Last Tuesday at the Garrison, Henderson hosted its Student Organization Fair for all the students on campus.

This year, there was a little of everything, from petting snakes to watching a few Greek students unleash their dance moves.

“At the beginning of the year, we give student organizations the opportunity to come out and talk about their organiza-tions a little bit,” Chad Fielding, Dean of Students, said.

“It’s great for incoming stu-dents to come out and just see what kind of organizations are available because if a new stu-dent can just get connected with at least one organization on campus, it’ll at least give them a group to belong to.”

There were tables in every section for groups such as the Biology Club, Psychology Club, the League of Latinos and a few Greek groups as well.

Bailey Wheeler, senior psy-chology major, was greeting people left and right at the psy-chology table.

“We do a lot of degree plan-ning in our club, and we also help you figure out what you’re interested in career-wise,” Wheeler said. “The club goes on field trips to places like the mental health institution and the Human Development Cen-ter here in Arkadelphia.”

Wheeler is co-president of

the psychology club. The club does a lot of community service and fundraisers for different or-ganizations.

Currently they have been helping out with the animal shelter.

“Everybody kind of votes on what to do,” Wheeler said. “Be-ing here helps you know what classes to take for your future, and you also get to meet new people. We all like to hang out, talk about field trips and ex-plore careers close to psychol-ogy.”

Another organization that at-tended the fair was Henderson

International Student Associa-tion, or HISA.

“It’s a society where you can get to learn more about people from other cultures,” Hayden Hillner, a freshman aviation major from South Africa, said. “Being a part of HISA helps bring the international students together and it gives the Ameri-can students a chance to meet people from these countries so they can get to learn how their life is like. We have games and trips. It’s just cool.”

One sorority that attended was Alpha Sigma Tau. Mika Grant, sophomore psychology

major, is the group’s new mem-ber educator.

“What we are is a social so-rority here on campus,” Grant said. “We have a lot of different plans here. We support Pine Mountain Settlement School. It’s a program that teaches kids life and campus skills. We also have lifelong sisterhood once you’ve joined. Because we have a lot of leadership opportuni-ties. We do a lot of volunteer work, and we do help out a lot with the community, which looks pretty good on a resume.”

Currently the group sent money to help support an el-

ephant to live on a reservation here in Arkansas.

It is also one of the campus’ smallest sorority groups, one of the features that makes it unique.

“There was not that much attendance unfortunately, but I got some cool stuff, and I did sign up for a few clubs.” Kourt-ney Kim, senior communication major, said. “If you didn’t come, you’re out of luck, because you didn’t see what you could have been involved with here on campus. Whenever you’re ap-plying for a job, jobs like to see what you were involved in.”

The MBSF house is a place where students can go to make new friends, learn about Chris-tianity and worship with other Henderson and Ouachita stu-dents. As the ministry for Ark-adelphia collegians, MBSF has seen a spike in attendance on Tuesday night’s Encounter and Wednesday’s free lunch.

The building standing to-day was built 25 years ago by Baring Cross Baptist Church, which founded and sponsored MBSF for 50 years. The spon-sor of MBSF is now Center Fork Baptist Church of Hot Springs.

“Students and adults can go to MBSF, put aside all their dif-ferences and have family time praising and learning about God,” Kaitlin Stubbs, sopho-more social science major, said. “It’s also a great place to meet new people from HSU and OBU.”

Midweek, which is the most successful of MBSF’s minis-tries, is a weekly Wednesday lunch and devotional hosted by different churches around the Arkadelphia region.

Churches volunteer to bring food for the college students, and a member of the church

gives a short lunchtime devo-tional.

Recent spikes in the atten-dance of MBSF have caused need for more food. With over 200 people crossing the street and entering the MBSF house for lunch, extra food had to be prepared while students waited in line. Every chair in the build-ing was full. Standing room was the only choice for many visi-tors.

Encounter is also a big part of MBSF. On Tuesday nights, students meet for a time of wor-ship and fellowship. On Sept. 4, a new record of attendance was set for a Tuesday night worship service.

Ronnie Inman, youth pastor at Center Fork Baptist Church, shared his devotional. Ice cream floats were served after-wards.

With all of the new attendees, MBSF director Kelvin Richard-son and sponsor church Center Fork Baptist have proposed a plan to Center Fork church members to financially sup-port an expansion of the MBSF building. The plan has been approved and construction will begin in January.

“I am very excited about this new era of Arkadelphia MBSF,” Richardson said. “I believe the growth in attendance the last

couple of years is a result of that excitement. The growth has brought about the need for additional space. Center Fork Baptist Church approved a plan on Sunday night, Sept. 9, 2012, to proceed with plans to con-struct an additional building.”

The building will undergo a major renovation. The east side of the glass and aluminum building will receive the largest part of the renovation. A large building addition will be added to the east side for seating. A stage will also be installed.

