University Press April 6, 2017

UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Vol. 93, No. 21 April 6, 2017

Nicholson wins SGA presidency Runoff for VP, Sec/treasurer set for Tuesday Trevier Gonzalez UP multimedia editor

Dillon Nicholson

The results for Lamar University’s Student Government Association Election were announced March 29.

Dillon Nicholson was elected president, Shaina Escobedo was elected junior class senator and Kaily Garcia was elected sophomore

class senator.

A runoff election for the vice president and secretary/treasurer positions will begin Tuesday at midnight and conclude Wednesday at 5 p.m.

Students can vote on OrgSync.

Candidates must get at least fifty percent of the total votes to be elected.

The presidential election had a total of 731 votes cast, which is more than a 20 percent voter increase in comparison to last year.

Julie Eddards, director of new student and leadership

programs, said the election process this year was a smooth one.

“We’re really excited to see more student participation and selecting their student government executives,” she said.

“We were happy to have three confirmed positions, and we now have two runoff elections for two of the positions, which they’re currently running for right now.”

SGA president-elect Nicholson, and other incoming officers will be sworn in at the Toast of Leadership Banquet, set for April 18, on the eighth

floor of Gray library, where senior student leaders will also be recognized.

“It’s hosted by Student Government, and we do award several of the senior student leadership awards during that banquet,” Eddards said.

“Those who are sworn in become the executive-elect positions, and they’ll (assume) office on June 1.”

Current SGA president Aaron Lavergne said he’s looking forward to seeing the next year of SGA coming in, and See SGA page 2

Fair Fun UP photo by Tim Collins

UP multimedia editor Trevier Gonzalez covers a fire at TCC Northwest in Dallas.

UP staffers garner 23 awards, LUTV four awards, at TIPA

DALLAS — The University Press staff earned 23 awards in competition of the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association for work published during 2016. Staffer Cassandra Jenkins also placed in on-site competition. LUTV staffers earned four awards for previously published work.

The awards were announced at the organization’s annual convention, held March 30 to Saturday, in Dallas. The awards included four first-place honors. The awards were spread among 13 newspaper staffers and four television staff.

“It is gratifying to see the students’ hard work recognized,” editor Haley Bruyn said.“It is always nice to win awards as it shows the staff are doing a good job. But more importantly, the number of students represented shows that it is a real team effort and that everyone who writes even one or two stories is a valuable member of the crew.”

Jenkins earned second place for headline writing in on-site competition.

In previously published competition, UP photographers led the way with three first-place awards, including Noah Dawlearn for General Magazine

UP staff wins 5 SPJ awards

The University Press earned five prizes at the Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards, held March 25 at Tarleton State University in Stephenville.

UP multimedia editor Trevier Gonzalez and London Martin advanced to nationals in the Best Use of Multimedia category for the piece “Living Temptations.”

Finalist awards were given to UP editor Haley Bruyn for Feature Writing for her story, “A See SPJ page 8

Picture Story, Gabbie Smith and Hannah LeTulle for Newspaper Picture Story, and Matt Beadle for Newspaper Sports Feature Photo. The UP staff also won first place for Newspaper Photo Illustration. LUTV’s Cody Evans

UP photo by Trevier Gonzalez

A child exitedly pets a pony while riding it at the South Texas State Fair, April 3.

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‘The power of the star’ Cowboys Charlotte Jones Anderson talks business, branding Cassandra Jenkins UP staff writer

UP photo by Cassandra Jenkins

Charlotte Jones Anderson speaks to students about building their own brand in the Price Auditorium, April 4.

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Charlotte Jones Anderson, executive VP and chief brand officer of the Dallas Cowboys, presented an academic lecture series titled “How Passion, Leadership and Innovation Have Shaped the Star,” Tuesday, in the Price Auditorium.

Anderson began her speech with a quote from the Dalai Lama, “True passion and emotion can often cloud reality.”

Anderson used this not only as her opening line, but as a basis for her lecture. She opened the speech with her first topic

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— passion, and how that shaped her life, starting with her father, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.

“Over the years I have learned that nothing great can be accomplished without passion,” she said.

