Elections for Student Govern- ment Association began yesterday with only one of the 11 positions contested. Past elections, like this year’s, have not had large numbers of stu- dents running, said junior Jeremy Klutts, SGA public relations repre- sentative. The presidential race will be un- contested for a second consecutive year, with sophomore Vincent Mey- ers as the only candidate running for the position. Meyers said he would have liked to see more interest in the campaign. “As al- ways, I am disappointed at the lack of interest, but I hope I have the support of the students,” the sophomore said. The School of Business repre- sentative, with four candidates pur- suing three available positions, will be the only contested post in the elections that close tomorrow. The 14 candidates represented an increase in student involvement, said current SGA president David Toney. Klutts, the candidate for vice president, said he also noticed a rise in student interest. “It really picked up after the State of the University address,” Klutts said. “There was definitely more student interest in us.” Despite the lack of competition, for 11 of the positions, students began campaigning on April 5 by creating Facebook pages to explain who they are and how they are qual- ified for the positions. Senior Waynesha Hall, SGA rep- The office of admissions is nearing its goal of 9,750 freshman applications for the next academic year, breaking enrollment records as admissions seeks to boost the size of the student body. The office has reeled in a re- cord high of 9,404 applications as of April 8, but admissions has also seen record highs in inquiries and admits. Deposits made by potential in- coming freshmen have spiked to 436, up from 369 from April 8, 2010. The deposits indicate that these students will likely enroll in the fall, said Ed Borges, director of admissions. The long- term goal for the future, possibly in 15 years, is to expand total enrollment to approximately 7,000 students from current the level of 2,261, accord- ing to an enrollment report by the office of institutional research and effectiveness. The current rise in applications indicates that the future goal is ob- tainable, Borges said. Admissions uses a funnel sys- tem that tracks the status of incom- ing freshman applications, deposits and admissions to the University. Enrollment offices at many colleg- es and universities use the funnel system, which James Steen, vice president for enrollment manage- ment, said was helpful for narrow- ing down the applicant pool. “The more that goes into the funnel, the more we will get out,” HBUCOLLEGIAN . COM VOLUME 45 NO . 12 APRIL 14, 2011 Pulling their weight FILLINGVOIDS S&T | pg. 16 CLAYCOMB WRITES NEEDED PHYSICS BOOKS VIRTUOUSEVENT NEWS | pg. 9 PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT HOSTS FIRST CONFERENCE More on Honors College Field Day and the students’ house system on page 8 Check out more news @ hbucollegian.com Astronaut lectures at Bible musuem Photos from the baseball team’s series against North Dakota Give your opinion on articles and columns BREAKPLANNER A CALENDAR OF SUMMER EVENTS IN HOUSTON Administration moves to emphasize founding document by ASHLEY DAVENPORT Asst. managing editor Two students were removed from their positions as Husky Ambassadors in December after the administration began enforc- ing a policy that prevents non- Christians from serving in several representative and leadership roles across campus. Sophomore Haseeb Khatri, a Muslim, served as a tour guide for prospective students during the fall semester while Asha Bhatt, a Hindu, worked as an events staff member. Khatri said they were released from their positions after the ad- ministration moved to include Husky Ambassadors under a pol- icy mandating that certain student leaders sign a document affirming the Christian faith. President Robert B. Sloan Jr. said the policy includes Student Government Association’s execu- tive board as well as positions such as Husky Ambassadors in which students are paid to represent the University in an official capacity. “In those things that the Uni- versity’s character as a Christian university is represented, we do by DANIEL CADIS Managing editor see POLICY, page 5 Policy limits student roles Steen ENTERTAINMENT | pg. 11 Freshman Kevin Vo and sophomore Catrina Beaty compete in the final event during the Honors College Field Day on April 9. The SUV pull remained a secret throughout the competition. by DINA ROHIRA They came. They saw. They consulted. A group of 10 peer reviewers from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools visited cam- pus April 5-7 as part of the reaffir- mation of the University’s accredi- tation. The reviewers met with faculty, staff and students to evaluate the University’s self-report as part of the accreditation process the school see SACS, page 5 by JUSTIN SCHNEEWIND Editor in chief SACS readies formal report aſter site visit see SGA, page 7 Dawgs won’t run Admissions nears 10,000 applications see RECORD, page 7 by MICHELLE HART Contributing writer SGA elections open with 10 of 11 positions uncontested Collegian claims 30 awards at TIPA He said the news gave him goosebumps. Nathan Cadis, B.A. ‘10, was packing for a mission trip to Brazil when he received a phone call on April 2 from Dr. Alice J. Rowlands, Collegian adviser, informing him that the newspaper he led as edi- tor in chief last academic year had won Sweepstakes during the annual Texas Intercollegiate Press Associa- tion competition held in Ft. Worth March 31-April 2. The newspaper also won first place in overall excellence and 29 individual awards for entries sub- mitted in December from the previ- ous academic year. TIPA, one of the nation’s oldest and largest collegiate press associa- tions, judged the student newspaper to be worthy of these top honors in Division 5, beating Mary-Hardin see COLLEGIAN, page 4 by ASHLEY DAVENPORT Asst. managing editor First 14 Second 3 8 ird 5 Honorable mention Meyers
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Elections for Student Govern-ment Association began yesterday with only one of the 11 positions contested.
Past elections, like this year’s, have not had large numbers of stu-dents running, said junior Jeremy Klutts, SGA public relations repre-sentative.
The presidential race will be un-contested for a second consecutive
year, with sophomore Vincent Mey-ers as the only candidate running for the position.
Meyers said he would have liked to see more interest in the campaign.
“As al-ways, I am disappointed at the lack of interest, but I hope I have the support of the students,” the sophomore said.
The School of Business repre-sentative, with four candidates pur-suing three available positions, will be the only contested post in the
elections that close tomorrow.The 14 candidates represented
an increase in student involvement, said current SGA president David Toney.
Klutts, the candidate for vice president, said he also noticed a rise in student interest.
“It really picked up after the State of the University address,” Klutts said. “There was definitely more student interest in us.”
Despite the lack of competition, for 11 of the positions, students began campaigning on April 5 by creating Facebook pages to explain who they are and how they are qual-ified for the positions.
Senior Waynesha Hall, SGA rep-
The office of admissions is nearing its goal of 9,750 freshman applications for the next academic year, breaking enrollment records as admissions seeks to boost the size of the student body.
The office has reeled in a re-cord high of 9,404 applications as of April 8, but admissions has also seen record highs in inquiries and admits.
Deposits made by potential in-coming freshmen have spiked to 436, up from 369 from April 8, 2010. The deposits indicate that these students will likely enroll in the fall, said Ed Borges, director of admissions.
The long-term goal for the future, possibly in 15 years, is to expand total enrollment to approximately 7,000 students from current the level of 2,261, accord-ing to an enrollment report by the office of institutional research and effectiveness.
The current rise in applications indicates that the future goal is ob-tainable, Borges said.
Admissions uses a funnel sys-tem that tracks the status of incom-ing freshman applications, deposits and admissions to the University. Enrollment offices at many colleg-es and universities use the funnel system, which James Steen, vice president for enrollment manage-ment, said was helpful for narrow-ing down the applicant pool.
“The more that goes into the funnel, the more we will get out,”
More on Honors College Field Day and the students’ house system on page 8
Check out more news @
hbucollegian.comAstronaut lectures at Bible musuem
Photos from the baseball team’s series against North Dakota
Give your opinion on articles and columns
BREAKPLANNERA CALENDAR OF SUMMER EVENTS IN HOUSTON
Administration moves to emphasize founding document
by Ashley DAvenportAsst. managing editor
Two students were removed from their positions as Husky Ambassadors in December after the administration began enforc-ing a policy that prevents non-Christians from serving in several representative and leadership roles across campus.
Sophomore Haseeb Khatri, a Muslim, served as a tour guide for prospective students during the fall semester while Asha Bhatt, a Hindu, worked as an events staff member.
Khatri said they were released from their positions after the ad-ministration moved to include Husky Ambassadors under a pol-icy mandating that certain student leaders sign a document affirming the Christian faith.
President Robert B. Sloan Jr. said the policy includes Student Government Association’s execu-tive board as well as positions such as Husky Ambassadors in which students are paid to represent the University in an official capacity.
“In those things that the Uni-versity’s character as a Christian university is represented, we do
by DAniel CADisManaging editor
see POLICY, page 5
Policy limits student roles
Steen
ENTERTAINMENT | pg. 11
Freshman Kevin Vo and sophomore Catrina Beaty compete in the final event during the Honors College Field Day on April 9. The SUV pull remained a secret throughout the competition.
by DINA ROHIRA
They came. They saw. They consulted.
A group of 10 peer reviewers from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools visited cam-pus April 5-7 as part of the reaffir-mation of the University’s accredi-tation.
The reviewers met with faculty, staff and students to evaluate the University’s self-report as part of the accreditation process the school
see SACS, page 5
by Justin sChneewinDEditor in chief
SACS readies formal report after site visit see SGA, page 7
Dawgs won’t run
Admissions nears 10,000 applications
see RECORD, page 7
by MiChelle hArtContributing writer
SGA elections open with 10 of 11 positions uncontested
Collegian claims 30 awards at TIPA
He said the news gave him goosebumps.
Nathan Cadis, B.A. ‘10, was packing for a mission trip to Brazil when he received a phone call on April 2 from Dr. Alice J. Rowlands,
Collegian adviser, informing him that the newspaper he led as edi-tor in chief last academic year had won Sweepstakes during the annual Texas Intercollegiate Press Associa-tion competition held in Ft. Worth March 31-April 2.
The newspaper also won first place in overall excellence and 29
individual awards for entries sub-mitted in December from the previ-ous academic year.
TIPA, one of the nation’s oldest and largest collegiate press associa-tions, judged the student newspaper to be worthy of these top honors in Division 5, beating Mary-Hardin
see COLLEGIAN, page 4
by Ashley DAvenportAsst. managing editor
First14
Second3 8
Third5
Honorablemention
Meyers
Junior Nicholas Bruno presented a paper on the ethics and history of usury, the practice of charging interest on loans, at the Economic Scholars Program at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas on April 1.
