Highway 7 South between Hot Springs and Arkadelphia is a twisting route to trav-el that is mostly two lanes.

Daily commuters of the route have to plan for the occasional slow driver or road maintenance to make it on time to where they need to be.

Some of those commuters are stu-dents living in Hot Springs and attending classes at Henderson.

Fortunately, for some of those stu-dents this will no longer be part of their daily or weekly routines.

Henderson, in partnership with Na-tional Park Community College, has leased the old Landmark Bank building in the downtown area of Hot Springs. The building is located at 201 Market St. and will become the HSU/NPCC Education

Center. The renovation of the building is to

start immediately making classrooms, a computer lab and faculty office space. The cost of the renovation is estimat-ed at $450,000 to be paid by the lessor. The monthly cost to lease the building is $10,648.

Henderson and NPCC are planning to hold classes in the building this coming fall semester for students in business and education.

The leasing of the building by Hender-son is part of a partnership with NPCC that has been going on for several years. Many students complete the first two years of their education at the community college and then transfer to the Hender-son program to complete their bachelor’s degrees.

Henderson is currently holding classes at NPCC with 92 students enrolled. When the new HSU/NPCC Education Center is

ready, Henderson students will start to at-tend classes there.

NPCC has a large campus that aver-ages 4,000 students a semester in a com-munity of over 50,000 residents.

Henderson’s decision to establish the satellite campus in Hot Springs is impor-tant to the community.

“Having access to a school locally where one can achieve a four-year degree will increase industry in Hot Springs,” Dr. Sally Carder, NPCC president, said. “It is a key point of interest for a business look-ing to relocate or establish that the city has access for students to achieve a four-year degree locally.”

There are no plans in place to expand the curriculum at the Education Center from business and education at the pres-ent time.

“We will expand the offerings, both in terms of courses and completed pro-grams, once we have had time to visit with

members of the community and deter-mine what they might be interested in,” Maralyn Sommer, interim provost and vice president for academic affairs, said via email.

NPCC has other partnerships and programs with four-year colleges so that students can complete a bachelor’s degree, but none has offered to establish a physi-cal presence in Hot Springs.

“HSU is the first four year college to establish a strong presence in Hot Springs,” Carder said.

In keeping with the philosophy of providing education for as many people in Henderson’s reach as possible, President Glen Jones, stated his support for the city in a press release issued Apr. 16.

“We believe in the future of Hot Springs and are committed to helping edu-cate the people in this area,” he said. “We wanted to make sure we could accommo-date that.”

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Earth Day is a symbolic day in which we take time to appreciate all the things about our planet that we usually take for granted.

On Tuesday, Heart and Key, Hender-son’s honorary service organization, held a campus cleanup which spanned all over the university.

The cleanup was organized to cel-ebrate Earth Day and to make the campus a cleaner place for students and visitors. Heart and Key invited several other Hen-derson organizations to take part in the event.

Heart and Key was founded in 1946 and is comprised of 30 members.

This organization is dedicated to de-veloping strong spirit amongst the Hen-derson student body.

Jonathan Eagle, senior biology major and president of Heart and Key, was re-sponsible for organizing the event.

“Heart and Key has conducted the campus cleanup event for many years,” Eagle wrote. “This is the first year that we have invited all organizations on campus to participate.”

Some of the organizations that took part in the event included: the Biology Club, Nursing Department, Student Gov-ernment Association, Alpha Kappa Psi Business Fraternity, and Math Club.

The organizations were assigned to clean the areas around their respective de-partments.

Representatives of the Math Club and Phi Mu Epsilon could be found cleaning the grounds surrounding Evans Hall.

Senior of secondary mathematics Ka-tie Roberts and senior of mathematics education Stephanie Trammell were two such individuals.

“We wanted to find a way to help on Earth Day,” Trammell said. “It’s good for campus to look good.”

Before the event, the various depart-ments were contacted by Heart and Key and asked to assist in picking up trash

around Henderson.“Earth Day is about giving back to the

earth as it’s given to us,” Roberts said. The area around Reynolds Science

Center was tackled by the Biology Club. Among those helping out were senior bi-ology major Jocelyn Anderson and junior business technology education major Me-linda Strike.

“Earth Day is a day to appreciate all Earth does for us,” Anderson said. “We want to help out and keep our campus clean.”

