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Volume 54 Issue 2 Serving Trinity Valley Community College since 1972www.tvcc.edu/newsjournal

October 29, 2010

Homecoming Queens

Former TVCC students, including several first-gen-eration Cardettes, reunited with friends from the past over finger foods and drinks Oct. 22 at the Athens Fresh-water Fish Hatchery for the TVCC Alumni Meet and Greet. The highlight of the event occurred toward the end of the evening as the 1960s Cardettes were asked to gather up front and per-

form the “Cardette Bounce.” They lined up with laughter and enthusiasm as they joy-ously “bounced” away.

The Student Union Build-ing was filled to standing-room-only capacity the morning of Oct. 23 as cur-rent and former TVCC stu-dents and their families gathered for the 2010 Home-coming Reception. The focus of the ceremony was to cel-

Cardettes: 50 years and countingBy Rebecca Kling-Editor

More on Cardettes, page 12Cardettes show their style and grace at all Trinity Valley Community College football games.

Photo: Chardae Haynes/News-Journal


Campus News

Feature

Sports

Entertainment

Cardinal spa dayTVCC students get waxed, painted and primmed for homecoming. Page 3

‘Brownies Against Breast Cancer’An Athens Middle School student sold brownies to help raise money for “Race for the Cure.” Page 7

Bad weather can’t stop CardsDespite a bad weather de-lay, Cards get homecoming win over Cisco. Page 8

RumpelstiltskinArea elementary school students previewed the theatre’s production of Rumpelstiltskin. 0

From left to right: Chatney Cathcart (Athens), Emily McNeil (Palestine), Meredith Ann Thomas (Health Sci-ence Center) and Paige Moore (Terrell) were crowned homecoming queens Oct. 23 during pre-game cer-emonies at Trinity Valley Community College’s football game against Cisco.

Campus News News-Journal www.tvcc.edu/newsjournal October 29, 2010

TVCC News-JournalThe TVCC News-Journal is a monthly publication and is produced by the journalism students and TVCC’s Athens campus. Views expressed in the editorial section are the opinions of the writers and do not reflect the views of the TVCC adminis-tration. We welcome your letters and suggestions. The TVCC News-Journal reserves the right to edit your letters for grammar. Letters to the editor can be mailed to 100 Cardinal Drive, Athens, TX 75751; or e-mailed to [email protected].

StaffEditors: Rebecca Kling and Thomas MercerGraphics Coordinator: Misty BowmanNews Editor: Deliance MooreSports Editor: Chris YorkOnline Editor: Lindsey CullumPhoto Editor: Erin GassReporters: Fernando Smith, Renan Zorer, Tonya Bonsal and Camesia CumbyCopy Editor: Jodi GuytonAdviser: Deidre Jones

What do pumpkins and ping-pong have in common? The answer may surprise you.

In an interview with TVCC president, Dr. Glen-don Forgey, I discovered that not only is he pleasant and easygoing, but he is also a pump-kin carving, ping-pong playing pro.

His pumpkin-carving hobby began in Tallahas-see, Fla., during his tenure at Tallahassee Com-munity College when a staff member hosted a pumpkin carving party. According to Forgey, it was something he had never tried before. He got a real pumpkin, cleaned and prepared it for carv-ing, and carved his design. It lasted only about a week in his office before shrinking and shriv-eling. After all his hard work, and because he had so enjoyed carving the pumpkin, he decided to use polyurethane pumpkins instead of real pumpkins to avoid having the pumpkins deterio-rate so quickly. The polyurethane pumpkins are somewhat like a thick and stiff Styrofoam shell that he is able to carve his intricate designs into.

After seeing some of the intricate pumpkins Forgey had carved, it is hard to believe he didn’t have a background in art. Forgey confided that he is not very artistic at all.

“If you look at my transcript in college, no art classes. And in high school, no art classes,” For-gey laughingly admitted. Regarding carving the pumpkins, he said, “If I can do it, anybody can.”

Forgey described the carving process as find-ing a template, usually a logo or design, that he can copy and tape to the pumpkin. After this,

he uses a pushpin to outline the design onto the pumpkin and then he can carve the image into the pumpkin. The tricky part, he said, is de-ciding what to carve and what to leave. Forgey added that once he has a pattern picked out, he can visualize how he wants it to look and what he wants to show, as far as the light coming through.

The first pumpkins Forgey carved were for friends at Tallahassee Community College. Once he made it to the TVCC campus, he carved a couple of pumpkins with the cardinal logo. One of those can be found on his secretary, Jane Black’s, desk. The other version of the cardinal pumpkin can be found in the registrar’s office in the administration building. Forgey also carved a pumpkin for the TVCC music department and an excellent rendition of Johnny Depp as Cap-tain Jack Sparrow for Mary Nicholson, the TVCC Director of Institutional Advancement. Addition-ally, he has carved pumpkins for the Athens and Malakoff Independent School Districts, Baton Rouge Community College and most recently, the first pumpkin with color added, the Rutgers Scarlet Knight, which is in his office.

Another hobby of Forgey’s is playing ping-pong. He said he sometimes goes to the Student Union Building to play a game of ping-pong with students, as he shows me his ping-pong pad-dles, which looked well used. Forgey said he will usually participate in the first round of a ping-pong tournament in the SUB and give everybody

a loss, but he quit competing. “I wanted the stu-dents to have a chance to win,” he said as he chuckled.

Now you know about our pumpkin-carving, ping-pong playing president.

President Forgey’s pumpkin creations can be found throughout the Orval Pirtle Administration Building.

By Rebecca Kling-Editor

During a recent board meeting on Sept. 27, Forgey stated that some items of dis-cussion included a budget adoption for the upcoming year, information regarding legislative actions and the capital improve-ments budget.

When asked about the new residential hall, Forgey said that TVCC has had to turn away more than 200 students interested in on-campus housing over the last couple of years. The current room capacity is about 350. The decision to build a new residen-tial hall was based on the fact that local off-campus housing is not sufficient; and the additional hall will offer TVCC students a more collegiate experience, as well as more affordable housing. It is expected to house 150 more students when complete.

