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Molly Salmon. Photo by Kristen Barnard.

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Student Village hosts annual outdoor Refuge

By CAROLINE POOLE Staff Writer

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Campus Ministries will host Refuge in the Student Village circle tonight, after Tiger Tunes. The student-led service will not be held at Second Baptist Church as usual in order to accommodate many GROW students. Refuge is a

weekly time for Ouachita and Henderson students to meet and worship together.

“We like to have at least one outdoor service a semester,” said Kendall Calvert, campus ministries assistant director.

“It’s always fun to have a little change.”

With more than 300 prospective students on campus for a preview weekend

and GROW, Calvert explains that Campus Ministries wants to have plenty of space and create an exciting atmosphere.

The outdoor sound and lighting is set up specifically to accommodate the area and audience. Jake Fauber, a senior music major, and the worship team will lead students in a time of worship before Kyle Fischer, a senior Christian

Studies major, speaks.

“Having the service outside just creates a really fun atmosphere for everyone,” Calvert said.

The outdoor service has become a tradition for Homecoming weekend and continues to draw both current and prospective students together in a Christian community. n

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Kappa Chi cookout makes move to Tiger Alley

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Assistant Sports Editor @DixonCLand For years the men of Kappa Chi have been cooking out for students after the Friday Tiger Tunes show.

“It’s always a good time after Tunes. Since everyone is excited about the show, it

transfers to the event well,” said Jackson Carter, a junior mass communications major and social chair of Kappa Chi. The traditional event will have music, food and fellowship with fellow students to wind down after the second of four Tiger Tunes shows.

“We want everyone to have a blast at the cookout. The purpose is for everyone to come

and hang out after the show,” said Zach Parker, a sophomore political science major.

The cookout is open to everyone on campus and there will be free hot dogs, burgers and sodas. The event will be located in Tiger Alley, between JPAC and Jones Science Center and is set to start after the Friday show. This is the first time the Kappas will host the

event here. In previous years the cookout has been held at Speer Pavilion. Kappa decided to move the event this year to Tiger Alley to make the event more accessible to everyone.

Kappa Chi also encourages those students participating in the Tiger Tunes performances to wear their costumes to the cookout. The event is scheduled to last until 1 a.m. n

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Wink publishes second poetry book

Downtown Hot Spot

By NARA WESLEY Staff Writer

Take a Break Clubs provide post-Tunes relaxation times

Tick Tock Schedule of Homecoming Weekend campus activities

Dr. Johnny Wink, Betty Burton Peck Professor of English, recently had a limited edition book of his lyric poetry published. It is called “Seven Ways to Prune a Grapefruit.”

“I’ve written lots and lots of poems—poems about school or for friends,” Wink said. “I think of myself as a teacher first and a writer second.”

“Dr. Johnny Wink writes a wide variety of poetry. That’s one of the real charms of it.

He writes about life’s great issues, but also everyday things.

My favorite was the one he wrote for my daughter when she was born. He has written thoughtful poetry like that for people for many, many years” said Dr. Jeff Root, Professor of Mass Communications and Dean of the School of Humanities.

One of Wink’s favorite things about teaching at Ouachita has been the opportunities to make lasting friendships with some of his students.

One such student is Dr. Joshua Richards, who went to Scotland to study at the University of St. Andrews. Richards continued to communicate with Wink who would sometimes send Richards poems he had written. About a year ago, Wink sent him a particular poem called “Great Gray Moles,” which must have impressed him because he showed it to his friend John Pazdziora who had just launched a magazine called “Unsettling Wonder.”

Pazdziora decided to use the poem in the first issue of the magazine and paid Wink $15, which Wink said was “a princely fee for a poem in a

Kristen Barnard z The Signal ARKADELPHIA’S NEWEST restaurant, JavaPrimo, opened last month on Main Street downtown. Established in Hot Springs in 2009, the coffeehouse serves signature food and pastries in addition to its coffee staples.

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Muggin’ features country artist Blane Howard

By CAROLINE POOLE Staff Writer

avaPrimo is a welcome addition to downtown Arkadelphia with many choices on the menu and a lively, coffeehouse atmosphere.

After opening last month, the café is often full throughout the day, an exciting sign for owners Josh and Shelley Hughes. Their motto, “amazing coffee is just the beginning,” has become the center of the business.

After just a few weeks of business, the Hughes are already excited to see the future of the business.

The Hughes, both raised in Bismarck, always had the dream of owning a restaurant.

Josh, a 1997 Ouachita graduate, studied history and math education.

“Ouachita gave me a degree so that I could get a job teach-

Josh said.

Shelley, a 1998 Ouachita graduate, studied accounting and computer science. After working as a CPA, she has the skills to manage the financial and technical aspects of JavaPrimo.

“I wouldn’t trade my time at Ouachita or the people I met for anything,” Shelley said.

The Hughes opened the first branch of JavaPrimo in Hot Springs in January 2009. At first, the café only served coffee, but later developed signature food items. All the food, created by Josh Hughes, is original and made in the café.

“Josh always loved cooking, and he’s great at it. It just made sense to make our own menu,” Shelly commented.

The couple designed the restaurant after an Italian bistro. Knowing they wanted to make it clear that coffee was the first priority, they settled on the name “JavaPrimo” — the best coffee.

JavaPrimo

614 Main St., Arkadelphia 870.230.1337 • javaprimo.com

Open: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner (closed Sundays for dinner) Serving: Breakfast, Brunch, Coffee, Greek/Mediterranean, Pastries, Pizza, Sandwiches, Seafood, Steak, Vegetarian

restaurant that happens to have amazing coffee.”

The restaurant is not a faith-based business, but the Hughes both agree that having faith is vital in opening a restaurant.

“We have faith and we teach people integrity. If someone comes in, we will treat him right. You have to have faith to act like that day in and day out,” Josh said.

JavaPrimo’s fan-favorite drinks include white mocha

On Saturday night, the men of Eta Alpha Omega will again get the root beer flowing at their annual postTiger Tunes event, Muggin’.

This year, the event will take place next to the Village Circle and is free for all students, alumni and visitors who would like to join.

“We’re excited for not only Ouachita students to come, but friends and family on campus as well. Alpha Omega president.

This year’s musical guest is Blane Howard, a native Arkansan.

“Blane is a country artist. He has some OBU connections and he was already kind of connected with Eta so we asked him to come,” Crowe said. “He’s very excited.”

Muggin’ is the largest event put on by Eta and a much-anticipated part of homecoming weekend for many across campus.

“As a freshman, Muggin was one of my favorite events on campus,” said sophomore Josh Rubin. “Now I’m really excited to be a part of it as a member. I can’t wait to see all of campus come together and celebrate another year of Tunes.”

The free root beer will be

served in souvenir cups for guests to keep.

Some details about Muggin’ have been changed.