“The kind of passion that fills your thoughts, and your hopes and your dreams of the possibilities to come. The kind of passion naysayers don’t believe and don’t think that they can grasp.

“This is the passion that keeps you awake at night, the kind of thing that burns in your soul that you’ve just got to achieve.

Well, I believe that if you

Google the word passionate, a big picture of Jerry Jones will be there.”

Anderson spoke highly of her father and his mission to buy one of the worst teams in America.

“Back in 1989, my dad decided to buy the Dallas Cowboys,” she said. “At the time, the Cowboys were losing $75,000 a day, over a million dollars a month.

The team was 3-13 and we had several losing seasons before that. On top of that, 13 percent of the Cowboys was owned by the FDIC — we really were America’s team. But, despite the real, See COWBOYS page 2

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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment”

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getting the ball rolling.

“We’re really looking forward to Student Government this next year,” he said. “It’s been growing and getting stronger over the past couple of years.

Just enhancing their involvements on the campus, enhancing their conversation with administration and continuing to partner and making it a better student

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experience in the areas that they can influence.”

Lavergne worked with Nicholson throughout his term as SGA president.

“Dillon was our secretary-treasurer, so I have full confidence with him,” Lavergne said. “Definitely I think it’s a testament that (SGA) is growing a little bit more.

“There was more than one person running in each position. Then, as far as the votes went, there were more people voting this year than last year, so that’s some good trends that we’re having.

There’s increased participation, so you can’t be mad at that.

“What we’re getting is some pretty good results right now.”

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cold, hard reality of the deal, my father had burning passion for being involved in the NFL.” Anderson said after the sale their lives changed, and after just graduating from Sanford University with a degree in human biology, she soon found herself somewhere she never thought she would be in a career — addressing a fashion crisis.

“I got a call while I was in Washington, D.C.” she said. “I picked up the phone and (my dad) asked if I knew what hot pants were and I said, ‘Yes, I know what hot pants are.’ Well, he said, ‘There is a line of women outside of my office that think that I want to change the iconic cheerleader uniform from hot pants to biker shorts.’”

Anderson said she was called to Dallas to help her father fix the mess and was eventually asked to stay. She was given one task — to find a way to stop losing money without tarnishing the star and the brand.

Anderson, having no experience in running a sports business, said she looked up the biggest item that sucked up the budget and began from there.

“Training camp was eating up two million dollars a year,” she said. “Back in the ’90s, that was a lot of money to take the whole team to California.”

She suggested moving the training camp to Dallas and have the players stay in college dorm rooms, instead of fancy hotels, and eat in the lunchroom, instead of expensive restaurants.

Slowly Anderson began to cut expenses out one by one.

Anderson said her passion led to a leadership position. Her next task was to create a focal point for the team and the community.

“We knew we had more of an opportunity than just building a venue,” she said. “We had the opportunity to create a destination that would not only house our games, but that would bring people in beyond our small fort, to be curious enough about our venue, to be able to be intrigued by our game and then, maybe, eventually, become a fan of our sport.”

Anderson said she took inspiration from museums across the country, visited different venues around the world and went back as far as the Roman Coliseum before settling on the idea of AT&T Stadium.

After an economic downturn and the uncertainty of the building, the stadium finally opened on May 27, 2009, but Anderson wasn’t done, she said. The next big step was bringing events from across the country home to Dallas, and bringing fame and innovation to the brand.

“We knew we had only 10 events a year,” she said. “We didn’t know what we were going to do, but eventually, with hard work, we ended up securing the Super Bowl, the Final Four and we had the Cotton Bowl (the first collegiate championship game). We went after all the big ones, like, WrestleMania — who knew? — we went after everything, high school football, college football, bowling, boxing. You name it, we’ve done it. Getting married? Great.

“Funeral? We had one, the great Chris Kyle and that was the only one.

We knew we had to create business and we were too big to fail.”

Shortly after the completion of the stadium and the presence it brought, Anderson said the stadium to be not

just a place to unify people, but to help the community, which is how she came to find herself working with Steve Ryland. Ryland was the President of Frito-Lays at the time and National Chairman of the Salvation Army. Their partnership eventually led to the Cowboys’ Thanksgiving Day half time show.

