The Cameron Collegian - February 29, 2016

Collegian T he Cameron University

The OMEA Oklahoma Intercollegiate Band

Monday, February 29, 2016

www.aggiecentral.com

Volume 94 Issue 6

Making the cut

Six Cameron students named to honor band By Vicky Smith Managing Editor

@pinkwritinglady

The Oklahoma Music Educators Association (OMEA) named six Cameron University students to the Oklahoma Intercollegiate Honor Band. The students attended the OMEA Winter In-Service Conference from Jan. 20-23 in Tulsa, where they participated in rehearsals for two days and then performed in the opening concert of the conference.

The students selected include clarinet player Mariama Abramson, trombone player Derik Daubenspeck, flugelhorn and trombone player Braden Hatch, percussionists Gus Echols and Tyler Reeves and euphonium player Kenneth Williams.

Cameron Assistant Professor of Music Dr. Matthew Mireles, Joye R. Lentz Endowed Chair and Director of Bands, is a member of the Oklahoma Intercollegiate Honor Band committee, which is responsible for selecting students for the honor band.

“The committee is comprised of all of the college band directors in the state,” Mireles said. “All the band directors come together, and we nominate students from our universities. … They get selected based on how well they play.”

Mireles said the students selected to be in the honor band come from different colleges to play together in a concert.

“It’s all of the top band students in the state come together,” he said, “so it’s basically like All-State Band – but for college students … It was a lot of fun because I get to see them [Cameron students] function with the rest of the group.”

Mireles said on the first day of the four-day convention, the students had to audition for a numbered “chair,” which is a rank based on how well students play in their particular s e c t i o n s .

“Kenneth Williams, who’s our freshman euphonium player, actually got first chair e uphon iu m,” Mireles said.

“That was awesome. He had a bunch of solos that he got to play during the concert.”

“It was just

so good to be in a band with so many

Mariama Abramson Clarinet

Derik Daubenspeck t r o m b o n e

Braden Hatch flugelhorn

Gus Echols Percussion

Ty l e r Reeves Percussion

Kenneth Williams euphonium

talented

people. We could all learn from each other.

”

- Derik Daubenspeck Freshman Music Education Major

See BAND Page 2

What’s inside Great Plains to open incubator

Review: Deadpool for adults only

Homecoming sports weekend review

Page 2

Page 5

Page 6

2

News

February 29, 2016

www.aggiecentral.com

Army strong: ROTC turns 100 Vicky Smith

Managing Editor

@pinkwritinglady This year, Cameron University’s military community is commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC).

According to the Official Home of Army ROTC website, the program “began with President Wilson signing the National Defense Act of 1916. … The signing of the National Defense Act brought this training under single, federally-controlled entity. “[It] is the largest officerproducing organization with the American military, having commissioned more than half a million second lieutenants since its inception.”

MS IV Miguel Hernandez, Jr., a criminal justice major, said the Cameron ROTC program has a prominent history.

“Since its inception in 1970,” he said, “it’s been nearly 46 years, and over 750 cadets have been commissioned here at Cameron alone.”

Hernandez said before he joined Cameron ROTC, he was stationed at Fort Sill.

“I was prior service,” he said. “My senior NCOs and other officers that were active duty kept on pushing me to go the officer route, and I went ahead and did the Green to Gold program.”

Hernandez said his experience as a cadet has been very unique with the camaraderie of brotherhood and

sisterhood.

“It’s all encompassing - being about to trust yourself [and] being able to trust those that you work with,” he said. “A positive attitude is contagious around here.”

According to Hernandez, he and the other cadets train as a group throughout the semester, as well as during the summertime.

“You’re working together,” he said. “You’re developing the freshmen and sophomores. Seeing them develop, lead, take it by the reins and accomplish their mission and their goals is also very rewarding.

“We focus a lot on teamwork and leadership skills and traits that you can use not only in the military but also in the civilian sector.”

Chair of the Cameron ROTC Lieutenant Colonel Eric Treschl, a professor of military science and MS IV instructor, said the mission of ROTC is to develop leaders.

“You can lead in the military as well as civilian organizations,” Treschl said. “ROTC focuses their education on leadership and discipline, management techniques, learning about culture in other parts of the world and teach[ing] young people how to solve problems.”

Treschl said he is a believer that the skills that make military leaders successful are the same skills that can make other people successful as well.

“I’m really trying to [cast] my net wide and think outside of the uniform,” he said. We do focus on military leadership, but I’m trying to broaden that discussion of

CU Public Affairs

Cutting the cake: Cameron ROTC held a ceremony at 11 a.m. on Feb. 19 in CETES to celebrate ROTC’s 100th anniversary. Today, it is the largest officer-producing organization in the US military. leadership.”

Treschl said there are specific traits present in a person who leads others well.

“Being physically fit is part of being a good leader,” he said. “Being able to lead from the front is a part of being a good leader, and being competent in your skill set is part of being a good leader.”

According to Treschl, the Cameron ROTC program is

it sounded and how it should be played,” Daubenspeck said, “and then we all had to go our separate ways and do our hours of practice time on it.”

