The Cameron University Collegian: February 11, 2013

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Cameron recognizes exceptional alumni Tyler Boydston

Asst. Managing Editor The Cameron University Alumni Association recently announced the newest group of winners for the Distinguished Alumni, Outstanding Young Alumni and Faculty Hall of Fame Awards.

The awards are to be presented at 11 a.m. on Feb. 16 in the Shepler Ballroom as a part of the Aggie Family and Friends Awards Brunch.

Jennifer McGrail,

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Director of Alumni Relations at CU said the Aggie Family and Friends Awards Brunch is a way to recognize those receiving the awards.

“The Aggie Family and Friends Awards Brunch is the alumni association’s accumulation of both our alumni awards and our recognition of our golden associate recipients,” McGrail said. “We give up to two of alumni awards in each of the categories, and this year is a full slate of six nominees.

Also, we’ll be giving out

golden associate medallions to graduates of 50 years ago or more, and we have a class agent for the class of 1963.”

According to McGrail, the nominations for the awards are solicited from throughout the Cameron campus and Lawton community.

“We solicit nominations from all graduates of Cameron University as well as faculty, staff, students and the community,” McGrail said. “From there, nominations are due on Nov. 1 of every year. Then

the Alumni Association Board of Directors has two separate committees. One is our distinguished alumni and outstanding young alumni committees and the other is our faculty hall of fame committee, and those committees have the process of narrowing down the nomination pool and actually selecting the recipients of the awards. We have done a lot over the past years and this year was one of our larger years of nominees. We had about ten nominees in each Photo by Teewhy Dojutelegan

Academy of Ophthalmology.

Dr. Warn is also the Vice President Elect of the Cameron University foundation.

Winners of the Outstanding Young Alumni Award include two previous students: Dr. Steve Miller of the 1995 graduating class and Dr. Kristi Lynn of the 2006 graduating class.

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Miss Black CU 2013 Queen crowned Teewhy Dojutelegan Staff Writer

Students rally in support of athletics

Six women competed for the crown during the 34th annual Miss Black Cameron University Scholarship Pageant.

This year, Oluwakemi Olurotimi, Johnne Leake, Sonia Chukwudozie, Karin Clashing O’Reilly, Tynishia Manley and Ruth Okenye vied for not only the title but up to eight hours of tuition for six semesters on Feb. 4 at the CU Theatre. The CU Ebony Society hosted the event.

Recent CU graduate Emake Ugiomoh and Ebony Society President Brandi Goldsmith served as Master and Mistress of Ceremony, respectively. The Black National Anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” was sung directly before 2012 Miss Black CU, Jeremyra Cross, performed.

The first round of the pageant featured Fitness Wear, after which the judges were introduced. They included: Danielle Payne, the Miss Black Oklahoma USA, Jacquetta Haygood, Jackson Elementary School principal, Lisa Johnson of Comanche Home Center, Carla Dewberry, Miss Black CU 1996 and Jonathan Rozelle, KSWO reporter.

The event continued with the Ambassadorial Wear and Talent segments, then concluded with the Evening Wear and the Question and Answer segments.

At the end of the evening, 19-year-old Sonia Chukwudozie was crowned Miss Black CU 2013. She succeeds Jeremyra Cross and will commence her duties as queen immediately.

Karin Clashing O’Reilly and Ruth Okenye were first and second runner-ups, respectively. Okenye won the Business Woman Award for making the most advertising revenue. Johnne Leake won the Miss Congeniality Award for making the most impact on the contestants.

O’Reilly said this was the first pageant she took part in and was pleased that she participated.

“It was amazing. I had fun,” O’Reilly said.

O’Reilly said she was proud of her accomplishment.

“I worked hard,” she said. “I did everything I needed to do, and it’s a proud moment for me.”

Chukwudozie said she made several memories while preparing for the pageant.

“The best part was getting to know the girls. They were wonderful and very helpful,” she said. “The worst part was getting into my dress because it was emotionally stressful.”

Tyler Boydston

Asst. Managing Editor The Aggie Army is recruiting spirited Cameron University students to its ranks.

Assembling this semester to bring attention to ongoing campus events, the Aggie Army intends to cheer for CU students athletes — but its presence is not limited to games.

According to Athletic Director Jim Jackson, the Aggie Army intends to raise school spirit at any CU function it attends.

“Well, the Aggie Army as I describe it is a group of students that is intended to support Cameron University, and in particular Cameron Athletics, though it doesn’t have to be athletics,” Jackson said.

Jackson said the organization started as a way to boost student attendance at games on campus.

“What we have been trying to do over the past few years is increase attendance of students at sporting events,” Jackson said. “We seem to get a good community crowd, but the students seem to be reluctant to come because there is a lot to do.”

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of our categories.”

Winners of the Distinguished Alumni Award this year include Norman A. Lamb of the class of 1955 as well as Dr. Ann Warn of the class of 2001.

Lamb retired from the United States Army after serving 33 years of active and reserve duty as a colonel. He also served as Oklahoma Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

Dr. Ann Warn serves as vice chair for the Academy Council of the American

A tradition continued: Sonia Chukwodozie takes center stage after being named Miss Black CU. She competed against five other constestants to win the title.

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Lawton community leaders gather to advise students Kaitlyn Stockton

The event is new for Best, but she said she wanted not Staff Writer only to continue the tradition, but increase involveCameron University ment as well. students will experience a “It has always been a well day in the life of their chosen liked event, so we wanted to career on Take an Aggie to continue with it,” she said.

Work Day. “We wanted a more outreach CU Career Services Coordinator Angie Best – who this year. We were able to have the biggest Take an Agrecently inherited respongie to Work Day yet.” sibilities for the event along Best said the event occurs with the department she once a year during the spring works in – said the Take an semester.

She said she likes Aggie Work Day program the thought of lining the provides an opportunity event up with Ground Hog’s for students to work with a day due to its symbolism. mentor in the field of their “It usually occurs once own choice. a year, typically around “It is a great opportunity Groundhog Day. When the for Cameron students to ground hog sees his shadow, explore career fields that we think it is neat to have they may be interested in,” Best said. “The program lets local mentors see their shadows as well,” she said. students work in a real life Mentors will be chosen one-on-one environment from the Lawton/Fort Sill with a mentor from the local community, and Best said area.”

students will be able to experience working in a variety of different fields.

“We have a huge range of careers. We have everything from doctors, pharmacists and dentists to physical therapy, public affairs and counseling,” Best said. “We even have a few sport professionals.”

Best said this year’s Take an Aggie to Work Day event included such companies and businesses like The Salvation Army and The Lawton Constitution.

Overall, Best said she hopes all students involved will take something out of the event, whether they enjoyed their chosen career or learned that their interests lie elsewhere.

“I hope at the very least students gain a new perspective whether on a career they are interested, learn some-

thing new about a career that interests them, and if anything else, being out and about in the area and broadening their horizons,” she said.

Although many students are still in the process of working out details of their mentoring day, Best said she thinks the event is off to a great start and hopes

students receive a chance to network for their future.

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Exploring the options: KCCU station manager Doug Cole mentors student Jereme Cobb at Take an Aggie to Work Day. Career Services organized the event for students.

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Workshop focuses on extreme couponing Kaylee Jones

“A couple of years ago,” Jones began, “a girl I worked A&E Editor went to church with a woman Students looking to save who said, ‘Oh my goodness, I money or earn extra Pickaxe just bought 24 rolls of toilet Points attended the CU paper for $3 at Walgreens.’

