a teleprompter closed-captioning base system, and that’s going to be a great asset for them in their

training.”

Rawls said the new equipment also allows for easier scheduling.

“It allows us, as professors, to not step on each other’s toes in regards to equipment,” he said. “A lot of times, we would have to coordinate our schedules to make sure who was using this or that, and if someone’s

class fell behind, it threw everything into disarray.

LUTV’s studio is located in 113 Theater Building. The broadcast is available throughout the Communication Building, or visit LUTV News on Facebook.

For more information, call 8808038, or email gswilliams@lamar.edu.

TRAVEL In search of ‘Pooh’

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Study abroad allows student to reconnect with childhood love MALLORY MATT UP STAFF WRITER @Triplem3a

Deep in the “Hundred Aker Wood,” there was a chubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff called Winnie the Pooh, or Pooh for short. His best friend was a small boy named Christopher Robin.

Many generations have followed Christopher Robin and Pooh Bear on their adventures in their world of makebelieve, but this world really isn’t as made up as one may think. The “Hundred Aker Wood” is a real place. It’s actually called the Five Hundred Acre Wood, located in England in East Sus-

sex, just 35 miles south of London.

In 1924, the author of the “Winnie the Pooh” series, AA Milne, and his family moved from their town house in Chelsea, London, to the Cotchford Farmhouse in the small village of Hartfield. He raised his son, Christopher Robin Milne, near a heavily-forested area known as the Five Hundred Acre Wood.

This is where Christopher Robin would take all of his nursery toys on their many adventures together.

Being the Winnie the Pooh fan that I am, I had to see this place.

My opportunity came this past summer. I was studying abroad in Spain, but I had a week break between my classes to travel around Europe. I had made a friend from New Zealand back in the

spring of 2013 while participating in the Disney College Program. She had just moved to London three months before I arrived and had a bed waiting for me to come visit.

My friend had remembered all the time I had spent being “friends with” Pooh Bear in the entertainment department at Disney World. She knew how important this visit was for me and so she gave me all of the instructions I needed to get to that enchanted place.

After a few train transfers and a bus ride, I was at Pooh Corner in Hartfield Village. It was a quaint little white house filled with toys. I purchased a guide specifically designed for walkers with detailed instructions to get me from Pooh Corner to Poohsticks Bridge. It also had

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Poohsticks Bridge, above, located in Hartfield, England, at Pooh Corner, left, is the real-world location used in A.A. Milne’s stories of “Winnie the Pooh.”

the official rules for playing Poohsticks.

The guide warned me that it was a 40-minute trip each way and that there were no bathrooms, which I really should’ve taken more seriously. I knew that it was a trek across woods and fields, especially since the guide’s first instruction was to “walk to where the pavement ends,” but it also said I would be crossing stiles — I had no idea what a stile was.

I quickly learned that “crossing” may not have been the most suitable word. “Climbing” would have been much better. Stiles are an arrangement of steps that allow people, but not animals, to climb over a fence, which would make sense because this wild, wooded English countryside was once the hunting ground for kings.

One would think these stiles were sturdy and unwavering. Nope.

Several times I was sure I was about to tumble head first over the rickety contraption, but somehow I survived.

I walked along the trails and followed the “Pooh Bridge” signs, picking up two sticks along the way for a game of Poohsticks once I reached the bridge.

The footpath had beautiful scenery.

The land rolled with green hills where, in the distance, the tops of the trees appeared to touch the sky.

It was nostalgic for me. I was remembering the child in me that laughed when Winnie the Pooh fell out of the honey tree. I was imagining myself back at Disney World, playing with that silly old bear. It was as if Pooh Bear had finally come home. He had been part of my life for as long as I can remember and I finally got to see where it all started.

I reached the bridge and readied myself for a game of Poohsticks. I faced upstream and held my two sticks at arm’s length over the edge of the bridge and yelled, “Ready, steady, go.” I dropped the two sticks and saw that the one in my left hand had surfaced from the stream first.

