University Press November 8 2018

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Vol. 95, No. 10 November 8, 2018

Election 2018 Breakdown Branick wins Jefferson County judge race Olivia Malick UP managing editor

Republican Jeff Branick kept his position as Jefferson County Judge, defeating former Congressman Nick Lampson (D) with 37,402 votes (51 percent) to Lampson’s 36,453 (49 percent).

Statewide, Rep. Randy Weber (R) kept his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives Texas 14th District — which encompasses the area from Beaumont to Freeport — with 137,582 votes (59 percent) over Adrienne Bell’s (D) 90,937 votes (39 percent).

In the Texas 36th District — which includes all of Newton, Jasper, Tyler, Polk, Orange, Hardin, Liberty and Chambers counties, in addition to the southeastern portion of Harris County — Brian Babin (R)

Jeff Branick

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Republicans participated in the election watch party, Nov. 6, at Edison Plaza in downtown Beaumont as they wait to see Jeff Branick, candidate for the Jefferson County judge, win the local election.

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Dems win House, GOP holds Senate Olivia Malick UP managing editor

Nov. 6 marked Election Day, which saw a minor “blue wave” make its way through the U.S. House of Representatives, while Republicans kept their stronghold on the U.S. Senate.

At press time, Wednesday, the Democrats had gained 28 seats in the House — they needed 23 to regain the majority which they lost in 2010.

The House race saw more than just a win for the Democrats — it also saw a record 116 women elected to Congress.

At the time of print, 103 women have won election or reelection from the 589 women who ran or said that they were going to run for the House.

In the Senate, Republicans gained two seats, including in Missouri, where Claire McCaskill (D) lost to Josh Hawley (R), and Indiana, where Joe Donnelly (D) lost to Mike Braun (R).

In Texas, Sen. Ted Cruz won reelection over Beto O’Rourke in a highly-contested race. Cruz received 50.9 percent of the vote and O’Rourke received 48.3 percent, with 0.8 percent going to third party candidates.

All of the Texas statewide seats — Governor, Lt. Governor, Attorney General, Comptroller, Land Commis-

sioner, Agriculture Commissioner, Railroad Commissioner, Texas Supreme Court Places 2,4 and 6, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Places 1, 7 and 8 — went to Republicans.

According to estimates by the New York Times, 114 million votes were cast for U.S. House races, as opposed to the 83 million that were cast in the 2014 midterm elections.

In Texas, voter turnout doubled from 2014, according to The Texas Tribune. Exit polls state that 22 percent of Texas voters were voting in a midterm election for the first time — young voters favored O’Rourke 71-29 percent, and voters ages 30-44 favored him 51-47 percent, while those over the age of 45 favored Cruz, 58-41 percent, according to CBS. Several gubernatorial elections gained national attention. The Georgia governor race between Brian Kemp (R) and Stacey Abrams (D) was too close to call at time of print, although it is predicted that Kemp will take the state. Andrew Gillum (D) lost his bid for Florida Governor to Ron DeSantis (R).

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TEXAS SENATE RACE

50.9% 48.3%

Voters 18-30 voted 71-29 percent for O’Rourke Voters 30-44 voted 51-47 percent for O’Rourke Voters over age 45 voted 58-41 for Cruz

22 percent of Texas voters were voting in a midterm election for the first time

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Democrat Alexandria OcasioCortez, below, from Queens, NY, became the youngest elected congresswoman in history at the age of 29.

There are 15,793,257 registered voters in Texas, out of 18,072,155 who are eligible.

Statewide turnout was 52.64 percent of registered voters.

114 million votes were cast in the 2018 midterm election, compared to 83 million in 2014.

529 women ran for Congress in 2018 compared to 312 who ran in 2016. As of press time, 106 women will be in the new Congress, a new record.

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8:14 p.m. 11/6/2018 “In all fairness, Nancy Pelosi, deserves to be chosen Speaker of the House by the Democrats.

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She has earned this great honor!”

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“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”

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Study Abroad workshop set for Nov. 13

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The Office of Study Abroad will hold a workshop, Tuesday at 11 a.m., in Herman Iles/ John Gray Center auditorium.

The workshop, titled “How to Study Abroad,” informs students about the benefits of studying abroad and how to sign up for the 2018 — 2019 academic school year.

For more information, email Kyungsik Irene Shim, Director of International Engagement and Study Abroad, at kshim@lamar.edu, or call 880-7050.

The study abroad office is located in the John Gray Center, Herman Iles Building A.

Local Democrats gather at Suga’s, Nov. 6, to watch the local Jefferson County Judge race between Jeff Branick and Nick Lampson, Branick won.

beat out Dayna Steele (D) with 160,592 votes (73 percent) to 60,486 votes (27 percent).

Carolyn Guidry (D) received 37,429 votes (51 percent) and won the position of Jefferson County clerk against Bailey Wingate (R), who received 36,116 votes (49 percent).

Jefferson County Treasurer went to Charlie Hallmark (D) who received 36,982 votes against opponent Tim Funchess (R), who received 36,316 votes. Statistically, both candidates received 50 percent of the vote.

Jefferson County Justice of the Peace Pct. 1, Place 2

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went to Ben Collins (D) with 15,713 votes (52 percent) against Annette Reedy (R), who received 13,462 votes (46 percent).

Jevonne Pollard (D) beat out Charlie Wiggins (R) for Jefferson County Constable Pct. 1 with 15,307 votes (52 percent) vs. 13,887 votes (48 percent).