Succeed Workshop series And I was like, ‘I don’t have presented a lecture entitled time to do that.’ I have six “Extreme Couponing” at kids.”

11 a.m. on Jan. 30 at the Jones said she eventually Centennial Room. started listening to the The lecture was the second woman and decided to try for installment of a 15 part series her husband’s support. for the spring semester. The She said her first trip workshop featured Lisa was discouraging because Jones, Academic Advisor she saved only two dollars. and Tutor Coordinator of Since then, however, her Student Support Services, as biggest couponing success its primary speaker. was acquiring $400 worth of Taylor Thompson, groceries for $88.

Coordinator of Student Jones added that small Affairs, led off the event with successes are cause for a brief introduction as Jones celebration as well, as her distributed a coupon closet measuring stick for money shopping list. saved is gauged in Sonic’s As Jones ascended from happy hour drinks. the stage, she introduced “Three dollars saved is herself, joking that she felt equal to three days of Sonic as if she were at a support happy hour drinks,” Jones group meeting. Jones shared said. the story of how she began After a humorous mashcouponing. up of popular TV show

mentions of coupons, Jones began her lecture, answering questions such as: why to coupon, where to find coupons and how to organize them once a person has begun collecting.

Jones said couponing gives a person a sense of accomplishment while saving them money. She advised looking to the Sunday paper as well as various social media sites, such as Facebook, for coupons.

She explained the art of couponing through breaking down techniques such as “coupon stacking” and the “48 hour rule.”

Jones said she always keeps to her 48 hour rule; she cannot use her coupons until after 48 hours of finding them so that she avoids being wasteful.

Jones concluded her lecture by introducing her tutoring mentor, Tasha Viruet, a senior Sociology major at Cameron.

Viruet shared her

personal experience for becoming involved with couponing along with a couple of her techniques. She explained that it is not just the coupons that save money, but the skills learned while couponing.

“Couponing, I think, opens your eyes to so much more,” Viruet said. “I start looking for deals. When I first started college, I was just buying my books, and now they have rent-a-book.

They have half.com. I get my books a lot cheaper. I’ve not spent over $200 on books in a semester.”

Jones opened the floor for discussion as students dispersed for free cookies and additional couponing advice.

Other topics included on the Spring 2013 calendar include: plagiarism prevention, dressing for Photo by Kali Robinson success and making a good first impression.

Extreme couponing: Tasha Viruet shows her coupon Refreshments and door binder at the CU Succeed Workshop. The workshop prizes will be provided at was a part of a series and took place on Jan. 30. each event.

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to take part in the game,” Matthews said.

Matthews said his idea for the group came from participating in similar groups in the past.

“I came from OU where I played rugby and went to football games. They According to Jackson, have groups like this set the idea for the Aggie Army up exclusively for students came from students who by students to try to raise came to his office with a game day spirit. I wanted suggestion. to take the idea of a core “All of a sudden, I had group of students willing to a couple of students walk put themselves out there for into my office and say, ‘Why the athletics department to don’t we have a spirit club raise spirit and awareness in like you see on TV where all the student body through the students go?’ It evolved us.” from that first inquiry,” Members of the Aggie Jackson said.

Army have been leading and Jackson was receptive to fulfilling important duties their suggestion and started at basketball games since planning for the group they the group was formed. had envisioned.

“At basketball games, “I told them it was we get to lead players out great,” Jackson said. “The when they rush the court,” reality is the students don’t Matthews said. “We have want the athletic director a giant Cameron f lag that to lead their charge, they we carry when we lead the don’t want an instructor or players out. We have a administration, but they special place for us in the will follow each other. So Photo by Sarah Brewer students’ section — front I called a meeting with a row on the half court lines.” group of students that I According to Mathews, thought would be interested Tailgating the game: Head Women’s Golf Coach Rick Goodwin prepares a hot dog for himself before the women’s basketball game Jan. 31. The pre-game the process to joining and also through the tailgate event was set up by the Aggie Army, an on-campus group started this the Aggie Army requires Pickaxe Pass we saw who semester by students to raise awareness of events and games on campus. applicants to have pride in was coming to volleyball their school. games.

Jackson intends to change love Cameron and they want the idea for the Aggie Army “We made it a two-step He continued: “So I this status as soon as to see Cameron better — came from a recognized lack process,” Matthews said. explained to them what possible. and they love to support of interest from students “First game you come, you my vision is. I said, ‘This is “I’m their supporter and Cameron.” regarding school events. sit with us, cheer with us. If your group, and I’m here to what we plan on doing is Sophomore Criminal “I happened to notice you have the enthusiasm and support you. Tell me what applying to become a club Justice major Dalton a lot of apathy from the the pride, then you come you need, and I’m here to in the spring for next year,” Matthews was one of the students toward athletics back next game. When we’re supply it.’ They really took Jackson said. “Hopefully I students who proposed the in general, and I wanted to at the games, everybody the ball and ran with it.” can find someone to act as idea for the Aggie Army and try to make game day more knows where we’re at, and Since the Aggie Army their sponsor. It’s a great has been leading since its of an experience. So rather we wear t-shirts that have began this semester, it has bunch of people, and their inception. than people going to watch our organization’s name on yet to become an official intentions are good. They According to Matthews, the game, I wanted them them.” on-campus club. However,

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Chukwudozie said she decided to audition for the pageant because she wanted a position that would give her the opportunity to empower young women.

“I decided to try out because it was something different, and I wanted a different experience,” she said.

“Also, I want to be able to motivate black girls to let them know that they can be whoever they want to be regardless of whatever the situation they find themselves in.”

Chukwudozie will promote her platform, Conquering PHEAR — Physical and Emotional Abuse in Relationships — during her reign as Miss Black CU. “People have to be aware that there are people getting abused in their relationships,” she said. “It has been ignored for so long, and I would like to make people aware of that.”

Chukwudozie said the Question and Answer segment challenged her the most.

“In the question and answer segment, I was scared because I didn’t know what I would be asked,” she said. “I stuttered a little, but I guess it still worked out.”

Chukwudozie encouraged young women thinking about participating in the pageant next year to audition.

“I advise that they go ahead.

It [the pageant] is stressful, but when you get into it, you will enjoy the experience,” she said.

“I think I would do it over again.”

Running and Walking program prepares for OKC run Tyler Boydston

participants as involved in the community,” Clodfelter Asst. Managing Editor said. “There are a lot of Cameron University’s running events that are held Rise and Shine Running and in Comanche county and the Walking Club is preparing surrounding communities. for the Oklahoma City We try to promote those Memorial Marathon in running events and April. fundraisers to our faculty, The Rise and Shine staff and students. We just Running and Walking want everyone to be active Club currently meets every and moving.”

Monday, Wednesday and According to Clodfelter, Friday at 6 a.m. in the Aggie the students in the group Rec Center. exercise on their days off in According to the addition to their time in the manager of the Aggie Rec Running and Walking Club.

Center, Lendi Clodfelter, “There’s a weekly running the club is trying to get the schedule that they follow,” members to be more active Clodfelter said. “On the in local running events this days that they meet, they’re semester. running together as a group, “What we’re trying to and on the days that they do this semester is get the don’t meet, normally that

is when they’re doing their cross training. They’re doing some type of biking or participating in what of our group exercise classes.

They’re doing something other than running.”

Clodfelter said the way for students to join the Running and Walking Club is to arrive at the Rec Center in time to walk with the club.

“You just have to show up, bright and early at 6 a.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday,” Clodfelter said.