The building will become handicap accessible, with first floor entrances and handicap accessible restrooms. The stu-dent lounge area will also be expanded.

“It was really a no-brainer,” Richardson said. “You can ei-ther accommodate for growth or you can just maintain, which eventually brings decline.”

With the renovations, the MBSF building will nearly triple in size. This will make plenty of room for new students. The renovations are expected to be

completed by the beginning of the Fall 2013 semester.

“I love the upcoming reno-vations because we can have more room for all the students,” Stubbs said.

“I am so glad Center Fork voted to provide us with the new space and hopefully the bigger building will attract more people.”

Renovations will not disrupt any of the MBSF meetings. Normal meeting times will still be in session. Most renovations will occur during the summer.

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MAKE ROOM The MBSF has seen such a rise in attendance for the organiza-tion’s free lunches and devotionals that the MBSF director Kelvin Richardson has proposed that their sponsor church renovate the building. The renovations will nearly triple the size of the building just off campus.

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COLD-BLOODED CUDDLES Tayvia Brownmiller (left) and Emily Eoff (right) promote the biology club with red-tailed boas. Various other clubs and organizations attended to boost membership and campus

Photo by Jennifer Ketcheside

Fair features reptiles and organization opportunities

Rudy Currence, ASCAP Writ-er’s Award recipient and musi-cian, makes his debut at Hen-derson campus tonight in the Garrison Center Lecture Hall starting at 7 p.m.

According to RudyCurren-ceOnline, Rudy Currence is a Mike Chek Entertainment, DTP, Island Def Jam Recording artist. Through 2005-07, Cur-rence has received the ASCAP Writer’s Award.

Currence’s music has been featured in various movies as well as performed by different artists.

Currence wrote a song for “The Bourne Identity” movie soundtrack which Mya, multi-platinum recording artist, sang. Ray J also recorded Currence’s song “Let’s Play House” for his album “Raydiation.”

Some of his projects include “More than You’ll Ever Know” and “Here With You,” two indie CDs, as well as a Christmas EP called “Last Christmas.”

Stirring up the television

world, Currence has made appearances on several daily shows. On ABC’s “The View,” he performed Quincy Jones’ single “Soul Bossa Nostra.” Live on BET’s 106 and Park, Currence performed his song “Zion.”

On November 11, 2011, Cur-rence released his latest project “DIGITAL ANALOG.” The mix tape features new songs such as “The O.T.H.E.R,” “Reinven-tion,” “U.F.O” and several oth-ers.

DJ Don Cannon produced the single “The O.T.H.E.R.”

According to Cannon’s web-sits, he has worked on projects with hip-hop’s Top 10 rappers: Young Jeezy, Ludacris, Out-kast, Jay-Z, 50 Cent and more.

“His latest mix tape is essen-tially the best of both worlds. Currence combines the futur-istic sounds and innovative elements of ‘Electronic’ music and fuses them with the live instrumentation and ‘raw feel goodness’ of classic ‘Soul’ mu-sic,” according to Currence’s website.

Admission to the event is free. Come grab a seat early.

The 21st annual Hot Springs Jazz Festival was held this past week. Hosted downtown, it features a wide variety of jazz, blues and early classic rock.

The festival showed acts like a four person dueling piano show and a sold out show fea-turing legendary jazz singer and Houston native Kayce Glasse.

Tuesday night, however, proved to be a popular show. One band that attracted a lot of music lovers to downtown Hot Springs was the Donny Eskridge Acoustic Trio featur-ing Wendy Walker and John

Garrett on backing vocals and rhythm guitar.

The band especially appealed to Beatles fans by dedicating a full acoustic set to them, play-ing hit songs such as “Come Together,” “Help” and even a cover of John Lennon’s “Imag-ine.”

During the show, the band gave out copies of their music free of charge.

“We don’t want to play music for the money down here,” Es-kridge said during the band’s performance. “Yeah, sure, pay-ment’s great, but the thought of playing the music and knowing the fact that other people like to hear it. In my opinion, that’s better than money.”

Guitar player John Garrett also plays in his own solo show that is a full tribute to Bob Dylan.

“My shows are usually three times a month abiding with my work schedule,” Garrett said. “One will be this coming Octo-ber at the Low Key Arts Center downtown.”

Eskridge noted after the show that this jazz festival would be bigger than the previ-ous ones.

“You got some popular art-ists coming down,” Eskridge said. “If you’re a blues fan it would be a good idea to check out Tony Nardi at Maxine’s this Friday.”

The Eskridge Acoustic Trio

is open to play for any parties or events, and will possibly play a show in Arkadelphia soon.

Popular jazz pianist Tony Nardi performed with his band and special guest David Du-plissey from Shreveport.

A free viewing of a music doc-umentary, “Jazz 101,” was pre-sented at the Garland County Library’s auditorium on Friday.

