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Just as the most current edition of the yearbook is set to debut,
Ron Addington, professor of mass media and yearbook advis-er, has announced that it is time to say goodbye to his Henderson family.
Addington graduated from Henderson in 1968. Between graduation and teaching at Hen-derson in 1975, he taught high school journalism. He also joined the U.S. Army as an officer after finishing the ROTC program in college.
Since first coming to Hender-son as a public relations director in 1975, Addington has migrated to several other schools covering many different jobs. After three years, he left Henderson to fur-ther his career in other avenues.
Addington didn’t make his way back to Henderson until 1986 when he began teaching part time. He switched from teaching part time to full time in 1995 and has been doing so ever since.
“There were a lot of things in life that helped steer my life, but there were three major things,” said Addington. “Being an Ea-gle Scout, my experiences in the Army and working for Bill Clin-ton in PR during his first election all helped shape my career.”
Henderson has proven to be home for Addington in more ways than just as a faculty mem-ber. He met his wife while he was the public relations director. Most of the Henderson faculty attended the wedding reception. Both of his children also gradu-
ated from Henderson Addington’s influence on his
students has not gone unnoticed. “He had no problem staying af-
ter classes to guide and motivate me,” Moe Skinner, junior mass media major, said. “The school will feel a great loss when he goes.”
His dedication to his students is fueled by his desire to see them succeed and he is rewarded with the privilege of seeing them graduate and move on to great futures.
“Going to graduation is inspi-rational,” said Addington.
Although graduation is the main reward, the notes and emails he receives years later thanking him for being so tough also help him see how influential he was during his time at Henderson.
“Dr. Addington has been my biggest cheerleader from the start of my college career,” Kai-tlyn Tolleson, junior mass media major, said of Addington. “It will be sad to see Dr. Addington leave Henderson, but I count myself lucky to have been one of his students.”
Students are not the only ones that have noticed what a great job he has done over the years.
“I’ve worked with him for nine years and he has always been polite to me,” said Connie Loy, Garrison Center office supervi-sor. “Some people just don’t have that respect for one another, but he does and he also does a great job with the yearbook.”
After teaching for the past 45 years, as of this week, Addington has no shortage of plans after he retires from Henderson.
He owns his own business and is also remodeling, so there are many projects to keep him busy. However, Addington is most excited for his grandchildren to be able to spend more time with “Daddo.”
Although he is happy about spending time with his family at home, leaving his Henderson family behind will be no easy task.
“I’ve got real roots here at Hen-derson,” Addington said.
Although Addington will no longer officially be at Hender-son, he plans to pop in and out throughout the rest of this se-mester, helping students find in-ternships and assisting with the yearbook whenever he is need-ed. Michael Taylor, professor of communication and Oracle advi-sor, will be advising the yearbook.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2014 HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY VOLUME 15, ISSUE 15
INDEX Features: page 2 | Opinions: page 3 | Sports: page 4
Addington retires from Henderson
*Photo courtesy of Heath Sims
Stephanie HartmanNews Editor
NEW TO THE GAME Shawn Jones be-comes the new ahtletic director for Henderson State University.
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In The Fold
The Top 10 movies of 2013I’m going to cash in on something every website and magazine has done and give my, I repeat, my top ten mov-ies of 2013. I know it’s late, but this paper wasn’t being made when I wanted to make my list so all the haters can suck a butt.
My absolute fa-vorite movie of the year was a summer indie flick that made me feel good as a person.
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“Lone Survivor” and “Her” movie reviewsThe new year start-ed with a series of great movies, “The Legend of Hercu-les” excluded.
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63 30
Monday
64 30
Tuesday
43 23
Wednesday
61 25
Thursday
48 19
Friday
61 27
Saturday
59 28
Sunday
SWEET, SWEET RETIREMENT Ron Addington, yearbook advi-sor and professor, is retiring from Henderson after 38 years of teaching.
Sports
Opinions
Features
Income gap re-emerges as a talking point after pope’s remarksPope Francis wrote about in-
come gaps in his recent apostolic exhortation. The graph to the left shows just how wide income gaps have become in the past few de-cades.
