With the investigations of 55 public universities in violation of Title IX, which is a portion on the Education Amend- ments of 1972, the White House released new guidelines last week for the universi- ties to follow. This is part of a continuing effort to combat sexual assaults on cam- puses. The guidelines are part of the new Violence against Women Act which, uni- versities that participate in federal student aid programs are to follow. It requires that incoming students are informed of prevention programs and made aware of the definitions of sexual crimes such as, rape, acquaintance rape, domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking. The VAWA is actually an amendment to the ever evolving Jeanne Clery act which was signed into law in 1990. The Clery act requires universities to document reported crimes on campus whether the crime went to the local courts for prosecution or not. At the end of the colleges’ scholastic year the number of documented incidents are to be made public. The Clery report can be accessed through the university and campus police website. In Henderson’s report students can view crime statistics, awareness pro- grams, fire safety and much more helpful information required by federal guidelines. When Johnny Campell took the posi- tion as police chief in 2007, the Clery re- port was not in compliance. Working with the universities resources, Campbell was able to get the report in compliance. “Our efforts are made possible through the offices of residence life, health and counseling, greek life and other groups on campus,” stated in email, Johnny Camp- bell, Henderson Police Chief. “This is a constant effort with training our staff and requires responsible person- nel to be trained continuously,” also stated Campbell. Campus police are to receive annual training to familiarize themselves with new guidelines. University staff members and counselors are trained as Campus Security Authority personal to help students that are victims of crimes. With the VAWA guidelines new defi- nitions of sexual offenses are added for campus law enforcement to use when de- termining the degree of the offense. These offenses are also added to the annual Clery report. The new sexual offenses that will be in found in this year’s report are dating violence, domestic violence and stalking. The 2013 report will be available for the public in October. The number of incidents reported may be made public, but the identity of the victims are not. Campus police and counselors protect the identity of students that have been victims of a crime. “Our first and foremost concern is for the stu- dent’s well-being. Reports are confidential and there is information on our website about the process of how students can report,” stated in email, Deborah Collins, director of health services. The new guidelines have added extra cost on the public universities’ budget to provide the training and programs needed. Legislators have asked for more funding to investigate and audit the universities to enforce the guidelines, but have not made available funds for the universities training and awareness programs Henderson is not one of the colleges under investigation for violations of Title IX and has kept in compliance with fed- eral guidelines. As the federal government works to make the universities safer by introducing more guidelines and more programs, Henderson will continue to be ready for the changes. MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014 HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY VOLUME 107, ISSUE 29 INDEX News Features: 2-3 | Features: 4-5 | Sports: 6 87 64 Monday 86 60 Tuesday 85 66 Wednesday 82 66 Thursday 80 63 Friday 84 61 Saturday 88 63 Sunday Find more news and information online at WWW.HSUORACLE.COM *Graphic by Brett Little Next fall, students will have the oppor- tunity to spend a semester with the mag- ic of Alan Moore, one of comics’ most unique and respected writers, in Dr. Randy Duncan’s Graphic Novels Seminar course. The special topics course in the com- munication department is meant to take a focused look at either a unique theme or a specific author. Alan Moore and his works were the chosen topic for next semester. Moore is best known for his works that have made their way to the big screen like his exami- nation of the superhero in “Watchmen” and his retelling of Jack the Ripper in “From Hell.” Duncan, professor of communication, wants students to read some of Moore’s lesser-known works that focus on the ideas of language, magic, and storytelling. The graphic novels seminar has only been taught once before. The course is designed to be more in-depth than a basic survey of graphic novels, because that is the purpose of the Comics as Communi- cation course. Moore’s work has been finding its way into more classrooms as more educators find graphic novels to be effective and thought-provoking teaching tools. “That Moore’s comics are getting at- tention from a range of teachers is a fur- ther testament to his skill as a writer and intrigue as a personality,” James Bucky Carter, editor of the Sequential Art Nar- rative in Education Journal, wrote in a re- cent publication of the journal. While preparing the course, Duncan had a tough time deciding on what the