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A measure of student engagement Kaylee Jones

640 campuses nationwide. The results of the survey Managing Editor are intended to show colleges How engaged do Cameron and universities how well University students feel? they have been engaging their Finding the answer to that students and the areas in question is the goal of the which they can improve. Only National Survey of Student selected freshmen and seniors Engagement (NSSE), a survey are qualified to participate in that, according to NSSE’s the survey. website, is conducted across Karla Oty, Director

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of Cameron’s Office of Institutional Research, Assessment and Accountability, is responsible for coordinating with NSSE to collect the data before reporting back to Student Services. “The cost of the survey is paid by the student assessment fee,” Oty

explained. “We use [NSSE] input to see how we are doing and to guide future changes, so[student] input is important.” According to Oty, the total cost for the survey is approximately $3,825. Oty coordinated with NSSE to administer the survey in the spring of 2008

and 2011. In 2011, 25% of invited freshmen responded; 35% of invited seniors responded. “We currently have an 11% response rate, and we would like a 30% response rate,” Oty said of the survey currently underway. Vice President of Student Services, Jennifer Holland,

stated Cameron’s reasons for originally participating in the survey. “Universities have really started – and this is a good thing – to feel pressure to be able to prove that what we say we do, we do, and prove how well we do it,” Holland said.

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Assistant Managing Editor Aggies rocked the campus Saturday, March 1 with traditions new and old during 2014 homecoming. “CU Rocks” themed homecoming week began Feb. 24, and ended March 1. From 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. at the Homecoming Hub in McMahon Centennial Complex Lobby, students gave tours to homecoming goers. For the first year also, there was a one-stop shop for campus tours, with homecoming details and information on events. At 9 a.m. on Saturday, the Aggie Family Fun Run began. Students could register at the McMahon Centennial Complex Lobby with parents and children. Participants walked, jogged and even strolled the mile to kick off the morning. For Men’s Tennis, 9 a.m. signified the beginning of a game against Ouachita Baptist in the Streich-Henry Tennis Complex. The Aggies later played East Central at 2 p.m. Burch Hall hosted an Army ROTC Reunion at 10:30 a.m. The George D. Keathley Department of Military Science held this event to reunite former members of the Comanche Battalion, Cameron’s award-winning Army ROTC unit. The Class of 1964, CUAA Award Winners, alumni and community members gathered for the Aggie Family Coffee at 11 a.m. in the McMahon Centennial Complex, to reflect on memories at CU. Students attended the Aggie Family & Friends Awards Lunch at noon in the McCasland Ballroom of the McMahon Centennial Complex. The Aggie family came together to present the Class of 1964 with their Golden Associate Medallions, followed by the presentation of the Cameron University Alumni Association Alumni Awards. The Aggies had new traditions, like the golf cart parade. Students from each campus organization decorated a golf cart and drove it from the MCC to the front of Cynthia S. Ross Hall. Students waited there with cookies and banners to wave. Rocking and rolling with the Aggies: (Top) CU Homecoming attendees hold up flyers that read “Break Fans filled the stands for the baseball doubleheader vs. the Mustangs.” The flyer was created by the Collegian in support of the Aggies against MSU. (Bottom left) Ole Angelo State in McCord Field. Kim attends Cameron’s 2014 Chuckwagon Cookoff and Tailgate Party at 2 p.m. on March 1. (Bottom right) Lyndel Monrose and Karin Clashing-O’Reilly, both representing Students of the Carribean Alliance, pose for pictures after being crowned Homecoming King and Queen for 2014. See HOMECOMING page 2

Cameron Debate team dominates state competition Kaley Patterson Staff Writer

On Feb. 21, the Cameron University Forensics team traveled to Oklahoma City University to compete against 17 schools from four different states in the Oklahoma Intercollegiate Forensics Association Tournament. Director of Forensics Sarah Collins said, in the past, the competition had only been open to universities in the state of Oklahoma. However, in the last three or four years, the tournament opened up to other states to allow more schools to compete in order for a competition to count. Collins said this year’s tournament had the largest number of schools. Students from Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri and Kansas entered the competition. “We competed in all the different individual events,” Collins said. “The team had an incredible weekend.” According to Collins, the Cameron team received State Champion in two Sweepstakes categories. State Champion

