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they walked in a parade. Eventually, it turned into a costume mascot, then it went away with football, and then it came back in 2004 and has had a few transitions.” Flood said Ole Kim looks different since he has aged. “He’s trying his mustache a bit different,” Flood said, “and he’s been working out, so he looks a little buffer. He now has a pic axe, which is safe. It got it cleared through campus safety and everything.” Flood said he and Josh Lehman primarily
more native to Oklahoma now. “He looks nice,” Simpson said. “The mustache—it’s cool to me.” Simpson believes Ole Kim is important to the university because he is a motivator. “He’s the type of person,” she said, “aside from like standing on the base lines for basketball season or volleyball season, that’ll go up to people in the crowds and just play with the kids.” Simpson said Ole Kim attended cheer and dance camp with her and the other members of the Cameron Spirit team this summer. Her favorite memory with Ole Kim occurred at camp. “We were working on hitch kicks,” she said, “and when Ole Kim tried to do a hitch kick, his boot fell off, and we all just started laughing at him. It was really funny. I like how he always tries to do new things. He’s very outgoing.” According to Flood, Ole Kim will hopefully be around campus more in the next few weeks, so students can see him. “Ole Kim really likes meeting new friends,” Flood said. “Ole Kim has a new handshake. He’ll teach it to you if you don’t know it…then you’re automatically included in the best friend circle.” As far as friends go, Ole Kim’s true best friend is up for worked with a company to design debate. Ole Kim’s new look, and Ole Kim’s costume received “I don’t necessarily like to brag,” Flood said, “but I’m approving remarks from Zeak Nafieh, Jim Jackson and pretty sure Ole Kim and I are pretty much best friends. I President McArthur. would say that there are certain people on campus who might “I love the change,” Flood said. “I think it looks a little have me beat a little…Cody [Garner] probably has me beat.” more collegiate mascot-like…He looks more like a person Although Ole Kim does not speak verbally, he still enjoys who’s ready to go to work.” hobbies, many of which Cameron students might also enjoy. Ole Kim’s fresh style has also received compliments from Cameron students themselves. Freshman biology major Sarea Simpson, who is a dancer on the Cameron Spirit team, said Ole Kim looks Page 2
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He’s a Cameron tradition. He’s the spirit of athletics and academics alike. He is known to walk the halls with every freshmen and the stage with every graduate. He’s Cameron’s mascot. He’s Ole Kim. After a transformation over the summer, Ole Kim is back—and he is better than ever. At 50 years old, he rocks suspenders, a big smile and a fine mustache. Coach Flood, the Cameron Spirit Team head coach and the strength and conditioning coach, said Ole Kim is the face of the university and a representation of the student body. “Traditionally,” Flood said, “Ole Kim started as somebody putting a paper mache head that was supposed to be on a float on a person, and
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Broadcast lab switches to digital high definition Krista Pylant
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Students in the Academic Commons broadcast lab welcomed the addition of new studio equipment over the summer to complete a transition to digital production. Previously, students in the lab recorded shows in standard definition using a tape deck, but with the installation of three new 1080i Sony studio cameras and corresponding pedestals, students can now produce and export high resolution digital programs. George Weaver, a sophomore journalism and media production major, said he was ecstatic to hear about the new equipment. “First, Dr. Jenkins told me we were switching to HD,” Weaver said. “Then
Graphic by Vicky Smith when he said we were getting these brand new cameras and equipment in the actual control room itself, I’ve never been more excited. It was like Christmas.” Weaver said the new equipment is indicative of what he will use when he transitions to a career in broadcast after graduation.
“If I want to go to KSWO, this is the type of stuff that they use out there at Channel 7 news,” Weaver said. “They would see that I know how to work all of the newer equipment and HD cameras, and I might potentially be much better suited than somebody working with older equipment.” Communication professor Dr. Matt Jenkins said he is pleased with the new equipment and looks forward to the experience his students will gain working with the modernized devices. “The cameras will increase the picture quality and bring
us up to the level of broadcast quality TV stations and production houses have throughout the United States,” Jenkins said. “It’s a cutting edge facility.” Jenkins noted the general operation of the cameras is no different from the previous cameras; however, the crew is still working to calibrate the machines to the studio. “The new cameras are much more sensitive to our state of the art LED lighting system,” Jenkins said. “We are finding that we need to take more time to adjust the lighting to achieve appropriate skin tones. It just gives us a terrific image, and it has completed the studio.” The broadcast
lab is used by journalism and media production students who create and publish content for shows like CU News, Film Geek, Hot Button and Game Time. According to Jenkins, broadcast students are pleased with the flexibility and features of the new cameras. “In fact,” Jenkins said, “with Game Time they’ve really done a lot to beef up
their show by adding more to the graphics. They are paying attention to other things that appear on screen.” Makenzie Burk and Haley Swinford continue their tenure on Game Time, and Chidy Chyk and Temilade Adelusi return to Hot Button for another season. Alexsis Page and Haley Berry take over Film Geek and Morgan Thompson is the new producer of CU News.
