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Political party sparks free speech controversy Matthew Parks

Contributing writer mparks6@murraystate.edu

Recruitment efforts by the Traditionalist Workers Party (TWP), a white nationalist group, on campus prompted an open letter response from President Bob Davies Tuesday.

The group was on campus last week, with a table of five TWP members attempting to talk to students about their beliefs and handing out fliers and other promotional materials.

In his open letter sent via email to all Murray State students, faculty and staff, Davies said that he does not agree with the beliefs of the group, but they were allowed to rent a table in the Curris Center for their group as they followed all university policies and procedures.

“Would it not be hypocritical of me to prevent them from presenting their ideas?” Davies said in the letter. “Do I make a decision, based on my beliefs, and ignore our policies, procedures and our tradition of civil and respectful debate by preventing outside groups from coming on campus and expressing

their ideas?”

Davies went on to say that he hopes their presence on campus can be a cause of intellectual discourse rather than discord.

“Efforts should instead be made to discuss the current political environment and the language used to ask whether [the TWP being on campus] reflects the values of America,” Davies said.

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Recruitment efforts have also included flier distribution around campus. The fliers that appeared in Faculty Hall promoted the Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP), stating their slogan “Faith, Family and Folk.”

A spokesperson for the group, who declined to disclose his name, said the group aims to spread their message around campus with the ultimate goal of instating a chapter of the organization at Murray State.

According to the group’s website, there are no on-campus chapters currently established anywhere in the U.S. According to its website, the TWP has similar goals at universities across the nation and have tar-

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geted them as well.

“We are anti-globalism,” he said.

“We are a white identitarian group.

We believe that white Americans are being oppressed and there is no one to fight for us.”

He confirmed that the group is politically motivated, with the aim of putting members into local offices to create a subculture that promotes their goals.

Murray State issued a statement about the group Friday: “As a public institution, Murray State University supports open and respectful discussions on an array of topics. Earlier this week a non-university group paid for, and reserved a table, in the Curris Center on the Murray campus. Registering for a space on campus does not imply endorsement of a group or their message. Murray State University is committed to ensuring an inclusive and safe learning environment where our campus community can engage in thoughtful discussions based on the merits of one’s intellectual pursuits, not based on stereotypes or discrimination.”

Many Murray State students are

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Students raise concern over FAFSA changes

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mparks6@murraystate.edu

Students across the nation will see some changes to the FAFSA filing process for the 2017 school year.

Most students are familiar with the process, as it is the only way to file for student financial aid in the US. However, effective immediately there are two major changes to look out for.

According to the U.S. Department of Education’s website, the FAFSA will now be available to submit from Oct. 1, rather than Jan. 1 of next year. This earlier submission date is a permanent change, and students will be able to submit starting on October 1 every year.

A more pressing change is that students will now be required to submit the previous year’s tax and income information for the upcoming school year in order to qualify for aid.

This means that a student applying for financial aid for the 2017-18 school year will be required to submit tax and income information from 2015, referred to as “prior-prior” year tax data.

Students whose families experienced a loss of income from 2015 to 2016 will still be required to report their income data from 2015, which may cause problems for those students.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, these students will have to individually work

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Professor receives fraternal honors Abby Siegel || News Editor asiegel@murraystate.edu

Bob McGaughey, retired chairman and professor of the Journalism and Mass Communications Department, was named one of 20 Volunteers of the Year for 2015-16 at the national Pi Kappa Alpha (Pike) convention in August.

McGaughey was the only alumnus from Kentucky to be given the honor, and this was the first time the award had been presented. He was nominated by Jerry Penner, Murray-Calloway County Hospital CEO. According to Pike’s national website, the award was given to “those alumni volunteers who serve in advisory board roles mentoring chapter leadership and members in ethical decision making, chapter operations, risk management

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Dr. Bob McGaughey (seated) alongside other Murray State alum. and strategic planning.”

McGaughey has been on the alumni board of the chapter for more than 20 years and is on the house corporation that put together the plan and

fundraised for the Pike house.

He also sponsors the chapter’s rush activities, speaks on the history of the chapter, helps with their public relations and provides scholarship for

chapter members.

“Back then, Greek life furnished social life,” McGaughey said. “You did not

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Construction on Eggner’s Ferry Bridge complete Matthew Parks

Contributing writer mparks6@murraystate.edu

The new Eggners Ferry Bridge opened all four lanes Aug. 31 after two years of construction, and the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet held a ribbon cutting in honor of the work done to make it possible.

The construction of the bridge was a $133 million project that has been in the works since 2011 and has created a larger, more stable bridge for crossing over the Land Between the Lakes National Recreational Area.

The ribbon cutting was held Aug. 31 and residents from all over western Kentucky came to see the bridge’s first day and walk along its span over the lake.

Engineers from the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, representatives from Gov. Bevin’s office, state senators, contractors who worked on the project and judges from counties all over the district were in attendance.

Mike McGregor, chief engineer of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, spoke at the ceremony and praised both the state workers and contractors who worked on

the project.

“There were times people would come up to me and say, ‘I won’t see this finished in my lifetime,’” McGregor said. “And there were also times when I thought they might be right.”

However, the bridge was finished ahead of schedule, since the original estimated date of completion was the end of 2017. The timetable was adjusted in 2012 after the Delta Mariner cargo ship struck a section of the bridge.

Marshall County Judge Executive Kevin Neal talked more about the project’s impact on western Kentucky and expanded on his hopes that the new bridge will increase tourism to the district.

“Personally, I’m very excited to get my family up here on the walking path,” Neal said.

The bridge will include a path along both sides that connect to trails within the Land Between the Lakes, allowing pedestrian access.

The trail path is scheduled to be completed in the next six to eight weeks.

Patty Dunaway, state highway engineer, also attended the ribbon cutting. Although she oversees various projects

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with their school’s financial aid office, which will have the ability to assess their situation and make adjustments to the student’s aid.

Some Murray State students are worried about the new changes and say that their past experiences with the Murray State Financial Aid Office do not help to ease their fears.

Hayley Morford, junior from Lexington, Kentucky, has experienced financial changes as she now files as an independent. She says that her past experiences with the Financial Aid Office have made her wary.

“It was bad enough that the refunds are coming later now,” Morford said. “I depend on my financial aid refund to pay my rent and other payments at the beginning of the year, and now I can’t rely on that since it doesn’t come until [Aug. 31].”

Morford said she is dreading the new process for adjusting aid packages.

“Unfortunately, I’ve never been able to get much help from

outraged at the presence of the group on campus.

Carly Dothsuk, junior from Mason, Michigan, said the group’s presence on campus makes her feel uncomfortable.

“When I see [the TWP] on campus it makes me feel like we are making less progress towards equality,” Dothsuk said. “I really wanted to walk up to them and tell them my family history, how my grandmother was full Blackfoot Indian, does that make me less deserving of a place in the U.S.?”

Jenna Lynn, a recent Murray State graduate from Marion, Kentucky, echoed those sentiments.

“I feel their values don’t align with the values of MSU’s campus,” Lynn said.

“One of the reasons I loved attending MSU was the diversity of the student body.

The TWP is just another hate group and I can’t imagine why anyone would want to be a part of it.”

PIKE From Page 1 have the residential college system, you did not have the Women’s Center and all the other centers that provide activities for students - it was mainly the Greeks.”

McGaughey came to Murray State in 1961 and pledged during Spring Rush in 1962, part of the “Fabulous Forty,” he said.

McGaughey said eighteen of the Fabulous Forty went on to receive terminal degrees and averaged a 3.2 GPA for four years.

“It was a bunch of good guys that came together back then,” McGaughey said. “We played hard, partied hard and studied hard.”

McGaughey still is an advocate of Greek Life.

“It’s another opportunity for people to get together, to work together, to learn leadership skills and participate in things they might not have if they weren’t involved in the Greek system,” McGaughey said.

McGaughey retired in 1997 after 23 years as chairman.

He has received many honors for his work at Murray State, such as the Max Carman Outstanding Teacher of the

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Financial aide help is available online at youtube.com/federalstudentaid.

Sparks Hall,” Morford said. “So naturally, I’m worried the process of adjusting my aid package for next year is going to be a nightmare.”

The Penn State Parents Blog described the process as potentially being easier in the future.

Many students will be eligible to use the IRS Data Retrieval Tool in order to import their information from their tax return to the FAFSA forms.

This may make it easier for

Year in 1984, Distinguished Professor by the Alumni Association in 1990 and the Golden Horseshoe Award in 2015.

Of all the roles he has had at Murray State, including college head of Elizabeth Residential College, adviser of The Murray State News and department chairman among other roles, McGaughey said his favorite position was teaching.

“At one time, I’ve taught every course that is in the book because I started most of them,” he said. “I started the Ads Club and the PR Club, but really what I like is teaching.”

He was also named the Boss of the Year by the Murray chapter of the Professional Secretaries International in 1989, the Distinguished Organization Adviser by Omicron Delta Kappa in 1997 and an Outstanding Teachers in America in 1996-97.

He was inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame in 2012.

Other honors include being named to Personalities of the South, International Men of the Year, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, Who’s Who Among American Teachers, Who’s Who in the Media and Communications, Who’s Who Registry of Business Leaders and Men of Achievement.

students to bring over their tax information and therefore make the process simpler.

Brea Shumake, recent Murray State graduate, has had similar troubles with obtaining financial aid. She said she is not optimistic about the new process for FAFSA filing.

“It feels like I spent half of last summer in Sparks Hall,” Shumake said. “To be honest, I’m glad I graduated before the process got any more complicated.”

September 8, 2016 ABOUT THE PARTY

The Traditionalist Worker Party has been described by the Southern Poverty Law Center – a group that tracks hate groups in the US – as, “… an identitarian-inspired umbrella group that aims to indoctrinate high school and college students into white nationalism.”

The TWP website includes a list of the group’s platforms and mission, all of which revolve around a white-centric, isolationist, secession plan. The website says members of the TWP believe the United States is, “… far too large, diverse and infested with lobbyists and oligarchs for realistic solutions to come from a centralized, top-down approach to solving problems.”