Pundits have revived the same arguments they cultivated dur-ing the Occupy Wall Street media frenzy. This graphic is a means of education that these income gaps exist and is presented using facts, thanks to Face the Facts USA.
January means only two things in the world of film. First, audiences will be bom-barded by crappy movies until March. Second and fortunately, this is also the time when ob-scure Oscar-bait movies gain steam and popularity. This week we get a good amount of both.
On one side you have “The Legend of Hercules,” a movie no one should see, and on the other side you’ve got “Lone Survivor,” and “Her,” movies everyone should see and ones that are likely oscar nominees.
“Lone Survivor,” is a good movie. It’s real and brutal, and should continue to make a great deal of money. The only problem is that it feels like something is missing. Maybe it’s the distracting Mark Wahl-berg or the lackluster last third of the movie.
“Her” on the other hand is an almost perfect movie. Di-rected by Spike Jonze, director of “Where the Wild Things Are,” and the greatest Beastie Boy music video “Sabotage,” “Her,” takes place in the not-too-distant future and centers on the lonely Theodore Twom-bly as he attempts to move on with his life after a divorce.
In his despair, Theodore pur-chases a new operating system that has the ability to learn and evolve. When given the option of a male or female system, he of course chooses the latter. Theodore and the OS, Sam, voiced by Scarlett Johansson, begin developing a friendship as she encourages him to put himself out there. Things grow more serious and intimate be-tween the two and a beautiful
relationship begins.The only problem is that Sam
is constantly evolving and it is only a matter of time before Theodore starts to feel left be-hind. The story alone is inter-esting, but when combined it with beautiful writing and style you get an incredible piece of cinema.
The acting is great, especially when you consider that Joa-quin Phoenix is acting opposite a voice. He delivers a perfor-mance that breaks your heart as Theodore and really makes audiences feel for the guy. You understand what he’s going through because we’ve all been in love at one time or another.
Johansson knocks it out of the park with her voice. It is beautiful and captures your at-tention. There is talk of a pos-sible nomination for her voice
work and it would be well de-served.
The style, while subtle, is a mixture of Wes Anderson and Quentin Tarantino. There is something quirky about the film, but also real and outra-geous at the same time.
Jonze has created a world that rides the line between real and science fiction, and you find yourself wanting to be a part of it. The best aspect of the movie has to be the writing.Written by Jonze, “Her,” is one big relationship. It encompass-es everything about love and the people who fall for each other. This is all because of the writing. It’s real and always has purpose.
Audiences may go into the movie thinking it will be a fun, romantic movie, but it isn’t. It’s a real story. Love isn’t al-
ways happy and awesome, so why should a movie about it be? Jonze chooses his message over popularity, and for that he deserves respect.
He isn’t cashing in on some-thing like a dumb Hercules movie or the next big superhe-ro flick, he creates a story that everyone can relate to and Hol-lywood needs more of that.
Let’s all make a New Year’s resolution to be more aware of the garbage we watch.
If you’re not going to try and see something of value that will be making headlines in the next few weeks, you should probably lay low and avoid the movies for the next few weeks.
If you’re looking for a mov-ie filled with great acting and beautiful storytelling go check out “Her.” Who knows, you just may fall in love with it.
January 14, 2014
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While going through some old boxes, Rebecca Fulmer found “a package of history wrapped in a crumbling, brown envelope.” The negatives she unearthed featured scores of children standing in front of old school buildings.
Fulmer then teamed up with Beverly Buys and Rhonda Berry to exhibit these photos for the late artist, Jane Ross.
The Ross family name has car-ried weight in this region for over a century and Jane played no small part in continuing that legacy. Ross graduated from Arkadelphia High in 1938 and four years later graduated from Henderson.
After serving as a photo tech-nician in World War II, Ross at-tended Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, ac-cording to The Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
Upon her return home, she opened a studio and began to live out her dream to as a profes-
sional photographer. However, this time as a pro photographer was short-lived, as her father died and her mother’s health waned, Ross took the reins of the family business in 1955.
The rarity of her work gives an historical ambiance to these aged photos, but they retain some prescience as you look into the faces of these young children and imagine their simi-larity to children today.