For State Senate District 3 — encompassing Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Hardin, Henderson, Houston, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Newton, Polk, Sabine, San Augustine, San Jacinto, Shelby, Trinity and Tyler counties as well as portions of Montgomery and Smith counties — Robert Nichols

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elected to Congress. Kristi Noem (R, S.D) became South Dakota’s first female governor. Ilhan Omar (D, Minn.) became one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, as well as being the first SomaliAmerican woman. Rashida Tlaib (D, Mich.) is one of the first Mulism women elected to Congress. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D, N.M.) became the first Democratic Latina governor of New Mexico. Ayanna Pressley (D) became Massachusetts’ first black Congresswoman.

Marsha Blackburn (R) became the first woman elected to the Senate from Tennessee. Jared Polis (D) became the first openly gay Jewish man elected Colorado governor. Jahana Hayes (D) became Connecticut’s first black Congresswoman.

Deb Haaland (D) and Sharice Davids (D) became the first Native American women elected to Congress, with Davids also becoming Kansas’ first openly gay Congresswoman. Veronica Escobar (D) and Sylvia Garcia (D) became the first Latina Congresswomen in Texas. Cindy Axne (D) and Abby Finkenauer (D) became Iowa’s first women in Congress.

With just two years left in President Donald Trump’s first term, election fever is just getting started as presidential campaigns begin to kick into high gear. Another round of House and gubernatorial seats will also be up for grabs at that point, but no one is putting bets down yet.

(R) received 212,710 (78 percent) votes vs. Shirley Layton (D), who received 55,570 (20 percent) votes.

For State Representative, District 19 — encompassing Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Polk and Tyler counties — James White (R) received 49,926 (83 percent) votes vs. Sherry Williams (D), who received 10,070 (17 percent) votes.

In the U.S. Senate race between Sen. Ted Cruz (R) and Beto O’Rourke (D), Cruz won most of the rural counties while O’Rourke won the metropolitan counties, including Jefferson County.

Jefferson County, which

voted for Donald Trump in 2016, split between party lines in many statewide races — Republican Greg Abbott received the majority in the county for governor, but Democratic candidate Mike Collier received the majority for Lt. Governor.

Jefferson also chose Democrat Justin Nelson for Attorney General.

Political pundits were waiting to see if Texas would officially become a blue, or at least purple, state, and while a majority of all Texas officials elected were Republicans, the state has become more unpredictable than it has been in recent years.

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Democrats raised $1,463,315,872 for the 2018 U.S. Congress races with a total of 1,661 candidates.

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Democrats Deb Haaland, right, of New Mexico, and Sharice Davids, of Kansas, became the first Native American women elected to Congress.

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Republicans raised $1,008,234,162 for the 2018 U.S. Congress races for a total of 1,472 candidates.

8 in 10 Americans believe the country is more divided than ever.

Democrats Rashida Tlaib, Mich., and Ilhan Omar, left, Minn., became the first Muslim women elected to Congress.

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‘Ghosts’ of women past LU theatre to present Ibsen classic this weekend Eleanor Skelton UP contributor

Not all ghosts are metaphysical beings. Some take the form of family secrets.

The latest production from the Lamar University department of

theatre and dance is Henrik Ibsen’s “Ghosts,” which touches on early feminism at the turn of the 20th century.

“Ghosts” centers around Helene Alving (Caitlin Grammer), who is tormented by her past and the stagnant ideas of the society,

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Maddy Hightower and Dustin Smith rehearse their lines for the production of “Ghosts” in the University Theatre, Oct. 29.

director Chloe Sullivan said. The play opens the day before she will be dedicating an orphanage to her dead husband’s memory.

Set in the 1880s, “Ghosts” emphasizes a time when women were finding a voice. Sullivan said Ibsen explored this theme in other plays, too, like “A Doll’s House.”

“The woman in that play slams the door and walks out from her family,” she said. “All his plays for the most part were banned during the time period. (Ibsen’s works are) about women being more than just someone’s sister or someone’s daughter — they become someone.”

The play explores tensions between Helene and men in her life — her former husband, her son and her pastor, Sullivan said. Her best friend, Pastor Menders, finds early feminist books on her couch when he visits.

“There’s a lot of her explaining to her friend, this pastor, a religious man who doesn’t believe these things what she is learning,” Sullivan said. “It’s all about a woman who is educating herself — she has these thoughts, she has these ideas, but they’ve never been confirmed.

These writers are saying things she already thinks and feels.”

The audience watches Helene find the right to have opinions about her past marriage, Sullivan said. The pastor counseled her at the time to go back to her abusive husband, but now she finally gets the opportunity to express to him she felt like that was wrong.

This is Sullivan’s senior directing project.

“I find it an honor to be able to direct a piece like this, that I feel touches on women finding their identity and their role in the world

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Chloe Sullivan directs her first play, “Ghosts’” in the University Theatre, Oct 29. outside of their relevance to a man,” she said. “Women finding their voice in today’s society — we’re making a lot of movements towards that right now — it’s very indicative of what women are experiencing today.”

In contrast to the other men, Helene’s son, Oswald, has much more liberal views. Helene sent her son away to keep him away from her husband, Sullivan said.

The prevalent religion in Norway, where “Ghosts” is set, is Christianity, Sullivan said.

“Some (Christian) people still say you shouldn’t leave your husband even if he beats you,” she said. “She didn’t leave her husband and the play shows what the repercussions were.”

Ibsen is considered to be the father of naturalism during a time when most theater was high comedy and big dramatic pieces, Sullivan said.

“Ibsen really took a turn from that,” she said. “Whenever you read or watch these shows, it’s relationships, it’s not these big huge

events. He writes realistically and it’s realistic dialogue.”

While the 1880s setting presents challenges, such as developing the period costumes, Sullivan said she thinks they’ve tackled this well.

“My production team has done a great job of creating this world without hindering us in anyway,” she said. “We’re not chaining ourselves to the period.”