The website also says their mission is to transfer power to local and regional leaders and form a socialist society – for whites only.

As the website’s mission statement says, “Both history and sociological studies confirm that communitarian ideals work, but only in communities of shared heritage, identity and faith.”

The national chairman of

the group, Matthew Heimbach, helped to found the group in early 2015 as an offshoot of the Traditionalist Youth Network.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Heimbach has a history of association with neo-Nazis, skinheads and white supremacists, but the TWP is his brainchild.

In one tweet, Heimbach said, “If the Jews would stop trying to control the world and committing genocide against other ethnicities there wouldn’t be a problem.”

Heimbach also travels around the country in an attempt to recruit people for the TWP, often speaking at neo-Nazi and nationalist conventions where he talks about his political and social beliefs.

In one talk recorded on the Southern Poverty Law Center Website, Heimbach discussed his views on white nationalism.

“We need to be able to raise a generation, or two or three generations, with white values, true while morals, and a true system of government.”

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Eggners Ferry Bridge alongside the construction crews that built it.

BRIDGE From Page 1 throughout the state, she said she had a particular interest in this one.

Dunaway said the project is unique in both its design and methods of construction, and she said she is very

proud of the team that put it together.

“It takes a team working together with joint enthusiasm to accomplish a feat of engineering like this one,” Dunaway said.

Murray State representatives also showed interest in the project.

Chris Wooldridge, district director for the Murray State Small Business Development

Center, said he believes the bridge will provide much easier and safer traffic through the area.

“One of the most important factors for economic development is roadway infrastructure,” Wooldridge said. “These bridges will support regional tourism growth as well as provide companies with a safer route between I-24 and I-69.”

Chief contractor on the project, Mike Brown, echoed those sentiments. He testified to the endless hard work and dedication he and his staff put into getting the job done and hopes the entire region will enjoy the new bridge.

“We hope [the bridge] helps with the continued growth of western Kentucky,” Brown said.

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POLICE BEAT Aug. 31

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7:37 a.m. An officer conducted idential missing. a trafficcollege stop atflag Tom’s Pizza.The A Housing was notified. citation Office was issued for no regis11:22 p.m. caller reported a tration plateAand no registration motor vehicle accident with no receipt. injuries at White Residential Col10:48 a.m.

A caller reported lege.

Officers were notified and that food caught fire and was a report was taken. extinguished at Wells Hall. Of7:17 p.m.

An officer conducted a ficers, Murray Fire Department, traffic stop at the Business the state fire marshal andBuilding Facilparking lot. A citation was issued ities Management were notified for driving on a suspended license. and a fire report was taken.

8:51 p.m. A caller reported the

Sept. 2

9:25 a.m. An officer conducted smell of gas at Hart Residential Cola traffic stop at North 16th Street lege. Officers, Murray Fire Departand Farmer Street. Burls Towing ment, Central Heating and Cooling was notified and the driver was Plant, Murray Gas and the State Fire cited and arrested for no regisMarshall were notified. A report tration receipt, failure to prowas taken. duce insurance card, operating 12:01 p.m. A caller reported a on a suspended or revoked opsparking outlet in the 300 block erators license and residents not of College Courts. Officers, the to use license of other state.

Murray Fire Department, Cen1:11 p.m. An officer conducted a tral Heating and Cooling Plant traffic stop at Gilbert Graves Avand the State Fire Marshal were enue and the roundabout. The notified. A report was taken. driver was arrested for driving 4:57 p.m. The Murray Police Deunder the influence, second ofpartment notifiedofofana open medifense andwas possession cal emergency at the Volleyball alcoholic beverage in vehicle Courts.

Officers andno Murray Amand was cited for registrabulance Services wereofnotified. tion plate and failure owner The patient was transported and to maintain insurance. a report was taken.

Sept. 3

2:33 a.m. A caller reported a 3:46 a.m. Officers conducted a sexual assault that occurred off check of aOfficers person and on North 12th campus. the MurStreet.

The person was arrested and ray Police Department were transported to information Calloway County Jail notified. An report for alcohol intoxication in a public was taken. place. report was taken.

4:28 A p.m.

A person reported a 9:09 p.m.

A caller reported maintenance issue at Winslow a smoke detector activated at Dining Hall via the LiveSafe Springer Residential College due to The Central and aApp. hair dryer.

OfficersHeating were notified Cooling Plantofwas and no threat firenotified. was found. An

Sept. 4

10:27 a.m. An officer conducted a traffic stop in the Curris information report was taken.Center Parking Lot. Areported verbal warn4:42 p.m. A caller a theft ofing property from for a vehicle was issued failurefrom to Alexander Hall. Officers were nowear a seatbelt. tified a report wasreported taken for 12:25and p.m.

A caller theft of under $500 by unlawful being stuck on the elevator in taking from Science a vehicle.

Blackburn Building. Of6:12 p.m.

A caller reported the ficers, Murray Fire Department smell of marijuana at Hart. Officers and the Central Heating and were notified and an information Cooling were notified. An report wasPlant taken. information report was taken.

Sept. 5

10:28 a.m. An officer conducted 2:47 p.m.stop A at caller reported an a traffic Chestnut Street unauthorized company selling and Regents Residential Colproducts campus Winslow lege. Theondriver wasatserved a Dining The caller was rewarrantHall. and arrested for flagrant ferred to Student Affairs. non-support.

6:12 p.m. A caller reported the 12:17 p.m. An officer conducted smell of natural gas at the Old Fine a traffic stop atOfficers, 16th Street and Arts Building.

Central Miller Avenue.

A verbal warning Heating and Cooling Plant, Murray wasdepartment, issued to passenger Fire Murray for Gasfailand ureState to wear seatbelt. were notithe Firea Marshall

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10:22 p.m. Public Safety refied and aa sprinkler report was taken. alarm ceived tamper from the alarm center computer.

The Central Heating and CoolMotorists assists – 8 ing Plant was notified.

Racer escorts – 1 11:15 p.m.

Arrests – 2 A caller reported a noise complaint in the 700 block of College Officers were Alicia Steele,Courts.

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Students worry about lack of immunization requirements Ashley Traylor || Staff writer atraylor@murraystate.edu

Murray State does not require incoming students to update their immunization records, causing health concerns among students.

The University of Kentucky, University of Louisville and Kentucky State University are the only state schools requiring freshmen to update their immunization records, but no Kentucky universities require the meningitis B vaccine, according to a press release from the Kentucky Immunization Coalition.

“More than 100 students have died in recent years from contracting bacterial meningitis on college campuses across the country,” said Tracy Kielman, director of the Kentucky Immunization Coalition.

Mara Hosick, sophomore from Columbia, Illinois, said she thinks the immunization policy should be changed.

“I think it is really scary, and I definitely think it should be changed because if there was an outbreak, it would definitely spread like wildfire, just like any sickness across campus,” Hosick said.

Kielman said the meningococcal B has only been on the market for a couple of years, but it is a vaccine recommended for college-age students because they are at a higher risk of developing the disease.

“It seems like with colleges, people are more grouped together and more often, like the living quarters, sharing showers, particularly sports people who are using sports equipment, lockers, locker rooms,” Kielman said. “Those type of things are more prone to the disease than people on a daily basis that don’t have direct contact with each other.”

Kielman said doctors are giving a booster dose for meningococcal at 16, but it does not protect against strain B. She said students need to be responsible and look into receiving those vaccines themselves.

The traditional meningococcal vaccine guards against groups A, C, W and Y, but there is a new vaccine to protect against group V, which accounts for onethird of bacterial meningitis cases, according the press release.

The meningococcal disease is caused by a bacteria called Neisseria meningitides and has 13 different subtypes, according to the Immunization Action Coalition website. One of these subtypes is group B. Veronica Ruby, freshman from Danville, Kentucky, said you don’t think about disease outbreaks, until it happens.

“So, if they would require it, it would get people to realize that it’s important,” Ruby said.

Hosick said Murray State needs to get the word out about meningococcal because she did not know what it was until it was brought up in a conversation two years ago.

Ruby said the university can remind students to update their vaccinations before school begins through an email or letter.

Kielman said campus health clinics need to encourage students to update immunization records and they can do this by offering incentives or educating about the importance of the vaccinations.

She said more of Kentucky’s colleges should consider adopting immunization policies to protect students’ health and decrease the risk of a disease outbreak.

Students can receive vaccinations at their family general practitioner’s office, a local pharmacy or health department.

Communication during an emergency Alicia Steele

Assistant News Editor asteele5@murraystate.edu

Isabella Utley Contributing writer iutley@murraystate.edu On Friday, Aug. 26, Public Safety and Emergency Management arrested Deyonte Warren for 4th degree assault in a domestic violence related incident at Elizabeth Residential College. Students were not notified of the incident via an Emergency Notification or a Timely Warning.

“An assault like this is neither immediate, serious nor ongoing because the suspect was immediately arrested,” said James Herring, chief of police at Public Safety.

Herring said it is important to understand the difference between an Emergency Notification and a Timely Warning.

EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION

According to The Handbook for Campus Safety and Security Reporting 2016 Edition, an Emergency Notification requires every institution, under the Clery Act, “to immediately notify the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on campus that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees.”

Herring said a an armed robbery on campus in which the suspect has not been apprehended or severe weather conditions like a tornado are examples of an immediate threat.

He said students would receive an Emergency Notification via text message, social media, email, etc.

TIMELY WARNING

“A Timely Warning is sent for a serious or ongoing

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Public Safety and Emergency Management sends out Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings threat to the campus,” Herring said. “A rash of crimes in which the suspect has not been apprehended or a serious incident in which the threat is not immediate, like a rape that occurred the previous day, would result in a Timely Warning notice.”

According to The Handbook for Campus Safety and Security Reporting 2016 Edition, a Timely Warning would be necessary if a rash of dormitory burglaries, motor vehicle thefts or a number of incidents involving date rape drugs were to occur.

“For students who just want to ‘know what happened,’ the campus crime log is available online,” Herring said. “And those students can refer to that for information about the nature of the crime.”

