6612 NW 42nd St. Bethany, OK 73008 (405) 491-6382TheEchoFebruary 8, 2013

Volume 84 Issue 15echo.snu.edu

Measures taken to deter further vandalism in AM Hills

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Jason Hubbert and Jake O’Bannon share their Oscar predictions

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Fake blood, video games and other Heartpal invitationsRonna Fisher, Assistant Editor SNU, a school full of tradition. TWIRP, Yule Feast, Back to School Bash, Finals Fling, and do not for-get Ring by Spring. And, now with Valentine’s Day approaching, there is Heartpal. Comparable to a formal banquet, for the past couple of years Heartpal has been held at the Oklahoma City Art Museum. This year Heartpal will be held in the Hall of Mirrors at the Civic Center and will include ball-room dancing. The event entails des-sert, dressing up, and taking plenty

of adorable “I’m-in-college” pic-tures. This also includes the well-known tradition of boys creatively asking the girls. This creativity can include anything from scavenger hunts to singing guys to a pro-grammed video game. How are guys asking girls this year and why go to all the trouble? After much scavenging by social network and word-of-mouth, here are the top three most creative ways that girls have been asked to Heartpal this year.

Number three: While on her way to Snowbarger Hall to pick up some friends, Natalie LeMay, freshman, was surprised by a large group of people jumping out into the street with a bunch signs. They were lined up all along Asbury with signs that said, “Will you go to Heartpal?” and “Honk to say yes.” “There was another [sign] that was “Keep honking to say no,” and I kept honking just to confuse them,” LeMay said. Eventually, a completely sur-prised LeMay joined the group

and her asker, Blake Frazier, with a “yes” for an answer. Number two: Freshman Gen-try Smith turned his interest in technology into a unique way to ask Miranda Garlett, freshman, to Heartpal. “I asked my date to Heartpal by programming a Pokémon game. I always love messing with technolo-gy, and I figured this would be both a unique thing and consistent with my personality. She wasn’t expect-ing it at all! She almost completely

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Coach from Remember The Titans speaks in chapel

Coach Herman Boone spoke with The Echo in an interview before addressing the student body in chapel. Photo by Audra Marston.

Brad Crofford (Editor-in-chief) and Garvis Long (Staff Writer) Former football coach Herman Boone addressed students in a spe-cial chapel service at Bethany First Church of the Nazarene on Thurs-day, Feb. 7. Boone was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the 2000 film Remember the Titans. “This move [Remember the Ti-tans] is not about football,” Boone said during his speech. “It’s about how one can learn to accept an-other’s soul rather than reject them based on the color of their skin.” During his speech, Boone spoke at length about diversity. He talked about how his football team at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Va. came together and won games despite the racial tensions of the time period.

He then spoke about the United States now. He noted that at lunch time in schools around the country, there is still division as “another routine is a racial comfort zone.” Diversity is about more than race though, according to Boone. While people often think about race and gender, it also includes characteristics like age, ability, religion, socioeconomic status, and sexual orientation. “You must find ways for people of different races and cultures...to simply talk to each other,” Boone said. Boone also spoke about not being afraid to fail. He spoke of fa-mous men like Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill who had failed at something as a child but gone on to do great things.

Boone also congratulated the se-niors. He said that they are expected to make a difference and that once

they leave Southern Nazarene University, they need to show the

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Fake blood, video games and Heartpal invitations, cont’dmissed it, too,” Smith said. Number one: Junior Tyler Copeland used quite a bit of the-atrics to pull off asking Emily Gammill to Heartpal. “Tyler asked me to Heartpal by using fake blood and acting like he had cut his hand,” Gammill said. “All I could see was blood coming though, and I completely fell for it. As I was in a frenzy to stop the bleeding and get help, he pulled out a paper that said, ‘Heartpal?’” “I knew she was a Nursing mage, so I had to put her nursing skills to the test,” Copeland said. A lot of time, work, and cre-ativity can go into asking some-one to Heartpal, and all for one night. Why go to all the trouble? Felipe Simóes believes getting