Anderson defined the five things that make her brand and franchise so successful.

“The first one is tradition,” she said. “We know that we stand upon the shoulders of those before us, so we can reach new heights. You cannot have history without incredible people that build your legacy and build your tradition. The second is competition, it is the core of who we are. You get knocked down, you get back up. This is what our game is all about.

“Entertainment is the third one. We are where people go when they don’t want to talk about their problems at home or at work, they go to the game — something that brings people together. The fourth is business. We know there must be a sound business principle to everything we do. The fifth is probably what separates us from everyone else — innovation. We stand as the face of change in our community and our society, and if we don’t adapt with it then we will be irrelevant. That’s it, tradition, competition, entertainment, business and innovation.”

Anderson said that through her 27 years with the Dallas Cowboys she’s learned one thing more important than all the rest.

“And that’s the power of the brand and the power of the star.”

April 6

REDtalks: Nice To Meet You

Landes Auditorium 1 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

LU Theatre Presents ‘Still Life With Iris’

University Theatre 7:30 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Faculty Brass Quintet Recital

Rothwell Recital Hall 7:30 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Lamar Toastmasters Open House

3204 Cherry

7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

April 7

Undergraduate Research Guest Faculty Talk: Dr. Magan Powell

Landes Auditorium 11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

April 8

3rd Annual Diversity and Inclusion Conference

McDonald Gym

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Carving out space for art McCray gives found objects new home in second-annual arts festival Karisa Norfleet UP Contributor

Outside the outdoor restrooms are vibrant tiki heads and totem poles placed in various sections of a green yard. A treehouse is dedicated to a pet cemetery below it. A teepee is in one corner of the grounds, opposite a colorful stage ready for a band.

This is a place ready to host an arts festival.

“I’m inspired by so many different artists and so many different cultures, that’s why there’s a lot of different symbols you’ll see in my artwork and archetypes,” Nathan McCray, founder of the Preying Mantis Arts Festival, said, as he surveyed the large lot at his Beaumont home.

The second-annual Preying Mantis Festival will be held April 15, 4 p.m. to midnight. Admission is free.

The festival will feature local artists, musicians and performers, as well as a Surrealist fashion show and a drag show.

There is a reason McCray changed the spelling of the creature.

“The preying mantis — prey, like a predator— is the icon for the surrealist movement,” he said. “The female destroys her mate and the Surrealists played off of that.”

Usually, art is labeled as low brow or high brow.

The Preying Mantis Festival is a “no-brow art fest,” McCray said, because with ‘Preying Mantis’ anything goes, any type of art.

To prepare for the festival, McCray held drum circles around a campfire on his grounds, where

musicians come together, sit around a fire and play songs spontaneously for hours.

“I work during the week, and I’ve had drum circles, and every few weeks people come to the drum circle and we’ll do planning,” he said. “You don’t have to drum, you can bring tambourines and any kind of instrument that you like to play.”

The first festival was held in 2012 and the theme was “Alley Catz.”

The second festival was themed “Leaping Lizards” and the third was the steampunk festival called “Screaming Locust.” The fourth festival played on a fairytale theme called “Enchanted Village,” which was a metaphysical festival, McCray said.

“Costumes were a steampunk blend of Victorian-style clothing but with a mechanical modern futuristic aspect,” he said. “‘Enchanted Village’ was a Renaissance type of fair, metaphysical type of thing, card readings.

When everyone dresses up, costumes make the event fun.”

McCray is not only hosting this event but displaying his work as well.

His artwork, which often features intricately-carved wooden totems, will be the decorations for the event, along with other permanent creations already in the yard.

“I’m inspired by so many different artists and so many different cultures, so that’s why there’s a lot of different symbols and stuff you’ll see in my artwork, and archetypes,” he said. “A lot of those archetypes are universal,

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Nathan McCray stands on the stage he built from salvaged materials for the Preying Mantis Arts Festival. but I do my own interpretations. I started carving after the hurricanes. I ended up having all these trees around and so much wood.”

McCray says it’s hard to say what pieces that he is most proud of because he enjoys working in all mediums.