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means a team or individual received first place. Sweepstakes categories consider how all the students on the team performed compared to other teams. Cameron won first in Debate Sweepstakes and Combined Sweepstakes, which are individual events and debate combined. Cameron also won Tournament Champion in Overall Sweepstakes, beating out the University of Oklahoma, Wiley College and Kansas Wesleyan University. Collins said many CU students won State Champion in their individual events: freshman Danny McQuarters in the Lincoln Douglas debate, senior Skylar Williams in Impromptu Speaking, freshman Curry Coleman in Dramatic Interpretation and freshman Johnathan Good in After Dinner Speaking. Good also earned State Champion in Duo Interpretation along with freshman Savanna Sanders. Junior Katelynn Wright received State Champion for Informative Speaker, placed sixth in Extemporaneous Speaking and won second in Pentathon (Individual Student Sweepstakes).

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“It’s a very, very young team,” Collins said. “For them to be able to do that, it was a very successful weekend.” Many other Cameron teams found success. The team of junior Steven Haber and freshman Savannah Price made it to the elite eight round in Parliamentary Debate. Haber and Price are both in their first year of college competition. Price was named fifth place speaker in Parliamentary Debate. The team of junior Zakariya Rajpari and Williams made it to the final four round in the same category. “I just do [debate] because I love the activity,” Rajpari said. “That’s why I do the camp in the summer. That’s why I coach high school teams. I just really like debate, and I like what it’s done for me and my career and education.” Rajpari also reached the elite eight round in the Lincoln Douglas Debate along with first semester competitor sophomore Diana Reyes. In the same debate, junior Nick Pasternak took fourth place speaker, and freshman Amber Smith received sixth place. Sophomore Kynzie Pierce traveled

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with the team and contributed to the team’s Sweepstakes awards. Collins said this time last year, there were only three students on the team. This year, 14 students represented Cameron, the majority of them in their first or second year of college competition. “To win first in the state is a huge accomplishment for this group and a testament to their hard work and dedication in the last several weeks,” Collins said. “We’ve worked incredibly hard preparing for the state tournament, and it paid off. I couldn’t be more proud of them.” Over spring break, the Cameron Forensics team will travel for 12 days straight to compete at two more competitions. Their first stop will be Hutchinson, Kan. for JV Nationals, where students who are in their first or second year of competition will compete. Four of Cameron’s students will participate. The team’s second stop will be in Indianapolis, Ind. for the Phi Kappa Delta National Tournament, where the entire Cameron Forensics team will compete.

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HOMECOMING continued from page 1 Aggies young and old visited the concessions in front of the new softball complex and lined the bleachers to watch the Lady Aggies softball team play Eastern New Mexico. Chuckwagon Cook-off and Tailgate Party, adjacent to Aggie Gym, began at 2 p.m. Aggies brought blankets and hoodies to brave the cold for free homemade cobblers, chili and cornbread by a warm fire. Aggies voted for their favorite meal, and – after the homecoming candidates were introduced on a trailer with hay bales – filed into the gym for the Aggie game.

Aggie basketball men and women played Midwestern State in the Aggie Gym. Teary-eyed seniors walked on to the court with family and friends as coaches presented them with pictures and flowers. Homecoming announcers recognized CUAA Award winners, Athletics Hall of Fame inductees, and homecoming King and Queen - Lyndel Monrose and Karin Clashing-O’Reilly. The aggies held up their pick axe signs after the game and greeted the players.

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NSSE continued from page 1 “We wanted a way to measure our student’s experiences and we needed a national instrument that can compare us to other institutions across the country in things we know impact student retention and graduation rates. “[NSSE] helps us measure which of our services are working and which of them are not,” Holland added. Selected students receive an email inviting

them to participate, the first of which was sent Feb. 12. Students then answer questions like, Does the faculty hold students to high standards? Do exams require students to do their best work? How many students apply their classroom learning to real life through internships or off-campus field experiences? In 2008, 34% of students felt they had applied their classroom learning to real life experiences; in 2011, 36% of students felt the

same. However, in 2008, 57% of students felt as though faculty members were accessible and supportive while in 2011, only 53% felt the same way. “If we don’t have students’ feedback, we don’t know what needs to be changed,” Holland said. “Everyone has had a Cameron experience, we want to know what that is, and we also want to know what we can do to make it better.”