Photos by Krista Pylant Operating digital equipment: (Left) George Weaver adjusts the tilt lock on the new 1080i Sony studio camera. (Right) Jeff Larson, the video production manager, teaches Katy Dayhoff (sitting) and Sarah Huntley (standing) how to run the switcher. Prior to the new equipment, students in the lab recorded shows in standard defintion.
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OLE KIM continued from Page 1 Flood said some of Ole Kim’s favorite things to do include “attending class, riding buffalos in the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge, digging for gold [and] finding gold.” When Ole Kim is not studying his favorite subject, agriculture, Flood said he can be found eating a Meer’s burger, dancing to Silento’s “Watch Me” or clapping to his favorite song, “Cameron Fight.” For students who would like to dress like Ole Kim, just purchase clothes that are his favorite colors, black and gold. “He has 17 different ones of just straight gold shirts, pants and a bunch of suspenders,” Flood said. When the holidays roll around, Ole Kim will be present to celebrate with Cameron students. “He does the tree lighting,” Flood said. “He really likes that time of year. He is a U.S. army veteran, so he really likes Veteran’s Day…He used to serve on the U.S. Calvary when they had horses. That’s why he’s a got a little low-legged walk.” Above it all – the pic axe, the “Cameron Fight” song and even gold – Flood said Ole Kim’s favorite part about being Ole Kim is “every win he gets to support at and every graduation that he gets to see students walk across the stage.”
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Ole Kim’s new handshake with CU Spirit Coach Ryan Flood
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Photos by Vicky Smith Shaking it up: Coach Ryan Flood said he is one of Ole Kim’s best friends. If you follow the steps above to learn the handshake, you might become one of Ole Kim’s best friends! Ole Kim will even do the hand shake with you on campus.
CU Succeeds offers students introductory workshops Tyla Eakins
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Cameron University is starting theacademic year off with several CU succeed workshops designed to help students do well as they enter a new semester. Workshops include topics such as “How to get good grades in college” and “Domestic violence awareness.” Karen Hardin, Cameron University Assistant Professor of Organizational Leadership, urged students at the “Communicating with your professor workshop” to participate in classes. “You do communicate with your professor in classes,” Hardin said.
“You will see less in less of what we call the ‘sage on the stage’, you make an impression on your professor by how much you participate.” Hardin empathized with students just starting out. “I was a little bit naïve,” Said Hardin, who as a freshman told her advisor she wanted to take forty hours her first semester because “that’s what I took in high school.” Hardin voiced her frustrations over cell phones in the class room and student’s attempts to multitask by being on cell phones and listening in class simultaneously. One student disagreed with Hardin’s theory. Hardin proved to the student multitasking is inefficient by asking the student to recite letters A-J which
took six seconds, and then had her insert numbers 1-10 between each corresponding letter which took twenty seconds. Once she realized they could not do the latter as quickly as the former, she agreed. Hardin stressed email etiquette. “You’re not talking to a buddy,” said Hardin. “Mr., Mrs. and Ms. are not always appropriate. Look on your syllabus for their title.” However, not every situation should be handled through email. “Be brief if you have pages worth of rant,” Hardin said. “That’s something that should be done face to face. Do not compose an email out of anger it’s never going to help and all you’ve done is put it in writing and kept a hard copy of all of that even if the professor
is wrong it is not beneficial to write in anger. “ Hardin knows professors are not infallible but wants students to take responsibility. “Understand professors are erroneous,” Hardin said. “They can make mistakes, so be patient with them like they are with you. We don’t want to care more about your grade than you do.” Hardin said she wants students to focus more on learning than grades. “Don’t say I need to get an A,” she said. “We get it, ultimately it is about the grade and the diploma, and you want that degree to get a better job. That degree is a piece of paper that you can buy on the internet; what we care about is everything that led up to
that. We want you to learn and think.” Cameron University Senior Tonya Jordan attended the communicating with your professor workshop and found out about the CU Succeed workshop through Aggie Access. She feels the workshops are helpful, especially for freshman. Jordan said, as a senior, she’s more confident now and plans on attending more of this year’s CU Succeed workshops. “This is my first time returning to Cameron in 22 years,” said Jordan. “I came here in ‘92 and this is my first time coming back in 22 years.” Jordan said she didn’t realize until attending the workshop how easy it is to communicate with Cameron professors.
Fall alumni progressive dinner
Photos by Krista Pylant Cameron alumni and friends: The Cameron University Alumni Association promotes the goals and purpose of Cameron University, to encourage a continuing and increasing interest in the University among graduates and former friends, while fostering good fellowship through information and education.