Students also wanted to promote awareness and keep litter from collecting on the campus in the future.

“We want to make students are more aware of the trash lying around and maybe help them stop throwing it on the ground,” Strike said.

This was the first year that the four students had taken part in the cleanup.

For participating in the event, each or-ganization was awarded a dogwood tree. They then had the option to keep it or plant it on campus with Heart and Key.

Heart and Key purchased the trees from the Biology Club to benefit their fundrais-er in support of the organization END7.

END7 provides medication that pro-tects children from diseases in underdevel-oped countries. There are seven diseases that are particularly problematic. Some cause blindness while others cause intesti-nal worm infections which are contracted through contact with the soil.

“For every 50 cents donated, one child can be protected from all seven of these neglected tropical diseases for one year,” Eagle wrote.

Heart and Key plans to plant the dog-wood trees in the ravine near Sturgis Hall.

“It is the optimal area for planting white flowering dogwoods,” Eagle wrote. “It has plenty of shade and soil that drains well.”

However, there is another reason why Heart and Key chose this location.

“We think it will make the walk across the bridge more enjoyable,” Eagle wrote. “Especially in the spring when the trees are in bloom.”

Hear t and Key hosts campus cleanup, plants trees

Henderson leases Landmark for expansion

Katrina Goulbourne:Henderon’s Idol

Junior communication major wins it all at HendersonState University’s 2014 Henderson Idol. Haley Patillo wonfourth place with a $200 bookstore voucher, Maegan Esteswon third place and $400, Jairus Sanders won secondplace and $750, and Katrina Goulbourne won first placeand a $1500 prize.

HSU baseball strikes out Reddie baseball finishes the regular season with three losses at OBU.

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“You learned about something yesterday,” Amanda Woo-

ten, teacher intern said,“it was on your test.”

Miss Wooten was giving a lesson about living and nonliving things, after her second grade class had inspected the playground for examples and recorded them in their notebooks.

Once the kids made it outside, they split up into groups and for a minute put on the facade that they were going

to genuinely search for objects and be-ings to list.

Quickly though, the children were climbing the slides and audibly marking them as nonliving.A few asked Wooten if they could count their discoveries,

ranging from multiple trees to slides. Some children wrote lists on t-charts and others drew representations of their discoveries.

Now, back in the classroom review-ing their journals, the kids reflected. Wooten prompted them to name a living thing used to make nonliving things.

The specific item appeared on a re-cent test.

“At the end of the social studies test,” Wooten said.

A young girl raised her hand with confidence and when her turn came, she quieted the room.

“Cotton,” the girl said.

“Yes,” Wooten said. “What’s made from cotton?”

“Clothes,” a girl said.“Cotton balls,” a boy said.“Cotton candy,” another boy said.After a few chuckles and some ex-

citement at the mere mention of candy, Miss Wooten smiled wide and softly cor-rected the boy.

“It’s just loads of sugar,” Wooten

said. “They just call it cotton.”Wooten, like many interns is unpaid.

The independent, non-profit newsroom ProPublica has been gathering infor-mation on this standard, as it exists in America.

The Department of Labor has re-leased fact sheets and began investigat-ing the legality of unpaid internships. The Department of Labor defines “em-ploy’ as “suffer or permit to work” via one of their fact sheets. To help bolster their findings, ProPublica has enlisted the help of college journalists and pub-lications. The Oracle responded to help gather stories about unpaid interns.

The Teachers College is at the heart of Henderson’s legacy, from 1929 to 1967 Henderson was called Henderson State Teachers College. The Oracle part-nered with ProPublica this semester to observe the Teachers College.

While interns must pay tuition and may receive financial aid for that pur-pose, there are no stipends compensat-ing teachers for lost wages. The interns cannot be paid in this program due to state statute.

“The major reason for them being unpaid is state statute,” Judy Harrison, teachers college dean said. “Until that changes, we could not pay even if we had the money, which we do not. K-12 schools do not have the money either.”

Which raises the question, would it be possible for the state to find a budget to pay interns?

“The largest obstacle is resources,” Shane Broadway, Director of the Arkan-sas Department of Higher Education, said. “A lot of agencies would do that.”

Broadway has spoken with the Ar-kansas Association of Colleges and Em-ployers about increasing the opportuni-ties for internships.

“It makes what you’re learning in the classroom more solid,” Broadway said.

