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Henderson State University Monday, December 7, 2015 - Volume 109, Issue 14

THE ORACLE

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF – Moe Skinner

FACULTY ADVISER – Mike Taylor

COPY EDITOR – Madison MacNew

NEWS EDITOR – Carmin Wills

SPORTS EDITOR – Katie Smith

FEATURES EDITOR – Rickey Miller

VIEWS EDITOR – Dax Guilliams

PHOTO EDITOR – Joshua Bradley

PAGE DESIGNER – Melanie Cole

AD DESIGNER – Chris Sharp

GRAPHIC DESIGNER – Jordan Jones

ONLINE EDITOR – Ashley Smith

BUSINESS MANAGER – Coley Henson

Have an opinion on an issue or response to what we said? Just want to rant about something for a while? Write us at ORACLE@HSU.EDU. We want to hear what you think. Hell, if it doesn’t suck, we’ll publish it in next week’s issue. Try to keep it between 400 and 600 words. Just like your Tumblr, we ignore anonymous submissions.

BRIAN

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

THE ORACLE

PHOTO BY SCOTT MCKINNONCOVER

Brian Cole gladly explains some of the tools used in the lab to the Oracle staff.PHOTO BY DEE MCKISSICK 7-8

Brian Cole plans to change the world through science

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ART SHOWSCrystal Warren and Cheyenne Lee’s complete senior exhibition

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PHOTO BY CARMIN WILLS

MEN’S BASKETBALLReddies get first win16

FINALS WEEKSee the test schedulefor Finals Week

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TAKING THE GOLDMoRocco Arnold sets out for another win this weekend

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PURSUING LIBERTY IN INJUSTICE NAACP holds annual banquet to honor retireeSTORY AND PHOTO BY JAE-KUR LOCKHART

Dec. 5, 2015 marked the 24th an-nual Clark County NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet. The event took place in the Garrison.

The event opened with a welcome from first time emcee and current Clark County NAACP president, Henry Wilson.

Wilson welcomed all guests and members. Then motioned them all to the back of the room to four tables that were draped in cloth to enjoy an array of dishes prepared by Henderson, such as, roasted pota-toes, salad, chicken in cheese and marinara sauce, chopped beef, etc.

While eating, Wilson offered door prizes such as dinner for two at Ta-males or Kentucky Fried Chicken.

He even gave out a bucket of peanut brittle provided by Juanita’s Candy Kitchen – all of which served as an introduction for the entertain-ment from NAACP member, Myra Bailey.

She sang a Tamela Mann origi-nal “Take Me To The King.” She followed with “I Can Only Imagine” by MercyMe.

Then keynote speaker, Minister Arthur L. Hunt Jr., began to speak to the audience about the main topic of the evening, “Pursuing Liberty In The Face of Injustice”.

He opened with a prayer and scripture, 1 Samuel chapter 30, and then led the conversation in to the likes of pursuing one’s dream and

working hard. Throughout his speech, he re-

ceived several standing ovations. On into the evening, awards were

given out for appreciation, academic achievement, and community service.

The certificate of appreciation was given to Hunt.

The academic award was given to Jeff Blake, senior Arkadelphia High School football player. He holds a 4.1 GPA, all while assisting in leading the school’s football team to their first playoff game since 1987.

The community service award was given in honor of the late George Mitchell, Jr., previous CEO of Mitchell’s Funeral Home in Arkadel-phia. His wife, Jodie Mitchell, and

his daughter, Jackie Craig, graciously accepted it.

“Thank you all for honoring my father,” Craig said. “He is, not ‘was’, but IS a great man and I appreciate everyone for acknowledging his com-munity service.”

At the end of the ceremony, Wilson announced to the audience that this would be his last term as NAACP president.

He has served as president from 1998 to 2015.

“I have run my course,” Wilson said. “I have fought a good fight as well.”

In closing, everyone joined hands and sang “We Shall Overcome” by Pete Seeger.

A GOOD TURN OUT — Vanilla Hannah thanks the crowd for their continued support.

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There is another battle brewing between OBU students and Hender-son students. This battle is more of a mental achievement rather than a physical battle.

This is the sixth annual BBA Solutions business plan competition.

Brandon Horvath, business consultant at the small business technology development center, said contestants will be presenting their ideas for their unique business ideas.

