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UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Newspaper of Lamar University Vol. 94, No. 18 March 1, 2018
Lady Cards defeat SFA to earn first place in SLC Cassandra Jenkins UP managing editor
The Lady Cardinals basketball team is officially one-of-a-kind. The 2017-18 team is 21-6 overall and 16-1 in conference. They extended their record home winning streak to 26 games and are undefeated in the Montagne Center for two years in a row. The Lady Cards were predicted to finish in first place in the Southland Conference preseason poll and they lived up to that prediction, defeating SFA to claim a regular season conference trophy,
Saturday. Head coach Robin Harmony said the team met several of their goals for the year, checking each victory off their list. “We can check off having a tough non-conference schedule,” she said. “We can check off being picked No. 1 coming into pre-season, and sometimes when you’re No. 1 people have a bullseye on you and we still performed and got the championship — that’s another check.” Harmony said playing teams like Baylor, New Mexico and Purdue in pre-season were important to
help the team learn what it was like to play in a different hostile environment. “These games were the ones where we knew we were paying to go play and they whooped us,” she said. “But, I think that playing in front of a big crowd and playing with officials that weren’t our officials really helped our kids grow quick. “Now, we’re 16-1 in conference, with only one more game to play. Then, it’s a matter of going to the See BASKETBALL, page 7
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Junior Moe Kinard hits a three-point shot in Wednesday’s, 90-55, victory over HBU in their last home game of the season.
Women of STEM
Career Fair set for today in Gray Library
RECOGNIZING ACHIEVEMENTS BY FEMALES IN SCIENCE,
Cade Smith UP staff writer
The Center for Career and Professional Development will host its spring career fair, today, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., on the eighth floor of Gray Library. “The spring career fair is open to all majors,” Angie Thomas, associate director of the Center for Career and Professional Development, said. “Students can go to the career fair and look for part-time and full-time jobs, as well as internships with potential employers.” Thomas said the career fair is a great opportunity for freshman and sophomores to build their networking skills without having to look for a job yet. “They can definitely start that whole process of what networking with employers looks like so they won’t be nervous,” she said. “For juniors and seniors, it is a great opportunity to look for internships and full-time positions.” The career fair will have more than 20 employers in attendance, Thomas said. A detailed list can be found at lamar.joinhandshake.com. “We have several employers for many different See FAIR, page 2
TECHNOLOGY Olivia Malick UP staff writer
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Women of STEM: 1. Elizabeth Blackwell, physician; 2. Mae Jemison, engineer, physician, astronaut; 3. Shirley Ann Jackson, physicist; 4. Rachel Carson, marine biologist; 5. Gertrude B. Elion, biochemist, pharmacologist; 6. Dorothy Hodgkin, chemist; 7. Katherine Johnson, mathematician; 8. Sally Ride, physicist, astronaut; 9. Ada Lovelace, mathematician; 10. Ruchi Sanghvi, computer engineer; 11. Chien-Shiung Wu, nuclear physicist; 12. Grace Hopper, computer scientist; 13. Jane Goodall, primatologist, anthropologist; 14. Rosalind Franklin, chemist, x-ray crystallographer; 15. Marie Curie, chemist, physicist
Today marks the beginning of Women’s History Month where the contributions of the underserved majority are recognized – after all, women compromise 50.8 percent of the United States population. The National Women’s History Project advocates the achievements of women in every field all across the nation. They tell the stories of women whose work was previously unknown or unrecognized simply because they were women. Females in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics fields are one of the main focal points in discussing women’s visibility and accomplishments. “(Women) have always been in the sciences, they just haven’t always been out in the forefront, or if they were, you didn’t necessarily know they were females because when they published their papers, they only used their initials,” Ana Christensen, associate professor of biology, said. “Women are being recognized more now, but they’ve always been there.” Recently, there has been a big push to get more women into the STEM fields. These fields usually require higher educations and degrees, which were not always available to women. See WOMEN, page 5
‘Lazy man’s dream’ Aroma app early access available April 19 Shelby Strickland UP editor
The logo for the soon-to-be released Aroma app.
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John Tyler, Zebulun Barnett, Darlyn Schneider, Matthew Vaccaro and Dylan Newton all quit their day jobs and have since been working together to create the Aroma Application, which launches May 19. Each man has contributed different skills and hands-on involvement towards creating an app that allows a person to search for a specific food, rather than a restaurant. Most search engines merely provide restaurant options that are
top rated or well-known. “Aroma, in its simplest sense, is a tool,” Vaccaro said. “It is the first ever food-focused search engine. It allows someone to find food versus a restaurant. Instead of looking for a restaurant and trying to figure out if they have what you want, you find what you want and we’ll tell you who has it. “Essentially, it’s a lazy man’s dream.” Vaccaro compares the simplicity of search engines such as Google to the simplicity of the Aroma app. “We don’t have to search
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through tons of websites,” Vaccaro said. “Like, even Google makes things way simpler. I feel bad for my grandparents and parents who didn’t have Google. That sucks. But, it is that shortcut, even through Google, that if you had to look for a small place, if they even had a menu, you’d still have to look at that menu to see if they have what you want.” The five friends have spent roughly a year talking through the ideology of the app, and then began molding it into something See APP, page 5
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