“I love carvings, working with wood, sculptures, and I love painting,” he said. “I work in kind of a series. So I’ll do one theme or one series of pieces and then I’ll do a series. Of course, in each series there are pieces that I like that turn out better than others. So I’m kind of all over the place.

“People throw away so much good stuff in this country and other countries don’t have stuff. People use lumber, building materials and stuff like

that, and they keep cutting down more and more trees destroying the world— and we’re sitting here throwing it away.”

McCray recycles as much as he can. Even the restrooms were mostly built out of found material.

“All of this fence I found after the hurricanes, collected,” he said.

“It’s about the environment and using what we have.”

McCray said the problem with large wooden pieces is where to store them. Southeast Texas weather and the moisture makes it difficult for him to display his work or keep it in his yard. One particular piece he is saving for the festival is a wooden dragon that is kept safe in his shed, along with other wooden creations.

“I started first making tiki heads, totem poles, and it just evolved from there, collecting drift wood,” he said. “Anything I see in the woods, you know birds, fish, dragons, just whatever. And then some of the pieces I ended up building into larger pieces, some with found objects.”

McCray is building a runway out of pallets for the fashion show, as well as manufacturing toilets, a shower and a sink.

“This is the first year, I just built them — and they actually have a window of nature,” he said.

McCray says he would like Beaumont to become an art center rather than people going to Houston or Dallas or elsewhere to enjoy art.

“It’s an outdoor artist market and it’s all about

supporting the artists, performers and musicians in the area and showing the talent we have here,” he said. “(It’s about) educating the public about it and getting the public to come out a support local artists.”

The artists are responsible for the sale, display and taxes on their own artwork, McCray said.

“Whatever the artists make goes in their pocket,” he said. “So they get what they have produced from their artwork, whereas, galleries like (in big cities) charge 30 to 70 percent to display and sell.

It also makes it more affordable for people to buy, paying the artists and not the gallery.”

“The Preying Mantis Arts Festival” promises to be a visual feast with something for everyone.

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Sixth Floor Museum offers history, legacy Tim Collins UP managing editor

DALLAS — Everyone’s heard this story. It’s just after 12:30 p.m., Nov. 22, 1963. Mrs. Nellie Connally, the First Lady of Texas, turns to President Kennedy. “Mr. President, you can’t say Dallas doesn’t love you,” she says.

Then three shots ring out.

One strikes Kennedy in the upper back and sails through Gov. John Connally. Another hits Kennedy in the head, striking him dead. Then the manhunt begins.

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, located in what was the Texas School Book Depository, recreates that day — a day that has been fodder for films, TV, comic books and other media from “JFK” to “Red Dwarf” — with audioguides, props, documentary films and preserved scenes.

Visitors trail through a maze of people who stand at displays and listen to faux iPhones. Pierce Allman, the first newsman to report live on the scene, narrates each exhibit with a grim, almost detached steadiness, until he casually mentions meeting a young man as he rushed into the Book

The window Lee Harvey Oswald used is walled off by glass on the Sixth Floor of the Texas Book Depository, Dallas.

Depository, with Allman desperately asking where the phone was so he could deliver his report. The young man jerked his thumb in a particular direction and said, “In there,” before disappearing, and Allman only recognized the man when he saw him on the news some time later.

It was Lee Harvey Oswald.

The exhibits detail the Kennedys’ trip to Texas, including a stopover in Fort Worth, with newspaper clippings and wall-sized photos of adoring crowds. Allman sometimes picks out particular figures. “That kid in the Boy Scout uniform would go on to...” “That man in the lower left would later say...” Cue grainy interview clip.

Visitors are led through a tunnel of photographs detailing the parade, enlarged to inhuman size until finally they reach the “Zapruder film” frames — 312, 313, 314. The car speeds off on its way to Parkland Hospital, and visitors are left with nothing but the evidence of the shooting and Kennedy’s legacy.

The window — purported by witnesses to be Lee Harvey Oswald’s sniper nest — sits behind a wall of glass with boxes carefully arranged as they were on Nov. 22. A Carcano M91/38, the same model of rifle found discarded on the sixth floor just after the shooting, is propped up near the exit stairwell behind another wall of glass. Oswald’s wedding ring and an original Associated Press machine, along with a printed report of the shooting, are on display for visitors to mull over, while two films about JFK’s funeral and eventual legacy are on view in small theaters throughout the maze.