Piper Cassetto, freshman from Louisville, Kentucky, said she didn’t know an arrest was made, so she thinks students should have been notified of the incident.

“I did not know we had a campus crime log,” Cassetto said.

Brody Allen, sophomore from Robinson, Illinois, said he didn’t know an arrest was made, but he wasn’t concerned.

“I honestly don’t care,” Allen said.

However, Allen said students should be notified when an event like this occurs.

Allen was also unaware Murray State has a campus crime log available.

English professor named state speaker

Lindsey Coleman Contributing writer

lcoleman7@murraystate.edu

For the eighth year in a row, Constance Alexander has been chosen by the Kentucky Humanities Council to be a part of the Humanities Council Speakers Bureau.

Alexander is an adjunct professor of English at Murray State and is the only Murray State professor to be selected for the Speakers Bureau this year.

As a member of the Speakers Bureau, she will travel throughout Kentucky and speak at various organizations’ events in 2016 and 2017 and share about two of her written works.

Alexander said the purpose of the Speakers Bureau is to offer affordable speakers for mainly nonprofits at an affordable cost.

“The Humanities Council is such a great asset for Kentucky,” Alexander

said.

According to the Kentucky Humanities Council website, “Everyone has a story to tell, and everyone can learn from the stories of others. These stories, taken together, are the stories of our communities, our counties, our regions and our unique Kentucky culture and heritage.”

Alexander said presentations through the Speakers Bureau are about an hour long, and cover a wide range of topics, like culture, history, cuisine, literacy and storytelling.

Alexander presents on two of her works: “Kilroy Was Here” and “Who Needs June Cleaver?”

Alexander said “Kilroy Was Here” is a book of poetry that resulted from an oral history research endeavor, in which Alexander talked to people who were children during World War II. According to Alexander’s website, “Kentucky State Historian James Klot-

ter finds the poems ‘sad and sorrowful, warm and witty,’ using ‘the power of poetry to personalize war.’”

During her presentation, Alexander said she will talk about interviews and read excerpts from the book. She encourages her audience to take the time to capture others’ experiences through the preservation of oral history, she said.

Alexander also said that through her book, people become educated about history through literature.

Alexander said the other work she will present this year, “Who Needs June Cleaver?,” is a memoir and partly a reaction to the sitcom “Leave It to Beaver.”

Alexander said that she grew up in a home with a mother unlike the typical mother figure portrayed in “Leave it to Beaver,” and that sparked a conversation for her about her childhood.

The book is a compilation of radio

commentaries, personal essays and 27 years’ worth of columns that she wrote for the Murray Ledger & Times.

In that column, she explored what it was like growing up in the 1950s and 1960s.

Alexander said she hopes that through this presentation of “Who Needs June Cleaver?,” her audiences will realize the importance of newspapers and media.

She said that as she wrote columns over the years, she had lots of feedback from the community about their similar experiences.

In the past, Alexander had the privilege of speaking to groups in Madisonville, Kentucky, and Frankfort, Kentucky, at their respective cooperative extension offices.

Alexander said she would love to do a presentation at Murray State that would coincide with the 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor this year.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation matches endowment donation

Stella Childress

Contributing writer schildress4@murraystate.edu

Bob and Patricia Long, establishers of the Giving Back Endowment, received a matching grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to their $50,000 donation.

The endowment now has a total of $165,000 as $65,000 has been contributed by individual donors, many of them Murray State students, known as founders of the endowment.

The Giving Back Endowment promotes student philanthropy and experiential learning across all disciplines on campus.

Starting in Fall 2017, all faculty will be invited to submit proposals to receive money to incorporate a service learning project in their class and a few will be selected.

Long said that David Whaley, dean of the College of Education and Human Services, has agreed to help facilitate the application process of the endowment.

The money in the endowment will never be spent but will generate interest that can finance student philanthropic work at Murray State forever, as an endowment generates funds but never spends the principle amount.

In 2008, after working at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for 16 years, Long came to Murray State to teach in the Nonprofit Leadership Studies. He started the Giving Back Endowment that same year.

Long said a perk of retirement from W.K Kellogg is a two to one matching of donations to youth development programs.

According to the W.K. Kellogg Foundation website, the founda-

tion “supports children, families and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society.”

Long said his goals go further than the W.K. Kellogg Foundation mission by expanding service learning to all disciplines, not just the Nonprofit Leadership Studies Program where the student philanthropy work began at Murray State.

Long said since he is a nontraditional professor, not having received his doctorate until his 40s but having prior experience in the nonprofit field, he wanted every class he taught to have a “live” component.

Long said the student philanthropy projects add the live component and the Giving Back Endowment helps generate the revenue to do those proj-

ects.

He said receiving money for philanthropy projects that involve youth giving back to the community is easy, because people value that work.

Long has worked in youth development for many years.

“I was often working with the more vulnerable youth and looking for the edge that gives them a more meaningful learning experience,” Long said.

He began examining the perception of money having value and started raising money for the youth to give back to the community as a philanthropy project.

“When kids that are marginalized and undervalued are seen doing real work in the public, something that matters to them, they know it and the public knows it,” Long said. “They are viewed differently and they view themselves differently.”

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Where Main Street lines the neatly shorn grass and well-watered trees of campus, a sign sticking out of the ground reads there is “no place for hate in our town,” accompanied by a red icon with the word “HATE” struck through.

Meanwhile, in the Curris Center, a group of white nationalists identifying as members of the Traditionalist Workers Party sit proudly at a table in front of the University Bookstore.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

As students of a university that boasts its status as a safe, inclusive home for students of all walks of life, we’re facing the harsh reality of what buzzwords like “inclusive” and “open” really mean.

The Traditionalist Workers Party – whose website, tradworker.org, stylistically resembles 1940s Nazi or Stalinist propaganda – claims not to be one of white supremacy, but their views are clearly steeped in racism, fear and hatred. A group seeking to unify white people and avoid all other races – in their mind, restoring America to its former ethnocentric glory – their presence on our campus is a deeply unsettling statement of hostility.

But while their views are retrogressive to say the least, they

were not violating any policies in having a table in the Curris Center last Wednesday.

Hate speech is a psychological disruption, yes, but if it doesn’t incite actual violence, it is protected

the university with a disloyal friend, one who is so philosophically undecided that they see no problem in being both for us and against us. With anti-hate pickets, Safe Zone stickers and non-discrimination policies on every syllabus, the friend had us convinced

that they’d make every effort to keep us

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under the U.S. Constitution. Unfortunately, then, they had a right to their spot, and the university could not force them to leave.

But how can Murray State at once be a safe space, one that is conducive to every student learning in an open environment and one that allows groups who make students feel threatened?

We might be tempted to equate

happy.

But make no mistake: the university is not on our side.

It’s not on your side or your friend’s side or your enemy’s side.

It can’t be because it isn’t a person. As much as our administration attempts to appeal to our love of the local, the small town and independent, there’s no hiding the fact that Murray State is a school and not a down-to-earth progres-

sive yet traditional farmer turned teacher turned banker turned savior of Humane Society dogs.

Beneath the banners of multicultural faces, beneath the varied shoes nailed to a tree, beneath the pamphlets and handouts, Murray State is brick and mortar, void of feeling or thought.

We cannot rely on the blurred lines of policies and bylaws to make it known that this is a safe place, just as we can’t rely on our slogans to prove we’re a population of intelligent, successful and innovative students.

It’s on us to tell Kentuckians, international students and citizens of Murray what we stand for. The walls of the Curris Center can’t respond to bigotry, but we can.

It’s the ultimate cliché to quote Martin Luther King Jr. in a time of political and social unrest, but his words ring true now more than ever: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.

Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

If we truly are a student body that strives to support and include people of all nationalities and identities, we must make it our mission, abandoning university affiliation or pseudo-support, to prove that by our actions every day.

We will not be overtaken by individuals who use intimidation and psychological bullying to make us cower in defense or charge with rage. If we are who we say we are, we will prove the signs right: there is simply no room for hate in Murray.

Making Headway

VMAs, what’s good?

Dylan Doyle || Contributing writer ddoyle2@murraystate.edu The 2016 MTV Video Music Awards were certainly a spectacle – the glitz of a star-studded attendance list, Rihanna performing her entire discography – but something, unequivocally, was missing. The event was an exercise in self-aggrandizement for the mainstream music industry, featuring the larger-than-life personas and performances one comes to expect from the show.

What was missing, however, was a soul.

The VMAs were all about the music industry looking in on itself and celebrating its achievements without pausing to look at the bigger picture. How did this year’s music draw inspiration from (or take advantage of) the Black Lives Matter movement? Not one artist could be bothered to perform a tribute to recently-passed music giants like Prince?

In the heated political climate presently sweating Americans out, none of our entertainment icons have an opinion? Why was our time wasted on the entirely forgettable performance of Britney Spears?

It’s simply out of character, at least for the upper echelon of artists in attendance. Only Beyoncé referenced anything of importance going on outside of Madison Square Garden, and her performance was the undeniable peak of the entire show. The “angels” dying around her to the sound of gunfire made for one of the most poignant political commentaries of the year.

Of course, I am not saying that award shows like the VMAs necessarily have to make some political or social statements –

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just that the best ones often do. Say what you will about Miley Cyrus, but at least her 2015 altercation with Nicki Minaj on the VMAs stage raised questions about feminism and race. Where was this controversial VMAs soul this year?

Perhaps MTV executives just wanted to keep the whole circus under control this year in an attempt to avoid the bad press Cyrus garnered for them last time around.

However, if you are going to put lions like Kanye West, Beyoncé and Rihanna under one bigtop, you better have some talented tamers on hand. This was the biggest issue plaguing the 2016 VMAs: the hosts fell short across the board.

MTV . . . sold the soul of their show in exchange for Twitter mentions.