The best part about playing Poohsticks by myself, was that I knew I was going to win.

I would have played more games of Poohsticks except for the part about there being no bathrooms, so I made my way back to the start — at a slightly faster pace.

I was sad to leave. In my mind, I was whisked away to the moment Christopher Robin knew he was growing up — to the moment of his famous words, “Pooh, promise you won’t forget about me, ever. Not even when I’m a hundred.”

At the end of “In Which Christopher Robin and Pooh Come to an Enchanted Place and We Leave Them There,” A.A. Milne wrote, “Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on top of the Forest, a little boy and his bear will always be playing.”

Christopher Robin couldn’t stay in his world of make-believe anymore. He had to go to school. It was the reason I couldn’t stay. I had to go back to school.

But I knew I would never forget the adventures I began as a small child with my chubby little cubby, Winnie the Pooh.

Milne wrote, “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

I couldn’t agree more.

For more information about Pooh Corner, visit www.pooh-country.co.uk.

The history of ‘the bear with very little brain’ MALLORY MATT UP STAFF WRITER @Triplem3a There are various versions of Winnie the Pooh’s beginnings. A.A. Milne acknowledged that his wife, Daphne, and his young son, Christopher Robin, inspired him to write the stories.

The inspiration began in 1924 when four-year-old Christopher Robin was introduced to an American black bear at the London Zoological Gardens.

Henry Irving, a legendary Victorian actor, was the neighbor of Alan Alexander Milne. Milne had asked Irving if he would include his son, Christopher, in their next family visit to the London Zoo. Irving agreed.

When they arrived at the polar bear house, Christopher Robin burst into tears at his first sight of the huge white monster and begged to be taken home.

A few weeks later, Milne was having lunch at the Garrick Club with Irving and told him the story of Christopher’s second, more triumphant, visit to the zoo. This time, he had met and fallen in love with a bear and that this had inspired Milne to write a poem or two to celebrate the occasion.

Irving has another version that says he took Christopher on a family outing to the London Zoo with his daughter and that after a little trepidation, the

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young boy decided he liked the huge and friendly bear.

Whatever the real story is, there is no doubt that the young Christopher Robin did befriend Winnifred, or “Winnie,” at the London Zoo, due to the photo of him feeding the bear condensed milk during one of his visits.

Alan Milne can be seen behind the bars of the bear’s enclosure.

Winnie was regularly given her favorite treat of condensed milk, but in the stories of Winnie the Pooh, the bear’s daily “Little Something” was honey.

Christopher Robin Milne recalled that the original Winnie actually disliked honey. His father chose to use honey as Pooh Bear’s special treat because it was a much more “harmonic” word.

While there may be confusion of the origin of A.A. Milne’s inspiration, there is much less doubt about the original Winnie, the American black bear, at the London Zoo. In August of 1914, Lt. Harry Colebourn, a veterinary officer with the Thirty-fourth Fort Garry Horse of Manitoba, was travelling by train from his home in Winnipeg to enroll in the Canadian Army Veterinary Corps in Valcartier, Quebec.

His train made a stop at White River in Ontario, where he noticed a man further along the station platform with an American black bear cub tied to the arm

of the bench on which he was seated.

He began a conversation with the man, and learned that he was a trapper who had shot and killed the cub’s mother. Colebourn offered the trapper $20 for the young bear and the trapper eagerly accepted the offer.

The cub was taken to Quebec, where she became the mascot of the Second Canadian Infantry Brigade.

In December of 1914, the Second Brigade was preparing to move to France in great secrecy. Colebourn decided it was unsafe to take the bear into battle so, while passing through London on the way to France on Dec. 9, 1914, he visited London Zoo and asked them to care for the cub until his return.

It was not until 1918 that Colebourn returned safely to London. He saw that the bear, now known affectionately by her keepers and visitors as “Winnie,” was happy and content in her new home and so he decided to leave her there.