fo- cus of next fall’s class would be. He knew that he wanted to choose an author and had narrowed the choice down to Moore and author Frank Miller, known for graph- ic novels like “300” and “Sin City.” Once Duncan realized that several themes in Moore’s work tied in with other communication courses like Rhetorical Theory, he knew that Moore was the right choice. The nicest way to describe Alan Moore is to call him eccentric. “When he turned 40, he declared himself a magician,” Duncan said. “He started doing work outside of comics that were more like performance art and acts of magic.” Some of these performance pieces were adapted into comics, which Duncan is excited to be teaching in the class. The class won’t be reading Moore’s most pop- ular work, “Watchmen.” Instead they will focus on works like “Promethea.” On the surface, “Promethea” looks like a typical superhero adventure story, but “the main character is actually the living embodiment of the human imagination,” Duncan said. Moore’s work contains references to literature, history, religion, and metaphysi- cal ideas like tarot cards and alchemy, so there will be something for every student that takes the course. Duncan is most eager to focus on Moore’s more magical works. “For Moore, stories and how we create our own reality is magic,” he said. These ideas about constructing our re- ality also fall into many of the ideas taught in other communication courses at Hen- derson, so he is excited to bring in many of these philosophical discussions. At the moment, the course only ex- ists in Duncan’s head, but he is sure about the one thing that several students will be pleased to hear. There will be no tests for this class. A large part of students’ grades will be based on participating in class discussions, but there will also be papers and presenta- tions throughout the semester. “It’s going to be a really fun course,” Duncan said. “It’s going to require some real effort, and it’ll be challenging, because these are works that you can’t just skim the surface and understand them.” Duncan is hoping to see students that are open to new ideas and are interested in tackling some new things. “The students might be a little con- fused at first then proceed to a sense of wonderment before ending the semester in enlightenment,” he said. Comic artist, Alan Moore, chosen to be subject of fall course Clery act requires HSU to up freshman knowledge
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With the investigations of 55 public universities in violation of Title IX, which is a portion on the Education Amend-ments of 1972, the White House released new guidelines last week for the universi-ties to follow. This is part of a continuing effort to combat sexual assaults on cam-puses.
The guidelines are part of the new Violence against Women Act which, uni-versities that participate in federal student aid programs are to follow.
It requires that incoming students are informed of prevention programs and made aware of the definitions of sexual crimes such as, rape, acquaintance rape, domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
The VAWA is actually an amendment to the ever evolving Jeanne Clery act which
was signed into law in 1990. The Clery act requires universities to document reported crimes on campus whether the crime went to the local courts for prosecution or not. At the end of the colleges’ scholastic year the number of documented incidents are to be made public.
The Clery report can be accessed through the university and campus police website. In Henderson’s report students can view crime statistics, awareness pro-grams, fire safety and much more helpful information required by federal guidelines.
When Johnny Campell took the posi-tion as police chief in 2007, the Clery re-port was not in compliance. Working with the universities resources, Campbell was able to get the report in compliance.
“Our efforts are made possible through the offices of residence life, health and counseling, greek life and other groups on campus,” stated in email, Johnny Camp-bell, Henderson Police Chief.
“This is a constant effort with training our staff and requires responsible person-nel to be trained continuously,” also stated Campbell. Campus police are to receive annual training to familiarize themselves with new guidelines. University staff members and counselors are trained as Campus Security Authority personal to help students that are victims of crimes.
With the VAWA guidelines new defi-nitions of sexual offenses are added for campus law enforcement to use when de-termining the degree of the offense. These offenses are also added to the annual Clery report. The new sexual offenses that will be in found in this year’s report are dating violence, domestic violence and stalking. The 2013 report will be available for the public in October.
The number of incidents reported may be made public, but the identity of the victims are not. Campus police and counselors protect the identity of students
that have been victims of a crime. “Our first and foremost concern is for the stu-dent’s well-being. Reports are confidential and there is information on our website about the process of how students can report,” stated in email, Deborah Collins, director of health services.
