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CU Tree Lighting Celebration

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receive a ticket.

Inside the McMahon Centennial Assistant Editor Complex, organizers set up craft tables From 6-8 p.m., Dec. 5, in the Bentley for visitors to make two different crafts.

The Cameron Computering and Garden, Cameron University held the Technology department provided a Annual Tree Lighting ceremony.

Candy Cane Coding craft table.

Ole Kim, dressed in a Santa Visitors wrote their names on costume, stood by the Bentley Garden a card provided at the table, pond to exchange high fives with and then filled in visitors before the tree lighting. the binary code Campus Life employees walked that coincided with around with boxes filled Cameron each letter of their University ornaments and gave them names. to visitors before the lighting and Visitors then throughout the night. received a red Festivities began with the Cameron or white pipe Choir singing traditional Christmas cleaner and a songs in front of the tree. container of The Dean of students and Ole Kim beads. hit the button to light the tree at 6:30 The p.m. as the choir sang “We wish you a red beads Merry Christmas.”

After the tree lighting, carriage rides represented the began and ran until 8:30 p.m. number This year, carriage rides had a one in different system than previous years; binary any person who wanted to ride the code carriage had to have a ticket to board.

Visitors could not get multiple tickets for family members or friends that were elsewhere; prospective carriage riders had to be present to

while the white beads represented zero.

Visitors spelled out their names in binary code on the pipe cleaner to make it look like a candy cane.

The two other tables had foam frames, markers, crayons and stickers for guests to decorate the frames.

The frames had a piece of ribbon at the top for the owners to hangup after they decorated them.

Visitors were encouraged go upstairs and take pictures with Ole Kim to put in their frames, which could then be hung as ornaments.

Sodexo provided catering for the event, which included food and holiday treats,

upstairs in the McCasland ballroom.

They set up two tables featuring popcorn of three different flavors: chocolate, butter and cheddar.

Another table featured various types of Rice Krispie treats.

Sodexo also provided a hot chocolate station, a coffee station and water station.

Also featured at the event were two s’mores stations, with volunteers present at the stations to help children with their snack construction.

Sodexo set up a cookie decorating craft station in the middle of the ballroom for visitors to decorate a gingerbread cookie with icing, marshmallows, colorful cereal and sprinkles.

At 7 p.m. the Cameron Choir sang more Christmas songs in the McCasland Ballroom while visitors enjoyed treats and warm beverages.

In the Buddy Green room, attendees enjoyed entertainment in the form of virtual reality headsets.

From 6:30-7:30 p.m., Ole Kim posed for pictures with visitors in front of the Christmas tree.

For more information about Cameron’s Tree Lighting, contact Campus life at (580) 581-2219.

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Photo by Stacie Larsem Final Countdown: At 11:30 a.m., on Nov. 21, students got advice about preparing for finals and enjoyed complimentary food from Taco Beuno at the Center for Academic Success. Students learned about resources for studying and were able to schedule appointments for tutoring.

Connect through learning

Prepping for finals with lunch Brittany Otero Copy Editor

At 11:30 a.m., on Nov. 21, the CU Center for Academic Success sponsored a prep for finals lunch in Room 1008 of Nance Boyer.

The event gave students an opportunity to share study strategies, see tips based on learning type, make appointments with Cameron tutors and have free food from Taco Bueno.

Director of the Center for Academic Success Leisha Estep said she always tries

to find ways to support Cameron students.

“This is the second year we’ve done the prep for finals lunch,” she said. “We wanted to find something to connect with students on a larger scale around finals. That seems to be the time students need the most support.”

Estep said that study skills can be improved and built upon; events such as prep lunch can help students find and focus on their strengths.

“We believe being prepared is the key for a successful end of the semester,” Estep said.

“so we’re trying to take different cultural approaches — trying to connect students who realize there are other people on campus who learn and process information in a very similar way that they do.”

Estep acknowledged students’ schedules and said she wanted the lunch to be flexible for them.

