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Volume 103, Issue 5 | Tuesday, August 23, 2 011 | Tahlequah, Okla. 74464

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Feature:

Sports:

Fraternity RecruitmentFraternities look for new members this week.-See page 8

Football game televisedCox Cable airs the first football game of the season.-See page 18

Leadership Boot Camp offered to NSU students

Rbbn cut n nw Talqua CNG tatn

Nichole KamiesTNE WriTEr

Wth a new semeste just un-

deway a chance fo students to

polsh up on the leadeshp sklls

s avalable. NSU has an actvestudent actvty boad, whch en-

couages students to get nvolved

on campus. To stat the yea off

ght NSU s puttng on a Leade-

shp Boot Camp to gude leades

wth and wthout expeence.

Leadeshp Boot Camp s a

new pogam wth two dffeent

optons fo leadeshp develop-

ment, sad Kathleen Kennedy

decto of campus nvolvement.

Thee s new leadeshp po-

gam and an expeenced leade-shp pogam fo ndvduals who

have patcpated n leadeshp

oles befoe.

The Boot Camps tmng was

no concdent; NAB stategcally

planned the pogam to take

place at the begnnng of the new

semeste. Wth the abundance of

new students now callng NSU

home Kennedy beleves that by

offeng leadeshp pogams and

oppotuntes ealy on n the yea

t wll help students thnk aboutthe pesonal development as

well as the development on cam-

pus. NAB has sponsoed many

othe leadeshp pogams n the

past but Leadeshp Boot Camp

has cetan leanng outcome that

sets t apat fom the othes.

Leanng outcomes fo ths

pogam ae that students would

thnk about mpovng them-

selves, sad Kennedy. We ae

takng the holstc appoach be-

cause all ndvduals ae leades ndffeent pats of the lfe.

NAB povdes students wth

leadeshp all though the school

yea. To Pocto, Tahlequah se-

no, took a tp to Coloado ths

summe, sponsoed by NAB, that

povded students n a leadeshp

ole on campus to patcpate n

the tp.

The tp seemed lke a geat

oppotunty fo the rooke Bdge

Camp colo goup leades, as well

as the dectos to lean moeabout leadeshp whle makng

new fendshps wth people out-

sde of rBC, sad Pocto.

Leades fom dffeent oga-

natons patcpated n the tp,

whch ex- continued on page 2

amber coviNgtoNTNE WriTEr

These days people ae lookng

fo ways to keep moe money n

the pocket athe than n the

gas tank. When t comes to thequeston of hgh gas pces, com-

pessed natual gas may be the

answe.

As to the mpotance of CNG,

i can say that t s vey lkely to

play a majo pat n the countys

enegy futue, sad Jason Nchols

Mayo of Tahlequah. Natual

gas s domestcally and locally

abundant.

CNG emts nealy 90 pecent

less polluton than gasolne and

desel fuels and can cut fuel costs

by about 50 pecent, accodng to

cngnow.com

On Aug. 18 the cty of

Tahlequah opened the st

CNG llng staton. Wth many

mpotant ndvduals pesentCongessman John Sullvan sad

t was a geat day fo the cty, the

state and the county.

The pont of convetng to

CNG s to save money and that

s exactly what Tahlequah plans

to do.

Ths CNG staton wll actu-

ally povde many benets to the

communty, sad Nchols. Fst,

as the cty, the unvesty, and oth-

e oganatons n town tans-

ton to usng CNG vehcles, t wll

lead to cost savngs and moe ef-

cent use of tax dollas. Second,

thee ae also majo economc de-

velopment benets n that com-

panes who mght be nteested n

locatng n Tahlequah wll have aelatvely nexpensve fuel souce

eadly avalable.

D. Matn Tadlock, NSU in-

tem Pesdent, s chaman of

Notheast Oklahoma Publc Fa-

cltes Authoty. Wth such close

tes to NOPFA t would only be

natual fo NSU to have a plan

petanng to CNG.

Tadlock sad NSU has a plan

down the oad to gadually e-

place the continued on page 2

Amber Covington/TNEDr. Martin Tadlock, NSU interim president, along with nu-

merous others watch as U.S. Congressman John Sullivan cutsthe ceremonial ribbon for the grand opening of the CNG fuel-ing station.