Dear Aggie: Overwhelmed freshman
Dear Aggie,
4. Keep track of your grades, especially in online classes. It can be What are your top 10 tips for easy to lose track of where you stand incoming freshman? in a class, and if you are unsure, ask Sincerely, Overwhelmed your professor. 5. Take notes. Not Dear Overwhelmed, mental notes, but actual, Being a freshman is an exciting legible notes that you can yet sometimes daunting part of the consult when you study. college experience. 6. Go to class. With By following these 10 tips, your newfound freedom freshman year will fly by. from high school, it may be 1. Get a planner. This will help temping to cut class, but you get all of those quiz and exam don’t. Professors have a dates in perspective. large amount of material 2. If you have questions, ask! to cover in a short amount of Your professors are there to help time, and professors expect you and want you to succeed. you to be there. Asking informed questions helps 7. Be involved. As you may you stand out and helps other have noticed, Cameron has students in the class understand many organizations to choose also. from, join one of these. It will 3. Make time to study. I know help make college fun and help with all the things to do on campus you stay on track. you may find it difficult, but you 8. Show up on time. have to study to do well in class. Walking into a class late
could result in an angry professor, annoyed classmates and half of an absence. Enough tardies will result in an administrative withdrawal or a failing grade. 9. Be healthy. The freshman 15 is real. Try parking farther away from classes and try some of the healthier food options on campus. 10. Relax. I know with a busy schedule it can be hard to remember, but take the time to breathe. By following these tips, freshman year will be a breeze.
Sincerely, Aggie
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SGA weekly Brandon Clark A&E Editor
@Brandon_writing The Student Government Association began their meeting on Aug. 31, by welcoming guest speaker Frank Myers, the Associate Director of Alumni Relations. Myers spoke to SGA about a new initiative that he is bringing to Cameron University, the Student Alumni Association. The Student Alumni Association is a group that could bring students and Alumni closer together. “This organization will allow students to join the CU Alumni Association,” Myers said. “It will also allow us to facilitate interactions between current students and alumni.” Following Myers, Vice-President Kelly High motioned the body to approve President Nikki Kirk’s choices for Parliamentarian Eugenie Chang and Sergeant at Arms Robert McCoy. The governing body approved both appointees without objection. The SGA will take a break Sept. 7 to observe Labor day before reconvening at 5:15 pm. on Sept. 14. For more information about SGA visit on Facebook, email cusga@ cameron.edu or visit the SGA office on the second f loor of the MCC.
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Cameron’s new therapy dog Tyla Eakins
Student Life Editor @Tyla_Eakins Therapy dogs Bo and Lily are eager to greet Cameron University students, faculty and staff. Lily, a great Pyrenees, and Bo, a schnauzer, will be making their rounds around campus as the summer heat comes to an end. Doreen Thomas, Cameron’s Student Support Services Director, wants the dogs to be comfortable with the campus environment. “Usually when it starts cooling down I’ll start to walk them around campus so students can pet them,” Thomas said, “but it’s pretty hot right now for Lily to be out there.” One of the main things Thomas wants students to know is that there is a difference between therapy dogs and service dogs. “A lot of students think these two are service dogs,” Thomas said. “Students know not to pet the service dogs. I’m trying to let students know this is the difference.” The Americans with Disabilities Act defines service dogs as any guide dog, signal dog or other animal that is trained to provide assistance to an individual with a disability. These dogs are usually trained for specific tasks in aiding an individual with disabilities. Therapy dogs are dogs trained to provide relief and relaxation through comfort and friendliness and are available to everyone. Doreen Thomas has her own definition of what a therapy dog is. “I describe a therapy dog as an animal that brings sunshine into a room,’’ Thomas said, “and when I go into a classroom, a hospital or a nursing home, the first thing I see are people’s faces, and they instantly bring smiles.” Even though Lily and Bo are at Cameron University at least two days a week, they don’t get as much traffic as Thomas would like. “The students in the student support services program know the dogs are here,” Thomas said. “I’m trying to open it up more to where other students on campus know about the dogs.” Psychology freshman Jordan Kuipers who knows about therapy dogs was unaware about Lily and Bo’s presence at Cameron. “Whenever you experience a lot of loss, they can give you one to deal with
depression,” Kuipers said. “Depending on someone’s mindset, they could be a very big tool.” Bo, Cameron’s newest therapy dog, is recovering from a loss of his own. “Bo belonged to a friend of mine, who had bone cancer and she passed away two years ago in November,” Thomas said. “No one in her family wanted to take Bo, and I put myself in that situation. If something was to happen to me, I would hope someone would take my dogs and take care of them for me. I went ahead and made Bo part of my family.” Cameron freshman Photo by Tyla Eakins Michael King A new face on campus: (Right) Bo joins (Left) Lily and Student Support Services Director said he doesn’t have a reason to Doreen Thomas on their mission to reduce student stress as Cameron University begins its Fall 2015 visit a therapy semester. Bo can be found with the rest of the SSS staff on the fourth floor of North Shepler. dog, but he also doesn’t have a reason not to. King argued because they’re stressed or homesick, and functioning in the last 12 months due to a large dog may be intimidating to some he’ll go up to them and put his head in their depression, and almost half said they felt students, but Thomas has already taken lap, or he will go up to them and give them overwhelming anxiety. that factor into account. his paw or touch them.” “I would like to have more students come Thomas said Lily startles some students Thomas said people often just don’t up during stressful times and just kind of because of her size, but she is more laid realize the therapy dogs can provide. visit with the dogs,” Thomas said. “I’ve seen back than her counterpart, Bo. “A lot of times it [interacting with a these guys do a lot of miraculous things.” “She’s a larger breed of dog,” Thomas therapy dog] does help a lot of people,” Any student faculty or staff can visit Bo. said. “A lot of students are frightened Thomas said. “They don’t see that “Students can stop by and see if they’re at first because she’s so big, and I think connection, but sometimes just petting an here or they can call,” Thomas said, “or if with her just laying down and not coming animal helps release that stress.” a student calls and says, ‘Hey look can you to them gives them a chance to kind of According to the 2013 National College bring the dogs on this certain day?” I’ll do measure her up and see that she’s not going Health Assessment, which examined data my best to bring them.” to hurt them or anything.” from 125,000 students from more than Lily and Bo are located in the office of “He [Bo] is the greeter,” she said. “I’ve 150 colleges and universities, about oneStudent Support Services on the fourth had students who have come up here crying third of U.S. college students had difficulty f loor of North Shepler in room 431.
