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Henderson has been trying, to no avail, to fill the position of vice president for university advancement since spring. In July, the university re-launched its search.
The vacancy may soon be occupied by one of three fi-nalists scheduled to speak in Caplinger Airway Science Cen-ter’s lecture hall this week.
This part of the interview pro-cess will be in an open forum. Each of the three candidates will be giving a presentation and then answering questions from the audience.
This newly formed position will work collaboratively with Dr. Glendell Jones, president of Henderson.
“They will be the chief fund raiser for the university,” Jones said.
The responsibilities and du-ties consist of engaging and managing a portfolio of pros-pects, which include personal cultivation, solicitation, closing of gifts and stewardship.
The first of the three can-didates, Jennifer Boyett, will speak Sept. 23 from 3 to 4 p.m.
She spent her undergradu-ate years at the University of Central Arkansas and gradu-ated with a BA in journalism in 2001. She went on to attend the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and received her MA in journalism in 2005.
She currently serves as team leader for the fundraising team in the division of advancement at University of Cen-tral Arkansas. She is also a member of CASE, Council for Advancement and Support of Educa-tion.
“I look forward to meeting faculty, staff and students on Monday and discussing the importance of higher education advancement and what I can bring to the table as vice president of ad-vancement.” Boyett said.
“I want to be a part of the Henderson team and to serve President Jones because he has demonstrated that he un-derstands the impact an ad-vancement division can have throughout the campus. Work-ing together, I think we can
make great things happen at HSU.”
The second of the trio, Dr. Russell Gibbs, former vice president for institutional ad-vancement and communica-tions at Texas A&M Health Sci-ence Center, will be speaking on Sept. 25 from 3 to 4 p.m.
Gibbs is a pastor and received
his master’s of divinity and doc-tor of ministries degrees from Southwestern Baptist Theolog-ical Seminary in Fort Worth.
He received his Certified Fundraising Executive certi-fication in 2002, and was re-certified in 2005 and again in 2008. Gibbs is also a member of CASE, Council for Advance-ment and Support of Education, the AFP, Association of Fund-raising Professionals and Lions
Club International. The final candidate, Dr. Paul
Kettering, former vice presi-dent for university advance-ment at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, will be speaking on Sept. 27 from 3 to 4 p.m.
Kettering has 27 years of pro-fessional experience in second-ary and higher education, and spent 15 of those years as an advancement and development leader. Some of his career high-lights include over a hundred fundraising campaigns, initia-tives and drives that resulted in gifts and pledges of over $70 million.
Each of the candidates will be looking at Henderson as a po-tential home, but only one will be the best fit.
“We need the right person to tell our story,” Jones said. “Any-thing we can do to showcase our wonderful attributes would be a plus.”
All students, faculty and com-munity members are encour-aged to attend the meetings, evaluate and assess each of them and share their feedback about the candidates with the search advisory committee. Surverys will be given to those who attend the sessions.
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Henderson’s Academic Ad-vising Center has resources for students who are experiencing difficulties in class.
The AAC offers students in historically difficult classes a form of group studying called supplemental instruction.
Chanda Hooten, academic adviser and coordinator of the program, said that supplemen-tal instruction started during the 1970s in Kansas at the Uni-versity of Missouri-Kansas City.
When it was first started, its purpose was to find a way to keep retention rates of minority students up.
Today, the program has found its way into about 3,600 schools across the nation, in-cluding Henderson.
SI is a series of weekly re-view sessions provided for all students who want to improve their grade. These sessions are peer facilitated by students who have already been successful in the same class the students are taking.
“The purpose of this is to help break down the intimida-tion barrier some students may have when they are in class and don’t want to ask questions,” Hooten said.
These review sessions are set up more like a group study ses-sion rather than a tutoring pro-gram. The SI leaders are there to help keep everyone on track and address any questions stu-dents may have. Departments that participate in SI still have their own form of tutoring pro-grams.
Henderson incorporated SI in fall of 2012 with three cours-
es. The program grew to five courses by spring of 2013 and has grown to 10 courses for the fall of 2013.
Each course has been chosen based on how many students, campus wide, sign up for the course and then on how many students have completed the course with a grade of D and under or have withdrawn from the course.
Each course has a host teach-er. The instructors of SI use this teacher’s course schedule to base their study sessions.