The costumes are designed by senior Daelen Fox. Sullivan said she chose the translation by Richard Err, which she said is more accessible to modern audiences.

“I’ve never read another version that I’ve liked more than this,” she said.

The show runs today through Sunday in the University Theatre, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $7 for LU and LIT students, $10 for faculty, staff, seniors and other students, and $15 for general admission.

For information and tickets, visit www.lamar.edu/theatre.

Dance to present ‘Fall & Recovery,’ Nov. 16-18 Cassandra Jenkins UP editor

Aerial silks. Cowboy boots. A suitcase and a stage.

These are just a few of the things one can expect to see during Lamar’s fall dance concert.

“Fall and Recovery” will feature all genres across dance, from jazz and tap and contemporary to the two-step.

“People can always expect to be entertained from our concerts,” Travis Prokop, assistant professor of theatre and dance, said. “This year, the caliber of our dancers is through the roof.

Their ability gets better and better every semester. I feel like this semester, in particular, people will be really impressed by their technical ability and their artistry through their performances.”

The concert will include an array of dances from several faculty members in the department of dance and theatre including Prokop, department chair Golden Wright, Lucy Arrington and Amy Elizabeth.

“This year, it is predominately only faculty,” Prokop said. “All works the audience is going to see is just from our faculty. We still have Miss Lou (Arrington) who plans on doing a nice little Texas kind of musical theatre number, and she is always really good at giving us our classics in terms of ballet, musical theatre and all genres that everybody loves.

“I have not seen Golden Wright’s work, but I’ve heard it has a lot of partnering work about interpersonal connections. Then, we have Amy Elizabeth, who is doing a contemporary work and is working with her company which is called ‘Aimed Dance.’

She has a lot of her own company members mixed with maybe one or two Lamar stu-

dents to do some contemporary work.”

Prokop will present his own dance performances — ‘Make Me a Bird’ and ‘Carry On’ — which include both aerial silks and contemporary movements.

“We have some aerial work again which I choreographed this year,” he said. “It’s about escaping. I was inspired by that quote from Forrest Gump, ‘Make me a bird so I can fly far far away.’ It’s all about escaping and being dissatisfied with the here and now and just trying to get some space. What’s interesting about that, is that it is a different dancer every night. So, depending on what night you come you’ll see a completely different performance from that particular dance.

“My other dance is called ‘Carry On.’ It’s a large contemporary group number — very athletic, very fast-paced modern work. It’s about trying to ground yourself and telling yourself you are making the right choices, and owning the decisions you make.”

Elizabeth’s dance will feature a unique synchronic-type dance, Prokop said.

“It’s called ‘Cadence,’ and it’s a study exploration of everything you associate with the word cadence — the rhythm and the play of time,” he said. “Now that you have bodies you can kind of make that sound-score visual that she is going to play with.”

Arrington’s dance is a country number that Prokop said the audience will enjoy.

“Miss Lou’s dance is all about Texas,” he said. “I think a lot of people will really love that, especially if they are a native-born Texan. She uses a lot of country music and songs I remember my dad and my grandpa listening to, so it immediately brings me back to being a child.”

Prokop said all the students and dancers are adapting well to their character roles and pushing both the faculty and themselves.

“As they grow, that pushes us as choreographers, because we can do more meaningful work and push the level of content in terms of what we do with our art,” he said. “The better they get, the better we get and that says volumes for our concert.

Every year you can plan for it to be better and better.

“The word ‘push’ is what I keep thinking of. In my dances, I’m pushing the boundaries of danger and a little bit of comfortability with the costume change. We’re pushing our dancers. We’re pushing the limits of dance and what is dance.

You are not only going to come here and see a dance performance, but see an evening of art.”

Prokop said he is excited to see what the other faculty members have put together and encourages everyone to come out and enjoy the evening.

“It’s a chance for Beaumontites to come out and see fine art,” he said. “I tell my students that this isn’t so much as a dance recital as it is a dance concert with an evening of full realized work. We have an entire semester to really dive into this work, and (we) ask the students to dive in character wise. Because we are theatre and dance, it’s not just movement on stage, but a full realization of the character and body movement that people will see.”

Fall and Recovery is set for Nov. 16 and 17 at 7:30 p.m. with a Sunday matinee, Nov. 18, at 2 p.m. in the University Theatre.

Tickets are $7 for LU/LIT students, $10 for faculty, staff, senior citizens and students, and $15 general admission.

For more, visit lamar.edu/ theatre.

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Raven Cormier, a junior from Orange, practices her routine for the upcoming performance of “Fall and Recovery” in the University Theatre, Oct. 31.

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RedTalk to address ‘Era of Fake News’ Lizz Nash UP contributor

Michael Saar, associate professor of library services, will present a REDtalk at 4 p.m., Nov. 15, titled, “Critical Thinking in the Era of Fake News,” on the sixth floor of Gray Library.

“Students should come to the REDtalk so they can understand the news environment and be able to develop media literacy,” Kelly Williams, REDtalks coordinator, said. “That way, students can develop critical thinking skills that can translate into their academics.”

Williams said students will benefit by learning how to digest the news.

“They’ll be able to identify what misinformation is, which will help them become more critical with the news that they are consuming,” she said.

Saar said that Gray Library deals with information literacy.

“We try and teach skills that will benefit you not just in college but beyond that, and for me, personally, one of the most important things (for) users of information is the ability to critically evaluate the information that we’re engaging with,” he said.

“That information is all around us and will continue to be all around us even after we leave college — stuff that we see posted

on our friends’ Facebook feeds or stories we find on Google websites.

“So it’s important to have skills to be critical about the information we are encountering, so that we can make informed decisions, either personal or professional or just living in our society.”