“This is our version of Shark Tank,” Horvath said.

Each year students work all semester to develop their business plans. This includes a financial pro-jection for that business and the best presentation for the judges.

This competition is not just for business majors. Horvath said any-one from this campus is allowed to join the competition for next year.

“You don’t have to be a business major to have a business idea,” Hor-vath said.

Horvath would like to see more students compete. There is a class that is available to help students pre-pare for this competition. The class is called “Applied Entrepreneur-ship.” Students do not have to be in this class to compete, and students that are in this class do not have to compete.

“Students enjoy utilizing their skills and competing for cash prizes,” Horvath said.

This year there are a total of six teams that will be competing. The competition will be held Tuesday on the third floor of Womack Hall from 12-5 p.m.

Each team will have twenty minutes to present their ideas and another twenty minutes to answer questions from the judges.

Competitors have a chance to win big bucks. First place winners will receive $4,000 second place brings home $3,000 and third will receive $2,000.

There will be five judges that will score the contestants on their overall business ideas as well as their presentations.

Beginning at 4:30 p.m. the judges will announce the winners and present the checks to the top three teams.

The top three winners from this competition will compete against the top three winners of OBU’s compe-tition in February 2016 for another chance to win cash prizes.

This competition is open to the public. Horvath encourages all students to come and watch these teams present their ideas to the judg-es and win big money.

Students compete to win big moneySTORY BY CARMIN WILLS

BUSINESS BATTLE OF THE RAVINE

GRAPHIC BY JORDAN JONES

The teams this year and the time they will be presenting are listed below:

NECESSITIES ON WHEELS12:20 - 1 p.m.

HOMEGROWN1 - 1:40 p.m.

SICKICS 1:40 - 2:20 p.m.

SECURED TREASURES 2:20 - 3 p.m.

MILLION DOLLAR FASHION3 - 3:40 p.m.

AUSITN EATERY3:40 - 4:20 p.m.

DEC. 8, 2015

Brain Cole, senior chemistry major, is on a mission to change the world through science. The Bismarck product stumbled up an opportunity to help Ingo Schranz with his research by just enrolling in classes and was asked by Vincent Dunlap, associate professor of chemistry, to join Ingo Schranz, professor of chem-istry, in the research.

Cole was excited for the chance and accepted the challenge to do research with Schranz. Cole’s research consists of making a new tungsten [metal] complex for the purpose of opening new doors to new types of research. His research focuses on things such as solar cells – chemical sensors and flexible electronics just to name a few.

“In the beginning it was very hard and a really big learning curve to me,” Cole said.

Cole’s interest grew, as he got more involved into the research. This made Cole work harder than ever and he eventually began to present his research across the country. He has presented six times since June and loves the progress he has made.

He has lots of support from professors in the chem-istry department like his mentor and various faculty

members in the TRIO department as well.Cole was one of 12 McNair Scholars who present-

ed research projects this summer following a series of workshops designed to prepare the scholars for the gradate school.

“I really want to thank the program they have really helped inspire me to present my research to the world,” Cole said.

Cole took his research to bigger heights as he was selected to attend the Gulf Coast Undergraduate Re-search Symposium at Rice University. He recalled there being about 200 other presenters there.

“I have seen some of the best presentations at the conference and I was excited to be apart of it,” Cole said.

The McNair program not only inspires him but they also back his research in a big way. They have helped fund his trips in big ways from flight to resort stays. One of Cole’s biggest presentations was held in Wis-consin on Oct. 31 at the Lake Lawn Resort.

“Brian is a brilliant student who has taken full advantage of every opportunity the McNair Scholars Program has to offer,” Shanea Nelson, McNair assistant

director, said. The biggest thing Cole wants to do with his research

is inspire more people to do inorganic chemistry. He also wants students to know that there are various out-lets of funding and programs that aid in research.

“I want people to understand that inorganic chemis-try is very fun and exciting when discoveries are made,” Cole said.

Conscious that he will graduate in the spring, Cole knows that the possibility of him not finishing his research with Schranz might be coming. He would love if someone as passionate as him would pick up his research.

Some of the future opportunities that he is looking forward to with his research are to test compounds to see what catalytic activity happens. Things such as linking organic molecules together forming chains, splitting long molecules and the extension or shorten-ing of carbon-carbon chains are some of the things he is looking for.