He joined 42 other presenting students from schools such as the University of Texas at Aus-tin and Baylor University, whose papers were selected based upon six differing criteria, in-cluding identifying a research problem and the execution and presentation of the research.
Bruno’s paper, “The Development of Eco-nomic Thought on the Legitimacy of Usury,” began as an essay for his History of Economic Thought class in the fall semester.
“The essay summarized the philosophic approaches and positions on the legitimacy of charging interest on loans,” Bruno said.
Sherry Kiser, a program director of the con-ference, said that the Scholars Program pro-motes undergraduate research in economics and finance.
“ESP, a collaborative effort between Austin College and the Federal Reserve Bank of Dal-las, is a program designed to foster the involve-ment of undergraduate students of economics in all facets and levels of the research process,” Kiser said.
The program started in 2007 with the name Undergraduate Economics Scholars Conference and was a pilot to determine the feasibility and demand for such a program.
Bruno said that his attendance at the confer-
ence meant exposure and experience, both for him and the University’s department of eco-nomics.
“There were numerous schools at the confer-ence, so having an HBU professor and student attend demonstrates that HBU has an active eco-nomics program,” Bruno said. “For students like myself, I think it provides an additional benefit to a major or minor in economics, as it gives us an opportunity outside the classroom to develop important skills, as well as to learn from others our age at the conference and see how they are
using their skills.” The presentation
of his research offered exposure to a question-and-answer session, said Dr. Melissa Wiseman, associate professor of economics and chair of the department of ac-counting, economics and finance, who accom-
panied him to the conference. “The skills gained from learning how to pres-
ent your work, prepare the visuals and answer questions help to develop poise, the abilities to think on your feet and to critically analyze ques-tions and form a good response,” Wiseman said.
Bruno said that this experience will help him after graduation.
“With many employers and especially gradu-ate schools looking at writing skills as an im-portant factor in hiring and admissions, students who attend the conference demonstrate writing and presentation skills,” he said.
NEWS APRIL 14, 20112 - THE COLLEGIAN
Thursday ConvocationDr. Steven Jones, director of the
Master of Liberal Arts program and assistant professor of the classics, will discuss the classical context of the New Testament at Thursday’s Convocation on April 14 at 4 p.m. in Mabee Theater.
The event will be worth one Community Life and Worship credit.
Symphonic band concertThe University’s symphonic band will
hold a concert on April 14 at 7:30 p.m. in Dunham Theater.
Admission is free.
Easter egg huntStudent Life and Student Programming
Board will host an Easter egg hunt April 18-19 all day on campus.
Students may keep the contents of the plastic eggs they find during the hunt. Golden eggs can be redeemed for a special prize at the SPB office above the Baugh Center.
Brown bag discussionThe behavioral science department
will host a discussion with Pastor David Wells on “The Struggles in our Pastors’ Lives” on April 18 at 12 p.m. in the Lake House parlor.
The event will be worth one CLW credit.
Scholarship golf tournamentThe athletic department will host
the HBU Athletics Scholarship Golf Tournament on April 18 at 1 p.m. at Riverbend Country Club.
The entry fees for individuals are $200 and $800 for teams.
Students can attend the event for free.
Husky HunksStudent Programming Board will host
a beauty pageant for male students on April 20 at 7 p.m. in Belin Chapel.
For more information, contact fresh-man John LaChapelle at [email protected].
Easter holidayEaster break will be April 22-24.
The University will be closed during the break.
Honors ConvocationStudent Life will honor outstanding
students, faculty and organizations dur-ing Convocation on April 27 at 11 a.m. in Dunham Theater.
The event will be worth two CLW credits.
Spring Fling Student Life and Student Programming
Board will host end-of-the-year activities for students on April 29 from 1-4 p.m. in front of the Lake House.
Spring Fling is a free event.
Late-night breakfast Student Life and Student Programming
Board will host a late-night breakfast served by the faculty and staff on May 2 from 9-10:30 p.m. in the Baugh Center.
The event is free and includes live music from Kosmic Latte.
Graduation tickets Students can pick up their tickets to
graduation in the Office of the Registrar in Atwood II beginning May 4-12.
Extra tickets will be released May 13 on a first-come, first-serve basis. Graduates may request five extra tickets.
Campus Briefing
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The day of change, June 1, is approaching, bringing with it the implementation of one of the largest curriculum overhauls in the Uni-versity’s history along with a number of other changes that will impact students.
The new Liberal Arts Core Curriculum will go into effect on the first Wednesday of June, marking a significant restructuring of the curriculum that will fundamentally alter the University’s academic offerings.
Students will no longer be able to choose courses from a broad menu, as they were under the Smith College of General Studies. They will instead follow a regimented curricu-lum that places a greater emphasis on history and English, among other studies.
Students who are a significant way through their Smith College requirements and have completed the University-mandated proficien-cies have been encouraged by the administra-tion to file their degree plans before the June 1 deadline, as it marks the beginning of the new academic year and the first day of implemen-tation for the new core.
Erinn Hughes, registrar, said her office has seen an influx of students filing degree plans following advising week, when many were encouraged by their academic advisers to file before the deadline.
“Anybody who does not want to go to the LACC should file his or her degree plan be-fore May 31,” she said, adding that students should speak with their advisers who can help guide them through the process.
The student, adviser and dean of the col-lege or school must sign the degree plan be-fore submitting it to the registrar, where it will be kept with the rest of the student’s records.
While the switch to a new core curriculum may be the most significant change occur-ring on June 1, the date will also be marked by a number of other changes that will impact many in the community.
The new fiscal year will take effect on this date, meaning the departments and offices across campus will begin operating on their 2011-12 budgets.
It is also the day when Steve Moniaci, ath-letics director, must turn in two final reports to the NCAA to complete the final step of the University’s quest for Division I status.
Hughes said her office will upgrade the University’s Banner system by June 1, allow-ing students to generate new degree evalua-tions that include the new core curriculum.
Some students may wonder why this date was chosen for the curriculum overhaul and the other changes. Dr. Robert Stacey, associ-ate provost and dean of the Honors College, said the date was chosen because it is the first day of the first month following the conclu-sion of the spring semester, meaning that it is relatively clear of academic activities.
Stacey, a member of the academic affairs committee that handles curriculum changes, said a number of smaller adjustments are also going into effect on June 1, adding that most of them are under the radar for students.
“We’ve approved lots of things,” Stacey said, referring to the committee’s work during the last academic year.
Among the changes in the new core curric-ulum, minors will no longer be required, but the number of credit hours Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Music students must take will increase to 67 hours from approximately 54. Students pursuing other bachelor degrees will take approximate-ly 58 hours under the new core curriculum.
NEWSAPRIL 14, 2011
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CAMPUS SCENE
Freshman Chloe Irvin and sophomore Amanda Merrick perform as school girls in “Simple Songs: An Evening of the Music and Drama of Leonard Bernstein” on April 8 at 8 p.m. in Dunham Theater. The Choral Union, Opera Workshop and University’s Symphonic Band hosted the performance.
by BRANDON PORTER
THE COLLEGIAN - 3
Coming academic year fosters core changes by Daniel CaDisManaging editor
Juan Castillo, B.A. ‘08, dipped worn brushes into baby food jars filled with oil paints and expert-ly dabbed and streaked the rich shades over the canvasses, intently drowning out sounds except the background music, “Ripple” by The Grateful Dead.
His studio was dimly lit by a single bulb, making the paint-spat-tered floor and scattered brushes disappear in shadows; only his art was clearly visible as it grew and morphed under his brush.
“I just feel like I have more freedom here to do what I want to do,” Castillo said of the School of Art’s Master of Fine Arts in studio art, which is near the end of its first semester as the University’s only terminal degree.
Castillo, Randall Mosman and Melissa Klotz, B.A. ‘07, comprise the first class of the University’s 60-hour MFA program, which School of Art faculty began plan-ning in 2006.
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools approved the program shortly after the Bachelor of Fine Arts was imple-mented in 2010 and allowed the School of Art to begin the MFA this semester. Students will begin the program in the fall semester of each year in the future.
Klotz and Castillo earned their
degrees at HBU, and Randall Mos-man graduated from Texas Tech University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
He turned down a full scholar-ship to the Art Institute of Chicago to come to HBU so he could study under the tutelage of Michael Col-lins, director of the School of Art and artist in residence.
The University is the only Christian institution in the city and one of the few schools in Texas that offers an MFA program. The size of the program allows fre-quent interaction between students and professors.
“It is from instruction, guid-ance, dialogue, and my close relationship with the individual professors that impacts my devel-opment as an artist,” Castillo said. “This intimacy that I share with them as a student is what makes the program unique and distinct from other schools.”
Collins said the MFA program seeks students who are serious about creating art, who can ar-ticulate their artwork in words and whose capabilities run beyond the basic level. They also need a skill set honed to a point where they can take criticism and develop their work around it, Collins said.
The individual student’s devel-opment and needs direct the mode of curriculum, he added.
“This is a very mentor-styled program,” he said.
Collins said the program will remain small, accepting no more than eight students annually for now, so that greater attention can be given to each individual meth-od.
Each student chooses three faculty members who form a com-mittee which meets every month to critique the progress of the thesis portfolio and also become the student’s graduate instructors. Students also participate in group activities such as museum and gal-lery projects.
“The program’s structure is excellent; I have received valu-able instruction and critiques from my professors this first semester,” Klotz said. “As a Christian with a deep faith in Christ, I wanted a program that showed openness to a variety of subjects, freedom of ex-pression and support of my Chris-tian view.”
Collins said that the current stu-dents have diverse styles, showing their faith in varieties of visual expression. Castillo explained the importance of personal expression through painting.
“Painting is both a visual and intelligent meditation that can trig-ger one’s sensibilities, enable one to perceive more than an image and give a unique perception of the self in the world as it converg-es with the spiritual,” Castillo said.
During the first semester in the program, Castillo and Klotz each
entered three works and were the only entrants to have all three en-tries selected for the Rising Eyes of Texas art exhibition at the Rockport Center for the Arts in Rockport, Texas, where Castillo won Honorable Mention.