Jazz In the Streets, an event featuring a variety of jazz musi-cians playing under the Broad-way Street Sky-Bridge, was a free event hosted all day on Saturday.

Look out next year for the Hot Springs JazzFest.

Additional reporting by Ash-ley Loftin.

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Come hang out with SAB and listen to music by Rudy Currance tonight at 7 p.m. in the Garrison Lecture Hall.

The Henderson women’s golf team will be competing against the Northeastern State Classic on Monday Sept. 17.

The Lady Reddie volley-ball team will have a match against Southern Arkansas at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 18. It is a home match, so head on down to Wells to support the Lady Reddies.

Also on Tuesday, there will be another women’s golf tournament. This will be an all-day tournament against Northeastern State Classic.

The author of the fresh-man common book will be visiting the school on Wednesday, Sept. 19. Head over to Arkansas Hall at 7 p.m. to hear Jeanette Walls talk about her book, “Half-Broke Horses.” Shortly after, there will be a book signing and a reception.

Thursday evening at 7 p.m. there will be a show-ing in the planetarium about Saturn and its rings. There will also be more indepth in-formation about the moons that orbit the planet. The program is open to both Henderson and OBU stu-dents and faculty, costing only $1 with a student ID. Without your student ID, it is $3. There will be no late entry, so be punctual.

On Thursday, Sept. 20, there will be a program held in the Caplinger Lecture Hall to commemmorate the sesquincentenial of the Civil War. Dr. John W. Graves will be speaking. The program is open to the public and will be beginning at 7 p.m. This is the first night of a 3-part showing.

This Friday, Sept. 21, “Magic Mike” will be play-ing in the Lecture Hall. The movie will begin at 7:30 p.m.

The women’s volleyball team has a match against Arkansas Tech on Friday, Sept. 21 in Russellville. The match starts at 7 p.m.

The Hooligan Fest 2012 will be on Saturday, Sept. 22, in the Wells Gym at 2 p.m. Contact Dan Mabery for more information.

The women’s cross-coun-try team has a meet on Sat-urday, Sept. 22, against the Gulf Coast Stampede in Pen-sacola, Fla. The meet will begin at 7:30 a.m.

There is a home football game this Saturday. This week, the Reddies will go against Southeastern Oakla-homa State University. The game will be down at the football stadium and will be-gin at 6 p.m.

In case you miss the show-ing of “Magic Mike” on Fri-day, there will be a matinee showing on Sunday, Sept. 23 at 3 p.m. in the Lecture Hall.

There will be an event in Little Rock to educate people on how life was in Arkansas 100 years ago. This event will take place at the Old House Museum on Saturday, Sept. 22, and will begin at 10 a.m. There will be events for people of all ages to participate in. There is no admission fee to any of these events.

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Colbie McCloudStaff Writer

Rudy Currence coming to play at Henderson

A doctor who runs the resi-dency program at the Arkansas Health Education Center in Fort Smith has been arrested on suspicion of growing mari-juana in the basement of his house.

Police on Thursday executed a search warrant at the Van Bu-ren home of Jimmy Acklin, 55, after a two-month investigation.

Jerry Thomas, 46, and Mi-chele Thomas, 41, also face charges. Authorities said the two lived at the home with Ack-lin and were there when offi-cers from a number of agencies arrived to serve the warrant.

The Southwest Times Re-

cord reported that investiga-tors found a marijuana grow operation in the basement, sev-eral firearms, drug parapherna-lia, methamphetamine and two large marijuana plants.

Prosecutor Marc McCune told the newspaper Acklin pulled into the driveway of his home while investigators were inside searching. He and the others were taken into custody without inci-dent, McCune said.

All three were arrested on suspicion of manufac-turing marijuana, posses-sion of drug parapher-nalia, and simultaneous possession of drugs and firearms, prosecutors said.

Jerry Thomas and Mi-

chele Thomas also were arrest-ed on suspicion of possession of methamphetamine, authori-ties said.

Acklin and the other suspects were taken to the Crawford County Jail and later released on bond.

They will be arraigned once

formal charges are filed by the prosecutor’s office.

The raid on Acklin’s home was conducted by the 21st Drug Task Force and the Arkansas State Police Department, with assistance from Alma and Bar-ling police and the Crawford County Sheriff’s Office.

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Sweltering heat is a staple of life in Arkansas. Finding a way to harness that excess energy has been a talking point as of late. With rising energy costs, solar energy is becoming in-creasingly popular.

But who expects to see solar panels on a house in Arkadel-phia? How often is that a real-ity?

Aaron Horford may not have asked himself this question when he installed nine panels on the roof of his home, but when he e-mailed pictures to Henderson staff and made the claim that his electricity meter was running backward, the community took notice.

“We just have this voracious appetite for energy and it’s just getting stronger” Horford said.