Cole gave credit of his success to the McNair Schol-ars Program, the Chemistry department, his mentor Schranz, and the Henderson Bowman Scholarship.

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SCHOLAR ON THE RISEOur own Walter White STORY BY JAMES JACKSON

PHOTO BY CARMIN WILLSDOING WHAT I DO BEST — Brian at his workstation in the chemistry lab

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A WONDERFUL MOMENTCheyenne Lee, senior digital art and design major, recently had her artwork

piece “IDYLLIC” on displayed in Huie Library for the students, faculty and community to enjoy.

“I always love when these exhibitions come around. You just know that these artists have worked so hard on what they have done. The pieces always inspire me and Cheyenne did nothing less than the same,” Kylan McAfee, sophomore, aviation management major, said.

It took Cheyenne around seven months to prepare for the exhibition. She began researching and sketching ideas for her exhibition all throughout the summer. Lee started to finalize her pieces once the school year began.

“Illustrations and character design are where my artistic interests are focused, and the tarot cards for the core concepts of the exhibition really played to my strengths,” Lee said.

Traditional tarot cards are heavily illustration based and have set characters for each individual card, therefore Lee was very interested in doing research and designing a completely new version of each of the cards for her show.

Lee has always been interested in art and she has always been surrounded by it. It wasn’t until she was a junior in high school that she realized how important art was to her and that she really wanted to pursue it. Ever since

she made the full connection with her love for art Lee has made a conscious effort to surround herself in her artistic interests and have fun with it.

“Not a day goes by where I’m not surrounded by art,” Lee said.Lee’s senior exhibition was one of the most fun and most stressful projects

she’s ever worked on. “There were many days where I would go two or three days without sleep

because of it, but it all came together in the end and I’m very proud of the work I’ve accomplished,” Lee said.

There are various factors that play into having artwork displayed in an exhibition. For Lee, her work needed to be professional. She wanted her work to be crisp and clean. More than anything she just wanted the professional-ism to be well executed within the piece. Lee decided that her work needed to be consistent and needed to be able to stand alone as an individual piece. Though she wanted the piece to be it’s own she wanted it to also be able to come together as a unit.

Lee’s reception was held on Dec. 1 and was a whole lot of fun for Lee. She also said that it was both nerve-racking and exciting at the same time, but seeing her art on the wall and having her friends and family look at all of her hard work was a wonderful moment.

FORTUNATE ONE — Fortune teller cards designed by Cheyenne are displayed in her show.

What’s in the cards?STORY BY CAYLA CHRISTIAN

PHOTO BY SCOTT MCKINNON

DEC. 7, 2015

Every year the graduating seniors in the art department have a chance to put their art on display in an exhibit. The artwork is posted on walls and for the time that the exhibit is up and everyone from the school and community are allowed to view the pieces. Creating these pieces to show isn’t easy however. The work has to be properly displayed, and marketing is involved as well as the approvals. The whole show overall has to be cohesive and professional.

Senior, digital art and design major, Crystal Warren had her art-work displayed in an exhibition in Huie Library for all to see. The art piece entitled “Let it Grow” was book open to view Nov. 23 through Dec. 1. Warren began considering the book as an option for her show about 16 months ago. Throughout the process there were several different other pieces that she considered but none of the others made the cut. She felt that this was something that God worked out within her. It took a while for Warren to even consider using such a personal piece as this to be displayed in her art work because a story came along with the piece. Although she was a lit-tle skeptical at first it ended up working out in her favor in the end.

Most of the illustrations that are in the book were chosen in the last six months.

“After I learned my then husband had filled for divorce, I went to Pinnacle Mountain seeking solace and a desire to hear from God,” Warren said.

Many lessons that she learned there were portrayed in the book through the character Alena. In the book Alena also takes on an adventure at the mountain. Her children and her own childhood memories are reflected in the narrative as well as the art. Photos were taken at Pinnacle that helped inspire her illustrations.

Art plays a huge role in Warren’s daily life. It consists of various concepts for her artwork. Ideas for her art work come up all the time for different current projects and future ones.

She learned the value of always taking time to jot down those thoughts and time to sketch.