Before graduating, the MFA students must decide with the gal-lery director, Jim Edwards, which pieces will be in their graduate theses, give an oral defense for the thesis to their individual com-mittees, turn in an extended artist statement, and put on a public ex-hibition in a professional art gal-lery.
Finally, the chair of the com-mittee must sign off on their work.
“I am exceedingly impressed by the talent, success and accom-plishment produced by the entire art program,” Castillo said. “I have witnessed a vast and positive transformation take place within the program and am thrilled to be a part of it.”
Collins described a future vi-sion for the MFA program in which the students take their work on travelling exhibitions and ex-change exhibits among the gradu-ate students of schools in other countries.
“It is an exceptional, intellec-tually and artistically challenging program, and I am proud to be part of it,” Klotz said.
NEWS4 - THE COLLEGIAN APRIL 11, 2011
by ElizabEth WindsorContributing writer
Juan Castillo, B.A. ‘08, paints figures in his art studio located in the University Academic Center. He is one of three students in the University’s Master of Fine Arts in studio art program.
by DINA ROHIRA
Baylor and nine other schools.Cadis said to win this award was a testa-
ment to the dedication and teamwork that ev-ery student on staff displayed.
“Without each person’s contribution, this honor would not have been possible,” he said.
The Collegian staff won 13 first-place awards in 26 categories, including in-depth reporting, feature story, editorial writing, and cartooning in the competition that covered the 2010 calendar year.
The staff also won three second-place awards, five third-place awards and eight honorable mention awards, helping secure the coveted Sweepstakes distinction.
The staff won a first-place award for its special edition commemorating the Universi-ty’s 50th anniversary and the Spirit of Excel-lence Gala featuring former President George W. Bush.
President Robert B. Sloan Jr. said he was proud of the staff and its Sweepstakes award.
“It tells you two things,” Sloan said. “One is that you’ve had a great history as a college newspaper so you have a lot of great tradi-tions to build on. Then it tells you that you have had an outstanding class of editors, re-porters and leaders of the Collegian.”
Dr. Robert Stacy, associate provost and dean of the Honors College said he is very proud of the Collegian’s dominance in the re-cent TIPA competition.
“Its success is something the entire Uni-versity can celebrate.”
Dr. J. Matthew Boyleston, interim assis-tant dean of the College of Arts and Humani-ties and chair of the department of English agreed with Stacy.
“The Collegian has demonstrated excel-lence through its continued success in these contests.”
The annual convention, where the awards are presented, offers students the opportunity to attend a variety of workshops and lectures on reporting, writing, design, technology, and photography.
Professional journalists, faculty members and other professionals meet with students to discuss industry trends, new media, intern-ships, job searches, and the latest innovations and developments in the field.
Rowlands, a professor of journalism and mass communication who has advised the paper for 22 years, said informing the editors of their awards was a “moment of pure joy.”
She received the news by phone because the staff was unable to attend the convention that hosted more than 500 students from 60 Texas colleges and universities.
“The Collegian was blessed with skilled and dedicated editors in 2010. Nathan was a gifted leader who possessed a variety of skills that helped us grow as a publication in both our print and online presence,” Row-lands said. “He mentored our current editor in chief, Justin Schneewind, who had the in-telligence and expertise to take us to the next level.
Schneewind, a senior, said it was a privi-lege to lead and work with both the current and previous staffs who brought home these awards.
“I am humbled by the recognition and es-pecially happy for my staff,” he said. “They come through for me no matter what the cir-cumstances.”
Junior Daniel Cadis, managing editor, took home seven awards from the competi-tion, sharing two awards with other staff members. He attributed the newspaper’s suc-cess to the hard work and dedication of the staff and its faculty adviser.
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MFA program nears end of first semester
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President Robert B. Sloan Jr. said he hopes that the Brown Ad-ministrative Complex, unoccupied for more than two years, will be ready for full use by the start of the fall semester.
“I’m very optimistic that we’ll have it cleaned up and ready to
go before school starts in the fall,” Sloan said.
The University chose Studio RED Architects to manage the cleanup process of the building damaged by Hurricane Ike in Sep-tember 2008.
Administrators have been work-ing to determine its fate following Sloan’s Feb. 22 announcement that the University had settled a law-suit against its insurance providers, ACE American Insurance Com-pany and York Claim Services Inc.
The University sought damages for the building and the business in-terruption caused by the litigation.
Studio RED, the firm that de-
signed the Morris Cultural Arts Center, is in the process of schedul-ing the cleanup and selecting con-tractors through a bidding process.
The University is also working to develop a plan for utilizing the building’s space.
The school is negotiating with space planners and will hold “vi-sion sessions” with faculty, staff and students in upcoming weeks, said Sandy Mooney, vice president for financial operations.
Mooney said the purpose of the “vision sessions” is to gain insight from faculty, staff and students on the spaces that they need.
The cleanup process will begin
with repairing the building’s roof, Mooney said. Contractors will then install carpet and apply new coats of paint where needed in addition to repairing doors and any damaged glass.
Some students are excited about the prospect of being able to utilize the building and the M.D. Ander-son Student Center.
Freshman Hira Mirza said she looks forward to seeing the inside of the campus’ original building for the first time this fall.
“I’m not sure what’s in there,” Mirza said, adding that she hopes that part of campus becomes more lively.
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by Justin schneewind
Editor in chief
Brown repairs set for summer
require a commitment to the pre-amble,” Sloan said, adding that the University continues to work to ensure that students have other leadership opportunities. “Our general rule is to try to make many levels of service accessible to all students.”
The policy prevents the 27.2 percent of students who self-re-ported their non-Christian status in a 2010 institutional report from serving on SGA, as Husky Ambas-sadors and as Welcome Days peer leaders, among other roles.
“It puts non-Christian students in an awkward place,” Khatri said, adding the policy needs greater clarification because many stu-dents have questions. “What is the role that non-Christian students play at the University? What are we allowed to do?”
Signing the statement of be-lief is a condition of employment at the University, with everyone from board of trustees members to professors required to support the preamble. Sloan said the policy encompasses those student leaders who represent the University in of-ficial roles.
James Steen, vice president for enrollment management, said the policy is largely contingent upon the activity in which the student is participating.
“I think it’s a reasonable expec-tation that anybody who is asked to give a campus tour or talk about the Christian mission of the University should not only be able to articulate it, but also support it,” Steen said.
Senior David Toney, SGA presi-dent, said the association imposed an internal policy of its own voli-tion last spring semester that re-
quired the signing of the document as part of its regular requirements for candidates running for office.
The policy was brought to public attention when one Muslim student who wanted to fill an empty SGA position was denied because of her faith, angering some students.
SGA moved to reevaluate its policy after the inaugural State of the University address on Feb. 21, when Sloan told the audience that non-Christians should be allowed to fully partake of the offerings of student life.
Toney said the association, which required candidates cur-rently running in its elections to sign the preamble, is considering reworking its policy next semester so that non-Christians can serve as legislators.
“It’s going to take a lot of time and conversations,” Toney said of
reworking the policy, adding that he does not believe it hinders SGA’s ability to represent all students.
Khatri, who is the vice president of spirit for Student Programming Board and fills additional leader-ship roles across campus, was in at-tendance at the State of the Univer-sity address and said he understood Sloan’s response to mean that the administration would reexamine the policy.
After re-inquiring about the Husky Ambassador position in March, Khatri was notified by members of the office of admis-sions this month that the adminis-tration is committed to the policy and that he would not be allowed to serve.
“Even after being told no be-cause of my religion, I’m still here because I love this University,” he said.
undergoes every 10 years.The team of 10 reviewed the
standards of accreditation, but the benefits of the review extended beyond the accreditation process, President Robert B. Sloan Jr. said.
“ Y o u get hun-dreds of hours of work on behalf of your in-stitution,” he said, c o m p a r -ing much
of the process to pro bono con-sulting. “Even on areas where we meet certain standards, they still share ideas. That’s one of the richest parts of this — shar-ing ideas with people from other institutions.”
Sloan called the visit a learn-ing experience and an opportunity to share ideas with the 10 review-ers selected from institutions with similar sizes and missions.
The University now awaits the review team’s formal report, which will arrive by tomorrow at the earliest.
Administrators will later send a response to that report. This will be followed by a report to the University from the review team committee chair and another from the SACS liaison. The reaffirma-tion of the University’s accredi-tation then goes through several SACS committees.
The process of the reports and committees will take several months, with final notification coming in December.
Administrators will look for the peer-review team’s recom-mendations included in the up-coming formal report.
“There are always recommen-dations,” Sloan said. “You want recommendations because you want to know how to improve.”
Sloan sent an email to fac-ulty, staff and students on April 8 thanking them for their partici-pation in the process. His email also said that the team’s closing remarks “were very constructive and very positive” and that re-viewers mentioned the hospitality they encountered on campus.
Sloan said the reviewers also spoke highly of those individuals they met during their visit.
“They were particularly com-plimentary of the students, of the way the campus looked and of the faculty and staff they met,” Sloan said.
Dr. Robert Stacey, associate provost and dean of the Honors College, met with the reviewers during the first two days of the on-campus visit and said they were helpful.
“They asked insightful ques-tions,” Stacey said. “They clearly came prepared and offered some sound advice.”
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Steen said.This means that if a large num-
ber of applications are received, the University has a better chance of admitting a larger group of po-tential students that meet the crite-ria set by the school.
Borges said potential students are contacted monthly through email or mail to gain a large num-ber of students at the top of the funnel. The University now has an application that can be completed via iPhone.
Students are contacted as early as their sophomore or junior years of high school in hopes that the University will be remembered when it is time for them to choose, focusing on the primary market of Houston, then on the rest of Texas and out of state.
Each year 150,000 names of po-tential students are purchased from a company that identifies potential students to whom the University should reach out, Steen said.
The University partners with Royall & Company, which helps “colleges and universities achieve their enrollment and financial goals through tested direct market-ing strategies,” according to www.royall.com. The company serves to keep track of student information and sends out and manages the EZ Application.
Steen said that along with the efforts made by the admissions and enrollment teams, other aspects of the University have recently been attracting students.