“It won’t change the fact that Muggin’ is an amazing event that people want to come to,” Crowe said. “It started as a small event at Speer Pavillion with 17 bottles of root beer and a boom box and now it’s so much bigger. We’re excited to see what Muggin’ holds this year.” n

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this weekzCALENDAR TIGER TUNES will take place tonight through Friday from 7:30 - 10 p.m. in JPAC and on Saturday from 5:30 - 11 p.m.. For more information, contact: OSF at osf@obu.edu.

KAPPA CHI COOKOUT will take tomorrow night from 11 p.m. - 1 a.m. at Tiger Alley. For more information, contact: Jackson Carter at car52219@ obu.edu.

REFUGE will take place tonight from 10 -11 p.m. at the Village Circle. For more information, contact: James Taylor at taylorja@obu.edu.

HOMECOMING DAY is Saturday.

OcTiger Fest will be on the campus lawn from 9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. and kickoff for the game will be at 1:00 p.m.

LIVE MUSIC at Dr. Jack’s Coffeehouse will take place tomorrow at 12:15 p.m.

For more information, contact: Hillary Hill at hillh@obu.edu.

HAΩ MUGGIN’ will take place Saturday night after Tiger Tunes at the Village Circle. For more information, contact: Michael Crowe at cro49177@ obu.edu.

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The science building library.

A caf booth. The round ones are preferred.

The couch in the campus ministries office.

The shady couch under the stairs by the bookstore.

The red recliner in the library.

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Tiger Tunes: 35 Years of Winners 1979 BSU

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OSF plans for Tunes, hopes to raise $100,000

By NARA WESLEY Staff Writer

The Ouachita Student Foundatio (OSF) is a student organization committed to serving the Ouachita community which plays many roles in the Homecoming Week festivities each year. Specifically, it is responsible for putting on Tiger Tunes for all of campus and “Getting Ready for Ouachita’s World,” or GROW. “Though the different clubs and organizations here on campus participate in Tiger Tunes, the production would never function without the manpower that OSF volunteers of OSF provide,” said Kirby Von Edwins, senior biology major and president of OSF. Next year will be the 40th year of OSF on campus. Thirty five years have been spent involved in Tiger Tunes, with 2013 being the 35th anniversary of Tiger Tunes (1979-2013).

“Over those 35 years, OSF has had a hand in bringing thousands of alumni and prospective students to Ouachita’s campus,” Von Edwins said.

“OSF is made up of almost 100 students, and all have a hand in making the production of Tiger Tunes go off without a hitch every year.”

The special events chair of OSF, Lindsey Fowler, is the director of Tiger Tunes.

“I love getting to know members of each club and organization that have shows and seeing how their hard work pays off over the course of Tiger Tunes. Their shows always look wonderful and it’s so neat to see how each person’s individual talents contribute to such an awesome event that raises so much money for student scholarships,” said Fowler, senior political science major.

OSF’s student recruitment committee is closely involved with GROW. High school

juniors and seniors attending GROW experience Ouachita by spending the night in the residence halls, attending a few classes of their choice, going to a Refuge service and attending Thursday’s Tiger Tunes performance.

“Student Recruitment assists the admissions counselors in finding housing for the hundreds of GROWers that will be on campus, assist with signin and provide campus tours during the day on Friday,” Von Edwins said.

“A campus tour led by a current student means significantly more than a tour led by an older graduate; OSF provides this unique interaction with prospective students,” Von Edwins said.

OSF also works to provide scholarships for upperclassmen through Tiger Tunes.

“Last year we provided more than $100,000 in student scholarships so juniors and seniors

can stay and finish their education at Ouachita. Since Tiger Tunes began in 1979, OSF has provided more than $1 million in scholarships,” said Jon Merryman, Alumni Director.

Merryman leads the seven faculty and staff members who serve as advisors and the one hundred students involved in the organization.

The motto of OSF, “Students helping students,” is fulfilled each year.

“Being a part of the selection process for these scholarships has been one of the most fulfilling experiences of my time here at Ouachita,” Von Edwins said.

“To spend countless hours serving and to get to see the fruits of one’s labor as my own classmates and friends receive much needed scholarships is an experience only made possible through the Ouachita Student Foundation,” he said.

OSF fulfills its motto and responsibility to serve our

Savior through each of its four committees: student ambassadors, history and traditions.

“My favorite part of OSF is helping our students help their fellow students,” Merryman said.

Being a part of OSF has also given Von Edwins a valuable experience.

“OSF has taught me what it truly means to be a servant leader and to lead by example,” Von Edwins said.

Besides its important involvement in Homecoming Week each fall, OSF is also responsible for the Tiger Traks scholarship fundraiser in the spring.

For more information about GROW contact the admissions office by email at admissions@ obu.edu.

For more information about the Ouachita Student Foundation and Tiger Tunes, contact Merryman at merrymanj@obu. edu. n

Licklider: ‘Tunes is the biggest thing I have done’

By HANNAH PEARCE Staff Writer

As social clubs are spending hours in their meeting places with locked doors perfecting their lyrics, songs and wild dance moves, alumni are packing their bags getting ready to come home and the eight person JPAC crew is working feverishly to keep up with the hype of Homecoming Week.

But what happens behind the scenes in Jones Performing Arts Center for Ouachita’s biggest weekend?

“It takes a lot to prepare for Tiger Tunes,” said Joey Licklider, Jones Performing Arts Center manager, with a chuckle.

“There are a lot of people involved,” Licklider said. “All of the JPAC crew, all of OSF and a lot of people doing a lot of behind-the-scenes work to make a big show like this happen.”

The more I talked with him,

the more I realized that this is the closest thing to Broadway to hit Arkadelphia since, well, ever.

“We just hung about $15,000 worth of lights,” said Stephen Vaughn, a freshmen and a member of the eight-person JPAC crew. “We have to watch every show and specifically cue when lights come on, when lights turn blue, when lights turn around.”

The crew will split up duties on who will shine what light when. The amount of planning they do is mind-boggling.

“There’s a lot that happens in a very short amount of time for the amount of work we put into it,” says Licklider.

“We’ve got some strobe lights that are really high quality, intense strobe lights, not like the little ten dollar ones you get at Wal-Mart,” says Vaughn.

Along with cueing the lights, Licklider spends time with the

Heather Ellis z The Signal JOEY LICKLIDER works at the JPAC light board in preparation for Tiger Tunes. According to Licklider, the week before and the week of Homecoming are the busiest for the JPAC crew.

hosts and hostesses starting in the spring when they are chosen, and works with them throughout the summer on their music and choreography.

Once rehearsals start, so start long days and nights for him.

“I’m here probably 15-18

hours a day almost these two weeks,” Licklider said.

Every year poses new challenges for Licklider, Vaughn and the rest of the crew. This year, for the 35th Annual Tiger Tunes, there will be a live band performing music for the hosts and hostesses arranged by se-

nior music education major, Megan Massey.