Broadway believes that leg-islators would be interested, but doesn’t hear much about the issue.

“It’s not something I hear about on a daily basis,” Broadway said. “It would take some real leadership to bring this up.”

While Broadway believes there is in-terest he expressed that the state would need to settle more immediate issues first.

“Anything’s possible,” Broadway said. “But it depends on the economic situation of a state that keeps a balanced budget with limited resources. We need incoming leaders to have a consensus and have those big issues settled before they can look at new issues.”

ProPublica’s website features 38 sto-ries dealing with the issue and growing every day. From stories dealing with the price of internships to the government’s recent actions in giving restitution to un-paid interns, such as the “Black Swan” interns whose work helped create a $107 million box office hit back in 2010, ac-cording to BoxOfficeMojo.com.

The Teachers College interns answer to TaLisha Givan, Director of Admis-sions and Clinical Experiences. Givan oversees interns as part of the Partners in Education partnership, formerly the Alliance for Continuing Excellence in Education.

“The purpose was for K12 schools and higher education to work together to improve teacher education prepara-tion,” Harrison said.

A Winthrop Rockefeller grant fund-ed the Alliance in 1991, in an effort to connect K-12 schools with higher edu-cation institutions. Hot Springs, De-Queen, Bryant and Hope were the initial partners, joined by Arkadelphia the fol-lowing year, according to Harrison.

Givan takes her work seriously, but has a sense of humor as well. “You see that drawer over there?” Givan said. “That’s full of shoes.”

Givan likes to change her shoes throughout the day. She uses her per-sona as a tool to motivate interns. Givan guides students through their 8-week assignments at a public school. Interns must teach two different grades.

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HAND RAISERS Amanda Wooten takes answers to a question during the internship she completed this semester at Central Primary School.

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They must also teach in their content areas. An early childhood education ma-jor would perhaps teach kindergarten or first grade, then second, third or fourth grade. Perhaps they would start in kin-dergarten and move on to second grade, like Wooten.

“Interns have worked very hard to even have the opportunity to intern.” Givan said.

Interns must meet or exceed content area requirement, pass national exams in the specialization, maintain satisfactory GPA, apply to the program, undergo FBI and state police background checks and even return to school a week before other students to receive special orienta-tion.

Interns must learn to work with co-operating teachers, how to dress profes-sionally, how to care for students with disabilities and train in cultural under-standing. That’s just what Harrison listed off hand.

Once the internship starts, the in-terns have supervisors in their content area and a clinical supervisor.

These teachers are trained in the Danielson framework. A teaching ap-proach developed by Charlotte Daniel-son who is a world-renowned educator who advises governments on their edu-cation efforts, according to danielson-group.org.

“The world doesn’t need teachers who don’t want to teach,” Harrison said. “The worst answer you could give when asked, ‘Why do you want to be a teach-er?’ is ‘I get three months off ’ or ‘I could have the same hours as my kids.’”

The role of teachers is one of great importance to Harrison.

“Some kids only feel safe at school,” Harrison said.

Even children that have good home

lives still need teachers that can emulate a home environment in the school.

“In loco parentis,” Harrison said, using the Latin phrase for “in place of a parent.” “The school’s basically that role.”

Harrison stressed that effective teachers are not only responsible for education, but are also responsible for lives.

“They should all realize that they might have to give their lives for their students.” Harrison said. “and they’ve gotta be willing to do that.”

Harrison believes that teachers are important to society and that internships can be difficult for students.

“Many teacher interns have families

to support.” Harrison said. “If Arkansas or the nation could find a way to pay in-terns, I would support it.”

Now with the implementation of common core standards, the role of in-terns is changing.

The interns were once able to spe-cifically tailor lesson plans to the needs of the class, but now there is a very rigid set of goals that must be met and interns have less power over what they choose to teach.

“They get to choose how they pres-ent it,” Harris said.

Mrs. Amanda Harris is Wooten’s co-operating teacher this semester. A couple of Amandas teaching in the same room. “Some folks think they’re just gonna

color all day,” Harris said. “You get to the classroom and the teacher’s person-ality might be completely different. I just walk out and, you know, give it to her. So they don’t keep looking at me as the teacher.”

Mrs. Harris is still a presence in the classroom though. She’s there for questions and discipline. A girl slid on the floor on the way to Harris’ desk. “What was that?” Harris said. “That’s just goofy.”

