The Cameron University Collegian: March 6, 2006

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Art, literature featured on road trip Members from the English department travel to Tulsa

By David Bublitz Collegian Staff

Muslim students peaceably protest publication.

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A&E

Film garners praise from reviewer.

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Sports

Lady Aggies make it to play-offs.

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Voices Cell phones ubiquitous, but not trendy.

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Next Issue Chemistry student selected for admission to Johns Hopkins.

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Faculty members and students from Cameron University’s English Department traveled to Tulsa on Feb. 23 for a day of literary and artistic enrichment.

Drs. Von Underwood and Sherry Cardwell and professor Julie Hensley choreographed the trip, which was scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. with students returning home at around 12:30 a.m.

Students reached Tulsa at 2:30 p.m. and began their day at Philbrook Museum of Art. At the museum door, students were given portable devices that relayed interesting facts about the house and artwork as they moved from room to room.

The museum was originally a 23-acre antique mansion built by oilman Wade Philips in 1927.

In 1938, Wade donated the house to the city, making it the first fine arts museum in Tulsa.

The museum featured work from a variety of painters and sculptors. The newest exhibition entitled: “Cut: Film as Found Object in Contemporary Art,” gave students the opportunity to experience film through the eyes and minds of artists such as Douglas Gordon, Michael Joaquin Grey, Pierre Huyghe, and others.

See FIELD TRIP, page 10

Photo by David Bublitz

An enriching experience: Creative writing student Wilma Whittaker studies one of the numerous paintings in the Philbrook Museum of Art. The museum was the first stop for faculty and students on their way to Tulsa University to hear Pulitzer Prize winning author Jane Smiley.

Ag department welcomes new additions

By Jessica Lane Collegian Staff

Calving season began about two weeks ago and, according to herd manager Tommy Hill, eight calves have already been born.

The agriculture department has an animal science arena close to the campus that is equipped with pens and a classroom. The cattle are rotated on surrounding lands depending on grass and pasture, according to Frankie White, assistant agriculture professor.

“In beef production in the United States, cattle calve in two seasons. In most cases they’ll calve in the early spring.

It usually lasts about 90 days,” White said.

The cows are bred in late spring, March through May, or

as early as late January.

“Some [producers] like to wait until there’s grass available because lactation is the highest nutritional demand on a cow,” White said, noting that the recent drought could pose a problem.

According to White, gestation for a cow is about 283 days, or nine months.

He said that students help with the calving process, though not this semester because of the course rotation.

“We teach a reproduction class,” White said, “and generally that’s when students will help.”

When the course is available, the students have helped process the animals and vaccinate the calves.

See CALVING, Page 10

Courtesy of Department of Agriculture

Calving season takes off: Eight new calves join the ag department, providing a learning experience for students. The gestation period for cows is about the same as for humans, nine months.

Relay for life: the walk against cancer

By Blake Red Elk

News Writing Student For 15 years, the Lawton community has extended its collective hands out to help a nation fighting cancer.

Two teams at this year’s American Cancer Society (ACS) Relay For Life are currently representing Cameron University.

One participant is CU’s Director of Student Advancement, Jennifer Holland.

“It’s really important for me to participate because everyone, at some point, has been affected by cancer,” Holland said.

“Family, friends, co-workers; it could be anyone.”

It is that thought that has kept Holland

heavily involved in the relay for the past four years as a participant and as a recruiter for teams. CU will have one team comprised of students and one team comprised of staff members.

The staff team won the award for Top Fundraiser Team at the 2005 Relay For Life and helped contribute to the $52,000 raised at last year’s event. The proceeds go toward cancer research, patient education and the dissemination of literature to educate people on the facts about cancer.

Jennifer Bowen, ACS Community Specialist for Income Development, said expectations are higher this year.

“We did a great job of raising money last year,” she said, “and we’re setting the bar even higher this year.”

With over 20 teams already confirmed for this year’s relay, Bowen is optimistic new goals will be met and she is looking forward to more teams signing up.

“We are still taking teams to sign up for

the relay,” she said. “Anyone can make a team.”

Bowen said that any group of eight to 15 members is welcome to participate.

According to 2005 research done by the ACS, about 570,000 Americans will die of some form of cancer each year. Cancer is the cause of 25 percent of deaths in the U.S. That is why Holland feels it is so important for people to become actively involved in the Relay For Life.

“Cancer doesn’t discriminate. It doesn’t care if you’re old or young, rich or poor, male or female, and that’s scary,” Holland said. “In years passed, and this year as well, we have had CU team members who are cancer survivors, and with Cameron being such a large part of the Lawton community, it’s important that we get involved.”

Getting involved means getting a team together that pledges to have at least one person walk around the track during the duration of the event. Other ways to assist include raising money in the community, organizing games and activities and paying tribute to those who have

See RELAY, Page 10

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March 6, 2006

Larry Kruse announces retirement

By Petulah Olibert Collegian Staff

Senior Vice-President for Student Services Larry Kruse will retire in June.

Kruse came to Cameron University three years ago as the associate provost for enrollment management. He said he was drawn to the field of education even as a child.

“I was raised in a small town in western Kansas,” he said.

“People looked up to teachers there, so the education field always held interest for me while I was growing up. I always felt that it was what I was called to

do.”

Kruse attended Barton County College and Seward County College, earning his Ph.D. at Oklahoma State University.

During his time at CU, Kruse has served on the retention and recruitment committees, and he worked to obtain the Brain Gain Grant, a $100,000 grant awarded to schools committed to improving and developing their various educational facilities.

Kruse said the grant was used to develop an assessment of student populations, to establish and develop training for academic advisors and to develop

and pilot an early alert system for at-risk students.

Kruse has been witness to, and helped put into motion, many programs for the expansion and growth of Cameron University.

“Cameron has grown a lot since I’ve been here,” he said.

“Our enrollment has increased and we have expanded our student population to include not only people who live in the vicinity of the campus, but from places farther away than our immediate surroundings. That has amounted to a tremendous amount of growth. I am happy to have worked for an institution with so much in store for it.”

Kruse will retire at the end of June, although he says he won’t completely withdraw his services.

“I’m going to stay connected to Cameron,” he said. “President Ross has asked me to work on several committees so I will still be connected to Cameron.

“Cameron is a really remarkable institution. It is a great place. I really enjoyed my time here and the university has grown remarkably. My tenure here has been great fun.”

As for post-retirement, Kruse has it all planned.

“My wife and I,” he said, “plan to travel.”

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“I really enjoyed my time here, and the university has grown remarkably.”

— Larry Kruse Vice President of Student Services

Alison Ellison juggles school, family and home life

By Joan Hagy

News Writing Student Alison Ellis, graduate student and third grade teacher, takes a deep breath and counts to 10.

Her 3-year-old son, Quinton, needs more juice in his Sponge Bob Square Pants sippy cup.

The clothes are tumbling in the dryer, Quinton’s 5-year-old sister, Kendyll, has been shooed off to play quietly and Alison is simply trying to breathe on a Sunday afternoon.

“I have been holding on so long and, finally, I feel I can see the light at the end of the tunnel,” Ellis said.

That tunnel has been her education, her career and her family.

Alison will graduate in the spring of 2007 with a master’s of science in educational leadership.

The program is offered nights and weekends through Cameron University’s Department of Education.

Advisor for the master of science in educational leadership program Dr. Jim Hawkins said he wished all graduate students were like Alison.

“She is perceptive, very honest and has real ability to discern right from wrong,” Hawkins said. “Alison has empathy, a true understanding of kids.”

He said those are important skills for an educator who wants to go into the leadership field to have. For an aspiring principal like Ellis, these are skills she uses every day.

Juggling her teaching duties for Grandfield Elementary, her family obligations and classes hasn’t been easy. But Ellis has family to rely on and the determination to make it all work.