Saar said there is a lot of information out there and he noticed that people often have difficulty determining the accuracy or objectivity of the information.

“They see stuff that’s posted, or that they encounter online, and there’s stuff that is accurate and not accurate, and I’ve seen too many people get tricked by inaccurate

OUR to host HASBSEB conference

information,” he said. “I think it’s important to try and get as many people to think about critically evaluating what they see.”

The talk is framed around fake news but it really deals with any in-

formation one encounters online, Saar said.

“I think it’s a fun discussion,” he said. “There’s some humor built in, and while it deals with a topic that has some type of political connotations to it,

such as ‘fake news,’ there really is an apolitical investigation of how we evaluate information we come across” Attendees will receive free sno-cones.

A ‘GROOVY’ TIME

Cheyenne Ard UP contributor

The Office of Undergraduate Research will present the fifth annual Humanities, Arts, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Education and Business Conference, Nov. 17, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Galloway Business Building.

The conference will include presentations from undergraduate and graduate students and will feature keynote speaker Lynn Maurer, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

“We wanted to give our non-science and non-engineers an opportunity to present their research and creative activities,” Kumer Das, interim associate provost for research and sponsored programs, said.

Students work with mentors during the summer and throughout the school year on research projects, and the conference gives them the opportunity to showcase that research to an audience, Das said.

Students reveal their research on any topic involving their major through oral or visual poster presentations.

Some presentations from last year included “Volunteer and Hurricane Harvey,” presented by Tanner Driskill; “The Electoral College: Rethinking Rethinking,” by Charles Lyons; “African-Americans and Hurricanes,” by Kendrick Williams; “Narcissism and Art,” by Marly Smith, and other presentations from a wide range of disciplines including such as speech and hearing sciences, history, English, psychology, sociology, graphic design and more.

Students are encouraged to attend the conference and listen to their peers who are presenting research, Das said.

“If you do not have anything to present this year, come and see what’s going on,” he said. “That way you can see what you can do and help you formulate your ideas (for next year).”

The HASBSEB conference offers a platform to get involved in discussion and develop skills for the next phase of a student’s career — whether that next phase is graduate school, a job or applying for an internship, Das said.

“None of us are born scientists or researchers,” he said. “The idea is that we have to start somewhere.

You have to get involved in discussion and sharing.”

Attendees should register ahead of time at www.lamar.edu/undergraduate-research. Food and refreshments will be provided.

LU students ‘get down’ at dance marathon Lamar University Dance Marathon hosted its first fall event, Minithon, Nov. 1, in the Setzer Student Ballroom, in preparation for its main event in Spring 2019, on April 5, from 7 p.m. to midnight.

Dance Marathon is a non-profit organization that fundraises for the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals across the nation, since 1991. Over 80 participants were provided with free Chick-Fil-A, snacks and drinks, at the event. The Dance Marathon committee provided dance instructions on stage while the attendees followed along, on the dance floor.

There were a variety of line dance songs to keep the participants’ hips moving throughout the night.

For more information, contact Cade Johnson, 679-6453 or cajohnson232@gmail.com.

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Internships important for job experience Morgan Collier UP contributor

When applying for a job, applications will ask for a résumé and require a certain amount of experience in a particular field.

However, after graduating from college, students do not always have the amount of experience that companies are looking for.

A way to add that experience to a résumé is through internship opportunities.

“Through internships, you can gain some valuable experience in your field and get a better understanding of that major or field,” Angie Thomas, associate director for career and professional development, said.

“You get the opportunity to learn how things operate, ask questions and test out the industries.”

Thomas said the first step to looking for an internship, is for a student to know the extent of their major.

“Make sure you know which direction you want to take for the path you want to go into,” she said. “Once you know your

major, start looking into industries that you would prefer.

Make sure that your résumé is up to date, then look for internships on various platforms.”

Currently, there are 855 internship opportunities on Handshake, accessible through HireACardinal.org, a website designed to help college students and alumni find internships and jobs in their career field.

“There are a lot of opportunities, and not all of them are in Southeast Texas,” Thomas said.

“Handshake is a great start for students to look for opportunities. These opportunities range from Facebook to Amazon, Google to Nike, the Astros to Dynamo Dash Youth Soccer, and are all around the United States.”

There are a variety of platforms for students to find internships other than Handshake, such as LinkedIn, Indeed, Internships.com, Glassdoor, Idealist, Looksharp, and more.

A key to success with regards to internships, Thomas said, is through starting early and

being prepared for each opportunity that is presented.

“If a student gets an interview, I would recommend that they practice,” she said. “(The Center for Career and Professional Development) provides mock interviewing so that they are prepared and have planned for that interview.”

Outside of interview preparations, it is also important to keep your résumé up to date and network with professionals, Thomas said.

“Networking is huge,” she said. “We provide different events where students can participate and possibly get internships through those events.”

For students who go to a networking event and meet somebody, Thomas recommends getting the professional’s business card and follow up with them immediately after the event.

“Thank them and let them know that you enjoyed the conversation, and that they were able to provide a lot of insight on this opportunity,” she said. “A lot of students don’t take that extra

time to show their gratitude.”

For students who have a particular company they would like to intern or work for, Thomas said they should reach out via email or phone call and ask about possible opportunities.

“I have seen some companies create internships because there was a student who was proactive and just asked,” she said.

Thomas also recommends participating in more than one internship over the course of a college career.

“One of the good things about multiple internships is that you get to see the way that different industries do things,” she said. “It also helps with the transferable skill sets in order to see how things can be applied in various ways through the different companies. Working with other companies, you can see what culture you fit the best in.”

Something to be thinking about when searching, Thomas said, is if the internship will be paid or unpaid.

