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Monday, October 27, 2008
Events TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE On Nov. 18, stand-up comedian/actor B.J. Novak will be performing on campus. Tickets are available to students at Student Activities, Community Relations, One Stop Shop and Cashier. Tickets will be made available to the general public on Nov. 5.
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Cameron Art: Forty years and counting.
Volume 83 Issue 8
Bradley: ‘Impossible is possible’ By Joshua Rouse Collegian Staff Do the impossible and do the impossible well. James Bradley, author of The New York Times best-seller Flags of our Fathers hammered that point home Tuesday night at the Cameron University Theatre. In front of a packed house of Cameron students, veterans and men and women of all ages, Bradley delivered a speech telling everyone that the impossible is always possible. “The geniuses said it was impossible to get boys on Iwo Jima,” Bradley said. “And after the deaths of 6,824 of those boys, the impossible became possible.” Bradley’s first book, Flags of our Fathers, told the story of the six men who raised the American flag on Iwo Jima and who were immortalized by one photograph taking by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal. His father, John Bradley, was one of the six men who raised the flag and one of the three survivors who made it back home. “When I look at the photo, it brings up doing the impossible to me,” he said. Being a son of one of the six men who raised the American flag in the most reproduced photo of all time, Bradley knew very little about what happened on that island in February 1945. Everything he knew about the battle came from reading up on it in textbooks and encyclopedias. Even his mother, who was married to the man for more than 40 years, never knew what happened. “Everything that my mother knows today she learned from me,” Bradley said. “After Dad died, we were going through some of his stuff and found a box of letters that Dad wrote while he was deployed.” Those letters inspired Bradley to seek out other survivors and family members of Iwo Jima veterans. After years of researching and calling these families, Bradley was faced with telling a story to the world for the first time. But because it was such a pivotal event in the nation’s history, he was overwhelmed. “I originally thought about writing a book, but I wasn’t a writer and I immediately dismissed that. I was thinking I was dead before I even started,” he said. “But I came back to it. And I thought about it. And I knew that this picture was going to be on the cover of the book. So I had to write a really good book.” Bradley was determined to write a New York Times best-seller. He called his mother and told her his idea. Bradley said she told him in a nice way that perhaps some of the people in her neighborhood would buy the book.
Photo by Jim Horinek
The storyteller: James Bradley is the author of the New York Times Best Seller Flags of Our Fathers. Bradley spoke at CU on Oct. 21. The story: John Bradley, James Bradley’s father, returns home as a hero. John Bradley was one of the men who raised the flag during the battle of Iwo Jima.
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CU Forensics opens season at good pace
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Photo courtesy of Daniel Schabot
CU Women’s Golf is a force to be reckoned with. SEE PAGE 6
The team: (Left to right; back to front) Pierre Liburd, Jordan Scribner, Jordan Howell, Jacob Pahcheka, Bhupendra Acharya, Javon Southwell, Lamod McFadden, Tabetha Kautzman.
Cameron University’s forensics team gained valuable experience in two recent tournaments under the guidance of Daniel Schabot, CU Director of Forensics. On Oct. 10, Schabot and an eight-member debate team traveled to Bethel College in North Newton, Kan. for the Sunflower-Sooner Swing tournament, where seven of the team members attended their first college tournament. The CU team competed against more than 20 colleges, including the University of Nebraska and the University of Oklahoma. Freshman Communications major Tabetha Kautzman of Marlow and her partner, freshman
psychology major Jordan Howell of Lawton, finished with a 3-2 record in Parliamentary debate. Although they failed to advance to the elimination stage of the tournament on a tie breaker, Kautzman stated that the “debate was an amazing experience.” Communications majors Jacob Pahcheka of Walters and Lamod McFadden of Phoenix, Ariz., also competed. Pahcheka believes that “his life experience helps give him an edge against younger teams.” According to Schabot, Cameron has one of the most diverse teams in the country.
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The Foam Arts Courtyard
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The costume conundrum.
On the night of Oct. 21 an unknown person put soap in the water of the Fine Arts Courtyard Fountain. Although the action resulted in a large mess, several students were able to make light of the situation.
In the mix: On the night of the incident Criminal Justice junior Daniel Brown got completely foamed.
A college moment: Justin Payne, Pre-Nursing sophomore, and freshman Biology major Brock Cowen emerse themselves in the “foament.”
Kicks: Once the group of CU students realized what they found, shoes went flying as they made their way into the foam. Photos by Jim Horinek