Horford is an academic coor-dinator and adjunct math pro-fessor with Henderson. He and his family live near downtown Arkadelphia.

“It’s really liberating to see the meter spin back” said Hor-ford as he pointed at his re-cently installed net meter. Net meters measure the amount of energy produced by his 245-watt panels and the amount used by his home so that he can see the energy he is “feed-ing back into the grid.”

Horford and his wife chan-neled disdain with rising ener-gy costs into an investment in the value of their home.

“After taxes, about 10 grand went into them, and they’re built to last 40 years or more with a 25 year-warranty” he said.

Not only does the power bill go down, the property value goes up.

“Who wouldn’t pay an extra 20 grand to never pay an elec-tricity bill?” Horford said.

Although he is seeing imme-diate returns from his invest-ment, Horford isn’t done yet.

“Next year we are upgrading to a solar water heating panel.” he said. “Solar water heaters were popular in the 1800s until the bottom fell out.”

In the 1800s, the world was left with a tremendous need for energy in the wake of the Industrial Revolution. The easy solution was oil.

“Oil’s been a great ride. It’s the most concentrated form of energy aside from nuclear,” he

said. Horford stressed the im-

portance of making efficiency changes around the home. “Take care of the low-hanging fruit first. Most people could save money by just buying a can of caulk,” Horford said.

Horford pointed out that the state has tax credits for 30 per-cent off of the total cost of your system. Maintenance isn’t too much of a concern for Horford.

“They’re designed to be put on the roof and forgotten about,” he said.

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METER-OLOGY Aaron Horford pointing out how his new solar panels are reducing his power bill

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Liana Jerrysophomoreeducation

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Football, going back to school. It’s just a fun

time of year.”

Howard Whitesenior

accounting“Hunting. But the color

of the leaves at this time are nice.”

Kevin Whitesenior

accounting“Hunting season. Deer

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Brianna Arberryfreshman

undeclared“My birthday is in

the fall, plus you get to dress better. The

clothes are cuter in the fall.”

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In a world where Instagram and Ashton Kutcher can give people the title of photogra-pher, the people who put in the time and effort to com-pose a photo start to feel a little under-appreciated.

It seems like, with the tech-nological advances making it easier to take photos, people assume that it’s just that much easier to be a photographer. That’s just not the case.

It should take a lot more than taking out your iPhone and choosing a filter to be de-clared a functioning photogra-pher.

I have been dabbling in pho-tography for about six years now, and I still correct people when they call me a photog-rapher. To gain that title, I feel like you should be able to make a financial living off your photos.

Unless you do that, you’re a hobbyist. Just like how you very well may be able to fix a car, but unless you offer the service to others and/or make a living from it, you’re not a mechanic. You fix cars.

In that same light, I just take pictures. I’ve sold a few, for more than I would expect them to be worth, but I would consider that a bonus, not an entitlement.

If you’re not really under-standing what I mean, just go on Instagram and search #photography.

You’ll see what I mean by the filtered black and white photos of cigarettes and sad girls looking at water. These are the people I need to kick in the teeth.

They usually have an ac-companying caption of “I re-ally love the emotion in this shot” or maybe just a quasi-enigmatic title about what they feel is being conveyed. My favorite is the very much-overused “Resilience”. Get over yourself, people. A pic-ture of a brooding teenager doesn’t equal emotion.

I’m not knocking Instagram as a whole. I am on Instagram and enjoy having people com-ment and critique my photos.

You can connect with people from places you never would

have otherwise. There’s an Iranian guy who follows me who compliments in the nicest broken English I’ve ever read.

In turn, I can check out his pictures of daily life in a place I know very little about. It makes the world a smaller place and that is a beautiful thing.

It’s just the swath of subur-ban kids with camera phones taking pictures of sushi and their cats.

Instagram isn’t the only place for these feauxtogra-phers to ruin.

Facebook has seen an ex-plosion of self-titled photogra-phers here lately. Anyone with a Canon Digital Rebel thinks that they are suddenly Ansel Adams, so they go make a business page to further their craft.

Nine times out of ten, it consists of galleries of their friend leaning against a tree or sitting on the hood of an 86’ Chevy while wearing some fla-vor of cowboy boots.

Some of these people even dupe people into actually pay-

ing to be photographed. Nothing makes me cringe

more than seeing an out of focus, Dutch tilted, strangely framed picture, then finding out that the poor subject actu-ally paid for it.

I know I am coming off as an arrogant photo-douche, but it’s just painful to see someone claim skill in a field you truly enjoy.

I know that I am by no means a professional. I don’t claim to be.

I take solace in the fact that I just do it for fun.

I won’t lie. When I sell a pic-ture, I feel like a big shot. All it takes to yank my head out of the clouds is a quick look at the Internet.

No matter how good of a picture I may take, there will always be someone who will blow me out of the water. This keeps me humble and I wish more of the “point and shoot “ crowd would do the same.