“You want to make sure it’s not going to be a position where the company is using you,” she

said. “If it is going to be unpaid, it definitely has to reflect some type of educational purpose for that student.”

Thomas tells her students who are doing an internship, especially if it is unpaid, that they do not need to be working more than 15 hours a week.

“This is strictly to gain the experience and, although you are helping that employer, the purpose is for the employer to be helping you, not to replace a part time worker,” she said.

Students need to be proactive and look for opportunities, Thomas said.

“Large companies tend to search at least a year out, maybe a semester out, so that is why it is good to plan and prepare ahead,” she said. “Large companies have deadlines and other things that they need to do. These are things that you cannot procrastinate.”

For more information visit the Center for Career and Professional Development in the Galloway Business Building, Suite 102 or call the office at (409) 880-8878.

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COMMEMORATING 100 YEARS SINCE END OF WWI

n 1918, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month — Nov. 11, World War I came to an end after four years. “The war to end all wars” had seen 37 million killed and 21 million wounded in bloody battles with trench warfare, mustard gas attacks and newly-invented tanks.

America had joined Britain and France against the Germans before the Russians pulled out following the 1917 Bolshevik revolution.

“By 1918, what had happened with Russia, who began the war on the side of Britain and France, is that they were in a civil war between the Pro-Bolsheviks, Bolsheviks and Anti-Bolsheviks, so they are not a part of the end of World War I,” Mark Mengerink, Lamar University associate professor of history, said.

In March 1918, the Soviet Union signed the Brest Litovsk treaty with Germany which ended the war between those two countries and freed the German troops to use against the western allies.

On the Western Front with Britain and France, several hundred thousand U.S. troops were on the front lines.

“The Americans haven’t seen a lot of combat-action, or are well-trained, but just the fact that they are fresh and are there, and the United States can always provide many more is a problem for German Leadership,” Mengerink said.

Even with the Treaty of Brest

Litovsk, the German military leaders knew they couldn’t hold out long on the Western Front.

“They convince the emperor of Germany to try one final offensive against the Americans, British and the French to break through the trenches and front lines, in the hopes that Britain and the French surrender and collapse,” he said.

The German leadership knew that if that did not work, the war would be lost, Mengerink said.

“They don’t tell the German people that,” Mengerink said. “In the summer of 1918, the summer offensives, they do just that.”

The Germans mounted a massive operation on the Western Front and push through the trenches with everything they had for 20 miles.

“This is an enormous amount considering the trenches haven’t moved much in four years,” Mengerink, said.

The Germans were able to push their enemies back, it looked to be on the brink of victory and capture Paris.

But the offensive slowed down.

“Once their offensive wasn’t gaining ground anymore, the German leadership realized the war is over militarily,” he said.

During the course of 1918, some of the German people were willing to give their leadership the benefit of the doubt, but others were less likely to do that, specifically communists and socialists, Mengerink said.

“What they wanted was an immedi-

American soldiers wear gas masks in this September 1918 photo.

ate end of the war,” he said. “They wanted Germany to focus on feeding the people and rebuild their economy.

That sentiment spread through the army and concerned the German leadership, because it undermined the morale of the troops.”

In late 1918, mutiny spread throughout the German army, Mengerink said.

“In early November, people on the home front began to rise up and rebel,” he said. “It got so bad that the emperor of Germany stepped down because he had a full-blown revolution on his hands.”

A new government dominated by socialists rose.

“They contacted the allies and said, ‘We want an armistice,’ basically a ceasefire,” Mengerink, said. “They arranged a ceasefire on the eleventh day on the eleventh hour on the eleventh month. All the fighting on Western Front stopped. All sides realized that this is not an end of a war, only a treaty can end the war, but (it) relieved pressure off everyone.”

Mengerink said Britain and France had a hard time keeping up support for the war.

“Both countries had been at it for four years,” he said. “France lost over a million men, and mutinies had spread throughout their army, as well.”

Mengerink said that when Germany came forward and said, “Let’s stop the fighting and negotiate a treaty,” all sides agreed.

“In early 1919, all sides gathered in Versailles and ended the war with the Treaty of Versailles,” he said. “It did not solve the problems that caused the war in the first place, and also created more problems that contributed to the second world war.”

The Treaty of Versailles was a compilation of punishments and blame on Germany, Mengerink said.

“In article 231, the war-guilt clause, blamed the outbreak of WWI on Germany,” he said. “The Germans did not feel that they were the cause of WWI, but since they lost, the other side could impose blame. And once they blamed them for the start of the war, they could punish them. They limited the German army to 100,000 men (and) demilitarized the sliver of land between France and Rhine River to give France protection and security, even

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly, Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead; short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe!

To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high!

If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

John McCrae, 1872-1918

Poppies

The remembrance poppy was inspired by the World War I poem “In Flanders Fields” The opening lines refer to the poppies that covered the battlefields.

Poppies were the first flowers to grow in the churned-up earth of soldiers' graves in Flanders, a region of Belgium.

Diseases

Two out of three soldiers died in battle, the rest died due to infections or disease such as such as influenza, typhoid, trench foot, trench fever and malaria caused by exposure to wet and damp conditions in the trenches. though it’s German territory. Other parts of Germany were taken from the Germans and given to Poland.”

Mengerink said whether the treaty was right or wrong, one thing the treaty did was humiliate Germany.

“Throughout the 1920s, German resentment grew to the treaty and surrounding countries, and the right-winged political parties were calling for the destruction of the Treaty of Versailles through war,” he said. “So, from the day the treaty was signed, Germans were calling for war again.”

Twenty years later, World War II broke out.

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‘I’M

NOT A HERO’

Students recount their service through support Olivia Malick UP managing editor

Nov. 11 is Veterans Day — a day that honors all American veterans. There are approximately 16.1 million veterans in the U.S. who served in at least one war.