The classroom has to be like a home for children.

“When they’re here,” Harris said, “I’m their school mama is what I tell ‘em.”

In loco parentis.

*Graphic by Brett Little

WAGE STATEMENT If interns made minimum wage the graph shows how much money that would be for Henderson’s teaching interns alone. The graph also shows the amount of tuition paid for a standard three-hour internship represented for in-state and out-of-state tuition.

Comic illustrator and writer Colleen Doran spent two days at Henderson last week introducing students to her artistic processes and discussing struggles in the comics industry.

On Thursday, Doran gave a lecture in a Huie Library classroom that covered many of the technical elements of her work.

Doran followed the lecture with a question and answer session in Arkansas Hall on Friday afternoon before heading to Little Rock to appear at the Arkansas Literary Festival on Saturday.

“Art students and comics fans are re-ally fortunate to be here at Henderson,” Dr. Travis Langley, professor of psy-chology, said. “To be able to hear peo-ple like Colleen speak is really unique.”

During her lecture and presentation in front of around 30 students and fac-ulty, Doran walked through her inspira-tions and the process of creating some of her more famous illustration work like the graphic novel “Gone to Ameri-kay” and her first major work “A Distant Soil,” which she began writing and illus-trating at age 12.

She also displayed work from some of her more high-profile projects like

her collaboration with singer Tori Amos, her work on the comic adaptation of the television show “The Vampire Diaries” and a sneak preview of an upcoming project that attendees were asked to not talk about outside of the room.

Doran explained her style as an art-ist as something she likes to call “world building.”

“I want you to think that I’ve actually been to this place, and I want you to feel like you have too,” she said.

On Friday, Doran sat down with the Comics as Communication class and members of the Comics Arts Club to answer questions about herself and her work.

While some of the questions were light in nature, she didn’t hesitate to get into more serious topics like the finan-cial and legal struggles of comic book artists and writers and the difficulty of being a woman in a male dominated in-dustry.

She spoke on the difficult subjects with a good sense of humor and candor while remaining very passionate about her experiences.

“She’s smart, funny, has amazing in-sights, and really shoots from the hip on a lot of issues,” Langley said.

Doran’s “shooting from the hip” re-garding legal and financial issues that art-ists struggle with included talking about

her own financial problems in the past. “I was attending the Oscars one year,

and then the next year I was trying to figure out how to pay the mortgage,” she said. “That’s just the nature of the busi-ness.”

She also spoke at great length about legal issues like the legalese of big com-pany contracts, dealing with Hollywood and understanding the difference be-tween copyrights and trademarks.

Doran said that she’s always been very interested and concerned with the legal and financial aspects of her indus-try and has even served as an advocate for the rights of artists and writers in Washington D.C.

When speaking about the difficulties that she has faced as a woman working in the male dominated comics business, Doran didn’t hesitate to say that she was harassed her first year in the industry at age 16.

“The early years were really hard. I dealt with so much meanness and harass-ment,” she said. “They basically tried to harass women out of the industry.”

She said that the harassment actually helped motivate her to stay in the indus-try because she refused to let them get away with it and has never been afraid to call men out when they have harassed or threatened her. While Doran said that she believes that the overall culture has

begun to change in the industry, she still sees women struggling and is often sought after for advice from younger fe-male artists and writers on how to han-dle instances of harassment.

Doran doesn’t see herself as a role model though. She doesn’t believe that she can give herself such a label but is always willing to help out other females in the business.

In the end, students left thoroughly entertained and enlightened by Doran’s strong character and her candid respons-es to questions on difficult topics.

“It was awesome to hear such a strong female voice that isn’t an over-the-top, bra-burning feminist,” Andi McLeod, senior theatre major, said.

The Huie Library is known for host-ing art shows open to the public. On Tuesday, another of Henderson’s art stu-dents displayed her work in the second floor gallery.

Student Marguerite Palmer held her senior exhibition, titled “Moments,” for an audience of students and staff.

Palmer was very enthusiastic when discussing her art.

“I like to use different values,” she said.

From linoleum prints to cyanotypes, Palmer’s gallery featured a heavy focus on print based artwork.

“I’d never done cyanotype printing until this semester,” Palmer said.

While cyanotype prints are common,

they are only a fraction of the types of prints that make up her work.