Ellis graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma in 1998 with a bachelor’s in education.

Since then she has been teaching elementary

school, first in Texas and for the last two years in the rural town of Grandfield. After her husband Steven finished his accounting degree at Cameron last spring, they decided it was time for Alison to plunge into graduate work.

According to Ellis, night classes are easier to juggle and most of her hours are completed through the night courses. But the one class she had to attend for three weekends really tested her organizational skills. Family was called in to assist for Friday night sleepovers. Steven works most Saturday mornings, and so chores were sometimes done at midnight.

“I try to keep my kids my top priority,” Ellis said.

She said it is all too easy to shuffle important things, like family, to the back burner when her time gets limited.

“So I put everything aside and focus on Kendall and Quinton,” she said. “Quinton is still so little and just those moments when I snuggle him into bed at night puts it all back in order for me.”

Keeping track of 24-third graders and their work, Kendyll’s gymnastic schedule, Parent Teacher Organization meetings, the cheerleaders she coaches, Steven’s schedule, her classes, their home and the chores is enough to wear anyone out.

But Ellis said she just breathes

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A typical day: Ellis takes time to fix her daughter’s hair at the beginning of another long day of work, teaching, meetings and classes. Ellis balances family, teaching and studies as she works toward her master’s degree. She expects to graduate from the program in spring 2007.

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Cells phones no longer hottest accessory item

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Rx for empty nest: go back to college I n like a lion, out like a lamb, or so the saying goes. As I write this, the sun is shining and it’s a balmy 74 degrees outside.

The daffodils are blooming in my garden, adding some cheer to the dry and dusty landscape that is my front yard.

With the onset of spring comes the realization that we are halfway through the semester. For some of us, not only are we halfway through the semester, we’re nearly eight weeks away from graduation.

When I began here at Cameron University, I was facing a number of life-changing events.

First, I hit the half-century mark. (Don’t stop reading; live right and this could happen to you!) Life-changing event number two was the emergence of our three children into the world, a world that didn’t include me.

Ok, I guess we didn’t plan too well; twentyfive years ago I was not thinking about the fact that the three kids, each a year apart in age, would all leave at about the same time.

Neither, apparently, was my husband. Or maybe he was …

With one child in college, another in Seattle and the middle one preparing to leave, the nest was emptying quickly.

The middle child, having taken classes at Cameron Kathleen Kelly and enjoying the experience, suggested I go back to school. Well, sure, I had always said that I wished I had finished college and that I would do it someday, but all of a sudden “someday” was staring me straight in the face. I was sure my husband would save me from myself; we had said I would go back to school after all the kids were finished. We still had two in college. But no, my husband enthusiastically agreed that it was a great idea.

I think he was worried about my mental health; I remember driving up to the house one day as my two sons were standing by the oldest one’s car, having finished packing his belongings for the journey away from home.

Watching them there laughing and talking together, and realizing that my first-born son was packed up and ready to leave the very next day, and that life forever would be changed for all of us, I sobbed like a baby.

“Don’t mind me,” I choked out as I hurried past them into the house, “I’m really happy that you’re leaving.”

Yeah. I am living proof that the “empty nest-syndrome” is real. But it is survivable.

So, off to college I went. I took just two courses the first semester. Dr. Hodgson taught one of them and he was frightening. He set his standards high and took no prisoners.

But, being at that half-century mark, one has a different attitude about things. After gathering up the courage to fill out all of those forms and choose from all those courses, was I going to be intimidated into quitting? No! Also, I was pretty drained from crying every day. I didn’t have a lot of energy left over for any other emotion, not even fear.

It turned out Dr. Hodgson wasn’t so scary.

He actually knew quite a lot about writing and how to produce “beefy, but concise” news summaries and papers, and he was willing to share that knowledge with his students.

I not only survived those first two courses, I acquired new skills.

As the semesters progressed, I became more courageous, taking up to four courses at a time. I learned how to study for tests, how to write papers that didn’t require footnotes (the personal computer is a great tool!) and how to express myself with confidence.

I was fortunate to have the experience of taking a programming language class with my son, William, just before he left to join his brother in Seattle. He was a stern taskmaster.

He expected me to do my best. I couldn’t disappoint him. Life does take us down some surprising paths.

I made friends with other students of all ages and walks of life. That has been an invaluable experience. How wonderful to learn from them as well as from professors.

Now it appears that I will graduate in May, at age 52. The kids are doing fine on their own, and my husband and I have adjusted to it being just the two of us (and the four dogs).

What is next? I don’t know. All I know is that I will have made it through this most trying time in my life, thanks to the support and encouragement of my children and my husband and the great people at Cameron.

The second half of my life is off to a great start.

Hang in there, fellow Aggies! We’re almost to the finish line!

Kathleen is a journalism senior and copy editor for The Collegian.

ttention students.

Having a cell phone no longer sets you apart from the crowd or makes you cool.

Now that students who have cell phones are as common as students who forget to study, there is nothing special about them.

I don’t care how skinny or small the newest version is, the cell phone is not an accessory. The cell phone is a communication tool. It is misused and abused, but it is still only a communication tool.

Please spare me the theatrics of showing off the new phone to your friends. They may “ooh” and “ahh” over it for a few seconds, but the simple truth is everyone has one.

Those who don’t have a phone either choose not to or are still trying to figure out their beepers.

Also, while it does draw attention to you, downloading the newest and loudest

ring tone does not make you a celebrity.

Please stop playing that Beyoncè song and please stop singing along with your friends in public. I also ask that you please not play every song in your library in public. I am not impressed that you spent an additional $40 this month on a bunch of 15-second song clips.

That device that played all the latest songs was cool the first time it came out.

It was called a “radio.” Stop making your cell phone a status symbol.

Everyone else is over it.

Blake Red Elk Why aren’t you?

U.S. companies submit to China’s censorship laws

In congressional hearings recently, senior executives from some of the most powerful U.S. companies got an earful about their dealings with Communist China.

How often do Yahoo, Microsoft, Google and Cisco get lectures on their failure to stand up for human rights and freedom of expression? Not often, one imagines.

So, kudos to Rep. Chris Smith’s House International Relations Subcommittee on Human Rights for taking an interest in the issue of the Internet in China.

The question is whether by entering the rapidly expanding market of Internet users in China, these companies are helping the cause of intellectual freedom or aiding the Chinese government in exerting censorship controls on its citizens. The answer – unfortunately, in terms of clarity from the perspective of an opinion column – is that they are probably doing both.

The Internet assuredly will be an impossible medium to control even for China’s dedicated cadre of censors and police; as a medium, it is far too fast and too fluid.

On the other hand, the hearing raised the very good question of whether American companies, whose business is information technology and who thrive on First Amendment protections here, should aid the Chinese government in something as unethical as censorship and the suppression of dissent.

Yahoo screens its service for words that trigger the censors’ attention without informing its users that this is happening, and it has bowed to pressure from the Chinese government to share information about two of its users. Google, at least, lets the Chinese Internet user know that a page has been blocked, and it’s planning to have its email server located outside China, where it cannot be monitored. Both companies have defended their decision to comply with Chinese laws, and they clearly stand to make a killing in the Chinese market.

China has 111 million Internet users, second only to the United States. Still, that’s a mere fraction of the population (just 8 percent) and the potential number.

By contrast, 60 percent of American adults use the Internet. Like so much else in China these days, Internet usage is a fast-growing phenomenon, which the Chinese government has a huge commercial interest in developing.

China has a cadre of Internet censors, under the charmingly named Communist Party’s Internet Propaganda Management Department, which monitors Internet traffic through content filters, imposes URL blacklists and monitors traffic to Web sites. Certain “sensitive” phrases trigger the attention of the censors – anything to do with Tiananmen Square, democracy, as might be expected, but oddly also words like “cat abuse,” “buy corpses” and “mascot,” according to The Washington Post, which obtained a list of 236 blocked terms from a Chinese blog service.