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August 23, 2011NEWS

Leadership development program encourages students

Talqua tak t t bcm grn

c e e d e dPoctos expectatons fom the

begnnng and allowed he to

connect wth othe leades.

The tp was a geat oppo-

tunty to meet people that have

leadeshp oles on campus that

i do not necessaly have contact

wth, sad Pocto. it allowed

the colo goup leades and dec-

tos to have some much needed

bondng tme.

Pocto sad that as a decto

team they wanted the colo goup

leades to have a bette unde-

standng of goals, whch they had

set fo camp. We had the tme

n Coloado to eally go n depth

wth them, as fa as the goals fothe camp, sad Pocto.

NAB pdes themselves on all

the oganatons they offe to

students.

NSU offes a lot of leadeshp

oppotuntes as well as classes on

leadeshp, sad Pocto. Most

of these oganatons ae student

lead, theefoe the students have

moe oom to gow and matue

as a leade.

As a peson who has taken full

advantage of the leadeshp that

NSU has to offe Pocto offes

some advce fo new and cuent

unvesty students.

The advse i gve to new and

cuent students would be to tyeveythng, attend events, attend

meetngs, voluntee fo anythng

and eveythng, un fo ofces,

get nvolved n some way. sad

Pocto. Once you have a taste

of what all thee s to do nd out

what you love and devote moe

tme to the thngs you love dong.

i have found that behnd evey

good leade thee s a passon fo

what they ae dong.

Pocto sad that f someone

loves what they ae dong they

wll want the best fo t, and that

s the pupose behnd leadeshp.

Fo moe nfomaton emal ka-

[email protected].

continued from page 1

eet ve-

hcles wth vehcles that un on

CNG. Tm Foutch, Vce Pesdent

of Opeatons at NSU, s lookng

at busses that un on CNG that

could povde a shuttle sevce

fom Tahlequah to the Boken

Aow and Muskogee campuses

fo faculty, staff and students.

Thee s cuently a pendng

natual gas act that, f passed,

would ncease ncentves to natu-

al gas vehcles. Whch would begood news to Oklahoma, whch s

the thd lagest natual gas po-

ducng state accodng to ea.gov.

Oklahoma eseves make a

majo contbuton to the naton-

continued from page 1 al eseve total that s expected tolast fo 120 yeas at cuent us-

age, sad Nchols. it s elatvely

nexpensve as compaed to gaso-

lne and desel fuel, t buns clean-

e, and, n many ways, s safe to

use than those fuels.

CNG sounds deamy but not

eveybody needs to ush out and

get a CNG conveted vehcle, at

least not ght away. CNG com-

patble vehcles cost a lttle moe

because the technology s newand llng statons ae had to

nd beng housed by only nne

states.

rght now, CNG vehcles

have lmted ange compaed to

gas fueled vehcles. Compessed

natual gas vehcles ae pefect fo

shote tps, but mght pove n-

convenent on longe jouneys,

sad Nchols. Also, untl thee ae

moe publcly avalable fuelng lo-

catons, thee aent many places

to fuel up a vehcle unnng CNG.

But, as technology mpoves and

the nfastuctue s put n place,

CNG has a vey good chance of

beng the fuel that s buned n a

lage poton of vehcles that aeon Amecan oads n the nea

futue.

in 2010 the U.S. spent $24.6

bllon on mpoted ol, accodng

to cngnow.com. Whch s equva-

lent to 364,000 new teaches,

fundng fo hghway epas fo

nealy 7 yeas, o buldng 32.407

new elementay schools.

Because t s a domestcally

souced fuel, we could avod

payng foegn countes to sup-

ply ou ol needs, Nchols sad.

Ths would allow us to keep jobs

and dollas at home and, most

mpotantly, keep money out of

the hands of people who mght

pass t on to those who mght uset to fund teost actvtes.

Fo moe nfomaton emal

[email protected].

Amber Covington/TNE

U.S. Congressman John Sul-livan pumps CNG at the newfueling station Thursday.CNG reportedly emits nearly90 percent less pollution thangasoline.