Many of the pieces featured were also parts of sets. One example includes the prints “Idled Gaze,” “Idled Gaze II” and “Idled Gaze III.”

Within minutes of the exhibition opening, several art students flooded into the gallery to observe and discuss the pieces.

“It makes me feel excited to do print making next semester,” Kayla Allen, freshman graphic design major, said.

Not only were the students discuss-ing the prints and how they looked but also the detail and effort Palmer put into her work.

“It’s a nice show,” Joshua Bradley, freshman art education major, said. “I know it took a lot of effort to create these works.”

As many of the people who attended

the gallery noted, Palmer’s work includes the use of dark colors and shading. One example is Palmer’s work “Wrapped Up,” which features a heavy amount of black, white and dark green. With darker colors, some may assume that the artwork in question would appear grim or depressing. Palmer’s work, however, proves that dark colors can convey emo-tions that are not at all negative.

Some of the pieces, instead of inspir-ing feelings of dread due to the color, would make one feel a sense of mystery and passion upon viewing it.

While much of the artwork had black coloring, it was the shading that really helped create the moods. Some prints had very light shading which gave a much more atmospheric feel to the work as a whole.

Another attribute that was discussed by the people who attended the exhibi-

tion was the detail Palmer put into the appearance of the people in her prints. From the accessories they wore to the expressions on their face, those featured in the prints were detailed to an absolute point.

In past art exhibitions this semester, prints have been featured but not to the intensity of Palmer’s exhibition. Palmer’s focus on print work added a depth that could be noticed upon looking at each individual piece.

By creating prints that are part of a set, Palmer’s work expresses various lev-els of detail from different perspectives.

Palmer’s art exhibition gave Hen-derson students another opportunity to view artwork from a fellow student. With more and more student artists, the gallery in the Huie Library will continue featuring exhibitions for students to en-joy.

DORAN

Cartoonist and comics artist Colleen Doran visits campus

‘Moments,’ Marguerite Palmer’s photography exhibit opens in Huie

A monster summer for movies

The Purge: Anarchy(July 18th)

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How to Train Your Dragon 2(June 13th)

T he first rule of the summer movie season: you have to talk about the summer movie season.The second rule of the summer movie season: you HAVE to talk about the summer movie season.That’s right, folks, it’s the Christmas season of movie lovers, and it is going to be a good one. We’ve

got a few superheroes flicks, a plethora of sequels, raunchy comedies and even the start of a few new franchises. So here is my list of the top 10 summer movies you cannot miss this year.

To be honest, I wasn’t a huge fan of the 2013 original. I loved the concept, but the execution was all wrong. The sequel, however, looks different and actually pretty good.

We are finally getting to see what we all wanted in the first one—the mayhem of the purge. It follows the story of a man seeking revenge for the death of his son who picks up and protects a few people after they are stranded when the purge com-mences. It’s bound to be way better than its predecessor and filled with memorable moments.

This sequel to DreamWorks Animation’s 2010 hit has a lot to live up to. The original was so good and unique and captured something most animated movies couldn’t.

Set five years after the original, Hiccup and Toothless stumble upon Hiccup’s lost mother who has a special connection to dragons. Now the two of them and the rest of the crew must battle dragon hunter Drago Bludvist. Hopefully this movie has the same wow factor the first one did and soars above expectations.

*Photo courtesy of Universal Pictures *Photo courtesy of 20th Century Fox Film Corporation

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles(August 8th)

Neighbors(May 9th)

Believe me, my expectations for this one are low, but it’s the freaking ninja turtles. Over the last few months, my faith in this film has slowly started to return. This Michael Bay (eh....) produced reboot serves as an origin story for the four brothers who must stop Shredder from taking over the city and become heroes in a half shell.

Some of my concerns are: a white Shredder, Michael Bay, Whoopi Goldberg, Michael Bay, Megan Fox as April O’Neil and Michael “Let Me Blow This Up” Bay. It will be interesting to see just how good or bad this movie will be.

I am really excited for this movie. At first glance, this Zac Efron and Seth Ro-gen comedy appeared to be just another attempt at a raunchy, R-rated comedy, but after South by Southwest and the release of early reviews, it seems to really be a gut-busting film.

