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Monday, October 7, 2019
Volume 101 Issue 4
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Informing the community: Sophomore Interdisciplinary studies major Jessica Moore speaks with representatives for the Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services’ (DRS) Vocational Rehabilitation Offices. DRS was one of many local organizations presenting information about the services they provide at the Disability Awareness Resource Fair.
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With Love Therapy Dogs, Inc, a Lawton-based therapy dog provider. Managing Editor Dr. Jennifer Pruchnicki, Director @YoureSoVanya of Student Development at Cameron University, spoke about the On Oct. 1 in the McMahon importance of having all of these Centennial Complex lobby, the Office various organizations present their of Student Development hosted their services under one roof. annual Disability Awareness Resource “Instead of maybe hunting down Fair. resources,” Pruchnicki said. “We’re The fair consisted of a number of hoping this event gives them easier booths featuring presentations from access to a lot of information about various groups within the community what’s available.” and state devoted to offering aid to The event, hosted on the Cameron students and community members Campus, is both open to and oriented suffering from disabilities. toward the entire Lawton Community, The services offered by the featuring services not just for organizations at the fair covered college students who may be in need a varied range of possible needs, of assistance, but for anyone who from legal services offered by the may need assistance, such as those Oklahoma Disability Law Center, to attempting to apply for jobs with a assistance with the college application disability, or those disabled on the job process provided by the Office of and seeking compensation. Student Support Services at Cameron, Pruchnicki said the importance of to therapy dogs provided by Paws having the fair be open to the public,
rather than only oriented to Cameron students. “We open this event to the public because we think that it’s helpful to have all these different agencies under one roof,” Pruchnicki said. “So they’re not having to do the footwork or make a bunch of phone calls.” Pruchnicki also spoke about the importance of spreading awareness of available services to people with disabilities to people who may not be disabled. “I think it’s not so much ‘If’ you get a disability, it’s ‘when,’” Pruchnickie said. “Many of us will be impacted at some point where accessablility becomes an issue, so as we age, we’re going to need some of these resources.” Some of the organizations at the fair presented there for the first time, including Aaragon Chiropractic and Decompression Clinic, who were offering free adjustments and
massages to attendees. Pruchnicki was excited about Aaragon Chiropractic’s involvement at the fair. “They’ve been able to offer some adjustments for students and participants,” Pruchnicki said. “I just did one, and not only do I feel adjusted, I feel like my whole attitude is better.” Another fairly new addition to the fair was the Paws With Love Therapy Dogs, Inc. presentation, featuring a service dog named Handsome Rob, who students and participants could interact with. Their presentation comes ahead of plans for service dogs to be on campus more often throughout the semester. Students who feel the need to alleviate stress will be able to find these therapy dogs between 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. on Oct. 8 and 22, then again on Nov. 12 and 26. in the North Shepler Tower, fourth floor, room 431.
Storm and stress: Dr. Whang plays Beethoven “I couldn’t decide whether I was going to play them in order or if I was Staff Writer going to, kind of, bounce around a little bit,” she said. “Ultimately, I decided At 7:30 p.m., on Sept. 19, in the to perform them out of order because Cameron University Theater, Professor some of the earlier ones were very of Music and McMahon Endowed choppy and not that easy to listen to.” Chair in Music Hyunsoon Whang The event began with Whang performed three of Beethoven’s welcoming the guests and then invited sonatas. them to experience the journey through As with all of Cameron’s events, Beethoven’s life as she performed. the performance was free to students. She started her performance with The event was the first of Whang’s Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 2 No. performances as she would like to play 1, which she described as some of the entirety of Beethoven’s thirty-two Beethoven’s harder to listen to work sonatas. because he wrote it at such a young During her performance, Whang age and was still learning from other spoke both on her career and composers. Beethoven’s life through the timeline Whang described Beethoven’s of each sonata. work as revolutionary and insisted
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that all musical compositions should be divided into two eras: before Beethoven and after Beethoven. After performing the first four movements in the first sonata, Whang stood up and bowed to the audience’s applause. She spoke again on her next piece, Sonata No. 10 in G Major, Op. 14 No. 2, which was her second piece of the night. “By the time Beethoven wrote his tenth sonata, he was between the ages of eleven and fifteen,” Whang said. “He had already begun complaining about his hearing loss as well by this time. He would not let this hinder his ability to continue to compose, though.” The end of intermission brought the final performance for the evening, in
which Whang performed Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57, also known as the “Appassionata.” English Professor Dr. John Morris was also in attendance at the performance. He has enjoyed Beethoven’s music for quite some time, and he was especially excited to be sitting in the front row during Sonata number twenty-three. “I could see Dr. Whang concentrating, the storm and stress of the piece washing over her at times like a great tide,” Morris said. “I have always found Dr. Whang’s playing to be delicate, precise, and sensitive.” For more information about Cameron’s upcoming musical performances and events, go to www. cameron.edu/music/calender.
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