Daubenspeck attended honor bands Mireles said after receiving their chair numbers, the students rehearsed throughout high school, and he said his extensively in order to prepare for the experience in the collegiate honor band was amazing. concert.

“The first day, there was a two-and“I’m a freshman, but most of them were seniors and juniors, so they’ve learned for a-half hour rehearsal, then dinner, then another two-and-a-half hour rehearsal,” years,” he said. “It was just so good to be in he said. “The next morning, [there] was a a band with so many talented people. We two-and-a-half hour rehearsal and then the could all learn from each other.” concert, so it’s a lot of work.”

Likewise, freshman music major Freshman music education major Williams said he learned how to play Daubenspeck said he and the other better within an ensemble.

“I learned so much from the conductor Cameron students spent time practicing before they even left for the convention. as well as from others in my section,” he “We went over the repertoire together said, “I made quite a few friends from the just so we all had an understanding of how different universities in the state as well as

BAND Continued from Page 1

comprised of 60 students. He said he enjoys working with them and leaves work smiling nearly every day.

“The students are willing to learn, eager to learn [and] eager for a challenge,” he said. “It doesn’t matter how hard I make stuff, they want more. It keeps me on my toes, so it’s really good.

“It’s really rewarding for me to have that type of interaction.”

Upcoming events for the ROTC

met with some extraordinary musicians that performed with the professional groups.”

Senior biology major Abramson said she enjoyed hearing the music come together as the band rehearsed.

“From what it first sounds like when you all sit down together and play it to what it sounds like on the day of the concert when you play the concert – it’s really a big difference,” Abramson said. “It was really fun.”

While attending the conference with the students, Mireles had the opportunity to present a clinic on the topic “What’s Going on Back There? – Teaching Beginning Tuba and Euphonium,” as well as conduct a concert of the Frontier Brass Band. “[The clinic] was geared towards

department include the Bataan Memorial Death March at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on March 20, an awards ceremony on March 25, a Joint Leaders Training exercise with UCO, OU and OSU on April 8-9 and the climbing of Treadwell Tower on April 29.

For more information about CU ROTC, visit www.cameron.edu/ militaryscience.

beginning band teachers,” Mireles said. “I was giving advice and techniques on how to start kids the right way on a low brass instrument. “[The Frontier Brass Group was] comprised of all of the brass professors at all of the colleges,” he said. “[They] came together and formed a band, and they chose me as the conductor.”

Mireles said he is looking forward to the Cameron University Concert Band’s next event, which is at 7:30 p.m. March 3 at the University Theatre. The band will be joined by Elgin High School Band and the Cameron University Concert Choir for a performance.

To view a full listing of upcoming events in the Cameron Music Department, visit http://www.cameron.edu/liberal_arts/ SLAcalendar.

Looking ahead: Great Plains incubator Erin Owens

studio that can accommodate up to 12 artists.

Staff Writer Pat Beck, manager of the business incubator, said it is a Great Plains Technology Center community. is now seeking tenants for their new “It’s a place for entrepreneurs to business incubator, targeted to be develop their ideas and be able to up and running by August. succeed with bringing their dreams The incubator is a total of to success,” she said.

28,000 square feet and will house The incubator offers 10 business offices, a licensed and entrepreneurs the opportunity to certified commercial kitchen, seven start a business softly and under the manufacturing spaces and an art

guidance of experienced mentors.

The mentors will share their knowledge and network with the business owners and coach them on growing their businesses.

Before business owners will move into the incubator they must first meet a few prerequisites.

They will need to have a business plan in place, secure financing and pitch the idea of their business to an advisory committee made up of

bankers and businessmen from the community.

Upon entry to the incubator, business owners will have access to an economic team who will advise them in areas such as accounting, marketing and agriculture. Beck said the plan is to be available for the business owners and help them succeed.

“We’re going to be talking about all the things it takes to be successful,” she said. “[If] we can see the trend here and this isn’t going to work, we need to pivot somehow; maybe you need to change your market or product.”

The Small Business Association credits lack of capital, lack of experience and poor location as the three main reasons Courtesy of Pat Beck for failure Opening soon: The Great Plains Technology Center business incubator, which is 28,000 square feet, is scheduled to open to among the public by August. Pack Beck, the incubator manager, said the incubator will be a place for entrepreneurs to develop their ideas.

small businesses each year. While planning the business incubator, these were three of the factors taken into consideration. For Beck, giving businesses a greater chance to grow is a passion.

“We are a small community in Lawton,” she said. “We can’t afford to hope that another Goodyear will move here to boost our economy.

We have to grow our own, and with an 80 percent failure rate of new businesses, you can’t afford that.

“That ripple effect of the failure is not good for our economy at all.”

The small business association agrees that incubators are influential in business success rates and encourages all entrepreneurs secure a support system prior to starting operations. Beck emphasized how important this network can be.

“You’ll be forced to make many important decisions, especially in the first months of opening your business,” Beck said. “If you do not have a support network of people to help you, consider finding a business mentor.”

Construction of the incubator is under way, and the building is scheduled to open later this year.

Business plans are already being reviewed and the office spaces are on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Entrepreneurs interested in applying can contact Pat Beck at pbeck@greatplains.edu.