The new guidelines have added extra cost on the public universities’ budget to provide the training and programs needed. Legislators have asked for more funding to investigate and audit the universities to enforce the guidelines, but have not made available funds for the universities training and awareness programs
Henderson is not one of the colleges under investigation for violations of Title IX and has kept in compliance with fed-eral guidelines. As the federal government works to make the universities safer by introducing more guidelines and more programs, Henderson will continue to be ready for the changes.
MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014 HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY VOLUME 107, ISSUE 29
INDEX News Features: 2-3 | Features: 4-5 | Sports: 6
87 64
Monday
86 60
Tuesday
85 66
Wednesday
82 66
Thursday
80 63
Friday
84 61
Saturday
88 63
SundayFind more news and information online at WWW.HSUORACLE.COM
*Graphic by Brett Little
Next fall, students will have the oppor-tunity to spend a semester with the mag-ic of Alan Moore, one of comics’ most unique and respected writers, in Dr. Randy Duncan’s Graphic Novels Seminar course.
The special topics course in the com-munication department is meant to take a focused look at either a unique theme or a specific author.
Alan Moore and his works were the chosen topic for next semester. Moore is best known for his works that have made their way to the big screen like his exami-nation of the superhero in “Watchmen” and his retelling of Jack the Ripper in “From Hell.”
Duncan, professor of communication, wants students to read some of Moore’s lesser-known works that focus on the ideas of language, magic, and storytelling.
The graphic novels seminar has only been taught once before. The course is designed to be more in-depth than a basic
survey of graphic novels, because that is the purpose of the Comics as Communi-cation course.
Moore’s work has been finding its way into more classrooms as more educators find graphic novels to be effective and thought-provoking teaching tools.
“That Moore’s comics are getting at-tention from a range of teachers is a fur-ther testament to his skill as a writer and intrigue as a personality,” James Bucky Carter, editor of the Sequential Art Nar-rative in Education Journal, wrote in a re-cent publication of the journal.
While preparing the course, Duncan had a tough time deciding on what the fo-cus of next fall’s class would be. He knew that he wanted to choose an author and had narrowed the choice down to Moore and author Frank Miller, known for graph-ic novels like “300” and “Sin City.”
Once Duncan realized that several themes in Moore’s work tied in with other communication courses like Rhetorical Theory, he knew that Moore was the right choice.
The nicest way to describe Alan Moore is to call him eccentric.
“When he turned 40, he declared himself a magician,” Duncan said. “He started doing work outside of comics that were more like performance art and acts of magic.”
Some of these performance pieces were adapted into comics, which Duncan is excited to be teaching in the class. The class won’t be reading Moore’s most pop-ular work, “Watchmen.” Instead they will focus on works like “Promethea.” On the surface, “Promethea” looks like a typical superhero adventure story, but “the main character is actually the living embodiment of the human imagination,” Duncan said.
Moore’s work contains references to literature, history, religion, and metaphysi-cal ideas like tarot cards and alchemy, so there will be something for every student that takes the course.
Duncan is most eager to focus on Moore’s more magical works.
“For Moore, stories and how we create our own reality is magic,” he said.
These ideas about constructing our re-ality also fall into many of the ideas taught in other communication courses at Hen-derson, so he is excited to bring in many of these philosophical discussions.
At the moment, the course only ex-ists in Duncan’s head, but he is sure about the one thing that several students will be pleased to hear. There will be no tests for this class.
A large part of students’ grades will be based on participating in class discussions, but there will also be papers and presenta-tions throughout the semester.
“It’s going to be a really fun course,” Duncan said. “It’s going to require some real effort, and it’ll be challenging, because these are works that you can’t just skim the surface and understand them.”
Duncan is hoping to see students that are open to new ideas and are interested in tackling some new things.
“The students might be a little con-fused at first then proceed to a sense of wonderment before ending the semester in enlightenment,” he said.
Comic ar tist, Alan Moore, chosen to be subject of fall course
Clery act requires HSU to up freshman knowledge
The tornados that hit several states in the midwest, including Arkansas, have affected many families. Even the Hen-derson family itself had a few personal ties to the disaster.