Conspiracy theories also get their fair shake. Was there a second shooter? Did the mafia pay Cuban sharpshooters to triangulate the shot? Was it aliens? A giant diagram near the end of the floor maze shows every possible conspiracy — including one lone entry that says simply, “Lone

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Visitors listen to an audioguide while learning about the aftermath of the JFK assassination in the Sixth Floor Museum of the Texas Book Depository in Dallas. shooter: Lee Harvey Oswald.”

The museum includes a gift shop with $5 reprints of the Dallas Morning News of Nov. 26, 1963, proclaiming, “35TH PRESIDENT FINDS HIS PEACE ON SLOPE IN ARLINGTON CEMETERY.” Jackie Kennedy paper dolls, gold chocolate-filled coins with JFK’s face and at least three different types of coffee mug are for sale, including various books and magnets.

It’s hard to understate how important Nov. 22, 1963, was to the United States. The Civil Rights Act, the largest civil rights bill yet passed, was swept through Congress thanks to JFK’s successor and Texan, President Lyndon Baines Johnson.

Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins landed on the Moon seven years after Kennedy said, “This nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a

man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.”

Kennedy’s 1960 opponent, Richard Nixon, resigned his office just ten years later in disgrace thanks to a break-in at the Watergate.

That one moment in history is so widely important that visiting the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza is like hearing a pop song on the radio and thinking, “Haven’t I heard this song before?” — or revisiting a childhood classroom that only exists in that fuzzy part of the memory where the details are forgotten.

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza acts as a recreation of that fateful day in Dallas, but it’s hard to tell how faithfully the recreation stands. After all, the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository has been heavily modified since 1963. Exhibits and television screens have been installed, complete with dark-lit

mood lighting, all the boxes piled by the “Assassin’s Nest” window are just props and cars slither quietly by outside over the X where JFK was killed.

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Making Memories State Fair offers kids excitement

To an adult, the dancing lights and colorful sounds of a fair may not be as exciting, but to a child, it’s a whole new world.

The South Texas State Fair, hosted by the Young Men’s Business League at Ford Park, attracts people from all walks of life, including kids.

Whether one is gorging themselves on exotic fair foods, waiting anxiously in line, or finally latching into a mechanical ride, the excitement is palpable.

At that time, it’s a moment unlike anything else.

Though every ride eventually slows to a stop, the memories they create never really do.

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An Enchanting Imprisonment Aspen Winn UP contributor

The story of an older, scary looking guy who holds a small teenage girl hostage until she ultimately agrees to be with him is the type of plot you’d expect to see on the latest episode of the crime show “First 48.”

However, once you throw “Disney” in front of it, it becomes a fairy tale.

“Beauty and the Beast,” the new live action remake, is a breath of fresh air for the fan of the beloved original animated movie. It follows the typical Disney story line — a damsel in distress ends up falling in love with a prince, living happily ever after.

Belle, played by Emma Watson, is the sweet bookish teen who is adored by her artist father, and is diverted to a castle. While there, he picks a rose to take to Belle. But the castle is the home of a cursed prince, played by Dan Stevens, who doesn’t take stealing lightly and throws Maurice into a dungeon. Belle arrives, begging to take Maurice’s place.

The beast agrees to the swap, keeping in mind that he must find someone who loves him soon, before the last petal of a magical rose falls, or he will never return to his human self.

I love Emma Watson, but she doesn’t do as good a job portraying Belle as I thought she would.

The character calls for an extremely talented singer and while she’s not a bad singer she isn’t a good one either. There are times her notes fall flat and that takes away from the magical songs.

Beast develops romantic feelings towards Belle, and she has feelings for him, but is unsure of them because of her imprisonment — go figure.

Dan Stevens does an amazing job portraying the Beast. He moves gracefully seeing as he has a heavy body suit and standing on 10 inch stilts. His facial expressions, using motion-capture technology, are magnificent and his performance adds life to his character.

As time passes, Belle’s father begs his fellow villagers to save

his daughter, but the only one who’ll help is the pompous Gaston (Luke Evans) and his servant Lefou (Josh Gadd).