So, to all the people who claim greatness, take it off auto and do some research. You’ve got a long way to go.

Zombies, much like vam-pires, have long overstayed their welcome, but this hasn’t stopped Hollywood from con-stantly making movies about them.

“Resident Evil: Retribution” is further proof why zombie films need to take the hint and die already, well for the second time.

The movie opens up right where the fourth one left off with Alice, played by Milla Jo-vovich of “The Fifth Element,” and other survivors stranded on a ship with the evil Umbrella Corporation quickly approach-ing.

During the attack, Alice is thrown overboard, taken cap-tive and put in a high-tech in-terrogation room deep in the “belly of the beast.”

It doesn’t take long before she is rescued by Ada Wong, played by series newcomer Li Bingbing. Ada quickly explains the situation and that a rescue team is on their way to get them out of Umbrella.

The problem is they only have two hours to make it across the humongous facility before the whole place blows up.

This is no easy task with sol-diers, zombies, old friends and the Red Queen, the main an-tagonist from the first movie, all coming after them.

Alice, Ada and their team face unexpected challenges and var-ious twists as they fight their way out of Umbrella before it is too late.

The first “Resident Evil” came out ten years ago and has spawned four sequels. The problem with all of these sequels is that they’re not im-

proving. The first movie was mediocre at best, but 10 years is plenty of time to perfect a franchise.

There is one good thing that can be said for “Resident Evil: Retribution.” It really had a story fitting for a video game. The whole idea surrounding the timed escape from a huge facility packed with zombies is a reasonable and potentially en-joyable plot.

Where it fails is the delivery of the story. It is a two-hour movie that spends more time showing Jovovich fighting in slow motion than it does actu-ally developing a story.

Viewers will grow tired of watching bullets come at the screen and Alice doing flips while executing the undead all at a super slow speed.

Another downfall of the mov-ie is the acting.

Jovovich is a great actress whose talent is wasted on a character that up until this movie has been static and two-dimensional.

It is a waste of potential and it’s time for her to move on to bigger and better things.

To be fair, the Resident Evil franchise could have been good. In fact it could have been great.

There is only one major prob-lem. That problem’s name is Paul W.S. Anderson, infamous director of “Mortal Kombat,” and “Alien vs. Predator.”

Anderson has written all five of these movies and directed three of them. He has no clear direction of where he wants to go.

He gets caught up all the fight scenes and never sticks to one idea. He has lost the fo-cus of what the games were all about.

This movie will of course make money which will lead to the inevitable sequel, which Anderson is saying will be the

finale. Fingers crossed.This franchise is dead and in

a few years, after it has been forgotten, someone will reboot the whole series.

Hopefully when that day comes, the company will pick someone like Danny Boyle, who directed the fantastic zom-bie movie, “28 Days Later,” to oversee the project and give it the story and direction it de-serves.

Until then audiences will have to anxiously wait for the day that the Resident Evil films take a deadly blow.

“Resident Evil: Retribution” needs to stay dead.

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J.D. RobertsStaff Writer

FIERY WOMAN Sienna Guillory plays the sultry Jill Valentine in the fifth installment of the “Resident Evil” series, “Retribution.” “Resident Evil” follows the struggle of humanity against the insidious evil that is the Umbrella Corporation and the hordes of zombies created by their medical testing.

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It’s not every day that you can go watch a live guest artist recital.

Lucky enough for many Hender-son students and some locals, Dr. Jonathan Whitaker, a faculty mem-ber from the University of Alabama, was in town last weekend to deliver a live performance at the Harwood Recital Hall.

Many audience members were made up of students majoring in mu-sic.

One of those students was Hannah Breeden, a sophomore, who was ab-solutely thrilled to be at the event.

“I play the flute, but he is re-ally good at playing the trombone,” Breeden said. “I also like the atmo-sphere of the recital because every-body is here for the same purpose: the music.”

“I would recommend people to come here if they get the opportu-nity. They’re always opening your eyes to new musical things. Being here helps you to appreciate the arts the way that they were meant to be appreciated.”

Before the show started, Whita-ker came out to talk to the audience members about the music he would play.

“All were originally written for the trombone which is rare. It is so well known that it’s played throughout the world and has been written nu-merous times,” Whitaker said.

He then spoke to the audience briefly about the songs he would start the show with “Andante,” “Al-legro,” “Larghetto” and “Allegretto.” Alessandro Besozzi, an eighteenth-century Italian composer and oboist, composed these works.

As soon as Whitaker started the show with “Andante,” the crowd quickly grew quiet. The sounds of the piano and trombone were the

only sounds that could be heard echoing in the whole building.

After Whitaker finished playing, Keke Collie, a junior also majoring in music, was breath-taken by his work.