The more time that passes the more and more we hear about the tornados and what all has actually occurred from it.
With a final death toll at 15 it really is a tragedy that has affected numbers of lives. People are losing houses, vehicles, family members and a number of other things.
Shine Through Missions is doing ev-erything they can to help those affected by the tornados.
Shine Through was established in 2012, and is a non-profit faith based or-ganization that is trying to aid disaster victims.
Those who are interested in joining them and helping them aid disaster vic-tims in Arkansas it’s not too late,
“We are continuing our donation drive and there are 3 drop locations, 1st is Cuddle Bugs Daycare at 820 Wade Street, 2nd is the Clark County Sheriff ’s Department, and 3rd is the Citgo station by Wal-Mart, all here in Arkadelphia,” HSU computer support technician Brian Bagwell stated.
He said that they have already got-ten a good amount of donations, but of course there is always more and more that can be done.
The people of Shine Through are al-ways open to have people contribute to their cause and are looking for help and support in any way they can get it.
“You can also visit www.shi-nethroughmissions.com for more info on what we do and for further contact information,” Bagwell stated.
For students on HSU campus that are interested in working with and con-tributing towards Shine Through Mis-sions it’s really not that hard.
Just visit their website and you can read more about what they do and who they are and there is even contact infor-mation and the website.
Any donations and contributions will be more than appreciated and will help make the state of Arkansas a bet-ter place.
-Non-perishable food items-Blankets-Pillows-First aid kits-Baby needs-Clothes-Pet supplies-Cleaning supplies
Post office
Reddie Bookstore
All donations can be droppedoff at either of these locations:
Tornado Coverage
“They wouldn’t let him get to his home,” Peyton Stover, a junior market-ing major, said in regards to one of his teammates from the Henderson State Baseball team. “He couldn’t get to his family.”
Jesse Grace, a sophomore shortstop for the Reddies, majoring in sports man-agement is from Mayflower.
On Sunday, April 27 an E4 tornado tore through the towns of Mayflower and Vilonia leaving nothing behind ex-cept its path of destruction.
“I live on the north side of May-flower on a farm with my family,” Grace said. “The tornado did the most dam-age on the south side. We were very luck that the damage done to our home was minimal.”
After the tornado, the roads were shut down keeping people from entering into the areas where there was destruc-tion and possible fatalities.
“My dad and I were talking about the weather,” Grace said. “He said he figured it would blow over us, wouldn’t be too bad, but I should probably head back to school to avoid any bad weather. I left about an hour before the storm hit. If I would’ve waited just a little bit longer I would’ve been at home with my family instead of here.”
Grace had arrived to campus by the time the storm hit.
“Once I made it back to campus I heard Mayflower got hit,” he said. “I tried to call my family members and couldn’t reach them. I got back in my car and started heading that way again, but the freeway had been shut down. I turned around and came back to school.”
I-40 was shut down, so emergency respoonse teams could remove debris from the interstate.
“I finally reached my family and they were all okay,” he said. “They had taken shelter in our storm cellar. I found out our house didn’t really get hit, but the rest of the town was completely de-stroyed.”
The tornado was said to be half a mile wide.
“It’s so hard to hear that the place you grew up, the place where all of the people you know and love live is just gone,” Grace said, “and there is nothing anyone can do about it.”
There are quite a few different orga-nizations on campus that are going to Mayflower and Vilonia to try and help
with disaster relief. Some of Grace’s teammates are go-
ing to Mayflower to support their team member. People who want to donate can contact the coach or players on the base-ball team.
“It’s hard to not be there to help, but honestly we would just be in the way of the people doing their jobs,” Grace said. “It’s too dangerous for people to start cleaning up because power lines have fallen and there is a risk of electrocution, and there are still people that have to be found.”
Grace’s father and brothers went to go help look for people once everything was clear and it was safe to come out. His father found the first fatality.
“It is awesome to see that there are people who want to help and do every-thing they can to try and clean up the mess that was made,” he said, “but no matter how much we clean up or rebuild there are still things that can’t be fixed. There are people that are gone wheth-er they’re missing or dead—thats not something anyone can change. You can’t erase the images of the place you grew up looking like a bomb went off.”