Students who have not met Dr. Forgey may have the opportunity to at any time during the semester when he pops into classes to make sure the professors have

everything they need and to see how the learning environment is going. He can also be found interacting with students at the SUB or walking the campus on Fridays as time permits.


Photo: Erin Gass/News-Journal

TVCC President’s favorite pastime

Board meeting update


Evaluate Your ProfessorsStudents can win a netbook, an iPod Touch or a gift card by evaluating their professors at www.tvcc.edu . There will be a link under the video part on the right side of the website. Just click on that link and you will need your Cardinal ID activated, TVIN and SS number. Then go to “Student Evaluation of Faculty” and rate your professors. If you still have questions call the IR Office at 903-675-6313 or [email protected] are needed for CAPS. If you have received an “A” or “B” in your class and have at least six hours with a 3.0 grade point average, you could qualify to become a peer tutor. For more information call Ms. Starek at (903) 675-6309.TVCC’s Student Success CenterThe SSC is the place to look for professional tutoring and study areas. More than 50 computers are available for academic and personal use and resources including text-books, calculators, headphones and more. It is located at TVCC’s Athens Campus in the Baugh Technology Center (TC) on the 3rd floor. Monday-Thursday7:30 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.Friday7:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.Sunday 4:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.Contact: (903) 670-2646TVCC’s CosmetologyTVCC’s cosmetology and nail tech department has some great prices on haircuts, highlights, facials, waxing, mani-cure and more. For more information call (903) 675-6347 or (903) 670-2608.Strut Around the ValleyWalk 50 miles by the end of the semester and get a free sandwich for every 10 miles and a free combo meal plus a T-shirt at the end of the 50 miles. For more information contact Cortney Curran at (903) 675-6256 or at [email protected] MinistryThe collegiate ministry offers weekly bible study and free lunch for TVCC students and faculty on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. They also have prayer rooms and game rooms. For more information con-tact Jerry Dennis at (903) 675-5353 The ArkThe Christian Student Center is located next to the Cardi-nal Inn. It has a chapel, a TV room, pool tables and com-puters. There’s free lunch on Mondays and Wednesdays from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. For more information go to www.thearkattvcc.org ImpactThe First Baptist Church offers bible study every Thursday at 7 p.m. They have a pick-up service in front of the Cardi-nal Gym at 6:30 p.m., returning at 8:45 p.m.

By Renan Zorer-Reporter

Students took advantage of the free services offered by the TVCC cosmetology and nail tech students. The most popular service was the manicures.

Trinity Valley Community College’s nail tech and cos-metology students had a “Cardinal Spa Day” Oct. 18 at the Student Union Build-ing.

About 25 students brought their equipment to the TV room and stayed there from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. They of-fered free manicures, nail painting, eyebrow waxing and makeup application for anyone who showed up.

The students were busy during the whole four hours; they even had a small line outside the door at a certain period.

The event marked the first time the cosmetology stu-dents worked on clients out-side of the department.

Because of the success of the first one, another spa day at the SUB is being planned for next semester.

Students receive free manicures, eyebrow waxing for homecomingBy Renan Zorer-Reporter

Female and male students waited in line to get their eyebrows waxed.



‘I Bleed Cardinal Red’

TVCC had another blood drive that took place Oct. 19 and Oct. 20.

A mobile unit was sta-tioned outside the Plaza, on the parking lot.

Cortney Curran, Director of Student Services, said TVCC collected 51 units of blood during the two-day drive.

TVCC is competing against Navarro College to see whose campus can give the most blood. The winner will be announced at the football game (TVCC vs. Navarro) on Oct. 30, and the winner will receive a trophy.

Students who donated blood got two free T-shirts, one from the Carter Blood-Care and a “I bleed Cardinal Red” shirt from TVCC’s Of-fice of Student Activities.

By Renan Zorer-Reporter

Students support sec-ond blood drive of the year.


Some students had the breast cancer ribbon painted on their nails.

Dr. Jekyll and

Mr. HydeNov. 18-21


The holidays are a great way for adults to enjoy themselves with some free time off work. Whether they gather their family for a delicious Thanksgiving meal, or just go on a spon-taneous road trip, people are pleased. Therefore, any holiday is a guarantee to put a smile on a grown-up’s face, but what about the little ones? Do they en-joy those breaks as much as we do? I don’t know if that question can be an-swered, but one holiday that gets kids completely excited is Halloween.

Halloween doesn’t really mean a break from school or work, but it definitely means fun. The holiday is full of mystery. There are a lot of cultural customs and many stories that sur-round Halloween, but it was actually formed from many influences. Accord-ing to historychannel.com, Halloween started around 2000 years ago with the Celts. They would cel-ebrate their New Year on Nov. 1. They believed that on the night of Oct. 31 the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. They also celebrated a ritual called Samhain on that same night, which included a belief that the spirits would return to the earth and damage their crops, but also would help to foresee their future.

The Celts would build a bonfire and dress up in costumes which typi-cally consisted of ani-mal’s heads and skins. They sacrificed animals

to the Celtic spirits. When the Romans occupied the Celtic lands for about 400 years, they combined two of their own festivals with the festival of Samhain: Feralia (in which the Ro-mans commemorated the passing of the dead) and a day to honor Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit and trees. In the seventh century, the Pope reserved Nov. 1 as All Saints’ Day to honor saints and martyrs. The celebration was also called All Hallows and the night before it was called All Hallows’ Eve and, even-tually, Halloween.

Trick-or-treating began in England. During the festivities and parades of All Souls’ Day, which happened on the day af-ter All Saints’ Day, poor citizens would beg for food and families would give them pastries called “soul cakes” in return for their promise to pray for the family’s dead relatives. And the tradition of dress-ing in costumes has both Celtic and European roots. Since winter was a very scary time, people thought they would encounter ghosts whenever they left their homes at night. They would wear masks so the ghosts would mistake them for fellow spirits.

Another interesting thing is how the superstitions related to Halloween start-ed. Most people would not dare cross a black cat’s path on Halloween or any other night because they believed something bad would come their way if they did. This idea has its

roots in the Middle Ages, when many people be-lieved that witches avoid-ed detection by turning themselves into cats.