“We understand that it’s a busy part of the semester,” Estep said. “so it’s not something that students are going to feel like they have to spend an hour on. They can spend some time

here quickly in between classes.”

Estep also said that Cameron does well with offering a variety of resources.

“Sometimes, in the hustle and bustle of the semester, students forget that those things are there,” Estep said.

“What I hope is that students can try to get more connected with the resources at Cameron now, but to also use them in the semesters to come.

“While they’re here,” Estep said. “they could get any information they can on study tips; but also make appointments

with our tutors to work with them as we lead up into finals.”

Estep encouraged students to reflect on their learning styles as an advantage and keep that in mind while moving forward.

Graphic Design freshman Austin Rivera said he enjoyed the studying tips.

“It feels pretty good,” Rivera said. “The advice they give on the cards is actually pretty useful, especially since they divide it up by learning types.”

Rivera said the resources helped him feel

a little more comfortable dealing with finals stress; however, he would have preferred Taco Bell for lunch instead.

The Center for Academic Success offers assistance for all Cameron students.

Center staff can help with general tutoring, computer literacy, study skills, time management skills and test preparation strategies.

For more information about the CU Center for Academic Success as well as info about other campus resources, contact Leisha Estep at (580) 581-5911.

Debate Team Throwdown

Cameron Christmas Classic

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Up for debate: From Dec. 6 - 9 Cameron played host to a multitude of other universities from Oklahoma and Texas for the return of the annual Cameron Christmas Classic debate competition. Participants tackled political topics such as the effects of impeaching President Trump and U.S. Government involvment in Mexican drug cartels.

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A toast to lowering liquor laws Amanda King

Voices Editor the_amandaking As with many prevalent social issues, American laws regarding the legal drinking age have been slow to catch up with the rest of the world.

In the United States, it is not legally allowed for anybody to drink alcohol until they are 21 years old. This is the highest collective drinking age around the globe.

According to CNN, the majority of nations have legal drinking ages concentrated from 1820, and while a few — like the U.S — require a higher age, many others are set even lower.

Some even have no age restrictions at all.

In the United Kingdom — and most of Europe — the minimum drinking age is 18; however, countries such as Italy, Germany and the Netherlands set the age as low as 16, as per the World Health Organization.

In Slovenia, you can drink alcohol at 15 — the lowest legal age worldwide. Likewise, African countries allows alcohol consumption either at 18 or have no set age.

Meanwhile, the only countries that require people to be 21 to purchase, sell and/or consume alcohol are Indonesia, Micronesia, Palau … ... and the United States.

Why? Why, when nearly everywhere else it is legal for you to consume alcohol when you become a legal adult, does the United States require you to be 21?

To start, the biggest argument against lowering the drinking age is that doing so would increase reckless behavior — such as drunk driving, violence and alcohol poisoning, all of which would pose obvious threats.

Another concern is that it would give high schoolers access to alcohol, and many believe that

teenagers in America are just not responsible enough to handle alcohol consumption during that period in their lives.

Although, this argument raises a bigger issue of why American teenagers are seen as so much more immature and careless than other countries, especially considering statistics do not necessarily support this widespread assumption.

While the U.S. is ranked average on the World Health Organization’s list of disabilities due to alcohol consumption, its percentage is equal to that of almost all western European countries and Canada — where the drinking age is 18.

It is even equal to that of China, where there is no minimum drinking age at all.

In any case, why are people so positive that dangerous outcomes will occur if the minimum drinking age is lowered?

The drinking age has never been set at 18 in America, so how can anyone say definitively that lowering it would produce bad outcomes if it’s never even been tested?

In fact, problems stemming from alcohol consumption would likely decrease if young adults were allowed to drink legally at a younger age, and thus gain a better understanding of alcohol’s effects.

If young adults could experiment at home, under supervision, they might not have so many problems stemming from alcohol after they reach 21, when most are out on their own in the world.