Grace and his family are okay physi-
cally more so than emotionally. “I wish I could be at home with my
family to help clean up the mess and ac-tually see that they’re okay instead of just hearing their voices,” he said.
Their family and town appreciate all of the work, thoughts and prayers that
have gone to be with them. “Through all of this disaster, the
people of Arkansas did what we do best—that’s take care of our own and everyone else that needs us,” Grace said. “I have never felt so much love and sup-port. I’m proud to be from Mayflower.”
Baseball player loses hometown to tornado
MAY 5, 2014PAGE 2 Special Section
Shine Through Missions works to provide tornado relief
BRICK BY BRICK Mayflower suffered extreme destruction when a sizable tornado touched down in the area. Buildings as shown in the photo above were completely destroyed, making the town completely unrecognizable.
*Photos by Jesse Grace
*Graphic by Houston Fryer
YOU ARE NOT ALONE Trees were uprooted when a tornado ripped through the Arkansas towns of Mayflower and Vilonia.
*Photos by Jesse Grace
MAY 5, 2014PAGE 3DIVERSIONS
The Henderson State University Lady Reddie softball team traveled to Benton-ville, Ark. to play in the opening round of the Great American Conference on Thursday. The Lady Reddies started the conference by playing Arkansas Tech.
Henderson State took a 2-1 lead in the second inning against Arkansas Tech with Tricia Hock hitting a two-run single to the right field allowing Jaylin Baldridge and Kayla Williams to reach home plate.
In the fifth inning, Arkansas Tech (31 overall, 26 on season), tied the score at 2-2 when Whitney Robinson hit the ball to right field.
The Lady Reddies took back the lead with a pair of runs in the bottom half of the inning.
Amy Halter made a bunt single with Amber Klug hitting a double to put run-ners on second and third base with no outs.
Sarah Gipson ran in to sacrifice the blunt with Ashlyn White scoring on Kulg’s hit to second base.
In the sixth inning, the Lady Reddies took advantage of three Arkansas Tech errors allowing Klug and Hock to score bringing the final game score 6-2, Lady Reddies taking the win of the first game in the tournament.
Kayla Williams pitched the first three innings only allowing two hits.
Cagen Medlock pitched the final in-nings allowing four hits and stuck out the final batter, taking the win. Medlock improved to 14-9 in the year while White picked up her sixth save in the year ty-ing a record for Henderson for saves in a season.
Hock went 2-for-4 in the game with two runs batted in and a run scored.
Klug was 2-for-3 with an RBI, a dou-ble and also threw out a runner.
She started in all 52 games as the pitcher this season and had hit the team best with .391 with 14 doubles.
For the first time since 2008, the Lady Reddies played Southern Arkansas for the second game in the GAC tournament.
SAU made six runs in the second in-ning to beat Henderson State University 8-0 in the GAC tournament.
The Muleriders (34-23 on the season) had ten hits in the game while the Lady Reddies had two hits in the game with
Williams and Gipson having singles. Gipson expanded her hitting streak to
14 games. The Lady Reddies played Arkansas-
Monticello in an elimination game. Henderson State made 14 hits and
took an 11-2 win over Arkansas-Mon-ticello. White hit two home runs in the game and drove in five runs while Halter was 3-for-4 with two runs scored.
Klug went 2-for-3 with a double, three runs batted in and three runs scored while Hock was 2-for-4.
Gipson increased her hitting streak to
15 games while going 1-for-3 and had a double and two RBI.
Pitcher, Medlock, allowed five hits and struck out two batters to take the win for the Lady Reddies and improved 15-10 on the season.
For their third game of the day, the Lady Reddies played Southern Arkansas in the semi-finals.
The Henderson State Lady Reddies fell to Southern Arkansas in the game 3-1 to end their season.
Southern Arkansas had runners on bases every inning but only scored their three runs in the fourth inning.
The Lady Reddies scored their only run in the sixth inning when Baldridge and Williams started off the inning with two singles.
