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Young Democrats Meeting at 2 p.m. today in the Union Loft.

Six Flags Trip International Students Assn. trip to Six Flags is scheduled for Friday, May 1.

Band Concerts in Montgomery Auditorium Saturday, SE Jazz Festival concert 9:30 a.m. Monday, Symphonic Band at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Concert Band at 7:30 p.m.

Kappa Phi Christian women's social and service group meets Monday May 4 in the Student Union Loft at 7 p.m.

Buyback on the Loop SE Barnes & Noble Bookstore buys back books, 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., Tuesday, May 5 on the loop.

Ultimate Money Skills The Career Management Center presents a workshop on money management Tuesday, May 5 from 2-3 p.m. in the Union.

Freshman Honors Presentation The honors freshman composition classes will present essays from 1-5 p.m. in the Student Union, Thursday, May 7.The presentation will be in Rooms 323 and 303. Drop by to visit and have a slice of pizza, while they last.

Library Reminder The library staff has arranged to offer Chat Reference during Finals Week. The service will be available May 11-14, from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. To use the reference service, go to the library main page at the se.edu site. Click on the Meebo widget and type in your question. A librarian will respond almost immedi-ately.

Spring Graduation It's here! SE 2009 Spring Graduation will be held at the football stadium, Saturday, May 16. Read the front page story for further informa-tion and rainy weather alternate plan.

The SouTheaSTernThursday, April 30, 2009

Summer is just around the corner and students are mak-ing plans on how to spend it. While some persons will be on vacation at the lake or some other relaxing place, others will be hard at work juggling jobs and school. The ideal summer plan for some students involves a vacation with plenty of rest and relaxation. Loni Wil-liams, a senior education major, will follow that path while keeping her education in mind and planning for the fall semester. “I am going on a nice va-cation this summer. I am fi-nally finished with my class-es and will start my student teaching this fall,” Williams said. Nikki Washington, a safety major, said, “Usually I go to California for the summer but I am going to stay here and attend summer class-es and work to pay for it.” Washington took advantage of early enrollment and is already scheduled in for summer classes.

Other students, like Kris-ti Rothrock, say they will pass up summer school. Rothrock, a communica-tion major with a theatre minor, says she plans to use her summer wisely. She is leaning toward a costume emphasis within the theatre minor. “I plan to work and get money saved up for the various sewing projects I have yet to complete. The summer break will give me plenty of time to finish them,” Rothrock said. Among students ap-proached for details on their summer plans, the most popular appears to be work-ing full-time to save money in preparation for the fall semester. The primary fac-tors are not having to worry about making one’s work schedule fit with classes and being able to earn more money. In any event, students who will return in the fall can take comfort in knowing they are one more semester closer to completing their college education.

Staff photo by Brandi Bunch

Students' plans vary for summer activities

Graduation day draws near for SE seniors Graduation day is coming soon and preparations are in full swing as seniors, faculty and staff begin to get everything rolling for spring commencement. Many students have mixed feelings about graduating, but most seniors seem ready and eager to take the leap out of the SE environment and get on to something else. “I am going to be glad when it’s over,” said Sara Moore, a senior pre-med major. “To participate in the graduation ceremony is not something I’m looking forward to.” Jeremiah Hoster, a senior English major, commented he has to go because his mother wishes to see him walk across the stage. “Plus, my sister is coming down from California,” Hoster commented. As for the ceremony, Dr. Jonathan Trent, assistant professor of medicine in the Department of Sarcoma Medical Oncology at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, will give the address. Trent earned his B.S. in chemistry from Southeastern

in 1988 and his M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. While at SE Trent was a Parsons Scholar, member of SGA and President's Honor Roll. Commencement will take place May 16 on campus at Paul Laird Field. Following the ceremony there will be a reception in the VPAC. Families can get together to meet, greet and share the joy of graduation.

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Class helps students plan future

Students got tips on how to launch their careers during a class taught this semester by Dr. Virginia Parrish. Writing and Publishing for Careers is a new writing class offered this semester by the English, Humanities and Languages department. The class teaches students how to approach entering into a career, how to look for one, how to investigate various careers and how to compile a career portfolio. It also teaches students how to write resumes to compile in their portfolios. During a recent class meeting students discussed which documents would be important to include in their portfolios, such as passports and credit reports. “Credit reports, passports, all of these things you have to start thinking about,” Par-rish said. Next, as a demonstration, Parrish logged onto the in-

ternet to show the class a couple of websites to visit and explain why they should visit them. The first website she vis-ited was Science Applica-tions International Corpora-tion (SAIC), a Fortune 500 company. She pointed out the career opportunities that would be available to the students. Two more web-sites she mentioned that the class needed to visit were the IRS website and the CIA website. “You need to go to these sites to see what they are offering; think what qualifi-cations and skills do I have that are suited for which types of jobs?" Parrish said. Under this website Parrish clicked on some environ-mentalist job links. “You may say you’re not interested in becoming (something environmental,) but all of these occupations are looking for someone that can write,” Parrish said. She then went on to say,

“People must consistently write in the occupation- oc-cupational safety, educa-tion, aviation, psychology, you must write consistently to write well.” Parrish continued to stress how important it is to con-sider how marketable you are if you already have a passport, if you have a good credit report and if you can write well. She also pointed out the importance of in-ternships. Having a passport tells an employer that you would be willing and are ready to re-locate if need be. Parrish continued to talk about visiting websites to see what kind of jobs they are offering and how to go about finding the necessary information about various companies. During a previous class period she said that it can take six months to a year to find a job within your cho-sen major. “Looking for work is a full time job,” Parrish said.

