The room was filled with random chatter as students lis-tened to each person’s opinion. Students and panel members spoke as they replied with their honest answers at the Black Student Union Forum.

The Black Student Associa-tion held a Black Student Union Forum in the Garrison last Monday. The banquet room was filled with students anx-iously waiting for the topics that were going to be discussed.

The topic at hand was the Af-rican-American community and the problems they are facing in today’s society.

The Black Student Association is a student group populated with predominantly African-American members.

The group focuses on the ad-

vancement of African-American students on campus through programming. They also sup-port their community through community service projects.

The panel consisted of seven delegates chosen to give their opinions on the discussed topics.

Kyle Jones, Arsala Khan, Pae Vantrice, Jordan Williams, Jeremy Smalls, Rafael Powell and Jeremy Lee completed the panel.

Each person chimed in at their own rate as the topics were given to them by the moderator, Mariah Brown.

Mariah Brown, BSA president, acted as the moderator of the program.

Brown’s job was to make sure that everyone stayed on the right track and that the conversations taking place were not too long and did not

get out of hand. At times, the moderating

became difficult for her when the conversations became serious.

“The aspect that was difficult was being able to control everyone’s opinion because you have people in the audience and people on the panel that have different views,” Brown said.

Race was also a big part of the discussion that night.

The tension of the situation could be felt throughout the room.

“I think it got tense when we started discussing that we as black people had to change how we are to fit into today’s world,” Kalayah Anderson, se-nior sociology major, said.

The students were asked to take part in the conversations. Many were sheepish or scared

to say what they felt at first, but after the conversation took off they began to identify with what was being said.

“I identified because some of the things that they said I also have said myself, so it made me want to do better,” Charde Wade, senior education major, said. The panel was also very expressive when they were asked questions. They were very brutally honest when they were questioned. Many people had different reasons for join-ing the panel.

“It’s nice to let your voice be heard and see people’s different opinions,” Rafael Powell, senior music education major, said.

The overall reaction to the program was a success. Many people felt that it made somewhat of a difference, but there were changes that many people felt needed to be made.

The crowd was predominately African-American.

“If I could make a change, I would reach out to other ethnic groups,” Powell said. “We need other races there to voice their opinions.”

According to some attend-ees, the program helped them to think a little different. They left more knowledgeable in some areas.

Many people felt that they opened up a gateway into changing things in the future.

Brown hopes that all people who came left with one impor-tant piece of information.

“Learn to express your opin-ion to your fullest capacity,” Brown said. “If you have a view on something express it in a way that people will under-stand, and in a way that you will understand that you are equally genuine about your view.”

The anti-abortion campaign is making advances in the state of Arkansas. Three bills further restricting the circumstances under which a woman can get an abortion have been pro-posed by both the State House of Representatives and the State Senate.

The Senate bill would keep taxes from being used to pay for abortions. The first House bill aims to stop all abortions if a fetal heartbeat can be detected and the last bill would ban abortions on or after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

On March 4, 2011, Rep. Andy Mayberry, a representa-tive in the Arkansas House of Representatives and a Hen-derson graduate, proposed House Bill 1037, also known as the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. This bill would ban performing abor-tions on pregnancies that were 20 or more weeks along. After a deputy from the office of At-torney General Dustin McDan-iel spoke out against the bill, it failed to make it past the House Committee on Public Health, lacking only two votes.

“A bill similar to this one was passed in Nebraska a couple years back,” Mayberry said. “I love this piece of legislation.”

This year, the bill was re-pro-posed to the committee, and passed.

In the bill, there shows evi-dence that at 16 weeks of preg-

nancy, the unborn child has pain receptors throughout its body, and by 20 weeks, those receptors are linked to the brain of the baby.

One of the major disagree-ments with the pain issue is that many doctors believe that pain cannot be felt unless there is a full functioning cerebral cortex.

However, Mayberry fights against this in his bill, saying that children born with hydra-nencephaly, or lacking most of the cerebral cortex, are still ca-pable of feeling pain.

When painful stimuli is applied to an unborn child of 20 weeks or later, the child recoils away from the stimuli, and there is also an increase in the fetus’ stress hormones that are known as the stress response.

Mayberry’s bill also states that fetal anesthesia is used when surgery is performed on unborn children.