Better scholarship and financial aid options available as well as the recent advertising campaign, NCAA Division I athletics and new facilities have also raised the interest of prospective students, he said.
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resentative for the College of Arts and Humanities, launched her Facebook campaign for chaplain on April 8 to give students a forum to ask questions.
Hall said that she decided to run for the position because she wanted to serve in a diverse role in SGA as chaplain.
“This year, senior Leslie Gef-fert held the office, and I felt like she did a really good job with it,” Hall said. “She was very active in getting things done. I really like that it is a spiritual role in student gov-ernment.”
SGA sent the ballot to students’ University emails yesterday, rec-ommending that they participate in the free elections.
The association will hold fall elections to fill the freshmen repre-
sentative offices, any positions left open by graduating seniors and the six positions that remain open from the current election.
SGA members said they hope the new executive board will help develop relationships between the students and the University, as rep-resenting the student body is one of the group’s key functions.
“I just want to see us do more on campus and also continue the president’s State of the University address to the students and keep the open lines of communication be-tween students and faculty,” Klutts said. “I want SGA to bridge the gap between the administration and stu-dents.”
Meyers said he agrees with Klutts but would also like to increase stu-dent involvement with SGA.
THE BALLOT
Senior David Toney, Student Government Association president, directs an SGA meeting in the Lake House parlor on April 4. The association is hosting campus-wide elections this week, with polls closing April 15.
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Lines of sweat beaded down their faces as the contenders awaited their next challenge. It was midmorning on April 9, and though they had al-ready faced off against each other in a series of competitions, the Honors College students were ready to con-tinue the battle.
The students competed in 10 events during the inaugural Honors College Field Day, such as the Gi-ant Volleyball Tournament, a game of Basketball Chess, Tox-Walk, and Quote War.
A day designed to test the stu-dents’ mental and physical prowess, the Field Day marked not only a his-torical event for the Honors College but also a predestined one.
Since the beginning of the fall semester, the students, once united, were divided into four “houses”: Augustine, Boethius, Homer, and Virgil, named for the famous phi-losophers and writers.
These houses were created to bring a sense of camaraderie be-tween the freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
“What I was noticing was that with the new Honors College, there was not as much interaction between the sophomores and freshmen,” said Dr. Robert Stacey, associate provost and dean of the Honors College. “We did some events together, but it was just hard to develop the kinds of relationships that we were hoping to form.”
Stacey said he was inspired to create the idea of the house system after reading about a university with a similar structure to residential col-
leges in Europe.“It occurred to me that we could
have that sort of structure of stu-dents across all the years — fresh-men, sophomores, juniors, and se-niors,” he said.
Each house has a faculty adviser to assist the students when needed, but the houses were allowed to de-velop their own leadership in order to emphasize personal ownership.
The houses have been competing all year for the secret House Cup.
The Field Day brought the hous-es one step closer to the cup, which will be given during the end-of-the year Honors College Banquet.
The competition was fierce as the students strove to determine the su-perior house.
In Basketball Chess, the students played two games at once, three minutes of chess and then two min-utes of the basketball game HORSE. The student that completed either chess or basketball first won.
Tox-Walk had players complete an obstacle course while carrying a glass of water on a large sheet. If the water spilled, the team had to stop and refill the glass.
For Quote War, students were given the topic of Shakespearean tragedies, and the teams had to quote lines from these plays.
In the Ultimate Nerd Challenge, students joined forces with members of their houses, striving to do the un-thinkable on a Saturday afternoon: take a test. The exam consisted of various subjects including history, calculus and English.
Junior Grace Parmar, member of the House of Boethius, said that spending time together outside of class brought the students of the
Honors College closer together.“We communicate with the peo-
ple in our own class, but we don’t get to hang out with the entire Hon-ors College, except at really formal events,” Parmar said. “This was a good opportunity for us to get to-gether and communicate with ev-erybody else as well.”
Freshman Larry Freeney, a mem-ber of the House of Augustine, said it was nice to see students interact-ing outside of class.
“Most times we do things in classrooms and not a lot of extra-curricular activities,” he said. “We could see that people are good at things besides academics.”
The last event was kept secret. Students gathered around the park-ing lot outside the University Aca-demic Center and discovered that they would be pulling an SUV with another teammate.
Freshman Tyler Schott and soph-omore Ellie Pierce, members of the House of Homer, tied with junior Daniel Cadis and sophomore Paige Dahl of the House of Virgil, pulling the car across the finish line in 12.3 seconds.
“It was not as hard as I thought it would be,” Pierce said.
The Honors College Field Day will be an annual event, something students can look back on fondly.
Parmar saw the event as a day to remember, stating that she was happy to be a part of the first annual Honors College Field Day.
“It is really exciting because this is something we will probably be doing forever,” she said. “It will be cool to come back one day and see how everybody else is going to be doing it.”
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by Jessica aldanaEntertainment editor
ABOVE: Dr. Robert Stacey, associate provost and dean of the Honors College, watches as freshmen Will Doyle, left, and Larry Freeney compete in a round of Chess Basketball at the inaugural Honors College Field Day on April 9. LEFT: Sophomore Haseeb Khatri celebrates after his team, the House of Virgil, scores in the Human Foosball event at the Field Day.
Brains and brawn
Freshman Lorena Sprinkle wraps the legs of one of her teammates during the Mummy Relay competition at the inaugural Honors College Field Day on April 9.
photos by DINA ROHIRA
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Honors College hosts first Field Day
The audience in Belin Chapel began the weekend with much to contemplate as the University’s inaugural philosophy conference, Virtue Revolution, welcomed its keynote speaker on April 8.
Attendants listened to the event’s opening address by Dr. David Solo-mon, the W.P. and H.B. White di-rector of the Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame, concerning the interaction between the study of virtue and the ideals of contemporary liberal de-mocracy.
Solomon asserted that a re-understanding of virtue ethics can contribute to the recuperation of upright moral character within so-ciety, particularly regarding human dignity.
President Robert B. Sloan Jr. in-troduced Solomon as a friend who exemplifies God’s grace.
“David Solomon is an advocate for Christ, the Church, truth, and freedom,” he said.
During his speech, Solomon explained that virtue theory lost popularity among philosophers and modern society in favor of other viewpoints that attempt to evalu-ate the worth of an individual. The belief that the amount of good in a person determines moral success declined after the French and Amer-ican revolutions until a revival of
virtue ethics and of normative the-ory in general began in the 1960s, he said.
Solomon later discussed three major threats to liberal democratic culture — individualism, shallow-ness and loss of dignity — that have indirectly resulted from virtue theo-ry’s loss of prominence and increas-ing secularization.
“We have to rethink the founda-tions of the modern liberal state and its commitment to the non-negotia-ble worth of every human being,” he said concerning the substitution of autonomy for dignity.
Solomon closed by refuting the statement that ethicists should re-main uninvolved with cultural con-cerns.
“It overlooks the Aristotelian idea that philosophy is a shared pur-suit of the truth about how we are to live together,” he said. “Surely how we do live together will be relevant to answering that question.”
The address was followed by a question-and-answer session mod-erated by Dr. Russell Hemati, as-sistant professor of philosophy, in
which four attendees inquired about topics examined in the presentation.
Solomon delivered the address as part of the conference’s empha-sis on the revolution of virtue eth-ics in 20th-century philosophy. The weekend-long event included a sec-ond speech by Solomon on April 9 as well as the presentation of phi-losophy research papers by students and professors in the Hinton Center on both days.
Freshman Tyler Schott said he appreciated Solomon’s presence at the conference and that he agrees with message of the opening speech.
“I agree that the liberal demo-cratic society is in trouble,” Schott said. “It seems that we all want to be individuals, while nobody wants to assume roles as strong, responsible leaders. It’s a lot to mediate on.”
Sloan said he enjoyed hearing the notions of both achievements and challenges of modernity and praised Solomon’s ability to com-bine these with ethical theory. He added that he looks forward to the additional readings recommended by Solomon in the slideshow.
Solomon’s advice to students is to learn more about their back-grounds.
“I would warn students about moving far from where they came from,” he said. “Most of them do not have much to be liberated from. They should know where they come from and resist the idea that there can be shortcuts to things.”
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by Jessica aldanaEntertainment editor
Houston hot spots for summer funMay JulyJune
Freshman Clifton Boudreax, a member of Gospel Student Fellowship, sings “No Other Choice” by Tye Tribbett.
Summer vacation starts in just a few months, and students staying in Houston can look forward to many upcoming events this break.
On May 22, The Orange Show hosts the 2011 Houston Art Car Parade from 1-3 p.m. The parade features working vehicles that have been transformed into works of art.
Classic Albums Live will come to Miller Outdoor Theatre on June 11 at 8:15 p.m. to give audience members its take on the classic al-bum “Led Zeppelin IV.”
The group founded by Craig Martin takes timeless albums and performs them live onstage.
To wrap up summer vacation, students can attend “The Greatest Show on Earth” by Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey in Houston from July 7-24.
Students will have the opportuni-ty to enjoy an array of events within the Houston city limits this summer.
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Extending beyond music
The organization, which performs regularly across campus, recently re-vamped its operations and put a new emphasis on community service in addition to gospel songs and praise dancing.
The students in GSF meet week-ly with their choir director, Bran-den Walker, to practice for different events. They are currently preparing to lead the University in the Night of Worship event on April 30, even as they work to expand the group’s out-reach into the community.
The group gave a similar per-formance in Belin Chapel on Oct. 23 when fellowships from different schools banded with GSF to lead worship through song and dance.
Junior Trenton Bell, public rela-tions coordinator for GSF, said he hopes the organization will continue raising the standard set by past performances for the Night of Worship.
“We definitely want to ex-ecute it with excellence, build
on it and continue to be creative,” he said, adding that he hopes the night becomes a staple event on
campus.The group also led its first full
convocation on March 30 through gospel songs and praise dancing, two of its three ministries. Refuge and Fo-
cus accompanied the choir during its performance of five different
songs. Bell said the vision of the
Convocation performance
was to bridge the gap between ethnic-ities by working in conjunction with Refuge and Focus. GSF originated on campus in 1994 as the Black Student Fellowship, changing its name later in order to encourage all ethnicities to join with them in worship.