“A majority of the time they’ll just meet up at the front desk, and depending on the weather, they like to go outside, because after running so many times around the track it gets kind

of boring. They go outside on the Aggie Mile; they will run on campus and sometimes they will run by the hospital and do some different routes.”

The club, which began in the fall semester, is lead by Group Fitness Instructor Susie Dodson.

According to Dodson, the Running and Walking Club began as a way to get those who were not used to running into the program.

“We started this class as the Couch Potato to 5K for people who had never really embraced running or done a 5k,” Dodson said.

“We actually pulled up a program that was super on the schedule for us. It was walking one lap, running

one lap.”

Currently, the club is preparing for more local events, while also getting ready for the OKC Memorial Marathon, set to take place in April.

“Right now we are training for a 5k that is going to be at Cameron, but ultimately we’re training for the Oklahoma City memorial run in April,” Dodson said. “That will be a relay where someone does a 5k, someone does a 10k, someone does a 12k, so all of us are at different levels, but we’re all in it together.”

According to Dodson, the group prefers to run outside when they can, but it plans to work on the track on the second f loor of the Rec

Center when the weather calls for it.

“We’re lucky that we have an inside track so that, on cold mornings, we can train inside,” Dodson said. “But as soon as the weather gets nice, I would much prefer running outside as to inside because you’re going to be running outside anyways.”

Dodson said her theory on getting back into the habit of walking or running regularly takes place over the course of three weeks.

“It takes 21 days to break a habit and 21 days to adhere to a habit,” Dodson said. “I heard that once and it’s always stuck with me as far as people who are trying to get into working out and running [goes].”

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Class offered for academic probation Charlene Belew

experience for her and for her students.

Staff Writer “Teaching this class for the first time has been a positive In the spring of 2013, experience,” Wethern said.

Cameron University “We received a lot of support implemented a new class, from above and from Mr. titled Strategies for Academic Larson in the Academic Success (SAS). This course Advising Center. Most of the will be required for any students who are enrolled in student who has earned fewer the class are very receptive to than 45 credit hours and goes the concepts we are teaching.” on academic probation or Wethern said that the academic notice for the first course officially started on Jan time.

16, meeting twice a week. This According to the course course counts for one lecture details for SAS, students credit hour. who have been placed on “The other people who academic probation, earning Photo by Charlene Belew are teaching this course and a GPA lower than retention I sat down together and standards — a GPA of 1.70 Taking note: Administrative Assistant for the Academic Advisement Center Shaelynn decided what we wanted for for up to 30 credit hours and a Haning answers the phone at work.

The Academic Advisement Center is currently our students as a foundation,” GPA of 2.00 for more than 31 helping with the Strategies for Academic Success to help students with low GPAs. Wethern said. “My first class credit hours — are required started on the 16th. Right to take SAS to maintain Students who need to be that the basis of SAS is to CU SAS Instructor enrollment in CU courses. returned to good academic teach students about the basic Gabriele Wethern is currently now, because we are still early on in the course, we are only This class requires standing are required to take college fundamentals: how teaching two sections of getting into time management. completion — any student this class to remain enrolled to handle time management, Strategies for Academic The ideal scenario would be who does not complete this in current classes. Students how to manage study time, Success, as well as Reading the students taking these class after being enrolled will also need to complete how to prepare for tests, how Fundamentals and College will be dropped from all this class to enroll in future to identify academic strengths Reading and Study Strategies. important concepts with other CU courses through courses. and how to plan a successful Wethern said that teaching them to be successful in their academic careers.” administrative withdrawal.

The course details states academic plan for the future.

SAS has been a positive

Wethern said that the course will be regulated strictly, especially in class attendance. Students enrolled in the course are required to attend class or they will be administratively withdrawn from the course.

“We will be very strictly administering the class,” Wethern said. “However, I think the majority of the students are coming to class, turning in assignments, and participating in classroom activities, which are wonderful things. This is exactly what we want for them.”

The results from the newly added class will not be available immediately. Results will not be available for review until after the 2013 spring semester ends and final grades are posted and released.

“Ultimately, we will not see the results until the end of the semester to see if students’ GPAs have improved and if the class has made a difference.”

Phi Sigma Iota holds Winter Food Fest Philip Harrington

fundraisers is to raise money that will be used to provide Staff Writer scholarships for the Phi Sigma Phi Sigma Iota offered Iota members. international cuisine to “All the money raised goes students during its Winter towards the Delta Rho Benke Food Fest on Feb. 5. scholarship,” Arroyo said.

Members of the Arroyo is a former recipient organization raise money for of the scholarship and said scholarships that support the applicants must be a member members of the international for a year and maintain a 3.5 foreign language honor society. GPA. Senior Romance Language “We usually have one or Education major Vivian Arroyo two recipients,” Arroyo said. said Phi Sigma Iota plans Food “It just depends on how many Fests throughout the year. people apply and meet the “We have at least a fall, requirements.” winter and spring food fest,” Arroyo said the Food Fests Arroyo said. raise money to fund these merit The purpose of the based scholarships.

“We usually raise about $200,” Arroyo said.

These seasonal Food Fests raise funds for the organization, but according to Arroyo, these events introduce the members of Phi Sigma Iota to Cameron students.

“Whenever we have a food fest, we have many different international selections of food that help represent our diverse membership,” Arroyo said.

Arroyo said incorporating the organization’s objectives into the group’s activities is one of her priorities as president.

“I think it is important to experience a culture that you might not be familiar with, and

this way we do it through food,” Arroyo said.

The CU chapter of Phi Sigma Iota is planning to holds its annual banquet on April 4, and according to Arroyo, the event will welcome new members to the honor society.

“We do a lot of things at the banquet,” Arroyo said. “At the banquet we will induct new members, award scholarships and announce new officers.”

Arroyo said that students can expect another Food Fest when the date of banquet draws closer.

“We will have spring food fest either right before or right after the banquet,” Arroyo said.

Photo by Philip Harrington

Food fest: Junior Jongduk Joung and senior Stephanie Sella work the table on Feb. 5. The food fest served as one of at least three that Phi Sigma Iota holds each year.

Cameron student opens Amelia’s Closet Teewhy Dojutelegan

her closet and that’s where we came up with the name for the Staff Writer store.”

Senior Elementary Meckes said she hopes to Education major Kayla unite women who love fashion Meckes combined her love regardless of the different of fashion with her love to faiths they might practice. help others, and as a result, “Amelia’s Closet is not now owns Amelia’s Closet, a here to bash religion and boutique that sells clothing to Christianity,” she said. “We women. are here to be an open door Meckes said she often to a place where people can talked with her mother, come in and be comfortable.

Carolina Perez, about opening We love fashion and hopefully, a clothing boutique, and that gives us a common through these conversations, ground.”

Photo by Paola Troche both mother and daughter Perez said she and her developed the concept for daughter hope to carry a range On the job: Senior Kayla Meckes looks through their store. When Meckes of sizes in their store. the computer while at work at Amelia’s Closet. moved forward with her plans, “One of the things that Meckes is the owner and operator of the boutique.

Perez joined her daughter Kayla and I are working and decided to serve as the her faith and prayer-based life. toward is finding pieces of and different for Lawton. financial officer for the store. clothing for every woman, “Amelia is my That’s how we came up with “Amelia’s Closet has always Amelia’s Closet.” grandmother’s name. She was whether she’s a size 2 or a been in the conversation size 16,” she said. “We want The name of the boutique a woman known for being between me and my mother,” was chosen to honor her women to give us a chance and devoted to prayer and her she said. “We wanted come in here because we get faith in God,” she said. “My grandmother, a woman something new, fresh, exciting Meckes said was known for new clothes consistently.” grandmother used to pray in

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Meckes said the styles in the store revolve around her personal preferences as well as the passing seasons.