There is some debate, however, about whether or not the government should be involved with such an individually personal issue.

Some students, like Noel Garling, a junior mass media major and pro-choice advocate, believe that the government shouldn’t be involved.

“Is it okay to tell a woman she can’t have an abortion, yet the lives of people on life support are entrusted to those with power of attorney?” Garling asked. “I believe that it is a woman’s choice about what she does with her own body. At the end of the day, if a woman wants to go get an abortion, then she should have that right.”

The opposition to government interference is not unknown to the pro-life students on campus.

“I feel that the government doesn’t need a say because it’s a personal choice and the more control we give them, the more they are going to invade our privacy,” said Kim Davidson, a senior nursing major and pro-choice student.

Current law states that abor-tions can be performed when the fetus is a result of rape or incest. The new bill will not in-clude the exemption for rape or incest for anyone.

“I think that it’s very unfortunate, but it’s still not endangering anybody,” Davidson said. “My only exception would be if it was endangering the health of the mother. In that case (referring to rape and incest), I would just say adoption.”

The bill does include an ex-emption for abortions to occur if there is a direct threat to the health of the mother. However, if a mother subjects herself to harm in an attempt to attain an abortion, that is not covered un-der the new bill and would be considered illegal.

Mayberry’s bill specifies several times that the exemp-tions “shall not be deemed to exist if it is based on a claim or diagnosis that the woman will engage in conduct that she in-tends to result in her death or in substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function.”

In short, a mother can’t harm herself in any way just to get an abortion after 20 weeks of preg-nancy.

This bill is not merely just a political move for Mayberry. This bill strikes home for him in a way that most do not know.

“This bill is really personal to me because a lot of abortions are due to a prenatal diagno-sis of a disability,” said May-berry. “92 percent of unborn babies diagnosed with Down’s Syndrome are aborted and 87 percent diagnosed with Spina Bifida are aborted.”

Mayberry and his wife, Julie Mayberry, have four children. Their second child, Katie, was born with Spina Bifida. Spina Bifida is when there is a gap in the neural tube that surrounds the spinal cord. Children with Spina Bifida often experience different levels of lower body paralysis.

“This is something I have felt strongly about for many years,” said Mayberry, who is also a member of the National Rights of Life Association.

In a study observed by Mayberry, of 1,200 women that went in to get an abortion at or after 20 weeks of pregnancy, over half decided not to have an abortion after they were notified that their child can feel pain at that point. However, that still left 600 pregnancies to be terminated.

“I honestly feel that women that want an abortion aren’t really thinking about how their baby feels,” Garling said. “Most people that get an abortion are doing it for themselves because if you feel that you can’t give your baby your all at that point, then maybe abortion is the best thing you can do for that baby.”

Garling also wondered about

the people who have children, but aren’t there while that child is growing up.

“So many things come up from a parent not being in that child’s life,” Garling said. “Granted, there are some success stories, but what about the people that have the child and then really don’t want it, like Casey Anthony?”

Although the bill is surround-ed by many questions pertain-ing to morality and privacy, Mayberry is confident that the bill will go the distance.

Last Monday, Feb. 4, May-berry presented his bill to the full House floor and it passed with 75 ‘yes’ votes. The bill will now be proposed to the Senate Public Health Committee and if passed there, will be presented to the full Senate floor. The bill could go to the Senate Commit-tee as early as this Wednesday.

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The Grand Lodge of Arkan-sas celebrates their 175th an-niversary with the Historic Ar-kansas Museum.

On the opening nights of their celebration, last Friday and Sat-urday, the lodge was granted the presence of one of the na-tion’s oldest artifacts, President George Washington’s inaugural Bible.

This 246-year-old Bible, printed in 1767, was the center piece of the exhibit, beneath a security glass and protected by five freemasons from St. John’s Lodge No. 1 in New York.

On the opening night, the museum was filled to capacity. Among those in attendance was Mike Beebe, governor of Ar-kansas.

“A treat for Arkansas,” Gov-ernor Mike Beebe said. “We’re lucky.”

The Bible was a gift from the masons of St. John’s Lodge No. 1. Washington was a mason himself.

St. John’s Lodge No. 1 was founded in 1757 in lower Man-hattan. Thirteen years later, in 1770, it burned. Everything in-cluding the Bible they used was lost. The master at the time had this Bible, and he gave it to the lodge.