Swine flu epidemic spreads to U.S.

The rain plan is as follows:----------------------------10:00 - 11:00 a.m.-4 School of Education and Behavioral Sci-ences-4 John Massey School of Business -4 Master of Behav-ioral Studies-4 Master of Business Administration

-4 Master of Education-4 Master of Science (Aviation)

11:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m.Reception in Visual & Performing Arts Center

1:00 - 2:00 p.m.-4 School of Arts and Sciences -4 Master of Technology-4 Master of Science

(Safety)

In case of bad weather the decision concerning location will be made by noon on Friday, May 15. For updated information, call 580-745-2888 or 580-745-7272 or visit the web-site at www.SE.edu.

Misti SilversContributing writer

bbc.co.uk

Swine flu has swept Mexico and forced the U.S. to declare a nationwide public health emergency. Cases have been confirmed in nearby Dallas, Texas. Swine flu could become a pandemic unless pre-cautions are taken. Symptoms are similar to regular human flu and include fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, head-aches, fatigue and chills.

Kevin AshleyStaff writer

Quiency BrannanEditor

News/OpinionPage 2 The Southeastern Thursday, April 30, 2009

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SGA election results are in• NewPresident: Trent Castleberry• NewVice President: Matthew HeggyNewSenators:

Chorale plans June trip to the Big Apple

Members of the South-eastern Chorale will have memories for a lifetime once they return from a long-awaited trip to New York City. The Chorale will travel to New York City on May 28 to perform at Carnegie Hall. They will be taking a large group to NYC includ-ing 26 members, director Dr. Stacy Weger and some family members. All de-scribe it as a wonderful trip to look forward to. “I am excited about per-forming in New York,” said Chorale member Charli Haggard. “I have per-formed there once before, but this time I will get to perform a newly-written piece." The group undertook serious fundraising and worked hard to make the trip possible. They held many fundraisers, ranging fromacarwashtorafflinga TV. The chorale received donations from a few com-panies which helped sup-port them. All the money they raised went toward the New York trip and the expenses.

The Chorale is thrilled at getting the opportunity to perform at Carnegie Hall. “We are premiering a requiem written by Da-vid Childs,” commented Chorale member Cheri Conway. “It is dedicated to the tenth year anniversary of Childs’ father’s death,” said Conway. Vanderbilt University will have a chorale group present to perform with Southeastern. Throughout their sched-uled time in New York City the Chorale will get to participate in some other activities. They are going to have the opportunity to attend some Broadway shows. “Along with our free time we will also be rehearsing,” replied Conway. They are also planning to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Chorale will be in New York from May 28- June 3. "The Chorale is an out-standing representative of Southeastern Oklahoma State University," said President Michael D. Turn-er. "This group performs not only at campus events, but across the area to ad-vance and support chorale

music in our schools. It is a great honor for the Univer-sity and the Chorale to be a part of the Carnegie Hall experience." "This opportunity is a direct consequence of the hard work and dedication our talented students con-tinually exhibit," said Stacy Weger. "They eagerly take on new challenges, and seek out ways to improve their overall musicianship. I am proud of their achieve-ments, but even more proud of their character and the way they represent Southeastern Oklahoma State University. We are all delighted that this event takes place during our university's Centennial year as a way to bring further attention to the school," Weger added. The appearance at Carn-egie Hall is the latest in a series of milestones in the history of Southeastern Chorale. Last year the Chorale be-came only the third choir in the nation to host Grammy nominated choral conduc-tor Craig Hella Johnson in residency. Performing with Dr. Johnson and Grammy win-ning singer Cynthia Claw-son, the Chorale created a

unique college concert. In 2007 The SE Chorale peformed at the Oklahoma Music Educators Associa-tion annual convention as an invited guest perfomer. After performing, the Chorale was asked to present an encore the next evening,thefirsttimethishas occurred in the associa-tion's history. The Chorale has had the opportunity to perform with some of the world's most noted choral ensem-nbles and conductors, having been featured in master classes and clinics with "Anonymous Four," "Quink," "Chanticleer," and "Conspirare" and their conductors. In 2007 the SE Chorale was the only Oklahoma choir invited to perform as part of the National En-dowment of the Arts Choral Symposium, "Crossing the Divide: Exploring InfluenceandFindingOurVoice-an American Master-piece Festival," in Austin, Texas. They were joined at the event by the University of Texas, Texas Tech Univer-sity, Texas State University and the Grammy nomi-nated professional choir, Conspirare.

Jenna BlakelyStaff writer

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Members of a music theory class recently performed on the FIne Arts lawn at an event called "Bach's Lunch."

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Sigma Tau Delta Sigma Tau Delta is the Eng-lish honors society, through a chapter of the national organi-zation of Sigma Tau Delta. English majors or minors with six hours or more of English other than comp 1 or 2 are eli-gible to apply for membership.

The perks are a good source for your resume and an excel-lent oppourtunity for campus involvment. Contanct Dr. John Mischo at jmischo@se.edu for info.