He visited her a number of times during the following years to renew his friendship, and the cub grew up to be a big friendly bear who lived and played among many thousands of friends until she died there May 12, 1934.

In 1951, at the request of Pooh’s U.S. publishers, E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., A. A. Milne agreed that Pooh and his friends Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga and Tigger could visit America on temporary

loan to help the publishers sell copies of a new edition of Milne’s books being issued by Dutton. Roo was unable to make the journey because he had lost his way many years before in the woods near Posingford, Sussex, and had not been seen since.

It was estimated that the animals would tour America for about three years and then be sent home to England. For reasons unknown, they have not been returned to their rightful home.

For more than 40 years, the toys were cared for by Elliott Graham at Dutton’s New York office. After reading a newspaper article reporting that the publishers had taken possession of the stuffed animals, Elliott applied for a job at Dutton.

He was quickly appointed as the official guardian to Pooh and his friends until his retirement as head of public relations for the company.

Peter Denis, an English actor who created the one-man show, “Bother! The Brain of Pooh,” wrote a letter to Christopher dated Feb. 26, 1987, saying that Dutton had been sold to the New American Library and then bought by Penguin.

Elliott had told Denis that the new owners didn’t want the animals, so Dutton’s previous owner, a 38-year-old American millionaire financier, John

Dyson, took them to his office on East Fifty First St. in New York, with the intention of donating them to the New York Public Library.

In Christopher Robin Milne’s reply, dated March 3, 1987, he wrote, “Though I’ve lost touch with those creatures and don’t specially wish to be reminded of them, I feel they would be happier in their native country rather than in the office of an American millionaire financier.”

Today, Pooh and his friends still remain in New York Public Library.

For more information, visit www.poohcorner.com.

Lieutenant Harry Colebourn plays with Winnifred, an American black bear, on Salisbury Plain in December 1914. “Winnie” was given to London Zoo when Colebourn went to fight in WWI. Young Christopher Robin, above, feeds Winnie her favorite treat of condensed milk at the London Zoo. Christopher Robin’s father, A.A. Milne, was inspired by the interaction to write the “Winnie the Pooh” stories.

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Cardinals chalk up Aggie loss to learning experience GRANT CRAWFORD UP SPORTS EDITOR @GrantLamarUP COLLEGE STATION — Lamar’s football team played in front of a record-setting crowd in a 73-3 loss to Texas A&M University, Saturday. Due to lightning, a delay of two hours occurred just as players took the field for kickoff. Head Coach Ray Woodard said the delay may have helped reduce the noise level at Kyle Stadium.

“Both teams had to deal with it,” he said. “I don’t think it had anything to do with the ball game. I think some of the crowd did leave, so I think it was a little less loud than if we had played on time. I think we handled the crowd just fine. We only had one procedural penalty all night.”

After receiving the opening kickoff, Lamar moved the chains on the first play of the game, completing a 19yard pass to senior Mark Roberts. He ended the game with 51 receiving yards.

“Their coaches taught them well,” Roberts said. “They fly around to the ball well. They were prepared for us going sideways. We needed to go north and south. We made some mistakes that we need to clean up. We have to just keep fighting, and not get down on ourselves.”

Lamar was forced to punt after four plays on their opening drive. For their first possession, the Aggies went 80 yards in three plays to strike first.

A&M running back Trey Williams had a 33-yard touchdown run in a scoring drive that took 58 seconds.

“Texas A&M is a talented, deep team, and that’s why they’re ranked where they are,” Woodard said. “We were out-matched tonight, but I liked the way we fought and the way we kept playing.”

Lamar responded to A&M’s score with a 72-yard drive, ending in a Josh Davis field goal for LU’s three points on the night. The Cardinals’ offense was shut out for the rest of the evening.