Courtesy photoLeadership Boot Camp is a program with two dierent op-

tions for leadership development. A new leadership programand an experienced program for individuals are available.


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UC Underground upgrades continue into fall semesterasma JoNesTNE WriTEr

Notheasten State Unvesty

contnues ts enovatons at the

Unvesty Cente. The place that

was once called the Cue Bowl s

beng tuned nto a multpupose

aea fo students.

Ths fall, the UC Basement

wll open as a place fo students

to gathe and have moe food se-

vce.Thee wll be bllads, po-

gammng space fo concets,

pesentatons, TV, gamng, study,

goup meetngs, etc., sad ran-

dall Shelton, decto of Auxlay

Sevces.

The constucton has been go-

ng on all summe and the poject

to change the UC Basement s

undeway.

The nal funtue fo the

lounge aeas wll be delv-

eed next week and the food se-

vce aeas wll be completed n

the next two weeks, sad Shelton.

Shelton sad that the name

wll be changed as well and that

a namng contest wll be held fo

the students to choose the name.

New featues wll nclude food

sevce, coffee and an aea sev-

ng Mexcan food. Shelton sad

the food sevce and lounge aeasae what ae manly eplacng the

bowlng lanes.

ive been gong hee to the

bowlng alley snce i was young,

sad Jacob Duvall, a juno stu-

dent studyng pe-medcne. i

had my 13th bthday paty hee

too, i was upset when t closed.

The stong feelngs fo the Cue

Bowl depends on how much tme

the student and hs famly has

spent at the bowlng alley.

My mom s an alumn and she

would bng us hee all the tme,

sad Duvall.

Thee ae many students lke

Duvall who wee upset due to

the closng of the bowlng lanes.

Howeve, many othes ae exct-

ed to have moe places to eat and

bette loungng aeas fo the

meetngs.

i have been down thee befoeand saw the bowlng alley, but i

am excted to hea they ae mak-

ng t nto a bette place fo us stu-

dents, sad Lnsay Geoge.

The UC Basement dd not only

see changes n the Cue Bowl aea.

Old capet has been eplaced all

ove the buldng and constuc-

ton has been stated to put n

a new celng. The food sevce

aea should

be open fo

busness du-

ng late Au-

gust o shot-

ly afte that.

The stage

wll allow

oom fo

concets, pe-

sentatons by

NSU faculty

and guests,lectues, pe-

f o m a n c e

goups and

theate play.

A gaft wall n the lounge aea

has been put n fo decoaton.

The ente aea wll have W-F

access.

People ae gong to see some

geat changes n the buldng,

sad Shelton. We ae dong a lot

of wok to make the UC moe

use-fendly fo students, faculty

and staff.

Fo moe nfomaton emal -

[email protected].

Jon Dallis/TNE

This fall, the UC Underground will open thearea known as the Cue Bowl, as a place for stu-dents to gather. The space will include billiardstables, programming space for concerts, TVs,gaming and group meetings.


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Courtesy photoFlash mobs at one time were viewed as fun and whimsical, but now a more sinister image

comes to mind. Violent ash mobs being organized through social media websites have struck

fear into convenience store workers and owners.

The tem that s sweepng the

naton and beakng news head-

lnes s ash mobs. Wee not

qute talkng about the FOX e-

alty show Mobbed that de-

pcts andom people beakng a

pece of news to the fends and

famly wth the use of elaboate

dances, actos and of couse a

hdden Howe Mandel as host

of the new sees. Moeove the

ash mobs that ae makng

headlnes ae the ones that have

seemngly popped up out of no-

whee.

Eale n the month a ash

mob that s beleved to have

been oganed on the intenet

obbed a convenence stoe n

Mayland n less than a mnute.

Stoe suvellance equpment

shows a handful of teens walk-

ng nto the stoe aound 1:47

a.m. Then n a matte of seconds,

doens moe you adults enteed,

gabbng tems off of the shelves

and out of the cooles. Soon afte,

wthout payng the ndvduals left

the stoe togethe. Authotes e-

poted that at least 28 ndvdualshad been conmed on the vdeo.