“The inaugural Bible is a su-per deluxe version,” Joel Ginn, past Master of St. Johns Lodge No. 1, said.

Ginn told the story of how Washington came to use the Bible during the inauguration.

“They went to the inaugura-

tion, they didn’t have a Bible, the masons ran down and got their Bible,” Ginn said. “They saved the day.”

With Washington having been such a great strategist, Ginn doesn’t believe the story is quite accurate.

“They knew how many hors-es they needed and how many bales of hay they needed, for him to forget something that isn’t a requirement to have at the inauguration doesn’t sound quite accurate,” Ginn said

The story also says that as soon as he got the Bible, he opened it somewhere in the middle. Ginn also believes that is inaccurate.

“The Bible was opened at Genesis 49, where Jacob bless-es his sons,” Ginn said. “At the time, New York was the capi-tal, and you have the other 12 states, so that was symbolic of

that.”The inaugural Bible was

never used in a church. It is a non-denominational Bible. President Washington did not want one church to feel that their church was the church of the nation.

Five presidents have used this Bible to be sworn into of-fice; President George Wash-ington, President Warren G. Harding,  President Dwight D. Eisenhower,  President Jimmy Carter and President  George H. W. Bush.

The Bible has also been used for the funeral processions of President Washington and President Abraham Lincoln.

Each president who used it to be sworn in received two repli-cas of the Bible; one to sign for the Presidential Library and one for the masons.

“It’s a great honor [to be one

of the protectors of the Bible],” Ginn said. “You can feel the energy and electricity in the Bible every time you handle the Bible, even with gloves on. I’ve slept with the Bible before to keep it protected. The first time I stayed the night with the Bible, I couldn’t sleep. I heard every creek, I had the door bolted, I had a chair up against the door, but I still couldn’t sleep. I didn’t want to be known as the man who lost the Bible.”

Also shown was President George Washington’s family Bible. This Bible is 221 years old. Along with the family Bible was President Washington’s masonic aprons and suits.

“Incredible, not just for ma-sons but for everybody, just to see the book our first president took his oath of office on,” Dick Browning, Librarian of the Grand Lodge of Arkansas, said.

The museum also has arti-facts of famous Arkansas ma-sons such as Albert Pike of Little Rock.

“We’re pleased to have both President Washington’s inau-gural and family Bibles,” Swan-nee Bennett, deputy and chief curator, said. “It is part of our museum’s mission to not only interpret Arkansas cultural his-tory, but our nation’s cultural history, and we thought this was a marvelous opportunity not only to celebrate Grand Lodge of Arkansas’s 175th anni-versary, but to celebrate Ameri-ca’s foremost mason, America’s first president, George Wash-ington.”

The exhibition will continue until July 12th.

When Kim Hannah was a Henderson mass media major, she was unsure exactly what she wanted to do after college. All that changed when a teach-er told her about the Ronald E. McNair program, which is designed to help students seek post-graduate education.

Now, four and a half years after her 2007 graduation, Han-nah holds a masters degree from Syracuse University and is pursuing a doctorate at the Uni-versity of Maryland, where she is a graduate teaching assistant. This summer, she hopes to in-tern at the Smithsonian Institu-tion in a program that educates the public about African Ameri-can history.

“Getting into the McNair pro-gram changed my life,” Hannah said.

Officials on campus have announced the opening of 11 spots in the McNair Scholars Program, and the applications are coming in.

The McNair Scholars Pro-gram was created in memo-rium of Dr. Ronald E. McNair,

an astronaut who passed away in the 1986 Challenger space shuttle explosion.

Some benefits affiliated with this program are academic ad-vising, research assistance, a research stipend of up to $2,800 and much more.

However, to be a McNair scholar, you must fulfill a num-ber of requirements such as being of sophomore or junior status and having plans to pur-sue a Ph.D or have a 3.0 GPA, according to Kyle Jones, pro-gram coordinator of the Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program.

“Many people will be eligible for the program and do not re-alize it,” Kyle said. “Don’t can-cel yourself out of the running without trying.”

Many students should par-ticipate and try in order to qual-ify for the opportunity.

Being a McNair scholar can bring an array of benefits to the table of choices on how to go about college careers.