creative makes it more memora-ble. Smith explains that it makes a “statement.” “When I asked Miranda cre-atively, I told her that she was worth the time to ask creatively,” Smith said. In addition, it is just plain fun. “It’s fun for both the guy and the girl,” Celeste Forrest, fresh-man, said. After all of the asking, stu-dents have a lot to look forward to. While some students have never ballroom danced before, there is excitement about getting to try something new.. “I’m most excited about the ballroom dancing! First of all be-cause it gives us all something to do besides eat desserts and take picture. And also, ballroom danc-ing is something I’ve never done

University uses wells to keep costs down during droughtBrad Crofford, Editor-In-Chief Oklahoma has been experienc-ing a severe drought. According to the US Drought Monitor, 92 percent of Oklahoma was rated as having ex-treme drought and 37 percent as ex-ceptional drought. From least severe to most severe, the scale goes moder-ate, severe, extreme, exceptional. While the availability of water on campus has not been affected by the drought, the university has lost some trees and other plants because of the heat and lack of water. Some students have suggested on social media that the university’s use of its sprinkler system in January in the middle of a drought is wasteful. Ron Lester, Director of Facilities Management, explained in an email response to The Echo how the uni-versity’s grounds are irrigated. “We make every effort to be con-servative in our usage of water. Our Grounds Manager, Brett Benson, does a great job of only giving the grass the water it needs to thrive and not over watering, which has not al-ways been the practice here. We have

been trying to improve the water-ing policies and schedules in the past few years to be more conser-vative and to water mostly at night, when it is most efficient,” Lester said. Lester then pointed out that sometimes watering occurs during the day in order to avoid freezing temperatures at night. This helps avoid ice hazards. This system uses sensors to help improve safety and efficiency.

“We also have sensors on our ir-rigation stations that are supposed to shut the system off if there has been sufficient rain or if the tem-perature is near freezing,” Lester said “Occasionally, we get caught with one of these not working properly and have sprinklers com-ing on when they shouldn’t be.” The university’s irrigation costs are also kept low by the way in which it obtains its water. “All of our irrigation water on

campus comes from wells and our main cost for irrigation, other than the maintenance of the sys-tem, is to power the pumps,” Les-ter said. As a further sustainability mea-sure, several underground reser-voir tanks were installed under Hills when it was built. The water from the roof then drains into these tanks and is used to water the grounds around Hills.

before and will be fun to learn, even if it means looking a little ridiculous!”Gammill said. Heartpal is meant to be a time away from the stresses of everyday

school. It is a time to spend a great night with all of your friends. “It’s just a great way to dress up and have fun together,” Le-May said.

Gentry Smith asked Miranda Garlett to Heartpal by programming a Pokemon game. Image provided by Gentry Smith.

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Fink Fast challenges students to fast and prayBrad Crofford, Editor-In-Chief On Thursday, Feb. 14, students will have the opportunity to sacri-fice a meal for the greater good. Fink Fast is an annual tradition at Nazarene universities and col-leges. During the fast, students can give up a meal at Sodexo in order to

benefit a noble cause. “It’s named after a student body president at NNU who lost his life the night before his graduation in the may of 1989,” Zach Bond, student body president, said. “This effort is both to honor his mem-

ory and continue in the vein of reaching out to support the labors of Nazarene compassionate min-istries.” This year’s beneficiary will be an inner city outreach program in Kansas City. Past Fink Fast ben-

eficiaries have included The Luke Commission in 2012 and a Naza-rene student ministry at the Uni-versity of Nebraska in 2011. While the charitable aspect in-volves giving up a meal at Sodexo, Bond hopes that students will also be engaging in the spiritual side as well. “Although students can simply buy food elsewhere, we’re encour-aging students to use the time they would usually be using to eat to pray and fast,” Bond said.