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Take Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele brainstorming “fire” tweets in front of the cameras for five minutes at a time, reenacting memes with all of the cringeworthy bluster of a Hillary Clinton public relations intern. An even worse offender was Nicole Byer, who may have been a passable host without the periodic “this show is giving me LIFE!” outbursts and the awkward monologues, each reeking of more desperation

than the last. Worst of all was Jimmy Fallon’s ham-handed portrayal of Ryan Lochte, which earned less than two seconds of laughs from the audience. Fallon, usually a funny and quick-witted guy, did not pick up on this and proceeded to overstay his welcome, if indeed such a welcome existed in the first place.

The hosts (and I use that word very loosely) were obviously concerned with the hype of it all: the hashtags, the memes, the likes. Whoever was overseeing the night was clearly looking to generate press the next day and not in typical VMAs fashion (looking at you again, Ms. Cyrus). They were attempting to create organic conversation around the show but were completely unsuccessful because there was nothing to organically converse about.

MTV, possibly fearing another series of scandals and backlash, sold the soul of their show in exchange for Twitter mentions. The VMAs (and the music industry as a whole) only works when artists are allowed, and encouraged, to comment on the outside world.

We, the public, idolize these people, and we clamor to know what they think about Black Lives Matter or the coming elections.

At the very least, we want to know what they think about each other. What we do not want is more cheesy hosts pursuing virality at the expense of good entertainment.

Give us a little drama next year, MTV. Give us real commentary. Give us something we can sink our teeth into. Do not give us another falsified and soulless husk of a show, or the moonman will soon mean as much as a Best Ringtone award.

OUR CONTRIBUTORS

Hallie Beard Opinion Editor

Dylan Doyle Junior from Marion, Ky.

John Muenzberg Lecturer of philosophy

Robert Valentine Senior lecturer of advertising

Rachel Wood Junior from Birmingham, Ala.

The News

Opinion

September 8, 2016

Letter to the editor I write now in response to the arrival of “The Traditionalist Workers Party” on the Murray State campus. First, I want to thank the Republican Party for allowing groups like this to feel empowered to recruit members in the most public of places. I knew we could count on them for promoting the kind of hatred and intolerance this group represents.

Second, I want to reflect, briefly, on how we arrived here, here being a moment in our nation’s history when ultra-right-wing hate groups think it is acceptable to not only parade in public, but to actively solicit support from the young, our students.

At the most obvious level, we have Donald Trump to thank for this particular political low point in American political history. In the few short months that Donald Trump has garnered and exploited his party’s support for his candidacy, the stridency of the fascist wing of the Republican Party has become more and more public. I don’t have to rehearse Trump’s close affiliation with several American neoNazi and white supremacist groups, groups that are overtly racist, xenophobic, conservative Protestants and fundamentally intolerant of anyone not like them: blacks, Jews, gays, Muslims, Catholics, the list goes on – pretty much anyone not white, male, Protestant and heterosexual.

The press wants us to believe this move to the extreme right is a fluke and has very little

to do with the Republican Party. The alt-right, as they like to refer to these groups, is a euphemism for fascist, but the press couldn’t possibly call them that. The so-called altright consists of renegade Republicans, much further to the right even than the Tea Party.

They thrive on hatred and fear.

I know the label, “fascist,” is bandied about and frequently used primarily to dismiss a conservative opponent’s argument or position: “What a fascist, with all that arrogance and intolerance.” Fascism is, however, the logical outcome of moving further and further to the right, which is pretty much what the Republican Party has been doing for several generations. Fascism is what extreme conservatism becomes. It has too.

As soon as the Republican Party embraced the evangelical wing of the Protestant church, a more intolerant group you would be hard pressed to find, it was heading pell-mell toward fascism. Trump is the logical outcome of an ultra-right agenda, and he manifests several significant characteristics of the successful fascist: he’s a demagogue, who thinks he is the only one who has the answers; he is ultra-militaristic; he targets particular groups, defining people by their race or ethnic origin; he advocates rounding these people up for deportation (and worse – think The Final Solution!). This list goes on, too. I await the book burnings.

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Republicans have been mobilizing behind fear and hatred for the past 40 or 50 years, maybe longer. The far right, the inevitable result of the Republican Party’s trajectory, thrives on the kind of intolerance and hatred we are seeing today. The rise of the far right/ neo-Nazis/Fascists should not come as a great surprise. You sow what you reap.

The question we have to ask ourselves is what we can do about it. My suggestion is that those who do the bookings for the Curris Center let us know when “The Traditional Workers Party” will be back on campus. The “us” here would be the press, the administration and anyone else who can help spread the word to the entire campus. Then we go, en masse, to their table, where we tell them: “No with Thunder!”

When I say en masse, I mean young Republicans as well as young Democrats. This is an ideal opportunity for Republicans to demonstrate publicly their opposition to the direction their party is being taken. It is also an opportunity for tolerant Protestants to speak up. Don’t let hate groups hijack your religion.

Silence is permission.

Throw all hate groups off campus, period.

The right to freedom of speech includes the right to say no to hatred.

Peter F. Murphy, Professor English and Philosophy Department

Going to class By Selena McPherson

The Fine Print

The case for joining Robert Valentine || Contributing writer rvalentine@murraystate.edu On my first day on campus as a genuine, fully-fledged freshman at a proud state university, I felt I was part of the institution itself.

That’s because I belonged to a group.

I could have felt like a member of my dormitory – a building dating back to the 1800s with bad lighting, one closet for three men and no air conditioning – but I wasn’t sure which of my roommates was “Rich” and which was “Glen.” We didn’t have the friendly luxury of residential colleges.

I might have felt like a member of the freshman class, but there were about 2,500 of us from many different places. I knew of only two other people from my hometown.

You would think I would have been pretty lonely.

But I was a member of the debate team. We were the prize nerds of the campus, I’m sure, but we knew who we were. We had a proud tradition to uphold, since the school had won three national championships dating back to 1952 (which was ancient history even when I got to campus).

We were family, with our own inside jokes non-debaters couldn’t understand. We picked fights (arguments after dinner in the cafeteria, actually) with seniors and law students

and we won. We were rhetorical bullies and proud of it.

The important thing is this: we belonged.

When things got tough, we could talk it over with the debate coach, who was among the wisest people on the planet (fact, not opinion).

We could discuss with juniors and seniors the wisdom of taking anthropology instead of chemistry to satisfy university studies requirements.

There were girls on the team, too, and they became like sisters to us. They explained things about women and social rules that a teenage fellow of that era would have no other way of knowing. Life as a nerd was pretty good.

Later on would come things like fraternities, student government, honor societies, clubs and political groups, etc., etc., etc. Those were really helpful, too. Belonging, achieving and working with others provides security and challenges. You grow.

I was reminded of all that ancient business by a human resources director in Chicago.

Last July, we were visiting HR heads and other supervisors at advertising and public relations agencies where Murray State students were on summer internships.

The HR director, who is in charge of hiring new employees – including summer interns – told us that some of big things she looks for on

those skimpy resumés are memberships and involvement while at school.

“We’re looking for signs that this person can work with others,” she said, “that they have been involved with causes or interests; that they can lead and follow.”

You have that chance, right now. Groups all over campus are crying out for your participation. From the student government in the Curris Center to The Murray State News in Wilson Hall, organizations that can help you build a network of friends are looking for people to replace those who graduated. They are seeking those who can bring a new perspective to what they do.

Participation will be rewarding to you as an individual, but it may also be a key to getting hired for summer work or for your first job after college. You can’t decide to take part in these groups and activities after you graduate – that’s too late. It is an opportunity which, once ignored, won’t come again.

You are not alone and, at Murray State, you already know that. But there are organizations on every hand to help you learn, grow, have fun and develop the friendships that will last a lifetime. You can never tell, and you will never know until you step up and join.

Ever consider the debate team? Your residential college has one, and they are waiting for you to speak your mind. The floor is yours.

I’m a big believer in making yourself go through uncomfortable situations, especially if you’re prone to being uncomfortable.

That’s why, if you’ve never taken yourself out on a date, you should.

I know, it sounds scary and awkward, but I’ve done it several times throughout the course of my college career, and I’m here to walk you through it.

First, I have to convince you why being alone on a Friday night or a Tuesday afternoon is better for your health and character than always being with a friend.

Earlier this summer, I went on a trip to Long Island with my mom for a work-related conference. This meant I was left to explore New York by myself until she was free in the evenings.

Once, I stumbled upon a painfully hipster (but ultimately very cool) bar and grill in Huntington. Initially, I was frightened to death by the stylish crowd, the nonchalantly beautiful hostess and the slick bartender. I was sure everyone was thinking what a loser I was for sitting alone while everyone else chatted among their best friends and dates. By the end of the meal, though, I had been complimented by the hostesses (they liked my hair!), struck up a conversation with someone else about Kentucky and savored a fabulous meal.

Forcing yourself to function as the smart, interesting, beautiful and strange human you are without the assistance of a friend, crowd or smartphone is key to being independent and flexible.

When we go out with a friend, we’re unafraid to smile or be silly because we only have to perform for one person who is nearly guaranteed to love the show. When alone, we’re suddenly faced with a giant unknown audience who, according to the voice inside your head, will absolutely hate and judge everything you do or say. It takes time to rid yourself of this voice, but it can be done.

If you never learn how to enjoy and affirm yourself in the company of strangers, unassisted, you’ll have a difficult time developing stable and healthy relationships with others, whether those are romantic or platonic. So much can stop us from achieving what we want and fear of being alone is probably one of the biggest roadblocks.

If you’re with me, proceed: Think of a plan for yourself just as you would plan to hang out with a friend or significant other. Go out to lunch, get a drink or go to a movie (that’s an easy one).

If choosing a restaurant or bar, it’s easy to pick a quiet place at a slow time – this offers little threat to you. What I suggest is staring the threat right in the face and showing your teeth. Pick a swanky place during a popular meal time. Just do it. Oh, and don’t check your phone every two minutes.

When choosing food, don’t purposefully order something you’ll finish fast – no side salads or minuscule soup cups.

Get something you’ll truly enjoy, and get a drink with it, if you’re of age. Or, get a fancy nonalcoholic specialty drink or milkshake – the goal here is to motivate you to stay until you’re finished rather than heeding your social anxiety and dashing after a few bites.