“We wouldn’t invest the time and energy in this if we weren’t doing it in order to make some improvements to the campus experience,” Holland added. “It’s important that we have the feedback from people because obviously the more respondents we have, the more valuable the data is.” The final reminder email was sent out on March 4, and the survey will conclude on April 4.

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Twitter connects CU:

Unconventional bridging of the gap Ekanem Ekpenyong Newswriting Student

Twitter accounts have created a way for CU students to express themselves about affairs they find annoying or irritating as well as Cameron jokes. Several Twitter handles — such as Cameron Problems and the Geese of Cameron — have been created by anonymous individuals to educe responses from students. These individuals post identifiable tweets and inside jokes unique to CU. The tweets on these pages have been favorited and retweeted by students who can relate to the issues or stories being told, and have even gained more popularity through the use of hashtags. Cameron Problems is an account dedicated to talking about issues and comical moments seen on campus. These issues range from late responses from the University’s maintenance department, to frustration about grades being posted late. The account also tweets anonymous confessions Cameron students send privately through direct messaging to the Cameron Problems account holder. Tweets from the account include dissatisfaction with the Cameron Public Safety Department, uncomfortable classroom temperatures, complaints about the University’s lack of a football team, irritation towards early morning fire alarms in the dorms, and so on. Overall, the Cameron Problem page has students tweeting and expressing their worries or relatable vexations about certain problems. Damola Ogunmade, a sophomore Business major said she has favorited a couple of tweets by Cameron Problems

because of the relatable content. “I like the tweets,” she said, “because it shows me that I am not alone in the way I feel about certain things on campus.” Ogunmade also said she is thankful for the page because it is a way of bringing Cameron students together through similarly shared jokes and problems. The second page, the Geese of Cameron University, has been created for the frequently seen geese around campus. In the bio, the Cameron Geese clearly state, “Irritating students in CU is our main goal in life.” Bola Adebayo, a senior Biology Major said she found it hilarious when she saw that the geese at Cameron actually have a twitter page. “I was weak, like wow, seriously? [Who] does not have a twitter account these days?”

she said. “But I still followed the page because I found it interestingly funny.” The account looks at the world through

the eyes of the geese at Cameron. Even though the number of followers for the Geese of Cameron is not as high as that of the Cameron problems account, it does get retweets from students as well.

Janet Williams, the University’s Director of Media Relations said Cameron University has no control over unofficial Cameron sites and pages. “The University is aware that non-official Cameron sites/ pages exists on social media such as Facebook, Twitter, etc.,” Williams said. “Cameron personnel have no control over these sites, nor do we monitor them on a regular basis.” Twitter did not only pave a way only for Cameron University students to vent their frustrations, but also for students to get help with their future careers, updates, alerts Graphic by Kaylee Jones and status information. Pages like Cameron ITS HelpDesk, Cameron Housing, Career Services and Cameron Library were created to support Cameron University Students and Alumni in different ways.

Degeneres uses social media to revive Oscars MCT Campus The TV ratings were up, but some people wondered if Ellen DeGeneres #overdidit with all the #socialmedia at the #Oscars2014. Sunday’s 86th Academy Awards telecast on ABC broke with tradition and reverse-engineered itself for the Twitter generation, with host DeGeneres returning after a seven-year hiatus to order in pizza as a joke for the attendees and, in the night’s most familiar image, tweeting out a selfie posed with Bradley Cooper, Meryl Streep, Angelina Jolie and other stars. The gambit appears to have worked: An average of 43 million total viewers tuned in to TV’s biggest awards show, according to Nielsen. That was up 6 percent compared with last year’s much-criticized ceremony hosted by “Family Guy” overseer Seth MacFarlane. ABC estimated that nearly 72 million viewers overall watched at least six minutes of the program. In the key demographic of adults ages 18 to 49 that largely determines the rates advertisers pay for commercial time, the Oscars earned a 12.9 rating, essentially f lat with last year’s 13.0. Among men under age 35, the ceremony climbed 4 percent and it was up 8 percent in teens. But it was in the world of Twitter and social-media sharing where these Oscars beamed live from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood - really shone. During the telecast 11.2 million tweets poured forth from 2.8 million unique users, according to Social Guide a 75 percent increase from last year’s activity. In taking her selfie with Streep and the others, DeGeneres invited viewers