“we’re encourag-ing students to

use the time they would

usually be using to eat to pray and fast”

Measures taken to deter further vandalism in HillsMacy Silman, Staff Reporter Though only a few years old, the A.M. Hills Residential Com-plex has already been plagued by vandalism. Hills’ Resident Director, Tim Cole, spoke with The Echo in an interview about the latest vandal-ism in the dorms.

This type of defacing school property is not unheard of, but it is not so common in this new

dormitory. The vandalism started just before Christmas break featuring inappropriate drawings in white sharpie. The custodians were able to clean it up completely. Since the stairs is where these “artists’” work were featured, the only place in the building that does not have security cameras, there are new security measures being taken. Cameras for each stairwell will most likely be in-stalled to ensure this type of dis-respect does not happen again. “We mainly think that the rea-son these things have happed are because it’s getting close to break, the students are getting antsy and cooped up, therefore they tend to act out,” Cole said. There are currently a few sus-

pects. The resident staff is able to watch the video footage from around the designated area, nar-rowing it down to a couple of students. The measures taken

to convince any guilty parties to confess are given via e-mails. Any students found guilty of this vandalism will be addressed and more than likely given a fine.

The A.M. Hills Residential Complex. Photo by Stephany Reyes.

“Students are getting antsy and cooped up there-fore they tend to

act out.”

Photo by Meneer Zjeroen used under Creative Commons license.

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I remember (and if you’re lucky, you remember too) making a mail-box out of road-kill pelts in third grade the week before Valentine’s Day, all a-twitter, knowing that with-in a few days Cindy was going to tell me she loved me. And there I sat at home for hours, trying to scribe the perfect words in perfect grammati-cal structure (even in third grade), to reveal my undying devotion to her, as well as my syntactical skills. Picking out the right motif/packet of one-sided “hot shots of love” at the local pharmacy, sometimes with a cupid, usually with a heart, and al-ways in pink and/or red marked the onset of Adoration Flu. But, as was my destiny in most

things associated with romance, my love for Cindy was unrequited. On the back of her card she wrote simply, “From Cindy.” Little affec-tion hangs off the word, “from.” “Well,” I reasoned, “there’s

always fourth grade.” (Little did I know that by fourth grade, all girls had coo-ties.)

So Valentine’s Day has its pros and its cons; its positives and its negatives; its reasons to celebrate and reasons to remain celibate. Here’s a list of things I love about Valentine’s Day and things I hate about it: I love the banquet SNU spon-sors; I hate the name of it, “Heart-Pal.” (In trying to include both

romantic couples and platonic couples, they’ve just muddied the waters, as far as I’m concerned. It looks like it’s from a hospital chart: “heart palpations.”) I love the little messages on those pastel hearts; I hate the ones made from Sweetarts. (Valentine’s greetings should be sweet, not ton-sil-slapping bitter.) Here are some candied-heart sayings I’d love to see: “Stupid Cu-pid,” “Get over it,” “Dnt txt me,” “U R S A I,” and “2BZ4UQT.” I love dinner by candlelight; I hate vanilla scented candles. I love buying a card for my Valentine; I hate seeing them dis-played in stores as they remove

I <3 Valentines Day but I don’t <3 …their Christmas cards in Decem-ber. I love simple engagement rings; I hate to see couples spend a 30-year mortgage to buy one. I love loving one Valentine; when I was in college, I hated lov-ing two. I love a nice sweater; I hate see-ing holiday sweaters for every holi-day. (Really? Camouflage on Veter-ans Day?) I love red and green at Christ-mas; I hate red and pink at Valen-tines Day I love love songs; I hate Billy Joel, Hall and Oats, and Celine Dion. (Oh, and anything from the 80s)

Prehistoric Legends

by Prof. Jim Wilcox

Heartpal is February 8 at 7:30 in theHall of Mirrors at the Civic Center downtown. Tickets are $10 or $5 with a Crimson Card.