February 29, 2016

www.aggiecentral.com

Student Life

3

Cameron’s new King and Queen Erin Owens

had somebody in mind that they felt should be king and should be Staff Writer queen.” ”So whoever is going to win it, During halftime of the men’s basketball game on Feb. … people actually did take the time 20 Cameron University crowned Akinola Akinlowan and to think about you and vote [for] Katelyn Roberson as 2016 Homecoming King and Queen. you, so whoever wins must be very Akinlowan is an international student originally from important to a number of people Nigeria. He said homecoming isn’t something he had heard on campus.” of before relocating to Cameron in 2012.

Roberson, a representative “I can tell you for most international students, of Alpha Phi, had no prior especially from Nigeria, homecoming homecoming experience and is completely new for us, completely said that being nominated was a new,” he said. “I really think it’s a good surprise to her. tradition that I would like to bring over “I was really shocked,” she said. to Nigeria… but it’s just not something “I was really surprised and so that we do.” excited at the same time because I For Akinlowan this was his second had never done this in high school year participating in homecoming court.

He said going through the process before and then being in college, and a bigger setting, it was really cool.” helped him.

Roberson was even more “I had a little bit of a head surprised to make it as a finalist on start because … I have been in the homecoming court. homecoming court more than “Our [vice president] got the once so I did understand the tools of the trade,” he said. email the next day that said I had “I already knew the drill on made it through to the next round,” how the walking should go she said. “I was really excited because it really made me feel like I and how it should be, so … I think more of the fact did fine in the interview and it was kind of reassuring” that my personality being a Roberson was humbled by the very open person and the fact that I do a little bit okay with support shown to her by strangers.

Even though she had her Alpha Phi public speaking was all the sisters and their brother fraternity preparation I needed.” campaigning for her, she didn’t Akinlowan said he will think she had a chance at winning. always remember so “Megan [Canfield] was talking many people voted in about how over seven hundred support of him. people voted and I was like, ‘I “[In] the barely even know a hundred back before the Courtesy of Janet Williams announcements came people,’” she said. “I was hoping to Homecoming Court: Akinola Akinlowan and Katelyn Roberson at least get in the top three but I in, I was talking was fully satisfied with just being a became Cameron University’s new Homecoming King and Queen with Casey, and I nominee.” was like you know for the academic year.

Roberson said she will seven hundred remember everything about the experience but the moment called my name because I wasn’t expecting it at all,” she said. people actually she was crowned queen sticks out to her.

Akinlowan and Roberson both were humbled by the voted for this thing,” he “I waited for a whole two minutes before I walked up experience of running on homecoming court and found the said, “so that means that there because I was still shocked that it was me and that they amount of support they received overwhelming. seven hundred people

Oklahoma Blood Institute: taking time to donate Temilade Adelusi

friend suggested it to her.

Staff Writer “Its been a little while Members of the Oklahoma Blood since my last Institute (OBI), in conjunction with donation,” Cameron University, hosted their quarterly Delapaz said, “I blood drive from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 16 used to donate in the McMahon Centennial Complex. pretty regularly Students, faculty and staff came out in – platelets, large numbers to support the blood donor red cells, pack challenge.

Mary Spannagel, senior account manager cells – and I used to be at at the OBI, said it is essential for people to med tech. Now donate blood to those in need. am in nursing “We have to have 100 pints of blood in school, so I order to be able to supply our hospitals and patients who need blood,” Spannagel said, “so kind of feel it’s a responsibility for it is definitely important for people to know that we can only get blood from other people me since I am in and there is no synthetic replacement for it.” health care to do my part.”

Spannagel said OBI faces a lot of Delapaz also challenges when it comes to getting people to said the blood donate blood.

“Probably the biggest challenge is getting banks always need blood. the word out to people to donate blood, “Working basically a lot of them have never been asked in the lab in a to donate blood,” she said. blood bank, we According to obi.org, every two seconds, always experience someone needs blood, yet less than ten shortages,” percent of the 38 persent eligible people Delapaz said, actually donate blood. Spannagel said the “and I just think blood drive at Cameron is effective because that we are students tell other students about it.

“At every blood drive we have at Cameron, always in the there is a group that sponsors it and helps us state of need for blood, and it’s get the word out,” she said. “They put up all the posters and recruit our donors; that’s why really important, especially when it works, because its college students asking you think of your other students to donate blood.”

Spannagel also encouraged other students families. One day they may need it.” who have never donated before to make it a Mike Peace point to do so. said he came “Usually what I hear is people are afraid for the blood and what I tell people is to remember the kids that are suffering from cancer – they get drive because a donation can stuck and prodded trying to live,” she said. always help “Some one can spend 45 minutes to save someone else’s live and I always say, ‘What if someone.

“There is [sic] it was you or your loved ones?’” lots of kids out The American Red Cross statistics there who need have also shown that 1.66 million people blood,” Peace are expected to be diagnosed with cancer said, “so it’s good in 2016. Many of whom will need blood, sometimes daily, during their chemotherapy to help out.”

For more treatment. Also, a single blood donation can Photos by Temilade Adelus information about save up to three people’s lives.