According to mentalhealth. va.gov, more than one million of those are student veterans who are currently using their GI benefits to pursue a postsecondary education.

“I came to Lamar after high school and I didn’t really know what I wanted to do or study,” Ramie Dalton, Lamar Veterans Organization president and Port Arthur graduate student, said. “I wasn’t mature enough for school — I ended up withdrawing after three semesters and joined. I served in the Army for seven years and two months. I felt like I needed to mature. I needed to get out of this area because all I wanted to do was hang out with my friends.

“I knew I needed to be on my own for a little bit, which is a part of maturing. I needed to be more financially responsible because, at the time, my parents were paying for my school and I didn’t really have any financial responsibilities of my own.”

Dalton said there’s a misconception that people join the military because they don’t have any other option, but the reality is that people are looking for a place of discipline and belonging.

Nicolas DeVillier, LVO vice president and Nederland jun-

ior, said he wanted to serve ever since he was a kid.

“Both of my grandfathers served in the military and so did my cousin,” he said. “I also liked the idea of getting college paid for, so, two months after I graduated high school, I turned 18 — and four days later I shipped out.”

Dalton and DeVillier said that while they learned a lot from the Army, it was hard for them to transition back to civilian life when they came home.

“Unless you go to a military school, where everything is the same, (the transition) is like if I handed you the keys to a brand-new Ferrari, told you to take off, and you don’t know how to drive a stick shift,” DeVillier said. “It’s overwhelming.

Honestly, my first year back was horrible. I had a 1.4 GPA overall by the end of the first year and I was very sad about that. But now that I started working on campus and educating myself more with the resources that are available, I’ve brought that GPA up significantly and earned leadership roles in several organizations.”

Laura Crain, Woodville LIT sophomore and Army veteran, said the transition from military life back to student life is difficult for veterans for several reasons — some of which can be helped.

“When we’re in the military, the government wants us to give them our all — our bodies, our everything,” she said. “But when we get out, they just brush us off to another government sector to become some-

body else’s problem and we’re expected to know how to navigate all of that.

“It’s not like logging in to your LEA account. Navigating your educational benefits and getting everything in line to make sure that you’re going to get what you need and what you deserve, including compensation if you have disabilities, is hard.

“The government puts a lot of money into our training. I was military police and I did that for eight years — I have lots of training in that. I get out and that means nothing here. If I wanted to become a police officer, I’d still have to go through the entire police academy despite all of my military training.

Millions of dollars are spent between salaries, uniforms and supplies but whenever you get out, that doesn’t translate into anything. They just give you four college credits and I think that’s a waste. They don’t utilize the assets that tax dollars were spent on.”

Dalton said that some veterans can get irritated by small things, because it’s hard to go from being told what to do and when to do it to having freedom of choice in everything.

“We’re drilled day in and day out on respect and ceremony,” she said. “When I was at Lamar before the Army, I was younger — I’d forgotten how campus was. Now people can wear whatever they want and say whatever they want, and it doesn’t reflect badly on them. I dyed my hair green because I was like, ‘I can do whatever I want.’”

Veterans can feel self-conscious sometimes because they are older than the average student, but that they have a lot of life knowledge and experience to offer their classmates, Crain said.

“I’m 31, and I see some of the kids in my classes that are 18 or 19 years old getting discouraged about college, and I try to keep them upbeat and tell them that it gets better,” she said. “(Veterans) have an array of knowledge beyond our service that can be beneficial to a lot of people.”

Dalton, DeVillier and Crain all said that their main goal for LVO for the 2018-19 year is to improve membership numbers

and develop relationships between veterans, so that they know that they are not alone.

“It doesn’t matter your service — like for me, I never got deployed, I’m not a combat veteran and sometimes I feel as though my service didn’t count,” DeVillier said. “I just want veterans to know that they are welcome, we’re all here for each other, we’re all family and you’re not alone — if you feel like you’re going through something, whether it be bad grades or a relationship breakup, we’re here for each other.”

For information, contact Veterans Affairs at va@lamar. edu, or call 880-7198.

Veterans Day Facts ◊ In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower officially changed the name of the holiday from Armistice Day to Veterans Day ◊ 5.2 million veterans served in peacetime ◊ 2 million veterans are women ◊ 7 million veterans served during the Vietnam War ◊ 5.5 million veterans served during the Persian Gulf War ◊ Of the 16 million Americans who served during World War II, about 558,000 are still alive ◊ As of 2014, 2.9 million veterans received compensation for service-related disabilities ◊ As of 2014, three states have more than one million veterans among their population: California (1.8 million), Texas (1.7 million) and Florida (1.6 million)

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SPORTS

CARDINALS CRUSH RAMS 79-59 IN SEASON-OPENER

Intramural Sports All Scores and Standings as updated on Nov. 6.

Flag Football all UnIverSIty ChampIonS Co rec Division HSA

Cade Smith UP staff writer

InDoor CrICket all UnIverSIty ChampIonS men’s Division Lamar Sharks oUtDoor SoCCer StanDIngS Co rec Division Mon-Wed 5:30-6:30 p.m.

TEAM W Swag Dragons 1 KOF 1 VSA 0 ZTATO 0 HSA 0

L 0 0 1 1 0

T 0 0 0 0 0

men’s Division Mon-Wed 5:30-7:00 p.m.

TEAM W Los Bukis 2 ASCE kickers 1 Pi Kappa Alpha 1

L 0 1 1

T 0 0 0

Tue/Thur 4:00-5:30 p.m.