Evans and Gadd were born to play these roles. When the two are together they create that special Disney magic and steal the show — their energy is undeniable.

Gaston figures that he’ll take a shot at Belle and he grows more attracted to her with every refusal. He quickly goes from annoying to evil when his agenda starts to fail.

Much has been made of the “gay” moment in the film, even leading to bans in some countries. Lefou obviously “admires” Gaston, but it is tasteful and funny, and the gay moment at the end goes by in a flash.

Frankly, it is not worth the fuss.

Gaston is only helping so that he can have Belle’s hand in marriage. When Maurice refuses, Gaston has him thrown in the asylum and the villagers march to the castle to kill the beast.

What happens next is an action-packed fight scene between goofy villagers and magical talking furniture — did I mention the castle’s staff has also been cursed?

The household items are voiced by some big-name actors, including Ewan McGregor as Lumiere, Ian McKellen as Cogsworth, Emma Thompson as Mrs. Potts, Stanley Tucci as the harpsicord and Audra McDonald as the wardrobe.

In short, he’s a beast and a prince. She’s a bookworm and his therapist. The transition from imprisonment to true love is handled smoothly. Under Belle’s gaze, Beast starts to change into a soft romantic in a more adult way than in the animated version.

Although, the “tale as old as time” is supposed be soft and compassionate, there is some intense violence that may be too much for very young children.

On the other hand, scenes such as “Be Our Guest” are nothing less than magical and embody the true “beauty” of the movie.

However, the film misses

“Disney’s Beauty and the Beast” stars Emma Watson and Dan Stevens and premiered Feb. 23. some of the 1991 version’s charm, running 45 minutes longer than the original. It’s not that director Bill Condon, who also directed “Dream Girls” and the Twilight Saga, does something square or

lame. And the CGI animation is excellent. It’s that the film loses the joy of the original cartoon.

The film is not a “kid-friendly movie” anymore. It’s a live action, adult version that has lost its in-

nocence and joyfulness.

But if one can put the original — Oscar-nominated for Best Picture, don’t forget — film aside, it is still a charming, pleasant diversion with lots to offer.

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UPsports briefs Baseball

A sixth inning bases-clearing double from Houston Baptist tested the resolve of the Lamar University baseball team, but the Cardinals responded with five runs in the bottom of the inning to defeat the Huskies 8-4, Saturday, in Southland Conference action at Vincent-Beck Stadium.

HBU’s Austin Zillweger delivered a three-run double to right field and put the Huskies (13-12, 5-4 Southland) up 4-3.

Lamar (16-13, 5-7) responded in the bottom of the frame with five runs, three on a blast over the right field wall from Chad Fleischman, his third long ball of the season and third in the last five games.

The Cardinals added another run in the eighth inning to bring the final score 10-4 in favor of the Cardinals.

The LU team finished the overall series at 1-2, after losing 72 in the series opener and 2-1 in the second game of the series.

Lamar hits the road for four games, starting with Baylor, Wednesday at 6 p.m., and finishing at New Orleans in Southland Conference play. They return home, April 11, for Grambling followed by a Thursday-Saturday series with Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.

Softball

The Lady Cardinals suffered a 5-3 loss to Southeastern Louisiana, Saturday, as the Lady Lions completed a sweep of the three-game Southland Conference series in Hammond, La. Southeastern Louisiana (1718, 6-6) took a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the second on a tworun inside-the-park home run

by Ali McCoy, whose shot down the left-field line rolled all the way to the wall. LU tied the game in the top of the third when Shelby Henderson’s RBI grounder scored Brynn Baca.

After Southeastern Louisiana scored an unearned run in the bottom of the third to take a 3-2 lead, the Cardinals tied the score 3-3 in the top of the fourth on Brittany Rodriguez’s RBI single. The Lady Lions took the lead for good in the bottom of the fourth due to a throwing error and a solo home run by Maddie Edmonston.

Southeastern defeated the Lady Cards 2-1 in the series opener and 6-3 in the second game.

The Cardinals play a nonconference doubleheader at the University of Houston at 4 p.m., Tuesday, before opening a fivegame homestand that starts with a three-game conference series vs. Sam Houston State, with doubleheader at 4 p.m,.