The clubs also get help from Licklider as far as music goes.

“I’m working with the clubs, even over the summer, with their music choices and editing their music,” says Licklider.

“The clubs do all of their own music selection and they do submit it to me for approval, and to OSF, and then it goes to Steven Gent, our musical director for the clubs in Dallas and he puts it in his recording studio and actually re-records all the instrument parts for the tracks for their show.” “[Tiger Tunes] is the biggest thing that I have ever done that we do all year long,” says Licklider.

There would be no Tiger Tunes without careful preparation by many people. Because of that preparation from everyone involved, this year’s show should once again live up to the hype. n

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NEWS BRIEFS n Thirty second recaps of the biggest stories of the week.

NATIONAL ― Congressional

Republicans Tuesday offered a new approach to resolve the standoff in Washington, proposing the creation of a bipartisan panel to work on deficit reduction and find ways to end the government shutdown and make recommendations on a debtlimit increase. The proposal, which was quickly dismissed by Democrats, came as House Speaker John Boehner and President Barack Obama spoke by telephone shortly after Boehner adopted a slightly more conciliatory tone in comments to reporters. In their phone call, Obama said he would be willing to negotiate with Republicans once the U.S. government is re-opened and the threat of a default is lifted, the White House said. The events offered rays of hope in a bitter fiscal stalemate that has shut down the federal government for eight days and threatens to prevent the raising of the country’s $16.7 trillion borrowing limit before Oct. 17, which would be disastrous for the U.S. economy. n

WORLD ― North Korea has

reportedly re-started a nuclear reactor that halted operations in 2007, in a move that has increased tensions on the Korean peninsula ahead of planned military drills by the U.S., South Korea, and Japan. South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency, citing a lawmaker who had been briefed by that country’s National Intelligence Service, reported Tuesday that the Yongbyon nuclear reactor had resumed operations. The North Korean government announced this past March that it planned to resume operations at the facility, located approximately 55 miles north of Pyongyang. Earlier Tuesday, the North’s state news agency announced that its troops had been placed on emergency alert and had been given the go-ahead to launch operations at any time against the drills. The exercises were scheduled to be held between Tuesday and today in the waters off the South Korean port city of Busan, but have been delayed due to bad weather. n

SCIENCE ― A comet exploded over

modern-day Egypt 28 million years ago, raining down fire and leaving behind a “mysterious” black pebble, the first-ever comet material found on Earth, scientists at South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand said Tuesday as they announced the discovery. Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun had a scarab broach made from yellow silica glass created when the comet’s explosion heated sand to 2,000 degrees Celsius (3,600 degrees Fahrenheit). But also left behind was the first comet material discovered on Earth -- a black pebble embedded in the modern-day Sahara’s sands, the university said in a statement. The pebble was “the first ever evidence of a comet entering Earth’s atmosphere and exploding, raining down a shock wave of fire which obliterated every life form in its path,” it said. South African scholars headed a team of geoscientists, physicists and astronomers who tested the comet pebble, which was discovered in 1996. n

HEALTH ― Promising results from

a large-scale clinical trial mean that the world’s first malaria vaccine may be on the market by 2015 and could potentially save hundreds of thousands of lives a year. The phase III clinical trial of more than 15,000 infants and young children in Africa found that the vaccine, called RTSS, continued to protect the children from malaria for up to 18 months after vaccination. The ongoing trial of the RTSS vaccine is being conducted by 11 research centers in seven African countries, together with the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative and drug maker GlaxoSmithKline. During the 18-month follow-up period, there was a 46 percent reduction in the number of malaria cases in children aged 5 months to 17 months at first vaccination, working out to 941 fewer cases of malaria for every 1,000 children. Cases of severe malaria were reduced by 36 percent and malaria hospitalizations were reduced by 42 percent. n

Compiled by Sam Cushman, News Editor. Sources: bbc.co.uk, dailytech.com, theregister.co.uk

GROW ‘makes the difference’ for prospective students

By KELSEY LAMB Online Editor

It is the time of year when campus is full of new faces, friendly competition and welcoming alumni back home.

2013 Homecoming Week welcomes more than 350 prospective students to participate in GROW. They will get the chance to sleep in a dorm room, witness the friendships that students have and attend a Tiger Tunes show.

“It is a big commitment to have an overnight event that is this large, and there is no way we could do it successfully without the amazing student body we have at OBU,” said Lori Motl, director of admissions counseling.

As the prospective students drive in from their hometowns on Thursday afternoon and their excitement and nerves

are overwhelming them, students all over campus will be awaiting their arrival.

Thursday afternoon the GROWers will drop their stuff off in their assigned dorm rooms and then head straight to dinner. The prospective students will all meet each other for the first time and see what Ouachita’s friendly atmosphere really offers.

“I love seeing the excitement in the prospective students. I love seeing them interact with each other and seeing friendships starting that may last the rest of their of lives,” Motl said.

After dinner, the prospective students will head to the first Tiger Tunes performance of the year.

As all the clubs are in their meeting rooms getting ready for their performances, these prospective students will be finding their seats in a auditorium they have never seen be-

Tunes, OcTiger Fest bring alumni back to campus

By HALEY MARTIN Staff Writer

Ouachita’s campus comes to life during the week of Homecoming. This year, for the 35th anniversary of Tiger Tunes, there are many things planned for the current students and alumni of Ouachita.

Tiger Tunes is a big reason alumni return to the place they called home during their college years, so the alumni office stacked the weekend with events, meals and activities to keep them on campus.

“The goal of Homecoming is to get more people to come back,” said Jon Merryman, director of alumni, in a news release. “We want to make sure alums stay as connected as possible.”

Homecoming is a time of joy at Ouachita, and much of that joy comes from the anticipation of Tiger Tunes.

“Even with all the stress and craziness, it brings so much excitement around campus and an opportunity to meet new people, grow in friendships, and just have a lot of fun,” said Hannah Pilcher, 2013 alumna and current staff member. “My friends and I are mostly anticipating watching Tiger Tunes for the first time as alumni and getting to see all the shows as a whole. We are also excited to see each other and just be able to spend quality time at a place we love.”

Another event that brings students and alumni together

is the football game on Saturday. The game this Saturday will be played against Northwestern Oklahoma State at A.U. Williams field at 1 p.m., immediately following the crowning of the 2013 Homecoming Queen at 1 p.m.

The OcTiger Feast will be held for alumni at 11 a.m. on Saturday morning as a chance for reminiscing and reconnections to take place.

“I cannot wait to see so many years of alumni all together eating at OcTiger feast,” Pilcher said.

After the 5 p.m. Tunes show, the alumni office will host a street festival in between Fifth Street and Jones Performing Arts Center that will feature food and Homecoming festivities.

Food, memories, fun and being at Ouachita all make up for a perfect agenda for the Homecoming weekend.