Trying to control the Internet, though, is like trying to control running water. Internet users are an innovative bunch, and proscribed words and phrases can be replaced, with lightning speed, with other words.

The U.S. companies have argued for stronger U.S. government involvement in negotiating with the Chinese government on their behalf. The newly established “Global Internet Freedom Task Force” of the U.S. State Department should be a useful tool.

The companies are not so likely to appreciate Smith’s Global Online Freedom Act of 2006, which nonetheless makes good sense. Smith’s bill mandates placing the servers of the Internet companies outside China. The speed by which Internet users can access Web sites will decrease. But the trade-off is a protection of their rights – and a guarantee of certain principles that the United States, as a free society, has the obligation to uphold.

— Helle Dale The Heritage Foundation

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March 6, 2006

Cameron’s SGA gains a voice in OSGA

By Kenny Scarle Collegian Staff

Things are moving quickly in Cameron’s race to become the university of choice in southwest Oklahoma, especially when it comes the Student Government Association.

Aside from advances made in legislation on campus, our student government is making its voice heard all around the state.

The Oklahoma Student Government Association is a statewide organization committed to voicing the concerns and interests of the over 250,000 students in the Oklahoma Higher Education System. (OSGA.org) OSGA members believe that Oklahoma students should be active in the legislative process affecting higher education in the

state. They believe that it is the student’s responsibility to decide what stance to take on specific issues and to see that they are presented to the appropriate legislative, decision-making entities.

For the past several years, Cameron has participated in this organization, but has yet to play a part on the board of directors.

That is, until now.

At this week’s SGA meeting, Sergeant-At-Arms Jeff Wozencraft announced that he has been elected as the Southwest Regional Director for the Oklahoma Student Government Association.

“Cameron University has never been on the board of directors of OSGA,” Wozencraft said. “I am now a member of that board of directors. It’s a very big step for us

here at Cameron.”

Every student in Oklahoma is automatically a member of OSGA. When issues arise affecting students in the southwest area, Wozencraft’s new position makes him responsible for making sure those students are informed and spoken for.

“I just represent them whenever they have concerns,” Wozencraft said. “If they have an interest in something or a problem with OSGA, it’s my job to answer those concerns and relay those concerns to the exec board.”

Wozencraft’s said his new position can be a great advantage to the university. A larger voice in the OSGA means that CU can be represented more strongly.

“The good thing about that,” Wozencraft said, “is hopefully

this is the start of a long powerhouse run in the OSGA, a run that can get us into the executive board next year or the year after. Who knows where we can go from there.”

As the Southwest Regional Director for the OSGA, Wozencraft will have more responsibility, but he is eager for the task.

“In the Southwest District, my main goal is to keep solidarity,” Wozencraft said. “We need to represent all the members and also attend all the meetings. We really need the representation at the OSGA and have a huge amount of constituents that represent at OSGA.” Wozencraft is doing what he can to make Cameron a more complete center for higher education.

“In the Southwest District, my main goal is to keep solidarity.”

— Jeff Wozencraft Southwest Regional Director for OSGA

Blocking system for cell phones being developed

By Jon Van

KRT News Wire CHICAGO — The intrusion of cellular phone rings into theaters, schools and nearly every other nook and cranny of modern life may soon hit a wall.

Playing to the backlash against ubiquitous communication, a company called NaturalNano is developing a special high-tech paint that relies on the wizardry of nanotechnology to create a system that locks out unwanted cell phone signals on demand.

The paint represents a dream to

those who seek a distraction-free movie or concert experience, and a nightmare to those who compulsively monitor their BlackBerries.

It is also another breakthrough application of nanotechnology, the emerging science of harnessing submicroscopic organisms for everyday uses, like stain-resistant pants and transparent sunblock.

The National Science Foundation has predicted that nanotechnology will eventually be a trillion-dollar industry.

“You could use this in a concert hall, allowing cell phones to work before the concert and during breaks, but shutting them down during the performance,” said

Michael Riedlinger, president of NaturalNano of Rochester, N.Y. His firm has found a way to use nanotechnology to blend particles of copper into paint that can be brushed onto walls and effectively deflect radio signals.

The copper is inserted into nanotubes, which are ultratiny tubes that occur naturally in halloysite clay mined in Utah.

The nanotubes are about 20,000 times thinner than a piece of paper, too small to be seen with even a conventional microscope. At this size, which is near the molecular scale, materials have different physical properties than they normally do.

By filling these tubes with nanoparticles of copper, the company can create a medium to suspend the signal-blocking metal throughout a can of paint without significantly changing the way the paint adheres to a surface. NaturalNano will combine this signalblocking paint scheme with a radio-filtering device that collects phone signals from outside a shielded space, allowing certain transmissions to proceed while blocking others.

Even the thought of such a thing upsets the wireless phone industry.

“We oppose any kind of blocking technology,” said Joe Farren, spokesman for The Wireless Association, the leading cell phone trade group.

“What about the young parents whose babysitter is trying to call them, or the brain surgeon who needs notification of emergency surgery? These calls need to get through.”

Farren said any scheme to selectively block calls is illegal.

But Robert Crowley of AMBIT Corp., which designed the radio-filtering device for NaturalNano, said the system is legal. The nanotechaugmented paint that blocks signals is a passive device, not an illegal radio jammer, he said.

The radio filter would allow enable all emergency radio communications to pass through the shield, Crowley said. With all other signals, like cell phones, the filter would act like a spigot to block or allow them to pass through – say, only during intermission.

“There’d be no limitation of public-service radio access,” he said.

Crowley said there’s a lot of pent-up demand for people to have more control of the radio space in their own buildings. His Ashland, Mass.-based firm, which develops equipment to enhance cell phone reception inside moving vehicles, often hears from such people.

“Our number one request comes from churches,” he said. “Pastors want a way to stop cell phones ringing in church and people taking calls during worship services.”

School administrators would also want to keep students from taking cell phone calls or sending text messages to one another during class, he said.

Most schools ban cell phone use in class, but administrators would like more control over wireless traffic.

Bill Smith, director of instructional support services for Sioux Falls, S.D., schools said his district is interested in NaturalNano’s signal-blocking paint because administrators are worried about what would happen in the event of an emergency in a school.

“During a crisis, students using cell phones would overwhelm the system, making it impossible for administrators to use cell phones to call authorities,” Smith said. “I don’t know if there’s a way to manage that.”

Smith said students are allowed to have phones in their backpacks or lockers, but if they use a phone during class, the device is confiscated and their parents are called.

“That works pretty well,” Smith said. “Whether we’d want to install a system to add further control

would really depend on how much it cost. We run a pretty austere system.”

Even though they’re illegal, jamming devices that emit radio signals to prevent cell phones from working are widely available, said Tim Kridel, a wireless industry analyst.

“You can find plenty of jammers on the Internet that are shipped from other countries,” said Kridel.

“But using them risks getting into trouble with the Federal Communications Commission.”

The wireless industry spokesman, Farren, said that jamming doesn’t seem to be a major problem.

“But it’s hard to detect,” Farren said. “Nothing shows up on your phone that says `Your signal’s being jammed.’”

Based on phone inquiries and Web site visits, AMBIT’s Crowley said many people apparently want

a legal way to control wireless bad behavior.

“We tell pastors they can’t be bashful about asking their congregation to turn off their phones, because there’s nothing else available,” he said. “The system NaturalNano proposes would be a cost-effective alternative.”

But even though cell phones can be a nuisance, not all pastors seek a technical solution.