Rhonda Berry worked as print-er, photographer and artist on “Sometimes All That Remains are Visions and Dreams.”
Berry’s keen blending of nega-tives produces striking contrast and concurrence in the images.
“This was a show to honor [Ross’] memory,” Berry said. “[I wanted] to represent the mem-ory aspect of it. I used a lot of clouds and a lot of water, be-cause those are things that are constantly changing. A lot of my imagery has to do with memory, so [Buys] felt it would be good for me to work on her show.”
Beverly Buys, professor of art at Henderson, was Berry’s pho-tography teacher and noticed
Berry had the skills for a project like this.
“I had a concept and it in-volved Rhonda Berry,” Buys said. “I knew it would be a per-fect blend of negatives. It’s lay-ered and the more you look at it, the more you see.”
“You wonder who those peo-ple were,” Edwin Martin, retired art professor, said. “All of that would have been lost if they hadn’t gone through that draw-er, or wherever they found it. It’s like a fragment of the past. It’s mysterious and when you put the other stuff with it, it makes it even more mysterious and dreamy.”
Rebecca Fulmer is the woman who discovered the negatives, she works as curator and writer for the show.
“That’s the way almost every-one knows her name,” Fulmer said of the Ross Foundation.
“She loved photography,” Ful-mer said. “She kind of ran off from Arkadelphia, her family was quite wealthy, but she de-cided that she wanted a career of her own. When she was dis-charged from the army, she had
something like 40 dollars in her (personal) bank account, but she had the GI Bill and went to Rochester.”
The Ross Foundation was something that would help “channel their wealth into some-thing that was truly philanthrop-ic,” Fulmer said. “In dollars and cents they say more than 50 per-cent of their philanthropy has been toward education.”
The foundation has given at least 10 million in philanthropy and Ross has been recognized throughout the state for her work with the community, ac-cording to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Ross died in 1999.
Most Henderson students are familiar with the Joint Educa-tional Consortium. This effort was funded by the Ross Founda-tion and allows for Henderson and Ouachita Baptist to share card catalogs with one another.
The impact of Ross’ recovered photos reflects Ross’ effect on education in southern Arkansas. “Sometimes All That Remains are Visions and Dreams” will be on display at the Arkadelphia Arts Center through Jan. 25.
Jane Ross’ memory lives on through lost film negatives
“Her” and “Lone Survivor” prove to be best
Morgan AcuffEditor-in-chief
JD. RobertsStaff Writer
2013 was a hit and miss year for the movies.
There were the usual sus-pects, the good ones, the bad ones and, of course, the ugly ones. So I’m going to cash in on something every website and magazine has done and give my, I repeat, my top ten movies of 2013. I know it’s late, but this paper wasn’t be-ing made when I wanted to make my list so all the haters can suck a butt.
10. The ConjuringI love that I can put a hor-
ror movie on my list and not get embarrassed or harassed about it. “The Conjuring,” was a creepy, well made film that I can continue to watch year af-ter year. The scares were great, the tension was terrifying and that soundtrack was something from my nightmares. I really hope we get to see a sequel to this movie instead of another dumb Paranormal Activity movie.
9. Pacific RimI’ve waited years for a new
Power Rangers movie, but ev-ery year I wait for good news that will probably never hap-pen. Luckily 2013 gave us “Pa-cific Rim,” an action-packed,
mind-numbing, good time that can be summed in three words: robots versus monsters. Who could hate a movie like this? Wait, I know, someone who hated being a kid and playing in the bathtub.
8. Don JonAfter years of hard work and
smart acting choices, Joseph Gordon-Levitt finally got his chance to shine as a writer and director. “Don Jon,” is a stylis-tic morality tale that says a lot about men and women and how they see each other. While it isn’t the best film to watch with your family or significant other, it is definitely worth a watch.
7. Fruitvale StationEvery year there is a movie
that comes out of nowhere and shocks everyone. “Fruit-vale Station,” is that movie. It is so realistic and heartbreak-ing. Confession, I got a little teary-eyed at the end. It is so emotional and so incredible. Stop what you’re doing and find some way to watch this movie now.