Donation: The Oklahoma Blood institute gave students and members of the Lawton community a chance about the OBI of Joy Delapaz, a nursing student at to donate blood at Cameron University. Oklahoma Blood Institute encourages people to give on a global scale Lawton, contact Oklahoma University College of nursing and feel good about donating. to schedule an appointment this spring, visit OBI.Org. said she came to the blood drive because her (580) 353-6451.

4

Black History:

Voices

February 29, 2016

www.aggiecentral.com

Extending the conversation “There shouldn’t be a exhaustive list of all the black Black History Month. We’re figures who have impacted Americans, period.” this nation.

Actress and Fox News But history books only contributor Stacey Dash give part of the story. asserted this point in The precursor to Black a conversation on the History Month was Negro network’s show “Fox & History Week, established Friends.” Media outlets in 1926 to encourage the like BET have responded coordinated teaching of the negatively. However, some history of black Americans individuals, including actor in public schools. Initial Morgan Freeman, share her reactions were mild at best, sentiment. but it soon grew to gain “You’re going to relegate enthusiastic responses from my history to a month,” he the black community until said in an interview with “60 Black History Month took Minutes” in 2005. “I don’t place in 1970. want a black It only took history about 200month. plus years to Black recognize the history is fact that black American history was an history.” integral a part Dash of American echoed these history. sentiments There is when much more to clarifying the story of her black history statements than what was on her blog. listed above.

“Black We have History the stories Jacob Jardel should of Crispus Sports Editor be a part Attucks, the @JJardel_Writing of social first casualty studies and history of the Boston Massacre. We curriculum everyday of every have Dred Scott, the slave month of every year,” she who sued for his freedom wrote. “Our accomplishments and lost. We have George cannot be limited to 28 days.” Washington Carver, the In reality, both Freeman inventor who discovered the and Dash make logical prevalent uses peanuts and points. sweet potatoes many people Black history is an integral use today. part of American culture More importantly, we have and has been for longer than so many people who may some history books give it not be in the forefront of the credit. One cannot paint a public’s mind when it comes proper American landscape to black history. without the likes of Martin That’s part of the reason Luther King, Jr., and Louis why we have a Black History Armstrong. There is no Month. Education of the

accomplishments of black Americans was the backbone of the establishment, after all. Social perception of black people has come a long way since the colonial notion that they were 3/5 of a person.

But other races, ethnicities and groups as a whole have come a long way, too. So, as some might ask, why have a month to single out just what black people have done?

There are other months throughout the year that celebrate women’s history, LGBT pride and various races. This fact makes some pose the question as to why there isn’t, in turn, a white history month.

The answer to that question, though, gets a bit complicated.

Think a bit about the differences between the groups who have a dedicated pride or history month and white people as a whole. At a glance, the answer seems simple: there has never been a time where our culture has needed to remember the accomplishments and oppressions of white people because there is already a venue for that.

It’s called history class.

Some white people would come back with retorts about white oppression or about not having the ability to play the race card in conversations.

And they aren’t wrong on either point.

But it brings up the differences between equality and fairness. Equality implies that everyone gets and gives an equal share, which is a beautiful ideal. Sometimes, though, equality isn’t equal when it comes to where people are to begin with.

That’s where fairness comes

into play, to make sure the end result is a level playing field.

Take the concept of the race card, for example.

Whenever the concept of race comes up when talking about differential treatment, someone would inevitably say they “played a race card” to get it. Some white individuals feel as if it’s not a luxury they’re afforded for special treatment.

In reality, though, the race card isn’t a privilege.

For some time, it was a near necessity for some to get a hint of equal treatment because of the unfair treatment they’ve experienced.

But, when it comes down to it, the race card is a construct used in a moment of color consciousness (where people emphasize perceived difference when faced with guilt of perpetuating racial discrimination).

It isn’t a get out of jail free card. It’s a check to existing privilege.

After all, historically, white people have never

needed a race card to be on an even playing field.

In the graduate-level Social and Cultural Foundations of Psychology course, students learn concepts of cultural sensitivity and competence needed to be an effective counselor or researcher. They learn how to walk in the shoes of others before making assumptions so we can all reach a common ground.

What better way to reach that place than to show people the paths we, as people, have taken?

That’s really what Black History Month is about – reminding everybody about the path black people have taken to try and get to common ground. It’s not about excluding other races.

It’s not about white bashing.

It’s not about anything but educating people and starting conversations.

As mentioned in the first piece in this series, racism and discrimination are still a part of society today to varying degrees. Living a “colorblind” life limits

the view of true range of humanity. We are all flesh and blood, but the learned social atmosphere has made difference equate to negativity.

But occurrences like Black History Month and diversity fairs are around to show that difference is not negative, nor is it an attempt to overthrow an established entity.

They’re here to provide fair representation and emphasize the beauty of difference.

They’re here to tell people that black history and all other forms of cultural history are part of American history.

As February comes to close, there is still much to learn about black history.

But we shouldn’t limit learning about a diverse and storied culture to just 28 – sometimes 29 – days.