Things get insane when a fraternity moves next door to a young family who only want peace and quiet. Reviews are calling it one of the funniest movies to come around in a long time. I like Efron, and I hope this movie launches his career. This is the perfect movie to kick off your summer, and I know where I’ll be after graduation.

*Photo courtesy of Paramount Pictures *Photo courtesy of Universal Pictures

Godzilla(May 16th)

The King of the Monsters returns to the big screen, and it will undoubtedly be the biggest thing to hit theaters this summer and possibly the year. Here’s the premise: Godzilla terrorizes a city and fights other huge monsters. Here are a few of the cast members: Bryan “Heisenberg” Cranston, Ken “Japanese Inception

Guy” Watanabe, Aaron “Avengers’ Quicksilver” Taylor-Johnson and Elizabeth “Not a Twin” Olsen. Here is my 50 dollars, because I’m seeing it three times in IMAX and 3D. What really makes this movie exciting is how little we’ve actually seen from the movie. We’ve gotten two fantastic but vague trailers and six TV spots. You want to know how many of those give you a good look of the king himself ? One. That’s right, only one of the TV spots has shown a good look at Godzilla.

That excites me that collectively we’ve only seen roughly 4 minutes of the movie and still have no idea how big this movie actually is. This could be the movie that changes things, much like The Matrix or The Dark Knight. In a perfect world this movie would make stacks of money as big as Godzilla. Let’s make that happen.

*Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures

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The Amazing Spider-Man 2(May 2nd)

22 Jump Street(June 13th)

There you have it, ladies and gentlemen, 10 summer movies that you have to see while enjoying your time away from school.

There are of course many other movies coming out this summer, and I’m sure there will be some hidden gems. Don’t miss out on them. After all, my favorite movie of last year was an indie flick that came out in July.

Whatever you decide to see make sure to eat your weight in popcorn, save some seats for a few friends and remember to please silence all cell phones and other elec-tronic devices.

This is the movie that officially kicks off the summer movie season, and it is sure to be huge.

I really like the first movie, and I’m hoping the sequel improves on what made it great. Peter Parker/Spider-Man must face his biggest challenge yet as he goes up against Electro, Green Goblin and the Rhino. I know this many villains throws up a couple of red flags (we’re looking at you Spider-Man 3), but it is rumored that this movie serves a foundation for the Sinister Six and many of the villains are just introduced to the audience.

Get excited because if this does well, it is only a matter of time before we finally get to see Spider-Man fight the Sinister Six.

If you would have told me two years ago that 21 Jump Street would be one of the funniest movies of the last few years and would get a sequel, I would have laughed in your face.

I thought it would be good, but I didn’t think it would be one of my favorites of the year. Now Schmidt and Jenko are going to a place we’ve all been to—col-lege. They must once again go undercover and figure out what their partnership is all about. It looks hilarious and more than anything I am excited to see Hill and Tatum’s great chemistry on the big screen as well as a few huge cameos.

*Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures *Photo courtesy of Columbia Pictures

Guardians of the Galaxy(August 1st)

X-Men: Days of Future Past(May 23rd)

Not a whole lot is known about this upcoming Marvel property. Based on the comic book series of the same name, GOG follows a band of misfit space criminals as they team up to take down a common enemy. I

t’s got some big names to it including Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper. People are comparing it to Star Wars, and that really excites me. I’ve started to grow tired of Marvel movies because it seems to be the same thing over and over, but if this is as good as I hope, then you can count me in for the next few Marvel blockbusters.

I don’t care what anyone says—without the first X-Men movie, superhero mov-ies wouldn’t be where they are now.

Brian Singer showed the world that comic book movies could be cool and fun while also telling a good story. That is why the newest X-Men will be one of the most epic superhero films to date. Singer combines the casts of his original trilogy and the First Class movie to bring audiences an adventure through time as the mu-tants are on the verge of extinction.

I know that the movie has had its naysayers, but after these last few trailers I think people can shut their mouths. Get ready for a movie that will finally erase the bad tastes left in your mouth by the first rule of the summer movie season and hav-ing to talk about X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

*Photo courtesy of Marvel Studios

*Photo courtesy of Marvel/20th Century Fox Film Corporation

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes(July 11th)

If you don’t consider the original Planet of the Apes one of the greatest science-fiction movies of all time, then I don’t think we can be friends anymore. While you’re celebrating or mourning the loss of our friendship, think back to 2011 when Rise of the Planet of the Apes was being released. Did you think it would be any good? Yeah, me neither. It felt like an insult, especially after the APE-astrophe (get it?) that was Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes.