Students selected for Wooden O Symposium Vicky Smith
O Symposium “invites Assistant Managing Editor panel and paper proposals on any topic related to @pinkwritinglady the text and performance of Shakespeare’s plays,” Seniors Nicholas Brush according to bard.org. and Zoie Timothy became Last spring, Brush and the first Cameron University Timothy enrolled in a course students to attend the called “Shakespeare,” taught Wooden O Symposium, by Dr. Hodgson, the chair which was held August 3-5 of the English department. at Southern Utah University Hodgson recommended that in Cedar City. Brush and Timothy submit Sponsored by the Utah their Shakespeare papers to Shakespeare Festival the symposium. and Southern Utah After submitting their University, the Wooden papers and receiving
acceptance, Brush and Timothy traveled to the Wooden O Symposium, where they recited their papers. Brush, a creative writing major, titled his paper “Queering Mercutio: Baz Luhrmann’s Textually Inaccurate Take on Romeo’s Best Friend.” Brush said in the 1996 film “Romeo and Juliet,” featuring Leonardo De Caprio and Claire Dane, the character Mercutio is portrayed as homosexual.
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Becoming Shakespeare scholars: Selected seniors discuss their Shakespeare papers with two other students on the undergraduate panel at the Wooden O Symposium. Zoie Timothy and Nick Brush traveled to Southern Utah University to recite their papers at the symposium.
“I thought that was a fantastic idea for the character,” Brush said, “but when I read a quote from the director who said the reason he did that is because it’s in the text and the play makes it very obvious, well no, it doesn’t.” Brush said overall, his paper was about the mischaracterization of Mercutio. “One of the biggest pieces of ‘evidence’ is there’s a line where a character named Tybalt tells Mercutio, ‘Thou consortest with Romeo,’” Brush said. “When we think of the word consort in our modern vocabulary, we usually have that being some kind of sexual relationship of some kind. “In the sixteenth century,” he said, “it more meant ‘to associate with’ [or] ‘to be friends with’…and just a simple glance at the Oxford English Dictionary shows us that the sexual connotation of that word didn’t really exist at the time the play was written.” Timothy, an English and business dual degree, titled her paper “A Tempest: The African Elements of Caliban’s Rehabilitation.” Timothy said she did a post-colonialist reading and a comparison between Shakespeare’s work and what happened to his work once post-colonial writers started to reinvent themselves using it. “I was researching ‘The
Tempest,’” Timothy said, “and this post-colonial writer [Amy Saziere] kept coming up who had done a rewritten version of it, so I looked into him. “Then, this whole other world opened up about what Caliban means and who he represents in this movement called Pan-Africanism that was big in the 1950s and how that affected the rewriting of the play and the perceptions of things that happened.” Timothy said she addresses why Saziere’s version of events is not quite objective enough. “He looked a lot at what it meant to Black populations in the Caribbean,” she said, “but those aren’t the only populations that lived in the Caribbean…[The paper looks] at why the PanAfricanism movement didn’t work out and how looking at Caliban can show that.” At the symposium, Brush and Timothy received 15 minutes to recite their papers; they both said they had to revise and edit their papers multiple times before presentation. Brush said he received help revising his paper from different professors in the English department, including Dr. Hall, Dr. Hodgson, Dr. Kinslow and Mr. Hooley. “Contrary to popular belief,” Brush said, “English majors don’t write it well
the first time…In terms of preparing for the class, it went through four revisions, and then for the symposium, I had to cut down about four and a half pages...I was working on it all throughout the summer.” After putting in hours of hard work in preparation for the symposium, Brush and Timothy both said the experience was rewarding. Timothy said one of the people who attended the undergraduate panel told her and Brush that he was really excited about the papers they wrote. “He felt like we were demanding that scholars consider works in the context of the time that they were written,” Timothy said. “I think that was a really big compliment because it meant that we were a part of a change…We had an impact on him and other people that attended.” Brush said he and Timothy can now submit their papers to “The Journal of the Wooden O Symposium,” an annual publication, in hopes of acceptance. “Even if my paper doesn’t get accepted for the journal,” Brush said, “ just being able to contribute to this body of research – it just really makes me feel good – and knowing that I’m actually pursuing the right track… writing, and literature and all that – this is what I’m meant to do.”