to retweet the image. It became the first image to be retweeted more than 2 million times, brief ly crashing the microblogging platform. After such a stunt, the ultimate best picture win for the historical epic “12 Years a Slave” seemed almost anticlimactic. “That was really gold, that was beautiful,” Steve Minichini, chief innovation and growth officer at ad firm TargetCast, said of the star-studded selfie. “It was a great example of how social media can be incorporated into a live telecast, encouraging viewers to tune into the show and take part in it,” said Brad Adgate, an analyst for Horizon Media in New York. Of course, it’s hardly certain that social media deserves the credit for Sunday’s viewership gain. “Gravity,” one of the bestpicture nominees, was a bona fide box office hit, grossing more than $270 million in North America alone. The promise of celebrities such as Sandra Bullock, Brad Pitt and Jolie striding through the aisles at the Dolby didn’t hurt the tune-in either. The Oscar producers sounded satisfied on Monday. “Our experiences with producing the Oscars last year and then ‘The Sound of Music Live’ in December showed us the impact of social media and real-time viewership on ratings,” producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan wrote in a joint statement. “Fortunately for us, not only is Ellen a fantastic entertainer, she is extremely adept at using her social media platforms to expand and engage her fans ... It seems our plan worked out very well indeed!” But in a paradox that points out the difficulties

in trying to appeal to audiences on multiple media platforms these days, the Twitter stunts may not have necessarily made for great TV, Minichini added. “From a social media standpoint, it was a huge win,” he said. “But it was really geared for social media. It made for a boring live telecast.” That point was echoed by many TV critics. The Los Angeles Times’ Mary McNamara found DeGeneres’ desultory hosting style “not as hilarious as many people clearly thought it would be.” The Hollywood Reporter’s Tim Goodman was scathing, calling the three-hour-plus show boring and saying that by the end, DeGeneres “seemed to have given up entirely.” Whether an event counts as great TV, however, may matter less and less these days. Increasingly, the big ratings go to live shows that know how to capitalize on stunts and heighten suspense on social media _ exactly the playbook DeGeneres and the Oscar producers used on Sunday. This year’s Golden Globes was the mostwatched in a decade, with 20.9 million tuning in to see the tweet-worthy antics of co-hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. The Super Bowl set a record of 112 million total viewers. And the justconcluded Sochi Olympics on NBC drew more than 21 million viewers for 17 straight nights. The Oscars now seem to have ridden the same wave. And that means there will likely be more to come, Minichini said. Sunday’s selfies may “be a good formulaic approach for hosts and drive what kind of stunts they pull” in the future, he said.

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Crisis in Ukraine: Resisting oppression

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Assistant Managing Editor “I’m dying.” These words were tweeted by 21-year-old volunteer medic Olesysa Zhukovska as blood rushed from her neck Thursday, Feb. 20. She was shot by a sniper in Independence Square, the heart of protests in Kiev, Ukraine. Zhukovska was rushed to medical care and is now in recovery. The picture or Zhukovska – clutching her bleeding neck - received more than 6,000 re-tweets in 24 hours, sparking widespread rumors of her death. Although her prediction proved false, Zhukovska’s message was one of many that flooded the internet speaking to the current violence in Kiev. This violence included Ukranian police targeting journalists with visible identification and medics with the corresponding logo on their clothing. The people in Ukraine are not

simply competing for freedom of speech, but simply the right to assemble peaceably to voice their opinions about current government concerns and immediate safety threats. The crisis in Ukraine has recently escalated to rumors of US action and world intervention. It began with increasingly unified and progressively violent protests. Bodies piled up as national leaders discussed whether or not the bloodshed would give way to bureaucracy and how or if they should intervene. According to the Associated Press, protestors arrived on foot from as far as Vradiyevka, a town some 330 kilometers (200 miles) south of the capital, to revolt against the violence of their corrupted government. Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych fled his residence near capital city Kiev on Feb. 22 after months of violent protests – many of which ended in death. Yanukovych passed off many of his authoritative privileges to parliament. Speaker of the parliament, Alexander