• Chanel Turner• Paige Percer• Ashley Duncan• Islam Abdul-

Moneim• Chelsea Nwankwo

• Megan Horn• Chelsea Upton• Heather Hartline• Jerreck McWilliams• Lucas Freeman

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I feel that this launch will bring about more major con-f l i c t s b e t w e e n the United

Nations and North Korea and possibly could result in war. This is not some-thing our nation needs at the moment because we still have soldiers in Iraq fighting. Why bring upon another war when the war we have going on right now should be stopped. North Korea continu-ous efforts in obtaining nuclear weapons and the ability to use those weap-ons against particularly the United States is an ongoing source of ten-sion between the United Nations and North Korea. This recent launch shows one more step of defiance towards UN sanctions which are trying to prevent the fur-therance of North Korea's military capabil-

ities. North Korea shot off the missile to see how far it would go. They are judging the distance so they will know when they start a war with the United Nations. However the Koreans are trying to save themselves by claiming they are rockets and sending them into space for satellite rea-sons. This is just some made up excuses to save themselves from being caught. I feel that this is even-tually going to cause another war. The United Nations does not need another war right now. We have too many men and women overseas fighting that should be brought home now. Why put other men and women lives in danger when we still have many overseas that should be home and that war should have ended a long time ago.

Blakely

It’s the end of the semester and everyone is perfectly well aware of it. The professors are throwing homework around like shuriken, the seniors are trying to pull everything together for graduation and the general populace of SE is preparing to sleep for a week once it’s all over. The Southeastern is no exception, with your faithful newsroom minions pouring the last of their sanity into this, the final paper of the Spring ‘09 semester. We have ranted about the bells, complained about evil trees and attacked the parking situation. We have randomly pulled people off of the street and asked them all sorts of random, somewhat relevant questions in an attempt to show SE students what their fellows have planned. We have hunted down news with a voraciousness that leaves people somewhere between admiring our tenacity and hoping we do not call them in the future. In short, we are honored to deliver the news here at Southeastern to our fellow students and we have no intentions of stopping. No matter how strange the events around here may be, someone from the Southeastern will be there to report on them. This semester we are losing our editor to the real world and we wish him the best of luck. If you too are going to be forced to take part in reality in just a few more weeks, we extend our best wishes to you as well. For those who are going to be returning in the fall, we’ll be waiting, making sure you know what’s going on here in this crazy place we call Southeastern.

OpinionPage 3 The SoutheasternThursday, April 30, 2009

This editorial is written by Brandi Bunch and reflects The Southeastern staff's collective opinion

Editorial

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by Austin Lewter

Southeastern Oklahoma State University, in compliance with Title VI and Vii of the Civil Right Act of 1964, Executive Order 11246 as amended, Title IX of the Education Amendment of 1972, Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and other federal laws and regulations, does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, disabilit, or status as a veteran in any of its policies, practices or proce-dures. This includes but is not limited to admissions, employment,financial aid and education services.

by Jenna Blakely

The columnists provide readers with their own insight regarding an issue relevant to current events each week. This week’s question is: With the world in such torrent trouble as war and crimes against humanity are

waged daily, where do you see humanity going as a species?

Matthew 2 4 : 6 - 7 s a y s , "And you shall hear of wars a n d rumors of wars. See

that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in vari-ous places." So what does this mean? Well, people have been predicting the end of time since the begin-ning of time. It is natural the societies evolve and endure the growing pains therein. Once again, I think the topic here is, in itself, a loaded question from a bias, skewed and young editorial staff that is try-ing to prove some kind of point. For the life of me, I cannot figure out what that point is... but I guess I applaud the effort. Today's events are far from the worst we have ever seen and we will

survive. We have had pinheads in the oval office before... and we survived. We have lost our morals as a society before... and we have survived. If the past 100 days of the new presi-dency is any indication of things to come, it should be pretty unevent-ful. I pray for our nation and our values and know that, through the mercy of Jesus Christ, we will survive... and the world will only come to an end when he comes again. Mark 13:32 says, "No one knows when that day or hour will come-not the angels in heaven, not the Son, but only the Father." So, I am not worried about it. There is no point in it. We will survive... until Gabrielle blows his horn... we will survive and the non-belivers among us won't even hear the trumpet sound... sad but true, so I chal-lenge you to rise above the muck that is around us and live each day as if He will be here tomor-row.

Lewter

by Dahlia Killian

Well if this one isn’t opin-ion based, I don’t know what is. And in my opinion humanity is heading in two directions

as fast as they can. In one direction we’ve got people who cling to their old hab-its, old traditions, old meth-ods, and old ways and on the other hand we have peo-ple striving to change their methods, find other (better) ways and reduce the dam-age they leave behind by living. The countries who veil their women, revel in bigot-ry, greed, terrorism, sexual discrimination, and a gen-eral lack of equality and education aren’t really interested in changing as a race, but eternally content to live in the ignorance they suffer greatly from. Men, on a whole, demand a woman’s submission—in fact the bible instructs a woman to know her place with a man. In reality, this isn’t so. A woman’s capability is just as impressive, if not more so in some cases, than a man’s and in countries where a man demands this submis-sion, they are in dire need of some revelation or under-standing that a woman’s place is not to serve man, but to make-do for herself

and those she cares for under a stance of equality. The human race is most definitely damned. We’re on a one way track to not only destroying our planet, but closing ourselves off from everyone around us because we’re so worried that we’ll be robbed, inconvenienced in some form or fashion, or taken advantage of by some-one who could be just as earnest if not more so, or a blatant criminal. The hope for our species dwindles for me and I’d say that, in a sense, it seems like it might be getting better, but recent-ly an Alaskan village (26 are in danger of this) had to evacuate due to flooding. This pretty much means worse for the animals—another set of species the human race has little con-cern for. As long as we have our luxurious cars, our vacation house in Florida and a gen-eral lack of respect for oth-ers because everything was handed to us on a silver platter, we’ll do just fine as a human race. Perhaps the worst of them all are chil-dren who have been given everything and receive little to no expectations as they grow older making them into self-centered and uncaring adults who’s only purpose is to concern them-selves with, well themselves.