This program will provide many opportunities for stu-dents to learn and take in more knowledge to extend research abilities and progress through college in order to graduate

with the best possible outcome. “It is very intriguing to

watch scholars who enter the program with very little infor-mation about research and the graduate school process,” Wanda Hunters, assistant di-rector of the McNair Scholars Program, said.

Students in the McNair pro-gram are granted access to spe-cial research tools that might otherwise be unavailable to them.

Also, McNair scholars attend many different conferences that are at local, state, regional and national levels, which are funded by the program itself.

One success story that has occurred due to this program is that of Akaylah Jones, senior music major, here at Hender-son.

According to Akaylah, the program has provided her with beneficial advice and training from workshops, which helped her in learning research meth-ods, the IRB process, funding graduate school and the GRE.

“The whole staff is like family and is a big part of my support system,” Akaylah said. “They’re encouraging and always avail-

able.”She has formally decided that

once she has finished a year in AmeriCorps of City Year, she hopes follow a path towards getting her masters in public service from the Clinton School for Public Service or public ad-ministration from the Univer-sity of Tennessee.

The McNair Scholars Pro-gram’s aim is to lead students in the right direction in hopes that they will continue to go to college and get their masters degree.

The program in a whole has been a big win for the adminis-trators and students.

According to Hunters, many students have pursued their masters or even their doctor-ate.

“This in itself is a success story,” Hunters said.

With a success rate such as this, the McNair Scholars Pro-gram proves beneficial for stu-dents.

Students could be just as proud in themselves and the program as others, such as Hunters, who have been in-volved in this stride toward greatness.

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Lindsey SimsStaff Writer

News BriefsStarting on Monday, Feb.

11, Phi Beta Lambda will be hosting a free tax consulta-tion with H&R Block. Every day this week from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm, there will be rep-resentatives available in the Garrison to help students with their taxes.

On Tuesday, Feb. 12, the Henderson baseball team will play Lyon College at Clyde Berry Field. The game will start at noon.

There will be a Staff Senate meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 13, from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the Wilson Room in the Gar-rison.

Wednesday, Feb. 13, is Fac-ulty Appreciation Day at Hen-derson. Starting at 11 a.m., Phi Beta Lambda will hold a program to show all the facul-ty that all their hard work has not gone unnoticed. Join Phi Beta Lambda in the Garrison Banquet Room to celebrate.

The men’s and women’s swimming and diving team will be heading out to Cleve-land, Miss. for the NSISC Championships. This will be an all day event for both teams.

The Arkansas Blood Insti-tute will be taking blood do-nations starting Wednesday, Feb. 13, in the Garrison Day Gym. The blood drive will be-gin at 10 a.m. and last until 4 p.m. The blood drive will be open until 4 p.m. on Thurs-day, Feb. 14. Students must bring their student ID.

There will be a movie play-

ing in the Lecture Hall on Wednesday, Feb. 13. Come out at 7:30 p.m. to see “Lin-coln.” If you can’t make it on Wednesday, the movie will be playing again on Friday, Feb. 15, at 7:30 p.m.

Community classes will be held on Thursday, Feb. 14, in the Reynolds Science Cen-ter, room 127. This session will be called “Following the Stars to Santiago.” Classes will begin at 4 p.m. and go for an hour. These classes are open to the public, and there is no cover cost.

Both Henderson basket-ball teams will be going up against Harding University in Searcy on Thursday, Feb. 14. The Lady Reddies will play at 5:30 p.m. and the men’s game will follow shortly after at 7 p.m.

There will be a show in the Reynolds Science Center planetarium on Thursday, Feb. 14. “Saturn, Jewel of the Heavens” begins promptly at 7 p.m. Admission will be $1 for Henderson or Ouchita students with a school ID. For all others, it will be a $3 cover charge.

On Thursday, Feb. 14, the theatre department will perform one of their spring shows, “Doubt,” in Arkansas Hall. The show will start at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $8 or free with a student ID.

Just in case you miss the Thursday showing of “Doubt,” there will be anoth-er viewing on Saturday, Feb. 16, at 7:30 p.m. Prices are the same.

The baseball team will play again on Saturday, Feb. 15, against Southeastern Okla-homa State. The game will be at 2 p.m. in Durant, Okla.