“Homecoming day allows alumni to spend as much time with the people they grew to know and love during their years at Ouachita,” Pilcher said.

Students at Ouachita are willing to greet alumni and guests with open arms to visit their home and watch Tiger Tunes. The weekend will be full of events and fun things to do, while also getting to connect with alumni and students.

As the day comes to a close after the final Tunes show, the men of Eta Alpha Omega will end it with a bang at the annual Muggin’ root beer party. n

fore with people they only met a few hours before.

When the light comes on and they see that very first club’s faces light up while dancing and singing together on stage, they will feel the fun atmosphere that Ouachita offers.

“My favorite part of GROW was getting to see my first Tiger Tunes show and realizing in that moment that Ouachita was a good place to call home,” said Krista Carlisle, a senior accounting major.

After all of the clubs have performed and Mega Mix is coming to an end, all of the clubs file back in and around all of the seats. The atmosphere is tense but you can feel the sense of community with everyone as they are all waiting and hoping to hear their club called.

“From my perspective Tiger Tunes highlights the friends and fun relationships, but also

the amount of talent and quality of our productions. That says a lot about a school. I’ve talked to people who have something kind of similar to Tunes at other schools, but they say that the quality of our production is head and shoulders above the rest,” Motl said.

After the awards are over, all current and prospective students are invited to Refuge on the lawn outside the village. This gives the prospective students another glimpse of how much of our activities and events on campus are student led.

“If they are coming to a Tiger Day, which is a great event, they don’t see the student life side of Tunes or the spiritual side they see through Refuge.

It’s the one event where they see the most facets of OBU in a 24-hour period,” Motl said.

After Refuge, all of the prospective students will go back

to their dorm rooms and hang out with the current students they are staying with. They will stay up and talk and ask questions and get even more excited about the possibility of becoming a Tiger.

“The students I stayed with, stayed up for a while and we got to talk to them while they were doing homework and they answered all of our questions,” Carlisle said.

Friday morning, all of the prospective students will wake up bright and early to attend two classes of their choice.

They will get the full effect of what it would be like to be a student on this campus, seeing students interact with teachers and with each other.

By lunch time all of the prospective students will head home.

“You’ll be stunned how many say GROW made the difference,” Motl said. n

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Online degrees: future of Ouachita education?

Administrators, faculty research possible wholly-online degrees

By RACHEL TIMOKHINA Staff Writer

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ost students at Ouachita have taken a course or two online during the summer, or even during the fall or spring semesters, but starting this semester, president Rex Horne appointed a committee of five faculty members to research the possibility of offering entire degrees online.

“Online is the elephant in the educational room,” said Bryan McKinney, associate professor of business law and dean of the school of business, who is heading the research committee.

“Whether we like it or not, it’s here and it’s not going anywhere,” McKinney said. “Online enrollment has grown far more than traditional undergraduate education.”

In fact, online programs experienced a 9.5 percent enrollment increase nationwide, while Arkansas simultaneously experienced a net decline in the number of students enrolled in public and private colleges. Because of this impressive educational trend, Ouachita is considering a daring technological leap in learning.

“We’re looking at associate degrees,” McKinney said.

“We’re looking at bachelors degrees. We’re looking at masters degrees.”

The idea to incorporate such degree programs into Ouachita’s curriculum has been discussed among faculty members for years, but plans did not begin to form until two consultants from Kentucky entered the picture at a conference this summer.

One consultant is a former college president and the other is the former dean of an online program at a small university very similar Ouachita.

Now, these consultants advise universities who are thinking about adding online programs to their course offerings.

For starters, these consultants advised that Ouachita’s

Corey Nolen z Special to The Signal SERGUI POSTOLACHE works in the computer lab in Hickingbotham Hall. Online classes already exist at Ouachita, but administrators are looking into expanding that into entire degree programs available online.

online programs remain completely online with no involvement from any currently enrolled, residential students for at least the first year.

“You need to see it as two totally separate things,” McKinney said. “It will just be a separate entity.”

“Because it is so different, we want to take our time to study this and see if it’s right for Ouachita,” said Dr. Stan Poole, vice president for academic affairs, professor of English and dean of interdisciplinary studies. “It’s very preliminary.”

“It has to be fully online because these students are working,” McKinney said. “They’re taking their kids to soccer practice.”

Work and family obligations often keep potential students from attending residential colleges, like Ouachita, while online programs offer flexibility, especially when it comes to time and finances.

Not only will new online enrollees feel some financial relief

thanks to cheaper tuition, the university will save money on faculty, staff, maintenance and all the costs associated with running a physical institution, like electric and water bills.

This new, more diverse student demographic for Ouachita does not mean that its residential students will be neglected ― just the opposite.

Much of the profit from online programs may go towards the home campus, towards residential students who are already enrolled.

“We strongly believe in the residential model. We believe it works,” Poole said. “Our first priority is our residential campus and the quality of the education here.”

Poole said students, faculty and staff should see online enrollment only as a supplement to an already high-quality education at Ouachita.

Despite the seeming enormity of translating an entire university’s curriculum to an online format, degrees from

Ouachita may be available through the World Wide Web sooner than you think.

“I think it could happen in the fall,” McKinney said. “It’s not like we have to have everything ready to go. We just have to have a commitment to it.”

In other words, faculty and staff at Ouachita must be committed to updating and adding courses online; it’s not necessary to have a fully functioning online university complete from day one.

For example, CORE classes are among the first courses that new students take and most have already been transferred online, so courses for the first few semesters may already be available.

“We could have a little as 17 new courses in the first year,” McKinney said. To put that in perspective, professors at Ouachita typically teach eight courses a year and, unlike a physical campus, it would only take about 50 students to make an online program suc-

cessful. If necessary, however, Ouachita could hire adjuncts or new professors to handle an influx of students.

The future of online degrees at Ouachita lies largely in the hands of its existing faculty because they would be the ones teaching its new, virtual students. However, teaching online may be intimidating, uncomfortable or just undesirable for professors who were initially attracted to the intimate class sizes and face-toface time with students that Ouachita boast as a small, private college.

The monthly faculty forum yesterday was when the committee was to present its research to faculty and staff in hopes of a welcoming reception. For now, online degrees are still under debate.

For more information about online degrees at Ouachita, contact Bryan McKinney through email at mckinneyb@ obu.edu or through phone by calling him at 870.245.5513. n

Ouachita to host world-renowned organist in concert

By KAITIE SCOTT News Bureau

Ouachita Baptist University, in conjunction with the Central Arkansas Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, will host world-renowned organist James David Christie in concert Tuesday, Oct. 15. The concert will honor former Ouachita faculty member Russell Hodges and the 25th anniversary of the installation of the Reuter Organ featured in McBeth Recital Hall. The concert will be held in McBeth, located in Ouachita’s Mabee Fine Arts Center, at 7:30 p.m., and it is free and open to the public.