Boone speaks in chapelworld role models outside of the pimps and gangsters of the world. Boone sat down for an exclusive interview with The Echo before chapel and spoke about the movie. One of the aspects where there was some creative license was the dramatic scene where he leads the team in a run to Gettysburg at three o’clock in the morning. “I might be a little crazy as some

Coach Herman Boone speaks in a chapel service at Bethany First Church. Photo by Audra Marston.

coaches are, but I am not crazy enough to run them through swamps at three in the morning,” Boone said. He said they had instead taken a bus at 8 pm, but it had the same effect the movie shows. Those interested in learning more about Boone and the others involved with the T.C. Williams Titans can visit their website, 71originaltitans.com

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Brad Crofford, Editor-in-Chief Last saturday’s basketball games against Arkansas Tech University were far more tense than usual, but it wasn’t because of what happened on the court. Over the course of the wom-en’s and men’s games, two indi-viduals were taken on stretchers from the Sawyer Center by para-medics. The nature and extent of their injuries were not an-nounced. The first incident happened soon after halftime during the women’s game. Jared Webster, SGA Vice President for Athletic Relations, was at the game. He described what he saw in an in-terview with The Echo soon af-ter it happened. “It was an older gentleman trying to make that first step onto the Storm Chaser section. He fell and injured his hip,” Webster said. Webster thinks it was a hip injury because “That’s what they [the personnel taking care of him] were looking at the whole time: his side. That is an assumption.” The game was stopped and the players left the court while athletic training staff and para-medics looked after Robert Nor-ris. After Norris was taken away, Scott Regester, the public ad-dress announcer, announced the man’s name and said a prayer, his paramedics, and his doctors.

The women’s game then re-sumed, and the SNU women won with a score of 99-80. Lightning struck twice as one of the opposing men’s team’s players, #22 Jeff Reese, also required paramedics’ attention. With 9:41 remaining in the first half of the game, play stopped as Reese was lying on the ground near the visiting team’s bench. “There was a player who had just come off the court. He complained of being short of breath and collapsed,” Webster

said. “They had to do CPR and resuscitate him.” It was initially unclear to those in attendance at the game what was going on. Freshman Katie Goodman was at the game when it happened. “I don’t know what happened. All I know is they said some-one passed out, and it got really tense in here all of a sudden,” Goodman said. Reese cried out repeatedly while being tended to by athletic training staff and then paramed-ics. The gymnasium was almost entirely silent. The cheerleaders

formed a circle on the floor and prayed. Reese was taken away on a stretcher. Regester again announced the name and led a prayer. Students took to Twitter to solicit prayer for Reese and show their support. “Pray for Jeff Reese, Arkan-sas Tech basketball player. Just taken by ambulance from this basketball game,” Jakob Wil-liams tweeted. “Praying for Arkansas Tech and everyone affected by today,” Kaitlyn Belanger tweeted. It was not immediately clear whether the men’s game would resume. Bobby Martin, SNU Athletic Director, came out to speak to the head coaches of both teams and the referees. After a brief delay, it was an-nounced play would resume in ten minutes. When Arkansas Tech Uni-versity’s men’s team regained the court to warm up, they were greeted by a standing ovation. In a show of solidarity, the members of SNU’s men’s team hugged each of Arkansas Tech University’s players. SNU’s men’s team went on to win the game with a score of 61-54. According to Arkansas Tech’s Facebook page, Reese was re-leased from the hospital on Wednesday .