“Our styles change based on each season and they are based on my style,” she said.

“I have a very random style I like to call Urban Chic — a city style with a fresh, modest, comfortable and cute look for a woman.”

Despite running a business together, Meckes said that her relationship with her mother remains the same.

“Our relationship is the same just as any mother and daughter; we butt heads,” Meckes said. “I’ve grown up, so I’ve learned to shut my mouth up a little bit more and she has learned to kind of back away a little bit. Overall, we work well together.”

Meckes is expecting her first child with her husband, and she balances her classes

and business in such a way that does not interfere with her time with her family.

“I have always being a busy person, so it works out for me,” Meckes said. “I go to school in the morning, after which I have a little lunch break and then come here [to the store] and get focused on Amelia’s Closet, I go home and sometimes cook dinner. I do my homework at night and leave an hour to spend with my husband so each part of my life does not get in the way of another.”

According to Meckes, students thinking about starting a business should research each facet of the industry rather than blindly begin their ventures.

“It does not happen right away,” she said. “Success isn’t overnight; it is a time of patience and focusing on your future.”

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professional radio production world.

“I am excited,” Cobb said.

“I think I have a good idea of what the job will entail, but I think it will be good experience to see what exactly that particular role has as far as what you will be doing during the day and what responsibilities you will take care of.”

Although Cole told him that he wants Cobb to see the administrative side to the business, Cobb said he figures he will also have the chance to experience an air test.

“We will probably get into the studio and try an air test,” Cobb said.

“So far, it is going really well,” she said. “I think it will Miller earned his M.D. in Awards is the age.

Cameron University.” be a positive experience for 1999 and established, along “For the distinguished Faculty Hall of Fame ineveryone.

It doesn’t hurt to with his wife Erin, the Rayalumni and outstanding ductees this year include Dr. spend a day learning what mond “Red” Miller Scholar- young alumni the only difGary Buckley and Dr. Teresa you can and making a good ship in Chemistry. ference is the recipient’s age Lubrano. impression.”

Lynn is currently reat the nomination due date,” Buckley has been at CU Sophomore Jereme Cobb searching ways to better McGrail said. “Outstanding for 29 years and has been a said he applied to the Take treat breast cancer, and she Young Alumni have to be 39 department chair, dean and an Aggie to Work Day event received her Ph.D. in Cancer or younger, as Distinguished vice president during his to see what job opportunities Biology in 2011.

Alumni are 40 and older. time. the Lawton area held.

According to Jennifer Mc- The criteria for both awards Lubrano came to CU “I thought it would be Grail, the difference between is the same. It’s a combinain 1987 and received the good experience to kind of see Outstanding Young Alumni tion of service to the commu- Hackler Award for Teaching what kind of jobs are available and Distinguished Alumni nity, to their profession or to Excellence in 2008.

in the Lawton area and to see what those jobs might have in store.”

Cobb said he chose such career paths as independent film making, radio production and television production due to his love for the fields.

“I have a passion for all of them,” he said.

After being paired with KCCU’s station manager Doug Cole, Cobb said he is excited to spend a day in the

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Ninety-nine bottles: Jan Kissick pours a drink in front of his portrait from the beginning days of The Silver Spoon. He has been bartending for 26 years.

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Get a rhythm: Local musician Jon Henry performs an acoustic cover song at The Silver Spoon. Henry has been playing guitar for over 13 years and has been performing at The Silver Spoon since August 2011.

Kaylee Jones A&E Editor

Lovers of good music, great food and stimulating conversation will enjoy a visit to The Silver Spoon, one of Lawton’s local haunts.

The Spoon became USDA Black Angus Certified on Jan. 17 and will now offer Black Angus Certified prime rib, served alongside garlic mashed potatoes and asparagus with a hollandaise sauce.

Head Chefs Emaly Dube

and Ken Clonch said they are currently working on renovating the menu.

“We are in the process of revamping our dinner menu,” Clonch said. “We are transitioning towards a more southwestern cuisine.”

The menu currently features dinner entrees such as Tuscan style chicken and a salmon fillet, along with fried green beans and bacon-wrapped scallops for appetizers.

The Silver Spoon is located on 529 SW C Ave

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in downtown Lawton and boasts of a full bar without any TVs to detract from the interpersonal environment.

The restaurant features live music Wednesday through Saturday evening, where every Wednesday and every other Friday, 25-year-old local musician Jon Henry can be found performing an acoustic set featuring cover songs by Ryan Adams, Fleetwood Mac and Mumford and Sons.

While Henry has been playing guitar for the last 13 years, he has only been

playing at the Silver Spoon since October 2012.

His performances begin at 7 p.m. and do not end until close.

In between sets, Henry nursed a glass of scotch and sat down to chat with regular guests at the bar top.

“Music is when people can share an emotion,” Henry said. “Whenever you share something, it feels more real — more defined.”

Across the bar, a portrait of a smiling, full faced man pouring a drink hangs on the

wall. The man is Jan Kissick, the Silver Spoon’s head bartender.

According to Kissick, the experience working at The Silver Spoon differs from most bars.

“While I may sell wine and spirits like any other bar in town, it is different here,” Kissick said. “Here I have people engaged in real conversation. A lot of bars in town, people are going there to forget things. I find that the people that come here want to remember the conversations that they have.”

Professor of Languages Donna Clopton and her husband said they consider The Silver Spoon their date night getaway.

“We walk in, and my

husband likes to sit at the bar, and Jan always says, ‘This place is reserved for you,’” Dr. Clopton said.

The building has a history for her husband — it used to house Johnson’s Ice cream, a place he visited when he was 14.

Around 10 p.m., the restaurant has emptied and the upstairs bar crowd has thinned.

Kissick wipes the bar, halting his work only to sing along as Henry finishes the last songs of his set.

Kissick wishes the final guests a good night, calling each of them by name.

“Place is made by the people in it,” Kissick says, “and if you seek them out, you will always find good people.”

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pleasure at having the opportunity to work with A&E Editor Lambert for the production, Love is in the air as admitting she had to the Lawton Philharmonic exert more effort for her Orchestra prepares to vocals for the upcoming present its latest production performance than she did “I Do! I Do!” at 7 p.m. on 40 years ago.

Feb. 16 at the McMahon “I didn’t worry about Memorial Auditorium. the singing back then, I The production will just sang and it seemed feature Jan Stratton and to be fine,” Stratton said.

Tony Hamilton in the lead “Today, I’ve had to work a roles, along with Director lot harder on that and I have and Conductor Maestro Jon to thank Doris Lambert Kalbf leisch and Cameron’s for working with me. own Doris Lambert on She’s an outstanding vocal piano. instructor.”