Diversity awareness is yearround attempt to construct that fair and equal common place we all seek as we walk our different paths toward it.

But we can’t break that ground without knowing the roads that brought us there.

Photos courtesy of Tribune News Service

Speaking out: Students protest after walking out of a“Teach In” on Feb. 24, 2010, in La Jolla, Calif. Organizers put together the event in response to the “Compton Cookout” that mocked Black History Month.

Events such as the cookout miss the point of why the celebration of Black History Month exists and perpetuate misconceptions that obscure what diversity is about – education and appreciation.

About Us

THE CAMERON UNIVERSITY

The official student newspaper of Cameron University, The Cameron Collegian is available each Monday during the year. It is printed by the Lawton Constitution. The first issue is provided for free.

Each subsequent issue is $1.50.

COLLEGIAN

Our Views

Managing Editor - Vicky Smith Sports Editor - Jacob Jardel Student Life Editor - Tyla Eakins Copy Editor - Joel Frambes Aggie Central Editor- Jeff Larson

The opinions expressed in The Collegian pages or personal columns are those of the signed author.

The unsigned editorial under the heading “Voices” represents the opinion of the majority of the editorial board.

The opinions expressed in The Collegian do not necessarily represent those of Cameron University or the state of Oklahoma.

Our student media are designated public forums, and free from censorship and advance approval of content. Because content and funding are unrelated, and because the role of adviser does not include advance review of content, student media are free to develop editorial policies and news coverage with the understanding that students and student organizations speak only for themselves. Administrators, faculty, staff or other agents shall not consider the student media’s content when making decisions regarding the media’s funding or faculty adviser.

Founded in 1926 veritas sempiterna

Editorial Staff

Newsroom Staff

Financial Officer - Susan Hill Staff Writers - Angela Jenkins, Erin Owens, Tarayn McMillan, Haley Berry, Makenzie Burk, Chidinma Chykugwa, Marry Ann Davis, Jonathon Good, Kailey Griffee, Zayna Halliburton, LaReece Osborne, Alexsis Page, Kerry Schoonaert, Cristina Soriano Garcia, George Weaver, Haley Wilson, Zachary Zahniser Graphic Designer - Kaytlen Dayhoff Advertising Manager - Vicky Smith Faculty Adviser - Mr. David Bublitz

Letters Policy

Letters to the editor will be printed in the order in which they are received and on a space available basis.

The Collegian reserves the right to edit all letters for content and length.

Letters should be no more than 250 words. Letters from individual authors will be published only once every four weeks.

All letters from students should include first and last names, classification and major. No nicknames will be used. Letters from people outside the Cameron community should include name, address and phone number for verification.

Letters can be sent by regular mail, by e-mail to aggiecentral@cameron. edu or they may be dropped off at our office - Academic Commons 101 or at www.aggiecentral.com.

February 29, 2016

www.aggiecentral.com

5

A&E

Review: Deadpool not for kids Jacob Jardel Sports Editor

@JJardel_Writing “Deadpool” may not be for children, but it certainly delivers for adults.

The latest “X-Men” movie from 20th Century Fox and Marvel hit theaters on Feb. 12. Curious moviegoers and comic book fans made their way to cinemas enough to make the film the highest-grossing domestic “X-Men” release. The movie is also on track to become the most financially successful R-rated film ever.

The question as to the movie’s rating has been causing a stir since before the premiere.

Fans of the series hoped for and received the R rating they felt the movie deserved, but many parents have clamored for a PG-13 version to take their kids to see it.

However, a look at the source material will show that “Deadpool” is not for children. His profane nature and proclivity toward general vulgarity make the character as inappropriate as he is witty, and the movie amplified that on the big screens.

This crudeness turned off some reviewers like Anthony Lane of “The New Yorker,” who felt that the nastiness of the movie had no use other than shock value.

“Watching the film is like sitting at dinner with a teenager who believes that, if he swears long and loudly enough, he will shock the grownups into accepting him as one of their own,” he said.

David Blaustein of ABC felt differently, though.

“Groovy non-linear storytelling and Reynolds’ frenetic energy and comedic timing will keep the most superficial fans entertained,” he said.

Peter Travers of “Rolling Stone” offered similar sentiments.

“Deadpool has no off-switch. This dude keeps cracking wise even when he’s plotting vengeance,” Travers said. “Sure it goes on too long and repetition dulls its initial cleverness.

Still, ‘Deadpool’ is party time for action junkies.”

However, Manohla Dargis of “The New York Times” felt as if the repetition made the movie fall victim to a series of cliches that started from the opening sequence.

“Yet to laugh (as I did) at [the] selfmocking credits is to give in to a somewhat compromised pleasure,” Dargis said. “Because,

among other things, you are also laughing at your willingness to settle for the same old, same old, which suggests that the joke is on you.”

She also critiqued that Deadpool the character is more psychotic than heroic.

However, as the character himself professes profusely in the movie, he is not a hero. Sara Beth Lowe of “Salon” noticed that facet and appreciated how they approached a certain plot point.

“Deadpool doesn’t reject being a superhero because it’s cool not to care, but because the meaning of ‘hero’ has shifted,” she said.