Several love-related su-perstitions may also ap-pear on Halloween. It was a custom in old Ireland for a match-making cook to bury a ring in her mashed potatoes hoping to bring true love to the diner who found it. In Scotland, young women would name a hazelnut for each of her suitors and toss the nuts in the fireplace. The nut that burned to ashes, rather than popping or ex-ploding, represented the girl’s future husband. An-other love superstition has to do with young women tossing apple peels over their shoulders, hoping that the peels would fall on the floor in the shape of their future husbands’ initials.

All the magic, horror, suspense and transition to a colder season make Hal-loween a top favorite holi-day among Western coun-tries. For some people, superstitions might work and for others they are nothing but stories to en-tertain children. However, no one can deny it is fun to speculate about them.

Halloween has become a fun-filled holiday. Peo-ple plan parties, shop for costumes and candy (one quarter of all the candy sold annually in the U.S. is purchased for Hallow-een), watch scary movies, go to haunted houses and enjoy all the mystery in-volving the holiday.

History of HalloweenBy Renan Zorer-Reporter

No matter what age you are, everyone could use a good scare. Many things bring us a fearful emotion. Roller coasters, skydiving, spiders and even haunted houses have this effect.

A haunted house is usually perceived as being a chilling and forbidden place where monsters and ghosts come out at night, and that’s why most people like them. The anticipation of not knowing what’s coming next gives us a rush.

The 13 Nightmares haunted house is not only scary, but it donates proceeds from the $15 haunted house and $8 hayride to charities as well. Created by The Tyler Jaycees and Noonday Volunteer Fire Depart-ments, 13 Nightmares also collect blankets that are given to The Salvation Army Blanket Drive and cans that are given to The East Texas Food Bank. This two-themed haunted attraction is located on over 20 acres of land at Saw Mills Ranch in Noonday, Texas. It is open this Friday, and Saturday from 7 p.m. until midnight and Sunday from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m.

If the screaming and loud noises are not for you, maybe you should visit one of the local fall festivals. These festivals are not scary but are fun for the whole family. Most festivals offer games, food, pumpkin carv-ings, music, and more. On Oct. 30, Palestine will host its annual “WonderFall/Oktoberfest.” The festival is in the Historic District of downtown. The fun-filled day will begin at 9 a.m. and continue until 4 p.m.

Here are a few Haunted Houses and Fall Festivals in the area.

• Terror Heights Haunted House-Tyler, Texas• Thrillvania-Terrell, Texas• Payne Springs Fire Rescue “Woods of Terror”-

Payne Springs, Texas• Texas Rose Festival-Tyler, Texas• Fall Fest 5k-Athens, Texas

By Lindsey Cullum-Online Editor

Top 10 Scary Movies

1) The exorcist (1973) 2) Psycho (1960)3) Dawn of the dead (1978)4) The Texas chainsaw massacre (1974)5) Zombie aka zombie 2 (1979)6) Evil Dead 2 (1987) 7) Jaws (1975)8) The Vanishing (1988)9) Phantasm (1979)10) Alien (1979) Linda Blair plays a 12-year-old who is possessed by

demons in the movie “The Exorcist.”

Courtesy: Fixster.com

Local Halloween Haunts, Fun Fall Fests


It is almost impossible to ignore Hallow-een. Our culture has so commercialized every major holiday that the origins and reasons for celebrating have become for-gotten or blurred.

With Halloween around the corner, many people, including myself, are gearing up for the festivities. As a Christian parent, I de-cided to do some investigative work both online and in person to uncover how it is celebrated by different groups of people.

Today, many Americans celebrate Hal-loween with spooky themed decorations like spiders, skeletons, ghosts, goblins, witches and fake headstones. Common costumes are the blood-sucking vampires, made even more popular today by the hit series, “Twilight,” grim reapers, gruesome monsters and out-of-this-world aliens.

During my research, I found that many mainstream Christians celebrate Hallow-een like everybody else, with the exception of the gory costumes and decorations. They are more likely to dress up their children (or themselves) in more innocent costumes such as princesses or cowboys.

At a recent intermediate school Hallow-een carnival I attended with my children (with my 5-year-old son dressed as a “war-rior knight”), I saw a mixture of children’s costumes, with only a few white-faced vampires complete with “bloody” drool and black-rimmed eyes of grim reapers. The majority of the little girls were dressed as bumblebees, fairies, beauty queens and, of course, any Disney princess you can imag-ine. The little boys were dressed as pirates, ninjas, motocross racers and the famous characters, “Woody” and “Buzz Lightyear” from the “Toy Story” movies.

Many Christians, though we don’t believe in pagan gods nor do we delight in things of darkness, don’t want to miss out on the fun of the Halloween festivities. Christians who celebrate Halloween may choose to do so with fall festivals at their local church where the kids can play fun games and, of course, get a bucket full of candy. Not only are the costumes more innocent, so are the decorations. In place of ghosts, goblins and witches, many churches will decorate with

hay bales, scarecrows, pumpkins and vari-ous other gourds.

What some people may not realize is that there are groups, like the Wiccans or mod-ern day witches, who celebrate Halloween in a way similar to that of the pagan Celts.

Because of the prevalence of astrology, divination, tarot card readings, “Ouija” boards and sorcery, some Christians feel compelled to follow scriptural advice to avoid even the appearance of evil. With this in mind, they may choose not to cel-ebrate Halloween at all. Instead, some lo-cal church may have a prayer night on Halloween. They will also use Halloween to teach children that there is a spiritual world filled with goodness from God and evil from Satan and, as Christians, to not celebrate things of darkness.

Whatever a person believes, Halloween is not going anywhere in America. This year I will be dressing up as a pirate maiden, my son, as I mentioned, will be a warrior knight, and my 10-month-old daughter will be a little lamb. As a Christian, I plan on teaching my children Christian beliefs and principalities, as well as allowing them to dress up and have fun. As Travis Al-len of Grace to You Ministries wrote in an online article from 2006, “There’s nothing inherently evil about candy, costumes, or trick-or-treating in the neighborhood.”