Christie has preformed throughout the world in solo concerts and with symphonies and is known as one of the most talented organists of his generation. He has performed throughout Europe, Australia and North America and has served as organist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 1978.

He also has performed and recorded with major orchestras of Koblentz, London, Paris, Stuttgart and Vienna as well as Baltimore, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco and Seattle.

“We are so fortunate to be able to have an artist of his caliber on our campus,” said Dr. Ouida Keck, Addie Mae Maddox Professor of Music and coordinator of OBU’s keyboard studies program. “While he has played concerts all over the world, this is his first time to play in Arkansas. It will be a rare opportunity to hear our OBU organ played by the organist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra.”

Christie will begin the concert with “La Béatitude” from Charles Piroye’s Pièces choisies, followed by “Ciaccona in C” from Bernardo Storace’s Selva di Varie Compositioni d’Intavolatura and three variations of the Dutch tune “Daphne.” He

will then perform his own transcription of Antonio Vivaldi’s “Concerto in D Major, RV 93,” followed by “Contrapunctus XI à 4 (triple fugue)” from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Art of Fugue (BWV 1080).

Next, Christie will present his own composition “Élégie,” the fifth movement (“Acclamations”) from Jean Langlais’ Suite Médiévale and “Sicilienne” by Erland von Koch. He will conclude the concert with “Final,” the third movement from Alexandre Guilmant’s “Sonata I in D Minor, Op. 42.”

In addition to the concert, Christie will host a workshop Monday, Oct. 14, at 3 p.m. in McBeth Recital Hall for OBU keyboard students that is open and free to the general public. Christie will demonstrate how the organ works and also discuss the pieces he will play in his concert the following evening. Keck notes that the lecture will “help the listener appreciate his recital even more.”

One of Christie’s most significant achievements was in 1979 when he became the first American to win first place in the International Organ Competition in Bruges, Belgium. At the same competition he won the Prize of the Audience. It was the first time in the competition’s history that one organist won both awards. Christie has also been awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the New England School of Law, the Outstanding Alumni Award from the New England Conservatory and numerous prizes for his recordings.

He is the founder and music director of Ensemble Abendmusik, a period instrument orchestra and chorus. He holds positions as distinguished artist in residence at the College of the Holy Cross, professor of organ at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and college organist at Wellesley College.

The concert will honor former Ouachita faculty member Russell Hodges, who recently retired

as associate professor of music after 35 years at Ouachita. In addition to his duties teaching organ, piano, church music, music theory and general education courses, Hodges served as music librarian and was instrumental in the installation of Ouachita’s Reuter Organ.

“He was responsible for working with the Reuter Company to design the organ, and he supervised the installation of it 25 years ago,” Keck said.

For more information about the organ concert and workshop, contact Dr. Ouida Keck at kecko@ obu.edu or (870) 245-5352. n

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Netflix not living up to Blockbuster

By NOAH HUTCHINSON Opinions Editor @Hutch15

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ouldn’t it be awesome if Netflix actually had good movies? So whenever you inform your suitemate that you “drink their milkshake” after you block that gatorade bottle they’ve tried to throw from the couch to the trashcan for the third time in a row and they don’t get the reference, you could just watch “There Will Be Blood” right then and there? Or what if they had all the new releases as soon as they came out on DVD so you could show your more fiscally responsible friends why exposing yourself to “Pacific Rim” as early as possible was totally worth $14 (or your soulmate’s still beating heart for that matter). What if it had a virtual concession stand, so you could download your snacks as soon as you wanted to watch a movie?

We had that once. It was called Blockbuster.

I spent last Saturday night watching the 2004 remake of “The Stepford Wives” while eating a blueberry pop tart I got out of a vending machine. Don’t weep for me. As I wondered how long it would take for the unsettlingly chewy toaster pastry to kill me, I could feel my mind melting under the blazing intensity of the nonsense I was allowing into my head. In that moment, I knew exactly how Icarus felt when he flew too close to the sun. We could’ve stopped at Blockbuster, but we had to try and go higher. Now look where we are.

Blockbuster did everything right that Netflix is cur-

rently doing wrong. First and foremost was the fact that you could find just about anything you wanted in a Blockbuster. The main function of Blockbuster was to rent new releases. They had entire walls dedicated to the last big box office hits to come out on DVD. Because of this, not only could you mosey on in and pick up a copy of the latest and greatest, you could find almost any classic movie you wanted. The outer walls may have belonged to the new releases, but the main body of the store was nothing but old movies.

Because of the fact that your average Blockbuster customer was just looking to pick up the last thing they missed in theaters, the old movies were always ripe for the picking. In all my time accumulating classic movie knowledge through my local Blockbuster, they were hardly ever out of what I was looking for.

I can honestly say that I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it weren’t for Blockbuster, because without Blockbuster I would’ve never memorized every one liner from every 80’s action movie in existence. If I’d have gotten my action movie knowledge from Netflix, it would’ve been all that modern-day garbage where the characters are a quarter of an inch deep and don’t even have enough pizzaz to tell somebody to “hold this” before they shoot them at point blank range with a grenade launcher.

Earlier I mentioned the fact that Netflix can’t provide you with snacks, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that I bought snacks at Blockbuster. If you ever bought snacks at a Blockbuster, you probably smell like a sick person. However, you had to leave the house to go to Blockbuster. When you get all nice and cozy as you get ready to watch a movie on NetFlix, you don’t want to leave the house. That defeats the purpose of being able to stream your movies straight off the internet. If you were already leaving the house

Student predicts ice cream, suggests future changes

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ast semester, on almost a daily basis, I would find myself sitting in the student center talking with my friends and telling them how the student center could be complete if it only served ice cream. Well, someone important must have overheard me because the student center now serves delicious Blue Bell ice cream (that it runs out of far too quickly). So, you’re welcome for the ice cream, student body.

Since last time I just nonchalantly made a suggestion of a tiny improvement to the student center and it actually happened, I decided to see how powerful I truly am and what I can make happen by writing out the following list of just a few minor suggestions to make the wonderful place of Ouachita that we all call home, even more wonderful.

5.) Extended library hours. Raise your hand if you always finish studying by 11 o’clock… Oh? No one? It’s awkward and disruptive when you get in your study grind and just when you’re really making progress, 11 o’clock hits and you’re kicked out of the library and forced to go find a new place to study.

But where can you go?

The student center is still too noisy at 11 and it’s too hard to focus and get things done in your room where you have TV and roommates to distract you, not to mention the comfy bed calling your name. Even just a one hour extension to midnight on week nights would make a big difference, and I’m pretty sure a large chunk of the student body starts their Sunday homework way before 6 p.m. and having the library open earlier would be much better than being cooped up to study in a dorm all afternoon.

4.) The Fine Art: Art and Fine Art: Music requirements need a big makeover.