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Two journalists did the job right
Jacob Jardel Sports Editor
@JJardel_Writing “There are certain risks that come along with the title ‘ journalist’… [but] you cannot say murder was just one of the risks of their job.” Above are two lines from a personal column published in February titled “Putting a price on freedom of speech.” That opinion piece addressed the killing of 12 journalists from French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo. The news of the mass shooting caused an international stir, especially in the journalism community. Six months later, the community suffered more unrest, hitting reporters in the United States far too close to home. On Aug. 26, reporter Allison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward of WDBJ-TV in Roanoke, Vir., were out on live assignment
when a former colleague opened fire. There’s a video online of the incident, with the cameraman filming the surroundings as he pans toward Parker giving an interview. The rest happens in an instant – no words can describe the rest of the footage except for one detail. The last little bit of footage from the WDBJ broadcast was right after the cut back to the studio anchor. The look on her face sums up everything: anger, sadness, fear, shock and disbelief. Though the video stops at this point, the next few seconds were likely filled with stunned silence. What other reaction is there when you see your colleagues murdered on live television? The rest of the day consisted of a police manhunt for the gunman who later took his own life – but not before taking to social media to publicize the shooting and his filming of it. There were five casualties in this incident. Parker, Ward and the gunman all died at the receiving end of a bullet. Vicki Gardener, the woman Parker was interviewing, was in stable condition as of this writing. The other casualty was a community’s sense of normalcy. Ward’s fiancée was in the control room during the shooting. Parker’s colleague and significant other Chris Hurst tweeted about how he had went numb after the shooting occurred. Numerous family members felt crushed, to quote a statement from Parker’s family. Meanwhile, the journalism
world has been back and forth between continuing its job with bark skin and reacting in much the same way as the WDBJ anchor right after the shooting. Numerous media outlets have been digging deep to figure out the why and how of the shooting. They have been broadcasting the shooter’s tainted history in various news jobs along with his tweets and posts. His face on television screens nearly as often as Parker’s and Ward’s. But is that really how to cover the story? Two of our own were shot doing their jobs, with another innocent bystander caught in the fracas. Yes, it’s important to get some reasoning to give us all some form of closure. We also have a job to do – seek the truth and report it, according to the Courtesy of CNN Society of Professional Working with passion: Reporter Alison Parker (top) and cameraman Journalists (SPJ). Adam Ward (bottom) sport smiles on the job. Parker and Ward lost their Yet, there’s an odd lives on Aug. 26 at the hand of a former colleague while they were live on air. sense of emptiness to it when we point fingers community feel as if the gunman So as two families and the world at the shooter with the same finger exhibited many traits of doing the of journalism mourn the loss of we use to shed light on the victims. job the wrong way, and who’s to say Allison Parker and Adam Ward, That being said, the best way the community is correct or not? remember to do the job the right to honor Parker and Ward’s lives But, as we tied a bow on August, way – whatever that job may be – and memories is to continue doing we lost two people who were doing because tonight, we’re all live from our job the right way. Many in the it right. WBDJ Channel 7.
Choosing a direction at the intersection
Courtesy of Joel Frambes Fun times: Four-year old Joel (above) vacations with his family in Hawaii. Joel has been dating Tiffany (below) for two years now.