Grad school madness Misty Neal

Newswriting Student The anticipation of senior year for most college undergraduates is a light at the end of the tunnel often seemed never ending when we all began as freshmen. The excitement of graduation and the possibility of finally having a job, money and maybe even a life is just around the corner...or is it? The thought of 3, 4 or even 6 more years of additional school can be overwhelming and a thought most undergraduate students do not like to think about while investing time and energy in the challenges to just obtain an undergraduate degree; but heres the deal... You have to start early! Don’t procrastinate! Do not follow the paths others have gone before you. Be proactive not reactive to the painstaking maze that will have ups, downs and sometimes you just do not know which way s up. This is the application process of graduate school. Lost nights of sleep as you toss and turn over the choices you are about to make that will cause anxiety even in the most hardened of academic scholars. Which school is the best for me? What are the requirements for the program I want? Can I really do this? Do I want to do this? Years of school, no social life and no money all over again are just a few considerations that will plague your mind for the days and weeks. I promise those weeks will turn into the months ahead as the application process proceeds.

The reality of the situation is hopefully earlier than Sr. year you have made your career choice and decided what you want to be when you “grow up.” Most graduate applicants become anxious when they realize the graduate school applications are very different from college applications. The process of applying to graduate school can be confusing, scary and almost always overwhelming. The one consistency graduate school applications are considerably the same in requirements regardless of discipline. The majority of all grad schools require the same basic requirements... details, details and more details. Get accustomed to this! Transcripts, Graduate Record Exams (GREs), Law School Admission Test (LSAT) or other standard test scores should be taken early enough to have test results sent to the programs of your choice. A person may want to leave plenty of time to re-take these exams as your scores can readily effect the program, financial-aid and acceptance into many competitive program. This is just the beginning.... take a breath and start on your admission essays. The ability to write your essay can effectively include your application into the accepted or rejected pile so take your time and write it well. In the letters, do research, consult others who have gone before you, trust me on this matter. It will make your life much easier. You are feeling pretty confident about life, the future and then the dreaded

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personal interviews begin. Are you interviewing the school or are they interviewing you? Sleepless nights of hopeless wonder are in your predicted future when you make it to this level of the maze. The anticipation of checking your e-mail to realize no new e-mail has been received since the last time you checked your mail five minutes ago will become your “norm” until the notifications start arriving. Some schools e-mail and others use conventional mail. The insanity will make you stronger. You finally receive your acceptance letters, the hard work has paid off and the maze is complete you will now go to graduate school. The next chapter begins.

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Turchynov, was named acting president Feb. 23. Crimea, the 100-seat parliament which was under current Ukrainian law, voted 78-0, with eight abstentions in favor of holding the referendum, and in favor of joining Russia. Local voters were given the choice to decide to remain part of Ukraine, but with enhanced local powers. On Tuesday, March 4, President Vladimir Putin insisted residents of Crimea have the right to determine the region’s status in a referendum. Putin called a meeting of his Security Council on Thursday to discuss Ukraine. A referendum had previously been scheduled in Crimea on March 30, but the question to be put to voters was on whether their region should have “state autonomy” within Ukraine. Regardless of what the Ukraine citizens decide politically, there needs to be peaceful resolution. If President Putin rejects that, someone must accept it soon – before more lives are lost.

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Art showcased in OKC exhibition Photo by Dave Kube

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Art work: (Left) CU Instructor of Graphic Design Dave Kube, presented his painting titled “Pyramid.” (Right) Student Sarah Darling exhibited her painting named “Singularity Synergy” in the OKC Momentum exhibition that took place March 7-8.