No offense to the wonderful professors who teach these courses, but very few students care about or will ever use the music and art history information they are forced to learn in these CORE classes.

Why not do something fun and practical for the courses instead ― something students will actually enjoy and be able

to use such as learning how to play an instrument or make pottery?

I’m not a music major, but I’m taking a guitar class this semester. Why can’t that count for my music CORE? I’m pretty sure being able to play guitar is way more fun and practical than being able to tell the difference between compositions of the Baroque period and compositions of the Renaissance period. But really. Practical skills would be much more useful in the long run.

3.) Yay, October is here and soon it won’t be ridiculously hot and humid all the time! If only there were some convenient and comfortable place to study outside… The lawn between the library and the mega-structure of academic buildings would be perfect for outside studying if there were anywhere to sit other than those tiny stone benches that are really only for looking at. All we need are a few picnic tables and chairs out on the lawn and I’m pretty sure it would be a mega-hit.

You could study with a nice view in great weather, without having to hike all the way down to Speer with a hammock or a blanket for the ground, and with the location right in the middle of campus you could study and still be conveniently close to your room, food and friends whenever they walk by. Yeah, there are a few tables at the back of the student center, but does anyone ever go out there? Nope. Because those tables are dirty, the view isn’t great and there are no nice, shady trees to sit under.

2.) Remember when I said that the student center would be complete if it only served ice cream? I lied. Now that the student center actually does serve ice cream, I’m realizing that what it really needs to be truly complete is to serve breakfast at Chick-fil-A. Anyone who disagrees with that is un-American.

I would have zero problems waking up even earlier for my 8:30 class to get Chicken Minis for breakfast every morning. Having Chicken Minis on campus would pretty much make my life…

1.) Now the last, but most urgent of my suggestions. To Sodexo and the wonderful employees in the caf who work so hard everyday and who we all appreciate greatly: please invest in a second ketchup dispenser. One is not enough.

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God teaches in dissapointment, surpasses high expectations

By TORI ABELLERA Guest Columnist @ToriAbellera

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here are two types of people in the world: The kind that hear their alarm go off in the morning and hop out of bed to start the day and the kind that hear their alarm go off in the morning about 10 minutes after it first started going off.

I have always been a snoozer, so whenever my alarm went off at 4:50 in the morning my first thought was, “let’s reschedule.”

It was a struggle convincing myself to wake up, but eventually I was able to. My three friends and I all had trouble waking up that morning since we were not able to get to bed until about 2 a.m. Because of our lollygagging, we were behind schedule.

After grabbing some coffee to go, we set forth on our way to climb Pinnacle Mountain in Little Rock to watch the sunrise. Realizing that we were about 10 minutes behind schedule, I thought to myself as we walked up the mountain, “Is this really worth it? We’re probably going to miss it anyway.” For once I wasn’t asleep at the time the sun would rise.

The thought of possibly not making it in time bothered me so much.

Pinnacle is an incredibly easy mountain to climb. However, after merely two hours of sleep-climbing, any mountain seems like climbing Mount Everest. I felt myself feeling drearier the more I trudged on.

About half way up the mountain, the thought of the trip being a dud basically flooded my mind. I started preparing myself to be ready to be disappointed just in case all we saw was blaring light from a sun that had already risen. I started making up a plan of how I was going to cheer up my friends if they were also feeling bummed about the outcome of our trip. I was totally prepared for failure.

Nearing the top of the mountain, I felt weaker than ever. Without the beautiful goal in my mind that once was, the leisurely climb felt like a daunting task. With my last bit of en-

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to go get your movie, stopping by Walmart to pick up a bag of gummy worms and a Dr. Pepper wasn’t that big of a deal. The only way leaving the house for snacks before a Netflix viewing session is acceptable is if you’re planning on spending the weekend marathoning “Breaking Bad” in its entirety. Never go into battle without your rations.

On top of everything else, going to Blockbuster was fun. Some movies do inspire audience participation and have the ability to bring people together.

If you can watch “Predator” all the way through without laughing and giving the person next to you a hearty bicep-flex/handshake, you probably have a promising future clubbing baby seals. That being said, watching movies isn’t a social activity. When you had to drive to Blockbuster, you had 10-15 minutes of dead time where at least one of you couldn’t be on your phone. How often does that happen? That drive to Blockbuster was valuable, semi-uninterrupted conversation time that can be hard to find now.

Then there were always those moments of “Yeah, life’s really just like that part in ‘RoboCop’ where...”

“I’ve never seen ‘Robocop.’”

“You’ve never seen ‘RoboCop?’ Get in the car.

We’re going to Blockbuster.”

That experience is much less dramatic nowadays.

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ergy, I pushed myself up to the top most part of the mountain and instantly my jaw dropped.

After trying to take in the beauty of the colorful sky, only one powerful thought remained in my mind, "How could I have ever thought that a view so vast could pale in comparison to my own expectations?"

Simply put, I thought that my unordinary effort to pick myself up required an extraordinary outcome despite my hope being lost.

Everyone has a time in their life when they think, “If I take control of this situation, I can fix it and then it will be good.”

All the while, we forget that God has plans. I think it’s good to remember that truth as we are choosing careers, choosing majors, choosing relationships, etc.

My thought that His sky might not be “as good as I hoped” was ridiculous, sunrise or not.

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“There are two more types of people in the world: the kind that focus on their own expectations and the kind who let God completely blow their expectations out of the water.”

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Tigers remain undefeated with 31-14 win

By BRANDON SMITH Sports Information

The OBU Tiger football team improved their season record to 4-0 on Saturday, defeating the Southwestern Oklahoma State University Bulldogs by a score of 31-14.

Junior quarterback Benson Jordan led the Tigers to victory as he threw for 364 yards and one touchdown pass that went to freshman Kendall Bruce.

Benson also added a rushing TD. Junior Steven Kehner led OBU in rushing with 52 yards and a touchdown run.

Freshman receiver Ke’Vontae Pope had a breakout performance for the Tigers, catching 14 passes for 135 yards. Ouachita totaled 460 yards of offense and finished with 25 first downs.

Junior kicker Matthew Ehasz also pitched in offensively with three field goals.

The Tiger defense had their way all game, only giving up 133 yards of offense.

OBU had such success by forcing the Bulldogs to punt seven times and only allowing four third-down conversions for SWOSU. The Bulldogs also were limited to a possession time of

18 minutes and a total of nine first downs. Last week’s GAC Defensive Player of the Week, senior Antwion Patterson recorded nine tackles and two sacks. Senior Augustine UmeEzeoke added eight tackles, and senior Rickey Brown had seven tackles, one sack and a forced fumble that he also recovered.

Ouachita fell behind early in the first quarter after a Bulldog interception return for a touchdown.

The Tigers had a short memory, however, responding with a field goal by Ehasz, a touchdown run by Kehner, a second field goal by Ehasz and touchdown pass from Jordan to Bruce. The first half came to a close with the Tigers holding a 20-7 lead.