These ash mobs ae usually

fomed and oganed though

emal, text messagng o the use

of socal netwokng stes lke

facebook. At one tme these an-

dom sputs of ndvduals gathe-

ng togethe fo a uned pupose

seemed cleve and entetanng,

but these ecent acts of cme

leave a the publc wth a dstaste.

rots eupted n England ea-

le n the month as well and

authotes have sad that so-

cal netwokng stes and moble

messagng sevces wee used

to ogane the exteme amount

of lootng and volence that took

place.

Wth so many ndvduals n-

volved and the oganaton of

each attack cafted so that em-

ployees aely stand a chance oeven see the events comng.

Whle ash mobs can be

fun and exctng fo eveyone n-

volved, the acts of volence, theft

and vandalsm s smply uncalled

fo. Technology should be aval-

able to enhance ou lves, not

povde us wth a swft way to

commt petty cmes. Most ev-

eyone ove the age of 11 has a

cell phone, socal meda pole o

emal addess that can be used as

a tool fo destucton.

in the ofce of The Notheast-

en, fo the past few days we have

been wondeng about what type

of peson would ogane such an

event. What pupose could these

actons have? if the ndvdual s

tyng to bng chaos to the na-

ton, they ae pooly succeedng.

These ncdents may happen

ovenght and make the dalynews, but afte a few days the ef-

fects have won off and the events

blu togethe.

The wold we lve n may have

ts toubles, but a mass ups-

ng such as the ones depcted n

Hollywood moves ae fa fom

obtanable. Wee not sayng they

should happen, but athe they

cant happen.

Flash mobs become fast and dangerous


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Disruptive students annoy their classmates

todd crowTNE WriTEr

Afte just a week of classes,

some of my fellow students have

mpacted me n such damatc

fashon that t was mpossble fo

me not to change the pemse of

ths weeks column fom my og-

nal dea. Now im sue most, f

not all of you know the students

im gong to be talkng about, be-

cause t seems that thee s at least

one o two n evey class, andthey cannot help but to annoy

eveyone else n the oom. They

ae easy to ecogne, but dfcult

to label because they all acheve

the level of annoyance n df-

feent ways. instead of one ove-

all label, im just gong to beak

them down nto fou categoes.

The st of these categoes s

the ove-enthusasts. Fo whateve

odd eason, they ae ncapable

of contanng the exctement n

class. im not sue f ts because

theyve been boed ove the sum-

me beak and the joy of beng

back n school s just bubblng up

nsde of them o f they just gen-

unely geek-out on the subjects

that ae beng taught. Whateve

t s, they could stand to pactce

moe self-contol fo the est of

us who have to suffe though 50

mnutes, 75, even thee hous ofsttng n the same oom as them.

ive got a stoy of my own to

tell about an enthusast i met my

feshman yea. We had met just

befoe classes stated and hung

out a couple of tmes. i was stll

gettng settled nto my dom

oom and needed new beddng

and a few othes thngs, and she

went wth me to pck the stuffout. The ente de to the stoe

she kept pontng thngs out

aound town and tellng me how

exctng they wee. insde the

stoe she kept tellng me how ex-

ctng t was buyng thngs fo ou

dom ooms. Cayng the stuff

to ou ooms she kept tellng me

how excted she was to be stat-

ng classes soon. it was all just a

lttle too much exctement fo mypesonalty, and eventually ou

fendshp dwndled to awkwad

waves as we passed each othe be-

tween classes.

i call the next goup class ana-

lysts. if you have eve watched

any spotng event on televson,

then you pobably head the peo-

ple commentng on all the acton

takng place. That stategy woks

eally well wth spots, but i thnk

ts safe to say that t doesnt t

qute as well nsde the classoom.

Most of the tme the class ana-

lysts make comments to follow

up somethng the nstucto has

sad n attempt to say somethng

funny. All t eally accomplshes,

howeve, s the constant eye-oll-

ng and tated sghs of evey-

one else n the class. Many tmes

that ncludes even the nstucto.

What eally annoys me show they neve let anyone else

n the class speak, sad Dakota

Thompson, Stlwell gad student.