The Fighting Unicorns beat the Longhorns, 26-14, in TVCC’s intramural flag football championship game. The Unicorns will travel to Stephen F. Austin State University Nov. 5-7 to play in the National Campus Championship Series Regional Flag Football Tournament. Pictured from R to L (kneeling): Jeff Sim-ser and Charles Hueber; (standing): Michael Dooley, Javontae Johnson, Jacques Wilhoite, Tyler Delisle, David Lyons and Dennis Gilley.

Intramural Champs Christian side of celebratingHalloween

“There’s nothing inherently evil about candy, cos-tumes, or trick-or-treating in the neighborhood.”

-Travis Allen

Kling, pictured with her daughter Rose and son Daniel, will dress up as a pirate this Halloween.

Photo: Harold Jones/Student Activities

Elizabeth Starek, a tutor coordinator and philosophy teacher at Trinity Valley Community College’s Athens cam-pus, has had metastatic cancer for 11 years.

In 1999, the 41-year-old had a mammogram screening just to make sure that she didn’t have cancer. Luckily, at that time, she was cancer free. Six months later, while working on her family’s ranch, one of the horses bit her on the right breast. When she had the bite checked out by a doctor she noticed a lump that hadn’t been there before and thought maybe it could have been from the horse bite. She had it tested and it turned out that the first mammogram screening had missed the lump.

Metastatic Cancer is a type of cancer that doesn’t stay in a general area but can spread through-out the body.

“The horse actually saved me because I would’ve gone at least one or two years before I would’ve had another screening,” she says.

Starek describes her initial reaction as devastation and how she thought her life was over. No one in her family had ever had breast cancer, so she thought maybe they had the wrong person.

“First off, I thought they had the wrong person. I was pretty sure it was the wrong person,” Starek says.

She describes the chemotherapy and neoadjuvant treatments, which is for advanced cancer, as rough. She was started on chemotherapy and later had surgery to remove her lymph nodes.

“I had pretty much everything (chemotherapy, neoadjuvant and radiation),” she says. “I was in treatment from the fall of ‘99 to the summer of 2000.”

Starek was told she had stage 3a cancer when she was first diagnosed. Later on in 2000, her cancer stage had moved up to stage 4. Medical Online describes stage 4 cancer as: The tumors can be any size; the lymph nodes or glands are affected; the breast cancer has spread to other regions of the body and there is secondary cancer.

After coming back from her first surgery she saw an advertisement for a tutor coordinator position at the Athens TVCC campus while still working at the Terrell campus. Even though she had gone

through complications with surgery and was still bald, she wanted to try for that job. She initially thought that she wouldn’t get it, but she put on a wig and interviewed for the job anyway.

From 2000 to 2002 Starek believed that she was in remission, but she says that through these eleven years of having Metastatic Cancer she has never been in remission.

In 2002, she was told that the cancer had moved to the spine, and although doctors told her that it’s not a bad place to come back, she defined it as “debilitating.”

Having cancer on her spine has taken a toll on her body. Starek used to be 5 feet 8 inches tall, but during the past ten years she lost 4 inches and is now 5 feet 4 inches. The cancer has also affected her ability to walk and she has to use a walker.

“My grandmother never used a walker and she was 80,” she says. Paul Lemon, her Latin tutor, gave her another way to embrace using a walker. He told her that in

mythology, the chariot was a symbol of incarnation. It carried the burden and allowed the vehicle to go forward. He helped her to fix up her walker like a chariot.

Starek says that even though she was less active, she discovered things about her mind that she didn’t have the time to discover before.

She says, “Having cancer can be a very rich experience or it could destroy you. Anyone going through a cancer shouldn’t give up, even if the worst happens it’s (life) still not over. It is the end of a lot of things, but it can also be the beginning of many things.”

She goes every three weeks to Baylor in Dallas to receive her treatments, which is a standard chemotherapy treatment that consists of three drugs called a “cocktail.”

“Its purpose is to keep the disease contained and slow it down as much as possible,” she said. After one or two years,the body becomes immune to the treatments and you have to switch to an-other. Starek has been on about five different treatments for the past eleven years.

The question of how long she will be able to live with these treatments was brought up, and she says she had not been asked that question before. She says that she really didn’t want to know the answer.

Starek concludes, “Sometimes I feels like I’m on ‘Dancing with the Stars’ and death is my partner. I guess it’s to say that you never know when the end is coming, but you live until then.”

My breast cancer story By Erin Gass

Number 4,387. 12 years. 3.2 miles. On a sunny Saturday morning, she walks up to the registration table and receives a pink card with her

entrance number, 4,387, printed boldly in the middle. Right above the number it reads, “I gladly run/walk in memory/honor of,” she writes “Me.” She moves to the next station to

receive her official pink hat. She places

a glittery one and a two sticker on the brim. With her

walking shoes tightly laced, her best friend by her

side and her son trailing behind her, she begins her journey.

Mile one is in remembrance of the lumpectomy she had to remove a malignant lump and all of the breast tissue from her right breast. Mile two is in remembrance of the four rounds of chemotherapy and 33 consecutive days of radia-tion treatments she endured to kill the cancerous cells. Mile three is remembrance of her co-survivors—her family and friends—who prayed for her and with her as went through her treatments. And the point-two mile is for all the living she has yet to do.

Jessica Jones, the mother of Trinity Valley Community College Student Activities Director, Harold Jones, is a breast cancer survivor. Affectionately called “G-Mama” by her “G-Babies” (granddaughters Jalen and Kailyn) the 62-year-old, donned in her fuchsia T-shirt, was one of the more than 26,000 breast cancer survivors and supporters to participate in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure at NorthPark Center in Dallas. She has participated or supported the walk since she was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1998.

Like most women who are in their 40s, Jones had yearly mammograms. And she had them for 10 years before she discovered a lump in her right breast.

“I had been moving furniture around the house and the day before that I worked

out with a couple of guy friends,” Jones said. “My breast was sore. I thought it was from moving furniture around or working out.”