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On March 7-8, three Cameron University art students and a professor displayed their works of art in the Momentum OKC 2014 exhibition. CU students Hailey Harris, Ashley Brown and Sarah Darling participated in the prestigious show alongside CU Instructor of Graphic Design Dave Kube. The Oklahoma Visual Art Council presented the exhibition from 8 p.m. to midnight both days in the OKC’s Farmer’s Market. Tickets were $10 to view the gallery online and $15 to visit the exhibition in person. Senior Harris said she

submitted three pieces to the show for the chance to see her artwork among young Oklahoman artists. “The goal of the show was to allow artists the opportunity to meet and work with fellow artists, and see what they are are doing in Oklahoma,” Harris said. After the show, the curators allowed the artists to mingle with one another outside of the gallery setting. “The best of the best were accepted,” Harris said. “It felt great. This is a really good show for students who are about to graduate from college. The event is completely geared towards us.” Harris’s work “Land of the Plains” was picked for the show. While the linocut

piece features intricate lines portraying a mother bird and a growing bug among staples of Oklahoma, for Harris, the piece depicts her personal evolution. The artwork represents her growth as an artist under the guidance of her professor Katherine Liontas-Warren. “To others it looks like another ‘Oklahoman’ artwork, but it really represents how far I have grown as an artist thanks to my printmaking professor,” she said. “The bird represents her, and the bug represents me. I am finally ‘leaving the nest’ I created at Cameron and venturing out on my own as a well-educated artist.” Kube said he was surprised to find his piece

“Pyramid” accepted to the show as his artwork differs from traditional forms. His masterpiece depicts Egypt’s wonders with a new twist. “It’s new work which is exciting because it is experimental. I have applied it to other shows, but it doesn’t get accepted because it is new, and people don’t know what to do with it yet,” he said. “Someone wants to put it in a show. That’s what I am excited about.” Kube said he was proud to see so many students not only represent the Art Department but also Cameron University. “It’s really exciting,” Kube said. “It was a stiff competition.” Junior Sarah Darling and sophomore Ashley Brown

joined Harris and Kube in the show. Harris said she was proud of her fellow students as it is rare for younger classmen to receive such opportunities. “For anyone to get into a show before they are a senior, are about to graduate or have a full body of work, it is really amazing,” Harris said. “It is a really good booster for them to enter the art world.” The senior said she was also excited to attend the show as the displayed artwork opened her eyes to a whole new world. “This show is ridiculous. The stuff is all new. They are all upcoming artists,” Harris said. “I get really excited looking at this stuff because it is nothing like mine. They break outside of all the educational terms I have been

learning. “I want to meet some of the artists to ask about their work. I feel like I’ve hit a wall of school, and I need to enter this world.” Kube said he believes students should view the artwork as it features work different from the norm. “It’s unlike a lot of work people assume art is about. People typically think of art being boring like a landscape or picture of animals,” Kube said. “This is radically different. It probably resonates more with students. “These are artists that have some education in art history and stuff,” Harris said, “but instead of following in past artists’ footsteps, they are recreating the meaning of art.”

Stomp to the beat of Spring Break at Medicine Park Sadie Jones

acts at closed and open-air venues. A&E Editor The bands will be Medicine Park’s fourth playing outside on the annual three-day concert main stage — but only until sunset. Once it is festival — Park Stomp dark, the concert will — will begin March 21 move to the Medicine at 7 p.m. and continue Park Music Hall. through Saturday and Mayor of Medicine Sunday of Spring Break Park Dwight Cope said weekend. Starting 7 the event is bluegrass p.m. that Friday, the oriented. cobblestone community “It’s not your will be home to bluegrass, grandfather’s bluegrass,” country and rockabilly Cope said. “There is an music. Throughout the festival, visitors will have Ozark, rock and jazz influence — there’s a very the chance to experience wide mixture.” Medicine Park during Bands who will be intermissions. The event playing include Not is free and open to the Brothers, The Turnbacks, public. Cowgirl’s Train Set, Sponsored by the Medicine Park Economic Carrie Nation & The Speakeasy, Honeysuckle, Development Authority, the concert will feature 13 and T Chicken.