This is, of course, assuming young adults don’t consume alcohol before they’re 21 — which, let’s be honest, is extremely rare.

The statistics are overwhelming: The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism reports that by 15 years old, 33 percent of Americans have had at least one drink; by 18, it jumps to 60 percent.

People under 21 consume 11 percent of the U.S.’s total alcohol consumption; And while the adult population still consumes more total alcohol, when young people drink, 90 percent of the time it is binge drinking.

So, clearly, the law does not stop people under 21 from consuming alcohol — it just gives them more reason to do careless things to hide it.

The other big, compelling argument to keep the drinking age high involves health concerns raised by alcohol.

Numerous studies have shown that alcohol can interfere with brain development, cause crippling

addiction, and/or other detrimental health effects.

Naturally, people are worried that harmful medical conditions such as these could result from allowing young adults to drink at a younger age.

However, according to the World Health Organization, drinking patterns among youths in western Europe are less detrimental than those in America.

This can be attributed to the fact that European youths are taught how to handle alcohol from a younger age and, thus, are less prone to engage is dangerous drinking habits.

Moreover, western Europe and Africa both had less alcohol-related deaths than the U.S. in 2018.

So how, with such evidence to the contrary, are people in America still so insistent that young adults cannot possibly handle alcohol before they are 21?

If you can enlist, go to war and die for your country at 18, why can’t you drink alcohol?

Surely we can all agree that picking up a loaded weapon and using it to kill another living person takes more maturity and responsibility than sipping a glass of wine.

If you can buy a gun at 18, why can’t you drink alcohol?

If you can get married, adopt a child and vote for the President of the United States at 18, why can’t you drink alcohol?

America needs to catch up to the rest of the world.

Keep in mind that the U.S. is also one of the only economically advanced countries that tried to ban alcohol altogether in the twentieth century.

The ban did wonders for the glamourization of the 1920s, but was woefully ineffective — just as the current age minimum for drinking alcohol is at preventing harmful consequences.

Children drank ale with dinner only centuries ago. Sure, cars and clubs weren’t around to pose a threat, nor were adverse health effects known.

But just as such things have evolved with the times, so too should our liquor laws.

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Making a comeback

Men’s basketball takes first win David Perkins

keep up with the Broncos at the beginning of the game Sports Editor but fell 16 points behind by the end of the first half.

At 3 p.m., on Nov. 30, The second half would in the Aggie Gym, the Cameron men’s basketball see the Aggies overcome the double-digit deficit to team won their first game surge past the Broncos and of the season 71-73, after take the lead in a nail-biting making a second-half finish. comeback against the The Aggies have University of Central struggled to finish on Oklahoma.

The Aggies were able to top this year and are still

reeling from early season injuries of key players.

Cameron head coach Andrew Brown said the team has been working on making adjustments based on new team members.

“It changed who we were a little bit,” Brown said. “So we’ve made adjustments to make sure that what we’re doing fits with the personnel we are

putting on the court.

“In the last two games, those adjustments have really kicked in, and really, we should have won both games.”

Brown said the team is still finding their identity defensively and getting better at closing out games offensively.

“We’ve got a number of guys who can go out

and get a basket when we need one,” Brown said.

“We just need to make sure everybody is on the same page when we close out games.”

Cameron guard Tyler Williams helped lead the team to victory with a season-high of 19 points in the game.

Williams feels the team is improving with every

game.

“This season, we started off a little slow, but every game has been getting closer and closer,” Williams said.

“In this game, we pulled it out and now we just want to keep moving forward from here on.”

For more information about CU men’s basketball, visit cameronaggies.com.

Aggies fall to SWOSU David Perkins Sports Editor

At 1 p.m., Nov. 27, at the Aggie Gym, the Cameron women’s basketball team fell to Southwestern Oklahoma State University (SWOSU) 92-67.

The Aggies were able to hang with SWOSU for the first two quarters but fell short in the second half.

Cameron played strong defense in the first quarter, holding SWOSU to only 15 points while answering back with 17 points.