The baseball team will wrap up the weekend in Okla-homa with another game against Southeastern Okla-homa State on Sunday, Feb. 16. The game will begin at noon. Both games are double headers as well as part of the Great American Conference.

McNair program has 11 openings next school year

Jairius SandersStaff Writer

HSU international students prepare for Food Bazaar

The International Food Bazaar and many more activi-ties during International Focus Week are quickly approaching.

The International Focus Week starts on March 4 and goes through March 8.

This year’s theme is “The Im-migrant Experience.”

“Immigration is a big topic,” Drew Smith, director of inter-national programs, said. “We want to focus on different ex-periences immigrants went through to come to the U.S.”

Many people attend Hender-son from all over the nation and world.

The International Focus Week is all about the topic for that given year and allows the international students to show their culture, food and recre-ational games.

Many international students look forward to this event to tell their friends about their lives back at home.

“It is a multiculture thing to express food, dance and cul-ture,” said Aziz Alzaaqi, fresh-men from Saudi Arabia.

Each spring semester, Hen-derson schedules a specific week in March for the Interna-tional Focus Week.

“It’s a week we set aside each year to focus on the theme,” Smith said.

There will be recreational games from each of the stu-dents’ home countries that they will teach to the willing partici-pants who show up to the event.

Games they have often played in the past vary from games of physical skill and athleticism to games of strategy and mental skill.

Each year they also conduct a panel discussion concluding

the theme. This year the international

program will host immigrants residing in Arkadelphia, which will include faculty and staff members from Henderson.

What Smith has done in past years for the panelists was in-vite people close to the topic from outside campus.

This year, considering the theme, Smith wants to high-light our international faculty and staff.

The faculty and staff mem-bers represent many different cultures and countries from all over the world.

The panel discussion is ten-tatively scheduled for Tuesday, March 5 at 7 p.m.

The panel discussion will be in the Lecture Hall in the Gar-rison Center.

The biggest event that takes place during International Fo-cus Week is the food bazaar.

The food bazaar is so popular that most students think of it as an individual event and not a part of the International Focus Week.

“It is the most well attended event besides athletics on this campus,” Smith said. “It’s one way for the international students to express culture through food, dress and enter-tainment.”

The food bazaar provides a view into many different cul-tures for the average college student.

Many students who attend the food bazaar during the In-ternational Focus Week leave with a new perspective and a new view on different places, cultures and people across the world.

“It shows the whole campus what we do,” Mindy Audu-ong, sophomore International House resident, said.

Zachary NogaStaff Writer

Photo by Jairius Sanders

HISTORICAL FLASHBACK The Inaugural Bible of George Washington was brought to Little Rock to be placed on display, temporarily.

Valentine’s Day for a college student can break the bank when it comes to going out on the town. Luckily, couples can trade in an expensive entree and blockbuster for some pop-corn and their Netflix instant queue.

The billion dollar company comes to the rescue with their cheap online streaming that offers a variety of movies, in-cluding a number of great date night movies.

Here are five movies on Net-flix that will work great for you and your valentine.

She’s All ThatThis 90s adaptation of “My

Fair Lady” tells the story of two friends, played by Fred-die Prince Jr. and Paul Walker, who make a bet that one of them can take the geekiest girl in school and turn her into the prom queen. Things get messy when one of them begins to fall in love with the subject of their bet.

Curl up and let the nostalgia take over as you watch one of the best romantic comedies of the 90s.

Sleepless in SeattleNo Valentine’s Day movie list

would be complete without a movie where Tom Hanks falls in love with Meg Ryan. “Sleep-less in Seattle” is easily one of the best.

A few months after his moth-er dies, Jonah Baldwin calls into a radio talk show to try and get his dad, Sam, played by Hanks, a new wife. After hear-ing this, hundreds of women begin responding to the call and this gets the attention of a Baltimore reporter, Annie Reed, played by Ryan.

This inspires her to write a letter suggesting that the two of them meet at the top of the Empire State Building on Val-entine’s Day. Sam must decide whether to continue grieving for his wife or take a leap of faith and fall for someone he has never met.