“We are all one body of Christ,” he said. “We do our best to include everyone and not just be consistently African-Americans.”
In addition to expanding its diver-sity, GSF shifted its emphasis to add-ing new opportunities for its outreach ministries. The group is most known for its choir and dance components.
Bell said that those forms of wor-ship are only two mediums through which they spread the Gospel.
“The dance and choir aspect is just a small part of what God is doing through us,” Bell said.
This year, the group began visit-ing and ministering at Open Door Mission, a faith-based rehabilitation center for men that offers patients the opportunity to earn a GED degree.
Junior Avanta Adeleke, GSF vice president, said she would like to shift the focus of the organization from singing and dancing to discipleship.
“Our new focus is showing people who God is through our walk,” she said. “We really want to focus on that and not just singing and dancing. At the end of the day, I just ask, Am I pointing people to Christ?”
The group started a discipleship class this semester, holding the first session on April 7 in Hatton Chapel.
The class separates into two sections, men and women, and focuses on helping students learn to spread their faith. Pamela Netter-Morris, GSF ad-viser and administrative assistant to the Spiritual Life department, guides the women, and Kerry Asberry, a lo-cal reverend, leads the men.
Netter-Morris said the group of students in GSF showed zeal for the class.
“They want to be trained, and they want to get the class off the ground,” she said.
More than 15 students attended the first class, and Netter-Morris plans to hold the sessions every Thursday.
Adeleke said the class allows stu-dents to mold themselves into dis-ciples.
“As young people, we need to know how to share our faith,” she said. “We need to know what to say, how to say it and when to say it.”
The discipleship class for GSF marks the beginning of a journey of continuous expansion of the group’s outreach programs. Next year’s plans for GSF include working with the Star of Hope Mission, a charity focused on helping those without homes.
Bell said the members of GSF are excited about making a larger impact on the community through service.
“We want to be the hands and feet of God here on earth, so it’s an ex-pectation that members participate in outreach,” Bell said. “Thankfully, the members are excited by these oppor-tunities.”
Their choir director shook with emotion as he led them into worship in Hatton Chapel. The members of Gospel Student Fellowship responded to his direction, working to perfect the harmonies to the hymn “He Will Supply.”
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GSF worships through song, dance and outreachDesign by Dina Rohira and Jessica Aldana
August 5
The Cynthia Woods Mitch-
ell Pavilion presents a mix
of three ballets by the
Houston Ballet’s Contem-
porary Masters.
August 5-7The 21st Annual Houston International Jazz Festival will be located in down-town Houston.
August 12-13
The theatrical adaptation
of C.S. Lewis’ novel “The
Screwtape Letters” comes
to the Wortham Theater
Center.
May 10-15The hit Broadway musical
“Mamma Mia!” will show at The Hobby Center for Per-
forming Arts.
May 18 at 7:30 p.m.
Bruno Mars and Janelle
Monae come to Reliant
Park for their Hooligans
in Wondaland tour.
May 27-29
Comicpalooza will take
place at the George R.
Brown Convention Center.
May 31-June 12Theatre Under The Stars
brings “Rock of Ages” to
The Hobby Center for the
Performing Arts.
June 10-11 at 8 p.m.
Comedian and actor
George Lopez will enter-
tain audience members at
the Verizon Wireless The-
ater.
Opens June 18
The Health Museum opens
its latest exhibit “Star Wars:
where Science Meets
Imagination.”
Opens July 1
The Contemporary Arts
Museum-Houston open its
exhibit “Perspectives 175:
Marc Swanson: The Sec-
ond Story.”
Opens July 15The end begins for the
wizard world in “Harry
Potter and the Deathly
Hallows: Part 2” in IMAX
and Digital 3D.
July 29 at 7:30 p.m.Pop star Katy Perry per-forms at the Toyota Cen-ter.
Proper young ladies in gowns encounter reanimated corpses again in the last book of the Quirk Classics trilogy.
“Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After,” by Steve Hocken-smith, entertainment writer turned author, completes the series Seth Grahame-Smith started in 2009 with “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.” Grahame-Smith adapted Jane Austen’s British Regency novel, “Pride and Prejudice,” and inserted well-crafted scenes of zombie slaying.
Quirk Classics called on Hockensmith in 2010 to create a unique prequel to the New York Times bestseller published the year be-fore.
“Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls” tells the story of how the Bennet sisters become the best zombie slay-ers in the world.
Hockensmith again demonstrates his ex-ceptional talents in his latest fiction, crafting a new spin on a storyline that could have be-come tiresome.
The plot for the final chapter of the trilogy begins four years into the marriage of Eliza-beth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy.
While walking back to their estate, Eliz-abeth and Fitzwilliam encounter the first awakened unmentionables, as the series re-fers to zombies, of the season. During the scuffle, Fitzwilliam receives a fatal bite.
Elizabeth and several other characters then embark on an adventure to save Fitswil-liam’s life. The characters must work swiftly to find the cure and return to the Darcy’s es-tate.
With unforeseen twists, romance and a look into the thoughts of a zombie, “Dread-fully Ever After” offers something for every reader.
“Dreadfully Ever After,” as well as the other novels, provides readers with an inter-esting plot that can easily be followed with-out having read the previous works in the series.
In addition to the interesting plot, illustra-tions by Patrick Arrasmith furnish readers with gory, intriguing depictions of the story to enhance the imagination of the book.
Arrasmith captures some of the most entertaining scenes with comic book-like graphics that lend a modern feel to the novel.
“Dreadfully Ever After” continues the brilliant creation of Quirk Classics and brings the trilogy to an astounding end.
The Regency-style writing and zombie-infested plot make Hockensmith’s latest a must-read novel for fans of this genre.
Natalie Portman won the Oscar for Best Actress in “Black Swan” more than two months ago, but the contro-versy surrounding her career-
defining role has just begun. American Ballet Theater dancer
Sarah Lane came forward in March claiming that she did most of the dancing in the film, not Portman.
The argument over whether or not Portman deserves the award are irrelevant to Lane’s claims.
Portman won the award for her superb acting, not how well she danced.
The disgruntled dancer also worries that those who watch the film will get a false idea about how easily one can become a ballerina.
“I do want people to know that you cannot absolutely become a professional ballet danc-er in a year and a half no matter how hard you work,” Lane said to E! Online. “I’ve been do-
ing this for 22 years. Ballet dancers don’t get the credit they deserve generally.”
These claims sent fans and critics of both the film and the actress into doubt over whether or not Portman deserved her Acad-emy Award.
While Portman and supporting actress Mila Kunis spent more than a year working
on the choreography for “Black Swan,” their work in no way resembles that of a professional dancer.
Representatives for Portman and the film disagreed with Lane, stating that the actress did 80 per-cent of the work while the dancer did the other 20 percent.
While Lane stresses that she is not out for fame or to discredit
Portman’s hard work, critics of the dancer wonder why she brought it up at all in the first place.
The actress displayed an intense amount of dedication to the role and deserves the Os-car for her acting, whether she did all of the dancing in “Black Swan” or none of it.
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by Jessica aldanaEntertainment editor
Dynamo vs. RevolutionRobertson StadiumApril 17
The Dynamo will face the New England Revolution. The game starts at 6 p.m. Tick-ets range from $15-100 and are available at stubhub.com.courtesy of www.dynamosoccer.com
courtesy of www.b-freed.com
Brian ReganVerizon WirelessApril 15 The stand-up comedian will be visiting Hous-ton during his “All By Myself” tour. Doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets range from $69-147 and are available at stubhub.com.
Christy DeMossSenior
Nursing
the Scoop On...
Q: What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?A: Strawberry.
Q: What did you want to be when you were little?A: Fashion designer.
Q: Coke or Pepsi?A: I only drink Izzes.
Q: What is your favorite time of year?A: Summer.
Q: Where do you see yourself in 10 years?A: Some type of volunteer.
Q: What is your favorite type of food?A: Sushi.
Q: Table or booth?A: Booth.
Q: What is your favorite TV show?A: “No Reservations.”
Q: If you had a magic carpet, where would you go?A: Japan.
Q: What has been your best accomplishment?A: Graduating nursing school.
Q: What is one thing you love about yourself?A: My dimples.
Q: What is your favorite book or short story?A: “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen.
Q: What is one of your favor-ite University experiences?A: Spanish class with Dr. En-carna Bermejo.
FROMWHEREISTAND Lil’ Wayne
Toyota CenterApril 16
The New Orleans native will be visiting Houston during his “I’m Still Music” tour. Doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets range from $80-142 and are available at stubhub.com.courtesy of www.hiphopsite.com
Ashley Brown with Houston SymphonyJones HallApril 21
Ashley Brown will be performing songs from Broadway with the Houston Symphony. Doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets range from $25-106 and are available at houstonsymphony.org.courtesy of www.idesigner.com
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Zombies return to the world of Austen
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“Pride and Prejudice and Zom-bies: Dreadfully Ever After”
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RELIGION THE COLLEGIAN - 13APRIL 14, 2011
by Alexis shellyStaff writer
Catholics in England and Wales have written a special prayer blessing the marriage of Prince Wil-
liam of Wales and his fiancee Kate Middle-ton despite a law forbidding Catholics from inheriting the throne.
The prayer states in part, “May Your love unite them through their lives. Grant them the strength to serve You, our coun-try and the Common-wealth,” and will be said throughout the country.
The Act of Settle-ment of 1701 prohibits Roman Catholics and those who marry Roman Catholics from ascend-ing England’s throne without a conversion to Protestantism.
Middleton, a Protestant, is exactly what the royal family needs to bring the monar-chy from a dated institution into one that is in tune with its subjects, no matter what background they come from.
The Church’s law, however, does not seem to affect Catholics’ opinions of Mid-dleton.
Archbishop Vincent Nichols of West-minster, president of the Catholic Bishop’s Conference of England and Wales, told the U.K. Mirror Online that the choice to re-form this law lies in the hands of the gov-ernment and does not “weigh heavily on the shoulders” of Catholics.