Killian

So the end begins again as the semester drives towards that wretched end. And this mild-mannered editor is about to bid Southeastern a much-anticipated farewell. But before I go there are a few closing comments that must be made concerning my time here and how the future looks. First, the good. I want to give a shout out to Dr. Randy Prus, Dr. Virginia Par-rish, Mr. Ray Gaskin, Dr. John Mischo, Mrs. Teresa Anderson, Dr. Caryn Witten, Dr. Bruce Johnson, Dr. Kenneth Chinn, Ms. Gail Delashaw, the ladies at business auxillary, Mr. Curtis Billy, Dr. Lucinda Brese, all those who work at Student Sup-port Services, Dr. Mark Spencer, Dr. Carl Frinkle, Dr. Wayne Dixon, Dr. Ken Elder, Dr. Jane Elder and the honors program -- recognize. These are the individuals and various instutions within the SE institution that have afforded my experience here to be most satisfying and have given me tools and skills necessary to go into the more complex world. I will miss all these people. They are the most satisfying elements of this school and I hope to have contact with those that I can for many years to come. Second, the bad. I could list them all, but that list would not only get me in trouble, but Gaskin, the adviser to the newspaper, would probably get in a load of trouble.

So, instead, I present the following, light list of SE's worst: Financial aid, you guys made some of

my worst days while attending this place. Sodexo management, thanks for being a hellish cafeteria full of foods that makes one wish they lived in 1973 South Viet-nam. I like the staff at the cafeteria (Ms. Pam, you're awesome), the food is just terrible. And by the way, thanks for letting

Afflac screech across the whole cafeteria and make us wish our own conception had been botched.

Next, I will be bidding farewell to the "Bible Belt" come this fall. My only ex-cursions into this territory, ever again, will be to visit family and friends and those instances will probably be brief and few and far between. And I want to tell you all how glad I am to get out of this place.

Religion, if you cannot tell, is something I consider to be down right intolerable. It is insane and creates some of the worst living conditions this side of what hell is concieved as being like. I feel sorry for all those who are rational and cannot get out of here, I hope to rescue you someday -- don't convert before then. And, since I wanted to address it, I have heard people in the last few days denoting atheists as being ignorant of how the real world works and being children who never really developed in the mind. I'm here to tell you that, as an atheist, I have seen agendas and fashions and events in reality that have marked me and driven me into this thinking. It was not the occur-rance that one day I just said, "I'm an athe-ist." No, indeed I gave it a lot of thought and presence of mind. As I bid you all farewell it must be said that without this place I could not have made it. The good and the overly terrible, both helped create the man that now sits here and types out his thoughts for the general public. SE has been an experience and created such a paradigm in my life for observing the world that I will never forget. And I hope to one day be able to count myself among the great alumni of South-eastern Oklahoma State University. Peace, ya'll and have a happy, happy life...just remember Epicurus' quote.

Semester's end looms and we say bye

What the hell, it's the end of an era and everything comes crumbling downQuiency Brannan

Editor

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EntertainmentPage 4 The Southeastern Thursday, April 30, 2009

Bookstore Corner

1. Breaking Dawn--Stephenie Meyer2. Tea Time for the Traditionally Built-- Alexander McCall3. First Family--David Baldacci4. Host--Stephenie Meyer5. Turn Coat--Juim Butcher6. Tales of Beedle the Bard--J Rowling7. Handle With Care--Jodi Picoult8. Perfect Fifths--Megan McCafferty9. Long Lost--Harlan Coben10. Just Take My Heart--Mary Clark

National Campus Bestsellers

From the Barnes and Noble Campus Bookstore

Fiction

HARDCOVER

1. Act like a Lady, Think Like a Man:What Men Really Think About Love--Steve Harvey2. Outliers: The Story of Success--Malcolm Gladwell3. Liberty and Tyranny:A Conservative Manifesto--Mark Levin4. My Booky Wooky: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs and...--Russell Brand5. House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Ex...-- William Cohan6. Always Look Up:The Adventures of an Incurable...-- Michael Fox7. Last Lecture--Randy Pausch8. 10 10 10: A Life-Transforming Idea--Suzy Welch9. This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Sig--David Wallace10. Columbine--David Cullen

Non-Fiction

PAPERBACK

1. Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao-- Junot Diaz2. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies--Seth Grahame-Smith3. Twilight--Stephenie Meyer4. Unaccustomed Earth--Jhumpa Lahiri5. Shack--William Young6. Olive Kitteridge--Elizabeth Strout7. Snuff--Chuck Palahniuk8. Love the One You're With--Emily Giffin9. Girls in Trucks--Kate Crouch10. Watchmen--Alan Moore