Stratton returns for the Accompanying Lambert second time to reprise her on piano will be the role as Agnes, a role she LPO’s own Maestro Jon played at Fort Sill’s Cabaret Kalbf leisch, who has been Dinner theatre in the 1970s. the conductor of the LPO “The Play is about for the past six seasons. marriage — 50 years of “He is an amazing it—and although I was musician,” Lambert said still relatively young when of Kalbf leisch. “It’s really I played Agnes the first fun to have everything pull time, I was married with together and know that children and believed I whether he is conducting knew everything there was the Orchestra or whether he to know about life. Not so!” is accompanying someone, Stratton said. it’s just going to be an “My children are now amazing, wonderful musical grown and I’ve been married experience. He really pulls for decades,” Stratton the best out of all the people continued, “so I honestly he works with.” feel I know Agnes far better The Orchestra will not this time around.” be playing at the event, but “The story of the whole the production is part of the musical tells the tale LPO’s 2012/2013 season. of this married couple The Orchestra is offering through their life,” Lambert a special advance purchase explained, “having the rate of $5 for students wedding, having their first looking to attend either “I honeymoon night together, Do! I Do!” or any remaining their having children, the orchestral concerts. children getting old and Students can call 580getting married and them 531-5043, purchase a growing old together.” ticket and the ticket will Lambert is an adjunct be waiting for them at the Professor of Voice at CU. “Will Call” window of the She has worked with the box office of the McMahon university for 30 years Memorial Auditorium the and currently teaches five evening of the show. classes for the Spring 2013 The box office opens at 5 semester. She is also a p.m. However, it is advised member of the LPO and that students purchase in has been with the Orchestra advance, as the day of the since the 1980s. show tickets will range in Stratton expressed her price from $10 to $45.

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The Sound of Music: Dr. Hyunsoon Whang performs as part of the CU@SC series. Dr. Whang selected the pieces in conjunction with the evening’s art exhibit, using songs that painted pictures with sounds.

Painting pictures with piano keys Carson Stringham Staff Writer

Cameron University Music Professor Dr. Hyunsoon Whang, McMahon Endowed Chair in Music, performed a piano recital Feb. 1 at the Simmons Center in Duncan.

The recital was preceded by the opening of the 2013 Student Art Exhibition and featured a program of music that included compositions by Franz Schubert, Ludwig van Beethoven, Achille-Claude Debussy and Frédéric François Chopin.

Dr. Whang said that piano recitals are a favorite part of the CU@SC series in Duncan. She splits opportunities to perform with her husband, CU Professor Thomas Labé.

While developing the set list for the program, Dr. Whang said she wanted to perform a variety of pieces from different musical periods in addition to music that would tie-in with the themes featured that evening.

Dr. Whang specifically chose to add Debussy’s “Estamapes” because the tune and title incorporates both art and music: the French term to mean “engravings” or “stamps” in English.

“Since this recital was going to coincide with an art exhibit,” Dr. Whang said, “I wanted to play a piece that had to do with pictures. The three parts of the piece focus on painting different pictures with sound.”

With a repertoire of music committed to memory, Professor Whang said her favorite composer is Chopin.

“For pianists, Chopin is such a pleasure to play because he was a fabulous pianist,” she said. “His work is so pianastically written and is always an audience pleaser. Even when I don’t play well, the audience still loves it. I think every piano recital should have at least one or two Chopin pieces.”

The audience instantly recognized one number —

Beethoven’s “Seven Variations on ‘God Save the King.’”

Despite its origins as a British ceremonial song, Americans know the tune for “God Save the King” as “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee.”

Dr. Von Underwood, Dean of the CU School of Liberal Arts, was also in attendance. He said he appreciated what the concert and exhibition do for relations between the art and music communities in Duncan and Lawton.

“It brings people together who love fine art in terms of painting, photography and graphic design with people who really love classical music,” Dean Underwood said.

According to Dean Underwood, attendance at the event rises every year due to increasing word of mouth publicity.

Dean Underwood also said he is especially pleased with the way Cameron students and faculty bring the Lawton and Duncan communities together.

“The event works really well because we have a chance to show all of this really wonderful, rich artwork by our art students while giving Dr. Whang and Dr. Labé a chance to put together some spectacular piano concerts,” Dean Underwood said. “Both the exhibition and the concert help to bring together a community that doesn’t exist in any other way.”

Dr. Whang added that she was happy to perform because it allows her to express her love of music with members of the audience. She said that such communication is an integral part of any concert since the the compositions are meant to connect with others.

“I truly believe that any art form should convey emotion and communicate with the audience,” Dr. Whang said. “The emotions change based on the composition, the composer and the performer, but I hope the event is always one of communication, so I hope the audience takes something away from the concert.

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CU art students exhibit their artistic side Kella Haire

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Staff Writer

Cameron University opened its annual student art exhibit on Feb. 1 at the Simmons Center in Duncan.

The exhibit featured artwork from CU students spanning a variety of mediums, such as painting, graphic design and sculpture.

The exhibit not only gave students the chance to have their work viewed, but students also had the option to list a price if the piece was for sale.

Freshman Art major Theresa Riemer did not have any pieces in this show, but she attended the exhibit to support her classmates.

“I really enjoy art,” Riemer said. “There are a lot of talented people who go to Cameron.”

The exhibit was the second show for artist Taylor Rich. The 20-yearold sophomore displayed some color theory pieces.

“Color theory is the study of color and how it can make something look a certain way,” Rich said.

Rich’s favorite of her paintings on display was entitled “Mirror Days.”

“This is a linear painting,” Rich said, “I really enjoyed making it because it’s similar to drawing.”

After earning a degree in Art, Rich plans to puursue a career that will allow her to utilize skills and knowledge.

“I would love to be a tattoo artist,” Rich said.

Senior Art major Zaeed

Look at me: Senior Art major Katrina Thompson shows a self-portrait to Konrad and Gabrielle Littau as they attend CU’s senior art exhibit in Duncan Friday evening. Thompson said she used a combination of charcoal, watercolor and colored pencil to create the piece.

Kala displayed his oil on canvas painting, “Scar of Mother Gaia.”

Kala said the painting is one of a series that shows how nature is struggling to survive. He wants to use his art to reach people with a message.

“I want to spread a message of coexistence through my art,” Kala said.

“I like to use professional fine arts and traditional methods to reach a mature audience and use conceptual arts and modern methods to

reach a younger audience.”

Graduating this May, Kala said he has enjoyed his time at Cameron.

“The Art department at Cameron is like a little family, it is really nice,” Kala said. “It’s good to be surrounded by people with the same work ethic.

We are supportive of each other, and even the faculty is so supportive, they are always willing to stay after hours.”

Another senior Art major, Hailey Harris,

displayed a piece that was very special to her.

Harris said the piece was entitled “Tu’eres el luz de mi vida,” which means “you are the light of my life” and she expressed several reasons of why it is important to her.

“The concept for this piece is my boyfriend and myself,” Harris said. “It was a challenge creating it because of all the expressive lines I used. I used to only draw things exactly how I saw them.”

Harris also said the piece

reminds her of what she has gained from Cameron.

“I love the Cameron Art Department,” Harris said.

“The teachers have inspired me to be better. This piece shows how much I’ve grown because of Cameron.”

Several self-portraits were also featured at the exhibit. Senior Art major, Katrina Thompson, displayed her self-portrait figure drawing.

“I used a combination of everything: charcoal, watercolor, colored pencil.”

Thompson said. “I really wanted to ref lect the colorful side of me.”

Nancy Alexander, a member of the Lawton community, attended the exhibit to support local artists.

The Tomlinson Middle School teacher was pleased to see a good turnout at the exhibit, which will stay open through Feb. 26.

“I love art, particularly the graphic art,” Alexander said. “It’s good to see this event has a nice crowd.”