“I’ve had them go off during a service, although it’s rare,” said Tom Allen, pastor of the Bible Fellowship Church in Yardley, Pa., and an associate professor at Philadelphia Biblical University in Langhorne, Pa. “I use humor or just ignore it. Obviously, the person is embarrassed. One ring reminds everybody else to check their phones.

“I’ve never heard that it happened twice in one service.”

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Egyptian students find a peaceful way to protest Danish Muhammad cartoons

By Hannah Allam KRT Campus

CAIRO, Egypt — Students at Cairo University chose their weapons carefully as they prepared to vent anger Tuesday over the now-notorious Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

After weeks of watching the violent – even deadly – reactions of Muslims across the globe, the Egyptian students were determined that their protest would be different. They assembled an arsenal of black markers, skinny red pens and packs of colored pencils. Then, with broad strokes and dainty curlicues, they filled reams of paper with the fury, sadness and disgust they felt over the lampooning of Islam’s messenger.

The result was a somber campus display of political cartoons.

One showed a Danish strongman struggling to balance weights labeled “freedom of speech” and “respect for religion.”

Another showed a man wrapped in a Danish flag cowering before a giant made up of stick figure Muslims carrying one another.

The slogan: “We might look little, but if we unite, we can do something.”

One of the biggest handwritten messages said, “If we talk about Jews, it’s anti-Semitism. If we talk about blacks, it’s racism. But if they insult Muhammad, it’s freedom of expression. This is terrorism!”

No government manipulated the tiny, peaceful protest in Cairo.

No religious zealots capitalized on the outrage. It was just raw emotion expressed through ink on paper, the same medium as the controversial Danish cartoonists.

“As Muslims, it is important for us to know how the West views us so we know how to respond,” said Mustafa Mohammed, a 21-yearold law student. “As the prophet, peace be upon him, said: `He who wants to be safe from a people knows their language.’”

An Islamic student group came up with the idea for the exhibition, and members said they were surprised at the outpouring from classmates.

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Making a point: Students at Cairo University share a joke as they draw cartoons and write messages for a campus display on Feb. 28.

Students were protesting the controversial caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that first appeared in a Danish newspaper.

The display booth stands outside the halls of the political science department, where students dropped by to doodle between classes. By midday Tuesday, students had left dozens of drawings and statements such as “They’ve crossed their limits and we’ve got to stop them” and “Let us defend our dignity!”

One student even had dug up quotations praising the prophet from the likes of Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw and French writer Alphonse de Lamartine.

“When I first saw the cartoons, I was so angry, but you can’t show your anger in a nonpeaceful manner, like shooting embassies or killing each other,” said Riham Nagi, 21, a political science student who helped organize the display. “All the Egyptian

students like this idea, but there are still some foreign students who come up and say it’s a matter of freedom of speech. They still don’t accept that it (making fun of the prophet) was wrong.”

Many of the students’ drawings expressed pride in the boycott that’s caused Danish products to disappear from the shelves of most supermarkets in the Middle East.

By some estimates, the boycott is costing Danish firms up to $1.5 million a day.

Wissam Sherif, 19, and

his friend, Ehab Erfan, 18, gazed at the display booth and lamented their breakfasts without Danish butter and their favorite Danish processed cheese. They laughed and said they were relieved that they’d outgrown Lego, the Danish

toy maker.

“Wait. What about Nestle?”

Sherif asked, with panic in his voice.

“No, it’s Swiss,” Erfan replied.

“Good,” Sherif said. “Because I can’t live without my Nescafe.”

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‘Brokeback’ is controversial but powerful

By Chris Allison Guest Columnist

Have you ever been in a relationship where you feel a hopeless addiction to the other person and yet a deep dread of all those entangling feelings?

The controversial film “Brokeback Mountain” addresses this theme in a gay cowboy love story set in the 1960s to the 1980s. The film is considered the front-runner in the Oscar race for best picture and best director, Ang Lee. It received eight Oscar nominations and has won other awards, including the Golden Globe for best drama picture.

The story begins in the early 1960s when two ranch hands are hired to herd sheep on Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming during the summer and early fall. One of the men is Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger), who is quiet and cautious. The other is a Texas rodeo bull rider named Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal), who is a little more outgoing than Ennis.

During one stormy night, Jack invites Ennis into his tent for shelter. They end up having sex.

The next morning they agree to keep the events of the previous night a secret, although they continue to sleep together.

Soon their job ends and they go their separate ways. Jack goes back to Texas to help his ailing father and Ennis goes home to marry his fiancée Alma (Michelle Williams).

Four years later, both men are married and have kids. Jack marries another rodeo star named Lureen Newsome (Anne Hathaway), whose rich father has employed him.

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‘I wish I could quit you’: Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) portray ranch hands and lovers in the Golden Globe best drama award winner ‘Brokeback Mountain.’ The film also received eight Oscar nominations.

Ennis gets a postcard from Jack offering to visit him. Jack is soon at Ennis’ door, where they resume their relationship over a twenty-year period. They meet once or twice a year for “fishing trips,” but are forced to keep their affair a secret.

Jack mentions his wish to live on a ranch together with Ennis who warns him that it would be dangerous to publicly live together. He tells Jack a childhood story about two men who lived together and were

killed.

They love each other, but there is nothing they can do about it. This is ref lected by Jake’s most famous line, “I wish I could quit you.” Both men have strained relationships with their wives.

The mountain scenery is beautiful, and the performances by both Ledger and Gyllenhaal are superb. Ledger gives the best performance of his career.

Gyllenhaal is great as Jack, whose patience with their

hopeless relationship runs thin as the years go by. He is nominated for supporting actor, but I thought his role was too big for a supporting nod. Williams also gives an award-worthy performance of Ennis’ wife. After they divorce, Alma confronts Ennis about his relationship with Jack and tearfully tells him, “You don’t go up there to fish.”

One complaint I have is that most of the female characters are downplayed to almost

background characters. Anne Hathaway’s performance was a little f lat and she was not given much to do except marry Twist.

Michelle Williams is one of the few standout actresses.

Although there are some uncomfortable scenes, the high quality performances and production of this film elevate it to a grand scale. If you can get past its gay theme, you will find a great and powerful movie.

A new season begins for gamers worldwide

By Josh Rouse Collegian Staff

Next week, the fun in the sun begins with spring break. Some students will go on vacations to the lakes or the beach. Some will go visit old friends or family in other parts of the country. While spring break has always been an unofficial countdown to the summer vacation with parties and retreats, what about the students who stay at home?

If you were lucky enough to get your hands on an Xbox 360, you probably stood in line at Wal-Mart or some other store for hours on end waiting for one.

After the “new car smell” wore off the console, the lack of games probably became abundant.

There were 19 games released in 2005 for the Xbox 360 and no games have been released prior to “Full Auto” and “Fight Night Round 3” in February. For those early adopters, video game developers have finally answered your call.

Starting as early as this week, a new batch of Xbox 360 games will start hitting the market. Leading them will be Ubisoft’s tactical shooter “Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter” and Electronic Arts’ “Burnout Revenge.” Each will retail for $59.99.

“Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter,” or “GRAW” as it is being called on the Internet, continues the best selling franchise from past generation systems and takes full advantage of the Xbox 360’s capabilities. It puts you in the shoes of Captain Mitchell of the Ghosts, a top secret military squad in the year 2013. The presidents of the United States and Mexico have been kidnapped in Mexico City. Their only hope for escape

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Got your back: ‘Ghost Recon’ players attempt to recon an area behind enemy lines. ‘Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter” is only one of many games being released in time for spring break to appease eager Xbox 360 players. resides with the Ghosts.

The core game play of the “Ghost Recon” games hasn’t changed. It is still a slow paced tactical shooter. But the graphics have been revamped to take full effect of the Xbox 360. A new feature called the “cross-com” has also been introduced. It will feed the player intelligence about enemy troop movements and updates from your fellow ghost members.