This fall the courses included in SI are masters of western literature with Mr. Gibson, col-lege algebra with Ms. Shultz, general psychology with Mr. Bejarano, general chemis-try for non-majors with Ms. O’Donnell, intro to biology with Mrs. Benjamin, world civiliza-tion to 1660 with Dr. Hickerson, general botany with Dr. Ser-viss, experimental stats with Dr. Wiebers, general zoology with Dr. Engman, and learning with Dr. Ahmad.
Not every teacher that teaches one of these courses is included in SI. It is only one teacher per course. For exam-ple, SI only uses Ms. Kristen Benjamin’s intro to biology class for the intro to biology section, although there are oth-er professors teaching intro to biology classes.
Fall of 2013 is the second semester offering SI for Mrs. Benjamin’s three sections of in-tro to biology.
This session of the program has seen the highest atten-dance compared to the other sessions.
Records show that 50% of the students enrolled in the
course utilized the service dur-ing spring of 2013. Out of the total number of students that participated in the program, 65% earned an A, B or C in the class versus only 39% of the stu-dents who never attended. In the past, 120 students from the total graded enrollment of 287 (42%) utilized the services at least once.
The final mean grade for par-ticipants was 2.0 as compared
to 1.7 for non-participants.Although most of the SI is
geared towards core courses, some departments have used their own department budgets to fund upper level courses.
“So far we have had good at-tendance this semester,” Hoo-ten said. “Anyone can come to the sessions, but a lot of stu-dents wait until they get their first test back before coming.”
Hooten also said that there
has been an 18-point difference on tests for those who attended the SI sessions as opposed to those who have not.
“We are looking for this pro-gram to expand even farther in the future,” Hooten said.
For those interested in find-ing more information on SI, the AAC has a full schedule of each section. The AAC is located on the second floor of the Garri-son.
BAILAMOS Local Zumba instructor Mayte Garcia (center) and Maria Fer-nanda Carrillo (right) led students in dance on the quad. The repertoire included merengue, salsa and reggaeton dancing. The festival, held on Sept. 17, celebrated Hispanic Heritage month which began Sept. 15 and spans a month, ending on Oct. 15. The festival also included a photo booth, chips and salsa, a Latino exhibition of artifacts and live music. The Trio Trumpets performed a musical number, Laura Luz Castillo sang and Cecilla Delgado danced.
Photo by Ryan Klare
Festival celebrates Heritage Month
Academic advising offers help to bolster GPAs
“We need the right person to tell our story.”
— Glen Jones,president
GIBBS
KETTERING
BOYETT
Heath SimsStaff Writer
Henderson 3rd annual Big-gest Loser competition start-ed last Monday with its first weigh-in.
The Biggest Loser is an 8-week weight loss competition with the first place award set at $150, the second place award at $100 and the third place award at $50.
The competition is offered during the fall semester for stu-dents and faculty of Henderson.
There is an ultimate goal that the instructors would like for every contestant to reach by the end of the 8-week program.
“Lifestyle change,” Kris Dunn, director of campus rec-reation, said. “To take what we’re teaching them and incor-porate it in their life. They have all admitted they have a health concern by showing up to the meeting today. Now we hope they can take it and use it and also take it home to their fami-lies.”
Tami Arnold, student health services nurse, is in charge of leading “Tami Talks” every Thursday at 12:30 starting Oct. 17.
“Tami Talks” are meetings held with every contestant to discuss nutrition and dieting plans.
The talks are also to help keep contestants accountable.
“It is not all about calories, but about portion control and healthy eating habits,” Arnold said.
“We had about 50 people show up to the informational to-day and the most faculty show up this year than I have ever seen,” Dunn said.
There have been a number of people sign up who were in the program last year.
“I feel more confident,” Me-lissa Vickers, senior recreation major, said. “I make it a point to
limit calories and to make it to the gym.”
A buddy system is key to many who workout.
“A few people joined me, and now I encourage others to go, and I try to help keep others ac-countable,” Vickers said.
Some contestants already workout and intend on using the program to keep them-selves accountable and push themselves.
“I’ve been dormant for a while, and I’m trying to get back into it,” Brian Bagwell, computer support technician, said.
Bagwell is a first-time con-testant of The Biggest Loser competition. Before he began his fitness journey, he weighed 338 pounds and is currently at 260 pounds.