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The reward of charitable service

Dianne Riddles Crossroads Editor

THE CAMERON UNIVERSITY

COLLEGIAN Founded in 1926 veritas sempiterna

Editorial Staff Managing Editor - Tiffany Martinez Assistant Managing Editor - Tyler Boydston Crossroads Editor - Dianne Riddles A&E Editor - Kaylee Jones Sports Editor - Matthew Berberea Copy Editor - Sarah Brewer Aggie Central Editor- Mitch Watson Archivist - Mitch Watson Newsroom Staff Financial Officer - Susan Hill Staff Writers - Kaitlyn Stockton, Charlene Belew, Sadie Jones, Carson Stringham, James Meeks Advertising Manager - Tiffany Martinez Photographer - Kali Robinson Newswriting Students Philip Harrington, Kella Haire Faculty Adviser Dr. Christopher Keller About Us The official student newspaper of Cameron University, The Cameron Collegian is available each Monday during the year.

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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.

This semester is my third semester as the Crossroads Editor. I am thankful to have had the opportunity to develop the Crossroads page into a resource that provides information about the many opportunities for people to volunteer time, money and expertise to benefit the Lawton/Ft. Sill community.

In the process of providing this information, I have met some amazing people who are doing wonderful work that I knew nothing about before assuming my current position. Lawton is fortunate to have many kind and caring organizations and individuals that genuinely understand the meaning of community service and give much of their time and energy to assure that those in need have a resource available to them to help meet those needs.

Those who have personally volunteered time and energy to a community service organization know firsthand how community service benefits everyone involved.

Obviously, those in need benefit the most by having their specific needs met. However, the less obvious reward is the feeling every volunteer feels when he or she has provided something that was needed to someone who received this act of kindness with a grateful heart.

Giving back to the community also provides a rewarding sense of pride. Volunteers know they will not receive anything in return for their work, but they devote themselves to their work because they think it is the right thing to do. Community service builds character one

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task at a time.

The easiest thing about volunteering is getting involved.

Countless organizations and charities are always looking for an extra hand to help put a smile on someone’s face. With all the opportunities available in which to volunteer, a person can find his or her way into something that could change not only his or her life, but also the lives of others. With each act of kindness and help, we

as a community step toward a brighter future for all.

At Cameron University, students have with many opportunities to serve in the community and are aware that several prospective employers consider community service a positive aspect when listed on a resume. However, one should volunteer in the community — not because it looks good on an application or because it garners praise from others

— but because it is easy to forget about the needs of our neighbors during the routine of our daily lives. True aid comes from ordinary people creating a better future for others in need.

When I first decided that community service was what I wanted to feature on the Crossroads page, I was concerned that I would not find enough organizations and opportunities to feature, but that concern could not

have been farther from reality.

In Lawton, many different organizations in different areas of expertise benefit from volunteer work. My hope is that everyone has the good fortune to find multiple opportunities to serve this community in a capacity that matches that person’s interests, abilities, talents and passion.

I have learned that when a person takes action and volunteers out of care and concern for another person, for a group of people or through pleasure in the work itself, without expectation of reward, that action becomes a labor of love. I am certain that anyone can find charitable work that interests him or her — something that could be a personal labor of love — by doing a little research.

There is one simple way for a person to experience a small degree of the rewarding feeling that comes with doing an act of kindness for a stranger while knowing that you will not receive anything in return for it.

On your next visit to a fast food restaurant, when paying for your meal at the drive through window, ask how much the order is for the next car in line; if it is affordable, pay for it. This is an act of kindness that can be accomplished almost anytime or anywhere.

As John Bunyan once said, “You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”

One should not lose the sense of his or her humanity to prevent becoming poor in charity and compassion.

A narrative of language, love and literature to read the monthly magazine than collecting those dumb dolls.

I was either starting to become a feminist or beginning an appreciation for creative historical fiction, or perhaps developing a fondness for both during these formative years. But I digress.

One issue of the magazine included an interview with a best-selling young-adult author whose name escapes Sarah Brewer me now, but what she said Copy Editor about her craft is something that lingers with me still: Once upon a time, I was Writing is akin to talking on a strange, socially-awkward paper. second-grade girl who chose Voicing my thoughts in reading alone in the library a public setting continues over recess outside on the to be something that gives playground with other me trouble, but back then, I classmates. But like most was speaking for pages and modern fairy tales, mine pages at a time from the includes a metamorphosis of comfort of my own bedroom. sorts.

My diary was hardcover My mother and my notebook emblazoned with teachers made these the Serenity Prayer on the arrangements for me to be away from my classmates who front. This book held my own schmaltzy odes, tryinghad abandoned me in favor of classmates who were more too-be-meaningful musings and lyrics from my favorite popular than I was, so I was content picking up a book and Jewel and Alanis Morissette albums. I was in love with poring over its pages. I felt writing about love, or at less lonely in library.

Being there felt more like a least a burgeoning concept blessing than a curse because of romance, but I knew I could wander farther in the someday my prince would labyrinth-like library and find come. However, it would enchantment in another book be another 10 years before I as if it were waiting for me to would have enough credibility to write like Elizabeth Barrett behold.

Browning. How do I love My favorites to read were thee? Well, I would rather the American Girl chapter explain how in a sonnet, but books because the girl in maybe someday, I will be each volume was the star in brave enough to profess my her own coming-of-age story feelings face-to-face.

-- one that was also telling Since I am being what life was like in various completely honest here, I periods from American also would like to take this history. Of course, the opportunity to confess a company was producing a line closely-guarded secret: I of pretty porcelain dolls to coincide with the books, but I was the one who took the remember caring more about annotated edition of Romeo & Juliet from the bookshelf being the first one in school

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in the middle school study hall. That was my first-ever encounter with The Bard, and I would like to think that something good came from my first and only stint in detention for fighting with another girl who had been bullying me for what seemed like eons. Nobody bothered me after that incident, and I kept the book.

In class, when I was on my best behavior, I was also practicing joining tall, demure loops with a full, deep swoops to make my cursive capital S look perfect. Finishing class assignments in a hurry, however, turned my otherwise elegant script into messy scribbling. My high school AP U.S. History teacher, Ms. Wahlberg, once told me she could distinguish my work by glancing at the way the indigo ink was flowing from margin to margin.

Making my voice resonate within my typed essays for AP English Composition became an assignment that I relished completing each week, and to this day, almost 10 years later, my former

classmates still continue to single me out and claim that I was only one who ever really read the titles listed on our class syllabus.

College heralded the hope that I might finally fit in. I was quick to declare English as my major, but I would vacillate between other fields of study for the next six years. Rather than summarize the entire saga, I will flash forward to what was supposed to be the penultimate semester of my senior year. I was set to graduate with a BA in English literature. I was taking a course in photojournalism where Dianne, my classmate — someone who would later become a confidant and colleague — convinced me to join the staff of the Cameron University Collegian as an intern reporter one year ago as of this writing. We would be little more than acquaintances if I had avoided Dianne. Each Collegian staff writer and editor similarly took a chance by accepting me, a rookie reporter, and showing me exactly what it

is like to work among others who care about their craft.

Through communicating, I fell down the rabbit hole and arrived where I never believed I would be, and yet somehow I have always known where I would belong.

Talking is like writing on paper, and I am doing much more of the former since working as staff writer and now as an editor.

Contributing to weekly and monthly publications requires me to study other methods to the magic, but the transformation is worth the effort these endeavors require.

I was at first lost somewhere in the shadowy hinterlands where separate style guides — first MLA and then AP — were both were both beckoning me, bedeviling me with rules and reigning what I write, but I had courage to learn how to write for this medium. The moment I felt comfortable expressing things worth expressing was the moment I began making connections, and since then I have been writing happily ever after.

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Aggies double up against LSC foes Aaron Gill

locker room with a half time score of 37-29.