Surprisingly the movie was out -of-this-world good. It really was a unique look at how it all started, and the special effects are mind-blowing. Now we finally get to see the next chapter of the story, which picks up eight years later. The apes have all but taken over the earth, and the humans are trying to regain their numbers.

The peace that has been established quickly breaks as humans and apes begin a war with each other and a war with themselves. This movie is bound to be incredible. We finally get to see how it all went down, and guys, there are apes on horses with guns. Apes on freaking horses with freaking guns! Don’t act like you wouldn’t pay 10 bucks to see that.

*Photo courtesy of 20th Century Fox Film Corporation

After winning the first game against Ouachita Baptist 11-3 earlier this month, the Reddie baseball team was hoping for the same result last weekend against the visiting Tigers.

The Tigers came to Clyde Berry Field prepared, however, as they took all three games from the Reddies, one on Friday and two on Saturday, to complete the conference series sweep.

In Friday’s game, OBU got off to a quick start, scoring two early runs in the first inning. They would tack on a third run in the third inning before the Reddies scored their first run in the sixth.

It was too little, too late, however, as the Tigers would add two more runs in the seventh inning. Solid pitching by the Tigers’ Davis Ward made it difficult for the Reddies to get anything going. Hunter Mayall went 3-for-3 to lead the Reddie offense, while Lance Fields had two hits, including a double.

Colton Lorance pitched 5 1/3 innings, giving up seven hits and striking out three

batters in the loss. Saturday was senior day, and two senior Reddie pitchers, Jon Luthe and Jordan Wright, were honored during the pregame festivities. Luthe transferred from Arkansas State Univer-sity last year and saw action in numerous

games this season. The senior ended with a 3-7 record

at HSU. Wright sat out this season with a back injury but closed several games for the Reddies last year that helped secure key wins. In Saturday’s first game, OBU

broke a 1-1 tie in the fifth inning, scor-ing four runs and benefitting from three walks and a pair of hit batters.

OBU would go on to win the game 9-3. Tadarious Hawkins went 3-for-4 in the game for the Reddies, hitting a double and scoring a run.

Matt Evans and Fields had two hits each with Fields having a run batted in.

In the final game of the series, the Tigers cranked out 13 hits and took the game 9-1, scoring four runs in the final inning.

Freshmen Dylan Howell and Luke Tebbetts pitched four and three innings, respectively, during the final game.

AJ Kruzel led the way for the Red-dies with two hits with Ashton Roberts, Hayden Lessenberry and Evans each re-cording one. Evans ended the three-game series going 4-for-9, while Fields was 4-for-10 and Kruzel was 4-for-12.

“It was a learning experience for our young guys this year,” Cody Hooten, head coach, said. “We have a lot to learn and work on during the offseason, but I’m looking forward to a bright future.”

The Reddies finished the season 17-31 overall and 11-19 in the GAC.

The Lady Reddies lost both games of the double header to Arkansas Tech in extra innings Friday losing 5-2 and 2-1.

In the beginning game, Arkansas Tech took the quick 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first scoring on a wild pitch. Neither team was able to get much going offen-sively for the next few innings until the Henderson fourth. Senior catcher Amber Klug got things going for the Lady Red-dies drawing a one-out walk in the top of the fourth.

Morgan South singled to have run-ners on first and second with one out. After Ashlyn White struck out, junior first baseman Sarah Gipson hit a two-out double to left field scoring Klug and ty-ing the game up at one apiece. The Lady

Reddies held Tech in the bottom of the inning and came back in the top of the fifth with junior shortstop Alicia Zack reaching on an error with one out.

Tricia Hock followed up with a field-er’s choice moving Zack to second with two outs.

Amy Halter would single to put run-ners on the corners with two outs, and Klug singled to bring in Zack and take the 2-1 lead. The Lady Reddies would leave two runners on base. After hold-ing Henderson off in the top of the sixth and forcing them to leave two runners on base again, Arkansas Tech was able to tie the game back up in the bottom of the inning with a two-out single.

Neither team was able to execute in the seventh inning forcing extra innings. Gipson led off the eighth inning with a single up the middle but was unable to advance on a strikeout and back-to-back

pop-ups. Tech would also have a quick eighth

inning. Back-to-back walks from Klug and South would give the Lady Reddies two runners on with two outs, but they were unable to execute in the top of the ninth.