Nichols also expressed his delight at the news of the couple’s engagement.
“My congratulations to both of them, and I wish them every happiness in their married life together,” the archbishop said.
While the Catholic Church, often viewed as an opponent of the Crown, seems to have given its approval of the marriage, officials within the Church of England have not been as receptive of Middleton and her relationship with Prince William.
Pete Broadbent, Bishop of Willesden, took to his Facebook page to attack the
furor that surrounds the couple and com-pared them to noth-ing but “shallow ce-lebrities.” He went on to say that the royal family is full of “broken marriag-es and philanderers” and predicted the marriage would only
last seven years due to outside pressures. Terry Sanderson, president of the Na-
tional Secular Society, expressed his anger in the Clerical Whispers blog saying that it was outrageous for an official in the Church of England to speak that way about Prince William, the future head of the Church.
According to the U.K. Daily Mail On-line, Broadbent later apologized but was still asked to resign from his post and from public ministry until further notice.
His resignation reflects the general ac-ceptance of Middleton, and for the most part, negative comments have not been heard as the royal wedding approaches.
Catholics’ prayers bless couple
Wofford opens next chapter
Story by Alexis Shelly
Professor of Christianity retires to travel the country
His teaching guided many of his students into the field of ministry.
Dr. Gene Wofford, 81, professor in Chris-tianity, will retire at the end of the semester, ending his 36-year tenure and many years of advising.
Alumni and board of trustees member Mark Denison, B.A. ‘82 and senior pastor at First Baptist Conroe, initially planned to attend a different col-lege, but after a tele-phone conversation with Wofford in 1978, he changed his mind.
“We spoke over the phone once because my brother was attend-ing HBU at the time, and he showed tre-mendous interest in me as a Christ-follower, student and future minister,” Denison said. “He never overtly recruited me for HBU, but when I hung up the phone, my heart had changed. I wanted to go to a school where I could sit at the feet of men like him. The next day, I withdrew my enrollment at another college and committed to HBU.”
Denison completed three courses with Wofford, including New Testament, Preach-ing and Evangelism.
Denison remains good friends with his former professor and still looks up to him as a mentor.
“We still spend hours together, in the
classroom, on the tennis court and in the Stu-dent Center,” Denison said.
Wofford also provides mentorship to his students who are already involved in minis-try.
Dale Jones, B.A. ‘87, enrolled at the Uni-versity in the early 1980s after founding Ster-ling Wood Church. He said he sought more education in theology because he wanted the knowledge to help his new congregation grow.
“I already knew what I wanted to do in life, but attending HBU and having Dr. Wof-ford as a professor is what really drove me to actually get excited about what I wanted to do,” Jones said. “The University and the pro-fessors were amazing, but Dr. Wofford was more than a professor. He was also a mentor.”
Junior Michelle Lyon, currently enrolled in Wofford’s Christian Tradition course, said she has learned how to share her faith and keep her spirit strong.
“Dr. Wofford is very knowledgeable and is a kind-hearted person,” Lyon said. “He has taught me so much about presenting the Christian faith in a very delicate manner. He taught me how to bring up Christianity and inform people about it in a more humble way.”
Lyon added that she is disappointed to see her mentor retire from teaching.
The students he has influenced, Lyon and Denison agreed, will remember him and the impression he leaves.
“Good men impress from a distance, but great men choose to influence up close,” Denison said. “By that definition, Gene Wof-ford is a great man.”
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Dr. Gene Wofford, professor of Chris-tianity, has seen many changes come to the University during his 36-year ten-ure, which began in 1975 and will soon come to an end.
His contributions Wofford’s contributions to the Chris-
tianity classes at the University include writing “Basic Bible Beliefs,” which was published by Halcyon Press in 2005
and has since been adopted as the textbook for the Christian Doctrine course.
W o f f o r d ’ s wife, Dorothy, has also had the chance to be-come involved with the Univer-
sity because of the work her husband has done.
She has had the opportunity to in-teract with current University students because of the endowed scholarship that the alumni association named in recognition of Wofford.
“It has been a real honor to attend the banquets that are hosted for the
students who are on endowed scholar-ships,” she said.
Wofford said he has enjoyed watch-ing all of his former students as they pursue their careers.
“I am grateful I have been allowed to participate in their lives,” he said.
President Robert B. Sloan Jr. said Wofford is a brilliant teacher and loves his students.
“Every institution needs people like Dr. Wofford, people who spend their entire careers there,” Sloan said.
Wofford counts that participation with his students, as well as that with his colleagues, as one of his favorite parts of his job.
“The things that I will miss most about the University are the fellowship with the faculty and staff as well as the interaction with the students,” he said.
His colleagues said they will miss his attitude and disposition.
Dr. David Capes, the Thomas Nelson research professor, said that Wofford has a “loving spirit” as well as a charac-ter that is as “good as gold.”
“He has the type of character that is missing in the world today, and it is a character that comes from the wisdom he has from knowing God,” Capes said.
“We need more people like him.” Wofford has been a steady presence
in the department of Christianity as well as the University.
“He will be desperately missed,” Capes said.
Changes to the University Wofford served under every Univer-
sity president and began his tenure be-fore the creation of the School of Theol-
ogy. When he be-
gan teaching, the campus con-sisted of only five buildings in which faculty members’ offices were not orga-nized according to their fields.
“When I first started here, the office next to mine was occupied by physics,” Wofford said. “There was an advantage in getting to know people from other disciplines.”
A change in administration has also changed the layout of the University.
“There are many more vice-presi-dents than when I began here,” Wofford
said. The use of computers to register
has also significantly changed since Wofford’s beginning.
“Early in my tenure we registered in the gym, where the faculty sat at small desks and the students lined up,” Wof-ford said. “We were able to finish regis-tration in one day.”
Plans for retirementWofford will officially retire from
the University at the end of the semes-ter, but he will not leave the campus completely behind.
Capes said he hoped Wofford would still consider teaching in some capacity.
Wofford fulfilled that wish by de-ciding to stay at the University as an adjunct, a decision that allows him to continue the teaching he enjoys but provides more time to pursue his pas-sion for golf and traveling with his wife.
Dorothy Wofford said she plans to take a trip with her husband to see the autumn leaves in Arkansas, Tennessee and several northern states, but most of all, she looks forward to spending more time with him.
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Should student representative leaders sign the preamble?
STAFF EDITORIAL
Each student has his or her own reasons for remaining at the insti-tutions they have chosen.
I stayed at the University for four years because of the experi-ences I had and the people I met in the room that defined my college experience.
The things I learned and the friendships I made while in the newsroom of The Collegian con-vinced me to stay until my gradu-ation.
Working on the last print issue of my time here, I started to look back on the memories from my years at The Collegian.
I spent time on this deadline thinking about the stories I covered and the skills I learned.
I looked around the room at the awards we won and remembered how excited we were when we found out about winning them.
I have plenty of memories from my career as a college journal-ist, but most of them involve the people I worked with in the news-room.
I worked with some of the hard-est-working and smartest students on campus, and they became the closest friends I have ever had.
Thinking of these editors of past and present, I thought about the laughs and jokes we shared. I remembered all we taught each other and the ways we helped each other inside and outside of the newsroom.
We may have thought we were spending hours and hours on dead-
line producing a newspaper, but we were forming relationships with friends who will always be there for us.
The guidance and support I re-ceived in the newsroom extended beyond my fellow students.
Our faculty adviser, Dr. Alice Rowlands, was always available for students who needed help structuring a story or writing a headline, and her door was always open for students seeking her wis-dom in matters that confront the people who are becoming adults.
She exhibited a passion for her work that helped draw me into the newsroom, and I soon discovered that her work was not limited to advising the newspaper.
The work she remains so pas-sionate about is more than correct-ing the mistakes in the paper and teaching her courses.
It’s about listening to students’ problems and helping them be-come the people they want to be.
I always admired her passion and learned about so much more than journalism from her and the students she mentored.
These people and experiences convinced me to stay at the Uni-versity, and these relationships and memories have me convinced this was the right decision.
Looking back, I’m proud that my memories of college are the ones I made in this room.
As I reach the end of this expe-rience, I have one last thing to say.
I’m just sayin’.
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The University should make a concerted effort to inform prospec-tive students about policies that could limit the participation of non-Christians in leadership roles on campus.
The current University policy requires all students who serve in representative leadership positions to agree to uphold the school’s preamble and affirm the Christian faith.
While this policy is in alignment with the preamble, it restricts non-Christian students from serving as Husky Ambassadors and on Stu-dent Government Association.
Many non-Christian students enter the University with the im-pression that all student leadership opportunities are open to them. If
the University fails to explicitly in-form incoming students of the rule regarding representative leadership positions, it opens itself to myriad criticism from lack of transparency to disgruntled students who will one day be disgruntled alumni.
The University can clarify the rule and help inform prospective students through different mediums including its website, brochures, HBU News, and during campus tours, where one-on-one commu-nication would be especially effec-tive in clarifying the policy.
Presenting all information to students prior to their enrollment allows them the opportunity to make a well-informed decision about where they want to spend four of the most important years of
their lives.Clear communication could
help the University accurately present the many leadership oppor-tunities available to non-Christians, including serving as executives in Student Programming Board and other organizations.
The positions that require the signing of the preamble only repre-sent a fraction of the roles available
in the more than 70 campus orga-nizations.
Ensuring that students under-stand the policy by clearly defining the rule for which types of organi-zations, both current and future, re-quire students to sign the preamble will help prevent needless misun-derstandings and prevent the Uni-versity from being seen in a nega-tive light.
The student body is not accu-rately represented when a policy inhibits more than a quarter of the
student population from serving in key leadership roles.
Non-Christians make up 27 percent of the University’s undergraduate pop-
ulation, according to the 2010 Pro-file of Undergraduate Students.
The policy currently implement-ed by the University requires all students who wish to serve in rep-resentative leadership roles to sign and uphold the preamble, essen-tially affirming the Christian faith.
The rule prohibits non-Christian students from serving as executive members of Student Government Association, Husky Ambassadors and Student Foundation.
Those who hold positions in these organizations serve as a repre-sentation of the student population, but the policy discounts the leader-ship of non-Christian students.
