April 17, 2019 WEDNESDAY
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World News | Notre Dame
Notre Dame goes up in flames
By KRISTA SIMPSON
After 850 years of crowd-drawing beauty, the Notre Dame Cathedral has fallen. Monday, April 25, a fire erupted on the roof of the Notre Dame Cathedral. Bystanders watched as the flames ravaged the building that many say served as one of the icons of Paris. Social media filled up with thousands posting their mourning for the fallen cathedral and the Parisians who saw it as part of their home. Religious or not, many are sharing their sadness over the loss of the monument. “This is a tragedy to all the world. Notre Dame stood stoic for nine centuries, a testament to the hands of men and the faith of people,” TWU sophomore Joe Grantham said of the burning of Notre Dame. Videos and pictures of the raging fire taking over the Notre Dame Cathedral swept the Internet, keeping the world updated on the state of the cathedral as the hours went by. The fire was uncontrollable, and the blaze quickly destroyed a large portion
Notre Dame on fire of the building. At some point Monday evening, the spire, one of the most prominent features of the cathedral, tumbled from its place. A video depicting the emotion of the Parisians was released last night as they gathered to sing “Ave Maria” as the blaze engulfed the cathedral. The song is “a humble
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Catholic prayer,” according to the Classic FM website. Finally, Tuesday morning, the fire was completely extinguished, and the cathedral is safe from any further damage. A significant portion of the cathedral, along with the history it carried, was destroyed by the fire, but some of the more prominent fea-
tures were salvaged. According to Huffpost, two-thirds of the roof of Notre Dame Cathedral was destroyed in the fire. Many people were devastated by the loss of the roof because it contained “the forest,” which is what the framework of the roof was known as. A majority of the framework of the Notre Dame Cathedral was
made up of oak that dated back to between 1160 and 1170, according to CNN. The roof was one of the oldest portions of the Notre Dame Cathedral structure, but because it was the birthplace of the inferno that took over the cathedral, it was lost. However, the New York Times reported that the main structure
of the monument was “saved and preserved as a whole.” French President Emmanuel Macron stated that the cathedral will be rebuilt because it is such an important part of France. Many of the precious artifacts within the cathedral were saved as well, including the Crown of the Thorns and the Tunic of Saint Lois. One of the more recognizable features of the cathedral was salvaged is the cross and the sculpture known as Descent From The Cross, which many people find remarkable considering that it was a religious monument that burned down on the week of Easter. As for the cause of the fire, officials say it is still unclear. French officials said that the fire was an accident, and a team of investigators are working on pinpointing what it was that caused the flames to erupt in the cathedral. While the burning of the Notre Dame Cathedral caused distress across the globe, reconstruction has been promised to ensure that the great monument stands again.
Sports | Pioneer Pride
Proud to have Pioneer Pride! By ADRIANNE LAKY
Texas Woman’s University’s dance team, Pioneer Pride, has recently been awarded the honor of Collegiate Academic Champions for having the highest grade-point average out of all the teams that competed at the American Dance/Drill Team Collegiate Championships. The team competed against 28 other universities at this competition and was also named the first runner-up for Univer-
sity Division II Open competition, as well as third runner-up in the University Division II Overall competition. The roster for 20182019 includes: Samantha Anderson, Daniela Archila, Brooke Ashmore (Co-Captain), Lauren Boyes, Sarah Cannon, Carmen Carey, Kylie Castillo, Caroline Cave (Co-Captain), Elle De Pau, Emily Friedman, Charity Hawkins, Maddie Hoffman (Co-Captain), Alyssa Miller, Frances Ostermann and Joelene Rosas. The
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team is under the direction of Allison Fields. “Having the privilege to compete at these contests and represent TWU is surreal,” said sophomore nursing major Frances Ostermann, who is coming up on her second year of being on the team. “The bond our team has only grew stronger when we went on to compete together. All of the hard work we put in throughout the year has led us to Continued on pg. 6
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Campus | Theatre
Life is but a cabaret
By KRISTA SIMPSON
“Life is a cabaret, old chum. It’s only a cabaret.” -Cabaret The TWU theater department put on a production of the classic musical Cabaret this April 4 through 7 and April 11 through 13. The musical is a dark comedy portraying 1930s Berlin as the Nazis rose to power. The musical featured a cabaret as the main characters of the play and depicted their way of life before and during the reign of Hitler.
The play opened up with the Emcee introducing the cabaret in the Kit Kat Klub. It was a dazzling display with plenty of over-the-top theatrics to first show the cabaret members to the audience. Of course, all the cabaret members were scantily clad, as a cabaret is, but the costumes indicated to the audience that the characters were promiscuous and living freely with no constraints. The Emcee was dressed in drag, which added to the promiscuity of the
play. The Emcee was not a necessary part of the story- rather, he provided props to the characters and made the transitions flow smoothly between scenes. At first, the play seemed jolly and carefree, but as the story progressed, it quickly became apparent that not all was well in the cabaret. In one of the first scenes, a struggling American writer, Clifford Bradshaw, arrives in Berlin in search of inspiration for his next novel. Continued on pg. 3
Campus | Redbud Awards
Redbud Awards to continue despite severe weather threats By KATELYN GARST With the threat of severe weather, today’s Annual Redbud Awards has been moved. An email from Kyle Voyles, the Executive Director of the Center for Student Development, informed students yesterday around 11:30 a.m. that the ceremony will take place in the MCL Auditorium at 3:30 p.m. on the Texas Woman’s University Denton campus. Upon consultation with TWU Emergency Management, the Center for Student Development decided to move the event in order to “continue the event and end before the most severe threat arrives,” Voyles said in his email to the student body. “Safety is our number one priority.” Weather threats will not cease the commencement of the ceremony, however, and the work that Taylor Sandoval, the Coordinator for Leadership Development in the Center for Student Development, will still pay off. “Redbud Awards is an event that I plan and help run the logistics and things like that,” Sandoval said. “I pulled together the evaluations committee… I build the nomination forms and send it out, try to advertise to get students, faculty and staff, and whoever to nominate,
then I have to go in and sort and sift and organize it to where the evaluators have all the information they need.” At the event, the award recipients that the evaluations committee deliberated over and selected will be announced and recognized. The awards that the Center for Student Development will be handing out include the Faculty or Staff Advisor of the Year Awards, Campus Leader with a Heart Award, Individual Student Leader Awards and Student Organization Awards. Additionally, some of the sponsors of the awards attend the event and present them to award recipients. “They still are involved, and they love coming back to TWU to see what the students do,” Sandoval said. “There’s two of them. Our community
service award is the Dr. Glenda Brock Simmons Community Service Award, and then Dr. Richard Nicholas Outstanding Student Leader. They come and actually give those awards.” Though the award recipients will be recognized for their dedication and co-curricular involvements, Sandoval emphasizes that just receiving a nomination is an honor in itself. “I really enjoy seeing the students go on stage,” Sandoval said. “Especially the students I’ve been working with, if I see them or even if they’re just nominated, that’s still an honor to be nominated. Someone took the time to fill out the form and nominate you for this award, so clearly you’re making an impact somewhere.”
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