The contestants will be grad-ed according to how often they come to the gym, how long they stay in the gym, inches lost, weight loss and “Tami Talks.”
Each contestant must attend boot camp on Tuesday and Thursday each week during the 8-week program.
The contestants must also go to the gym on their own time 3 days a week, and the boot camp can be counted toward the three days required.
To be eligible in the competi-tion, the contestant must have attended the mandatory weigh-in on Sept. 16.
The first and final weigh-in is mandatory, but the contestants must meet with an employee at the Dunn Recreation Center to weigh in two other times.
The contestants must also
sign-in and sign-out each time they workout and have a signa-ture from the recreation center employee.
The contestants will be re-quired to have their measure-ments taken as well as take fit-ness tests.
They must also attend 10 of the 15 offered boot camp class-es.
A minimum of three hours a week in the gym is required also.
The Biggest Loser competi-tion is in full swing and the rec-reation center employees are excited to help every contestant on their weight loss journey.
At the end of the semester, Henderson’s Biggest Losers will have some money to pad the pockets of their smaller-sized pants.
The Federal Bureau of Inves-tigation, commonly known as the FBI, came to campus last Thursday to talk to students about joining their organization after graduation.
They provided different in-formation about the organiza-tion and why it would be a great career choice for an individual. The careers can vary from being a special agent, intelli-gence analyst, linguist, or an IT specialist to a security offi-cer, electrician technician, and tradesman or human resources specialist, according to FBI-jobs.gov.
The responsibilities of an individual working for the FBI consist of 7 major things: working for efforts in the de-partments of counter terror-ism, counter intelligence, cy-ber crimes, public corruption, white collar, violent crime and civil rights.
Counter terrorism agents protect our country from ter-rorist attack.
Counter intelligence deals with unsolicited requests by foreign individuals, particularly regarding visitation or sponsor-ship request.
Cyber crimes, such as com-puter intrusion and child por-nography, is another topic they investigate, along with public corruption, which is suspected contact rigging, bribery, extor-tion, misuse of office and cor-rupt public officials.
White collar is fraud against the government, including se-curities and corporate fraud and health care fraud. Violent crime deals with things such as gangs, and civil rights involves
things like human trafficking and hate crimes.
The ideal individual to work for the FBI would be someone with a 4-year bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineer-ing, physical science, account-ing and finance, law, law en-forcement, or military.
It is also beneficial if they speak a foreign language, such as Korean, Hebrew, Swahili or Punjabi.
If someone does not have some or most of these qualities, they still have a chance to get a job. The FBI is versatile and provides many different career paths.
“That’s the great thing about the FBI,” Peggy L. Jacobs, FBI recruiter, said. “We provide many different career options. If someone gets tired of work-ing in a certain field, they can change to a different field the next day.”
Along with having a bache-lor’s degree, the FBI would like for an individual to be between 23-36 years of age and have 3-4 years of working experience in their field of study.
They also require that in-dividuals be available for as-signment anywhere within the FBI’s jurisdiction.
“The age requirement plays a major role in employment with the FBI,” Jacobs said. “The re-tirement age is 57, and it is re-quired to serve a minimum of 20 years.”
The list of requirements to become an FBI agent is quite lengthy. Applicants are re-quired to take the written ex-amination administered at the nearest FBI field office by ap-pointment.
Computers at the FBI Head-quarters score these examina-
tions. Those applicants who suc-
cessfully pass the exam may be afforded an interview based upon their overall qualifications and the needs of the FBI.
Individuals given consider-ation for employment must undertake a thorough back-ground investigation.
A polygraph examination is required, and all prospective FBI employees will be required to submit to a drug urinalysis test. If the individual passes all of the above, the new agents will attend the FBI Academy at Quantico, Virginia, and endure training for 21 weeks.
After training, the new agents will serve a mandatory 2-year
probationary period in an FBI field office of choice.
Once an individual has reached this point, the pay rate can increase to $23,000 and continue to increase approxi-mately two to three thousand each year they serve.
“All special agents love their job,” Jacobs said. “They have new experiences every day. Whenever they get tired of a particular field, they are free to change careers whenever they want without changing compa-nies.”
If there are any students who are interested in learning or applying for a job, please visit their website at www.FBIjobs.gov for more information.