They have to st n the font ow

and they have to answe evey

queston asked. They dont gve

anyone else a chance to shne be-

cause they constantly have to be

head.

i know that eveyone s faml-

a wth the know-t-alls. im not

talkng about the people who ac-

tually do know the answes to n-

stuctos questons and occason-

ally speak up wthout beng called

upon. im talkng about the peo-

ple who thnk they know all the

answes and attempt to answe

evey sngle queston. it doesntstop thee, though. They wll

also pont out to the nstucto

what he s dong wong, whethe

ts wth the subject mateal, the

compute equpment, o even the

clothes he s weang. Some stu-

dents thnk the know-t-alls just

suffe fom lmted educatons be-

foe they ente college.

Often ts the less educated

people who ae the st to ds-

agee and speak up aganst any-

thng theye not famla wth,

sad Donovan Schnede, Okla-

homa Cty juno. The moe you

know and dffeent pespectves

you have, the moe open-mnded

you wll be about subjects. To be

honest, i just one them out.

The last goup s the stoy tell-

es. These ae the students that

have pesonal stoes that elateto nealy eveythng that comes

up dung class, and they do not

hestate to bng class to a com-

plete stop so that we can all hea

about t. Most of you mght auto-

matcally thnk of non-tadtonal

students when you ead ths. Al-

though they do make up a majo

poton of ths goup, t s cetan-

ly not exclusve to them.

Schnede sad one of the most

annoyng thngs that can happen

s these stoes can get the nstuc-

tos sdetacked, whch sends the

est of the class spalng n a

decton that has nothng to do

wth the class tself.

im ne wth them askng

questons o tellng jokes as long

as t doesnt thow the pofesso n

a dffeent decton, Schnede

sad.Thompson sad thee s one

thng that always comes to he

mnd when these students stat

talkng, and i thnk t does a eally

good job of summng up how a

good poton of the student pop-

ulaton feels.

No one caes, she sad.

Fo comments emal cowtj@

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Wkn cur avalabl fr tunt urng fall

Kimberly doyleTNE WriTEr

Classes have aleady begun fo

the 2011 fall semeste but thee

ae stll plenty of open couses

to enoll n. Fo students who

ae lookng to add anothe cedt

hou to meet that scholashp c-

tea o even add anothe class fo

a degee plan, thee stll mght be

openngs that can be found.Some of those classes aval-

able ae wokshop and weekend

couses. These couses ae just

lke egula week classes, but they

ae held on a Fday o Satuday

and even on both days dependng

on the class. A lst of these openclasses can be found on the NSU

webste unde Schedules and

Open Classes. They ae not clas-

sed n the own lst but they can

be easly found just by lookng at

the begnnng and end dates.

Most of them only last one o two

days.

if money s an ssue, do not

let the cost of these classes be

dscouagng. Weekend classesdo not cost moe. Accodng to

Lndsey Hembee, student suc-

cess specalst fo FYE, a student

s chaged fo a class by the cedt

hou. Snce these classes ae only

one o two cedt hous, they ae

not as expensve. Speced cedt

hous fo a class can be found by

lookng at the last dgt of that

couse numbe.

These classes ae avalable foall NSU campuses as well. Each

campus has ts own updated lst.

Thee ae classes avalable n

many depatments such as Eng-

lsh, theate, at, communca-

tons and even physcal educaton

along wth many othes. Thee s

a wde ange of classes too. Fo

example, some of these avalable

ae puppety, development of

ealy chldhood, and even self-

defense fo women.

Even though the negatve as-

pect s the fact that the student

wll have to gve up a weekend,

thee ae postve outcomes to

these couses as well.

Most students lke that they

can go n the class and stthough a lectue. Most of the

tme thee aent any tests ethe,

sad Hembee. The classes ae

usually pass o fal. if a student

goes to class and patcpates, they

usually pass.

Some have found that weekend

classes ae actually qute conve-

nent too. A student can eceve

one o two cedt hous just by go-

ng to class fo a weekend o evenjust a nght.

i lke that i got cedt fo one

o two days of wok, sad Cas

Dowdy, Checotah juno. i

ddnt lke takng tme out of my

weekend but ts good fo cedt.

id do t agan and ive aleady

been to thee of them.

Othes even feel that weekend

classes ae moe elaxng o lad

back whch can help make t lessstessful fo students.

i was most happy wth the

elaxed atmosphee and smalle

classes, sad Cala Hateld,

Tahlequah gaduate.