Friday, and a single game at 3 p.m., Saturday.

Women’s Tennis

Chad Fleischman

After a three-hour rain delay, the women’s tennis match between Lamar University and the University of Houston moved indoors to the Galleria Tennis and Athletic Club in Houston, where the Cougars recorded a 42 victory.

After the Lady Cardinals (136) took the first point when Houston was forced to forfeit at court six due to injury, the Cougars responded with a 3-0 run to take a two-point advantage with two courts left undone.

The Lady Cards got one of the points back at No. 1 singles

when senior Katya Lapayeva overwhelmed UH’s Sveva Mazzari in straight sets, 75 and 6-3, before Houston won the final point.

The Lady Cardinals return to action, Saturday, to host McNeese State at 1 p.m. at the Thompson Family Tennis Center.

Men’s Tennis

Lamar University kept its perfect Southland Conference record intact after defeating New Orleans 6-1, Friday, at the Thompson Family Tennis Center. The victory moved the Cardinals to 13-6, 2-0 SLC. Winners in seven of their past eight matches, the Cardinals outscored the Privateers (6-8, 22 SLC), 12-4 in the first two doubles matches, to score the point.

Lamar took an opening-set on all six singles courts. Senior Jeandre Hoogenboezem gave the Cards a two-point lead at No. 3 singles, ousting UNO’s Federico Staksrud, 6-4, 6-0.

Junior Benny Schweizer gave LU a three-point advantage with four matches remaining, beating Giacomo Adonececchi, 6-1, 6-2.

UNO battled back to take set victories on courts four and five, before Cardinal senior Nikita Lis came through with a 6-3, 6-4 decision to give the Cards the win.

The Cardinals will return to action, Friday, at Abilene Christian University.

Track and Field

The Lamar University track and field program competed at the Bobcat Invitational at Texas State University in San Marcos, Saturday, after competing in the Stanford Invitational and the Texas Relays earlier in the week.

Jannika John and Evelyn Chavez put up big numbers in the 10,000 meters at the Stanford Invitational, finishing with the third and fourth best times in LU history. John was 23rd with a 34:59.54 mark and Chavez finished with a 35:11.85 time.

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At the Bobcat Invitational, the men’s and women’s 4x100 teams put up season-best times.

LU’s women’s group, made of Chanissey Fowler, Deja Phillips, Janay Stanton and Erin Derrow, recorded 46.53. The same group ran a 46.81 time, Friday, and topped the best of 46.73.

The men’s team, featuring Tylen Guidry, Thomas Lightfoot, Damerian Toliver and Brian O’Bonna, raced to a 41.79 finish.

Phillips also put up her personal season best in the women’s triple jump with an 11th-place leap of 38 feet, 7 inches.

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Spring 2017 Intramural Sports Scores and Standings as of April 2.

NCAA Basketball Men’s March Madness Bracket Pickem Champion — Jalin BareďŹ eld  NCAA Women’s Bracket Pickem Champion - Dunstan Marsh Outdoor Soccer League Scores/Schedule Men’s Champion CVEN Sport Team 8 on 8 Cricket League Standings Men TEAM Maratha Warriors Cardinals Sloggers XI Sigma Nu

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Air Hockey Champion — Nirav Arora 4 on 4 Volleyball Residence Halls Sand Volleyball Champions — Gentry Giants Intramural Points Competition Residence Halls Division Congratulations to Gentry Fall for being the Spring 2017 Champions

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On the men’s side of the triple jump, Guidry and O’Bonna finished fifth and sixth. Guidry marked in at 48 feet, 11 1/2 inches followed by O’Bonna’s 48 feet, 10-inch leap. Javon McCray also competed in the event and put up a 44 feet, ž-inch jump.

Stanton had a team season best in the women’s 200 meters with a time of 24.84. Derrow ran the race to a 24.94 time and Taeylor Roquemore set her personal best at 25.77.

The Cardinals continue their outdoor season, Saturday, at the Baylor Invitational in Waco.