“I have no words,” Collie said. “It is just amazing. I am such a huge fan. This guy has a really amazing tone, great interpretation and is extremely good. Every musician has his or her different style, but with Whitaker I felt so many things. It feels like it is cradling your heart, or like it’s giv-ing you a warm feeling deep inside. You just receive this happy feeling.”

Also on stage playing with Whita-ker on piano was Henderson faculty member Dr. May Tsao-Lim.

“She is really incredible on that piano,” Davion Jones, freshman mu-sic major, said.

After the show ended, Whitaker gave thanks to all the students who came to watch him and Tsao-Lim play.

He jokingly noted how Tsao-Lim complained about how hard it was to play the musical pieces on piano.

“I showed up yesterday, and we had one phrase we had to do that was difficult, but we got it. May is a great artist and friend,” Whitaker said. “I also want to encourage all students to work harder than every-body else and you’ll be successful, and be nice to everyone.”

After those inspiring words, Whitaker and Tsao-Lim closed the show by taking a bow to the audi-ence, again and again. The audience could not stop clapping.

“It was an awesome completion to my day,” Collie said. “I want to take that music and just practice it at home until I get it close to Whita-ker’s level. You’re dumb if you didn’t come to this. You missed out a lot. If you came you would enjoy every second. I don’t know how someone could fall asleep being here.”

Kenneth IbarraStaff Writer

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Saturday night at Thone Sta-dium in Russellville, the Red-dies moved up to 3-0 in the season.

Playing against Arkansas Tech, Henderson walked away with a 73-34 win.

Since 1981, this is the first time that Henderson state has started a season out at 3-0.

Kevin Rodgers, sophomore quarterback, made 381 yards and completed 21-of-32 passes.

He made six touchdowns and is statistically one of the nation’s top quarterbacks.

Henderson got on the board as soon as the game started when Isreal Valentin returned the opening kickoff 92 yards.

The Reddies did not back down.

They quickly brought the score up to a 29-0 lead when Kevin Nichols made a 4-yard

rushing touchdown after re-covering a fumbled handoff ex-change. Jarvis Smith caught a 54-yard touchdown pass in the first quarter.

The second quarter began when Rodgers made a com-plete pass to Labroderick Bar-nett for a 17-yard touchdown.

Arkansas Tech began to make progress bringing the score to 42-20, the Reddies still in the lead.

Arkansas Tech’s Ketrich Harmon made a 51-yard run to put them on the board.

Rodgers answered with a 3-yard touchdown of his own.

Reddies Elliot Herbert and Dustin Holland both had 37-yard touchdown receptions to bring the score to 56-20.

Rodgers began the second half of the game with his fifth touchdown.

He made a complete pass to Barnett for 11-yards and

brought the score to 63-27. With 5:19 remaining in the

third quarter, Charles Gon-salves made a 20-yard field goal brining the Reddies to a 66-27 lead.

The Reddies made their fi-nal score in the fourth quar-ter with 6:56 remaining in the game when Rodgers made a complete pass to Herbert for a 54-yard touchdown.

The game ended with a final score of 73-34, Reddies win-ning their third game in a row.

The Reddies completed 190 yards rushing.

Jarvis Smith totaled 155 yards and 18 carries.

Holland totaled 121 yards on seven receptions while Herbert had 105 yards on 3 catches.

Triston Crook had the high-est number of tackles, making 11 for the Reddies.

Maxie Graham and Keaton Stigger also had nine tackles

each. Henderson is now averaging

61 points and 555 yards of of-fense per game.

73 points is the highest score in Scott Maxfield’s tenure at the university, and is the high-est since a 73-3 win over Cente-

nary in 1968.Henderson will play host to

Southeastern Oklahoma on Saturday, Sept. 22 at Carpen-ter-Haygood Stadium. Kick off is set for 6 p.m.

Additional reporting by Troy Mitchell.

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012 PAGE 5SportsLady Reddies on three game streak

Kaitlyn KitchensSports Editor

Kaitlyn KitchensSports Editor

Reddies continue winning streakafter 73-34 win over Arkansas Tech

HENDERSON GETS THREE-PEAT Raegan Large (top) bumps the ball over to assist a set in the game against LeMoyne-Owen University that HSU won in three sets straight. Lady Reddies (bottom left) celebrate their win. Sophomore Sarah Williams (bottom right) delivers a kill against the Magicians.

Photo by Ryan Klare/Oracle

Photos by Ryan Klare/Oracle

Photo courtesy of Sports Information

NOT BACKING DOWN Senior running back Jarvis Smith rushes the ball in the game against Arkan-sas Tech. Henderson dominated 73-34.

Henderson accomplished their third win of the season on Friday night in Memphis as they dominated LeMoyne-Ow-en in three straight sets.

After falling to Harding Uni-veristy on Spirit Night in three straight sets, 25-17, 25-17 and 25-11 on the Don Dyer Court, the Lady Reddies made their return in the game Sept. 14 against the Magicians.