Don’t worry about what other people are thinking – unless they’re stalkers, they will not concern themselves with you for more than two seconds at most.

No, really. No one cares about you – they’re too busy thinking about themselves and their company. That’s okay.

And if someone does try to talk to you, it won’t be the worst thing in the world.

If the thought of doing a certain activity alone makes your stomach churn, you’re exactly the kind of person who should try it. Give it a shot, and let me know how it goes. hbeard2@murraystate.edu

Cheers to ... President Davies

Jeers to ... Polar viewpoints

In response to the Traditionalist Workers Party’s presence on campus, President Davies sent to the campus a well-written letter about his thoughts on the matter. We’re lucky to have a president who always communicates with students in a timely and efficient manner. Well said, Bob!

Can’t we all just like, chill out man?

It’s cool to have your opinion, but that’s just like, your opinion, dude. All these drastically polar viewpoints are making us chilly.

Don’t people learn about bias, fairness or logical fallacies anymore?

Open your eyes to all sides, man!

Jeers to... Brock Turner Twenty-one-year-old Turner was found guilty for rape of an unconscious woman at Stanford University and was sentenced to six months – but, he was released after three months for “good behavior.” Seriously? Maybe the justice system needs to sit in the corner and think long and hard about “good behavior.”

CHEERS & JEERS

Cheers & Jeers is written by The Murray State News’ Opinion Editor.

Questions, comments or concerns should be addressed to hbeard2@murraystate.edu

Cheers to... Pandas!

The International Union for Conservation of Nature said Sunday that giant pandas, which have been ticking on the clock of extinction for quite a while now, are no longer endangered. Conservation efforts have been successful and the cuties are feelin’ good again.

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The News

LOUISIANA

Sports Editor: Mark McFarland Assistant Sports Editor: Sarah Combs Phone: 270-809-4481 Twitter: MSUSportsNews

Sports ­­

Photo courtesy of Kacie Fountain

A Murray State logo amongst the late August flooding in Fountain’s neighborhood in Walker, Louisiana.

Racers rise above flood waters Assistant Sports Editor Scombs81@murraystate.edu

While thousands watched the tragic events of the Louisiana flooding unfold, two members of the Murray State basketball family were experiencing the events right at their front door.

Senior guard, Gee McGee from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and sophomore guard, Kacie Fountain from Walker, Louisiana, live 20 minutes apart.

When the flooding began on Aug. 12, McGee, Murray State’s 6-foot-5 inch, 225– pound guard was at home, preparing to return to campus for the semester.

McGee was home for break, after s u m m e r workouts before the semester began and originally planned to return to McGee campus two days after the flooding began. McGee woke up at 6:30 a.m. Aug. 12 and noticed the flooding but didn’t consider it a big deal. When his father woke him up at 7:30 a.m., their house had began to flood and that’s when he realized there was a problem. His family retrieved sandbags to help stop the flooding but after that didn’t help, they decided to leave.

“I didn’t understand what happened, I mean Katrina was different,” McGee said. “When we woke up, it was just real. Are you gonna leave or are you gonna be without everything just grab whatever you can? It was one of those situations.”

McGee’s car was underwater when the family finally attempted to leave so they tried

his mother’s truck. They had to put the truck in neutral and push it a mile up the road, alongside kayaks and boats, McGee said.

“It was to the point where if you didn’t get out, you would have to be rescued by a boat or by the Navy who was coming to help people,” McGee said. “It was something like, if you didn’t rescue yourself then somebody would have to come get you on the boat because it was too high to walk.”

When the flood waters initially started rising, McGee FaceTimed Head Coach Matt McMahon to show him the scene.

“I’ll never forget it,” McMahon said. “In the background, you could see a boat going down a street.”

McGee’s family found solace at his grandmother’s because I-12-55 was blocked by water.

Curfews were implemented and wouldn’t allow passing traffic.

McGee would ultimately arrive four days late for the semester.

McGee said he is preparing for a solid senior year with the support of his coaching staff, teammates and family back home. He said the support and strength from McGee’s family is what has given McGee the ability to adjust to being on campus and focus on finishing out his career.

On the day Kacie Fountain was supposed to return from Summer Break, she said flood waters covered her driveway and the river crested double over the limit, causing her house to flood. After rebuilding the highway, no holes were designed under them in order to drain any flood water.

After the flooding began to creep closer to the house, Fountain said her family started packing traveling bags. After the water reached the electrical sockets, she said they decided to leave their home.

“When the water was getting almost close to the house we all came together as a family and decided just in case we do have to be evacuated, have a travel bag to get most of the salvageable items we could take out,” Fountain said. “About when the water was almost to the outlets, that’s when my family and I decided that, you know, it’s time to get out.”

Fountain said they were never evacuated or told to leave. Fountain’s father had a boat that the family was able to get into and drive over to neighbors to help them as well.

After Fountain and her family got out of the Fountain flood waters, they found a hotel and began traveling back and forth to begin cleanup.

“We just begin the process,” Fountain said, “You have to gut the house, you have to take up the floors and all that good stuff.”

Fountain said the decision to leave her team and not return to Murray was difficult. She also said she didn’t want to leave her family to the house repairs alone.

Fountain said the water receded the next day and they were able to come back and start gutting the house.

“The mindset – my parent’s definitely weren’t happy, they are very stressed – but the mindset that we have each other and we didn’t lose each other,” Fountain said. “We’ve just been trying to stay optimistic.”

Head Coach Rob Cross said seeing the visuals on the media coverage and the inability to get in touch with Fountain due

to cell towers being down was tough.

Federal Emergency Management Agency and other programs and organizations are providing relief to the uninsured home and business owners of Louisiana.

With such a large flooding and limited federal aid available, FEMA has started setting qualifications for who can receive aid.

The help will be limited, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said in an article on weather.com.

“There is some help available, but it is limited and it is not automatic,” Edwards said.

Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser commented on the hard work of volunteers helping to bridge the gap between the funds available for property owners without insurance.

“The real challenge is going to be with the little bit of money they’re going to get, if you didn’t have flood insurance, to bridge that with the volunteers through VolunteerLouisiana.gov,” Nungesser said.

Fountain has accepted a semester exemption through Senior Associate Athletic Director Matt Kelly for Fall 2016 and will return in January for Spring 2017.

The exemption will work like taking a timeout. Her court eligibility clock will stop and she will pick up where she left off without any repercussions in the spring.

When she returns, Fountain will redshirt for the rest of the year.

She will sit out for the season but will still be able to practice and work out with the team.

While she takes off a semester from college, Fountain said her and her family have been working to gut their house and make repairs. This week, they, along with their neighbors, have been taking everything out of their house and making a big pile to be picked up this week.

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Photo courtesy of Kacie Fountain

LEFT: Fountain’s brother floats on a raft down their neighborhood street MIDDLE: Fountain’s hallway during the flooding RIGHT: Fountain’s house during renovations

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CINEMA INTERNATIONAL CRAIG LAMB

Sophomore keeper starts season as OVC Champion, 8

Former Racer football player sues OVC/NCAA, 8

Foreign film program celebrates Pike president wins national honors, 9 30th anniversary, 9

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Coach continues to help alma mater Bryan Edwards

Contributing writer bedwards16@murraystate.edu

In the past 14 years, the Murray State rodeo team has seen plenty of new faces, but there has been one face that has never changed.

J.D. VanHooser, coach of the rodeo team, was born in Princeton, Kentucky, in 1968 and was highly involved with horses as a child, but he didn’t compete in rodeo until he enrolled at Murray State.

“I was raised in a family with an agricultural background,” VanHooser said. “I VanHooser didn’t get the opportunity to become a cowboy

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VanHooser graduated from Murray State in 1990 with a bachelor’s degree and later returned for a master’s degree in animal science and agriculture in 1992.

He was a four-year veteran on the rodeo team as an undergraduate, competing in events like team roping and bareback horse riding.

After he graduated, VanHooser was in the horse and cattle business in Texas and eventually moved into the oil business.

In 2003, the rodeo team coaching position opened up, and he said he decided to apply. VanHooser was hired as the coach and as a professor in the Agricultural Department.

When he returned to Murray State, he said a lot had changed since he had been on the team. VanHooser said new facilities, equipment and

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and their success in the classroom is what really matters to him, assistant coach Jason Hopkins said.

Hopkins and VanHooser have known each other for 20 years, and that relationship has successfully transferred to the practice arena.

“We are just like family, we see each other every day,” Hopkins said. “I really look forward to another season with him, and I think this will be a great year for us and the team.”

VanHooser said he and the rodeo team will be putting on many fundraisers and events to help fund the team this season, and the coach highly encourages everyone in the Murray State community to come out.

On Oct. 13, the rodeo team will be hosting the Ozark Regional Rodeo Competition at the William “Bill” Cherry Exposition Center.

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new additions to the practice arena have really helped the team progress and helped practices run more smoothly and efficiently.

For the last 14 years, VanHooser has helped the rodeo team double in size.

“When I came back, the team consisted of 30 members,” VanHooser said. “Now we nearly have that many freshmen on the team this year.”

VanHooser also said that he helped the team grow to 70 members in 2013, but one thing he still would like to do as coach is expand on the team’s recruiting process.

“We’re still working on our recruiting,” he said. “I’m trying to set up recruiting trips so we can recruit more members.”

With 50 members this year, VanHooser does want to win, but the students’ progression on the field

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MURRAY STATE FOOTBALL 2016-17

Sisters who run together, stay together Tierra Reese Contributing writer treese1@murraystate.edu

For Vallery and Sylvia, they never knew how far running could take them.

The Korir sisters from Iten, Kenya, plan to help Murray State’s cross-country team win the OVC Championship this year.

Vallery Korir, junior, is the older Korir sister who has been an international student-athlete at Murray State for two years now.

She redshirted last season but has returned to run in the 2016-17 season with winning OVC as her goal.

“This year, I’ve been training, getting healthy and staying healthy so I have huge expectations,” Vallery

said. “I have a feeling that I am going to do very well, I have good things coming this semester.”

Vallery is also excited about a family member joining the team this season, her sister. Vallery said Sylvia brings comfort to her this year, putting her in a better place than when she first came overseas.