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Thursday, April 6, 2017 • UNIVERSITY PRESS

Heritage Society to host happy hour in cemetery Ashley Kluge UP contributor

Beaumont’s Heritage Society will host Heritage Happy Hour, April 20, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The event will be held at the Magnolia Cemetery located at 2291 Pine St. in Beaumont. Admission is free for BHS members and $10 for non-members. Under 21 are free.

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Guest can enjoy craft beer and wine, while visiting graveside stationed tour guides who will tell the participants stories about of some of Magnolia Cemetery’s notable inhabitants resting on the 75-acre historic site.

Staff will be available to assist guests with finding their own family history.

The Heritage Happy Hour is an ongoing affiliation between

the Beaumont Heritage Society and Giglio Distributing Co. “The Beaumont Heritage Society and Giglio Distributing Co. believe that by promoting and sharing our local history and its historical significance that we can also share and promote the efforts to preserve Beaumont’s historical landscape,” Alicia McKibben, BHS executive director, said.

Magnolia Cemetery is the

Beaumont community. a The happy hour events are scheduled to take place every other month. The locations are subject to change as the Heritage Society highlights different historical landmarks throughout the city of Beaumont.

For more information, call 832-4010 or visit www.beau montheritage.org

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placed first in the Television Sports Feature category.

The University Press earned second place in the Newspaper Overall Excellence category. Second place was also awarded to editor Haley Bruyn for Newspaper Feature Page Design, managing editor Tim Collins for Newspaper Illustration and for Newspaper In-Depth Reporting, former managing editor Kara Timberlake for Newspaper Editorial, and former staffer Kyle Swearingen for Newspaper Sports Action Photo. The UP staff earned second places awards in the Newspaper Page One and Sports Page design categories. LUTV’s Edward Long placed second in the TV News Feature category and LUTV placed second in the Best Newscast category.

UP staffer Kyle Swearingen won second place in Newspaper Sports Action Photo.

Bruyn placed third in the Sports Feature Story and egory, as well as the Special Newspaper Single Subject Danielle Sonnier for Magazine Section/Edition category for Presentation category. Third Feature Story. The UP staff the orientation issue. LUTV’s place awards also went to forplaced third in the Opin- Kiandra Bowers earned third mer editor Grant Crawford for ion/Editorial Page Design cat- place in the TV Sports Non-

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oldest incorporated cemetery in Beaumont. The memorial park provides perception into the community’s creations, the city’s cultural background, and burial characteristics of the time. The Magnolia Cemetery has been serving Southeast Texas for m ore than 120 years.

The cemetery is operated by a board of community leaders whose mission is to preserve and service the

Feature category.

Honorable mentions went to Elisabeth Tatum for Sports Feature Photo, Collins for InDepth Reporting, Gonzalez

for Newspaper Picture Story, and Beadle for Sports Action Photo. The UP staff earned third for General Magazine Overall Design and Sports Page Design.

Current editor Haley Bruyn said she is proud of the staff’s hard work.

“The UP is a campus institution, and we hold ourselves to a high standard,” Bruyn said. “As an editor I’m honored, but I’m ultimately proud of the staff and happy they’re getting recognized for their hard work.”

More than 500 students and advisers from 49 schools across Texas attended this year’s conference. TIPA, established in 1909, encompasses two- and four-year schools across the state, and is the oldest and largest statebased collegiate press association in the nation. It presents $4,000 in scholarships annually, as well as hosting competitions and a convention.

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Man, His Mind and a Bike,” former staffer Kyle Swearingen in the Sport Photography category for “State Fair Returns to Southeast Texas,” and the UP staff was honored in the Photo Illustration category for a piece commemorating Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize.

The University Press staff as a whole was

honored as finalists in the Best Student Magazine category.

“I am delighted that we had a good showing at SPJ,” adviser Andy Coughlan said. “The awards are open to all student media in Texas and Oklahoma so the competition is tough. I think it speaks well to the quality of work produced by the staff.”

Lamar competes in Region 8. Honorees received award certificates and first-place winners will compete at the national level among other regional MOE winners from the 12 SPJ regions at the national convention in Anaheim, Calif.

The awards represent work published in 2016.

A still from the first place multimedia package, “Living ‘Temptations’”

by Trevier Gonzalez and London Martin