Jones was concerned about the soreness in her breast. Since she had a mammogram early that year, the possibility of having breast cancer was the furthest thing from her mind. One of her friends suggested she get the lump check out, and she scheduled

her own mammogram. The results were sent to her family doctor and the mammogram didn’t look unusual, but she and her doctor were still concerned about the soreness. A lump the size of a golf ball was discovered after she had a biopsy. Within less than a year, Jones had developed what her doctor called a fast-growing cancer.

“I thought I was the healthiest person in the world,” Jones said. “I never thought I would ever have breast cancer.”

Call it a fluke, but her “spring cleaning” saved her life.

Twelve years later, Jones is a part of an elite class. She is one of 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in the country, which is the larg-est group of cancer survivors in the United States.

If it was not for foundations like Susan G. Komen, she might not have had access to the latest advances in breast cancer treatment. So supporting “Race for the Cure” is important to her.

At next year’s event, her number will be different and her survivorship will increase by a year, but the miles will be the same.

Mile one will be in remembrance of the lumpectomy she had to remove a malignant lump and all of the breast tissue from her right breast. Mile two will be in remembrance of the four rounds of chemotherapy and 33 consecutive days of radiation treatments she endured to kill the cancerous cells. Mile three will be in remembrance of her co-survivors—her family and friends—who prayed for her and with her as went through her treatments. And the point-two mile will be for all the living she has yet to do.

Harold Jones, Student Activities Director, supported his mother, Jessica Jones, at Dallas county’s Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.

I’m a Survivor

Special to the News-Journal

Brownies Against Breast Cancer

Surrounded by baking sup-plies, an 11-year-old is mak-ing her own contribution to breast cancer research.

Cait Pool, a sixth grader at Athens Middle School, came up with the idea “Brownies against Breast Cancer.” She is selling her baked goods to family and friends to raise money for the Susan G. Ko-men Foundation.

She came up with the idea for raising money because a family friend had been diag-nosed with breast cancer.

Pool says: “My mom’s best friend, Ginger Morrison, had breast cancer a couple of years ago. Ginger is like a second mom to me, so it was pretty scary. She’s cancer free now; but since then, we’ve all supported ‘Race for the Cure.’ It’s a great organization.”

She decided on brown-

ies because they are a sweet treat that practically every-one likes. She also bakes with her grandma all the time and loves to do it.

So how did she come up with a name for her project?

“‘Brownies against Breast Cancer’ has a ring to it,” Pool adds.

She had a goal of raising $400 for Susan G. Komen and was half way to meeting that goal at the time of the inter-view.

Pool participated in the “Race for the Cure” in Dallas on Oct. 16 with her team, the “Breast Mints,” sponsored by Athens Intermediate School. While she was the only one on her team to bake brownies, each of the team members did their part to raise funds for the foundation.

By Misty Bowman

She may look messy, but her brownies are delicious. Athens Middle School sixth grader Cait Pool baked brownies to raise money for the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

Sports News-Journal www.tvcc.edu/newsjournal October 29, 2010

The Trinity Valley Community College Beef and Cattle Show Team was involved in the Open Charolais Cattle division of the 2010 Four States Fair Livestock Show Sept. 20 in Texarkana, Ark.

Marc Robinson, TVCC beef and cattle team sponsor and ag-riculture and ranch management instructor, was pleased with the team’s first showing.

“We got off to a very good start at our first cattle show with all of the show team members working together well in prepar-ing and fitting the cattle for show,” Robinson said. “Winning a little at Four States made for a very nice first show as well.”

The team brought home two Grand Champion ribbons from

the 2010 State Fair of Louisiana Livestock Show Oct. 22 in Shreveport La., participating in the Open Charolais Cattle di-vision of the show.

Jessica Price’s early spring yearling was the grand champion in her class. Jalisa Corbin also brought home a grand cham-pion title for her spring yearling bull.

The show team had the cattle in very good condition for the show. The team members worked hard to make sure the cattle were clipped and fitted for the show.

The team’s next show will be in January when they travel to the Fort Worth Stock Show.

The results from the two shows are posted on the News-Journal website: www.tvcc.edu/newsjournal.

Halftime was not the only thing that rocked at Trinity Valley’s Homecoming game.

The weather posed a problem for most of the day. It was clear for the TVCC tailgate lunch catered by Danny’s BBQ at Bruce Field.

But as soon as the homecoming nominees and their escorts made it to the field for the crowning ceremony, the rain was pouring down. Under umbrellas, the ladies main-tained a smile and good attitude throughout the introductions. The rain subsided as the queens were crowned.

Chatney Cathcart was crowned TVCC Ath-ens Homecoming Queen. Also crowned were Paige Moore, Emily McNeil, and Meredith Ann Thomas for the Terrell, Palestine, and Health Science Center campuses, respectively.

The rain fell again as the Cardette alumni from 1960 to 2010 took the field for special recognition. The honorees were introduced at the beginning of halftime. The weather

cleared for the TVCC cheerleaders, Cardinal Regiment and Cardettes’ enthusiastic perfor-mances. The Cardettes’ performance includ-ed a tap dance routine and the famous “Car-dette Bounce,” which hasn’t been done for many years. The crowd in the stands went wild with applause during their non-tradi-tional performance.

Cardette Lieutenant, Brittany Ashton, was taken from Bruce Field via ambulance to East Texas Medical Center immediately fol-lowing the halftime performance for an inju-ry she sustained during the routine. Accord-ing to Jennifer Hannigan with TVCC public relations, Ashton dislocated a finger.

Prior to the start of the second half of the game a severe weather announcement was made. According to information from the TVCC Facebook page, Bruce Field lost power and the game was finished at the Eustace ISD Bulldog Stadium. The Cards beat the Cisco Wranglers with a final score of 31-27 to win the Homecoming game.

The crowd pulled out their umbrellas at Bruce Field when the storms moved in. The game was suspended for three hours and later moved to Eustace’s Bulldog Stadium. The Cards win over the Wranglers puts them in third position in the conference.