“They gave us some chances, but we couldn’t do anything with them offensively,” Woodard said. “Their defense had a lot to do with that. We still did some good things, some things we can build on. I told the team that we’ll put this game in our rearview mirror, and we’ll try and work on the mistakes we made.”

Last week, Texas A&M beat

No. 9 South Carolina. A game where Aggie quarterback Kenny Hill threw for a school-record 511 yards. Against Lamar, Hill threw for 283 yards and four touchdowns in fewer than three quarters. He was replaced by backup Kyle Allen.

“The more reps you get, the more comfortable you are going to be in the offense,” Hill said. “I think that’s how it is for everybody. The more reps I get, the more time I get to get out there with the wide receivers and get a better connection with them.”

Lamar senior quarterback Caleb Berry ended the game 16 of 42 for 153 yards and one interception. There was talk that Berry might not play the entire game, but Lamar chose to keep him in throughout.

“We discussed taking Caleb out of the game,” Woodard said. “I wanted to go score a touchdown at some point in the game, and I wanted to score it with Caleb. That was our thinking there.”

The Cardinals recovered two fum-

bles, along with an interception by junior Seth Ellis. Sophomore Xavier Bethany forced one fumble and recovered another. Lamar won the turnover battle 3-2.

“This wasn’t our best football,” Texas A&M Head Coach Kevin Sumlin said. “We didn’t win the turnover battle, and that can come back to haunt you sometimes.”

Junior Carl Harris, took the majority of snaps at running back for Lamar.

He finished with 51 yards on 18 carries.

With sophomore Kade Harrington still questionable for Saturday’s game against Texas College, Harris will likely get the majority of the workload.

Woodard said the Texas A&M game was a learning experience.

“I learned we have a lot of work to do,” Woodard said.

The Cardinals turn their focus to another non-conference matchup with Texas College at Provost Umphrey Stadium.

The game starts at 7 p.m.

Photos by Matt Billiot

Lamar quarterback Caleb Berry, top, throws under pressure during the 73-3 loss to Texas A&M Saturday at Kyle Field in College Station. Texas A&M receiver Ricky Seals-Jones, above, makes Lamar’s Tommie Barrett miss on a touchdown reception.

Vball aims to build on tough start COTY DAVIS UP Contributor

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Sheila Umphrey Recreational Sports Center extends hours for fall semester.

Rec Center offers eclectic fitness, fun COTY DAVIS UP CONTRIBUTOR Students looking for a way to keep fit, get fit, or just let off steam will find everything they need at Recreational Sports. The program will offer a variety of different activities and leagues this semester.

“We want all patrons to have a great experience when they come to the Rec Center,” director Art Simpson said. “Our intention is to provide a variety of opportunities and programs that interest students that will keep them engaged in recreation throughout their collegiate career and after.”

The Sheila Umphrey Recreational Sports Center has added five new treadmills, new games for the media room, and has extended the hours to the rock wall, and expanded weekend hours. Rec Sports has also introduced multiple new intramural events.

“The programming available from Rec Sports gets bigger every semester,” Bo Earls, associate director, said. “We always have new events offered, from group fitness, intramurals, outdoor pursuits and aquatics.”

Earls said the most exciting

added programs are 15 group fitness classes. Classes began Monday mornings with yoga, and end Thursday nights with cycling.

“They are fun and free,” he said.

“Some of them are classes we have never offered, or have not offered in quite some time. Some of the new classes include cardio kickboxing, ternion crossfit and cycling.”

Jason Harrington, coordinator of intramurals and sport clubs, said new sporting events such as Intramurals Cricket have increased the expected participation for the fall semester.

“Cricket will be a lot of fun and I encourage all to try out this new sport,” he said. “Cricket is a very popular sport internationally, and if you enjoy playing baseball or softball, you will have a blast with cricket.”

Rec Sports will feature two sports for people with disabilities in honor of October’s National Disability Employment Awareness Month. All entries for this event are due Sept. 19 and are free.