The multiplayer feature will consist of 16 players over Microsoft’s Xbox LIVE gaming service. In a recent hands-on preview, IGN said the game has over 1,000 different options.

An extensive online coop campaign has also been implemented for the Xbox 360 version. “Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter” will be in stores Wednesday.

If shooting things is not your style, Electronic Arts has another way to blow stuff up. “Burnout Revenge” finally makes its way to the Xbox 360 console. It was originally released in September with stunning graphics and a fairly healthy online multiplayer gameplay.

Since then, Criterion Games, the developers of the acclaimed “Burnout” series, have been porting this racing legend to the Xbox 360. The graphics have been given a complete overhaul and full 720p high definition display has been implemented.

The multiplayer feature of “Burnout Revenge” has been completely redone to incorporate the “revenge” feature. If you tangle with a certain player enough times online, that player will become your rival. revenge feature promises to add

a completely new depth to the game. “Burnout Revenge” speeds onto store shelves Wednesday.

If you can pull yourself away from the television long enough to drive to your local game store, you can pick up the WWII shooter “The Outfit” which debuts March 15.

“The Outfit” puts you right into the middle of World War II against the Nazi war machine.

You assume the role of one of three different characters in the elite squad, the outfit.

Robert Patrick (“Terminator 2: Judgment Day”) offers his talents as voice actor for one of the characters.

“The Outfit” is a third person shooter and implements the “destruction on demand” feature.

Anything that is in the game can be blown up. You can also call in different weapons and

have them placed anywhere in the area. “The Outfit” has been compared to last year’s surprise hit “Mercenaries.” It looks like a cross between a Quentin Tarantino movie and World War II. If you were not able to get your hands on an Xbox 360, the EA title “Black” recently hit shelves. “Black” follows a soldier named Kellar as he recalls his past battles in Eastern Europe.

The main feature of “Black” is blowing stuff up with lots of guns. The game is very shallow and not worth more than a rental.

Gamers alike, gather round.

If your spring break looks to be glum, Microsoft has your back.

The next generation of gaming begins now.

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King asks: ‘Can you hear me now?’

By Kenny Scarle Collegian Staff

The first Stephen King book I ever read was “The Tommyknockers,” a sterling example of King’s ability to make the impossible possible, the surreal real. It was full of suspense, detail, mystery and, of course, murder.

I was instantly hooked.

King has since gone on to thrill me – and everyone else – with killer clowns, rabid dogs, a super flu and low men in yellow coats. He can take something as mundane as an industrial laundry machine, or someone as comforting as the milkman, and create a homicidal killer. That isn’t to discount the wonders he has done with vampires, werewolves and the other traditional villains of the horror genre.

And we love him for it.

With the completion of King’s “Dark Tower” series, there seems to have been little time for the Master of Horror to deliver a book worthy of that title. But now King has gone back to his roots – violence, danger and blood, vampires, ghosts, aliens and werewolves – with a twist.

Finally, “the zombie has shambled to the front of this line, as might have been expected,” wrote Janet Maslin in the New York Times. “What no one could have anticipated, however, was that the zombie would be clutching a cell phone.”

The Washington Post hailed “Cell,” as the “Great American Zombie Novel.” In it King delivers a fatal blow to society, condemning its enslavement to technology, with perhaps a slight warning attached.

King’s newest novel takes us on a journey into one of the more frightening possibilities in a technological-dependant society.

The protagonist, young comic book artist Clay Riddell, is walking happily in Boston, swinging his portfolio in one hand. Riddell has just sold his graphic novel “Dark Wanderer,” to Dark Horse Comics, and he is very excited. He even stops at an ice cream truck to treat himself, standing in line behind a pair of teenage girls and a woman with a poodle. The girls are sharing a cell phone as they wait, and the woman with the poodle is talking on her own. Clay does not own a cell phone. That is what saves him when “the pulse” comes crackling through the cell towers.

The woman closes her phone and tries to climb through the window of the Mister Softie truck to tear out the ice cream vendor’s throat.

When she fails, one of the girls rips out her throat instead, while the other backs away, half-mad and muttering. The poodle is run over by a careening limo, and down the block a businessman bites the ear off a Labrador retriever. Riddell doesn’t understand what is happening, although he knows it is nothing

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Life is Sweet on the Edge of a Razor Southern Plains Indian Museum will feature Comanche artist Cynthia Clay in a solo exhibition of painting, drawing and bronze sculpture. The opening reception for the exhibit will be held at 4 p.m. Feb. 19. For more information call 405.247.6221 Seniors exhibit art work The work of 16 CU art students is on exhibit through April 2 at the Museum of the Great Plains, 601 NW Ferris. This annual event gives graduating students the opportunity to show their work and prepare them for the art profession.

good.

But we know.

We know that all of the cell phone users in Boston, and maybe around us Ca m p K RT the world, have suddenly been transformed into crazed, carnivorous zombies.

A zombie is a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force, such as a Haitian voodoo curse. George A. Romero popularized the modern day zombie in his classic black-and-white film ,”Night of the Living Dead” (1968). That film influenced a whole generation of zombie-lovers and spawned numerous sequels and imitations. The problem with the traditional zombie is that one is infected with the “transmitting virus” by being bitten by an infected

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stop action books, introducing us to people we know, have met or are related to. It begins in the midst of the action, so we don’t have time to stop and think how ridiculous but scary the reality of this situation is. By Page Seven, the world has changed so dramatically we begin to think, “What would I do if this happened tomorrow?”

Filled with disturbing scenes of physical and emotional horror and with characters who immediately engage our compassion and sympathy, “Cell” is hard to put down once you pick it up. It reminds us of how tenuous our lives are when we acknowledge our reliance on technology.

The Seattle Times said, “With its atmosphere of dread, its underlying sarcasm about those enslaved to technology, and its finely rendered scenes of horrific violence and human compassion, “Cell” is another milestone for King and one of the first novels – genre or otherwise - to truly capture the tenor, at least so far, of the 21st

Stiff competition in Hollywood Is the suspense killing you?

I should think not, unless, of course, you actually believe there is a chance Tom Cruise will die in the upcoming “Mission Impossible III.” The winners of all but one of the major categories in Sunday’s 78th Annual Academy Awards are, according to everyone from Hollywood insiders to Las Vegas bookies to water cooler pundits, a lock.

Then again, locks can be picked. Just ask the thousands of people who drained their office Oscar pools in 1999 by checking off “Saving Private Ryan” for best picture instead of winner “Shakespeare in Love.”

In the past month, stories have appeared floating the theory that a “Brokeback Mountain” backlash has opened the door for “Crash,” given a boost by the racial-tension drama’s release on DVD. Conventional wisdom has it that Hollywood loves a horse race because it stirs up interest in its product. In truth, Hollywood has few horses in this year’s competition. Of the five best picture nominees, only “Munich” is a bona fide studio production, though “Brokeback Mountain,” “Capote,” and “Good Night, and Good Luck” were all distributed by studio designer-label divisions.

“Crash” was released by Lions

Goodbye and thanks for the laughs

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creature.

Not so in “Cell.”

King has very effectively used modern technology to create millions of zombies in less time than it takes to fill an ice cream cone. And when all the madness breaks out, what could be more natural for the survivors than to reach for their cells to call 911 to report that the kid next door is eating his mother.

Even though King’s monsters aren’t actually zombies, as they aren’t dead, this book definitely pays homage to George Romero.

These “phoners,” as they are eventually deemed, start to gain intelligence, developing a hive mind and a penchant for soft rock elevator music.

Did I say “intelligence?”