“It feels good to have someone you’ve grown up with around. I am excited for this semester because last semester I was stressed because I had no family,” Vallery said. “But it’s much better this semester because I have someone around me that knows me better.”

Vallery and Sylvia competed together in Kenya on the same team in school

and now get the chance to compete at a higher level together. Vallery said there is no sibling rivalry, but she has advice and encouragement for her sister Sylvia.

“Both of us can get to help each other, it feels more comforting,” Vallery said.

“Would be really glad if my sister does better than me because I am about to graduate so by the time she becomes a junior, she will be taking Murray State far.”

Freshman Sylvia Korir said she is excited but nervous about her first season at Murray State but is taking advice from her sister Vallery, who said she is here to help.

“I always try to help someone through my own experience. Being a freshman for

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Murray State, it wasn’t fun at all. I wasn’t running good and college life was so different in the states,” Vallery said. “So if she comes to me and tells me that she is facing some challenges, I would tell her kindly that that is how life is and that things get better.”

Sylvia, like most freshmen, said she does not know what to expect for her first year at the collegiate level, however, she hopes to get rewarding results after each meet.

“My goal for this year is to do well. I want to improve every time I go to competition,” Sylvia said.

Vallery is finishing her collegiate career but wants to end her final season strong in hopes that it will

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help her fulfill her dream of earning an Olympic title.

“I have a dream that in 2020 or 2024, if it goes well, hopefully I will maybe be in the Olympic Games. One day in time, I will get to have that name of being called an Olympian,” Vallery said.

While 2020 or 2024 are some time away, Vallery also said she has short-term goals in mind for this season. She said she believes she and her team can reach their ultimate goals with hard work and dedication.

“I have a feeling that we are going to win OVC. When I run with my teammates, I can feel it. During practices, we try to encourage each other, try to run as a team, and help each other run good,” Vallery said.

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Marky Mark Talks Back

Time for a Change

Respect is not just handed out, it is earned.

Many college football teams are very good, and many are not so good.

But what all college football teams have in common is they want to earn people’s respect.

The University of Mark McFarland H o u s t on Sports Editor is one of the top teams in the country, and for good reason. The Cougars do not play in a “power five” conference so naturally they do not get the respect a SEC or ACC team would get.

Houston has been trying to enter the Big 12 recently and many believe it doesn’t deserve to be in a “power five” conference. That all changed last Saturday.

Houston took on the University of Oklahoma in a “neutral” site game at RNG Stadium in Houston. The Cougars showed the world they deserve the respect they aren’t getting. Oklahoma was the third–ranked team in the nation while Houston sat at No. 15. Long story short, Houston went on to beat the Sooners 33-23.

The Sooners were the No. 4 team in the College Football Playoff (CFP).

They lost to Clemson to be knocked out of contention for a national championship. Nobody expected Houston to beat a team that was in the CFP. Many will still say they have a weak schedule and will need some help to get into the College Football Playoff, but what many don’t understand is Houston has been this good for the last few years.

If the Cougars were in a “power five” conference they would have been in the conversation to be in the CFP. The sad thing is, everyone thinks the CFP is great. But when only four teams make the playoff it is bad for college football. In the Football Championship Subdi vision (FCS) and in the divisions lower than Division I, they have several schools that compete in the playoffs. It is good for the sport.

It makes sense that part of the criteria to make the CFP is strength of schedule. But, is it possible for the CFP selection committee to actually take into consideration who the best team is?

If a team who has never been considered for the CFP beats a team who was in the CFP last year, isn’t it time to think about changing up the way they pick teams. Obviously, Houston had the better team. They dominated most of the game.

Whether they deserve to be in the CFP is still up for question, but they definitely deserve to be in consideration.

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Steigerwald gains momentum over summer Mark McFarland

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Alex Steigerwald, sophomore goalkeeper, was thrown into the fire her freshman season to fill in for injured Shelby Haworth, junior from Hilliard, Ohio.

Steigerwald Steigerwald played in 13 games during her freshman season, starting in 11 of those games. She finished the 2015 season with 64 saves and a .64 goals against average to cap off her freshman campaign. Steigerwald said last season was an eyeopener, but she still has some more learning to do.

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Sophomore goaltender Alex Steigerwald took over the starting position her freshman season due to injuries.

experience at first is always intimidating,” she said. “It’s a new level of competition than I faced in high school to college was just insane, but each game I got under my belt made me feel that much better about myself.”

Head Coach Jeremy Groves said he has seen Steigerwald grow since the season ended last fall.

“She went away this summer and played on a very good summer team in Dayton,” he said. “And they won their conference and did a bunch of things. Their coach is very happy with what she did. I think it’s very good that she got more experience.”

Steigerwald said she had a great time this summer getting to train with coaches who really helped her focus more on the little things in her game.

“I got to train with a good coaching staff and had a keeper trainer,” she said. “We got to work on and to con-

tinue doing what I have been working on here. There was another goalie, so we kind of had the advantage of specific type training for us.”

Steigerwald has already posted one shutout this season following her five shutouts last season. Along with her low goals against average, she posted a 89 percent save percentage last season and said earning shutouts gives her more momentum for the season.

“That’s huge, that’s just icing on the cake,” she said.

“Obviously it’s a whole collective, team effort. You know, with the defense that we have and just the way they are, I feel so solid behind them.”

Steigerwald and the Racers will be in action this week as they travel Sunday at 5 p.m. to take on the University of Kentucky. The next game will come nine days later when they travel Sept. 20 to take on St. Louis.

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A former Racer football player is suing the OVC and the NCAA over a concussion he suffered during his playing years at Murray State.

James “Clay” Harrison, former tight end, filed a class action suit through the Chicago law firm of Edelson PC. Christopher Dore, partner at Edelson PC, said Harrison was knocked unconscious when he played and continues to live with repercussions of his injuries.

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1, Dore said.

Murray State is not mentioned in the case, but Dore said the school will still be involved. The university was not able to comment on the pending litigation.

Dore told The Murray State News Edelson PC has helped many athletes earn personal injury claims rather than receiving just medical monitoring.

Cases like this could take two or more years and should not be expected to be settled any time soon, Dore said.

The Racers received $475,000 for playing the University of Illinois on Saturday, Sept. 3, Director of Athletics Allen Ward said in an email. The money made in the guaranteed games go to the football team’s budget.

The budget covers travel and recruiting expenses, salaries, equipment, officials and more.

“We play 1-2 guaranteed games in each season in support of our annual budget and to provide additional resources for important facility enhancements,” Ward said.

Even though the game was televised nationally, the Racers were not compensated for the TV contracts.

As if a professional athlete’s name isn’t known well enough, Walter Powell, Murray State alumnus, is sure to catch any ear for miles around.

Walter Powell, 24-yearold, wide receiver and return specialist, currently plays for the Buffalo Bills, has made the 53-man roster to begin the regular season.

The Arizona Cardinals initially drafted the 6-foot, 1 8 7 p o u n d Powell as the 20th pick in the sixth r o u n d , Powell 1 9 6 t h

overall in the 2014 NFL draft.

He never played a down for the Cardinals but later that year played in four games for the New York Jets. In those four games, he had eight kick returns for 233 yards, with a long return of 62 yards. Powell returned 12 punts for 48 yards, with a long of 15 yards.

He joined the Oakland Raiders in 2015, but just like the Cardinals; he did not see the field. Powell later finished the season with the Buffalo Bills with three kick returns for 77 yards. He had one punt return for 16 yards.

Powell wears the number 19 on his back for the Bills ,where he has played a full four games this preseason and led the team in

receptions with 12.

Powell also led the team in targets, where he was targeted 21 times and led the team with 189 yards.

Powell finished the preseason with four kick returns for 78 yards and 10 punt returns for 103 yards.

Powell is on the hunt to be the No. 1 return man and possibly one of the first options off the bench for the Bills wide receiving core.

Powell is currently under a three-year, $1.8 million contract with the Buffalo Bills. He has reached his cap of $600,000 annual salary.

Talking numbers, that’s a big jump from $26,400 base salary with the New York Jets and the initial $60,000 in 2015 with the Bills.

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SUPPORTING VETERANS ON CAMPUS Ideally, the transition from military life back into civilian life would be seamless, but that is far from the truth as Robert Ireland, senior from Fort Kent, Maine, said many veterans have trouble adjusting.

Ireland said traditional college students who he has tried to advise, using his life experience, have been unreceptive.

“I’ve been around the block once or twice. I can maybe give you some advice that could help you out, and when you try to present that advice to them, they just blow you off,” said Ireland, who served 19 years in the U.S. Army.

Ireland said he used to get really upset in situations like that but has since learned patience. He said he and his fellow veterans can put on their filters and become the ultimate professionals when needed. But, he

said, that is not who they really are, and with the VSO, they can be themselves.

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Murray State’s Veteran Student Organization (VSO) is making strides to support veterans on campus and those serving overseas. VSO President Joseph Matias, senior from Binghamton, New York, who has been serving in the

everything was held to an extremely high-standard,” Matias said. “If you are not early, you are late; all your work has to be done perfectly.

Then, when I got out, all these kids lollygagging to class, showing up late, interrupting the teacher and essentially not knowing their place, drove me insane.”

Matias said after he got involved with the VSO and began making connections with other veterans, it was easier to deal with his transition.

“That’s why we love having this VSO and this Veteran’s Lounge,” Ireland said. “When the filters clog, we can come in here (the Veteran’s Lounge) and unclog the filters.”

The Veteran’s Lounge is located in Room 300 in Alexander Hall. The lounge has amenities such as computers, couches, snacks and coffee available for veterans daily. It is a place for veterans to study, relax and be around other veterans who can help with the transition process.

ELIMINATING THE STIGMA One goal the VSO has made for the semester is to try to eliminate the stigma associated with veterans.

“They hear the term veteran and they automatically think combat veteran or combat arms,” Ireland said. “A lot of people don’t know or don’t understand that only about one-third of the military are trigger-pullers or combat arms.”