“We have teamed up with the Disability Resource Center to offer two adaptive sports this October,” Harrington said. “We will offer wheelchair basketball and sitting volleyball.

Anyone may participate in these events and we are looking forward to a great turnout.”

Intramural basketball is the biggest and most competitive sport each spring, and Rec Sports has included a fall league for the first time, Harrington said.

“The goal for us was to keep basketball going since it has been so successful,” he said.

Josh Kern, a member of intramural basketball team Fab 5, said he is excited to hit the hardwood sooner than the spring.

“I was too happy when I found out they were doing intramural basketball in the fall,” he said. “Playing intramural basketball gets you away from the real world for a minute.”

Before signing-up for any intramural sports event, patrons must pay the entry fees at the Rec Pro Shop.

Fees and deadlines vary.

David Garrett III, Rec Sports associate director of operations, said the changes have already seen an increase in participation, with 1,331 patrons using the Rec Center on the first class day.

For more information, call 8802306.

“Going into a season, it should be every team’s goal to be top four in their conference, and for us to be able to do that after a long streak of bad seasons, that would be the best thing ever — to finally leave a mark in school history,” Lamar volleyball middle blocker Cortney Moone said.

The top-four teams in the Southland Conference make the season-ending tournament, something no one on the current Lady Cardinals team has accomplished.

“We set a high goal of ourselves this season, but right now, nobody is expecting much from us,” outside hitter Caryn Stella said. “It’s frustrating, but being an underdog, we get to show people that they were wrong about us — and that’s what we hope to do.”

The Lady Cardinals are winless on the young season, but with the first conference game not starting until Sept. 27, there is still time for improvement.

“We are 0-6 right now, and will play six more before facing Sam Houston,” Coach Alan Edwards said. “If we can take everything we can take out of these game and not beat ourselves down, we will be ready.”

The most frustrating thing is that the team’s record does not show its improvement over last year, Edwards said.

In their six games, the Cardinals are leading the league in hitting percentage, and are hitting 100 points higher than they did last season.

The issue is trying to turn these stats into wins, Edwards said.

“We know, statistically, we have the ability to perform at the level we should be at in our league,” he said. “We are making the steps to make our goal a reality.”

One major area the Lady Cardinals must improve before the start of conference play is defense. The Cardinals have allowed their opponents to hit .255 on the season. Improving on the defensive end for the Cardinals will take more than practice.

“Right now, defense is just a mental game for us,” Moone said. “Once we improve our mindset on the defensive end, we will be able to play better.”

Lamar Volleyball has suffered a long streak of losing seasons, and Moone said she hopes that this year will be the starting point to turning the program around.

First-year coach Edwards is no stranger to turning a struggling volleyball program around. His previous team, at Iona College in New York, were ranked ninth in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference when he took over, but he moved them up to fourth.

“Life is not a Rocky movie where I give a big motivational speech to my girls and in five minutes we are winning the world championship,” Edwards said. “It’s about working hard and getting better each and every day.”

Edwards said the first step is to change the Lady Cardinals’ mindset of accepting defeat, and getting them to start thinking like winners.

“The way we intend to change their way of thinking this season, is to put them in tight games situations in practice, and show them over again that they have had success,” he said.

At the UTPA Tournament this past weekend in Edinburg, the Lady Cardinals dropped all three games, but the overall box score does not reflect how well the team played, Edwards said.

“In reality, our record does not show how well the team had played in matches,” he said. “In each of the sets we won, our team was overwhelmingly good. Against Texas Tech, we won game 1, 25-22. But the most discouraging part is how we lost the next two games, getting beat 25-11 and 2512.”

This weekend, the Lady Cardinals will travel to Norman, Okla., to complete in the Oklahoma Nike Invitational Tournament.

As the Cardinals prepare for another tournament this week, Stella said that to get their first win of the season, the Lady Cardinals must focus on eliminating errors and continue playing strong.