Staff Writer The second half was better for the Aggies The Cameron University defensively as there were no Men’s Basketball team won big leads established. The two straight at home to close Javelinas held a steady two out the month of January possession grip on CU until and kick off February. The the clock hit 3:08 and Foster Aggies’ victories came over hit a mid range jumper, Texas A&M Kingsville and followed by a Thomas putUniversity of Incarnate back to tie the game at 66Word.

66 and force overtime.

The Aggies started their The Aggies led through hunt to for 10 straight the first overtime period victories at home by until the last 38 seconds defeating A&M Kingsville when Javelina Reid Wallace in double overtime. was fouled at the 3-point Throughout regulation the line and went 3-3 from the Aggies battled back and charity stripe to tie the game forth with the Javelinas, back up 75-75. trading baskets and making The second overtime was defensive stops. Coming taken over by the Javelinas back from an 11 point early with Reid hitting a deficit, the Aggies pulled jumper for two followed by together in the second the Aggie retaliation from overtime period for the win.

Thomas with the same.

CU has been put into Both teams traded a career total of 10 double buckets until the one minute overtime situations but has mark when the Javelinas not seen one since the 2010took the lead after Dytrel 11 season. Senior Andrew Bracey finger rolled one into “Big Country” Thomas led the goal. Junior Jonathan Photo by Brandon Neris the Aggies to victory scoring Patino was sent to the line 18 points with one block with 12 seconds to put the and a steal. Junior Craig Driving the lane: Junior guard Kimric Dixon goes icing on the cake and close Foster scored 17 points after in for a layup earlier this season against Angelo State. going scoreless throughout Dixon scored 12 points with a career-high four 3-point- the game with a score of 82-79. the first half. ers while adding eight boards Jan. 31 against Kingsville.

Head Coach Wade The Aggies had their baskets with the Javelinas The Aggies retaliated Alexander explained that work cut out for them until late in the half when around the two minute mark it was a good game and he as Rashad Basey led the Kingsville went on an 11-2 with a 5-0 run, shortening was proud of the Aggie’s Javelinas with 27 points. run with 4:21 remaining in the gap to an eight point resilience and composure.

The first half was back and the half. deficit before hitting the “That was a great game, forth as the Aggies traded

Kingsville was where I used to work before here. So a lot of our stuff that we run and try to do defensively are things that I picked up while I was there,” Coach Alexander said. “So as far as a game, it is always a tough one for us. They know our plays and we know their plays, so we are pretty evenly matched in that area. It all comes down to players having to make some plays.”

To bring a happy ending to the first weekend in February, the Aggies pulled out their tenth straight win at home over Incarnate Word. Thomas recorded his career first double-double to help lead the Aggies to victory. Thomas tied his career best of 19 points and a career best 11 boards and one steal.

Coach Alexander said Thomas was an intricate part of the Aggies win.

“He’s playing really well right now and he’s shooting the ball really well and that’s helping us,” Coach Alexander said. “He had not been rebounding really well until that game and that helped us because we needed that out of him and hopefully he can improve with every game because we need him and that helps us play better as a team.”

The first half started with the Aggies down 7-0

after a quick run from UIW. CU pulled into the game with a three pointer from Junior Tim Johnson and a two from Thomas to bring the score to 7-5. The Aggies traded baskets and then pulled ahead just before half time off another three from Johnson leaving the Cardinals to go to the locker room trailing 32-29.

The second half was dominated by the Aggies for the first 10 minutes, where the gap was widened to 14 points (52-38). The game got close after a three and a couple of foul shots from the Cards, but ultimately Cameron came out on top by a score of 69-60.

Coach Alexander said that winning this many at home is not necessarily out of the ordinary but they just need to keep it up. “It’s good, Alexander said, it is something we have preached for a long time and we actually have a little over 75 percent winning average at home over the past five years and we have really taken care of business here. This is not an abnormal thing for us and we would like to continue that.”

Next for the Aggies is Angelo State in San Angelo followed by Abilene Christian Feb. 16 for Cameron’s homecoming week.

Women’s basketball continues conference slide Aaron Gill

positioning and we just struggled the whole night.”

The Aggies had a rough time shooting the ball Staff Writer throughout the night, only making 26.2 percent of shots fired from the field. CU went 14.3 percent (2-14) from Cameron Women’s Basketball had a rough start to the month team after losing to Texas A&M Kingsville at home downtown and 78.3 percent (18-23) from the foul line.

The Aggies committed 19 turnovers which Kingsville on Jan. 31, followed with a second straight home loss Feb. turned into 14 points on the night.

2 versus Incarnate Word.

Coach Webb explained the Aggies had a tough night Junior Alli Brown scored a career high of 17 in the game shooting and they needed to hit big shots in pressure against Texas A&M Kingsville but the Aggies took a hard loss at the end of the night, 42-53. Kingsville took an early situations. He commented that Kingsville was able to knock down some tough shots in key situations.

5-0 lead over the Aggies and held that lead keeping CU “They hit some big shots in shot clock situations and scoreless through the first four minutes of the game. The it was just an uphill battle the whole night,” Coach Webb Aggies made a quick comeback on a 6-0 run to put them said. “Everything just went kind of the other way and down two points when the clock hit 9:52. sometimes when you are having seasons like the one we are Neither the Aggies or Javelinas scored efficiently throughout the first half, as the Aggies went to the locker having right now, it just happens and it is not good and it is hard to prevent.” room down 23-18 after Brown hit two free throws with Next the Aggies played Incarnate Word on Feb. 2 seven seconds remaining. where the Aggies gave the Cardinals ample opportunities The second half had a new Aggie team come to play early in the half taking off on a 5-0 run and closing the gap – 26 to be exact – to head to the free throw line helping by two points 27-25. The teams traded baskets throughout the Cardinals pull out a 47-68 victory over the Aggies.

The Aggies were led by Junior Brittany Harris, who the half until Kingsville went on a 10-2 run with 10:33 had 10 points on the night, and Junior Hannah Pollart, left in the game. Although the Aggies went 10-11 from who had 12 rebounds and seven points for CU. Incarnate the free throw line, they also went a total of 6-20 from Word’s Rose Whitehead put up 19 points and Katie the field during the second half. The Javelinas carried the Novak had 11 points and six rebounds for the Cardinals. momentum to come out on top by a score of 42-53.

Unlike the game against Kingsville, the Aggies shooting CU Women’s Head Coach Tom Webb said Kingsville steadily improved throughout the game. CU came out in was a game that needed to be won. However, the team the first half shooting 31.8 percent (7-22) from the field simply struggled throughout the night, not hitting big and improved to 39 percent by the end of the game. shots and having a bad first half.

CU jumped to an early 7-2 lead over the Cardinals “Kingsville was a disappointment, for everyone,” Coach before going scoreless for almost five minutes after the Webb said. “That was a game we needed, we needed 14:46 mark. Incarnate Word then went on a 14-0 run that for the conference tournament. We needed that for

leaving the Aggies behind with 4:43 left in the first half and later entered the locker room with 36-19 lead.

The second half, the Cards came out on an early 7-0 run leaving the Aggies in their wake and putting CU in a 28 point deficit at one point. CU cut down the gap within the final few minutes of the game but ultimately lost by a score of 68-47. The Aggies shot 47.4 percent (9-19) from the field in the second half, 40 percent (2-5) from beyond the arc and 66.7 percent from the line.

Coach Webb explained how the Aggies had a good game plan in the second half and just lacked a little in the execution. “I guess if you played halves, it would have been good, but you play games,” Webb said. “We executed a lot better that time in the second half than we did in the first half and now we just have to execute for 40 minutes.”