TEAM W Juventus LU 1 Alpha Tau Omega 0

L 0 1

T 0 0

table tennIS men’s Singles Syen Ali men’s Doubles Ball Busters - Joshua Steele/Cody Sahualla Football pICkemS Football pickems is a confidence pickem where you pick the winner for college and NFL games and assign a point for from 120. Each week’s winner wins a champ shirt.

If interested in being apart of it, please email intramurals@lamar.edu.

Week 6 Standings 1st: Jabari Lewis 2nd: Cody Sahualla 3rd: Joshua Steele 4th: Jason Harrington 5th: Chris Mouton

177pts 168pts 168pts 150pts 147pts

Week 7 Standings 1st: Jabari Lewis 2nd:Jason Harrington 3rd: Joshua Steele

161pts 152pts 142pts

UNIVERSITY PRESS Thursday, October 25, 2018

Sport ClUbS Sport Clubs are student ran Registered Student Organizations that have an interest in sport competitions. Sport Clubs hosts and travel for matches and tournaments. If you are interested in a particular club, please email sportclubs@lamar.edu and let us know how we can help you get involved.

SoCCer The Men’s Soccer Club travelled to Houston Sat. Nov 2nd, to play a scrimmage again Lonestar College - Cy Fair. This was the club’s first ever scrimmage, since the club restarted in Spring. Lamar lost a close match 2-1, but learned a lot to build on. The club will travel to Prairie View A&M to scrimmage their club Tuesday, Nov 6th.

baSeball Baseball travelled to Euless, TX Oct 19-21 to compete in the annual Wood Wars Tournament. It is a wooden bat tournament playing other club teams from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. The Lamar club Beat arkansas 7-0, beat LSC 16-2, before losing to Baylor 15-5.

The Lamar Cardinals basketball team opened their 2018-2019 season defeating the Huston-Tillotson University Rams, 79-59, Tuesday in the Montagne Center.

“Obviously, we’ve got a good basketball team, but we’ve got some kinks to work out,” LU head coach Tic Price said. “We are not consistent. When we’ve got teams down we need to make sure we keep it that way.”

The Cardinals opened the game with a 17-0 run making sure the Rams were disposed of with little problem.

The Cardinals pushed their lead to as much as 24 points (38-14) with 5:52 remaining in the half before a 22 pointlead, 44-22, into the locker room.

“We did a good job defensively in the first half,” Price said. “We held them to 22 percent from the field. We gave up a few buckets tonight that we were a half step slow on, and we lost some balls tonight that we work hard in practice to recover.”

The Cardinals were 16-of30 (53 percent) from the field, 7-of-16 for three pointers, and made 100 percent of their free throws in the first half. However, the Cardinals struggled from the free throw line in the second half with 38 percent.

In the second half the Rams came to play defensively after struggling in the first 20 minutes of the game.

The Rams cut into the lead to 15 (64-49) with less than six minutes remaining, converting 13-of-30 (.433) attempts.

The Rams comeback was

led by guard Courtney Julien who scored 12 points during the run, but Lamar did not allow the Rams to get any closer.

As a team, the Cardinals shot nearly 52 percent from the field and shot at least 50 percent in each half. LU also was 10-of-25 (.400) on three-point attempts and dominated on the boards with a 45-29 rebounding advantage.

“I realize that we won by 20, but at the end of the day I believe we had some breakdowns,” Price said.

“We’ve got to make sure we clean that up, too. Offensive execution is what I am looking for in the opening game.

Defensively, I want to see us be more consistent with our stops.”

The Cardinals were led by senior forward Josh Nzeakor who had a gamehigh 19 points, as well as nine rebounds.

“We know there are areas that we need to clean up,” Nzeakor said. “We just wanted to get some good chemistry going. We definitely pride ourselves in being a long, athletic team — this is a good transition for us.”

Junior guard Nick Garth came off the bench to record 15 points on 4-of-8 shooting, and 3-of-6 from beyond the arc. Junior guard Jordan Hunter scored 11 points and dished out three assists, and junior guard Mike Kolawole added 10 points and seven rebounds.

The Cardinals hit the road Friday at 6:30 p.m., when they travel to Atlanta, Ga., to face the Georgia Tech Yellowjackets in McCamish Pavilion.

“We need to come out with a win by any means

UP photo by Abigail Pennington

Josh Nzeakor, 11, slam dunks during the Cardinals 79-59 win against Huston-Tillotson in the season-opener in the Montagne Center, Tuesday. necessary,” Price said. “They are much bigger than we are and we’ve got to use our speed and quickness to

counter that. In this next game, we need to make our shots and limit our turnovers.”

LU soccer falls to SFA, 2-1 Cade Smith UP staff writer

The Lamar soccer team lost in the Southland Conference Tournament semifinals to the no. 7-seeded Stephen F. Austin Ladyjacks, 2-1, Friday, at the LU soccer complex.

“I thought that we were prepared to take them on,” LU head coach Steve Holeman said. “I am proud of the effort they gave and credit goes to SFA. They limited our opportunities and play in a defensive system that you don’t see very often.”

In the opening half, the Ladyjacks controlled possession in the Cardinals’ half of the field. In the 21st minute, SFA scored the first goal of the match when forward Katelyn Termini col-

lected a loose ball and fired a shot on the right-side past LU keeper Sandra Nygard to take the advantage.

The lead was short-lived as the Cardinals were on the move 12 minutes later when sophomore forward Lucy Ashworth sent a cross into the box to senior forward Kelso Peskin who recorded a diving header that hit the back of the net right past SFA keeper Allyson Halliday to tie the score 1-1 at halftime.

“I don’t think I can pick a player that she didn’t do a good job,” Holeman said.

“The group is resilient — we work on set pieces all the time but SFA is very good in that area.”