Cope discovered the bands about five or six years ago and said bringing them to Medicine Park has been a great experience. Several of the bands return to perform year after year. “Primarily, the bands come from the Branson area,” Cope said. “A few also come from Arkansas, Missouri and Texas. One of the bands is from Lubbock.” “V-Dubs in the Park”— a Volkswagen show — is a new event that has been added to the festival this year. It will take place on Saturday and will feature 25 water-cooled and 25 air-cooled Volkswagens. Cope expects a large crowd throughout the weekend. Although the

music is the star of the show, he encourages visitors to attend the event to become acquainted with Medicine Park – to enjoy the scenic beauty and even bring their fishing poles along with them. Cope also plans to introduce some primitive camping areas around town for families to camp while at the festival. “One thing that we really want to emphasize is that it is a free event,” Cope said. “We really want people to come out and enjoy Medicine Park — especially people that have not been before. We know that if they’ve been once, they’re going to want to come back and bring their family and friends.”

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Collaborated concert presents CU with an evening of jazz Chase Mallow

and Chris McGuire faced off in a tenor battle, from the Staff Writer format of the composition At 7:30 p.m. Feb. 27, “Blues Up & Down.” the Cameron University “We improvised most of Department of Music hosted it,” Pierce said. “We played the 2013 Jazz Festival Concert the melody at the beginning in the CU Theatre. and the melody at the end but The concert featured that was it. We improvised Cameron Jazz Ensemble, everything in between.” Cameron University/Lawton The back and forth between Jazz Ensemble, guests jazz the musicians was a game of vocalist Rosana Eckert, Chris skill. McGuire on the saxophone, “That’s the best part trumpet and clarinet and John about Jazz — improvisation,” Simon who played the drums. McGuire said. The concert began with McGuire has been playing “Little Sunflower,” “I Got It music for 38 years and said Bad,” “That Ain’t Good” and the beauty in Jazz is all about “Sing, Sing, Sing.” getting musicians together and Instructor of Jazz and having fun. He has experience Woodwind instruments at playing at festivals as well as CU Professor Justin Pierce, other universities. directed the Jazz Festival. “I do this a few times a “The night exceeded my year with other colleges, but expectations,” Pierce said. “The Cameron has been one of the guest artists were world-class most enjoyable,” he said. and a real pleasure to have.” After the tenor battle, During the concert, Pierce jazz-vocalist Rosana Eckert,

informed the audience of her love for writing music. She said ideas come to her at random times. Rosana then performed an original song —one that will be included in her upcoming album titled “Waiting.” Eckert said she wrote the song in her doctor’s waiting room. “That’s what you do. You write songs about your life and the people you know,” she said. “That’s what I like to do. I like to write songs with a story that have characters.” After Intermission, CU’s own Centennial Singers performed “The Telephone Song,” “How Deep is the Ocean (How High is the Sky)” and Frank Sinatra’s “Fly Me to the Moon,” alongside Eckert. Singing Soprano were CU students Jordan Brickhouse, Jessica Fernandez and Jennifer Nixon. In addition, Aly Hays and Kaley Neal performed as altos. Singing tenor was Jose

Rodriguez and Peter Macias. Cole Hart and Kirk Prucha performed as the base singers. Assistant Professor of Music, Doris Lambert directed the choir. They were also accompanied by John Simon on the drums and CU Staff Accompanist David C. Anderson on the keyboard. The Cameron University/ Lawton Community Jazz Ensemble then performed Ray Charles’s “Hallelujah, I Love Her So.” The final performances included “The Chicken “Thad Said No” “Alright, Okay, You Win” and the Eckert’s final performance of “The Lady is a Tramp” The Cameron University Department of music will host concerts throughout the month of March. For more information on events and times refer to Cameron.edu/ music/calender.