This is another of King’s non-

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Dennis Weaver (left): Weaver was best known for his role as Chester in the long running television show “Gunsmoke.” After “Gunsmoke” he went on to play detective McCloud in a series by the same name. His biggest Hollywood role was in the Spielberg thriller “Duel.” Weaver died of complications from cancer on Feb. 27 Don Knotts (center): Knotts played deputy Barney Fife in “The Andy Griffith Show.” He also starred in the fish story “The Incredible Mr. Limpet” and “The Apple Dumpling Gang.” Knotts died on Feb. 25 Darren McGavin (right): McGavin had the lead role in the short lived series “Kolchak: The Night Stalker.” He starred as Mr. Parker in “A Christmas Story.” McGavin died on Feb. 26.

Gate, a true independent.

Similarly, the only true movie stars – if you define a movie star as someone whose presence in a movie attracts ticket buyers – among the acting nominees are George Clooney (“Syriana”) and Reese Witherspoon (“Walk the Line” ).

While that reflects well on the Academy members who vote for the nominees, indicating that they champion art over commerce, it does not tend to excite the network executives and the producers of the telecast.

With few stars and no “Titanic”-type blockbusters on the docket, the ceremony might have benefited from some controversy.

But despite the best efforts to brand it the Gay Oscars on the backs of the cowboys-in-love drama “Brokeback Mountain,” the Truman Capote portrait “Capote “ and “Transamerica,” in which best actress nominee Felicity Huffman plays a pre-op transsexual, that dog didn’t really hunt outside of talk radio.

Still, the gay angle can be reliably depended upon as monologue fodder for first-time Oscar host Jon Stewart, and will probably not altogether displease advertising buyers who have long referred to the show as the Gay Super Bowl. To keep the game interesting, the annual Detroit Free Press Academy Award predictions will also include, in the major categories, the nominee that has the best shot at upsetting the Oscar cart.

My personal pick for Best Actress would be Keira Knightley as a feisty Elizabeth Bennet in

what may be the year’s classiest entertainment, “Pride & Prejudice.”

Joaquin Phoenix proved an excellent choice to play Johnny Cash in “Walk the Line,” but the film walked the line way too straight to do its subject justice. Heath Ledger also stepped outside his Hollywood box to break a few hearts as the inarticulate but faithful-inhis-own-way Ennis del Mar in “Brokeback Mountain.” Terrence Howard was able to turn a Memphis pimp into someone to admire in “Hustle & Flow,” but as enlightened as some Academy Awards may be, they’re not there yet.

Steven Spielberg got his umpteenth nomination for showing up with “Munich”; Woody Allen (“Match Point”) and David Cronenberg (“A History of Violence”) were more deserving of his slot. Paul Haggis was more of an efficient traffic cop than auteur helming his script for “Crash,” but what Bennett Miller did with “Capote” will undoubtedly make for the kind of career that will see him competing here again.

Forget what I just said. If “Good Night, and Good Luck” or “Munich” should end up winning this Oscar, it will not only be a shocker, it will be perceived as some sort of setback to gay acceptance. On the other hand, if “Capote” should win, it would only mean the voters honestly believed it was worthy of the honor, which it is.

— Terry Lawson Detroit Free Press

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Aggies take No. 4 seed slot in the LSC playoffs CU Sports Information Courtney Lee’s career-high 21 points paced a West Texas A&M offense that shot better than 50 percent from the field on Tuesday night in openinground action in the Lone Star Conference championships.

The result put an end to the Cameron women’s basketball season, as the 17th-ranked Lady Buffs rolled into the LSC semifinals with a 93-61 win over the Lady Aggies. Cameron finished the season with an overall record of 15-13, while WTAMU improved to 25-3.

Lee, who also set a career-high by going 5-of-5 from three-point range in the game, led a group of four Lady Buff players in double-figures Tuesday night.

LSC scoring leader Emily Brister added 20 points, while LSC field goal percentage leader Alicia Saunders went 7-of-8 from the floor and scored 16. Natalie Wheeler chipped in 12 for West Texas A&M, which entered the postseason ranked No. 2 in the South Central Region.

Cameron, the No. 10 team in the region, got 12 points each from senior Melissa Steen and sophomore Ciara Carroll. Senior Brittany Cooksey finished with 10 points.

Coach Dick Halterman’s Lady Aggies fell behind early in the game and never led.

Cameron shot just 24.2 percent from the floor in the first half and finished the game with a shooting percentage of 31.3.

West Texas A&M raced to a 49-28 halftime lead thanks to a 51.6 shooting mark before intermission, including a sizzling 8-of-11 from three-point range.

The Lady Buffs tacked on a 3-of-5 effort from behind the arc in the second half, finishing the game 68.8 percent on trey attempts.

Tuesday’s game started sloppily, with both teams combining for 2-of-12 shooting and nine turnovers in the first four minutes. But after Steen’s free throws pulled Cameron to within four at 8-4 with 15:09 left in the half, the Lady Buffs launched a 15-4 run to take a

15-point lead midway through the opening period. WTAMU extended its advantage to as many as 24 before the break, using a 17-2 advantage in points off turnovers to pull away.

Cameron cut the lead to 18 on two occasions in the second half. Carroll’s three-pointer with 15:47 to play made it 59-41 and Linda Brown converted a lay-up at the 13:29 mark to pull the Lady Aggies within 62-44.

But the Lady Buffs answered Cameron’s final charge with a 170 run over the next four minutes, with Lee accounting for eight of those points on a pair of treys and two free throws. WTAMU’s 35-point lead dipped to 27 twice in the closing minutes, but the Lady Buffs led by 35 again in the final seconds before Brittni Peacock’s three-pointer at the buzzer put the final points of the season on the board for the Lady Aggies.

Tuesday’s contest was the final game in a Cameron uniform for five Lady Aggie seniors: Linda Brown, Joneatta Brown, Cooksey, Steen and Katie Stoll.

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Steen posts up: Senior Melissa Steen posts up against the Lady Buffs; Steen led Cameron’s squad with 12 points and 9 boards.

CU bids good luck to senior basketball players

By Christina Frye Collegian Staff Of the many students who will graduate from Cameron this year, eight dominant basketball players

from the CU men’s and women’s basketball programs will certainly be missed.

Aggie seniors are : #54 Jonetta Brown, #5 Kalaan Brown, #11 Linda Brown, #15 Brittany Cooksey,

#Eric Moore, #33 Melissa Steen, and #24 Katie Stoll and #21 Arthur Trousdell.

Coach Maurice Leitzke, currently in charge of the men’s program said that not only are the seniors

excellent basketball players, but they ware also outstanding students.

“Kalaan Brown is a very versatile player who will be missed. He is an outstanding defender, who will be hard to replace.”

“Moore is an extremely hard worker, and his commitment to the team will be missed.”

“Trousdell is an excellent player, and is just as good of a person,” Leitske said.

Men’s coach resigns Aggies basketball season ends CU Sports Information

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Cameron University men’s basketball coach Garrette Mantle resigned Thursday, school officials announced. Assistant coach Maury Leitzke will assume operational duties with the program as a nationwide search to fill the coaching vacancy begins immediately.

“It has been a pleasure to coach at this level and to coach in what I feel is the most competitive NCAA Division II conference in the nation in the Lone Star Conference,” Mantle said. “I’ve had great experiences not only with the kids who have come through our program and graduated from Cameron University, but also with the many outstanding coaches in this conference who I’ve had the opportunity to learn from and grow professionally by coaching against them.”

Mantle completed his seventh season at the helm of the Aggie program this week.

He compiled a record of 71-114 (.384), including leading the team to its first winning season since 1998, last year. Over the last two seasons, Mantle’s squads posted a 27-27 mark.

“We are very appreciative of Coach Mantle’s dedication and efforts during his tenure as head basketball coach at Cameron University,” Athletic Director Jim

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“It has been a pleasure to coach at this level. ” — Coach Mantle Jackson said. “During his seven years at Cameron he has impacted the lives of countless students in a positive manner and we wish him well in his future endeavors.”

