11/1 Weekly Edition

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The Independent Student Newspaper of Sam Houston State University

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

The Official News Source of Sam Houston State University POLICE BLOTTER, P. 2 The campus police are always hard at work, check out their most recent reports with us. Volume 129 | Issue 10

JIGSAW, P. 3 Staff Writer Sharon Raissi got a chance to view Jigsaw in theatres. Here’s the review!

WOLFENSTEIN II, P. 3 Reviewer Mason Gonzalez played through The New Colossus and gave us his opinion on the game.

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INDICTMENTS, P. 4 Opinion: Trace breaks down the indictments in Trump’s collusion with Russia. @HoustonianSHSU

Common Bearkats out for revenge against SFA Reader Sam Houston State University is entering the Southland Conference Tournament as the No. 7 seed and will take on second-seeded Stephen F. Austin on Wednesday Week approaches

TOUGH LUCK, P. 5 SHSU volleyball has dropped out of the top spot in the SLC after a pair of road losses. HoustonianOnline.com

Walgreens GCDO shares hopes on campus ETHAN HORN Associate Editor

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WORMS. Will Allen is holding a bunch of worms in this photo! It speaks to his humble attitude, even after receiving a MacArthur Genius grant in 2008.

ETHAN HORN Associate Editor Every year the first week in November marks a week of festivities centered around the Common Reader. This year, the universitywide committee selected “The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities” by Will Allen. “The overarching goal of the Common Reader Program is to provide a campus-wide common intellectual experience, leading to informed and educated perspectives about complex subjects,” Kay Angrove, the Director of First

The Good Food Revolution Year Experience’s at SHSU, said. “[The book is] a fitting and challenging choice for the 2017-2018 SHSU Common Reading Experience. Themes in The Good Food Revolution address timely, relevant, and cross-disciplinary topics affecting our students.” These themes include a number of things beyond simply food. Allen, the author, spent a lifetime in other fields before turning his attention to the subject matter within the book. Starting his adulthood with a brief tenure in professional basketball, Allen worked in corporate marketing at Procter & Gamble. When he retired, he used his retirement package to plant the seed that would grow into the country’s leading urban farm. With a proven strategy behind him, Allen now focuses on Growing Power, an organization that develops community food systems where he is CEO. Allen also received a MacArthur Genius grant in 2008 for his work, and has only seen his efforts in pioneering urban farming expand since then. “I think students will discover —

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WE’RE TALKING ABOUT PLAYOFFS. SHSU soccer hits the pitch in Corpus Christi for the first round of the Southland Conference Tournament. They will have a chance to avenge their recent loss to rival Stephen F. Austin.

HIVAN MORENO Asst. Sports Editor The Sam Houston State University Bearkat soccer team will take on the Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks in the first round of the Southland Conference Tournament on Nov. 1. The Kats earned a postseason berth after a 2-2 double overtime draw last Sunday against Incarnate Word. The playoff appearance marks the fourth time in the last five years that the Kats have clinched a spot in the conference tournament. Sam Houston wrapped up the season 7-8-2 overall (4-5-2 in conference play). The team turned it around after missing the playoffs in 2016 when they finished just 2-16-1 during the campaign. The Bearkats enter the playoffs as the No. 7 seed and will take on No. 2 ranked SFA. SHSU will look to avenge its recent loss to the

Ladyjacks. They closed out the regular season last Friday with a tightly contested 2-1 defeat in double overtime. “I thought the girls performed really well,” head coach Tom Brown said. “We created some good chances in the first half. We gave up one late in the second overtime. We’ll get after it tomorrow with some light training and get ready for the tournament.” Following their regular season finale, the team had a few days off prior to their playoff match. The Bearkats believe that they can capitalize on their mistakes they had against SFA in their last meeting and are excited to get back on the pitch against their conference riBrian Blalock | SHSU Athletics vals. “After Friday night’s game we STAR ON THE PITCH. Carlota had some recovery on Saturday Suraez Crespo stands with her teammates during the National and we were off Sunday,” Anthem as she prepares for a match

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On Oct. 31, The President’s Speaker series featured Steve Pemberton. Pemberton is the Global Chief Diversity Officer and a divisional vice president for Walgreen’s. At the company, he puts his many foundational views on diversity and inclusion into practice, views that were formed through a background of perseverance. In 2012, Pemberton published “A Chance in the World: An Orphan Boy, A Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home,” a book about his past and upbringing. Pemberton was raised in the foster care system to abusive parents, both physically and mentally. He survived and thrived off the small acts of kindness from others, and has dedicated himself to the same life of helping others. “It was always drilled into me that you were at your greatest value when you act as a servant,” Pemberton said. “That had an additional implication for me because of what I had come through as a young boy, having lost my family, having, in all candidness, been betrayed by those who were supposed to take care of me, and a foster care system that did not know what to do with me. But because I got the message early on that I was to take that experience and parlay it into opportunities for others, it never allowed me to play the victim or feel sorry for myself. So that cord is still within me. How can my struggles be a value? That plays out in daily value for me.” Walgreens, a business focused on health and wellness, might not be a place expected to prize diversity. Pemberton thinks the opposite. While challenging, finding the common ground between groups makes any large system, such as a campus or business, a great place to start. “The larger the organization the more complex it actually can become,” Pemberton said. “If there are any secrets to it though, focusing specifically on the commonality between all of those groups and organizations and anchoring ourselves in that commonality —

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COMING NOV 15. HEB is preparing to open their new location. The crews were putting the finishing touches SPEAKING. Steve Pemberton is a on the exterior and laying sod out beyond the parking lot when our photographer Morgan Phillips stopped by. motivational speaker dedicated to Assistant Associate Editor Emily Davis is hard at work getting the scoop for next week’s issue for the opening. sharing his values wherever he goes.


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