Ireland said everyone else is either service support or combat support. He said he would guess that currently, only 80 percent of that one-third have actually been deployed to a combat situation.

He said when the term veteran is used, that does not automatically mean that person has shot or killed people.

“It’s just like everything else in the civil-

U.S. Army since 2008, has goals to build the veteran community on campus.

“The primary goal I am trying to establish for us is to get our name out there, to create a good name for veterans and to try and reduce the stigma that we all have PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), are broken, drug/alcohol-addicted individuals,” Matias said.

ian world,” Ireland said. “Not everybody is a teacher. There are janitors, you know, there are other jobs. A lot of civilians just think as soon as they hear military that he/she was pulling triggers.”

Ashley Medbury, senior from Henry County, Tennessee, who served for seven years in Navy aviation, said she has been asked several times on campus how many people she has killed. She said his question is completely inappropriate considering she spent her career working on airplanes and not in a combat zone. Even if she had been in combat, this question would still be immensely disrespectful, she said.

“I was Navy aviation,” Medbury said. “I worked on airplanes. I fired a gun in boot camp, that was it. So silly questions like that show a general disconnect.”

Ireland said he is willing to talk to students about his service as long as they don’t ask questions that could violate operational security and they stay 100 percent respectful. He said it actually helps him deal with his experiences, but there is an appropriate time and place for everything.

In the past, the VSO has held discussion panels where students and faculty, both military and nonmilitary, can better understand the transition process veterans have to endure. More events like this may be scheduled at a later date.

SUPPORTING THOSE OVERSEAS The VSO will be sending care packages to service members overseas for Christmas. Items to donate vary, but some items that would be useful are: baby wipes, black or green boot socks, white ankle socks without logos, candy, beef jerky, cookies/baked goods, hand sanitizer, peanut butter crackers, nuts, chips, DVDs or

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video games and books.

Donations can be dropped off in the Veteran’s Lounge or Chris Jeter’s office, located in Room 104 at Sparks Hall. The cut-off for donations is Nov. 15, in order to get the packages shipped in time.

The VSO is asking for letters to put in the care packages as well. Every letter will be read to ensure no one has written hate mail.

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VSO meetings are held monthly on the second Tuesday of each month.

But Matias said he will be in the Veteran’s Lounge as much as possible in order to accommodate as many veterans as he can.

For more information, students can contact Matias at jmatias@murraystate.edu or follow VSO on Facebook at Murray State Student Veterans.

“We volunteer to try and help make our country safer and make our country better and help other countries as well,” Matias said. “We share a bond that is like family, if not closer than fam- Photo courtesy of www.teacherwise. ily.” wordpress.com

Pike president wins national honors Taylor Inman Staff writer tinman1@murraystate.edu

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With all the buzz about Greek organizations going on these past couple weeks, one fraternity, Pi Kappa Alpha, has been recognized with international honor thanks to Craig Lamb, junior from Murray.

Lamb was nominated and chosen to attend the biennial International Convention held in New Orleans last summer, where he won the International Undergraduate Vice President position.

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Pike president Craig Lamb won the International Undergraduate Vice President position.

Around the world in 30 years

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This semester, students will wade through vast Chinese landscapes, trek through the Colombian Amazon, feel for a French baroness and escape to the streets of Germany, all courtesy of Cinema International at Murray State.

Thirty years ago, Mike Waag, professor emeritus of Spanish and Latin American literature, decided to internationalize the campus foreign films that were scarce in the Murray community. Since then, the Cinema International program has been showing a series of foreign ­films every semester, from Spanish to Portuguese with a few American films scattered throughout. Waag retired from coordinating the program a couple years ago, and this semester, Therese Saint-Paul, professor of French, has taken hold of the reins.

vice president thing, not because I wanted my picture in the paper, but for these guys,” Lamb said. “Nothing like that has ever happened here and that brought in a new sense of pride.”

That pride was not only given to the members on campus, but to the alumni as well.

Chapter Adviser Jerry Penner looks at Lamb’s accomplishments as a reflection on more than just one person; he sees it about the whole fraternity.

“Pikes have developed a mindset that they want to win. You know, who wants to come second in a race?” Penner said. “They’re realizing that they can put this kind of stuff on their resumé and it develops them in the long run as better men.”

A lot of thought and effort go into planning a semester’s worth of foreign films, Saint-Paul said, not only from the committee coming up with films that will be accessible in the U.S. but finding funding for the showings. The program is funded through donations from the community and organizations on campus. Its principal sponsor is the Institute of International Studies, and Waag said approximately $5,000 is spent every year on Cinema International. With budget cuts being a shared concern across campus, Waag said over the years it has often become worrisome if the program could continue but that they somehow have always been right on the edge.

Saint-Paul said despite funding concerns, they will not stop having worthwhile films.

“We will do everything we can to keep them going and finance the movies,” she said. “You don’t have to have a lot of money to be educated.”

Hopeful new members saw what the fraternity was accomplishing and had to get in on the action. Ty Weglarz, freshman from Paducah, Kentucky, saw what Pike was and what it stood for and said he knew that was the place for him.

“Pike has a great name behind them, they are all really close knit,” Weglarz said. “I want to log a ton of community service hours and build a bunch of great friendships, build a brotherhood, and also I feel like Pike will help me grow into the man I want to be.”

Amid all the rumors floating around about Pike and their parties, members and alumni say that is not what the fraternity is about at all.

The Modern Languages Department, where the idea of Cinema International spawned, often gives extra credit to students studying foreign languages who attend the showings. Saint-Paul said they always try to involve movies that have something important to say or are representative of some culture.

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How else are we ever going to achieve some kind of peace in the world if we don’t have any understanding [of it]?

plus we also try to have movies that represent the diversity of students on this campus.”

Saint-Paul said a lot of students didn’t really understand or didn’t always appreciate what they had seen at first and that their reports were misrepresentative of the movie.

Because of this, she instilled a new strategy: after every movie she hosts a discussion about it among the viewers. She said this has been effective after looking at students’ reports afterward and seeing it deepened students’ appreciation for the movie.

She also plans to bring people from the culture the film represents so they can be a reference as someone who knows the culture from the inside out.

There are eight films shown every semester, each showing lasting through the weekend, although some films have been shown a cou-

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- Mike Waag, professor emeritus of Spanish and Latin American literature “I really think movies are powerful tools for communicating culture issues and developing critical thought,” she said. “We try to show movies that represent all the languages we teach

“Although there are a lot of rumors out there, people aren’t looking deep enough and past all the hearsay,” Weglarz said. “There is definitely a lot that is going to be happening throughout this year.”

The members of Pi Kappa Alpha all seem to have one main thing in common: to Lamb, it seems he wants to be the best they can be and do the best they can do and he said they all strive for that one common goal.

“I’m oriented for the social stuff, but I’m more oriented for the philanthropy,” Lamb said. “What can we do for the community, what can we do for the university, how can we mend relationships? It’s a constant battle to improve and move up to that next level.”

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As we say goodbye to August and enter Sept., people start to pack up the shorts and swim suits, transition to sweaters and jeans, and look forward to all that fall has to offer.

The first official day of fall is September 22, but the weather has already begun making the switch from hot humid days to breezy cardigan-worthy days. While the transition is coming

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With holidays like Thanksgiving coming up soon, fall is the time of the year when we are thankful, and harvests are reaped and we enjoy each other’s company. The weather cools down, but you can still enjoy a walk outside. Halloween decorations start creeping up in yards and in hallways. Fall is a festive time, however it isn’t for everyone. For some Murray residents, they can’t afford costumes for their kids

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ple of times throughout the 30 years. Waag said the program has many regular moviegoers, especially since its free to not only Murray State students but the community.

He echoed Saint-Paul’s thoughts on the value of the films, saying he thinks one can get their entire education by coming to every single film.

“A lot of students have feel [sic] that way too,” he said.

“We have one student who would send us money for years after she left here because she said this was the greatest thing she had for her education.”

When the first film, “Metropolis,” made its way to the Curris Center Theater’s screen, the visibility was nothing like it is now, Waag said.

But after years of generous donations, he said he is able to show beautiful films in a stateof-the-art theatre.

Waag said the aesthetic experience has a lot to do with it as well, like the film they are showing this weekend, “Nightingale.”

“It is a gorgeous, beautiful film that takes us through China. People wouldn’t know how beautiful [China] is, and the film lets us have a look,” he said. “Who knows, some student might see the film tonight and may go on a study abroad program to China one day.”

The program’s purpose is not only to educate audiences on the cultures of the different films, but Waag said they try to with a lot international students.

“Again, like tonight we have a film from China and I’m sure some Chinese students will appreciate to see a manifes-

tation of their culture being shown here, making them feel more of a part of this university,” he said.

Foreign films are different than American or popular films, he said, because they tend to be serious as opposed to sheer entertainment.

“Not to say they’re not entertaining, they certainly are.

But there’s an intellectual dimension to it,” he said.

The committee also shows seasonal movies, like scary movies on Halloween (Alien this semester) or classic romances on Valentine’s Day (like Casablanca). The movies are also subtitled, something some students might not be aware of, Waag said. The participation varies depending on the movie showing that night, but nevertheless, Waag said each movie leaves viewers with a lesson to take home.

“They give a different perspective of the world you would get from any other culture in the world and try to understand how other people outside our own society, our own culture, our own county live,” he said. “How else are we ever going to achieve some kind of peace in the world if we don’t have any understanding or don’t even recognize that nobody in the world are like us? And they have every right to be as they are and we would do well to understand and to enjoy the diversity. It’s not a question of tolerating – it’s a question of embracing, and making life more interesting.”

Cinema International accepts donations from anyone willing to support; Saint-Paul says any dollar counts, especially because the program is expensive to uphold. All showings are posted on the calendar of events on the Murray State website.