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Arromanches, FranceThree hobbies: Traveling, running/biking, and watching depressing movies.Major: Elementary EducationFavorite food: Eggs. No, I am not joking. Childhood dream: Hip hop dancerHidden talents: You will never know...Biggest fear: I’m fearless. Like Taylor Swift. Favorite verse: Genesis 50:20

Katelyn’s Hometown: OKC, OK

Three hobbies: reading, writing, arithmetic (ha.). Major: EnglishFavorite food: Ice cream cake. Yep.Childhood dream: Sea World dol-phin trainerHidden talen: Telling secrets.Biggest fear: Being locked in an in-sane asylum when I’m sane. Also, wasting my life on unremarkable pursuits. Favorite quote: “You are a tree in a story about a forest” -Viktor Frankl

Shelby’s Hometown: Olathe, KSThree hobbies: Samuel Duce, playing music, and playing baseball in Central ParkMajor: Urban MinistryFavorite food: Ice creamChildhood dream: Famous singer/gymnastHidden talents: I can yodelBiggest fear: Getting trapped in the ocean and eaten by a shark. Favorite verse: Isiah 54:10

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Laura’s Hometown: Midwest City, OK

Three hobbies: Music, traveling, and learning how to cookMajor: Vocal Music EducationFavorite food: What food don’t I like?Childhood dream: Pro soccer player or a veteranarianHidden talents: speaking in strange accentsBiggest fear: failureFavorite verse: Romans 10:15

Courtney’s Hometown:Edmond, OKThree hobbies: Being with friends, traveling, watching The BachelorMajor: Elementary EducationFavorite food: Italian Childhood dream: Teacher!Hidden talents: I can roll my bellyBiggest fear: Snakes Favorite verse: 2 Corinthians 12: 9-10

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Jason Hubbert: If you love movies, it’s been a great year! Love the comic book movies? Batman’s conclusion was epic (and unjustly locked out of the Best Pic-ture category), and the Spiderman relaunch was decent, The Aveng-ers was awesome fun, and Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Slayer was sur-prisingly entertaining. Love the rom-coms? Silver Lining Playbook hit the rom and the com while showcasing two of the hottest actors working today. Dig the serious period pieces? Lin-coln had you covered. Love fantasy? Beasts of the South-ern Wild, Life of Pi, The Hobbit, John Carter, and Cloud Atlas made for an unusually diverse (and big-budget) year. Art house? The Master. Political thrillers? Argo and Zero Dark Thirty are the best since Syri-ana.

Jake the Movie Guy: I couldn’t agree more! And I think we would both agree that be-cause of that, the Oscars are wide open this year in a number of cat-egories (but not all of them *cough, Anne Hathaway, Daniel Day-Lewis cough*) and that will make them tough to pick. But let’s give it a shot anyway. Here are Jason Hubbert and Jake The Movie Guy’s picks (and wish-es) for the major categories at this year’s Oscars.

Best Supporting Actress

Nominees: Amy Adams “The Mas-ter”, Sally Field “Lincoln”, Anne Hathaway “Les Miserables”, Helen Hunt “The Sessions”, Jacki Weaver “Silver Linings Playbook”

Jason: Will Win – Anne Hathaway; She should have gotten it for Rachel Gets Married, and the academy

loves her. Should Win – Amy Adams; She is iron masquerading as velvet as she controls and channels the fire in Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Master.Jake: Will Win – Anne Hathaway; There is no doubt. She has won at every award show thus far, and the Oscars won’t be any different. Should Win – Anne Hathaway. Sure, Field was incredible (and got to do her signature cry), and Ja-son, you hit it on the head, Adams was awesome. But this has to go to Anne, even if it’s really only for one (flawless) solo.

Best Supporting Actor

Nominees: Alan Arkin “Argo”, Robert De Niro “Silver Linings Playbook”, Phillip Seymour Hoff-

man “The Master”, Tommy Lee Jones “Lincoln”, Christoph Waltz ‘Django Unchained”

Jake: Will Win – Tommy Lee Jones; Lincoln may be underperforming at the other award shows, but I re-ally feel like The Oscars are going to be much more kind. And Jones was strong in a field of AWE-SOME performances. Should Win – All of them (but Christoph Waltz if I had to pick); Waltz was fantastic in Django. But he won’t win because he won the same award for another Tarantino film in 2009. Jason: Will Win – Philip Seymour Hoffman; in an extremely tough race to call. Should Win – Philip Seymour Hoffman; but, any other year, Alan