“Wade Wilson got handed a raw deal, and now he’s got to put up with scars for the rest of his life.”

Much like the after credits scene in the movie, there will be spoilers ahead.

“Deadpool” follows the title character in his search for vengeance and for his estranged fiancee. Amid gunshots, katana slices and gratuitous amounts of violence, Deadpool breaks the fourth wall to provide the audience with backstory in a frenetic frame narrative style.

The film introduces the audience to former Special Forces operative Wade Wilson after completing an odd job helping out a teen with a stalker. He soon encounters Vanessa, a woman with just as seedy a past as his, and falls in love with her.

The movie showed their love story through various forms of adult holiday celebrations up until they get engaged and Wilson finds out he has cancer.

He makes a deal with a man who promises to cure him, leaving Vanessa at their home.

However the “treatment” left him physically deformed but immortal, giving him the ability to regenerate lost body parts. After escaping the facility, his search for Vanessa and Ajax/Francis (the man who gave him the treatment) begins.

Overall, the movie made the absolute most of the R rating it received. There are copious scenes of gratuitous violence and near-excessive profanity with bits and pieces of nudity sprinkled throughout. This may encourage some and turn others away.

For those who stayed, they received a depiction of the character true to his comic

book nature thanks to the acting of Ryan Reynolds. He was pretty much perfect for this role from build to mannerisms and everything in between. It was like he took his role from “Van Wilder” and turned the dial to 11.

Morena Baccarin also did fantastically portraying the equally troubled and equally well cast Vanessa. She balanced a sympathetic nature with a sultry personality right out of a comic hero’s dreams.

The rest of the cast did a good job in their roles, from Ed Skrein as Ajax to Stan Lee’s token cameo in the movie. Truly, the best part of the movie was the acting.

The action sequences and special effects were also fantastic, from great slow-motion scenes to jump cuts to wounds almost too bloody for the rating. That said, the soundtrack also shone through, equal parts well

timed and completely fitting – even in its dissonance from the on-screen action.

The writing was the most hit-or-miss part, as seen in critical reviews. For some, it was excessive; for others, it was perfect.

Regardless, it provided the movie with the right atmosphere to deliver this story and the entertainment surrounding it.

As a whole, “Deadpool” was definitely worth all the hype and the clamor. While it may not be appropriate for children or right for those who do not enjoy this particular brand of crude humor, it hit every button for both comic book fans and action fans.

It can work without the vulgarity, but it would not be the same. So leave the kids at home and give this one a watch.

– 8.5 out of 10 chimichangas.

Graphic by Vicky Smith

Coming soon

CUIC presenting fashion show in March

will present the annual International Students Book Scholarship Fashion Show.

Tyrell said CUIC has hosted the event Managing Editor since 2012, and its purpose is to raise @pinkwritinglady funds in order to assist academically At 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 5, in eligible international students with the the University Theatre, the Cameron high cost of textbooks and study materials University International Club (CUIC) each semester.

She said the majority of participants in the show are international students.

“A casting call was sent out and students were chosen on their desire to participate,” Tyrell said. “The audience can expect to be entertained by the students as they demonstrate their modeling skills and abilities on the runway. … You don’t have to be a professional model to strut the runway.”

Tyrell said she also hopes guests enjoy the various fashion styles that the models will present on stage.

“I’m looking forward to seeing all twelve segments hit the runway,” she said.

“The models have been working really hard to make this fashion show a reality. … I enjoy seeing the models have fun, as well as the community supporting the event.”

Tickets are $10 and can be purchased by calling CUIC at (580) 591-8091 or event coordinator Courtesy of Avion Thomas Merita Tyrell at (580) 355Walking the runway: Yunoka Flemming 1633. participates in the 2014 International Students Book The proceeds will benefit international students on Scholarship Fashion Show. CU International Club campus. will present this year’s fashion show on March 5.

Vicky Smith

Kerry Schoonaert

production each season. The other two plays can fall somewhere under modern or classic.

On April 21, the Department of Chair of the Department of Theatre Theatre Arts will close its 2015-2016 Arts Scott Richard Klein said the season with the classic musical “The department only puts on one musical a Pajama Game,” written by George Abbott year because of the cost to produce and and Richard Bissell. perform one.

The musical is based on Richard “To put on a musical can cost anywhere Bissell’s novel “7 1/2 Cents.” The original from twenty five hundred to three Broadway production of “The Pajama thousand dollars,” Klein said.

Game” opened May 13, 1954 and won the The department uses a lectureship Tony Award for Best Musical. endowment established by Richard T. The performance will feature songs Brittingham in 2003 to produce the shows like “Hey There,” “Steam Heat,” and for their season.

“Hernando’s Hideaway,” written by The cast receives their scripts the first Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. day of rehearsals, which start Feb. 22 The musical’s storyline follows the labor and continue up to the day of the first troubles in a pajama factor that ensue after performance. workers demand a raise.

Sorrell has been in three other At the same time, Katherine “Babe” productions at Cameron and said she is Williams, the head of the Union excited to be a part of her first musical.