FBI details jobs after graduation
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For those who have pre-viously signed up for hunt-ers education, the first day of classes will be Monday. Classes begin at 5:30 p.m. and will go each day at the same time through Wednes-day, Sept. 25. Students must have a valid photo ID.
The men’s golf team will attend the 15th annual NSU classic in Okla. on Monday, Sept. 23. The classic will last through Tuesday, Sept. 24.
The women’s volleyball team will have a match on Tuesday, Sept. 24, in Magno-lia against Southern Arkan-sas University. The match will begin at 7 p.m.
Tuesday is picture day for all the Homecoming candi-dates. Group pictures as well as singles will be taken at 6 p.m. at Sturgis. They can be picked up on Thursday, Sept. 27, at the Information Desk.
The Dunn Center will host a bicycle maintenance work-shop on Wednesday, Sept. 25, between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m.
This Wednesday is a big night for the Garrison Lec-ture Hall. There will be an-other double feature movie night. This time, the movies that will be playing will be White House Down and World War Z. White House Down will begin at 6:30 p.m. and World War Z will play immedietly after at 8:30 p.m.
For students who can’t make it to the Wednesday showings of the movies, there will be replays of both movies on Friday, Sept. 27 at the same times.
The Lady Reddie volley-ball team will also play a match on Thursday, Sept. 26, against Arkasnas Tech University at the Wells. This match will wrap up the week for the team.
The Henderson Interna-tional Student Association (HISA) will be hosting an international coffee house event on Thursday, Sept. 26. The event will be held in the Banquet Room in the Garri-son. Coffee will start at 4:30 p.m. This is just an evening full of delicious coffee and fun-filled conversation.
There is an astronomy show in the planetarium on Thursday, Sept. 26. The show will be “Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinitiy.” Henderson students can get in for $1 with a student ID. Tickets are $3 for all others.
The women’s golf team will host the Lady Reddie Classic this week. They will tee off on Friday, Sept. 27 and Satur-day, Sept. 28.
The school debate team will take part in the Winter Warm-Up Debate Tourna-ment this Friday, Sept. 27. Henderson is hosting. De-bates begin at 6 a.m. and will last throughout the day on Friday until 8 p.m.
Saturday is Henderson Family Day down in the Wells. Members of the Hall of Honor will be revered prior to the game, as well as during the game.
The Reddie football team will play a home game this weekend. The boys will play against East Central Univer-sity at Carpenter Haygood Stadium. Kickoff is at 3 p.m. this Saturday, Sept. 28.
Yearbook portraits will be held on Monday, Sept. 30, right outside of Starbucks. The photographers will be available between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
‘Biggest Loser’ starts year with promise
Photo from Ali Freeman
KEEPING CLEAN Students banded together to help Arkansas stay natural last Saturday. Above, Abie Petty, senior psychology major, and Felisha Thomas, sophomore psychology major, pick up trash on the banks of the lake for their community service.
Felicia RossStaff Writer
Alegra ParkerStaff Writer
I’ll take the
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What would you like to see changed in the new cafeteria?
Visha ShahiSenior - Dietetics
“More healthy. More variety of fruits. Less greasy. The food is
healthy, but not fresh.“
Kevin HopkinsFreshman - Computer Engineering
“I’m pretty good on the cafeteria. There are other things that can be improved besides the cafeteria.”
Laura Luz CastilloJunior - Physchology
“I want fruit like peaches or water-melon. More chicken. I like some of the meals they make, but they make
the same kind all the time.”
I cried in my roommate’s car when I found out my little brother hadn’t eaten in two days. I was a junior, then. My mother was always waiting: waiting for food stamps, waiting for her next paycheck. She was partly to blame, but it definitely wasn’t my brother’s fault.
I learned to wait for the food stamps to come in at an early age. I was raised by a single father who had two children to support.
We needed help, and we re-ceived it because we applied for it. Sometimes people from church would bring by boxes of food. Individuals can be much nicer than the government.
When my older sister got out of prison, she got a job, but working for minimum wage as a waitress just wasn’t enough. She was coming out of a cor-rections facility after four years and found herself picking up the pieces of the life she left
behind, a life with a growing daughter in it. She applied for food stamps.
I got in a rough spot, and she bought me a few groceries us-ing the program, just until I could get by on my own again.