While the students affected by the rule can lead in many other or-ganizations, the groups that limit participation play integral roles on campus.
Requiring all students who wish to serve in certain positions to sign the preamble inhibits a large por-tion of the student population from full participation as University citi-zens. If the school deems students worthy of University citizenship, that citizenship should include full rights for all students.
by Justin Schneewind, editor in chief
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Newsroom memoriesStudents paid by the University
to represent the institution should be able to uphold its mission and
sign its preamble. The University
similarly expects that faculty and staff members af-firm the document and its Christian
statement. This requirement limits the opportunities for non-Christians in select roles, but they still have a variety of leadership and service opportunities in sororities, fraterni-ties, clubs, and organizations.
Students who serve as Husky Ambassadors take prospective stu-dents and their parents on tours and provide them with their first im-pressions of the University.
These paid representatives should be able to uphold the insti-tution’s basic tenets. Several non-Christians have served as Husky Ambassadors, and it is possible that some performed their duties better than their Christian counterparts.
Even if they are students, they should not be held to a standard separate from other paid representa-tives of the University. The Univer-sity offers non-Christians a range of leadership and service roles that do not require affirming the preamble.
These students still have oppor-tunities to serve in a majority of the student organizations on campus.
This policy limits access to some positions, but a great variety of opportunities still exist across campus.
Policy needs clarification
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by JuStin SchneewindEditor in chief
The missionary Amy Carmichael.
OPINIONAPRIL 14, 2011 THE COLLEGIAN - 15
Dear Collegian and my fellow stu-dents,
As this year comes to a close, my time serving you as President of your Student Government is rapidly concluding. In fact, elec-tions end tomorrow and a new President will be inaugurated next Monday.
Thus, I want to take this oppor-tunity to address the student body for a final time, but first I would like to say “Thank You!” to several people.
First, I would like to thank those who served alongside me on SGA this year.
All of the executives, senators
and legislators have a great heart for service, and consistently went beyond the call of duty. They were very significant to the success of Student Government this year.
I also want to thank our admin-istration for their willingness to hold events like the State of the University and their openness to discussing solutions to our objec-tives.
Finally, I want to thank The Collegian. We certainly are blessed with one of the finest collegiate newspapers, and SGA is forever grateful for their willingness to distribute information often and accurately. Fellow students, I want to encour-
age you. The life we have already begun is a journey. This sounds cli-che, but it’s true. At the end, we will be held accountable not for what we have done, but with whom we have walked.
A life lived with the freedom we have in Christ as b e l i e v e r s is far supe-rior to one lived seeking worldly plea-sures.
I encourage you to stay focused on the big picture while you are
here. We have been provided with an excellent training ground for future ministry in the world. We have been given the opportunity to study the greats and pick the brains of the greatest Christian minds in academia. We have the unique privilege to learn about the world from a Christian worldview.
I know this chapter of our lives can get stressful, especially when we are tempted to grumble among ourselves. I encourage you to re-member Ephesians 4:29: “Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up ac-cording to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.”
Stay in the Word, take advan-tage of every opportunity you are provided to grow in your relation-ship with Christ and cast your cares upon Him.
Finally, I want all of you to know that I will think of my time at HBU often and each time I do, I will be reminded to lift you up in prayer.
With that, I bid you a fond fare-well. It has been my pleasure to serve you as SGA President, and I wish you the best as you pursue God’s will for the rest of your lives. Sincerely, David Toney SGA President
Farewell from SGA president
Toney
To the class of 2011,
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When Dr. James Claycomb, associate professor of physics, cannot find the right textbook to teach a course, he simply writes his own.
The instructor has published two textbooks for use in his ad-vanced physics courses, one of which was also adopted by Swe-den’s University of Technology in Gothenburg.
Claycomb signed his first pub-lication contract in July 2007 after his textbook proposal and the sub-mission of two sample chapters on electromagnetism were approved by Infinity Science Press, a pub-lishing company that specializes in educational and reference ma-terials for physics, engineering, mathematics, and business.
The textbook, titled “Applied Electromagnetics Using Quick-Field and MATLAB,” was pub-lished in 2008 and integrated content that Claycomb taught his students in several previous courses, he said.
“I had already prepared lec-ture notes based on QuickField field modeling software and had been teaching that material in my classes for about three semesters,” Claycomb said. “When I was se-lecting a textbook for one of my courses a few years ago, I could not find a textbook covering ap-plied electromagnetism that used this program and saw that such a book could be useful.”
The 400-page book covers topics such as alternative energy, superconductivity, geophysical applications, and nondestructive evaluation and was reprinted in 2009 by Jones and Bartlett Learn-ing, the fifth largest college pub-lisher in the U.S.
Claycomb said he began work on his second textbook in March 2009, motivated by the need for a biophysics book at the advanced undergraduate level.
After signing another contract with Jones and Bartlett, he was approached by a former student, Jonathan Tran, B.S. ‘08, who sought research experience and offered to help write. Claycomb accepted and subsequently re-ceived permission from the pub-lisher to coauthor with Tran, who has published articles in the jour-nals IEEE Transactions on Ap-plied Superconductivity and The
Physics Teacher and now studies at the University of Texas South-western Medical Center.
“Introductory Biophysics: Per-spectives on the Living State,” printed by Jones and Bartlett in April 2010, includes sections on thermal and electrical properties and fluid dynamics in the human body.
Claycomb and Tran agreed to dedicate the work to the memory of John Vay, a biology and bio-chemistry/molecular biology ma-jor who passed away in 2008.
Both textbooks have been in-corporated into the University’s
physics curriculum, as Claycomb employed “Applied Electromag-netics” for the senior seminar on computational physics and “In-troductory Biophysics” for its re-spective course last fall. The use of these materials in these classes was a success, he said.
“The students learned how to use QuickField and MATLAB very quickly, whereas other pro-grams generally take much lon-ger to pick up,” Claycomb said. “They can perform a calculation during class at the same time as I do, which is extremely helpful, and I think the students like using
the software.”Claycomb’s recently finished
composing the instructor’s manu-al for the biophysics text, which took more time to complete than the writing of the actual book be-cause he had to solve every prob-lem presented in its 15 chapters to make the answer key, he said.
“Although it was a lot of work, writing books about physics was also very fun,” Claycomb said. “Each person enjoys producing work in his or her field — paint-ers like to paint, sculptors like to sculpt and physicists like to write physics books.”
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY APRIL 14, 201116 - THE COLLEGIAN
P r o f e s s i o n a l actors, musicians and athletes have achieved success through the ability to entertain and in-spire, but fame, for-
tune and testimonials on paid pro-gramming and talk show interviews do not make them scientists.
Last year’s greatest offenses against scientific fact were disprov-en in the annually-compiled list by an organization called Sense About Science. The group aims to educate the public about celebrity endorse-ment that frequently sells medically-unsound products and advice.
Stars are notorious for exploiting ignorant audiences through bogus health tips and diet plans promis-ing the same appearance and abili-ties the celebrities possess. From energy-boosting silicone bracelets worn by athlete David Beckham to actress Naomi Campbell’s syrup de-toxification diet, fans are inundated with misinformation and deception.
Many people are now disap-pointed that the magical products purchased in January could not undo last year’s bad health habits. Adver-tisers’ promises were broken, and desperation to keep resolutions may increase vulnerability to new “quick fixes” in fear of swimsuit season.
One must resist the temptation to expect miracles when it comes to achieving fitness and staying healthy. There is no breakthrough pill, diet regimen, or workout ma-chine to replace self-discipline.
Those seeking health and fitness advice would benefit most from consulting the field’s experts. Noth-ing is chemical-free, detox is a mar-keting myth and energy and fitness come only from food and exercise.
Celebrities do their jobs by pro-viding entertainment and gossip, and scientists contribute factual in-formation concerning public health. In general, doctorate degrees do not look good on camera, and fame does not belong in the laboratory.
Driven by momentumThe law of conservation of momentum states
that an object in motion will continue moving at a constant speed unless acted upon by an outside force.
In the case of an automobile accident, the car has stopped moving instantly, while passengers and other objects inside still travel at the same velocity. The purpose of airbags is to stop the movement of the passenger as safely as possible within a short period of time.
Saved by combustionA crash sensor located behind the steering
wheel signals the driver’s front airbag to inflate when the accelerometer detects a collision force equal to driving directly into a brick wall at 10-15 mph.
The sensor triggers a chemical reaction inside an inflation system that combusts sodium azide and potassium nitrate. The product is a volume of nitrogen gas large enough to inflate the nylon sac at a speed up to 200 mph.
The gas slowly dissipates through small holes in the airbag so that the survivor has room to exit the vehicle. The process that lasts 1/25 of a sec-ond delays the passenger’s return to zero veloc-ity just enough to prevent serious injury.information courtesy of HowStuffWorks
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Scientists repudiate Hollywood health claims
TOP: Dr. James Claycomb, associate professor of physics, explains how laboratory equipment gathers data for an experiment measuring the effects of radiation on red harvester ants.LEFT: Claycomb’s first textbook, published in 2008 by Infinity Science Press, uses QuickField software to cover topics including alternative energy, superconductivity and geophysical activity.RIGHT: Jones and Bartlett Learning printed Claycomb’s second book in 2010, coauthored by Jonathan Tran, B.S. ‘08.
QUESTION:How do airbags work?
ANSWER:Nitrogen gas inflates a nylon sac to slow a passenger’s mo-tion during an automobile accident.
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What is the best arcade game? “Ms. Pac-Man.”
What song would you sing on “American Idol”? “Genie in a Bottle” by Christina Aguilera.
Who is your favorite athlete? Michael Young. If you were an animal, which one would you be? A dolphin.
Nike or Reebok? Nike.
What is your nickname? Jam-e.
What is your favorite Adam Sandler movie? “Happy Gilmore.”
If you had a magic carpet, where would you fly? I would go home to Dallas.
What is the best sports movie? “A League of Their Own.”
What would you use to kill a zombie? An ax.
What is your favorite stadium in which you have competed? Cougar Softball Complex at the University of Houston.