SubmarineThis indie love movie is the

classic story of boy meets girl. Oliver Tate is a 15-year-old who is head-over-hills in love with a girl named Jordana Bevan. Oli-ver’s dream comes true when Jordana kisses him in an at-tempt to make her ex-boyfriend

jealous, but when it fails the two end up dating.

Oliver must now juggle his new girlfriend, his depressed dad and his mom, who may be having an affair.

This coming-of-age story will leave you feeling good and makes for a fun and different date night movie.

CluelessWhile it may be a chick flick,

“Clueless” is a classic 90s ro-mance movie that everyone can enjoy.

Cher, played by Alicia Silver-stone, is the most popular girl in school who, like many in high school, is just looking for the love of her life. When she isn’t doing this, she spends her

time giving fashion advice and playing match-maker. Cher soon finds herself on a journey of self-discovery and learns that there is more to life than clothes and getting a license.

What makes this movie so great is seeing so many actors like Paul Rudd, Donald Faison and Brittany Murphy before they made it big.

AdventurelandIn between her Twilight gigs,

Kristen Stewart landed a few roles that didn’t involve her fall-ing in love with vampires. In “Adventureland,” she is just a girl who Jesse Eisenberg pines after one summer while work-ing for a rundown amusement park.

Eisenberg is a college gradu-ate with big plans.

Those plans are ruined due to his lack of money, and now he must work his way into the real world.

While there, he learns about life, love and heartbreak with people just like him.

This off-beat romantic dram-edy is a movie that deserves a watch, and what better time than Valentine’s Day?

There is no need to waste your money on expensive din-ners and fancy gifts.

So get your popcorn and chocolates ready, and call up that instant queue. No matter what you watch, remember to have a Happy Valentine’s day.

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Image by JD Roberts

Recommended Valentine’s Day films for couplesJD RobertsStaff Writer

(QUEUE)PID’S ARROW JD’s Netflix queue recommendations.

The glitzy Mardi Gras Krewe of Endymion rolled its parade and super float through the Su-perdome on Saturday night and Kelly Clarkson performed amid purple, green and gold lights in the first major event at the venue since the Super Bowl blackout.

While the black tie ball was no-where near the size of the cham-pionship game a week ago, it was a test for dome officials and the stadium’s electricity provider, Entergy, which has come under scrutiny since the lights went dark for more than a half hour.

The bright stadium lights were dimmed for the ball, but there were no signs of any electrical problems.

Darin Coker and his wife, Jean-nine, wondered whether the ball would be affected in any way af-ter the outage.

“I got my dress six months ago,” she said. “I was hoping they would get it fixed before tonight, and I was glad to hear they did.”

The couple, both former New Orleans residents, drove in for the weekend from their home in Ruston, La., to attend the ball and catch other parades with friends and family. Darin Coker said he loved the sight of the dome’s ex-terior, all aglow in purple, green and gold lights — traditional col-ors of Mardi Gras — and hoped outsiders wouldn’t see the black-out as a black eye for a city still recovering from Hurricane Ka-trina.

“I was watching the game from home, and I was like, oh no, we were doing so good. The city looked so good,” he said. “The city has come so far, and I hate to hear people say, ‘Oh look at them, they just can’t get it to-gether.’”

Entergy said the blackout ap-peared to have been caused by a problem with a device the com-

pany installed to prevent power outages. It’s still unclear whether the device had a design flaw or a manufacturing defect, causing an outage to about half of the stadium during the NFL’s cham-pionship game between the Balti-more Ravens and San Francisco 49ers.

Entergy removed the equip-ment that failed, “and we’re looking forward to hosting the Endymion ball,” said Eric Eagan, spokesman for the Superdome.

The dome looked much differ-ent than a week ago, set up for a crowd of more than 30,000. The turf was covered with a floor and tables were set up where the field usually is.

The only hiccup Saturday oc-curred when the Endymion float had trouble negotiating a turn along its parade route on the way to the dome.

The 330-foot float — the larg-est-ever for Mardi Gras — had to be separated and then re-at-tached to resume its journey.

The parade has 25 floats that roll through the dome, as revel-ers aboard them toss beads and trinkets to ball attendees gath-ered at tables and lower-level sta-dium seats.

Clarkson, the first winner of TV’s “American Idol,” was the parade’s celebrity grand mar-shal. Her hits include “Because of You” and “Since You’ve Been Gone.” She is one of several stars serving as celebrity riders in this year’s Carnival parades.