Fiction1. Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance-- Barack Obama2. God Is Not Great:How Religion Poisons Everything--David Zinczenco3. Nudge:Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth...-- Richard Thaler4. This Is Your Brain on Music--Daniel Levitin5. Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream--Barack Obama6. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain--Oliver Sacks7. Armageddon in Retrospect--Kurt Vonnegut8. Skinny Bitch--Kim Barnouin9. Naturally Thin: Unleash Your Skinny Girl-- Bethenny Frankel10. Eat This Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide--David Zinczenkor

Non-Fiction

"The Spirit," worst movie ever made Coming in on the stink meter this week is the wretched film "The Spirit," based on Will Eisner's comic book series from the mid-twentieth century. Director Frank Miller, (co-director, "Sin City" 2005), is responsible for this torrent piece of cinematic fecal matter. As an ama-teur director, "The Spirit" being his first solo directorial job, Miller demonstrates to the audience that he, unlike most people, cannot draw any pleasure from his first solo job. His style and manner of film cap-ture are just horrid and his actors appeared to constantly be mindlessly aiming into the abyss of the story. The story, as it were, follows Danny Colt, played by Gabriel Macht, who ever he is, who is a cop returned from the dead as the Spirit. His abilities include: he can-not die. Oh yeah! an immortal Batman without all the cool gadgets. His generally baddy in this movie is the Octopus, played by Sam Jackson ("Snakes on a Plane," 2005), who is a terrible bad guy who really doesn't do much of any-thing particularly terrible. Scarlett Johansson and Eva Mendes are in the film, though. They're hot and all bothered baddies who give the audience some symbol that this film might just be

redeemable. Gigitty. But no, what really is terrible about the film is its means of trying to make the whole thing humorous with throw backs to the slap stick comedy of the 1930s and such, and honestly, that form of humor is not necessarily too in fashion.

The story is incredibly cliche and it is just assorted among today's pop culture and hits the fan as a terrible piece of crap. For the informal manner in which this film sucks at humor and action, I award it a 0 out of 5 star rating. I wanted to kill myself after watching it.

willeisner.com

Quiency BrannanEditor

Why is it that the most beautiful things in life are usually found in the most unlikely of places, especially when you aren’t even looking? Well, such was the case, I found, upon my discovery of Rachel Toews (pro-nounced “Taves”) and her music. This fellow SOSU student of ours has created an album richly lay-ered in nuanced passion, an arching ode to/of life, infused with heartfelt hope and uncompromising sincer-ity. Here’s the story. I am forgetful. It is my sis-ter Rebecca’s (who shall be henceforth referred to as “The Hippie”) responsibility to remind me of the cultural-ly-enriching opportunities provided us by our status as students here at Southeastern, and by exten-sion, as occasional denizens of Durant. Well, The Hippie did in fact make me privy to such an occasion, an art show at the Main Street Coffee Bar. The only problem was—through a mistake brought on by word of mouth—we were a week early. Fast forward a week. I am sitting, mostly naked, in the luxurious leather armchair I stole from my non-hippie sister Arnie; one hand tucked deliberately in the waisteband of my boxers—Al Bundy style—the other feeding my mouth a relent-less stream of eco-friendly cheddar-cheese chips (I sup-pose the hippie-ness is rub-bing off on me). Simply put, I am not really ready to do anything. I get a text-message from The Hippie. “Hey, wanna go to the art show?” Did I men-tion that I received this mes-sage 20 minutes before the art show was to begin, and that we live 40 miles away from Durant? Owing to my unkempt state, I declined my sister’s offer. If you missed the per-formance like I did, she will be reprising it, again at the Main Street Coffee Bar on May 15. But. The Hippie did bring me back a profession-ally-produced CD with a curious, attention-grabbing, though nonchalantly hand-drawn, cover. On it a heart rests atop a growing expanse of roots. This cover could not be more appropriate, I soon dis-covered, as Toews’ roots have gained a hold on my own heart; one that sinks deeper with every subse-

quent listening. I was hooked immediately by the surprisingly-upbeat tempo of Toews’s acoustic guitar, an accompaniment that belies the sorrowful lyr-ics in her opening track

“Wake Up.” She goes on to explore the univer-sal highs and lows of love throughout the album—exhibiting a rarified insight that is exempli-

fied by her honed, unpreten-tious musicianship—as is conveyed in songs such as “Flawless,” and “You Can’t See That.” The popular trend in music reviews seems to be that at some point similarities must be drawn. Names must be dropped. In this case, how-ever, my reluctance will not allow it. Although I suppose if you tried really hard, you could find the vague traces of Toews’ self-proclaimed influences in her music. But to go beyond this con-cession would be a travesty. The sound and style Toews produces with this album are wholly unique, and all her own. There is no fluff to be found here, no filler tracks that seem so prevalent with typical mainstream releases. Whether it is the thematical-ly-eponymous “Waltz,” or my personal favorite “I Hate Australia,” a deeply affect-ing song that leads into a satisfying, operatic crescen-do, Toews’ honey-soaked voice rolls over her emotive-ly-charged lyrics with a sub-tle, natural effervescence that commands the ear and gently lulls and caresses the mind. So, quit downloading all those derivative, commer-cialized, ubiquitous, uniform songs that will likely just end up needlessly occupying your hard drive, as you will probably not even listen to them more than once, and go buy Rachel’s album. If we are to make any legitimate attempt at a just world, there has to be com-pensation for an effort such as this one, even if it serves only as an acknowledgment of innate talent. Don’t be foolish enough to miss out on your opportunity at appreciating this burgeon-ing musical talent while she is still a small town treasure. As suggested in the title of her song “Oh! The Places You’ll Go,” another of my favorites, which includes a soulful, haunting piano solo finale, this kind of beauty cannot go long unnoticed. Rachel Toews will indeed be going places.