During regulation, the Aggies hit 39 percent of their total shots from the field, 30 percent (3-10) from three and 66.7 percent (12-18) from the foul line. With playoffs in March, Coach Webb said there are a couple of things the Aggies can do to clinch a spot but they are looking to win games well before thinking of playoffs.

“If we win all four road games, which are teams that we should have, or already have beaten, then we are probably in,” Coach Webb said. “Vice versa, if you can steal two or three on the road and take a couple at home, it is probably five wins or more, but we do not try to look at that, we just have to worry about taking care of business.”

The CU women will next travel to Angelo State Feb. 13 to face the Rambelles followed by the homecoming game Feb. 16 versus the Abilene Christian Wildcats at Aggie Gymnasium.

More information on all Cameron athletics can be found at www.cameronaggies.com.

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Dental professionals hold charitable clinic

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donations. OkMOM was made possible during the past four years by Lawtonians camped in volunteers, dental students front of the Great Plains and professionals that Coliseum starting on the provide their services for last day of January, waiting free. for the doors to open at 5 Lawton dentist Dr. a.m. the following Friday Todd Bridges serves as and Saturday, to be the the Oklahoma Dental first patients admitted into Association (ODA) a free two-day dental clinic, president and 2013 known as the Oklahoma OkMOM chair. He was in Mission of Mercy charge of organizing and (OkMOM) event. setting up the free two-day Procedures including clinic for the 2013 year. teeth cleanings, oral Dr. Bridges said that the extractions, root canals and purpose of the event is to fillings were offered to the provide relief to people first 2,000 individuals that suffering from dental checked in. problems, but could not Since 2010, OkMOM afford to visit a dentist. has treated 5,739 patients, “Many Oklahomans equaling $3,048,935 prioritize their needs and in donated dental simply are not able to services (www.okmom. budget for proper dental org). Oklahoma became care,” Dr. Bridges said. the fifteenth state to “This event allows us to coordinate the annual event treat people who may during the same year. otherwise continue to put Several individuals, off a dental appointment organizations and until a toothache becomes businesses fund unbearable and results in OkMOM through infection or worse.” grants, contributions and According to a 2013

Managing Editor

OkMOM press release, Oklahoma ranks lowest in the nation for adults who seek dental care from a dentist.

Lydia Miller, the director of Communications and Education for the ODA, helped organize and publicize the OkMOM event.

“It is so important that Oklahomans hear about and come to this event, because 83 percent of Oklahomans do not have dental insurance, so we need to meet that need,” Miller said. “We are going to travel around the state, [and] bring OkMOM to people all across the state to meet the need of the dental care that these people don’t have.”

Rachel Minnix, 21-yearold Art major, was one of the hundreds who spent the night at the coliseum to be seen by a dentist.

“I have been here since eight last night — I’m trying to save a little money here. I’m trying to get my

wisdom teeth taken out,” Minnix said. “I think this event is really cool. There are so many people in need of dental care that can’t afford it.”

Dental work was not the only service made available to attendees. The Health Department teamed up with the clinic to offer free immunizations for pneumonia, tetanus and the f lu to patients exiting the coliseum.

Meanwhile, Super Tooth, the mascot of the Delta Dental Association, gave toothbrushes, f loss and oral hygiene products to adults and children. An in-house pharmacy was set up for patients that needed at-home care following their dental work, and the last stop for patients was a survey area.

Emma Brito is an intern at the Oklahoma Dental Foundation and a student attending the University of Central Oklahoma.

She has participated in three OkMOM events and has witnessed the impact

that these events have had on members of the community.

“It is just a breathtaking and heartwarming event,”

Brito said. “People come in here with toothaches and tooth pains and they leave happy. There’s nothing better than that.”

Photo by Kali Robinson

Dental care supply table: Amanda Grimm works the supply table. Grimm distributed tools to surgeons, dentists and assistants throughout the day.

Animal Birth Control Clinic offers low-cost pet care Philip Harrington Staff Writer

The reception area of the Animal Birth Control (ABC) Clinic is a cacophony of sound: Phones ring, doors jingle, the voices of busy employees and patrons overlap with the sounds of dogs and cats from unseen rooms.

The ABC Clinic has traveled a long and sometimes rough road. What began as a small group of concerned local citizens has grown into The National Organization to End Pet Overpopulation (NOPO), a national non-profit organization that advocates against pet overpopulation.

Linda Reinwand and Deloris Delluomo established the ABC Clinic when they noticed the pet problem in Lawton and the surrounding area nearly 30 years ago.

“Animals were just being dumped in the country in 1984,” Delluomo said.

They formed The Lawton United Volunteers for Animal Birth Control, the organization that would later become NOPO, to ensure all animals in the community were either spayed or neutered.

“At the time, the average cost for a spay in Lawton was $150 minimum,” Reinwand said.

Reinwand and Delluomo tried to work with area veterinarians to get a lower rate for a larger volume of animals, but none the local veterinarians were on board with them.

Photo by Philip Harrington

Animal Birth Control Clinic: The ABC Clinic is located at 85 NE 20th Street. The ABC Clinic has been helping Lawton residents by offering low-cost spaying and neutering for Lawton pets for nearly 30 years.

They felt obligated to open their own clinic.

“I know my thinking in the beginning was that if we could neuter or spay every animal in Lawton we could put an end to this,” Delluomo said. “We would have a city without animals roaming the streets or having animals dumped out in the country.”

In May of 1985, Reinwand and Delluomo opened the ABC clinic before moving to their current location at 85 NE 20th Street in East Lawton in 1988.

From the beginning, the ABC clinic has offered low or even no cost neuters and spays.

“No one has ever been turned away due to an inability to pay,” Delluomo said.

Reinwand and Delluomo attribute the lowered cost of surgeries to the volunteer labor and donations they have received.

The ABC Clinic was recently awarded a grant from a Californian foundation, and the funds enabled Reinwand and Delluomo to replace some of their surgical equipment, including a state-of-the-art heated surgery table.

Even though the clinic depends on volunteer labor they do have a small paid staff.

“We have two Veterinarians on staff as well as three fulltime and one part-time veterinary assistants,” Reinwand said.

Though they remain vigilant in their mission to offer low-cost services, they realized early on that just spaying and neutering all of the pets in the area wasn’t going to be enough.

Photo by Philip Harrington “The first problem we faced is Lawton being a military town with a transient population,” Delluomo said. “With Surgical prep area: Pascall Osborne, veterinary Oklahoma being number two in the United States in puppy assistant, continually works to keep the surgical preparation area sanitized. Osborne has assisted with mills, we could neuter and spay until Jesus comes.”

They consider pet breeding the chief cause of pet many spay and neuter surgeries at the ABC Clinic.

overpopulation.

“Just stop the breeding until supply equals demand,” Delluomo said. “You don’t produce more pogo sticks, or computers or cars than the market can bear, and with animals we are talking about living beings that now have to be destroyed at tax-payer expense.”

They want to inform consumers that might be unknowingly contributing to the problem.

“The message has to be to the consumer,” Delluomo said.

“When you buy a puppy from a pet store, it most likely came from a puppy mill. By buying that pet, you are perpetuating the suffering for profit industry.”

According to Reinwand and Delluomo, breeding is a billion dollar industry in Oklahoma.

They intend to stay and operate the ABC Clinic until there is no longer a need for low-cost spays and neuters in southwest Oklahoma.

“It’s just plain old stick to it ness,” Delluomo said.

Reinwand added, “You can’t do this like it’s a job. It has to be a passion.”