The second half was very similar to the first, as SWOSU scored first, but then the Tigers took over. Jordan scored on a one yard TD run and Ehasz got his third field goal. The Tigers last score came on a safety that gave OBU a 31-14 lead that lasted the rest of the game.

The Tigers are at home next week as they try to keep their undefeated season alive against Northwestern Oklahoma State. Kickoff is at 1:00 p.m. n

Dr. Wesley Kluck z Courtesy BENSON JORDAN, Tigers’ quarterback, prepares for the snap alongside OBU runningback, Chris Rycraw. Jordan threw for 364 yards and ran for a touchdown against the Southwestern Oklahoma State Bulldogs on Oct. 5; the Tigers came out with a 31-14 win, maintaining their undefeated record.

Lady Tigers lose fight against Texas Southern

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Dr. Wesley Kluck z Courtesy TARA WAIT sets the ball up for another Ouachita point. Wait, along with the Lady Tigers, fell to Texas Southern 1-3 on Oct. 5, after a tough fought battle.

Lady Tigers soccer ends in 1-1 draw

By BRANDON SMITH Sports Information

The Lady Tigers played 90 minutes of regular time soccer, plus 20 minutes of overtime on Sunday but still ended in a draw, tying the Southwestern Oklahoma State Bulldogs 1-1.

The top two teams in the Great American Conference were neck and neck throughout the entire match. Both teams took a total of 15 shots each, resulting in a single goal for each team.

The first half featured excellent defense played by both teams. OBU grabbed the first lead of the game, however, when sophomore Haley Hatcher scored her 12th goal of the season to give the Lady Tigers a 1-0 lead. Hatcher’s goal was the lone goal of the half.

The second half featured a little more offense from both sides, in which the Lady Tigers took nine shots and the Bulldogs took seven.

Regular time ended in the 1-1 draw, creating two tenminute halves of overtime. At the end of overtime, the score was still 1-1, ending the game in a tie.

Lady Tiger senior Sarah Broyles had a game high seven saves as the team’s keeper, and Hatcher led both teams with six shots.

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The Ouachita Tiger volleyball team lost their match on Saturday to the Texas Southern Lady Tigers (22-25, 25-15, 2522, 25-23).

OBU won the first set over TSU by three points, in which Ouachita senior Kelsi Bodine had five kills and only one error. Ouachita won the first set by outscoring Texas Southern by two kills, and finishing with an attack percentage of .220.

Texas Southern then went on the win the next three sets, winning the last two sets by a

combined total of five points.

TSU, an NCAA Division I team, had a total of 54 kills to OBU’s 48, and also had 12 blocks to OBU’s six. Texas Southern won the match with a total attack percentage of .214. Although OBU finished the match with an attack percentage of only .099, the Tigers played the sets tight and showed good effort on offense with a total of 162 attacks.

TSU’s kill leaders were freshman Kali Fluke with 13, and senior Veronica Azubuike and sophomore Robyn Shannon both scoring 12. Texas Southern junior Sarah Wooten

led both teams with 47 assists.

Azubuike also finished with 10 digs, earning a double-double.

Bodine led both teams with 14 kills and an attack percentage of .345. Sophomore Abby Pickett scored 11 kills, and senior Faith Avalos scored 10.

Junior Tara Wait finished with a double-double, earning 43 assists and 11 digs, and junior Kelley Ballard led the Tigers with three blocks.

The Ouachita Tigers were on the road this week at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia. The Tigers lost 1-3. Their next game is October 16 at Texas A&M-Commerce. n

GAC Players of the Week “I went from

being Player of the Week to making it twice in a row. I was probably more

Antwion Patterson

For the second consecutive week, senior defensive end

Antwion Patterson was named GAC Defensive Player of the

Week. He recorded ten tackles, including two sacks in Ouachita

Baptist’s 31-14 win at Southwestern Oklahoma State. His pres-

sure from the Tiger defensive front was key in holding SWOSU to only nine first downs and 133 yards of total offense, which was 313 yards less than the Bulldogs averaged entering the game.

In weeks four and five, Patterson had 19 tackles, 6.5 tackles

for loss, 4.5 sacks, one forced fumble, one fumble recovery, two pass break-ups and one safety.

Antwion Patterson ranks first in the GAC in sacks (1.3) and in tackles for a loss (2.1) per game. He ranks in the top 10 in both categories in Div. II.

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than anybody

Broyles were named Great American Conference Players of the

to hear that.

You get lucky to make it once, to make it twice in a row is a huge blessing.”

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Sophomore forward Haley Hatcher and senior keeper Sarah Week for week five of the women’s soccer season.

Hatcher received her second conference player of the week

award this season, after finding the back of the net three times last week.

She scored twice in a Friday victory at Northwestern Okla-

homa State and tallied the Tigers’ only goal in Sunday’s 1-1 tie versus fellow GAC unbeaten Southwestern Oklahoma State.

Hatcher has 12 goals in nine games this year, which leads the Great American Conference and is tied for second in NCAA Division II.

Broyles recorded a 0.54 goals against average during a 1-0-1 week for Ouachita Baptist. The senior keeper had two saves

and did not allow a score in 59 minutes of action at Northwest-

ern Oklahoma State. She then turned away seven of eight shots in Sunday’s 1-1 double overtime stalemate at Southwestern Oklahoma State.

Sophomore defender Morgan Allen also was named as an

honorable mention for her performance on defense last week.

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Lifelong player leads soccer team Football Glossary Nathan Gay named captain of team, prepares for season What most popular

By DIXON LAND

Assistant Sports Editor @DixonCLand Nathan Gay, a senior business management major, started playing club soccer in Little Rock at age four.

“I’ve loved soccer since I was very young,” Gay said.

Gay played soccer with the WFA Capitals, one of the premier teams in Arkansas during his high school years in addition to playing for his school.

Gay spoke highly of Little Rock Christian Academy, where he went to high school.

The Little Rock Christian Soccer program has had tremendous success lately.

As a junior and senior, Gay led his team to back-to-back state championships as well as earning All-State Honors his senior year.

Gay decided on Ouachita after he received interest from the program.

His older sister was a four-year starter on the OBU women’s soccer team and helped Nathan get exposure.

“My sister and my friends were a big reason why I looked at Ouachita. I fell in love with the school when I started looking into it,” Gay said. “I looked at Dallas schools as

well, but Ouachita was perfect for me.”

Gay says he loves that while OBU is small, everyone is competitive in athletics.

He was elected team captain for this season and with 17 freshmen on the team, He is expected to be a leader.

“It’s a great honor to teach these guys the ropes,” Gay said. “The seniors try to teach by example. We want them to learn work ethic and develop a greater passion for the game.”

Since becoming captain, he has tried to instill in the team a passion to learn and work hard. He said that the worst thing for him to do is to leave the field after a game and know that he didn’t give it his all.