“It was great, but it was a lot of hard work,” Warren said. “If you put good effort into your prep work the actual work flows much easier. It was nice to visit with others about my work, and let my work speak for itself.”

Warren was pleased with the experience that came along with this senior exhibition and she is looking forward to sharing her piece in other venues.

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Senior art show of self-reflectionSTORY BY CAYLA CHRISTIAN

PHOTO BY SCOTT MCKINNON

LET IT

GROW

ADMIRING — Guests gather around as Crystal Warren talks about her artwork.

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ROCKK SOLID POWER-LIFTERHe’s tasted gold before — He knows what it takes to get there again. He’s

pumped, well disciplined and ready to lift his way to victory at CrossFit in Little Rock on Saturday morning.

2015 proved to be a successful year for World Champion Power-lifter, MoRoc-co Arnold. Saturday will be the final meet of the year, and with only one meet left, Arnold is going in with no hesitations. Since the big meet in Las Vegas some things have changed for Arnold.

“I feel like I changed. I became a better person and athlete since the Vegas meet. I met so many people that believed in me. I feel honored and blessed to be a world champion. I thank God for everything,” Arnold, sophomore sports nutrition major, said.

Arnold has adopted a new diet, more vegetables and lean meats and he drinks up to two gallons of water a day. With his new diet he has lost more than 20 pounds. Ar-

nold has also received two new sponsorships, Power Gear clothing and Fully Torque Nutrition. They supply him with workout gear and other necessary accessories.

“I still put in the same amount of time in at the gym, but I work harder for better results,” Arnold said.

As a student, he hopes to end the semester with A’s and B’s. As a power-lifter, he intends to end the year with no regrets. His New Year’s resolution is to do better and be humble of his success. In Las Vegas, Arnold’s lifting totals were 1,775 pounds. In 2016, he hopes to total 2,000 pounds by the time he turns 21 years old on July 16.

With the meet less than a week away, Arnold has already begun preparing himself. Arnold has been faithfully working out at least five days a week. Arnold said he is now mainly stretching to keep his body loose.

His goal for this meet is just like all others, giving his best. “I’m just planning to do my best, that’s all I can do,” Arnold said.

Preparing for another victorySTORY BY BRI CURRY

DO YOU EVEN LIFT BRO — MoRocco Arnold Lifts Zach Noga during a workout. PHOTO BY MOE SKINNER

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It was sometime during the six o’clock hour on Wednesday morning when Robin Meade, HLN morning host, penetrated my R.E.M. sleep and disturbed my much needed slumber with an announcement, “Free for Verizon custom-ers only.” I cracked one eye open and tried to process what she had said. As the segment cycled, I gained a better understanding of what Meade had said.

In promotion of the new movie “Star Wars: VII – The Force Awakens,” Verizon offered their current customers “Star Wars” themed VR [virtual-real-ity] Google cardboard viewers. The four-pack collection features images from fan favorites like R2-D2 and Stormtrooper in addition to new characters like BB-8 and the new villian Kylo Ren.

When I picked up my viewer, a tech person working at the Hot Springs branch told me to download the free “Star Wars” app and follow the direc-tions on the inside of the viewer box. I abruptly did so and formatted the box to fit my phone.

The app allows you to design your profile in droid, light-side or dark-side mode. Each changes the colors on the interactive home screen. Droid mode is equipped with pale green text with droid blue graphic outlines on a black background containing a faint depiction of R2-D2. The light-side mode is created with bright yellow text and laser green graphic outlines on a forest green background. The dark-side has a Death Star background with fire-en-gine-red graphic outlines with grey text.

There are more than a dozen options on the app including an accurate

temperature feature that hangs in the upper left corner of the screen, a This Day in Star Wars History feature that scrolls information in the upper right corner, a selfie mode, emojis to share and most importantly — latest news.

The Latest News feature is designed to release new information several days out. On day one, I had one message to download. Two days later, I had a new message. The locked download messages are scheduled to unlock days apart as the release of the movie date approaches. There are nine messages all together and the last message is scheduled to open on December 16, two days before the movie opens in theaters.

You can still download the app and keep track of all the hype but if you don’t have a VR viewer to watch the videos you won’t “feel the force.”

The viewer’s 3-D effects are mind blowing and cause you to unconsciously swivel your head around like an owl with 360-degree interaction.