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March 10, 2014

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Men’s golf places 13th at St. Edward’s Invitatonal Tyler Boydston Staff Writer

Men’s golf returned March 3 and 4 to take part in the St. Edwards Invitational, but found themselves falling to 13th at the end of the competition.  With the freezing temperatures that took over the course in Austin, Texas, the invite’s opening day was delayed by two hours. The weather seemed to hurt the Aggies’ performance as they landed in last place at the end of the first day out of the 16 teams that were present.  Junior Dylan McClure led the Aggies on the first day with a total score of 80. On the second day the Aggies no longer had to worry about the weather and they began to pick things back up as they took to the course.   Jerry Hrnciar, the men’s golf coach, said after things started going wrong in the first round, it was hard for them to pick back up, though the second round was a return to form for the Aggies.  “The second round score was more indicative of where we are as a group,” Hrnciar said.   Sophomore Cullen Stahl led the team on the second day of the invite, scoring a 151 over the course of the two days and landing in 30th overall for the tournament, while McClure came out 51st among all the golfers present.  Cameron improved over the second day when they pulled themselves from 16th to 13th by the end of the two-day tournament.  Barry University, ranked number one heading into the tournament, took first place with CSU - Monterey Bay taking second.  The Aggies are set to take on the Mustang Classic in Wichita Falls.

Time out: Head basketball Coach Nate Gamet and the men’s team discuss their court strategy at the homecoming game on March 1.

Aggies make playoffs despite losses Jacob Jardel Staff Editor

Cameron basketball welcomed home alumni during their Senior Night game against Midwestern State on March 1 in the Aggie Gym. The Lady Aggies lost their matchup 91-58, while the men’s team fell short 74-71. For the women’s game, head coach Tom Webb started all five of his seniors in celebration of Senior Night. After pulling within three after a 7-0 MSU run, shooting plagued the Lady Aggies throughout the night. Senior guard Ali Brown helped lead the team offensively with 11 points on 7-7 shooting from the free throw line. Junior guard Jazzmine Robinson also stepped up offensively with 11 points of her own in 23 minutes off the bench. Senior forwards Lacy Reinke and Christina Caddy also added to the Aggie effort. Reinke scored nine points in her 20 minutes on the court, while Caddy added seven points and a team high eight rebounds. Despite the loss, the Lady Aggies still clinched the eighth seed in the Lone Star Conference tournament and a matchup against top-seeded West Texas A&M. The men’s basketball team also found themselves on the losing end of their game. However, after coming out of halftime down 12, the Black and Gold began closing the gap behind senior guard Craig Foster, who pulled the team within eight after back-to-back threes and a pair of free throws within four minutes. Senior guard Will Cook’s three pointer at the 14 minute mark pulled

the Aggies within two. The game remained close throughout, though the Mustangs pulled ahead by six with four minutes left in the game. Senior forward Aaron Thompson hit a shot that closed the gap, and Foster’s two late free throws pulled the Aggies within two with 33 seconds left. But MSU’s free throws neutralized Aggie efforts. Cook’s last shot to tie the game with two seconds left rolled off the rim, sealing the Black and Gold’s fate. Head coach Nate Gamet mentioned that, at halftime, the message for his team was simple. “We just told them to chip away,” Gamet said. “It starts with stops on the defensive end, and once you get a stop, you’ve got to get a rebound to finish the possession.” Playing in front of the home crowd helped a lot, according to Gamet. “The first half, we didn’t play as well as we could have,” he said. “But in the second half, we came out and battled and competed. We’re just not quite deep enough in a few positions, and I think that has caught up with us here in these really close games.” Foster led the Aggies in scoring with 25 points and added three assists, moving him into second all time with 344 assists. Cook and junior guard Desmond Henry were also in double figures with 10 points. Thompson finished with seven points and six boards. With this loss, the Cameron men sealed a sixth seed in the Lone Star Conference Tournament, where they will meet up with Angelo State. Gamet said that anybody has the potential to win, but he showed confidence in his team’s ability to get the job done. “We’ve got the group of guys who can go win it. It just boils down to us executing what we’re supposed to do,” Gamet said.

A close game: The men and women’s basketball teams both fell to Midwestern State University,

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Lady aggies face Eastern New Mexico Game one: Feb. 28 at 1 p.m.

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Eastern New Mexico

Cameron University

Game two: Feb. 28 at 3 p.m. Score by innings

Eastern New Mexico

Cameron University

Game three: March 1 at 12 p.m.

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Score by innings

Eastern New Mexico

Cameron University