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I often think of Euclidean geometry for its beautiful, rigid simplicity. It is a sharply defined set of rules that explains a founding principle of mathematics through basic logic and common sense. Take for instance the concept of two lines on a plane and a particular point. At only one point will they be able to intersect before each continues on to infinity in different directions. Rather, you could also consider the opposite in which two lines on a plane never intersect and are considered parallel. It is the only situation in which both lines go on to infinity in the same direction. Either one line or the other will intersect a particular point. I think I’m on that particular point right now. For a while now, I’ve been following a path through education. I’m a senior now, and my college career at Cameron is drawing to a bittersweet close, which is coming all too soon. I’ll soon be taking the crucial steps toward attending grad school. It’s putting me at a crossroad in my life where the full-time, hourly job I’ve been holding to make ends meet and pay for school without taking out loans
other. This reality is not a parallel universe where both paths exist for me simultaneously. I can handle the job I have now and school and still be good at both, but I want to be great when it comes to these professional roles. I want to fully commit and focus myself to one or the other. Even though I know how I want to represent myself as a professional, I don’t know how to go about making such an important decision. Nobody is going to make it for me. My managers would be biased for me to be one of them. My professors would be biased for me to continue my higher education. Their opinions just void each others and leave me where I started. On the other hand, I have a wonderful support system that can help me make it through this tough Joel Frambes time. My loving family, awesome Copy Editor friends and wonderful girlfriend have @JoelPole12 all either been through this point in their own lives, or they’re at that is just as important to me as school. particular point now. I’ve worked hard and put in the long So I will make a decision. I will days there that demonstrate to my forge ahead on a path knowing that managers I have the potential to be I’ll be okay coming away from this one of them. particular struggle. I have faith that This is the point – that particular point – where the two paths intersect. everyone around me will help me be I don’t know whether I should pursue okay. But I won’t make that decision yet. graduate studies or become a manager. I’m still at that particular point in my There’s no way I could pursue them at the same time. After this particular life, and there’s some time left for me point, I can only be on one line or the here to find the right line.
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Left photo courtesy Katherine Liontas-Warren; right photo by Brandon Clark
A brushstroke at a time: (Left) “Creek by Quanah Parker Lake” by professor Katherine Liontas-Warren is one of the pieces displayed at the Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors in Old Forge, New York. (Right) Liontas-Warren poses with one of her original pieces. Her work will be on display from Aug. 8 to Oct. 4.
Professor’s art displays in New York Brandon Clark A&E Editor
@brandon_writing Artwork by professor of art Katherine Liontas-Warren is on display from Aug. 8 to Oct. 4 at the Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors in Old Forge, NY. When Liontas-Warren started her undergraduate work, she intended to be a scientific illustrator.Her mentor Keith Hatcher, talked her into coming to see an exhibition of lithography art. “He took me downstairs, and I fell in love,” LiontasWarren said. “I said, ‘Oh my gosh! What have I been missing?’” Liontas-Warren began working at Cameron University in 1984, starting as a visiting artist before getting a more permanent role with the school. “The next year, Cameron offered three more years,”
Liontas-Warren said. “They dropped that title, and I was given the title of instructor.” Liontas-Warren has since moved up from instructor to associate professor to her current standing as a full professor. Watercolors have become her primary medium in recent years. “My whole view of art has changed in the past eight to ten years,” Liontas-Warren said. “I like to do more paintings outside, and watercolors allow you to work faster.” Liontas-Warren has done numerous plein air painting which is French for “in the open air.” Plein air refers to painting outdoors in order to catch the essence of the landscape depicted in the art. According to Liontas-Warren, the ambience of the environment has provided her with more than artistic inspiration. “I like to respond to the sounds, the air,” Liontas-Warren said. “We all grow up, and I feel like I just have a connection more outdoors now.”
Liontas-Warren received the Oklahoma Governor’s Art and Education Award in Oklahoma City in 2014. She has also won Artist of the Year by the Paseo Art Association in Oklahoma City, among other awards for her artwork. Regardless of accolades, Liontas-Warren stated that her art has never been about winning awards. She said she prefers the exposure of displaying her work in galleries and shows in numerous places. “I have won some awards,” Liontas-Warren said. “I prefer to have my work seen by others, that’s more exciting to me.” To date, she has exhibited her work at over 375 solo exhibitions across the nation. Liontas-Warren has forty pieces of new art in a solo exhibition. The exhibition, titled “A Creative Doorway,” is on display from Nov. 12 to Jan. 26. It will be held at Wichita Falls Museum of Art at Midwestern State University. For more information on Katherine Liontas-Warren visit her website at www.katherineliontas.com.