Grievance Committee, and Sid Sorokin, “I’m excited to get to sing and dance on the new factory superintendent, are at stage,” said Sorrell, “which is something odds over work conditions while they that I have never done in a show, and spark a romantic relationship.

I’m excited to work with a bunch of new Students, faculty, staff and community people I haven’t worked with yet.” members auditioned for the show on Feb. All students can get in to see the show 7-8. for free with their Cameron ID. Freshman theatre major Sierra Sorrell “The Pajama Game” debuts April will play “Babe” Williams and senior 21-24. Show times will be 7:30 p.m. on theatre major Mark Branson will perform Thursday through Saturday and at 2 p.m. as Sid Sorokin. on Sunday. The performance will be held The Department of Theatre Arts in the University Theatre. puts on four productions every school Tickets can be purchased by contacting year. They intentionally schedule at least the Cameron University Box Office at one classical production and musical 581-2478.

Staff Writer

6

Sports

February 29, 2016

www.aggiecentral.com

Cameron nine grounds Cardinals Jacob Jardel

the fifth off senior Brandon Wright’s RBI groundout.

Sports Editor The Cardinals fought back @JJardel_Writing in the seventh and eighth Aggie baseball continued innings to tie the game at five, but Cameron answered back its hot start on the season, in the home half of frame defeating William Jewell in a four-game series from Feb. number eight.

Junior Jorden Fields 19-21 at McCord Field.

The four games fell in line singled up the middle, allowing pinch runner Colton with Cameron University’s Adams to score an unearned homecoming festivities, and the Black and Gold gave fans run. Hale and Fields later came home on Reyes’ single. more to cheer about in their Redshirt senior Logan sweep of the Cardinals.

Fanning (1-0) worked the last Game 1 inning-plus for the victory in Cameron withstood a late-game rally from Jewell to relief of starter Bryan Belote. seal an 8-5 win in their Friday He allowed one hit in the ninth before striking out the opener. side to close the game.

Senior Tyler McKinzie Game 2 drove in the game’s first run Aggie bats came alive in with a single down the left the first of two doubleheader field line that brought in leadoff hitter Jonathan Reyes. games, earning CU the 16-7 win.

He would play a factor in The Cameorn nine fell the next inning’s three-run behind early after William outburst.

Jewell scored two runs at the Junior Cody Bower top of the first, but the Black knocked in two runs when his double to left scored Cole and Gold soon took control after a four-run inning.

Williams and Nate Hale.

McKinzie came home on a McKinzie later singled Bower Wright double to right field. home to bring the score to Redshirt junior Cody Knight 5-0 at the end of the second scored on a passed ball after inning. a Hale walk. Wright and Neither team plated another run until the Aggies Hale eventually came around to score on Fields’ single to scored an additional run in

Baseball at 11-0 Vicky Smith

Managing Editor

@pinkwritinglady The Cameron University baseball team stayed undefeated after a four-game series sweep of William Jewell, bringing their record to 11-0 on the season.

The Aggies have also earned a number 22 national ranking in the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Poll, their first ranking since Mar. 5, 2011.

Head Coach Brady Huston said he and the players are excited about the start of their season.

“I’m just so proud of the way that they’re playing,” Huston said. “We’ve had some success playing some good teams, and we’re just trying to keep it rolling.”

Huston said the players worked hard during the fall semester in preparation for the new season.

“I think they’ve really grown,” he said. “Our senior class is unbelievable. … When we have adversity, they’re resilient because they’re prepared.

“They’re on time. They do the little things, and when you do those things consistently, you have success.”

Huston said one of the biggest contributors to the team’s success has been the upperclassmen’s advisement to the lowerclassmen at every practice.

“There’s only three us of coaches,” he said, “and there’s 38 players, so when there’s little things that we don’t see, the older guys are really trying to step in and help lead.”

According to Huston, giving every player the opportunity to play has been a challenge.

“We had several good arms in our bullpen that didn’t throw this weekend,” he said. “They’re very good players, so you’re just trying to play the match-ups and doing the best you can.”

Huston said the most rewarding part of the season has been seeing the smiles on the guys’ faces after every game.

“We want to continue to keep winning,” he said. “We’re playing it one game at a time. We’re naming our game-one starter every week, and we don’t name the next guy until the next game’s over.

“We’re going to continue to grind and play one game at a time and see what happens at the end.”

Redshirt junior third baseman Haydon Bogard said last year was tough, but this season has welcomed many returners.

“We have a lot of guys that can play—a lot of guys that can play different positions,” he said, “so if a guy’s struggling or if a guy’s doing well, we can just plug different people in.

“Everybody’s been coming through so far, which is good for the team.”

Bogard said the team’s goal, like Huston’s, is to keep winning.

“We want to win the last game of the year,” he said, “so we’re just going to keep working hard, keep playing well, and hopefully we will end up on top.”

Photo courtesy of Mike Mazzo

Photo courtesy of Mike Mazzo

High heat: Senior Logan Fanning pitches the ball home. Fanning earned a win and a save during the Aggies’ four-game sweep of William Jewell from Feb. 19-21. The wins bring Cameron to 11-0 to start their season. center.