Photo: Rebecca Kling/News-Journal

Despite bad weather, power outage; Cards beat Cisco, 31-27

A Cardinal fan braves the weather to cheer for her favorite player.

Photo: Rebecca Kling/News-Journal


Beef and Cattle Show Team successful TVCC’s Beef and Cat-tle team has notched top wins at two shows this season.

By Thomas Mercer-Editor

Sports News-Journal www.tvcc.edu/newsjournal October 29, 2010

The 2010 Cardinal Hall of Fame class featured inductees ranging from former athletes, coaches and a former college president. The seven members make up the third class that has been inducted in the Hall of Fame since 2008.

Former football star Linzy Cole was a two-time All-American at Trinity Valley and team captain his sophomore year. After becoming the first black football player at Texas Christian University, he played four seasons in the NFL.

Another former football player is Donald Sellers. Only losing one game, Sellers is one of the most successful quarterbacks to ever play for the Val-ley. After winning the first-ever na-tional championship, he later played at New Mexico and eventually overseas for the Scottish Claymores European team.

On the basketball side, Tryone Fos-ter, Carlene Mitchell, and Danny Hughes were honored. Foster played guard for the Cards and set many re-cords that still hold today. Leading the team to a 30-win season, he was a two time all-conference and an all- Ameri-

can his sophomore year. He went on and played ball for one season at Oklahoma, as well as one season at Southwest Louisi-ana University.

Mitchell play-ing a former point guard, helped lead the Lady Cards to their first national championship. In her one season she was named all-conference and on the all-NJCAA tournament team. After Trinity Val-ley, she played two years at Kansas and began a coaching career. She is now an assistant coach at Rutgers University.

Hughes both played basketball and coached at TVCC. As a player he was named all-region, all-conference, and played in the National Junior College All-Star game. He went on to play at TCU and later spent five years on the TVCC coaching staff.

Randy Pippin was inducted into the Hall of Fame because of his accom-plishments as a football coach. He led the Cardinals to their first-ever Na-tional Championship.

Former TVCC President Orval Pirtle, worked hard to make Trinity Valley the institution we know today. He is credited for starting the athletic pro-gram. The administration building and scholarships are named in his honor.

TVCC honors 2010 Hall of Fame inducteesBy Deliance Moore-News Editor

What’s our record?The Cards are current-ly 5-3 overall and 3-2 in conference play. TVCC is coming off a hard fought 31-27 win over Cisco. The Cards were able to keep their focus after the game was delayed and eventually moved to Bulldog Stadium in Eustace. Trinity Valley will play their last confer-ence game Oct. 30 against the Bulldogs of Navarro at 3 p.m.How are we ranked?With Navarro leading the conference with a perfect 5-0 record, Trinity Valley and Blinn are tied for sec-ond with a conference re-cord of 3-2. Cisco, Kilgore, and Tyler are all tied at 2-3, with NEO sitting at 1-5.Who’s ranked?Josh Johnson is hold-ing down the No. 1 spot in rushing with 934 yards and 13 TDs. He is also first in scoring, racking up 78 points. QB Si’Darius Blackshire is ranked third with 114 pass completions for 1,183 yards. RB Adam West has 28 carries on the season for 235 yards. He is averaging 8.4 yards per carry. WR Chris Franklin is second in the conference in punt returns with 6 for 147 yards. His longest return was for 24.5 yards.POWJohnson is the only player to be named Player-of-the-Week since week four. He received POW accolades for his performance during weeks five and seven.Post SeasonThe SWJCFC semifinal playoffs start Nov. 6.

The Student Activities of-fice and the Athletics De-partment teamed up to host Cardinal Madness Oct. 18 at the Cardinal Gym. Dur-ing the event the men’s and women’s basketball teams were introduced.

Not only were the teams presented but many games were played to entertain the crowd.

The “Uniform Race” pit-ted football player Colton Collins against cheerleader Alyssa Kahoe. Having to wear a tight fitting jersey and size five shoes, Collins beat Kahoe who was wear-ing a huge XXL uniform and size 17 shoes.

Brittany Dukes (women’s basketball) went head-to head with Cameron Shap-iro (men’s basketball) in the

three-point shootout with Shapiro coming out the vic-tor.

Softball players (Amanda Lester, Dianne Acosta, and Haley Savant) competed against football players (Jar-ed Patterson, Quincy Rob-erts, and Brad Dunavant) in the “Dizzy Basketball Relay.” The players were required to spin around a bat 10 times, and then dizzily maneuver up and back through three cones. The softball players proved to be faster and won the challenge.

High flyer D’Aris (DD) Scarver capped the night off as the dunk contest cham-pion. Using creativity, he threw the ball off the wall be-hind the goal. As it bounced off the floor, he caught the ball in mid air and slammed it through the hoop.

By Deliance MooreNews EditorCardinal

Madness filled with fun, games, surprises The Cardinal men’s and women’s basketball teams will open the sea-son in exhibition action Nov. 1.

Football player (Colton Collins) in his tight jersey and tiny shoes for “The Uniform Race.”

Photo: Cortney Curran/Student Services

By Deliance MooreNews Editor

The seven members representing the third Hall of Fame class were introduced at the Blinn game on Oct. 16.


Entertainment News-Journal www.tvcc.edu/newsjournal October 29, 2010

The TVCC theater depart-ment presented the play “Rum-pelstiltskin” on the Athens campus. The play was the first show of the season. Area ele-mentary students were invited to come watch the play on Oct. 15.

Rumpelstiltskin is a chil-dren’s story about trickery and deceit. The play was about a baker’s daughter, Patience, who had to make gold out of straw. The queen told her if she could not turn gold into straw, it was “off with her head.” So Rum-pelstiltskin came and made a deal with her. If he helped her, she would have to give up something in return. Patience thought of everything she could give, but he already had it.

Then Rumpelstiltskin thought of a baby. If she had a baby, she could give her first- born child to him for his payment of spin-ning straw into gold.

The queen got her gold, Pa-tience married the queen’s son and they had a baby. After the baby was born, Rumpelstiltskin returned to collect his payment Patience’s baby. She refused and started to cry. So Rumpel-stiltskin made another deal. If she could guess his name, she could keep the baby. But she only had three chances to guess his name.