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Artist explores nostalgia in

BAL show

Flags of memory

MOLLY PORTER UP STAFF WRITER For Andy Coughlan, LU director of student publications, a painting is worth a thousand words. Coughlan’s paintings will be on display in his upcoming exhibition, “Boadicea in Albion,” which opens Saturday, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., at the Beaumont Art League. The show will be on display through Sept. 26.

“He’s having his own oneman show because he won bestin-show in our membership show (in October 2013),” Jenny Richard, president and chairman of the BAL board of directors, said. “Every October we have our membership show. It’s not juried, but it is judged, and the painting that he entered won; it entitles you to have your own show the following September.

“The public is welcome, admission is free, and I’m very excited. After a while, you get used to dealing with this, and it sort of becomes mundane, but Andy’s show has everybody really, really excited.”

Referencing Boadicea, the Celtic queen who led an uprising against Roman forces, the “Boadicea” works will be housed in the Beaumont Art League’s Brown gallery and are inspired by strong historical and literary women, Coughlan said.

“These are all women — historical women — that I actually like, that I think have interest in,” he said. “So it’s just my choice.

“I hope people see my work as a celebration of the feminine and a celebration of women generally, and that’s not just physical, which of course is always a standard art theme — the physical beauty. I like the idea of strength and creativity. The theme of the show is about intelligence, power and strength. I’d like to think of it as a feminist viewpoint. So why not celebrate it?”

The second portion of the show will be housed in the Scurlock gallery and references ‘Al-

Arturo Moreno, Pasadena Sophomore, sets up American flags in the Quad, Tuesday.

The flags, which commemorate the 9/11 terror attacks, are set out every year as an initiative by the Student Government Association.

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Andy Coughlan hangs a painting at the Beaumont Art League in preparation for his exhibition, “Boadicea in Albion,” opening Saturday. bion,’ an older term for England.

“It is intended to be one experiential piece where each of the pieces adds up to a panorama of the south coast of England where I grew up,” Coughlan said. “The idea is you’ll walk in there and it will just be 360 degrees. It’s a single piece even though it’s seven paintings.

“So it’s landscape — they have curves. Where I grew up there are rolling hills. The painting has curves, bright blocks of color. They’re abstracted representations of the landscape.

“It’s not meant to be exactly how it looks; it’s meant to be how it feels. If I squint and look across the rolling hills and the fields, they seem to be blocks of color overlapping and curving.”

Although the portions of the show seem unrelated, Coughlan says they can be thematically linked by his past.

“The whole ‘Boadicea in Albion’ thing is almost like a nostalgia thing for me,” he said. “I haven’t done that in a long time.

This is who I was, this is how I grew up, this is my heritage and this is my lineage.

“As I thought about it, I realized that I’ve been living in the United States longer than I ever lived in England. Of course, there’s a whole sort of theory that you’re always the outsider. I will always be that English guy

in America. But, when I go visit England, I have no idea what’s going on. It’s like the country’s moved and changed. I have no real place.

“So I was wondering about why I was so keen to do this thing, and I think maybe it’s a goodbye to England. You know, I live here, and I like it here. I’ll always be an English guy, but it’s sort of a nostalgia thing to look back on what I had or what I was and sort of say goodbye to that, and move on to the next thing.”

The works in the Brown Gallery are for sale and Coughlan said he is offering a 20 percent discount for works purchased during the opening.

The reception will be catered by chef Monica Cobb, owner of Bánh Mon Renegade Street Food, and will feature live music from Ryan Gist and Trevor Batson of the local band the Killawatts.

“Yeah, Monica and I are friends, and I thought, you know, we can get a few extra people in and get some grub,” Coughlan says. “And Ryan and I have been friends for years. He was going to play at my last show, and things sort of went wrong. So there’ll be some music. It’s not going to be completely over the top. It’ll be acoustic.”

For more information, call the Beaumont Art League at 833-4179.

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