6. Dallas Buyers Club2013 was clearly McCo-
naughey’s year. “Mud,” was freaking fantastic, “Wolf of Wall Street,” was epic, but “Dallas Buyers Club,” was his masterpiece when it comes to his acting. It is a moving tale of hope and transformation that sets itself apart from other Oscar worthy movies. It feels
different, but in a good way. Seriously check this out when you can.
5. The Spectacular NowI wrote a review on this mov-
ie a few months back and since then I’ve only grow to love this movie even more. Easily one of the most realistic films of the year, “The Spectacular Now,” is a phenomenal love story that captures the feelings and awkwardness of young love. It comes out on DVD to-day, so go out and get it when you’re done reading this.
4. MudWho knew that one of the
best movies of the year was shot in the beautiful state of Arkansas? “Mud,” is so great and recreates the tone of leg-endary movies like “Stand By Me,” and “The Goonies.” It is such a cool story and makes you want to go out and make your own film with your friends.
3. GravityI know you’ve heard all about
“Gravity,” and there’s a reason for that. It’s because it is one of the best movies of the year. Visually stunning, the movie is filled with beauty and sus-pense. If you didn’t see this in theaters I feel sorry for you, but there’s nothing a big screen television and surround sound can’t fix.
2. The Wolf of Wall StreetWhen a movie directed by
the great Martin Scorsese, you are in for what will one day
be a piece of cinema history. “The Wolf of Wall Street,” is a three-hour testosterone filled, good time. The acting is amaz-ing, the story is outrageous and the f-word is used over 522 times. Sounds like a good time. This one is still in theaters and is worth every penny. Keep in mind this is not a movie to see with your parents. You will definitely need a shower when you’re done.
1. The Way, Way Back My absolute favorite movie
of the year was a summer indie flick that made me feel good as a person. “The Way, Way Back,” centers on a kid who doesn’t fit in and isn’t liked by his mom’s boyfriend. He finds sanctuary at an old water park run by a bunch of loving mis-fits, who welcome him as their own. It’s a touching coming-of-age story that emulates the great 80s movies people have grown to love. If you only watch one movie on this list please let it be this one.
Well there you have it kids. I know my list leans a little more towards the movie buff side, but that’s what I am.
2014 should be a great year for movies and I cannot wait to get back in the swing of seeing movies and telling you what I think.
You keep reading and I’ll keep complaining, and stay golden Ponyboy.
January 14, 2014
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OPINIONSJD RobertsStaff Writer
Henderson State could not stop a hot shooting Arkansas Tech team as the Wonder Boys beat the Reddies 82-63, Satur-day at the Duke Wells Center in Arkadelphia, Ark.
The Reddies, 6-8 overall and 2-4 in the GAC, shot just 39 percent from the field (21-for-54), while the Wonder Boys hit on 32-of-58 shots for 55 per-cent including 64.3 percent in the second half.
Arkansas Tech, 9-5 overall and 4-2 in the GAC, jumped out an early 13-4 lead just five minutes into the game.
Melvin Haynes, however, helped pull the Reddies to with-in three with 13:24 to play by sinking one of his 3-point field goals.
Another 3-pointer by Haynes at the 9:15 mark cut the deficit to 22-20, but the Wonder Boys responded with long-range jumpers of their own and were able to build a 36-31 lead at the
break.Henderson State took its only
lead of the game with 16:08 left in the game with a Charles Wes-ley 3-pointer.
Arkansas Tech responded just seconds later as Bobby Hatchett burried a trifecta to reclaim the lead for the Wonder Boys.
Hatchett’s shot sparked a 14-2 run that put the Wonder Boys ahead by double digits, and Tech extended the lead to as many as 21 points in the closing minute of play.
Deiorvay Johnson led the Red-dies with 14 points, followed by Taylor Smith with 10 points.
Hatchett scored a game-high 17 points for Arkansas Tech.
The Reddies managed 9-of-20 from beyond the arc and 67 per-cent from the charity stripe.
Henderson State will next head to Oklahoma for a pair of games beginning Thursday against Southwestern Oklaho-ma in Weatherford, Okla. The Reddies will then travel to Alva to take on Northwestern Okla-homa on Saturday.