This is how you do it, if you’re poor. This is how you survive.
This week, the House ap-proved a plan that would cut the Supplemental Nutrition As-sistance Program, also known as SNAP, or the more unofficial food stamp program, by $39 bil-lion in the course of 10 years, according to an article on USA TODAY’s website by Christo-pher Doering and Paul Singer.
The food stamp program currently provides assistance to 48 million Americans in low-income households, and is one of the nation’s best safeguards against starvation and malnutri-tion in poverty.
The plan to drastically cut food stamp aid and reserve it for those deemed the “truly needy” was a Republican pro-posal, which should come as a
surprise to no one. While no Democrat voted
in favor for the new proposal, Democrats aren’t wholly op-posed to cuts.
“I’m certain that we could embrace as House Democrats some measure of cuts,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, chairwoman of the Democratic National Commit-tee, said in USA TODAY. “I mean, every program can ben-efit from some savings.
But the first go-round the Republicans’ proposed cut was $20 billion. Then they passed an amendment that was $31.4 billion. And now that still isn’t good enough for the Tea Par-tiers. Now we’re at $40 billion. What they’re saying is that in America it’s OK for people to go hungry.”
Republicans argue that the new plan would not eradicate SNAP assistance, but close the loopholes that might allow those who are not qualified to reap the benefits of the system.
However, I’ve never per-
sonally known anyone taking advantage of the food stamp program that didn’t need it, and I’ve known my fair share of Ar-kansans living in poverty.
This unfair, dramatic cut to the SNAP program seems to be an attack on the nation’s poor, almost like a punish-ment for their struggle in a capitalist, dog-eat-dog society. What’s worse is that the ones proposing to make cuts to the program do not know the first thing about poverty, for the most part. They don’t know the first thing about living with the fear that they might not eat din-
ner that night. They rail against American
intervention in poverty-stricken countries, pointing out that the focus needs to be on America’s own poor, but they are the dev-ils defiantly pushing to cut wel-fare programs and programs that keep the poor fed.
I don’t need someone who doesn’t know my struggle to tell me whether or not I meet their “truly needy” qualifica-tions.
We all know that the best so-lution to poverty is to take more away from people who are liv-ing in it.
Generation Why?Too Poor to Fail Oh Wait...
Ashley LoftinColumnist
Unable to push a $20-billion cut in food stamps through the House in June, Republicans are now seeking to cut $40 billion over 10 years by tightening eligibility and cutting off able-bodied adults who don’t find or train for jobs.
Far too many Americans are on food stamps, and parts of the GOP proposal have a patina of reasonableness. But while it may motivate some idle adults to get to work, it would also punish those who simply can’t find jobs at a time when there
are three applicants for every opening.
The federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program helps buy food for those who earn up to 30% more than the federal poverty level (which is $11,490 for a single adult). The amount is modest _ an average of $5.10 per day for a single adult _ and it’s reduced as the beneficiary’s income grows.
The fastest-growing group may be able-bodied adults without dependents, which in-creased from 1.7 million in 2007 to 4.5 million in 2011. That hap-pened in part because of the surge in unemployment, par-
ticularly among younger adults, and in part because the govern-ment waived the requirement that such recipients lose their benefits after three months un-less they work at least 20 hours a week or attend a training pro-gram.
The House proposal would reinstate that cutoff, on the du-bious theory that the availabil-ity of a few dollars in food aid per day is enough to persuade people not to work. Proponents say they’re simply trying to re-store the work requirements that were the hallmark of the 1996 welfare reform act, but they’re overlooking two key
differences. While the 1996 law sought to help those in poverty overcome the barriers to em-ployment, the House bill would let states cut off food aid with-out offering recipients opportu-nities to work, get job training or perform community service. In fact, it would give states a fi-nancial incentive to do so. And the welfare reforms were aided by a booming economy, making it easier for people with few job skills to find work. The econo-my today is sputtering, caus-ing stiff competition even for low-wage, low-skill jobs. Data from before the recession show that few people stop working
after they start receiving food stamps. And states and cities have been reimposing the work requirement as their econo-mies improve. By pushing that process ahead prematurely, the House bill would force some laid-off workers off the rolls because they can’t find a job, and there are no other ways for them to satisfy the work requirement. The real solution to the high demand for food stamps is to get the economy growing faster, not to force more Americans to go hungry. Unfortunately, the former is hard to do, and the latter seems all too easy for the House GOP.