Jason Hubbert and Jake O’Bannon predict the Oscars

Jake

Best Picture:Argo

Best Director:Steven

Spielberg

Best Actor:Daniel

Day-Lewis

Best Actress:Jennifer

Lawrence

Best Supporting

Actor:Tommy Lee

Jones

Best Supporting

Actress:Anne

Hathaway

Jason and Jake predict the Oscars, continued

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Best Actress

Nominees: Jessica Chastain “Zero Dark Thirty”, Jennifer Law-rence “Silver Linings Playbook”, Emmanuelle Riva “Amour”, Quvenzhane Wallis “Beasts of the Southern Wild”, Naomi Watts “The Impossible”

Jason: Will Win – Impossible to call, but I’ll go with Emmanuelle Riva. The Academy doesn’t like to make tough calls and votes old. Should Win – Jessica Chastain, who keeps cranking out greatness.Jake: Will Win – Jennifer Lawrence; Her movie is not controversial, she isn’t too young, she isn’t too old, and people actually saw her movie. My process of elimination says this one goes to Lawrence. Should Win – Jessica Chastain. As far as I’m concerned this one isn’t even close. But the Academy isn’t going to vote for such a con-troversial role. What a shame.

Best Actor

Nominees: Bradley Cooper “Silver Linings Playbook”, Daniel Day-Lewis “Lincoln”, Hugh Jackman “Les Miserables”, Joaquin Phoenix “The Master”, Denzel Washington “Flight”

Jason: Will Win – Daniel Day-Lewis. Yet again. Lincoln is everything

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the Academy loves in a film and Daniel Day-Lewis is our greatest living actor. Should Win – Joaquin Phoe-nix. What he does in The Master is nothing short of awe-inspiring.Jake: Will Win – Daniel Day-Lewis. No arguments here. His perfor-mance as Abe Lincoln was perfect. Should Win – This award is all Lewis, but I would love to see if go to Jackman too. He played a tough role. And yes, Phoenix is haunt-ingly brilliant in The Master.

Best Director

Nominees: Michael Haneke “Amour”, Benh Zeitlin “Beasts of the Southern Wild”, Ang Lee “Life of Pi”, Steven Spielberg “Lincoln”, David O. Russell “Sil-ver Linings Playbook”

Jake: Will Win – Steven Spielberg; This award was decided when the nominees were announced. No Bi-gelow or Affleck means Spielberg is a lock. Should Win – Christopher No-lan. Why not? Give him the Oscar for the trilogy. If only…Jason: Will Win: Steven Spielberg Should Win: Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty) or Ben Affleck (Argo), neither of which were even nominated!

Best Picture

Nominees: Amour, Argo, Beasts

of the Southern Wild, Django Un-chained, Les Miserables, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Silver Linings Playbook, Zero Dark Thirty

Jason: Will Win – The trends say Argo, but I’m going Lincoln. The Acad-emy tipped their hand with the Af-fleck snub, and Lincoln is a movie they love to reward. Should Win – There were four perfect movies made this year: Zero Dark Thirty, Argo, Silver Lin-ings Playbook, and The Avengers. I’d rank them in that order based on originality and relevance, with ZDT the best. Jake: Will Win – I’m buying the hype. I don’t like the hype, but I’m buy-ing it. This is going to Ben Affleck and Argo Should Win – Lincoln. It’s the best film of the year. And that means a lot in such a strong year of film. If it were last year, any of these nine movies would have competed with The Artist for Best Picture.

So there it is. Tune in to the Os-cars on February 24th to see how we did!

Disclaimer: This article does not represent an endorsement of any of these movies by SNU. Students should research any movie and de-termine whether or not they are comfortable with the content prior to watching it.

JasonBest Picture:

Lincoln

Best Director:Steven

Spielberg

Best Actor:Daniel

Day-Lewis

Best Actress:Emmanuelle Riva

Best Supporting

Actor:Philip Seymour

Hoffman

Best Supporting

Actress:Anne

Hathaway