Hock then hit a ground ball allowing Baldridge to score but Hock getting an out while Williams was still stranded on second base.
In the seventh inning, Klug and Mor-gan South threatened Southern Arkan-sas by reaching single hits, but it was not enough to hold back SAU’s starting pitch-er, Shelby Miller.
Williams led Henderson State’s of-fense by going 2-for-2 on the plate with a double. She hit .538 and went 7-for-13 with a double.
In five games, Klug was 7-for-14 hav-ing a home run, seven runs batted in, hav-ing three doubles and five runs scored. She had a .929 slugging percentage in the tournament as well.
Halter was 6-for-16 with Gipson and Hock having four hits each.
White drove two home runs and scored six times in the tournament.
The Henderson State University Lady Reddies finished their season with a 31-25 record and had their first winning season since 2010.
Additional reporting by Troy Mitchell.
Just days after a devastating tornado ripped through central Arkansas, sev-eral Henderson athletes knew they had a chance to make a difference in the Vilo-nia/Mayflower communities.
On Saturday, they made sure that chance became a reality.
MayflowerA group of Reddie football players,
led by quarterback Kevin Rodgers, who first tweeted last Monday about getting a group together to assist in relief, left Ark-adelphia and headed for the Mayflower area on Saturday morning.
Rodgers, Kenrick Burns, Blake Reeve, Mark Czaus, and Charlie Korn set aside
their weekend plans and selflessly devoted their time to help others in need.
They were joined by a handful of Harding student athletes, as well, as some of the fellow GAC members saw Rodg-ers’ tweet and wanted to join forces.
The crew, also accompanied by two other vans full of Henderson students, arrived between 9 and 10 a.m. and stayed until close to 5 p.m., picking up countless parts of fallen trees and throwing them into piles, and moving other large pieces of debris.
“Seeing all the destruction really makes you appreciate what you have, whether it’s a little or a lot,” Burns said. “It could all be taken away in a split second.”
One of the homes affected belonged to the class of 1969 Henderson graduate Nancy Burris.
“Mrs. Nancy was so appreciative of our efforts to help,” Rodgers said. “Be-ing able to keep a positive attitude after something as catastrophic as this showed how strong she was.”
As the group made their way further
into Mayflower, they stopped at a com-munity called “The Plantation,” where 37 homes were destroyed. It was here where the group met a couple that served for 21 years in the U.S. Army.
Rodgers also mentioned that this cou-ple lost almost everything they had, but still kept a positive attitude and were very gracious in receiving assistance from the athletes.
“It was so cool to see everyone from all walks of life coming to help out,” Rod-gers said. “My teammates didn’t have to come with me, but they did, and I think we made a tremendous difference today. I would go to war with these guys any day of the week.”
ViloniaAfter a semi-final run at the GAC
Conference Tournament in Bentonville over the weekend, the Lady Reddie soft-ball team also pitched in relief effort on the way back home.
The team had decided before they even headed to Bentonville that they were going to help aid the Vilonia community on their way back.
The Lady Reddies hooked up with members of Beryl Baptist Church from Vilonia, and together they spent the af-ternoon tending to the needs of the com-munity members.
In the process of picking up debris and gathering belongings of demolished homes, the players understood the impact and importance of community service.
Hannah Bender, a sophomore pitcher, mentioned that an elderly man from the area who had lost his home came over to the team and thanked them numerous times for their help, saying that he wished they understood how much of a differ-ence they were making and how big their help was.
“Even though our season ended yes-terday, this was a chance for us to come together as a family one last time and be a positive influence,” Bender said. “It was something that every single one of us on the team wanted to do. One of the best things about the team this year was the unity we had, and I think it showed this weekend.”
As the school year comes to a close, several Reddie athletes will be heading home for the summer with a different perspective on life, now knowing that in just a few short seconds everything can change drastically.
*Photo by Ryan Klare
Lady Reddies finish season in GAC tournament
FINISH STRONG Senior pitcher, Cagen Medlock (above), improved 14-9 on the season. She pitched in 31 games for the Lady Reddies.
Reddie athletes make a difference in tornado relief