Arkansas Tech won the game with a walk-off three-run homerun in the bot-tom of the ninth giving them the 5-2 win.

Halter and Gipson had big games for Henderson coming up with two hits each. The loss goes to Cagen Medlock who threw eight innings allowing five runs on five hits, four walks and seven strikeouts. The second game got off to a slow start with neither teams scoring until Arkansas Tech hit a one-out single in the bottom of the third to take the 3-1 lead.

In the fourth, fifth, and sixth innings the Lady Reddies left runners on base and were unable to execute still looking

for their first run of the game. In the top of the seventh Senior Kay-

la Williams led the inning off reaching base on an error.

With two outs Klug singled to left field scoring Hock tying the game up 1-1.

Neither team showed much life in the eighth inning, and Henderson took a quick three up, three down in the top of the ninth.

With two outs in the bottom of the ninth Tech was able to string together a pair of hits to win the game 2-1. Kayla Williams took the loss throwing eight and two thirds innings allowing two runs on five hits, two walks and one strikeout.

“We battled till the ninth inning in both games,” Katelyn Blanas, graduate assistant coach, said. “Gipson and Klug had great hits to score runs, although we needed a few more timely hits. They were the better team that day.”

After splitting the first two games of the series with Southeastern Oklahoma State the Lady Reddies lost both games of the second double header 6-2 and 7-6.After a quick three up three down inning, Southeastern took no time in getting on the board as they brought in the first run of the game on a one out single making the score 1-0.

After stranding two runners on base in the bottom of the first, Southeastern made up for it by scoring on back to back hits making their lead 3-0. After another three up three down inning for Hender-son, Southeastern answered back with a two-run homerun in the bottom of the third 5-0 Southeastern.

Neither team was able to score in the fourth inning, but Southeastern picked it right back up in the bottom of the fifth, scoring another run on a sacrifice fly to center field adding on to their lead 6-0.

With just two outs left to work with in the top of the seventh, senior catcher Amber Klug, hit a solo homerun. It was her third on the year cutting the deficit down 6-1.

With two outs in the bottom of the seventh, freshman Ashlyn White, stepped up and a hit another solo homerun scor-ing the final run of the game 6-2.

The second game was a much differ-ent story as Henderson came out of the gate showing that they could put runs on the board. Starting things off for the Lady Reddies was the lead-off hitter, Tri-cia Hock, who singled and stole second putting herself on second base with no outs.

After a pair of ground outs having Hock on third with two outs, junior first baseman Sarah Gipson singled up the middle to bring in Hock 1-0 Lady Red-dies. White followed Gipson’s single up with a double, and with two outs and runners on second and third, sophomore Morgan South hit a three-run homerun

making the Henderson lead 4-0 going into the bottom of the first.

Southeastern didn’t get on the board until the bottom of the second scoring one run on a double down the left field line.

Southeastern was able to tie things up in the bottom of the fourth scoring three runs on four hits, no errors leaving two runners on base tying the game at 4-4.

In the bottom of the sixth inning, Southeastern lead the inning off with a solo homeun and were able to score two more in the inning making the Southeast-ern lead 7-0. Klug led the bottom of the

seventh off with a double to center field. Gipson followed up with a single

through the left side moving Klug to third to have runners on first and third with no outs.

White answered with a single of her own to move Gipson to second and score Klug cutting the deficit down to 7-5. South hit a fielder’s choice getting White out at second but having runners on the corners with just one out.

Jaylin Baldridge hit a sacrifice fly to score Gipson and move South to second, but the Henderson comeback would stop there at 7-6. The Lady Reddies had mul-

tiple hit games as Hock went three for three, and Gipson, White and South all went two for four. The loss goes to Cagen Medlock who threw one inning allowing three runs on four hits.

“We battled back, but it was too late,” Katelyn Blanas, graduate assistant coach, said. “We had a great season, and we are ready for conference this Thursday.”

The Lady Reddies finish the regular season with an overall record of 28-23 going 24-16 in conference play. The Lady Reddies will play Arkansas Tech Thursday in the Great American Conference tour-nament.

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Lady Reddies end season with a pair of loses against Tech

*Photo by Ryan Klare

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