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College football season began officially Aug. 26 according to the NCAA website, however the first opening Saturday was Sept. 3 with a full lineup of college football games. For sports fans, the return of football season is a welcomed one. For Murray State students, enjoying a football game doesn’t have to be a costly affair. The first home game is Sept. 10 at Roy Stewart Stadium. This is also going to be their Senior Night so it is sure to be an exciting first home game. Murray State students can attend the games for free where they can cheer on the football team and enjoy music from the Racer Band, as well as a local DJ. For family that may come from out of town, general admission tickets are $10, and children’s tickets (3-18) are $5.00. Put on some blue and gold, and go on out to a free football game.

or food for their family. So this fall, consider some volunteer opportunities. Be on the lookout for Greek organizations and other on campus organizations holding philanthropic clothes drives, or canned food drives. Volunteer at Need Line, Soup for the Soul or Racers Helping Racers, an on-campus food pantry accessible to students with a student ID no questions asked. Contact them to see what you can do to help.

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Spears’ lyricism gloriously horrid Nick Erickson Staff writer

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From her ’99 hit single “Oops, I Did It Again” to her infamous, sanity-questioning “meltdown” of 2007, pop sensation Britney Spears once ruled the charts nationwide.

Since the latter-half of the ’00s, however, her notability has declined, falling short of new-age pop artists such as Selena Gomez. The journey to her recently released ninth album “Glory” has not been an easy forthcoming, but, nearing her mid-30s, Spears proves she still can put out energetic, dance-inspiring music, regardless how uninspired the tracks themselves might sound.

As trends have shifted over recent years, many artists have failed to stay true to the sound that got them to where they stand. Rooted in minimalistic pop, “Glory” holds true to the sound of the late 20th century. However, like 2013’s “Britney Jean,” there IS a noticeable amount of influence drawn from more contemporary music found blasted via radio pop stations today, from EDM beats akin to Calvin Harris or even hiphop tendencies provided by guest rapping features. One could assume this is merely to “keep up with the times” and gain relevance. Regardless, if it makes people want to let loose and dance, then no harm done, as she successfully did what she set out to do.

Right from the opener “Invitation,” it’s apparent that Spears has her mind set on some sensuous subject matter. She makes risqué references to needing to be blindfolded as the subtle boom-clap of the programmed drums in the background lead the way to the chorus. The atmosphere of this track is more laid-back and less invigorating than the usual Britney track, but it is this that makes it a good stand-out track.

“Clumsy” encompasses the general vibes Spears has brought forth to the table.

There’s bright synth, pulsating, hand claps, background “woah ohs” and provocative lyrics. As Spears lets out a snarky “oops,” the beat that drops hard enough to gain

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entry to any rave in the country. “Call me a fool, call me insane, but don’t call it a day,” she says.

Unfortunately, listeners will come to find that the lines begin to blur after a while. The catchy choruses and hooks are pleasant on the ears but feel rehashed and indistinguishable from a number of other artists. Lead single from the record, “Make Me,” feels quite glossy, and the featured rapping section from artist G-Eazy feels slightly forced and predictable. “Private Show” sounds like it could easily be a Meghan Trainor B-side, with its 60s feel, thanks to its upbeat piano and snaps galore. On the contrary, Spears paints listeners a memoir of

a pole-dancing extravaganza on this track, which is territory Trainor would not dare venture into. While the wobbly synth bass on “Do You Wanna Come Over” is infectious, the staccato acoustic guitar strums sound overly-processed and unreal, a problem that has plagued numerous pop tracks in recent years. “What You Need” is one of the more soulful tracks on the album, showcasing Spears higher vocal register and grit. The Motown organs and claps definitely hold their ground but ultimately fall short of memorable.

Spears set out to pack her ninth studio album with fun. While it is easy to give it a spin and unwind, the posing problem of the unimaginative instrumentation makes it difficult to pinpoint tracks at times, and the fact that there are a hefty 17 of them doesn’t help. “Glory” is indeed a fun-sounding record, but the lyricism is far too onesided, barely brushing the surface of anything besides naughtiness and nightlife.

To say one could expect more out of a 34-year-old is reasonable, but perhaps this songwriting mindset is what it’ll take her to top the Billboard’s again, and only time will tell. Spears is indeed holding true to her sound, but maybe it’s best left to those who are still hormonal teenagers. There is foot-tapping to be found on “Glory,” not so much substance.

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Not Another Kardashian Show Son of late Robert Kardashian, who famously was on the defense team for O.J. Simpson, Robert “Rob” Kardashian will finally have his own show with fiancée Blac Chyna that premiers this Sunday at 9 p.m. on E!. Trailers show the couple discussing their baby and Rob’s hopes for a boy so he can bond with it like he and his father did. This is the third show to air under the Kardashian name. If you live for the drama, check it out.

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Chris Brown in trouble, again Chris Brown, R&B singer and hip-hop artist is back at it again with the mischief. This time, he has been accused of threatening former – although apparently her titled was stripped – beauty queen Baylee Curran at a party in his home last week. In a classic case of she said, he said, Chris Brown maintains he didn’t do it and she is setting him up. The truth is sure to come to light in the trial, with the court date set for Sept. 20.

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-Chrissy Teigen, Queen of relatable tweets strikes again with her insatiable food cravings. We’re with you Chrissy.

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Stephen Lang portrays “The Blind Man” in the newest horror film in theaters. His “blind justice” shocks and thrills audience members.

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“Just because he’s blind don’t make him a saint.” This quote truly encompasses what could arguably be the most original and spine-tingling horror flick of 2016. “Don’t Breathe,” director Fede Alvarez’s newest endeavor, is both unpredictable and brutal without the typical oversaturation of gore and guts found in the genre today.

Set in Detroit, the film centers on a young woman named Rocky (Jane Levy), her boyfriend Money (Daniel Zovatto) and her best friend Alex (Dylan Minnette). A poor group, they turn to committing small robberies to scrape by. Wanting to better the life of her and her younger sister and move to California, the trio set out to commit their last and largest heist yet.

Their mission is to rob the home of an old, blind veteran (Stephen Lang), who is said to be sitting on a small fortune from a legal settlement stashed in his house in an abandoned neighborhood. The group severely underestimates the blind man and learns they were wrong for thinking it’d be an easy task. Now they’re left trapped inside his fortified house.

With every new room and hallway, they uncover grim secrets.

For a movie with such a low budget and largely a single-set, the movie does not let up suspense in it’s mere 88 minutes. Throughout the duration of the movie, and as things escalate, viewers are left to form their own

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Rocky gets more than she bargains for when she tries to rob the house of “The Blind Man.” opinions on who is truly the “good guy” and “bad guy.” On one hand, viewers might sympathize with the blind man for his ailment, alone and the fact that he is a victim of some kids trying to rob him of a cash settlement. On the contrary, as viewers become enlightened of his true intentions and backstory, they might decide to side with the young criminals, being that they are in danger and they were committing the crime to put food on the table, so to speak.

From a cinematic standpoint, the film was literally breathtaking. The camera work is frantic and aids in the butterflies the audience will feel in their gut from the suspense. One stand-out scene that showcases the ingenious camerawork is when the blind man kills the lights in his basement, disabling the assailants, as his sense of hearing has been heightened

from his blindness over time. The scene is shot in a black-and-white style and will make the viewers feel as if they, too, are on the run from a revolver-wielding man in pure blackness.

Given that it’s a hypothetical war between the lesser of two evils, “Don’t Breathe” might make viewers feel they’ve already seen this film more than once before, but they shouldn’t let this deceive them. This film unfolds into a series of revelations, subverting any predictions of an outcome. As the film progresses, true intentions and backgrounds of the characters unmask, tensions rise, trust withers and by the halfway mark, viewers will be skeptical of who to root for. “Don’t Breathe” is definitely not for the faint of heart, but for those adrenaline-junkies seeking a fix, this is the best bet.

M o s t people who know me, or read my columns, know that I am a history major. I love history so much that my friends Brianna Willis send me Assistant pictures of a lobby Features Editor with historic memorabilia in it and I genuinely tear up.

It has become worse the last few months as every day is another day closer to graduation for me. When I start to think about graduation I start to get overwhelmingly emotional. Soon, I will no longer be in an environment where I can learn all the history my little brain can stand. I will be outside the boundaries of campus, passing on that knowledge to a new generation.

Everyone has their own history.

Sure I learn in the classroom about national histories, about local histories, but what is perhaps more intriguing and elusive is learning about an individual’s history. We all moan and groan about first day introductions that are simultaneously annoying and nerve-wracking.

“What is interesting about me after all,” I think to myself every single time. Lately, I’ve stopped and reflected on those introductions.

How much I genuinely learned about a person based off their responses. How throughout the semester, personal nuggets of life experience and memories are dispersed by individuals when something we learn resonates with them.

Just last week I learned about Polish vodka, which is apparently much better than Russian vodka, but isn’t pure potato. Fun fact, I know. However, underneath this exciting fact was someone sharing a story about something they had experienced and allowed me a better insight to my fellow classmates and even professor.

When people tell me history is boring, it is these moments that I remember. How can stories of loss, of conquering nations, of war, of love, of peace, or of adventure ever be boring? Perhaps we aren’t paying attention to what matters about history. It isn’t the specific date or time in which something happens – although for accuracy purposes it does matter – that history is truly concerned about. History wants to understand how and why things happen. What was society like?

Who held power? Who questioned authority? Why did this revolution happen? History is searching for answers in the countless primary source documents. History is listening to a classmate describe the most interesting thing they’ve ever done.

I think too often we take for granted the opportunity to be human, to get to know one another.

I know I am guilty of putting headphones on and listening to angry rap music to get people not to talk to me before class starts. These last few weeks I have started reevaluating this practice. Instead I’ve begun talking to people about my hometown, about their travels, about food (something everyone so far has agreed on). I’m taking my degree and training in history and applying it to simply being more friendly, listening more.

Whether you’re a freshman just starting your college journey, or a senior about to graduate, we’re all making our own history, adding to the stories and memories we have already accumulated. So take time to enjoy those conversations before class, they can help us understand each other a little better. bwillis2@murraystate.edu

Out this week

Read It

“Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan”

by Bill O’Reilly

See It

“When the Bough Breaks”

Hear It “AIM”

by M.I.A.

Rent It

“Now You See Me 2”

Play It

“Bioshock: The Collection”

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