On Sunday, actor G.W. Bailey of TNT’s “Major Crimes” and the “Police Academy” movies is scheduled to reign as the king of the Bacchus parade.

On Monday, actor Gary Sinise and New Orleans musicians Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews and Harry Connick Jr. will ride in the Krewe of Orpheus parade with Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning actress Mariska Hargi-tay.

Superdome event first since Super Bowl blackout

Stacey PlaisanceAssociated Press

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Reddies lose the turnover battle and the game

The Henderson Reddies (10-10 overall, 5-9 Great American Conference) were at home Thursday as they went up against Southern Nazarene Crimson Storm (11-9, 7-7 GAC).

Shooting struggles and turnovers were the big difference in the game, as the Reddies fell to the Crimson Storm, 65-49.

Henderson shot only 37 percent from the field, 23 percent from behind-the-arc and 66 percent from the free-throw line.

Two players for Henderson were in double figures for scoring. Guard Melvin Haynes and forward Andrew Ensley had 11 points and 13 points respectively.

Henderson had 20 turnovers, 16 in the first half, and SNU capitalized on the give-a-ways scoring 19 points off turnover.

Although the Crimson Storm was short-handed, having only six players, they passed the ball around and executed on quality shots to get the win.

“We played hard,” Adam Bohac, SNU head coach, said. “We stayed out of foul trouble, and it was a great team effort.”

Three of six players for the Crimson Storm were in double figures in scoring.

Quan Conner, guard, led all scorers with 26 points.

Garrett Butler, guard, provided 17 points and Trey Mohair, forward, dished in 10 points as well.

The first half was very low in scoring for both teams. Missed shots and intense defense were the reasons.

The first points if the game didn’t come until the 17:20 mark, when Henderson’s Cory

Henshall, forward, tipped a missed shot from Denzel Lyles, guard, getting a quick 2-0 lead over the Crimson Storms.

Henderson would take the first five points of the game with 16:46 left in the first half.

Southern Nazarene’s Conner would put the first points on the board for his team with a 3-pointer, SNU trailing 5-3.

Both teams were trading baskets back and forth through most of the first half with scoring droughts and heavy defense coming from both teams.

With 2:10 left in the half, Haynes converted a 3-pointer after a missed three from teammate Lyres and an offensive rebound from center Matt Nicholson.

On Crimson Storm’s next possession, Conner gives his team the lead after successfully driving in the paint and making a lay-up while making contact.

He converted his free throw, giving his team a 21-20 lead.

SNU finished the half on a 9-1 run, having a 27-21 lead over the Reddies.

In the first half, SNU took advantage of Henderson’s mistakes, having 11 points off turnovers.

Dwayne Paul, Henderson assistant coach, described the first half with two words: “Not good.”

Both teams were struggling from the field in the first half.

Both teams shot under 35 percent from the field, both teams also shot under 35 percent from the 3-point line.

Henderson did better than SNU from the free-throw line.

The Reddies shot 60 percent while the Crimson Storm shot 40 percent.

In the beginning of the second half, both teams came out shooting much better as they were going back and forth

within the first five minutes of the half.

Henderson managed to trim Southern Nazarene’s lead to two with a pair of freethrows from Ensley.

With 15:49 left to go in the game, SNU’s Conner hit a contested 3-point shot to have a 36-31 lead over the Reddies.

The 3-pointer from Conner started a 14-4 run in the Crimson Storm’s favor.

During SNU’s run,

Henderson turned the ball over four times.

They only attempted two shots from the field.

Henderson could never spark a run of their own as they trailed the rest of the half in double digit, down as many as 19 points.

The Reddies shot better in the second half, shooting 43 percent but only hitting one 3-pointer in the half, going 1-7 from behind-the-arc.

The Crimson Storm improved on shooting in the second half as well.

They shot 52 percent and made seven 3-pointers on 16 attempts.

Henderson looks to turn things around as they head to Searcy on Thursday, Feb. 14, where they will face Harding University.

Tip-off is at 7:30 p.m.Additional reporting by Troy

Mitchell and Sarah Willams.

Michael DayStaff Writer

Photo by Ryan Klare

WORK HARD Henderson Reddie Denzel Lyles moves the ball down the court in the Southern Nazarene game, where the Reddies fell 65-49.