Sophomore Kelsey Lou-Hing shot her first hole-in-one despite adverse weather conditions, includ-ing rain and 25-mph winds that continued to change directions as the women’s golf team finished third at the Husky Invitational in Missouri City, Texas, on April 4-5.
Lou-Hing said she was shocked when she discovered the ball went in on the 189-yard par-3 hole.
“It is definitely a big achieve-ment,” Lou-Hing said. “I have never had one before, and I think I was still in shock when it happened. I really did not see it go in the hole. One of the other coaches said, ‘You got a hole-in-one,’ and I just kind of smiled.”
Sophomore Balbina Guajardo finished fourth overall at 15-over par to lead the Huskies. Guajardo
said the rain hindered her play late in the first round and throughout the second round.
“It just changes the way you are playing,” she said. “You have to worry about the umbrella and put-ting on clothes appropriate for the weather and if your grip gets wet or if you have to clean your clubs.”
The Huskies’ second-highest finisher was sophomore Gaia Ol-cese, who finished fifth with a 16-over par while competing individu-ally.
She competed individually be-cause she is dealing with a disk protrusion in her back that she has had since January.
Olcese added that she partici-pated in the tournament against bet-ter judgement because she wanted preparation work for the Great West Conference Championship.
“Coach asked me if I wanted to play or not because it is not the best thing because of my injury, but I wanted to play, do well in this tour-nament and be ready for confer-ence,” she said.
Olcese added that she has been taking medication to deal with the
pain this year and likened the pain to having a needle in her back.
Head coach David Shuster said that hosting the tournament makes coaching his athletes a difficult task.
“It is a pretty big burden,” he said. “It takes some time away from helping them out on the golf course as much as I would like to. And we also had all nine girls out there. So it was basically like having two teams, and I am trying to help them all, and that makes it tough.”
The Husky Invitational was the last preparation tournament before the Great West Conference Tour-nament in Lake Conroe, Texas on April 25-26.
The Huskies will host the tour-nament, but Shuster said he would not be kept from coaching his play-ers this time. He added that he likes his team’s chances at repeating as conference champions this year.
“North Dakota was here, and we beat Texas-Pan American by 36 strokes,” he said. “On paper, yeah, we feel confident that we can end up with another championship on the women’s side.”
Lou-Hing sinks first hole-in-one of college career
All of the Uni-versity’s teams struggled early in their seasons, but
they won when it mattered most — in conference play.
Winning against schools like Louisiana Tech University and the University of Oklahoma may raise morale, but it has little effect on a program still transitioning into the NCAA. Currently, the only way for the University to win a champion-ship is to win the conference.
If the struggles of women’s bas-ketball are removed from the aver-age, which is 3-24 against Great West Conference teams in the last two years, the programs are 67-55-6 in conference play in that span.
Baseball holds the best record against conference teams at 21-12. Women’s soccer ranks second at 9-6-3, including winning the Great West Conference Championship on Nov. 8, followed by men’s soccer at 5-4-3.
The golf programs have been the most successful for the Uni-versity since the transition back to the NCAA. In 2009, the men’s golf team won the inaugural Great West Conference Championship be-fore switching to the America Sky Conference. Women’s golf, which finished second behind the Univer-
sity of Texas-Pan American in 2009, won the 2010 championship.
The women’s golf team has con-sistently finished ahead of confer-ence foes this season in tournaments and has a good chance of repeating as conference champion.
Softball has been the most suc-cessful so far this year. The team is 23-18 for the season and 5-1 in conference, gaining the No. 1 seed in what might be the last Great West softball championship, as two of the four programs are leaving following this season.
Winning against NCAA Division I programs is a difficult feat for any program in the nation. It is the same goal that 345 different teams share. And while the records get better along with the recruiting, the Great West championships are becoming more frequent.
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by BRANDON PORTER
by Brandon Porter
Sports editor
Teams winning when it matters most
Wins: 9
Earned run average: 1.88
Innings pitched: 97
Strikeouts: 119
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Sports editor
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Softball
April 27 7:35 p.m. North Dakota*
April 30 1 p.m. Houston-Victoria (DH)
April 29 2 p.m. Texas-Pan American*
April 30 12 p.m. Texas-Pan American* (DH)
May 1 2 p.m. Texas-Pan American*
April 20 2 p.m. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (DH)
April 26 2 p.m. McNeese State (DH)
April 27 2 p.m. Sam Houston State (DH)
* Denotes conference game
BaseballApril 15 2 p.m. Northern Colorado*
April 16 12 p.m. Northern Colorado* (DH)
April 17 2 p.m. Northern Colorado*
April 19 3 p.m. Texas at Arlington
Freshman Jessica Ngui drives the ball during the first round of the Husky Invitational on April 4.
Huskies place third in host tournament
The Huskies swept Prairie View A&M University for the sec-ond time this season on April 12 in Prairie View, Texas, and have won 10 of their last 15 games.
Senior catcher Kaitlin Souther-land said the team’s coherence has led to confidence in the players’ ability to win each game.
“I feel like the team chemistry that we have this year is amazing,” Southerland said. “We all know that we can win every game that we play as long as we work really hard.”
In the 8-2 win in game one, the Huskies broke a two-run tie in the second inning after an RBI double by sophomore right fielder Callie Harrington. The Huskies stretched their lead with a five-run third in-ning, including a bases-loaded sin-gle by freshman left fielder Rebec-ca Rademacher. She scored later in the inning by stealing home.
Freshman pitcher Kendall Sti-efel earned her seventh win of the season af-ter pitching four innings, a l l o w i n g one earned run on three hits.
H e a d coach Mary-Ellen Hall said the team acclimated well to much slower pitching.
“We sometimes struggle hitting slower pitching, and it can be dif-ficult to sit and wait,” Hall said. “It was about 8-mph slower than we are used to, but I think we did do a good job of adjusting.”
Game two remained score-less going into the top of the third when the Huskies scored two runs on three hits. The Huskies added one run in the fourth on a home run to left-center field by Southerland and one run in the fifth on a dou-ble by senior first baseman Sara Corcoran, leading to a 4-0 shutout.
Junior pitcher Beth Evans earned her fourth win of the sea-son, pitching seven innings and striking out six batters.
Freshman right fielder Daniella Rodarte said consistency at the plate has been a major area of fo-cus for the team as it heads toward the end of the season.
“Sometimes we are hitting well but not always, so we need to work on consistency in hitting when go-ing through the batting order and we will be fine,” she said.
Senior center fielder Jake Gon-zalez hit a game-winning single to left field April 10, earning the Hus-kies a sweep over the University of North Dakota and a tie for first in the Great West Conference.
The Huskies felt good entering the series at Husky Field despite their 2-22 record, said junior right fielder Kolby Arnst.
“We were confident, even though we had not had many wins coming in, but we picked it up and pulled it together,” Arnst said.
The Huskies narrowly won the first game of the series with a score of 8-7. Arnst went 2-for-4 with a triple and an inside-the-park home run with two RBIs and two runs scored. The Huskies sealed the victory when junior catcher Asai Adame threw out a runner at sec-ond, giving senior pitcher Dalton Schafer his first win of the season.
In game two, the Huskies won 9-5 over the Fighting Sioux. Ju-nior shortstop Colin Hetzler went 3-for-4 with a double and two RBIs while junior designated hitter Rob-bie Buller was 2-for-4 with three RBIs and a run. Sophomore pitcher Scott Moore earned his first win af-ter pitching in the fourth and fifth innings. Junior pitcher J. P. Seipel earned his first save of the season.
The Huskies won game three 9-6 after senior pitcher Chase Hernan-
dez pitched 7 2/3 innings, giving up four runs on six hits. The score was tied until the fifth inning when Arnst doubled down the left-field line, scoring Buller and Hetzler. Freshman third baseman Tanner Kalina singled to right field, giving the Huskies the lead and scoring Arnst. Hernandez earned the win, and freshman pitcher Kobie Hajdik recorded his first save of the season.
Senior pitcher Stephen Nikon-chik left the last game of the series early after giving up five runs off nine hits. Hajdik entered the game in the second inning, keeping the Fighting Sioux scoreless for 6 2/3 innings. The Huskies did not score until the seventh, as a six-run rally cut the deficit to three going into the ninth. With the bases loaded in the ninth, Hetzler scored two runs with a soft single to left to tie the game.
“He had been working me out-side all day so I flipped it out there and got lucky,” Hetzler said.
Buller was walked to load the bases again for Gonzalez, who hit the first pitch for a game-winning RBI single.
“I was waiting on a fastball and got it where I wanted it and just drove it out, the first game-winner of my career,” Gonzalez said.
Sweeping North Dakota gives assurance to the team, head coach Jared Moon said.
“Tying for first and knowing we can beat teams gives us a lot of con-fidence,” Moon said.
BASEBALL (6 - 23) (4 - 0)March 31 Dallas Baptist 16-6 LApril 1 Dallas Baptist 15-13 WApril 2 Dallas Baptist 15-3 LApril 5 Stephen F. Austin State 13-1 LApril 8 North Dakota* 8-7 W
HUSKYSPORTS REWINDSOFTBALL (25 - 18) (5 - 1)
March 30 Texas at San Antonio (DH) 3-1 L / 5-2 LApril 2 Houston-Victoria (DH) 9-2 W / 5-4 LApril 5 Houston 6-0 LApril 6 Stephen F. Austin State 1-0 WApril 12 Prairie View A&M (DH) 8-2 W / 4-0 W
April 9 North Dakota* (DH) 9-5 W / 9-6 WApril 10 North Dakota* 9-8 WApril 12 Texas State 3-2 L (13 inn)
* Denotes conference game
SPORTS APRIL 14, 201120 - THE COLLEGIAN
Junior catcher Asai Adame tags out the University of North Dakota freshman catcher Zack Trygstag as he tries to score from second base in the Huskies four-game sweep on April 8-10. The Huskies improved to 6-22 on the season and 4-0 in conference.
Softball sweeps Prairie View on roadby Brandon PorterSports editor
Junior right fielder Kolby Arnst scores from third base. Arnst went 7-for-16 with a triple, an inside-the-park home run and four RBIs.