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Grand Old Party’s misguided attack on food stamps
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The Reddies walked out of Durant, Okla. with a win on Sat-urday, scoring 20 in the fourth quarter in the 44-35 comeback win against the Southeastern Oklahoma State University Sav-age Storm.
The Reddies’ offense totaled 513 yards, with 384 coming from the arm of Kevin Rodgers.
The Reddies’ defense allowed 377 passing yards and four passing touchdowns, while sti-fling the running game to just 1.4 yards per carry for a total of 39 yards.
Kevin Rodgers went 27-50 with one pick-six and one touch-down, getting sacked once.
Henderson scored first, with a 10-play, 63-yard drive ending in a two-yard touchdown run by Keaton Stigger, who was on double-duty at both linebacker and fullback.
The two teams traded three-and-outs before Henderson linebacker Tim Llewellyn re-covered a fumble by SOSU quarterback Nick Sioson at the Henderson 45-yard line.
The ensuing drive would end on a four-yard run by Stigger for a touchdown, giving the Reddies a 14-0 lead in just un-der 10 minutes.
After the out-of-bounds kick-off gave the Savage Storm good field possession at their 40-yard line, Sioson would find a man in the end zone for a touchdown just three plays later, getting them on the board at 14-7
Henderson began their next drive at their own 34-yard line, ending with a field goal from the SOSU 13 by kicker Charles Gonsalves with 1:58 left in the first quarter, to extend the Red-dies lead to 10 points, 17-7.
After both teams went score-less for most of the third quar-ter, SOSU scored on a 7-yard Sioson pass to Kaymon Farmer, cutting the Reddies lead to
three, at 17-14.Keaton Stigger got his third
rushing touchdown, and sec-ond of two yards, just under four minutes into the second half, bringing Henderson back to a 10-point lead, 24-14.
However, SOSU would score twice on the Reddies: once on a 20-yard Sioson pass to Xavier Smith, and again on a pick-six with Logan Russell intercept-ing a Kevin Rodgers pass at the goal line.
This gave SOSU their first lead of the game at 28-24.
Henderson would start the fourth quarter out with a Gon-salves field goal from 26 yards out, cutting it to a one-point deficit, 28-27.
The Reddies would get re-venge for their Rodgers sole pick on SOSU’s next drive, with
Chris King coming down with an interception at the Hender-son 34-yard line, returning it 12 yards to the 46.
On the ensuing drive, Kevin Rodgers would get his only touchdown through the air, with a 26-yard pass to Darius Davis, tying a school record in career touchdown receptions for Davis with 16.
This would give the Reddies back the lead, 34-28
After forcing an SOSU punt on the next drive, the Reddies would go on a 66-yard drive, ending in yet another 2-yard touchdown run by part-time fullback Stigger, both his and the Reddies’ last TD of the game. Henderson extended their lead to a comfortable 41-28.
SOSU wasn’t done yet, how-
ever, as Sioson got it into the end zone a fourth time, to nar-row the deficit to 41-35.
The Reddies answered right back with a clock-sucking 4:15 nine-play, 30-yard drive ending in a kick by Gonsalves, his third on the day, tying a great Ameri-can conference record.
With Henderson in the lead 44-35, they kicked the ball off with 1:51 left to play. SOSU would move 11 yards down the field before a pick by Cameron Deveraux at their 46-yard line would all but seal the fate of this one.
With the 44-35 win, the Red-dies improve to 3-0 on the year and extend their regular season win streak to 15 games.
The Allstate Insurance Com-pany and the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA)
have selected Rodgers as one of the 22 players who are be-ing honored for their countless “good works” and remarkable stories of service to others.
They are also being recog-nized by the way they repre-sent the sport’s finest in terms of character and leadership, in addition to maintaining a good academic standing.
Rodgers is now on the web-site where you can vote for him to be a team captain.
The website is promo.espn.go/contests/allstate/2013/goodworks/phase1/index.
The Reddies will return to Carpenter-Haygood Stadium to face 1-2 East Central University this Saturday.
Kickoff is set for 3 p.m. Additional reporting by Troy
Mitchell.