The Bulldogs picked up the pace offensively in the second quarter, outscoring the Aggies by four points and picking up a two point lead at the end of the first half.

In the second half, SWOSU shifted gears and took a lead that Cameron could not overcome.

Cameron head coach Emma Andrews said that it was small mistakes and mental lapses that contributed to the loss.

“We started turning over and things went wrong,” Andrews said, “with every mistake, it begins to trickle down.”

Andrews said part of the problem this year is that the roster consists of a young, inexperienced team that is still learning to play together.

Andrews is optimistic about the future of the season though, as they focus on team building.

“We’re just so young and so many new faces we’re just trying to put it all together,” Andrews said.

“We have a new offense, a new defense and seven new kids that play a lot of minutes.

That’s a ton of changes, and we’re trying to get it all to

click.”

Freshman guard and forward Stephanie Peterson was Cameron’s points leader for the game.

She said that the biggest issue for the team is learning how to play as well in the second half as they did in the first half.

“I think, right now, our biggest issue is we can’t put four quarters together. We play well for two or three quarters but have trouble finishing,” Peterson said. “It’s promising, though, because we can build off of those two quarters.”

Wednesday’s game was the final game of a tough nonconference season. The lady Aggies will be competing in Lone Star Conference play from now through February.

For more information about CU women’s basketball, visit cameronaggies.com.

Photos by David Perkins

Tough matchup: (Above) Cameron freshman guard Kami Porter goes for a lay-up. (Left) Cameron freshman guard Maighan Hedge fights her way down court. Hedge is the current team leader in points this season.

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REVIEW:

The ins and outs of ‘Sword’ and ‘Shield’ Cam Alsbrook Assistant Editor

Be advised: this review will contain slight spoilers of the story and some of the features of the game.

“Pokémon Sword” and “Pokémon Shield,” (SWSH) is the newest installment in the Pokémon (Pocket Monsters) video game franchise Game Freak.

SWSH is the eighth generation of the Pokémon franchise and offers a slew of new creatures for the player to catch, fight and trade with friends, family and online players.

As a standalone title, the game delivers nicely for first-time players, boasting a well-done soundtrack, quality of life enhancements to make transitioning into the competitive scene easier and plenty of options for player customization to allow a more personal experience through the game’s visually charming Galar region.

Inspiration and references from Britain abound in the Galar region, ranging from architecture, music, fashion trends and even some of the Pokémon players interact with.

The landscapes for the game match the style of the series and make scenery worth the time spent playing through the storyline, providing something new to appreciate at each stop.

The designs of the newly added Pokémon are amazing, offering something for all players to find and love, and the higher tier legendary Pokémon featured on the box art have interesting backstories that, unfortunately, are not touched on as much as fans hoped.

With all these positives, the few negatives the game has are rather glaring.

Game Freak always takes one step forward and two steps back when it comes to innovating and reshaping each installment in the series, and SWSH seems to have suffered the worst in the series for this reshaping.

They removed a large chunk of Pokémon available in previous

generations to make graphics more fine-tuned. Conflict and tension in the Pokémon community spiked heavily with Japanese players not finding out until shortly before the release of the game.

After SWSH’s release, Game Freak ended up admitting that the graphics carried over from Pokémon were reused from the previous game on the Nintendo 3DS, Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon.

Instead of SWSH being the strong upgrade and defining culmination of over 20 years of Pokémon that fans were hoping for, SWSH dropped the ball as a next generation installment due to issues such as the lack of interaction between player characters and Pokémon and the lack of a Global Trade Station.

Players cannot communicate with other trainers unless they initially meet on social media platforms in forums or private messaging — or if two real life acquaintances communicate.

The game’s story has the player character traveling through the Galar region, with frequent run-ins with the rival Pokémon trainer protagonist, Hop. Both have the goal of dethroning the renowned champion of the region, Leon, by taking part in gym challenges, ultimately competing against the best in the region through the Champion Cup and along the way learning about the region’s history.