Cameron concluded the 2005-06 season on Wednesday, dropping an 82-80 overtime decision to Texas A&MCommerce. The Aggies finished with an overall record of 12-15, including 2-10 in Lone Star Conference North Division play.

Cameron lost eight of its last nine games by a combined 34 points, an average of just 4.25 points per game.

A season of almosts and could-have-beens ended with another heartbreaking finish for the Cameron University men’s basketball team Feb. 22. The Aggies dropped their third overtime contest in conference play this season, losing 82-80 at Texas A&MCommerce.

It was an ironic finish to the 2005-06 season for the Aggies, who lost eight of their last nine games by an average of 4.25 points. Cameron also lost its third overtime in conference play this year, including two to the Lions.

Wednesday’s game bore a striking similarity to the last time these two teams met in Lawton on Feb. 1. In that game, the Aggies held a six-point halftime lead and could only watch as A&M-Commerce erased an 11-point deficit in the final 45 seconds of regulation to go on to the overtime win. This time, the Aggies were up by four at the break and again allowed a Lion bucket in the closing seconds of regulation to force an extra period.

Arthur Trousdell, who finished his career on an outstanding note with game highs in both points (32) and rebounds (12), looked to have put a dramatic final touch to his standout Aggie career near the end of the game.

With the Lions nursing a 73-72 lead following Lamar Searight’s free throw with 46 seconds remaining, Trousdell put the Aggies in front on a three-pointer with just 20 ticks left on the clock.

But Texas A&M-Commerce inbounded the ball and Martel Jones found his way into the lane for what would have been a game-tying layup. The shot fell off the mark, but with five seconds remaining in the game, Chris Fantroy collected the rebound and got the putback for the Lions to knot the score.

In the overtime period, Trousdell tied the game at 80-80 on a putback off a Matt Reid missed threepointer, but Searight gave the Lions the victory with a layup with :02 showing on the clock. The Aggies

had a final chance to win or send the game to a second overtime, but couldn’t get a shot off before the final buzzer.

Cameron led the entire first half, stretching the lead to as many as 13 late in the period on a pair of Kalaan Brown free throws that made it 40-27 with just over four minutes before intermission. But the Aggies went the final 5:45 of the half without a field goal and A&M-Commerce closed the period on a 9-0 run to cut the Cameron lead to 40-36 at the break.

The loss was the final career game for Cameron seniors Trousdell, Brown and Eric Moore.

Intramural 3-on-3 action

By Christina Frye Collegian Staff The 3-on-3 men’s basketball tournament ended with team Caliente on top. Caliente barely topped Category 5, but pulled off the win with a final score of 16-14.

Caliente’s team consisted of Justin Harris, Alex Castro, Travis White, Aaron Jamal, Jordan Lee and Monta Wiley.

Caliente won the game with a last-second gamewinning shot put up by Harris.

The team, Unsigned Height, took first for the season, but was eliminated in the tournament playoffs.

The next scheduled action for intramural sports is the 5-on-5 basketball league play. Rosters are due to Maurice Mayfield, Fitness Center coordinator and intramural director, no later than March 8.

“We encourage more teams/players to sign up for intramural activities, especially co-ed and staffmember teams,” Mayfield said.

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Leadership key to reaching championship

By James Norris

News Writing Student Leadership, intelligence and class are three words that describe senior and three-year starter for the Cameron Aggie baseball team’s John Herbert.

Herbert’s ability to express these attributes out on the diamond is something head coach Todd Holland said is key when it comes to playing in such a tough conference as the Lone Star Conference.

“He brings a lot of intelligence in playing in the Lone Star Conference,” Holland said. “He knows what to bring day-in and day-out.”

Herbert’s leadership, intelligence and class are nothing new to those who know him. He said it’s just something that runs in the family.

“I started t-ball around 4 or 5,” he said. “My brother and dad were ballplayers, and I just followed suit. Both my parents and my brother were real supportive of me playing in college.”

Support from the family continued for Herbert as he traveled to Texas to participate in the Connie Mack League after high school to better perfect his skills, and possibly get signed to play ball in college.

“After my senior year in high school, they let me go to Burkburnett and spend the summer,” Herbert said, “I played for the Black Sox in 82 games and it got me a scholarship to Vernon Junior College in Vernon, Texas.”

Herbert is not the only former Chaparral to appear on the Aggies roster. Others include junior pitcher Art Gonzalez and senior outfielder Greg Patton. Having the ability to play ball with these guys through college

is something Herbert says has made his collegiate experience astonishing.

“I’m just used to playing with those guys,” he said.

“We all became good friends, and this being my last year it’s pretty exciting to have guys on my team I’ve been friends with for four years.”

As one of the premier power hitters for the Aggies this season, hitting .314 with seven runs batted in, and a team leading five doubles it was just a matter of time before Herbert found this power.

“Early off I kind of started off slow, those four games versus West Texas A&M (Feb. 24-25), I saw the ball very well, and hit very well.”

In the series versus West Texas A&M Herbert went 6 for 14 with five runs batted in, something Todd Holland says was what the Aggies needed.

“Herbert usually is a slow starter but gets hot as the season progresses,” Holland said, “Hitting is contagious. Once one guy starts hitting everyone usually follows.”

As for Herbert, individual accolades are great but for him the season is more about the team.

“Team-wise, I feel we can make it to the Lone Star Conference tournament,” he said. “Making it to the conference tournament opens up the playoffs for you.

We’ll take it one step at a time and not get too far ahead of ourselves, but I think winning the conference tournament would be a great accomplishment.”

With the “team first” attitude, it’s not hard to see the leadership, intelligence and class exhibited by Herbert, three qualities he expects to use as he finishes up his senior year en route to helping the Aggies reach the Lone Star Conference tournament.

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A natural leader: Herbert’s leadership on the playing field makes him a stand out, according to Coach Holland.

Baseball: Aggies sweep West Texas A&M CU Sports Information

Cameron pitchers combined to allow just one earned run on Saturday as the Aggies completed a four-game sweep of West Texas A&M at Cameron’s McCord Field.

Coach Todd Holland’s squad won by scores of 6-0 and 6-1, improving to 5-6 on the young season. Aggie hitters tallied 15 hits and helped force four West Texas A&M errors on the day, as Cameron ran its record to 5-1 over

the past six games.

Kacy Groves turned in a stellar effort on the mound for the Aggies in Game 1 Saturday. The Odessa, Texas, senior recorded his third complete game of the season while pitching Cameron’s first shutout of the year. Groves allowed just three hits in the game, two of which came in the second inning. He struck out five and walked three.

The Aggie offense, meanwhile, produced six runs on seven hits while also capitalizing on three West Texas A&M errors.

Cameron got on the board with an RBI single by Blake Hughes in the third and made it 3-0 in the fourth, scoring two runs when WTAMU pitcher Jessie Rodriquez overthrew third base on a force-out attempt.

Cameron put the game out of reach in the sixth with three more runs. Run-scoring singles by Josh Mathiesen, Josh Price and Hughes highlighted a four-hit attack for the Aggies in the inning.

In the nightcap, the Aggies again got on top early, scoring two

runs in the first on a sacrifice fly

by B.J. Cole and John Herbert’s solo homer over the right field wall. West Texas A&M plated its only run of the day in the top of the second on an RBI single

by Matt Ray, but the Aggies answered with three more runs in the bottom half of the inning to take command. Cameron manufactured the runs off two hits, an error, two wild pitches and a hit batter to go up 5-1.

Greg Patton singled in a run in the bottom of the third to round

out the scoring in the game.

Ryan Totte (1-0) and Ryan Bengert combined to scatter seven WTAMU hits on the mound.