Patience father, the baker; her mother-in-law, the queen; and her husband, the queen’s son asked to help her. They went north, south, east and

west looking for weird names.

When patience’s father found the right name he saved the baby and Rumpelstiltskin turned into a frog.

The students from the el-ementary loved the play they helped the actors and find the right name. They even knew the right way to hold a baby, too. They laughed and had fun watching the play.

Proceeds from the play were donated to the Presley’ Reed’s medi-cal fund. She is in need of a liver transplant.

Photo: Jennifer Hannigan/TVCC PRThe Prince (Scott Stovall) and the Queen (Stasia Milam) “ham-ming it up” for the kids.

Lights, camera, theatre

If you like terrifying tales of bloody vampires who eat peo-ple, “Let Me In” is definitely a movie for you.

I, on the other hand, don’t quite understand the concept of movies like this one. The movie is about a 12-year-old boy named Owen, who constantly gets picked on at school. Lonely and helpless, he confides in Abby, who is a student at his school, his neighbor and coincidently a vampire.

The help she gave him is probably not the kind he was looking for. One by one people started dying, and Abby was the killer. Owen then falls in “puppy love” with Abby, and once people start finding out her secret he does everything he can to protect her.

This movie was made to simply make money and re-make the original Swedish version “Let the Right One In.” If I would have known “Let Me In” was going to be a cross between “Orphan” and “Twilight,” I honestly wouldn’t have went and saw it. You should save your mon-ey. I give this movie one star.

I can’t believe I stayed until the end. EHHH!

I should have saved my money and bought a box of Cheez-It.

I’m going to see this movie again. I better have this movie the day it comes out on DVD.

Lindsey CullumOnline Editor

Not another vampire love story

Due Date (Nov. 5)A father who’s expecting his first child, when his wife’s due date is five days away. He rushes to get to her, when he runs into this guy who takes him on a road trip and it turns out all wrong.Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Zach Galifianakis, Jamie Foxx, RZA and Juliet LewisMegamind (Nov. 5)This movie is about a super-villain Megamind, who creates superheros then tries defeat-ing them. Then he comes up with another superhero Titan, who thinks being a supervil-lain is more fun. Megamind has to decide on destroying him or not.Stars: Tina Fey, Brad Pitt, Will Ferrell and Jonah Hill127 Hours (Nov. 5)The story of Aron Ralston, a mountain climber, who had his arm pinned by a boulder he had to amputate his arm by himself, with a dull knife. While hiking Utah’s back-country in 2003. Stars: James Franco, Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn, Clar-ence Poesy and Lizzy CaplanFor Colored Girls (Nov. 5) This movie is about, love pain, struggles and other is-sues black women face.

Stars: Terry Perry, Janet Jack-son, Whoopi Goldberg, Phyli-cia Rashad, Jurnee Smollett and Kimberly EliseMorning Glory (Nov. 12)A hard-working TV produc-er tries to help a struggling show by bring on a legendary anchor, who refuses to cover certain topics. Then along came another show person-ality who loves to cover those topics. The producer’s love af-fair with a former producer is unravel while she tries to pro-tect your job.Stars: Harrison Ford, Rachel McAdams, Diane Keaton, Jeff Goldblum and Patrick WilsonUnstoppable (Nov. 12)This movie is about a mas-sive unmanned locomotive, named “The Beast.” It has a toxic cargo and is destroying anything in its way. A veteran engineer and a young conduc-tor decide to destroy it before it reaches any other areas. Stars: Chris Pine, Denzel Washington, Rosario Dawson, Jessy Schram and Kevin DunnTangled (Nov. 12)Tangled is a musical comedy about a girl with 70 feet of magical golden hair. She is locked away in a tower and needs help to escape, so she uses her hair.

Stars: Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi and Donna MurphyThe Next Three Days (Nov. 19)This movie is about a man named John. His life is going good when his wife is arrested for a murder, she says she didn’t commit. Three years after John struggles to hold his family up, teach and try to prove his wife is innocent, he decides to break her out of prison.Stars: Russell Crowe, Eliza-beth Banks, Olivia Wilde, Jon-athan Tucker, Liam Neeson and Lennie James Burlesque (Nov. 24)A small town girl with a big voice escapes hardship and walks in the Burlesque lounge and gets a job as a cocktail waitress. She later gets her big break and becomes on of the featured acts. Stars: Christina Aguilera, Cher, Stanley Tucci, Kristen Bell, Alan Cumming and Cam GigandetFaster (Nov. 24) This movie is about an ex-convict who wants avenge the death of his brother.Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Moon Bloodgood, Mag-gie Grace and Carla Gugino.

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Opinion/Editorial News-Journal www.tvcc.edu/newsjournal October 29, 2010

With all the news stories about college students bring-ing illegal firearms on cam-pus, it’s no wonder the de-bate is heating up whether it should be legal to carry hand-guns on college campuses or not.

The fact that Sen. Jeff Wen-tworth and Rep. Joe Driver are planning to reintroduce a failed guns-on-campus legis-lation in 2011 adds more fuel to the fire. Proponents argue that more guns would equal more safety, while opponents feel that more guns would lead to a dangerous “Cowboys and Indians” scenario in the event of incidents like those on the University of Texas at Austin and Collin County Community College campuses just recently.

This prompted the staff of the News-Journal to think about their feelings on the is-sue. These are the opinions of the staff members, one for, one against and one somewhat on the fence. We welcome feedback and look forward to hearing from YOU!

PROSBy Misty Bowman

There has been much de-bate about the new law being voted on about guns being al-lowed on state college cam-puses. Personally, I am for it.

Over the past several years there have been many deaths due to a rampaging gunman on campus. If someone with a concealed handgun license had been able to carry a gun on campus, the person might have been stopped before all the casualties happened.

There are many who are against the law being passed. While I understand their ob-jections, I don’t agree with them. The law banning fire-arms will only keep the hon-est people without them.

Someone without scruples, who wants to kill people, isn’t going to worry about being ticketed for an illegal firearm. So why shouldn’t we even the odds a bit?