Gym challenges are check-point fights through the region that serve as testing grounds for a team of Pokémon. Upon completion of a gym, a gym leader bestows a badge and sends the player on their merry way.

The problem with this is that the story revolves around the completion of challenges above all else and places events on the road toward the next gym.

This makes the game dialogue heavy — even for Role Playing Game standards — and holds the players’ hands for a majority of the story.

The other issue is that through the new feature of battling tall, towering Pokémon in raids, players can easily acquire materials needed to over-level/equip their Pokémon to make gym challenges a cakewalk.

The problem with the game’s story is that it holds players’ hands and punishes players for choosing to make the game harder by not participating in raids.

The hand-holding accompanies forced and unavoidable interactions with poor Hop, where the character challenges the player almost every single time to fight their team of Pokémon.

Hop is a well-designed

character, but he does not contribute to the story as he should have, namely because developers were seemingly adamant on forcing Hop to fight the player at every turn.

Hop’s initial goal is to beat his brother, Leon, but at the end of the story, he decides he wants to focus on being a professor of Pokémon rather than being a champion-level trainer.

After the player defeats Leon, the player and Hop meet the only two badly designed and written characters in SWSH: Sordward and Shielbert.

These two characters, when boiled down, are a trapdoor into more hand-

holding and provide players with frustrating dialogue for the game’s post-game story, bullying Hop and calling themselves Galar’s rightful kings.

At the climax of the post-game story, Hop and the player defeat Sordward and Shielbert and tame both legendary Pokémon.

After all is said and done, players are rewarded with free reigns through — compared to past games — the linear, rather short roaded, Galar region.

The content available for players after the story is fun to replay; players can take full advantage of creating powerful teams or filling up information on the Pokédex (Pokémon Database) to completion.

Players can also enjoy a revitalized competitive mode with new items to cause effects in battles, an extreme mode of battling versus AI in the Battle Tower, and the ability to cook curry with friends to feed bands of Pokémon.

Despite the flaws, as a series installment, the game gives firsttime players a warm introduction into the world of Pokémon and Pokémon battling and boasts post-story replayability and a beautiful soundtrack.

As a part of the series,

“Pokémon Sword” and “Pokémon Shield” ranks a 6.5 – 7 on a scale of 1 to 10, and as a standalone title without the value and features of previous games weighing it down, it goes up to a

solid 8/10.

Game Freak left fans of the series wanting more out of SWSH, but when they did right, they did an amazing job.

If Game Freak would stop taking two steps back in production and capitalize on well-received features of past games, fans very well may see one of the most popular game series of all time soar even higher.

Graphics by Lea Killian

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Biology Club goes to the zoo

Photos by Stacie Larsen

Talking about animals: (Bottom Left) Oklahoma City Zoo Lead Program Animal Caretaker Andrea Brenner (center left) addresses CU Biology club members during their annual trip to the zoo on Nov. 23. Biology Club President Ariana Hull (left) leads the clubmembers as they listen and learn about the zoo inhabitants.

Equating math and music Xavier McClure Staff Writer

Photo by Kimb Frey

Brewing the Tea: Journalism and Media Production Senior Alexis Hagen (left) directs the “Tea Time with Stephanie” crew.

Learning Opportunities

“Tea Time with Stephanie” Kimb Frey Copy Editor

At 4 p.m., on most Mondays, Journalism and Media Production (JRMP) students gather to produce the CUTV show “Tea Time.”

Hosted by JRMP senior Stephanie Roberts, “Tea Time with Stephanie” covers a broad spectrum of popular culture news, from a celebrity’s new Instagram account to Uno releasing cards for blind people.

Roberts said she heard that if a student worked on one of the CUTV shows already in production, such as “Film Geek,” “Game Time” or “For the Record with Justin Rose,” then they might have the opportunity to direct or host their own show.