SE Student deserves recognitionJeremiah Hoster

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LifestylesPage 5 The SoutheasternThursday, April 30, 2009

Protect Yourself OutdoorsProvided by the US Department of Health and Human Services and SOSU’s Student Health Services

It's springtime, and for most people, that means it's time to go outside and enjoy the weather. The return of warmer tem-peratures brings thoughts of freedom, relaxation, explo-ration, and being closer to Nature. Whether you're relax-ing in the backyard, hitting the pool, or exploring the great outdoors, here are some ways to help keep you and your family healthy this spring and summer.Beware of Bugs Warmer temperatures aren't just attractive to people. Mosquitoes, ticks, fleas, and other insects thrive in warmer weather, and they can transmit West Nile virus, Lyme disease,

and other illnesses. Using in-sect repellent that works well, and applying it properly allows you to continue to play and work outdoors with a reduced risk of mosquito bites. Young ticks are so small that they can be difficult to see, but both young and adult ticks hungrily look to animals and some-times people to bite. To protect yourself from tick bites, avoid tick-infested areas, wear light-colored clothing so you can see ticks crawling on you, and use repellent containing DEET (and spray permethrin on your clothing). After you have been outside, check your body, your clothing, your children, and your pets for ticks. If you find any ticks, carefully remove

them with tweezers. Get the whole tick, not just the body! Consult your healthcare pro-vider if you become ill in the 1-3 weeks following a bite. Ticks prefer wooded and bushy areas with high grass and a lot of leaf litter. These are areas to avoid. Take extra precautions in May, June, and July. This is when ticks that transmit Lyme disease are most active. If you do enter a tick area, walk in the center of the trail to avoid contact with over-grown grass, brush, and leaf litter. Ask your local health depart-ment and park or extension service about tick infested areas

to avoid.Around the Yard Now's the time to seal up, trap up, and clean up to pre-vent rodent infestation. As you're clearing out clutter, fill any gaps or holes inside and outside your home. Eliminate or seal rodent food sources such as pet food, bird feeders, and garbage cans. Elevate hay, woodpiles, and garbage cans at least 1 foot off the ground, and trim grass and shrubbery within 100 feet of your home. In the yard, remove any items that may collect stand-ing water, such as buckets, old tires, and toys.

Mosquitoes can breed in them in just days. You can reduce the number of ticks around your home by removing leaf litter and brush- and woodpiles around your house and at the edge of your yard. By clearing trees and brush in your yard, you can reduce the likelihood that deer, ro-dents, and ticks will live there. Replace or repair torn win-dow screens to keep bugs out of the house. Enjoy the great outdoors. Have a safe and healthy spring and summer! For more information contact Student Health Services @

(580) 745-2867. As the semes-ter, as well as my super-long college career, comes to an end, I’m offering you some simple steps to make this dreaded fi-nals week a little greener. If you’re like us “deadline people”, you’re eager to rip up your old paper-work and watch it burn while you sit back, take a breath and then reorganize. But let’s not turn into pyromaniacs just yet. Recycle Your Paper: Tear out the pages in your notebook that are full of notes and doodles that you’ll no longer need. Recycle them with old term papers, test materials and every handout each professor has given you. There are recycling bins for paper in the Morrison building now. Yay! With paper products we’re doing pretty well. Almost half of the paper used in the USA is now being recycled into new paper products. That's more than glass, metal, plastic, and "mis-cellaneous" combined.

Plus, making recycled paper uses 30-55% less energy than making paper out of new trees Sell Your Books: While the cam-pus bookstore is a fast and easy way to make a little cash it isn’t certain you’ll even be able to sell them back. Some books are only bought back due to fact that a certain class isn’t of-fered the following semester. Talk to some peers in your department. Chances are you’ll find someone who will soon need that very book. It’s easy, local and very green. The book has already been made. The trees were processed, the fuels were burned and the planet has suf-fered enough. If you aren’t able to sell your book

through these outlets, then try eBay or Ama-zon. So what if there are a little extra highlighter marks? You’re only helping the next owner’s study guide. Recycle Your Pens: Every year in the USA alone about 106 billion throw-away pens have to be disposed of in landfill sites. The easiest thing you can do is buy ink and

just refill them when they’re dry. But recycling a plastic pen is just like recycling any other plastic. Take the pen completely apart and put the parts in the plastic bin then walk away. If you have a more creative mind, you could use the outer shells as straws. They can also be used as plant stakes or you can even cut the outer tubes into beads and make a curtain. And there’s always the magnificent pen chandelier. I hope all of you have a safe and green finals week. It’s been my plea-sure.

Alpha Sigma Tau inducts

From left to right Alpha Sigma Tau sorority inducted new memebers: Elise Testerman, Haven Walters, Kristal Aston, Jordan Thurman and Jennifer White.