LeMoyne-Owen only gained 33 points during all three sets.

The first set, the Lady Red-dies won 25-14.

The second set was 25-5, and the third set Henderson won 25-14.

Six of the Lady Reddies all recorded four or more kills in the game. Junior hitter Ty Lind-berg had a team-high of nine kills in the game.

Sophomore hitter Sarah Wil-liams had a team-high of attack percentages at .467 and did not have an attack error on 15 at-tempts and made seven kills.

Freshmen Emily Belz and Kiyhanna Dade both made nu-merous assists. Belz led the team with 17 assists and Dade with 11.

Defensively, the Lady Red-dies held up strong on their side of the net. They totaled in 10 team blocks. Williams was very active at the net as she to-taled in seven block assists.

Lindberg was right behind Williams when she blocked three hits on her own and as-sisted four more.

The Lady Reddies have won three games total in the season.

The first game they played of the season was in the HSU Classic against LeMoyne-Owen College on Aug. 31.

The Reddies won in three sets, 25-15, 25-10 and 25-10.

However, they fell short in the rest of the tourna-ment against the University of West Alabama, Alabama-Huntsville and Texas A&M University-Commerce.

The second tournament that the Lady Reddies com-peted in was the UAH Clas-sic.

The Reddies fell short in the matches with the ex-ception of the game against Union University.

It was during this game that the Lady Reddies won their second game of the season in four sets.

The first set they won 25-11 and in the second set they won 26-24.

They fell short in the third set 23-25, but came back and won the fourth set 25-20.

The Lady Reddies came close in their game against University of West Alabama when they took the game to five sets, but still fell short in the end.

The Lady Reddies will play on Tuesday, Sept. 18.

They will host Southern Arkansas.

First serve is set for 7:00 p.m.

Additional reporting by Daniel Gallegos

PAGE 6 SEPTEMBER 17, 2012Sports

After throwing 28-36 for 442 yards, and a seven-touchdown per-

formance against McKendree last week, quarterback Kevin Rodgers was named national player of the week for all of Di-vision II.

The redshirt sophomore is the first Reddie to be given the honor since kicker Bryan Woodard did it in 2005. Dating back to a wonderful perfor-mance in last season’s finale against OBU, Rodgers has now been named player of the week for the GAC in three consecu-tive weeks.

“I was surprised, shocked and very thankful. It’s not ev-ery day something like that happens,” Rodgers said.

Rodgers did not even know he had thrown so many touch-downs or broken any records until sports information gradu-ate assistant Daniel Gallegos approached him after the game and told him.

“I don’t really think about any of the awards or anything. I always want to try and go out there and be perfect,” Rodgers said. “Of course that can’t hap-pen, but I’m just trying to put my team in the best position to win football games.”

Of the 9 receivers Rodgers completed a pass to against McKendree, many are not blessed with the best size, but they definitely get the job done.

“They make up for it with their speed,” he said. “I just try and deliver a perfect ball to those guys and let them do work. They’re the ones that make me look so good, as well as the offensive line giving me great protection.”

If you watched the first quarter of the game Saturday against McKendree University you would never have guessed Rodgers would have been even close to perfect at the end of the game. After being down 10-0 in the second quarter, Rodgers threw an interception with 13:21 left in the first half.

After getting the ball back, Rodgers led the Reddies down the field on a 70-yard drive, making the score 10-7 McKen-dree at the time. After the Hen-derson defense forced a three-and-out, Rodgers got the ball back, poised for another score. On the first pass of that drive, Rodgers proceeded to throw a pick-six.

“I actually threw eight touch-downs that game,” Rodgers said. “Because I threw that interception that was returned for a touchdown.” He laughed and added, “No one really talks about that now though.”

Rodgers proceeded to bounce back after that, though,

leading the Reddie offense to two touchdowns on the next two drives. After his second interception, Rodgers thought he might get an earful from head coach Scott Maxfield, but surprisingly didn’t.

“You can’t get on a guy ev-ery time he makes a mistake,” Coach Maxfield said. “You have to move ahead, and Rodg-ers did a good job of that.”

“It was unusual to not get chewed out in that situation,” Rodgers said. “I changed my mind set at that point. I took it upon myself to be better, and the team did as well.”

In the second half, Rodgers threw four touchdowns and the rest was history on the way to a 47-24 rout of McKendree. Rodgers even sat out the last two drives in the fourth quar-ter, leaving one to think how many more he could have got-ten. We’re sure he’ll stick with his seven- touchdown perfor-mance and national player of the week honors, though.

“I’ve never had a perfor-mance like that before,” Rod-gers said. “OBU was my first 300-yard passing game. I wasn’t locked in or feeling any different, it was really just the same old same old.”

It has not been the easiest road to get to this point for the Rockwall, Texas native either.