When asked about the season, Gay said that the Tigers are “young, but very talented.” Gay is confident in the success the Tigers will have.

He acknowledged that the expectations are high, but also says that the Tigers have a very tough schedule against some very talented and experienced teams.

“We want to finish the season over .500,” Gay said.

OBU soccer is not in a conference this season so they are relying solely on wins to get into the tournament.

The Tigers are playing top teams to gain success and get an at-large

bid to the regional tournament. The road will not be easy with 17 freshmen on the team.

“We have to step up as a team,” Gay said. “Everyone has to step up and make plays in order for us to win. Everyone has to do their part.”

Whether or not the Tigers finish the season in the tournament, Gay said he is proud of his time on the team.

“I’m proud of what we have accomplished the past couple of years,” he said. “There’s no animosity on this team and we are all a family. We realize that our job, while partly is to win games, is more importantly to spread the gospel as an example. We want to glorify Christ in what we love, and for us, that’s soccer.”

Gay said that after college, he would love to continue to play soccer.

“Last summer I played on a semipro team in Mississippi and loved it,” he said. “Physically, I could keep up, but it’s a different game mentally. It’s something I will have to really prepare for.”

Outside of soccer, Gay says he’s looked into several opportunities in business and would love to pursue a career in business management.

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Velasquez set to take beating at UFC 166, Junior Dos Santos readies victory speech

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ccuracy is among one of the most important qualities in a good UFC fighter. Anderson Silva can front kick a guy straight in the mouth on the first try. John Jones can land a spinning-elbow from a mile away. Johnny Hendricks, the next soul to be fed to the immortal GSP, seems like there’s some invisible force pulling his fists toward people’s chins.

Junior Dos Santos, on the other hand, knocked a guy out by accidentally hitting him in the head with his calve.

Cain Velasquez is set to hand Junior Dos Santos the heavyweight title back at UFC 166 on October 19, and he had better have gone through a “Rocky 4” training montage if he expects to do anything other than that.

Velasquez is a great fighter, I’m not denying that.

I’ve had nothing but respect for him ever since he tossed Lesnar across the ring when he first won the belt. He’s not what he’s talked up to be though, and being that Junior Dos Santos is exactly what he’s talked up to be, I think he’s in trouble come next Saturday.

Everybody acts like Velasquez made some kind of huge showing when he won the belt back from Dos Santos, but that’s not what I saw. Early on in the fight you’d have thought Dos Santos was coated with butter. Every time Velasquez went for a take down he wound up face down on the ground with Dos Santos standing across the cage from him waiting for him to try it again. Then Velasquez finally landed a good punch. Such a good punch in fact, that Dos Santos spent the rest of the fight stumbling around the ring like a drunk.

For a heavyweight fight, that’s not that impressive.

When a 230 lb. guy punches you in the face, there’s a pretty good chance it’s going to do some damage.

That’s one of the risks of fighting in the heavyweight class. Unexpected knockouts happen all the time.

Velasquez, however, couldn’t knock Dos Santos out even in his compromised state.

Aside from that, in all the interviews leading up to this fight everybody has been talking about what great conditioning Velasquez had last time. That’s bologna. After that first big punch Dos Santos was a sitting duck, and Velasquez still couldn’t finish him because he was gassed. They keep showing highlights from the last fight of Velasquez breaking away from the clinch to string together a few combos, but they’re excluding the 20 minutes of huffing and puffing and standing around that went on in between.

Another thing that’s come up a lot leading up to this fight is Velasquez’s record. He’s undefeated except for his one loss to Dos Santos. Again though, that’s not that impressive for a heavyweight. Velasquez won the belt from Lesnar, and although Lesnar may have seriously raised the bar for who could and could not cut it in the heavyweight division, he was more of a force of nature than a skilled fighter. A bunch of chubby guys who get gassed in the first round are obviously going to get there faces smashed in if they try to fight a guy who has visible abs at 265 lbs. The only reason Lesnar was unstoppable was because he had a decent amount of conditioning and pecs that could feed a starving African child for 5 years. Unlike the fatties, that didn’t bother Velasquez because he actually eats and trains like a fighter and has the hip drive of a bulldozer. Since Lesnar retired, the reign of the chubby guys has returned. Neither Velasquez nor Dos Santos has fought a guy who looks like he could jog a mile without stopping since the last time they fought each other. When a welterweight says he’s 12 and one, it’s impressive. When a heavyweight says it, you can assume at least five of those guys were in the same shape as your neighbor who watches “wrastlin” every monday night.

As you can tell, my money’s on Dos Santos. All joking aside though, it’s going to be a fantastic fight even if it doesn’t make it out of the first round. If nothing else, I’d recommend anybody who likes MMA to get this pay-per-view just to see Daniel Cormier knock Roy Nelson back into the 80’s where that awful mullet belongs. n

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o football terms confuse you like they confuse us? Lucky for you, we’ve compiled a glossary of football words so you won’t spend one more Saturday afternoon not knowing what the announcers are talking about: Center. The most popular person on the team.

Chain Crew. Gangsters whose chains hang low.

Chop Block. …and drop it!

Draft. An alternative to bottled.

Draw. When your accent’s really thick.

Facemask. Like a mud mask facial.

Fair Catch. A guy without a girlfriend.

Flare. What I add to my shirts when I want them to sparkle.

Flea Flicker. A substitute for a curse word. (“He’s such a flea flicker! Ew!”) First Down. Whoever is the sleepiest.

Hail Mary. Bad theology.

Hashmark. Kind of like a hashtag.

Neutral Zone. The friend zone.

Pass Interference. For example, when Noah Hutchinson tries to make a pass at a woman and Sam Cushman interferes.

P.A.T. When you make sure nobody has a knife/ gun.

Pick. What you put in your hair if you have an afro.

Post. When you put stuff on Twitter.

Pylon. Going crazy at TCBY. Red Zone. Where the EEEs sit.

Return. What happens when you don’t try clothes on before you buy them.

Route. The biggest drink you can get at Sonic.

Running Back. When you forget your backpack and have to run back to your room.

Sack. Kind of like a bag, but less formal.

Safety. The campus police whose office is in Evans Student Center.

Scout. Those girls who sell cookies.

Shoulder Pads. A gross 80s fashion trend.

Sweep. What the maid does.

Tampa Two. When you have to potty in Florida.

Triple Threat Man. People like Tyler Davis, Will Richey and Caleb Conrad.

Touchback. Oh, that’s inappropriate.

Turnover. A flaky pastry.

Tuck Rule. A uniform rule at private schools.

Twelfth Man. Judas Iscariot.

Two-Minute Warning. What my mom says when I’m using all the hot water.

Two-Point Conversion. When you’re witnessing to one hot guy and another one is listening.

Two-a-Days. Vitamins, like One-a-Day men’s vitamins, but twice as good. n

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