The process of obtaining a concealed handgun license is very laborious and if you have had any kind of felony history, you won’t be approved.

While the shooting at UT-Austin showed that the emergency response system worked, it could have had a far different outcome if he had chosen to start shooting when he first got on campus. He passed many people on his way to the library, but for rea-sons unknown to anyone but him, he chose not to shoot or kill them. Had he chosen oth-erwise, it could have been Vir-ginia Tech all over again.

PROS/CONSBy Rebecca Kling

The safety of students on the University of Texas at Austin campus was preserved by the concerted efforts of UT-Austin officials and local and cam-pus law enforcement agen-cies during a recent incident involving a young man with an AK-47. Together, using all available resources, they were able to chase the gunman, who had already fired shots, into the campus library where he fatally shot himself.

This raises an interesting question. Should guns be al-lowed or banned from cam-pus? It is currently unlaw-ful to carry guns on school campuses or at sporting and interscholastic events. This could change if a new law is passed that will allow hand-guns on college campuses and other public places.

The opinions toward the topic of guns vary and are usually expressed with pas-sion, either for or against.

Personally, I can relate to both sides. However, I tend to lean toward the opinion of students, faculty and staff NOT being allowed to openly carry handguns on campus.

The reasons for my opinion stem from the concern that more guns could lead to more chaos. As long as the cam-pus security and local police departments work together successfully, as they did at UT-Austin, there is no reason for vigilante law enforcement from civilians.

Imagine the situation at UT-Austin if another student had pulled a handgun on the origi-nal gunman and ordered him to put his down. A handgun is no match for a semiautomatic weapon. That good citizen most likely would have been shot and injured, if not killed. The gunman could have de-cided to go completely crazy and shoot anyone nearby.

The tragic reality is the only casualty was the gun-man himself by his own hand. Now imagine if that good citi-zen chose to shoot the gun-man himself on the spot. The long-lasting impact on the life of a normal person would be living the rest of his or her life wondering if that was the right or wrong decision.

The responsibility of car-rying a handgun is huge, whether in public or not. Law enforcement personnel go through specific training for these situations. The average handgun owner has no such training. Even the training to carry a handgun doesn’t touch the level of psychological re-sponsibility needed to inten-tionally shoot another human being, even in self defense.

My opinion is that the alert system that is in place now is working and only trained law enforcement personnel should be allowed to carry handguns on college campuses and at sporting and interscholastic

events. Additionally, the law that is in place now should re-main in full force. As the ad-age goes, why fix what’s not broken?

CONSBy Renan Zorer

Throughout modern his-tory we have seen the dam-age caused by guns and other firearms. It is amazing how one person with one single weapon can cause so much damage and sadness. The in-cident at the University of Texas in Austin (and on many other campuses) show us the chaos and horror people go through whenever someone is out there holding a gun. Par-ents, students and citizens get scared and worry about each other.

There’s a new law up to vote which says people should be allowed to carry guns on col-lege campus, as long as they have a concealed license. Even though it is a long, com-plicated and safe process to get a gun license, people are very complicated and unpre-dictable. You never know how someone is going to react to some things, and you never know what is going through a person’s head. That’s when the possession of a gun can be extremely dangerous.

If less people use guns, then we will have less danger and killing. Guns should be pro-hibited on college campuses because they can bring a lot of terror and threats to all the students. It’s true that if there’s a shooter on campus and there’s someone else (with a concealed license) holding a gun, they can probably stop the shooter. We should leave that job to the police officers who are actually prepared and have more experience to deal with those situations. Instead of spending all that money

promoting the new law, the government should invest in training police officers.

By Tonya BonsalOn the debate of whether

fire arms should be allowed on college campuses, I don’t think that guns have any place on a school campus at all. We are here to learn, not to fight or bear arms. I am against the new law for guns on college campuses and hope that it does not get passed due to the fact that fire arms tend to cause more problems that they solve. If we all show up to class with a gun strapped to our side then who’s to say that someone won’t get into a heated argument and use that weapon on a human being. Fire arms are meant for hunt-ing of animals, sport, protec-tion, but should not be used in an inappropriate setting like a college. We need more secu-rity measures put into place at the schools to ward off situ-ations of gun toting students and to prepare and warn the faculty and students. Our younger generations tend to be more angry and violent and this could possibly cause even more problems if this law is passed. If this law is passed that would mean that some-one could carry a fire arm onto your son/daughters col-lege campus and no one would alert the authorities until it is too late and they have start-ed shooting people. Unfortu-nately when you go for a con-cealed hand gun license they don’t do a mental background check. They do, do a felony background check, but a lot of these kids have never been in any trouble before that day, so they don’t show up on the grid.

Pros and Cons of new gun law

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ebrate the Cardettes 50th Anniversary.

Dr. W.P. “Rip” Drum-goole, Vice President of Student Services, had the audience laughing as he recounted incidents from the past involving the for-mer Cardettes’ antics in the dorm rooms.

Richard Sanders, aid to U.S. Rep. Jeb Hensarling, awarded the Congressional Certificate of Recognition to the Cardette organization and Athens mayor Randy Daniel gave the Cardettes a proclamation from the city. Craig Logan of All World Travel and Tours present-ed Cardette Director Dar-la Mansfield and captain Kirsten Oliver of Forney with a Waterford crystal bowl as a gift of apprecia-

tion. Mary Nicholson, Vice

President of Institutional Advancement, presented the Homecoming Honorees: Distinguished Alum, Kay Hundley and Cardinal Am-bassadors, the Mike Peek family, Jim and Rose Jones and East Texas River Run-ners Ed and Bettie Furman and Candy Dillon.

Mansfield gave a speech to recognize special indi-viduals and announced the schedule of events. Group photos were taken of the Cardette directors, former captains and members of the first line from 1960.

The Cards beat the Cis-co Wranglers with a final score of 31-27 to win the Homecoming game.

Continued from page 1

Alumni Cardettes returned home to support the organization’s 50th Anniversary.

Photos: Rebecca Kling/News-Journal

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