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Willie rocks the South

The ultimate cowboy-hippie troubadour made a stop last week in Ardmore to prove he’s still the American icon we all know and love. Since age seven, Willie Nelson has been writing songs and performing with his pianist sister, Bobbie. In addition to little sis, Nelson’s band consists of drummer Paul English, har-monicist Mickey Raphael, Bee Spears, Billy English and Jody Payne. Time has truly been on their side. The band sounds even better than the last time I saw them in 2005. Serenading for nearly two hours, Nelson performed ev-erything from his songwrit-ing days in the Nashville machine to his collaborative works such as “Beer for My Horses.” He even covered Kris Kristofferson’s “Me and Bobby McGee,” (you may be familiar with Janis Joplin’s gut wrenching release). Some crowd fa-vorites were “Crazy,” made

popular by Patsy Cline, “You Were Always on my Mind,” “Blue Eyes Cryin’ in the Rain,” and “Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow up to be Cowboys,” minus Waylon Jennings, of course. He is a noted lifelong pot smoking, tax-evading, biodiesel-burning, old school member of “Wanted! The Outlaws.” The most appealing aspect of Nelson’s performance was his relationship with his fans. He would point, smile and wave at his adoring worshippers with a thankful grin. “Thanks for hangin’ around with us for so long,” he said. Nelson even took the time after his set to walk up and down the stage sign-ing everything from chests to vinyls for anyone and everyone. And he did this patiently, respectfully and gladly. “Thank you for comin’, baby,” he said after signing my ticket stub. All I could say was gib-berish.

Taron HoganStaff writer

SportsPage 6 The Southeastern Thursday, April 30, 2009

Sports calendar■ To have your team’s schedule listed, call 5 8 0 - 7 4 5 - 2 9 8 3 , o r e-mail:campuspages@ gmail.com.

BaseballSE @ LSC Conference

Tournament in Abilene, Texas May 2-5

Baseball team storms into LSC tournament

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Trey Wingo was solid for the Storm in the field and at the plate against East Central. Wingo is batting .293 and is tied for the team lead in RBIs with 35.

SE takes 3 of 4 from East Central to quality for conference tournament Southeastern (27-24) picked up a 13-12 win in 10 innings over rival East Central in Friday’s sus-pended game, then added a Saturday sweep with wins of 5-1 and 9-8 en route to clinching the No. 4 seed in the Lone Star Conference Tournament which will be in Abilene, Texas, beginning May 2. The Savage Storm will face the host Abilene Chris-tian at 7 p.m. on May 2.In the suspended game, the first seven hitters in the SE lineup collected at least two hits each as the Storm pounded out 18 as a team. Ryan Bowen led the way with a 4-for-6 effort, while Torey Oller was right behind going 3-for-5 with three RBI. Robbie Morris and Tyler John-son each added two RBI. Matt Kinard got the start and went 5.1 innings, al-lowing three runs on eight hits with four K’s, earning a no decision. Trey Wright, Matt Hinds and Oller worked the next 2.2 innings leading into the delay.Reece Dodd picked up his first win of the series after working the final 2.0 in-nings, allowing just one hit and striking out three. In the game each team posted a six run inning, and the Storm got the win when Bowen, who dou-bled to lead off the 10th, scored on an Oller sac fly. In Saturday’s regularly scheduled game one, Dodd came back and tossed a

complete game to earn his second win of the day, tossing 7.0 innings and al-lowing an unearned run on four hits with two K’s. A Morris two-run homer in the first put SE on the board and a Johnson two-run single in the second doubled the lead to 4-0.ECU picked up its run in the third, but Oller would drive in Trey Wingo in the fifth to fashion the 5-1 final. In the nightcap, Bow-en paced the squad with a 3-for-4 outing, while Mat wolf added a 2-for-3 effort with three RBI.

Blake Worthen got the start and tossed 6.0 innings, al-lowing four runs on eight hits before handing the ball to Trey Wright who faced two batters, with both col-lecting hits and scoring. Oller took the ball and tossed 1.1 innings and al-lowed two runs on two hits before giving way to Matt Hinds who picked up his seventh save, toss-ing 1.2 innings and allow-ing no runs and no hits, while striking out two. The Storm used a five run sec-ond inning to mount a 5-0 lead and continued to add runs on the way to a 9-0 margin after six innings.

Rodeo team qualifies 3 for upcoming national finals The Southeastern Ro-deo Team wrapped up their regular season at North-eastern Oklahoma A&M in Miami April 23-25. Senior Jayce John-son won the average in the tie down roping. Teammate Trevor Con-nelly from Durant was fifth. For the year Southeastern has three individuals who have qualified for the Col-lege National Finals Ro-deo in Casper, Wyoming. Senior Trevor Con-nelly from Durant won

the team roping heeling year-end award in the Cen-tral Plains Region. His partner, sophomore Ryan Von Ahn from Sac City, Iowa won the team rop-ing heading for the region. SE teammate Daniel Reed , a sophomore from Roxton, Texas won second in the team roping heeling. Daniel ropes with Joe Macoubrie from Northwestern Okla-homa State. The three will respresent Southeastern in the Nation-al Finals Rodeo June 14.

Tough loss for SE softballers No. 4 Southeastern (50-11) scored a pair of runs in the final frame, but left the bases loaded as No. 5 An-gelo State (41-8) handed the Savage Storm a 4-3 loss in the Lone Star Con-ference Tournament semi-finals Sunday in Durant. The RamBelles will now advance to face Abilene Christian in a three-game series for the confer-ence championship, while SE will now wait to find out its regional destiny. While Coach Ron Fau-bion’s Storm wait, however, they were scheduled to face Oklahoma City University today in a late-afternoon single game at the South-eastern Softball Complex.