Totte lasted 5 2/3 innings and struck out one. Bengert allowed just one hit in 1 1/3 innings.

Cameron returns to the road next week, traveling to Stephenville, Texas, for a fourgame weekend series with Tarleton State beginning Friday.

The Aggies return home to host Texas A&M-Kingsville on March 10.

NBA Allstar game - East wins - LeBron James titled MVP

By Sam Smith KRT News Wire

And now back to your regularly scheduled season.

Mercifully.

Yes, some of us are getting so jaded about this NBA All-Star weekend extravaganza, corporate marketing fair – including the players for most of the evening – that we may prefer curling.

Our hair.

“It’s not the NBA Finals; it’s not even a regular-season game,” NBA Commissioner David Stern counseled the morose among us. “It’s the All-Star Game; it’s a celebration of talent, speed, grace. Let’s have some fun.”

Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant found something funny eight minutes into the game when Bryant dribbled around and between his legs and around O’Neal and spun past Dwyane Wade for a basket.

Bryant and O’Neal then shared a laugh as they talked. It was surprising Beyonce didn’t break into a verse of “Kumbaya.”

Perhaps equally surprising was the players, apparently recovered after halftime from their late Saturday night activities, began playing a basketball game, which became pretty entertaining at times.

Especially at the end – the NBA hates this “watch only the last two minutes” stuff – when Miami’s Wade put back an Allen Iverson miss. What else?

And then LeBron James, who became the youngest MVP in All-Star Game history at 21, took on West leading scorer Tracy McGrady, blocking McGrady’s attempt to tie the game and then

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Slam dunk: Phoenix Sun’s Shawn Marion sails towards the basket with a slam dunk in the game. knocking the ball away from Bryant to preserve the 122-120 East victory.

The East has an overall 34-21 edge.

It seemed appropriate when Vince Carter streaked away with that last loose ball for a break-away reverse dunk ... that he rammed off the back of the rim.

Oh, well. It was good for a laugh.

Actually, that’s what these things

are supposed to be about.

“This is the All-Star Game, man,” said McGrady, who had 36 points, six fewer than the all-time record set

by Wilt Chamberlain. “You want to see threes, alley-oops. Shaq tries to give you flashes every now and then, but he’s rusty. Tim (Duncan)? It’s really no excitement in throwing the ball to them down there.”

No one was laughing much at the start as hangover seemed more likely than hang time as the East fell behind by 21 points and 70-53 at halftime. But James, who has set just about every “youngest” record in NBA history, had 13 third-quarter points, hitting 5 of 6 shots to rally the East to within 97-94.

From there it was a game with

the West players going to hometown star McGrady to try to get him the MVP. He had 10 fourth-quarter points. A 20-footer by Bryant with 32 seconds left tied it 120-120 before Wade’s follow and James’ defense – yes All-Star Game defense, remember the Pistons had four players – won it.

“I got a piece of his arm and a piece of the ball,” James explained. “I guess it was a great defensive play.

“Individual accolades, it doesn’t mean anything to me. I’ve always felt when the team is successful, individual accolades come.”

His Cavs have been in playoff position in February the last two seasons only for the self-proclaimed King James to draw the joker.

“A team from the East is going to win the title,” the Pacers’ Jermaine O’Neal predicted, with some prejudice. “I look at the standings and it’s like you have three or four really good teams. Detroit and Miami in the East, and we’re trying to find ourselves. You have Dallas and San Antonio in the West, and everyone else is basically playing the season out. If I had to pick a team now, I’d say Detroit.”

Which doesn’t exactly make Rasheed Wallace happy.

“Keep us on the back-burner,” Wallace said. “We won’t lose our swagger at all, because when you put that food on the back-burner, it’s just simmering, and it tastes better.

When you got that food on the front burner, that’s the one you’re paying attention to the most, and that’s the one that might burn. We’re on that back-burner.”

Yes, it was All-Star weekend and nobody could have explained it better.

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The Back Page New community services co-ed fraternity seeks members

OTAG funds available for pick up The first disbursement of the Oklahoma Tuition Aid Grant has been received and is available for students to pick up at the cashier’s window in the Administration Building beginning today.

Applicants sought for health careers program The University of Oklahoma Health Services Center is accepting applications for its 2006 Headlands Indian Health Careers Program. The program will be held June 4 – July 29 on the OU Norman campus. American Indian high school seniors and freshmen college students interested in pursuing a career in the health professions are encouraged to apply.

Travel, lodging and meal expenses will be provided for each student accepted into the program. Applications are available at www.headlands.ouhsc.edu or call 405.271.2250. The deadline for applications is March 15.

RELAY continued from page 1 been affected by cancer.

“The event runs from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m.,” Bowen said.

“This symbolizes the course of events for a person just finding out they have cancer. From sunset, which is the ‘diagnosis,’ to the eventual sunrise, which is the ‘light at the end of the journey,’ it really is a touching process.”

This year’s Relay For Life will begin at 7 p.m. on June 23-24 at the Eisenhower High School track. For more information on how to start a team, call Jennifer Bowen at 353.8145.

FIELD TRIP continued from page 1 Students took approximately three hours to explore the house and grounds before they returned to the bus and left for dinner.

After they were fed, the students made their way to the prime event of the evening, a lecture from a guest speaker at Tulsa University, Jane Smiley.

Students were given a free, signed copy of Smiley’s new book “Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel,” and were escorted to a reserved section near the front of the stage where they listened intently as Smiley read selected passages from her book, answered questions from a TU professor and then took questions from the crowd.

Smiley was quick to start her lecture on a light note.

“Before I get started, I want to show off my boots,” she said as she stepped in front of the podium and wiggled the red leather pair before the applauding crowd.

Smiley addressed many aspects concerning the role of novelists in the modern world.

“A serious fiction writer has to offer some idea about what things mean, otherwise he won’t be taken seriously, but novelists are mainly interested in the rising action,” she said.

Smiley went on about novel theory.

“So that’s the paradox; you have to come up with [novel creation] theory to get from Page One to Page 500,” she said, “and yet the theory that you worked so hard to come up with is entirely evanescence.”

Hensley enjoyed Smiley’s approach to fiction.

“My favorite thing about her was how down to earth and practical she was about her craft,” she said.

“She didn’t go on about some elaborate muse, but instead made it sound like hard, satisfying work.”

After Smiley answered some questions from audience members, she posed for a quick photo with Cameron students.

Cameron students returned to campus after midnight.

Community services co-ed fraternity Alpha Phi Omega will host a barbecue and outdoor concert from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 22 in front of the Sciences Complex. Donations are requested. and will go to the CU centennial fund and the Salvation Army. Contact Kenzie Claunch at 678.7492. for more information.

Student organization forming Latter-Day Saints Student Association will have their first meeting at noon Wednesday. Interested students may call Elder Jackson or Elder Pett at 354.9043.

March 6, 2006

CALVING continued from page 1 “Calving is actually kind of a hands-off approach. The cow will have its calf, you’ll put an ear tag in, and that’s about it, unless there’s some kind of problem,” he said.

White said sometimes the cow just needs to be made comfortable, and other times they actually need to help the calf come out if it’s breeched.

“We have chains that we can hook onto the front legs to actually pull the calf out if it reaches that point,” he said.

He said that there is a certain way this procedure is performed so that the calf is not harmed.

“How you put the chains on is critical,” he said.

“Heifers who have their first calf can be more difficult

because they’re still growing and they have a smaller birth canal, so that’s where the majority of problems will be,” White said.

According to White, calving season is an effective tool for agriculture students.

“We can demonstrate proper technique,” he said. “Our herd really gives them a hands-on experience. Lots of our students are either interested in applied agriculture or already have a farm or ranch to go to after they’re done.”

White said the agriculture department will acquire ultrasound equipment in the future, which will be used, among other things, to detect pregnancy.