Henderson State University’s volleyball team won in five sets to Oklahoma Panhandle State University on Friday, Sept. 13 at the Duke Wells Center.
As their first win of the 2013 season, the Lady Reddies fought hard during the five sets against the Aggies, 25-13, 20-25, 25-22, 25-27 and 15-11.
Missing one of their top play-ers, Jessica Moss, Henderson dominated in the first set with a .469 hitting percentage and walked away with a 25-13 win.
Sarah Williams and Raegan Large began the set with a kill and ace to set the standard for the match.
The Aggies returned and made two kills to tie the game 2-2.
The Lady Reddies later took a 7-4 lead with a kill by Williams.
The Lady Reddies had a 16-10 lead when OPSU called a time-out.
Henderson came back off the break and scored the next five points, forcing the Aggies to call another timeout as they fell 20-11.
In the second set, Henderson started the match off with a kill by Williams.
Henderson soon made the score 3-1 with two more kills by Williams.
Williams had five kills for the match, while Katrina Goul-bourne contributed four.
The Lady Reddies led the second set 7-3 with a kill by Goulbourne.
OPSU did not hold back, though.
The Aggies soon brought the score back up to 12-11, Hender-son still in the lead.
OPSU took the lead 16-15 with a bad set by Taylor Thompson.
The Lady Reddies came back with a kill by Cheyenne Derr to tie the game up.
In the end of the set, the Ag-gies took the match over by winning 25-20.
Henderson did not give up in the third set.
Williams made a kill to start off the match, but the teams never got too ahead of each other to make the win.
The Lady Reddies took the first three points of the set.
Henderson took an 8-5 lead over the Aggies when Cherise
Austin made a kill from Thomp-son.
Derr made a kill to bring the score 14-8, but the Aggies went on a winning streak and won the next nine points to take the lead 17-14.
Henderon tied the game 20-
20 with a kill by Goulbourne.The Lady Reddies won the third set 25-22 against Oklaho-ma Panhandle State.
The fourth set began with the two teams going back and forth with points until Henderson took the lead 4-2 with an attack
error by the Aggies. OPSU tied the set up 5-5 with a ball han-dling error by Thompson.
Henderson quickly made the score 6-5 with a kill by Austin.
The Lady Reddies went on a winning streak as HSU made nine points in a row, including four service aces and two kills to make the score 18-9 for the fourth set.
The Aggies came back to make the score 19-16, where the Lady Reddies fought to get to 25 points.
Henderson lost during a tie-breaker in the fourth set to make the score 27-25 which meant that the two teams had to play a fifth match to 15 points.
Henderson started the fifth set with a kill by Williams.
OPSU came back for a point when Derr made a bad set.
Austin then redeemed the Henderson Lady Reddies with a kill for the team.
Henderson had a great 7-3 lead over the Aggies in the mid-dle of the match with an attack error made by Shaina Eddings.
The Lady Reddies then took a 10-3 lead over OPSU with three other attack errors and two kills, one made by Jami Jackson.
To make the score 11-6, Goul-bourne made a kill for Hender-son.
OPSU did not back down, making a comeback of 12-10, Henderson still in the lead.
The Lady Reddies then made the score 13-10 with an attack error by Sarah Koster.
To end the fifth match 15-11, Henderson took the win with a service ace.
Henderson had a total of hit-ting at .277, totaled 57 kills, and also had 11 aces and 57 digs for their win.
In the game, Thompson had 50 assists and served five aces.
Derr and Lindsey Calabrese had 13 and 15 digs to add to the game.
The Lady Reddies will next play Southern Arkansas Uni-versity in Magnolia.
The game is set to start at 7 p.m.
Additional reporting by Maile Keeney.
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Colton McCuan Staff Writer
Reddies hold on to undefeated season
SPIKE IT UP Cherise Austin (above) had 10 kills in the game against Okla-homa Panhadle State University, Friday Sept. 13. The Lady Reddies victory was their first win on their 2013 season.
Lady Reddies pull out five set win over OPSU
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Kaitlyn Kitchens Sports Editor
UNDEFEATED Henderson is now 3-0 in season and still undefeated. They played Southeastern Oklahoma State University and walked away with a 44-35 win. The Reddies offense totaled in 513 yards and the defense allowed 377 passing yards and four passing touchdowns.
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