Lady Reddies fail to fight off Southern Nazarene

Henderson’s Lady Reddies (10-10 overall, 5-9 Great American Conference) went up against Southern Nazarene Crimson Storms (11-9, 8-6 GAC) on Thursday at Duke Wells Center.

Despite Destiny Smith, senior, having an excellent game, setting a career high in points, the Lady Reddies took a loss in Thursday’s match-up, losing 65-53.

“Destiny is a phenomenal player,” Kaci Bailey, coach, said. “She has done all I’ve asked for throughout the season.”

Poor shooting from the field and missed opportunities at the free throw line is what led to the devastating lost.

“We can’t win if we are not hitting free throws,” Bailey said.

Henderson shot 30 percent from the field, 66 percent from the line, and only converted one shot from behind the arc while attempting 12.

For the Lady Reddies, Smith and Krystal Beachum, junior, were the leaders for the team, contributing almost 80 percent of the team’s 53 points.

Smith had a career high of 28 points and seven rebounds, while Beachum provided 14 points and six rebounds.

SNU’s leaders, Aminita Fall, center, and Oumoul Thiam, guard, were very vocal through the entire game and showed their desire to win.

Fall finished with 16 points and an astonishing 24 rebounds while Thiam led the team in scoring with 24 points.

Henderson never grasped on to a lead throughout the entire game and only tied the ball game up once, when it was 2-2 with 19:29 left to go in the first half.

SNU started off hot. They began the game on a 10-4 run, taking an early lead with 16:31 left to go in the first half.

Henderson’s Smith and Beachum provided the first six points for their team as

they attempt to keep the Lady Reddies in the ball game.

Jalisa Benjamin, freshman, would come off the bench and pick up the slack for Henderson as Smith got into early foul trouble.

Benjamin converted a lay-up to cut SNU’s lead down to 2 with 13:31 remaining in the first period.

SNU’s Kirsten Milster gave Crimson Storm a 4-point lead after she grabbed an offensive rebound and made a jump shot.

Beachum responded by coming up the court and sinking a jump shot of her own, SNU leading 12-10.

At the 12:10 mark, SNU started a humongous run, scoring 17 unanswered points.

This scoring outburst from them held Henderson scoreless for 10 minutes.

Seven turnovers and many missed shots occurred during Henderson’s scoring drought.

Henderson’s drought came to an end with 3:34 left in the first half when Beachum drove in for a difficult lay-up.

That started a spark for Henderson as they finished the half on a 12-3 run, cutting the lead to 32-22 at halftime.

Although Smith was in foul trouble, she came back in the game.

She scored 10 of the last 12 points for the Henderson Lady Reddies in the first half.

In the first half, the Reddies could not convert a 3-pointer, going 0-4 from the 3-point line

and only 8-21 through the entire field.

They also did badly from the free-throw line, going 6-11.

SNU sunk three 3-pointers and went 13-35 from the field in the first half.

They were 75 percent from the free throw line, going 3-4.

At the beginning of the second half, both teams traded baskets as Henderson was trying to overcome SNU’s big lead.

With 14:10 left to go in the game, SNU’s Thiam converted a lay-up, giving the Crimson Storm a 44-30 advantage over the Lady Reddies.

At the 12:05 mark, Henderson’s Vanessa Pieper was sent to the free-throw line.

She converted 2-2 from there and that began a run for the Lady Reddies.

Henderson went on a 16-4 run to trim the lead down to four with 5:21 remaining in the game.

But SNU came back with a run if their own.

The Crimson Storm went on a 9-0 run to increase their lead to 13 with 2:28 left in the game.

That run was too large to overcome for the Lady Reddies and with time not on their side, it was too late for another rally.

“We have to forget about this game and focus on the next,”

Bailey said. “I will not give up on this season or the girls. I love them.”

The Lady Reddies will travel to Searcy for their next game as

they take on Harding University on Thursday Feb. 14. Tip-off is set for 5:30 p.m.

Additional reporting by Troy Mitchell and Jarius Sanders.

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DEFEND TILL THE END Henderson’s Lady Reddie Jill Temples passes the ball to teammates in the game against Southern Nazarene, where the Lady Reddies fell 65-53.

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