Henderson State University wel-comed a new athletic director, Shawn Jones,
to the Reddie family on Janu-ary second from Warrensburg, Mo.
Jones worked 13 years in the athletic department at the Uni-versity of Central Missouri where he also graduated with a bachelor’s degree in organiza-tional communication in 1997.
In 2011, Jones graduated with a master’s degree in physical education/exercise and sport science, while specializing in athletic and sports business ad-ministration.
Jones had significant leader-ship responsibilities at Central Missouri including being re-sponsible for the management and oversight of the athletic external operations such as the athletic annual fund, corporate sponsorships and trademark-licensing program.
He was also the director of marketing and promotions, pub-lic relations, media, broadcast-
ing and special events for the 17-sport NCAA Division II ath-letic department and is a mem-ber of the Mid-American Inter-collegiate Athletics Association at Central Missouri.
In 2009 and 2010, Jones gained national recognition for his leadership by serving as the national chair of the NCAA Di-vision II Football Committee.
Jones played a major role in Central Missouri’s biggest fun-draising event, the Celebrating Central Missouri Athletic Auc-tion. The auction raised over $1.4 million in net profits for
UCM Athletics. As co-chair of Super Re-
gional Four, Jones was one of the youngest chairs in NCAA Division II history and served a four-year term on the NCAA Division II Football Committee.
Jones served as a featured pan-elist at the NCAA Convention in Washington D.C. discussing the topic of Building Relationships and Telling stories: Engaging the Local Media.
He also served as a panelist again at the NCAA Convention speaking on the topic of Fans: How to Find and Keep Them.
Jones is joined by his wife, Melissa, his daughter, Lauren, and son, Hayden in Arkadelphia and is excited to raise his kids in a small town that is comfortable and welcoming.
“When the athletic director position opened up in 2009,” Jones said, “I had discussions with Chuck Welch about coming here but it was not a good time for me and my family to move, but that put Henderson State University on my radar.”
Jones came to visit Henderson in 2010 when Kale Gober took the athletic director job.
“It is impressive what Kale Gober did,” Jones said. “I didn’t know Kale personally but I can see all that he did for the athletic department and I would put in a good word for him.”
One of the things that sold Jones to Henderson State was getting a chance to meet Bobby Jones and others on campus.
“I give credit to the staff and the positivity of the school.” Jones said, “Its obvious that this is the school with a heart.”
“Henderson State is blessed with many great fans and sup-porters and the passion for Reddie Athletics is one of the key things that sold Melissa and
I on making this move,” Jones said.
“When the Reddies and Tigers play, we will compete like cra-zy,” Jones said about his friend across the street, David Sharp, who serves as athletic director for OBU.
“But when the game is over, we will go back to being neigh-bors and friends and badger fans,” Jones said. “I look for-ward to working with David to strengthen what is already in my opinion the best and most unique rivalry in all of college sports.”
Jones spent 17 years of his life at Central Missouri and was as-sociated with the athletic depart-ment for almost all of that time.
“As you can see I’m not a job hopper and I hope to be here just as long,” Jones said.
Jones says that coach Maxfield has done an amazing job with the football team at Hender-son and that quarterback Kevin Rodgers is an amazing person, a good leader and a role model for the football team.
“The football program is so good and when I found out I had a chance to work with Kev-in, that was a selling point for me as well,” Jones said, “There are also many more players on the team like him and I can’t wait to get to work with all of the other athletes as well.”
“I am very excited to work with our new athletic director, Shawn Jones,” Rodgers said. “I have heard nothing but good things about him. He seems like the right person for the job and I think he will represent the Reddies in the best way possible while putting our athletic pro-grams in the best position to win on and off the field.”
Additional reporting by Troy Mitchell.
SPORTSJanuary 14, 2014
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Reddies suffer home loss
*Photo courtesy of Steve Fellers
NEW TO REDDIE FAMILY Shawn Jones accepts athletic director position at Henderson State University. He started on Jan. 2 and plans on staying at HSU for a long time.
Jones steps into athletic director positionKaitlyn KitchensSports Editor
Troy MitchellSports Information