The Aggies scored another three runs in the bottom of the second frame behind a McKinzie double and a Knight two-run homer to left. They came through with another four runs in the bottom of the third inning.

Williams hit a solo homer of his own to start the rally in the CU half of the third.

Bower soon scored on a Cardinal fielding error before redshirt junior Haydon Bogard on a Knight single.

Knight came home on Hale’s single to center.

William Jewell notched two more runs in the top of the fourth inning to close the gap to 11-4. However, the Black and Gold had an answer in the bottom of the inning behind the power of a Bower home run.

Cameron would score two runs apiece in the fifth and sixth innings to pull

further ahead. The Cardinals mounted a rally in the seventh, but CU shut it down to earn the win.

Codey Upton (2-0) pitched five innings of six-hit ball for the win. He allowed four runs and struck out seven.

Game 3

The Black and Gold carried the momentum from their first game into the second half of the Saturday doubleheader, run-ruling Jewell 11-1 in eight innings.

McKinzie put the first runs on the board with a two-run shot to left, bringing home Hale in the process.

Neither team would score again until the bottom of the fourth inning.

Bower kicked off the scoring in the frame with a double to center, bringing home senior Russ Colgan.

Bogard drove Bower in on a single to right before scoring on junior Bronson Pulgados’

single to left.

Williams scored in the fifth inning on a fielding error before both teams went quiet again in the sixth.

The Cardinals notched their only run in the top of the seventh. But Cameron had answers in the next two innings, scoring a combined five runs to clinch the victory in eight.

Senior Dirk Masters (1-0) earned his first win on the season after pitching a shutout in six innings. He allowed two hits and three walks, striking out 10.

of the game. However, CU made the first score when Bogard drove in Reyes on a fifth-inning single to right.

Jewell came back in the top of the seventh to tie the game at one run apiece, but the Aggies took the lead right back when Hale scored on a throwing error from the pitcher in the bottom half of the frame to bring the score to 2-1.

Senior Javarias Banks (2-0) notched the win for the Black and Gold after seven innings of work, allowing only one run on four hits. He struck out four.

Game 4 Fanning earned his third The Sunday finale featured a closer matchup but the same save of the season after working a one-hit ninth. result for the Aggies who The quartet of wins moved clinched a 2-1 win and the Cameron to 11-0 on the weekend series sweep. season.

After putting up a They open Lone Star combined 35 runs the Conference play with a four previous day, both teams game series Mar. 4-6 at Texas started off scoreless at the A&M-Kingsville. plate through the first stages

Basketball splits Homecoming set Jacob Jardel Sports Editor

@JJardel_Writing The Cameron basketball teams welcomed back alumni with a twin bill of basketball games, winning one and losing one to Texas A&M-Kingsville on Feb. 20 at Aggie Gym. CU’s celebration of Homecoming 2016 culminated with the pair of crucial conference matchups heading into the tail end of the season.

Women’s Game

Late free throws helped the Black and Gold seal the 64-58 victory against the Javelinas in the first of the two games.

A perfect four-for-four performance late in the game helped stave off a Kingsville comeback in an otherwise back and forth match.

Cameron started off the game on a 9-0 run in the first quarter before the Jav’s 12-2 run put CU behind by three.

The teams would battle for the lead before the second period, where the Aggies would take a 31-25 lead into the half.

TAMUK took over in the third frame, pulling ahead 5042 behind a seven-point run. The Javelinas outscored the Aggies by nine in the quarter.

The final period of play saw the Aggie defense clamp down, holding Kingsville to seven points in the ten minutes of play. At just under four minutes to go, the Black and Gold pulled ahead 57-54. TAMUK would chip away at the lead, but Cameron came out ahead.

Photo courtesy of Mike Mazzo Junior Charon Montgomery finished the game with a To the hoop: Junior guard Dayla Threatt drives team-high 19 points. Guard Dayla Threatt contributed the ball toward the basket against a defender. Threatt with 13 points and six rebounds, leading Cameron’s efforts provided 13 points in 28 minutes during the Aggies’ 64on the glass.

58 Homecoming win against Texas A&M-Kingsville.

Men’s Game

The Aggie men were unable to consistently hold off Kingsville’s deep attack as they fell 77-69 in the team’s penultimate game of the season.

The Javelinas made nine three pointers in their first conference road win on the season, spoiling the Homecoming festivities on the court.

TAMUK started off on a ten-point run, but the Black and Gold would later make a charge with their own 11-6 spurt to trail 33-30 with just over a minute to go in the half. A&M went into halftime with the 35-31 lead.

A CU three pointer to open the half cut the Kingsville lead to one point, but the Javelinas would hang onto their

advantage for most of the second half. However, a ninepoint Aggie run would put Cameron up 56-55 with 6:40 left.

The TAMUK offensive outburst from three proved to be the Black and Gold’s undoing, though, as the team would pull ahead by two possessions before taking the win.

Senior forward Jamaal Brantley scored a career-high 27 points to lead the Aggies. He also contributed nine boards.

Guard Cameron Lee added 13 points in 32 minutes for CU. The results bring the Cameron women and men to 1310 and 15-10 on the season respectively. The Aggies now prepare for the Lone Star Conference tournament.