I’ve watched three video messages so far and each revealed new scenes and insights to the movie.

For those die-hard fans, This Day in Star Wars History feature was made especially for you. By choosing any month or day, the app gives you a fact about what happened in the world of Star Wars on that date.

Call me easily amused. Hell, I am. But, this little box and app combination has kept me pre-occupied longer than I’d care to admit.

Meade also reported that only 200,000 viewers were officially made and distributed at Verizon store locations.

SQUARE FACE — Members of the Oracle staff take a virtual reality tour of the new Star Wars movie.

THE FORCE IS BOXED UPVR Viewers hit Verizon stores last weekOPINION AND PHOTO BY MOE SKINNER

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I usually end each semester recapping the articles I’ve written, but I’m not re-capping anything until I talk about “One Punch Man.”

Now, I’ll be begin by explaining that I usually don’t like manga or anime, but I’ll make exceptions for ones that are so good that they take over my life and that is exactly what “One Punch Man” has done.

I’ve been keeping up with the manga quite a bit, but the anime is what I really like because of how great it is overall.

Saitama, the main character, is one of the best characters I’ve ever seen. He’s so calm, so funny and so interesting to watch fight even though all of his fights end with just one punch.

And that’s basically the whole story for the first few episodes. He just worked out a lot, didn’t use central heating or air and he got super strong as a result, mak-ing him the toughest guy around.

Then he just decides that he’ll be a su-perhero because he feels like it. He feels like punching monsters so hard they ex-plode.

And he’s not even the highest ranked hero. He’s towards the bottom of the list because he’s bad at taking tests and that comes up in the story.

Even with Saitama being such a great character, he’s surrounded by people who are just as cool as he is.

At the beginning of the series, Genos is introduced and he’s a great character to contrast Saitama. While Saitama trained for his power, Genos is a cyborg and gets stronger as he upgrades his tech.

While Saitama is really relaxed and funny, Genos is always serious and is con-stantly trying to learn Saitama’s ways so he can be just as tough.

And even though they usually die the episode they debut, the villains are pretty interesting.

But the best villain so far is Speed O’

Sound Sonic for his name alone and I’m not even sure if he is a villain.

The animation is so good that I recom-mend everyone to just watch at least one episode to see it. Everything about the animation is absolutely perfect, whether it be the fight scenes or just things hap-pening in the background.

If I could, I’d compare the animation to something similar, but I can’t think of anything to compare it to. Just know that the animation is great and leave it at that.

A lot of people like to talk about the intros to animes, but I’ve never real-ly cared about them, but I do like One Punch Man’s. I like it just for the vocalist screaming “One Punch” at the beginning because it gets me excited.

Anime usually has a stigma for being really stupid and One Punch Man is re-ally stupid, but in a really good way. But you can’t expect a show about a bald man wearing yellow spandex who kills any-thing he punches to be too serious.

Not to mention there are still plenty of characters for the anime to get that have already shown up in the manga. Charac-ters like Metal Bat, a guy who fights crime by beating villains with a metal bat.

I wish I was making this stuff up be-cause it all sounds too cool to exist, but here it is.

So far, there are only ten episodes of the anime along with a side episode showing Saitama becoming the hero he is and every single episode is better than the last. And they all tackle such serious is-sues such as punching, cyborgs shooting giant laser beams and more punching.

What I’m saying is that this is a very action focused anime and those are the ones I enjoy. It’s also extremely violent, but only if you consider people exploding after they’ve been hit violent.

If watching shows with subtitles isn’t your thing, you’re gonna have to wait on “One Punch Man” because it’s only in

Japanese right now.But I’m very confident in the show

getting localized with English voice ac-tors because not only do I really enjoy the show, but many others also really like it.

The show honestly has a lot to like even if over-the-top action isn’t for you. The characters are very interesting and the dialogue between them is highly en-tertaining.

Plus the overall story with the Hero Association and the rest of the charac-ters makes the whole show that much more interesting. You can consider “One Punch Man” to be an unique take on both the superhero genre and over-the-top ac-tion animes.

And while I do prefer comic books, the manga of “One Punch Man” stands

up with favorites I have with comics.Honestly, the only complaint I have

with the series is that there are a few characters I want to see more of, which is something the creators are working on already.

And while the anime is going strong, I’m waiting a few of these characters to make their debut so it really gets good.