He wasn’t recruited very heavily out of high school, and didn’t

know if he would even play at Henderson. After graduating high school, Rodgers and his parents sent an e-mail with a video of him to Henderson.

It was there that the Hender-son coaching staff liked a little bit of what they saw and invit-ed him for a visit to campus to workout.

Quarterbacks are usually heavily recruited and at least have some understanding where they might end up af-ter their senior year of high school.

At least the talented ones such as Rodgers do.

So it is somewhat surprising that Rodgers didn’t know that he would be a Reddie until so late.

What is even more surpris-ing is that if you may remem-ber, Rodgers did not even get the starting gig out of the gate last year.

Quarterback Nathan Nall was given that opportunity early in the season. After he faltered early in the sea-son though, they turned to Rodgers as a red-shirt fresh-man in hopes to turn things around.

In the middle of the season the job wasn’t officially his, as he and Nall both started games at quarterback for the Reddies.

“Early in the season I was

content with being the back-up guy, sitting and learning,” he said. “I didn’t have the mind set of starting yet.”

With two games left in the season, he was given the job against the same McKendree team Rodgers just torched for seven touchdowns.

Last season wasn’t the same blow out as this one though, as the Reddies only won 16-10. Rodgers was pretty efficient in that game as well, going 22-29 with one touchdown.

T he rest was Rodgers’ coming out party, as he and the Reddies

beat the team across the street in a shootout 41-36.

That game was highlighted by a goal line stand by Hender-son to win the game, but that’s when Rodgers realized what could be.

“Everything started to click for me that game,” he said. “During the OBU game I re-alized the potential of not just me, but what we as a team could do.”

After three back-to-back-to-back GAC player of the week performances, that potential is being realized by Reddie fans

and coaching staff alike. It’s not all business off the

field for him though, well sort of. Rodgers is a business ad-ministration management ma-jor, and is looking to go into law school after all is said and done.

If he had to choose though, his dream job would be being a big time Division I head coach.

Rodgers isn’t your typi-cal jock quarterback either. Most probably wouldn’t have guessed it, but Rodgers is a bit of a nerd off the field as well.

“I try and get good grades, and I play some nerdy video games like Halo Reach and Red Dead Redemption,” he said.

His typical offseason day in-cludes a bit of a work out in the morning, followed by watching TV and playing a little bit of lei-surely golf.

He makes a trip down to Ala-bama to see his brother who flies helicopters for the army, and also goes to vacation spots in Miss., and Florida in the off-season as well.

Before games, Rodgers likes to listen to music before he goes to bed that night, country of course. The day of the game, he gets up early to watch film

in preparation for that day’s op-ponent.

He eats his pre-game meal and tries to stay as laid back as he can before games. After games he likes to unwind by relaxing at his apartment and watching highlights of the day’s previous games in col-lege football.

Rodgers hasn’t gotten to where he is today by virtue of being lazy or leisurely. He works hard on the field and in the film room, and it’s been showing.

He’s been some-what perfect off the field as well.

“It’s quite obvious the guy works hard,” Maxfield said. “He hasn’t made a B since he’s been here at Henderson, and he carries that same attitude to the football field.”

With the astounding num-bers Rodgers has been putting up this year (71-98, 1183 yards, and 17 touchdowns), the Hen-derson quarterback has the Reddies poised and ready for a magical run.

Rodgers set the bar high for himself two weeks ago against McKend-

ree, but in what some would call his first real test of the season he did not disappoint. This past Saturday in the win against Arkansas Tech 73-34, Rodgers threw for 381 yards and six touchdowns.

Adding those numbers to his already amazing resume so far this season, Rodgers added something to his own personal record book.

On a broken play from the 3-yard-line Rodgers took the snap from center and fumbled the exchange on the hand-off. He picked the ball up and ran to his right for a rushing touchdown, giving him his first rushing touchdown as a Reddie, and seven total touch-downs for the game.

Rodgers has put himself in line for yet again another play-er of the week award for his play this past week.

The Reddies will put their perfect season on the line this Saturday, Sept. 22 against Southeastern Oklahoma at 6 p.m.

Mr. Rodgers’ aerial neighborhood

UPWARD SPIRAL Kevin Rodgers pulls back to throw a pass and show off the form and fundamentals that have served him in breaking school records and earning NCAA Div. II National Player of the Week honors.

Photo by Ryan Klare/Oracle

Zachary ZdanowiczStaff Writer

Meet Kevin

Favorite food: steak

Favorite music/band: country and George Straight

Favorite television series: “Band of Brothers” and “Blue Mountain State”

Football team: Dallas Cowboys

Baseball team: Texas Rangers

Favorite hobbies: golf-ing, hunting, bowling, video games

Major: business ad-ministration manage-ment

Nickname: Krodge Rocket

Quarterback attributes high-flying success to supporting cast