“I worked on all three of them the whole semester,” Roberts said. “Dr. Jenkins was like, ‘Hey, would you like a show? Would you like to direct or host a show?’ and I was like, ‘I would love to host a show!’”

Roberts knew that the experience she’d get as a show host would be helpful in her pursuit of becoming a video editor for TV shows or movies.

“I produce the whole show,” Roberts said. “I write the scripts, all the graphics, all the editing. So, if I think an episode is really good, I can put it in my portfolio. This is something I can use. I like to have it, to be like, ‘Look, I can do more than just edit. I can host.

I can produce. I can sort-of direct, if

you need me to.’ So, it’s kind of good to have that versatility because people really like that.”

However, Roberts also relies on a whole crew of students for the final product.

JRMP junior Alexis Hagen directs “Tea Time with Stephanie.”

She said it’s her job to reign in the chaos of creating a show.

“As the director,” Hagen said, “I am the person in the control room who basically calls out the shots. I am kindof like captain of the ship. You have to order people around.”

Hagen said she would like to direct at a major TV studio someday but will probably start out at a local news station.

She said her experiences at CUTV should help her get there, especially since she must be familiar with all the roles involved in TV production.

Hagen also said that all students are welcome to participate in CUTV productions.

“I don’t think people realize that just because you’re not a JRMP major, doesn’t mean you can’t work on the shows,” she said. “Dr. Jenkins announces it to everyone in his classes, including his Principles of Communication, which is a Gen. Ed. everyone has to take. Anyone can come in and can learn about these art forms and experience that firsthand. Not everyone has access to a TV studio. We do.”

At 3:30 p.m., Nov. 18, in Burch Hall, room B026, Dr. Mehmet Aktas gave a presentation over a topological approach to classifying Turkish Makam music, based on his original work.

Aktas is an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Central Oklahoma.

He came to Cameron to show his work on classifying Turkish Makams. A Makam is a series of cords and scales used in Turkish classical and folk music.

Each Makam is special and unique in structure and development.

Aktas’s main goal was to classify the Makams using their notes and mapping them out in what’s called a “frechet function.”

This allows for extreme value distribution, meaning it can map out the broad ranges of notes that a Makam can have.

Aktas found the best way to map out and classify the broad range of Turkish Makams.

“We used mathematical network science and computer science methods to find a way to distinguish different music,” he said. “Music is usually a complex structure.

We have notes. We have a relation of notes, and I realized network

representation of music is really helpful to see those relations.”

Aktas said even though some mathematical equations seem out of place in sequencing and organizing music, they had an impactful role in his research.

“Applying heat diffusion, which may look really very abstract at the beginning, to classify music is kind-of a cool idea,” Aktas said. “Trying to find how heat diffusion in music network and that information is really helpful to distinguish music, which shows although some mathematical concepts may look kind of abstract in the beginning, it can be really very useful in some application problems.”

Aktas is not the first to try to classify music, but he said he is the first to have a complex model and to represent and encode the structure in the music classification problem.

“They all just used some basic information on each song,” Aktas said, “for example, they just count the number of notes depending on each song, and they just use those types of

information.

“They didn’t have really a nice complex model.”

Aktas doesn’t know if he plans to use this research on other types of music.

He had his most recent paper on Turkish Makams published and is curious on what more he can do.

“I’m really curious about applying this method to music types, especially in western music,” He said. “For example, can we classify jazz music and classical music by just looking at patterns also?”

Aktas has expanded toward text-based classifications and network structure, whether it’s an essay or a book in terms of subject and publishing.

He said he has experienced success in that area as well.

“Whenever we have an essay or a book,” Aktas said, “they may have some different topics, different subjects, so you can also classify texts in terms of subjects, in terms of their published value.”

Even though this was the last math seminar for the fall semester, they will continue in the spring and meet at 3:30 p.m. every third Tuesday of the month in Burch Hall room B026 with refreshments served beforehand.

For more information about the Math Seminars, go to www.cameron.edu/ math/cu-math-seminarseries.