But my overall feelings with “One Punch Man” are that it’s a great show with amazing animation and characters I actually enjoy and always want to see more of both fighting and just standing around talking to each other.

It’s not everyday that I become so ob-sessed with a TV show, but “One Punch Man” is just so good that I can’t help but watch it over and over again.

ONE PUNCH FANOPINION BY DAX GUILLIAMS — PARODY IMAGE BY JORDAN JONES BASED ON AN IMAGE © MADHOUSE

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EXAM TIME:

FINALS SCHEDULEMonday, December 148:00-10:00 a.m.10:00-12:00 noon1:00-3:00 p.m.3:00-5:00 p.m.

Tuesday, December 158:00-10:00 a.m.10:00-12:00 noon1:00-3:00 p.m.3:00-5:00 p.m.

Wednesday, December 168:00-10:00 a.m.10:00-12:00 noon1:00-3:00 p.m.3:00-5:00 p.m.

Thursday, December 178:00-10:00 a.m.10:00-12:00 noon1:00-3:00 p.m.

MWF 8:00 a.m.MWF 10:00 a.m. MWF 1:00 p.m.MWF 3:00 p.m. and all sections of Principles of Accounting, Intermediate Algebra

TR 8:00 a.m.TR 11:00 a.m.TR 1:30 p.m.All sections of College Algebra, Mathmatics for Liberal Arts

MWF 9:00 a.m.MWF 11:00 a.m.MWF 12:00 noonMWF 2:00 p.m.

No Test ScheduleTR 9:30 a.m.TR 3:00 p.m.

ALL CLASSES MEETING:

- Instructors and students of classes meeting at 7:00 a.m. will arrange final exam times.- Final exams for evening classes will be administered during the time scheduled for class meetings during the week of Dec 14-17.- “Restricted Days” are Dec 10-11. No tests or activities are to be scheduled on these days.- Exams are to be taken on designated days and at designated times.- Students are expected to read the Undergraduate Catalog and be knowledgeable of university policies, rules, and procedures.- Students in online classes should contact the course instruc-tors for final exam schedules.

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HOT SPRINGS CHRISTMAS PARADE

Hot Springs Convention Center, Horner HallSaturday, December 19 at 7 p.m.$25

The “Christmastime in Arkansas Live!” concert will feature Justin Moore and Arkansas’s favorite crooning weatherman Ned Perme and his Band. All proceeds will help benefit The Arkansas Rice Depot. Come enjoy some holiday music that benefits a great cause.

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HOT SPRINGS HAPPENINGSDowntown Hot SpringsMonday, December 7 beginning at 6:30 p.m.free

Hot Springs’ Holiday Christmas Parade, is always a great time for families. Along with the superb parade, with this year’s theme “The Art of Christmas,” features floats and marching bands to help the entire town of Hot Spring be aglow with holiday cheer. For those looking for a special small town Christmas, Hot Springs will not disappoint. Don’t miss this opportunity to get into the holiday spirit. Image Courtesy of hotsprings.org

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ANNUAL HISTORIC DISTRICT LUMINARY DISPLAYProspect and Quapaw AvenuesSaturday, December 12 at duskfree

At dusk, the whole neighborhood comprised of over 350 homes, from Pros-pect and Quapaw to West Grand and Prospect Avenues, the intersections and all adjoining streets will be outlined with a candlelight luminary. Whether you’re a visitor to or a native of Hot Springs, you’ll want to be sure to go and see these homeowners’ expression of the holiday season. Image Courtesy of Wikimedia

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NEVER SETTLE, ALWAYS COMPETEWomen’s basketball pushes their GAC win streak to 4-0STORY BY MARIAH DELAVEGA

The Lady Reddies basketball team won 75-58 on Sat-urday, against Southeastern Oklahoma at the Duke Wells Center.

HSU’s overall record is 4-4 and 4-0 in the Great Ameri-can Conference.

In the first quarter, both teams fought to be in the lead. The score was tied 5-5, but then Southeastern took the

lead 13-8. Dulincia Keener, forward, got her team to 10 points with a layup. Haleigh Henson, guard, came in and tied the score with a three pointer.

The Lady Reddies ended the first quarter in the lead, 18-13.