Carly Rae Jepsen brings Emotion with new album Jacob Jardel
With her new of the retro-synth sound album, Jepsen had juxtaposed with lyrics Sports Editor a chance to take emphasizing a newfound @JJardel_Writing ownership of the independence used to taunt a former lover. Carly Rae Jepsen proves she songs. She wrote over 200 songs in The lead single, “I is no flash in the pan with her hopes of making Really Like You,” turns newest album “E-MO-TION.” a holistic album up the bubblegum pop The album is Jepsen’s level to near “Call Me third studio album, dropping that does not rely on one single to Maybe” heights with in Japan on June 24 before carry it. saccharine production its stateside release on Aug. This control in and prolific use of the 21. It is also the Canadian both writing and word “really.” songstress’ first album since collaborating with The next track, the release of 2012’s “Kiss,” other artists has “Gimme Love,” tones which featured the viral hit caught the ears and done the pop notch while “Call Me Maybe.” eyes of critics. still keeping the dance While the earworm Corban Goble gave audiences a new guilty Tribune News Service feel. It addresses the topic of “Pitchfork” said: Third time’s the charm: Carly Rae Jepsen performs at a 2012 of infatuation stylized like pleasure with its bubblegum “‘E-MO-TION’ an electronic “Kiss Me” pop feel and a list of other pop concert. Jepsen released her third studio album, “E-MO-TION,” in is as solid and by Sixpence None the music tropes, Jepsen was not the United States on Aug. 21 after a July release in Japan. spotless a pop Richer. in the driver’s seat during the album as you’re likely to hear, foundation from the start. Meanwhile, “All That” escape. song’s heyday in the public … [but] fails to tell us who slows it down even more with “Run Away With Me,” the While the content may consciousness. Jepsen is or wants to be.” a sound akin to 90s R&B with first listed track and second seem cliche, Jepsen uses a “It didn’t really feel like Indeed, “E-MO-TION” high synth riffs and a subtle single released from “E-MOrefined pop sound to make I was in the center of it,” sticks true to Jepsen’ s pop Jepsen told Michael Cragg of TION,” starts off with a mid- this track arguably the best on high hat against a prominent foundation and features songs ranged synth riff that draws piano and hints of soft guitar. “The Guardian.” “It felt like the album. Lyrically, it pushes in on the something that took off, and I focused on the pop staple of in listerners before letting the That is not to say the rest love in every flavor of depth was running to catch up with bass and Jepsen’s lyrics carry of the album falls from there. themes of love even harder, whether platonic or otherwise. it. It was separate from me but and reciprocation. the track until the flourishing The next song, the album’s Listeners hear the pop The rest of the album draws in a really lovely way.” chorus imploring a romantic title track, brings back more
mostly on the same flavors of love lyrically. The range musically from pop dance jams and Haim-style pop-soul-rock hybrids to mellower songs that tweak the R&B-electronica balance in various ways. Songs of note include “Let’s Get Lost,” “Your Type” and “Boy Problems.” Indeed, the main flaw of the album is its lack of lyrical variety and occasional lack of lyrical depth. Another minor flaw, as mentioned above, is the front-heavy nature, with all the best songs loaded in the first five or six tracks. That said, “E-MO-TION” does not have one track that carries or overshadows the rest, offering up a holistic pop album with solid tracks throughout. If the album were a food, it would be a bowl of Neapolitan ice cream: not the best after dinner treat, but still really good. As long as listeners do not expect a cheesecake coming in, this dessert is definitely one worth consuming repeatedly.
Bidding bon voyage to 2015 French Film Festival Brandon Clark
and Spanish Dr. Marie-Ginette Baillargeon said that the enthusiasm A&E Editor for the festival was tremendous, and @brandon_writing they had a faithful following of both Cameron University supporters and The Cameron University support from the Lawton Community. International Film Club, the Magic Frantzie Couch, a community Lantern Film Society, Phi Sigma Iota supporter of the International and Sigma Tau Delta ended their Film Club, said they wanted to get two week French Film Festival on the Lawton Community as well as Saturday Aug. 29, with a showing of Cameron Students and Faculty to “Joyeux Noel” (“Merry Christmas”). come out and watch the films. The 2005 French film depicts “We advertised to the high the World War I Christmas truce of schools,” Couch said. “We advertised December 1914 shown through the on the radios. If families wanted to eyes of French, German and Scottish bring their kids to a movie, we wanted soldiers. to make sure we had chosen films that Dr. Lance Janda, Chairman would make that possible.” of the History and Government Baillargeon did not want to leave Department, introduced the film. Janda urged viewers to think about the community out, but she said it was two areas when viewing the film. First, important to understand this event is Photo by Brandon Clark about the students. look at the context of 1914 and how Bon voyage: History and Government Department “I have students that get asked, the Christmas truce that took place Chair Dr. Lance Janda introduces “Joyeux Noel” was not organized. Second, he wanted ‘Why are you studying French?’” (“Merry Christmas”), the final movie in the 2015 French viewers to look at the larger context of Baillargeon said. “When you look at Film Festival lineup. This screening concluded on Aug. World War I and the catastrophic loss the number of products out, there has 29 after a six-film showing over two weekends to kick to be someone that gets the word out of life. off the fall semester at Cameron University. about those products, especially in Associate Professor of French
English, Spanish and French.” Baillargeon went on to explain that students were able to job shadow and get experience in organizing the event. Student organization and participation in the festival are huge benefits for their resumes. Sophomore international language major Levi Kinnamore was in attendance for his second time. He said that he enjoyed coming to see the films. “Watching these films brought about a historical context,” Kinnamore said. “I would definitely recommend to my friends – even those who are not studying international languages – to watch foreign films.” Although Baillargeon is hoping to host a third film festival next year, the funding for the French Film Festival is provided by the Lectures and Concerts series; they make the final decision. “We are hoping for a third,” Baillargeon said, “I already have students asking me to job shadow, but ultimately it’s up to our funding.”