Heavy rain Wednes-day forced cancel-lation of the game. Marjorie Johnson was handed the loss in the de-ciding game against Angelo Sunday, tossing 4.0 innings and allowing three runs on two hits while striking out 10, but walking nine. Jami McAdoo tossed 3.0 innings in relief, allowing a run on two hits with two K’s. At the plate, Erika Ber-nal picked up three of the four SE hits, with a double and a home run.McAdoo collected the other hit for the Storm, while Ben-ita Sanchez and Laney An-derson each added an RBI. ASU jumped to an early 2-0 lead in the first, sending

eight hitters to the plate with both runs scoring on free passes with the bases loaded. The Belles pushed the lead to 3-0 in the third, but Bernal connected on a solo homer over the right centerfield wall to trim the deficit to 3-1. ASU got another run in the top of the sixth and the Storm trailed 4-1 heading into the bottom of the seventh inning SE loaded the bases in the seventh, and got back-to-back walks to score two runs and nar-row the margin to 4-3. However, a ground-out ended the rally and the Storm comeback. The Storm awaits the end of the LSC tournament to learn their playoff status.

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Erika Bernal went 3-for-3 with a homerun in Southeastern's hard-fought 4-3 loss to Angelo State Sunday. The win sends Angelo to the conference finals.

Spring tennis season ends for Storm as men and women pick up honors Southeastern men's ten-nis picked up several hon-ors as the spring season came to an end. Travis Truax, Oriol Vidal Cortes, Alejandro Argumendo and Nikita Ryashchenko were the players recognized. Truax was named the LSC Sportsmanship Player of the Year after posting a 14-6 sin-gles record. He played in ev-ery position from one to five. Cortes was honored as Co-Freshman of the Year after compiling a 13-7 sin-gles record in his first sea-son, including a 5-2 mark at number six singles. He also added a 10-4 doubles record. Argumendo was tabbed Co-Newcomer of the Year in the league turning in an 8-7 mark in singles play and a 12-9 mark in dou-bles, with nine of those wins comning with Cortes. Ryashchenko built on his freshman campaign and was tabbed all-conference in singles and doubles play. He tallied a 9-4 singles mark on the year, going 6-3 at the number one po-sition in duel matches. In doubles Ryashchenko teamed with Truax for a 6-4 mark, earning them both doubles team recognition. The Storm also had a second doubles duo earn conference honors with

Cortes and Argumendo tak-ing home the recognition. Ryashchenko was also selected to the LSC Ten-nis Men's All-Academic Team, while Matt Kel-so landed on the Com-missioner's Honor Roll. Southeastern finished up the season at the LSC Post-Sea-son Tournament in Wichita Falls where they fell to host Midwestern April 24, 5-1. Argumendo and Cortes took the number one dou-bles action, but the Storm lost the other matches. The SE women fell to Abilene Christian in the conference tournament 8-0. The Storm's best match-es came at the num-ber two and number four singles positions. At two, Jenny Paine dropped a hard fought match to Sarah Drummond of ACU, 6-2, 6-3. At the number four po-sition, Ashley Grayson of Southeastern battled hard before losing to Cassie Carver 6-2, 6-2. SE struggled in doubles, winning only three games out of the three matches, with two of them chalked up by Paine and Mayra Leal at the number one spot. The defeat wrapped up the LSC season for the Storm women.

'09 Springfootballconcludes

The Savage Storm foot-ball team has wrapped up spring practice. Coach Ray Richards' team held several scrim-mages including the spring game April 18, which featured offen-sive and defensive play. Richards comment-ed that the team made good progress during the off-season workouts.

"We are just trying to get as much done as we can," Richards said re-cently. "We want to get as much taught as we can." Southeastern will wel-come 32 additions to the fall roster, if all recruits who signed national letters of intent follow through with their promises. Included in the crop of new recruits are two quarterbacks. Jercolby Bradley is a 6-0, 185 lb. signal caller from Irving High School (Texas). Quarterback Reid Gol-son signed with South-eastern after finishing his high school career at Grandview, Texas High School. Golson is 6-0, and weighs 185 lbs. The Savage Storm will have a lot of competition at wide receiver, where Richards' staff recruit-ed seven new players. All but one of the new receivers is from Texas. Tague Hinkley is the lone Oklahoma recruit at that position. He comes to SE from Thackerville, which plays eight-man football. The team will have one incoming tight end, Coby Ragsdale of Collinsville High School (Texas). Seven new offensive linemen and four addi-tions to the defensive line are on the recruit list. There are a pair of Lo-gans at linebacker; Logan Russell of Plainview and Logan Moore from Atoka. At the high profile run-ning back position new-comers include LaChris-tian Shepherd, Sachse, Texas and Eric Cleere, Paris Chisum (Texas). They'll get some help at the blocking fullback position from recruit Alex Rice, a 5-11, 245 bruiser from Glenpool. Rounding out the re-cruit list were sev-eral defensive backs. SE dipped heavily into Texas, signing 24 players.Only eight signees are from Oklahoma. From the immediate area, Bailey Nelson, an offensive lineman from Durant, was signed, along with lineback-er Moore from Atoka. Josh Higgins, a line-man, is from Sherman. The Storm inked one player from Broken Bow, Safety Mitchell Man-ning, who is 5-11, 185 lbs.

Matt Hinds

Coach Ray Richards