The second quarter, the Lady Reddies didn’t let up. They outscored Southeastern in the period to take a 37-25 half-time lead.

In the third quarter, HSU stayed in the lead. Victoria Stewart, guard, helped her team out with two 3-pointers in the second half.

The third quarter ended with the Lady Reddies in the lead 55-40.

Henderson dominated throughout the fourth quarter. Keener scored most of the points in the last quarter.

Henson helped out with two 3-pointers.The Lady Reddies were in control the entire second half.

Henson ended the game with 15 points and Stewart fin-ished with 12 points.

Keener helped out by scoring a career high 32 points and pulled down 21 rebounds. She was impossible to stop by hitting 11 field goals and also made 10-of-12 free throws.

“It feels great just knowing the fact that I contributed so much to help my team to a great win and to be undefeated in conference,” Keener said.

She said that they stepped up tremendously on the defensive end and also knocked down big shots when they needed them.

Her goal for the team is to accomplish more than they did last year. Last year’s team made it to the first round of playoffs, and Keener wants to go way further than that.

Even though they are 4-0 in conference, she doesn’t want to get too comfortable.

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“I’m satisfied with what we have done so far, but I have to keep in mind that I cannot get content with things. It’s a long season and we cannot settle now. We have to keep pushing. I constantly remind the girls that we have to keep moving forward and get better every day,” Keener said. “Never settle, always compete.”

Keener also mentioned that she is very proud and excited with the group they have this year.

“What I like the most about this group is the drive they have to be successful. I really feel that we are truly a team this year. That’s what makes me so excited about this group. I know they have my back, and I have theirs,” Keener said.

The Lady Reddies will play their next game against Rogers State on Saturday, Dec. 12 at the Duke Wells Center at 2 p.m.

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ELGAS LEADS TEAM TO VICTORY

Looking to bounce back from a heartbreaking 4-point loss to East Cen-tral University on Thursday night, the Reddies basketball team took the floor against Southeastern Oklahoma State University on Saturday afternoon.

In convincing fashion, the HSU got their first win of the season against SE 87-61.

Head Coach Jimmy Elgas got his first win as the new coach of the Reddies.

“I am really happy for our players,” Elgas said. “They have been working very hard and have been staying focused on the process of getting better.”

HSU came out of the gate running, and continued to control the pace throughout the game.

Tavian Pomlee, forward, hit the first field goal of the game with a 3-pointer. SE scored on their next possession with a layup by Nathan Jackson to cut the lead to 3-2, HSU. That was the closest the Storm got the entire game.

HSU turned up the offense through-out the remainder of the first half.

Kevin Kozan, guard, hit back to back 3-pointers at the 15:40 mark of the first half to increase the Reddie lead to 20-11.

Matt Panaggio, guard, added in a cou-ple of field goals midway through the first half to make the score 30-16, HSU.

SE struck back with a three of their own by Sami Bzai to cut the game to a seven point game, 36-29.

Kozan and Ben Marello, guard/for-

ward, hit three straight three pointers to increase HSU’s lead to 45-31.

Chandler Walton, small forward, and Panaggio would hit the last two baskets of the first half as HSU took a 52-37 lead into halftime.

As the second half got underway, the Reddies kept their foot on the gas and sped through the rest of the game.

SE hit the first basket of the second half with a layup by Anton Cook.

Pomlee nailed a trey 5 minutes into the second half increasing HSU’s lead to 67-41.

The Reddies would stretch the lead out to 31 points at the 12:53 mark of the second half with a layup by Marello making the score 72-41.

Southeastern’s Stelios Papafloratos would score eight straight points to help stop the bleeding brought on by HSU.

SE would falter under Reddies’ swel-tering defense as time ran out, netting HSU their first win of the season.

“Southeastern is one of the best scoring teams in our conference,” Elgas said. “We really wanted to be good in defensive transition, play good half court defense, and finish every possession with a block out rebound.”

Kozan lead the Reddies in scoring with 20. Panaggio had 18 and Pomlee had 17.

HSU takes the court Tuesday in Nacogdoches, Texas to face Stephen F. Austin State University at 7 p.m.

Men’s basketball team wins their first game this season under new head coachSTORY BY ALVIN STUCKEY

PEP TALK — Coach Elgas draws up a game plan during timeout. PHOTO BY DOM CELLA