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Lady Aggies welcome Williams Jacob Jardel Sports Editor
@JJardel_Writing Whether on the course or off, Head Women’s Golf Coach Christi Williams’ coaching philosophy focuses on one overarching concept: good communication. This communication with others and within herself has led her to success both as a golfer in high school and college and as head coach for both men’s and women’s teams at Western Texas College. In turn, this success has led her to Cameron. For Williams, the precedent of her predecessor made this progression a natural one. “Rick Goodwin’s already established such a great program,” she said. “I really felt like I could come in here and continue to expand on that, bring in some great recruits and hopefully get us in the Top 25 in Division II and hopefully in contention for a conference championship.” However, she said she plans to make a mark in her own way with the Black and Gold this year. She added that Cameron is heading in the right direction for success on the greens and fairways.
“We have access to three great golf courses,” Williams said. “We have our on-campus driving range and our soon-tobe indoor facility being built. … We have all the tools we need to practice.” Williams’ experiences have made communication vital to her success – whether the everyday demands of a student athlete or two shoulder surgeries that took away almost half of her eligibility years. “That time is a blessing in disguise because I got my chance at coaching,” Williams said. “I would stay and practice with my team, help them with their swings. I would travel to tournaments with them and kind of shadow my coach around and get to know other coaches. “When I went back to playing my senior year, I had a totally different mindset on what it takes to be successful,” she said. These experiences finding the diamond in the rough have helped Williams stress the mental aspect of the game to her players. She asks them questions as they practice to get them in the swing of providing their own feedback as the game goes on. “If you can just get the
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Bringing it all together: Members of the CU Women’s Golf Team past and present pose with new Head Coach Christi Williams (front row, second from left) during a women’s golf reunion. Williams is starting her first season as coach of the Lady Aggies after helping Western Texas College achieve national recognition. confidence and teach them … if they have a bad hole, they know how to fix their mistake and just play very level headed, I think it’s really good,” she said. This formula of confidence and feedback goes back to Williams’ communicationheavy style of coaching. According to her, success is hard to come by without that connection. “If a coach and a player are not on the same page communication-wise, there’s going to be a total disconnection,” she said. “You’ve
got to get to know your athlete.” Williams said she set her expectations from the start and wanted to focus on the short game and the up-anddown game. However, the communication she has with her athletes was the overall aim of her first year in Black and Gold – whether on or off the course. In short, Williams wants her team to know that they have someone there for them at all times. “I’m really big in trying to maintain a family atmosphere
on the team,” Williams said, “because the majority of them are several hours from home. You get to know your teammates, and they get to be your family.” With a family atmosphere, the success from last year and a focus on communication, Williams said she was excited to see what the new season has to offer the Lady Aggies. “I’m just excited to see if we can continue to build and try to be in contention for a Lone Star Conference championship,” she said. “I’ve already enjoyed this
first week of practice. I want to really push their boundaries and push their potential, just see how many goals we can set.” Beyond the season, Williams just wants to use her success and the communicative attitude to help tee up her team for life outside the driving range. “If I could teach them how to do that and make this an easy enjoyable period, and they can feel confident and ready to step into the real world, I think I’ve done my job well,” Williams said.
New team, goals for volleyball Krista Pylant
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Past meets present: New Women’s Head Golf Coach Christi Williams (left) converses with former coach Rick Goodwin during a women’s golf reunion.
worry. Just play volleyball, and it will catch on.” According to freshman Jenny Tackett, her first day as a Managing Editor college athlete was more difficult than she thought it would be, @KristaPylant8 but she said the experience was worth it. “The first day here, I was intimidated by the older players With less than two weeks remaining until the Cameron and just tried to keep up with them and do well,” Tackett said. volleyball team opens its season at the Texas Woman’s Invite, “I really wanted to make a good first the Aggies are hitting the gym impression on the team, so we can have early in preparation for their a strong bond for the season. I look upcoming matches. forward to close matches with the team CU fans will see an abundance where it’s intense and we have to fight of new faces on the court this for the win.” season after second-year head The Lone Star Conference placed coach Qi Wang signed 13 Cameron at sixth for the 2015 LSC freshmen and one junior college preseason poll. The league’s preseason transfer who will join returners poll reflects the opinions of LSC Kat Evans, Kendra Adams and head coaches and sports information Cristina Viera. directors, plus various media For Evans, the new season representatives from throughout the brings mixed emotions and region and mirrors the Aggies’ finish in a sense of leadership and league play last year. responsibility going into her last Last season, the Black and Gold season with the Black and Gold. finished 15-15 overall and 5-11 in “I just can’t believe it’s my last conference play and made a trip to the year to play volleyball ever,” Evans LSC tournament, the Ags’ first since said. “I’m really excited with this 2011. new group of girls. Evans said her biggest goal is to “The biggest challenge has make it further than last year. been building the communication Photo by Krista Pylant “Last season we went to the second between the coach and players. Set it up: Freshman Jenna Gillean bumps a round in the conference tournament. It gets better every day, but ball back during practice. The team starts the This year I want to win it all and keep there’s sometimes they do not understand. But I tell them not to season on Sept. 4 at the Texas Women’s Invite. going past that.”