In the second half, the Ladyjacks offense looked to break the tie. A minute into

the half, SFA midfielder Sophia Fondren had a shot rebound off the crossbar and over the next few minutes SFA had three shots on goal that were saved by Nygard.

Late in the half, the Cards were in attacking position as Ashworth had a shot saved by SFA keeper Maddie Talbot. SFA broke the tie on the 83rd minute.

Fondren’s corner kick found defender Carli Arthurs in the box who headed the ball into the goal to end the game, 2-1.

“It’s disappointing to come out with a loss,” Madison Ledet, LU sophomore forward, said. “I know we all worked our very hardest and we put everything on that field. All we can do now is get ready for next year.”

The Cardinals finish the season with a record of 126-2.

“The senior class is special,” Holeman said. “I have been doing this for over 20 years and this is one of my favorite senior classes. Four quality players, and all had post-season accolades. I think we have come a long way since three years ago.

We have recorded 30 wins now in the last two years.

That is something to be proud of, and there’s not a lot of programs that have that many wins over a twoyear span.”

Following the SLC Championship match, Cardinals Ledet and sophomore defensive midfielder Sophia Manibo were named to the Southland All-Tournament Team.

arChery Archery travelled to Foley, Alabama Oct 2428th to compete in the US National 3D Collegiate Championships. They had 10 members travel and competed in various individual and team divisions. Cody Sahualla got 2nd place in Mens Barebow, Shawn Blair got 3rd place in mens barebow. The barebow mens Team (Cody Sahualla, Shawn Blair, Jose Wong) got first place overall.

UltImate Ultimate is travelling to UT San Antonio Nov 10-11 to play in in a tournament. The club hopes to come out with a win and grow to compete in future tournaments.

UP photo by Cade Smith

LU forward Lucy Ashworth maintains possession of the ball as SFA add pressure in the SLC semifinal match at the LU Soccer Complex, Friday.

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LUMA launches new lab space Cassandra Jenkins UP editor

Lamar University department of communication launched the new initiative — Lamar University Media Alliance, Oct.30. LUMA is a new media space in the communications building that features innovative technology and labs for the creation of various media and communicationbased products.

“The whole purpose and goal behind LUMA is to take the production facilities and merge them into one unit that will provide students with the opportunities to get hands-on training, as well as get internship opportunities — that’s really the goal of it,” Natalie Tindall, communications chair, said. “That includes KVLU, the TV station, what we’ve been calling the ‘set cast,’ which is where we tape the government meetings, and anything related to studio 20 and the different radio and podcasting rooms we have in the building.

“We merged all those things together to provide opportunities for collaboration, production and any kind of innovative storytelling students want to do. We wanted to give them a platform and a way to do that so we can showcase our equipment, the kind of facilities we have, the faculty and the expertise we have.”

Tindall said the idea piggybacked off a few different programs and models.

UP photo Abigail Pennington

Film students, Hannah Hudgins and John Jones, practice recording sound bites in the new LUMA audio lab, Nov. 6.

“There is a belief that journalism programs, or schools that have journalism programs, should be more of a teachinghospital model,” she said. “It’s not that you just learn how to diagnose the parts of a body from a cadaver at medical school, but you also have to understand how to diagnose and problem solve by working on the floor and with patients — it’s the same thing here.

“There is only so much textbook stuff that we can do in the classroom. Students have to be able to take what they learn theoretically and apply it, do it and be able to have the space to do it.”

Tindall said the media alliance space is multi-dimensional.

“Most students don’t know where the TV studio is,” she said. “Most students don’t know where KVLU is or where they can do advanced digital editing. But, now, we have a lab that LUMA supports and the department supports. Students have the actual space to see where things can get done and how they get done. It’s all about giving our students different experiences than what they get in the classroom.”

The multi-lab space includes two digital editing suites, two

podcast studios and two vlogging rooms with a green screen.

“We will have two digital editing suites,” Tindall said. “We have studio 20 and studio 21 which are podcasting rooms.

One is set up where you can do a podcast in there and the other is our traditional radio studio.

We also have two vlogging rooms. If someone needed a green-screen effect they can use that or if they just wanted a talking head panel in one room they can do that, too.

“The room itself is very flexible. If you wanted to do things in the room space like tape a recording you can as well. So,

the lab is a teaching space as well as a collaboration space and production space.”

Tindall said that at the moment the labs are for communication students only and strictly by appointment.

“The labs are schedule only, because we don’t have the capacity to be open as much as we’d like it to be,” she said.

“We’d like to make it open longer. We’ve been experimenting with lab hours in the department for the past few semesters to keep it open longer and open earlier.

“But, right now, because we can’t find a lot of students who want to work late, we keep it open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on schedule-based appointments. So, there is a scheduling process with it and the equipment is specialized enough that you have to have some training and knowledge to know what these things are and how the equipment is used. So, we can’t just open it to everyone.

“Once we are able to get more funding, more support, as well as additional lab monitors, we may be able to open it to other people, but our goal is to help communications and media students do the best that they can. We are a very large department with a lot of different needs and majors, so we need to provide as much support as we can to those students first — that’s the primary target.”

For more information, email natalie.tindall@lamar.edu, or byron.balentine@lamar.edu.

LU campus experiences late night storm, Oct. 31 Lamar students check out the damage done to a car, far left, in front of Gentry Hall during a storm that passed through Beaumont, Oct. 31. There were strong rains and gusts of winds throughout the night that caused damage all around campus.

Flipped chairs, in the Quad, left, and broken tree branches scattered throughout campus, caused by strong thunderstorms with 20 miles an hour windspeed, late Wednesday night, Oct. 31, forecast by the Beaumont weather channel.

UP photos Noah Dawlearn, far left, and Vy Nguyen, left.