Smalle classes can make t

ease fo students to meet new

people and t can also help wth

student-teache nteacton. Usu-

ally, students ae able to lean

bette n a class they feel moe

comfotable n and fo some t

can even help them become moe

nvolved because they lean about

new thngs fom new people.

Fo anyone nteested n en-

ollng n these classes, thee ae

many esouces avalable to help

wth enollng on o off campus.The NSU webste s a geat tool

to nd them, but one can also call

the Admssons o Fst Yea Ex-

peence ofce fo moe nfoma-

ton. Students fom the Muskogee

campus can also use the Adms-

sons ofce fo help as well.

Fo feshmen who ae lookng

fo exta classes, the FYE ofce

s a geat place to go. The Fst

Yea Expeence team s aval-able fo enollment advce and

academc counselng. They dect

students on the path they need to

take. Even f you ae not a fesh-

man, the FYE ofces ae aval-

able as well. They ae located

n the lowe level of the CASE

buldng acoss fom the Unve-

sty Cente.

Fo othe esouces, the NSU

webste s vey helpful. One e-souce that can be found s the

Excels sevce. Excels s a phone

sevce that allows students to en-

oll ove the phone just by ente-

ng the couse nfomaton when

dected.

On the webste thee ae step-

by-step nstuctons that explan

how one can speccally use ths

sevce. if a student wants to skp

eadng the dectons, the Excels

ecodng helps thoughout the

enollment pocess too. The Ex-

cels numbe on campus s 918-

444-5580 and the off campus

numbe s 918-458-0888.

Moe nfomaton can also be

found on the NSU webste. Stu-

dents can also contact the Fst

Yea Expeence ofce at 918-

458-2328 o the Admssons of-

ce at 918-444-2200. Both ofces

ae open fom 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.The Boken Aow campus con-

tact nfomaton fo the Adms-

sons ofce s 918-449-6134 and

the ofce s open fom 8:30 a.m.

to 5 p.m.

Fo moe nfomaton emal at

[email protected].

Kim Doyle/TNEWeekend courses are benecial for students to get caught

up on required hours without a full term comitment. Severalcourses are available in various departments around campus.


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GoVertigo Dance Company auditions new talentleNzi davidsoN

TNE WriTEr

The gls of GoVetgo Dance

Company ae gettng eady to

kck up the heels fo anothe

semeste and they ae lookng

fo moe students to jon n the

exctement. Audtons ae com-

ng up soon and the membes ae

vey excted to gan new dances.

GoVetgo stated back when

NSU got d of the dance po-gam and thee wee a goup of

gls that stll wanted to dance and

they decded to stat an ogana-

ton, sad Banna Lane, McAl-

este juno and student decto.

The goup has been gong

stong eve snce. GoVetgo

holds one concet each semeste

and wok though the weeks to

lean the dances. Evey dance

s eheased fo at least one houpe week.

Students wshng to audton

should not be nevous. Alca De-

Mlle, Los Angeles seno and

assstant student decto, sad au-

dtons ae vey fun.

We lke to keep an easy gong

atmosphee, nothng too stessful,

and we want eveyone who shows

up to audton to have a good

tme, sad DeMlle.

Lane sad audtons wll begnwth stetchng and then we wll

have them show us the tech-

nque.

They wll lean two dance

outnes and pefom them fo us

and wll be judged by that, sad

Lane. We want gls to jon that

have a passon fo dance and just

lookng fo a goup of dances to

dance and pefom wth.

if you have a heat fo dance,then we want you to come.

Even those wth no backgound

n dance ae welcomed.

All we eque s that eveyone

shows up wth a geat atttude,

eady to dance and have a geat

tme, sad DeMlle. We want

people who love dancng as much

as we do, and want to shae thatlove wth othes.

DeMlle sad some advce fo

those who wsh to audton s to

focus, elax, and always smle.

One of the most domnate

qualtes of the goup and most

of ts membes s that each gl s

wllng to make fends and just

wants to enjoy heself.

Fo those woed about ex-

penses, GoVetgo s not gong tohut you wallet. Melssas Dance

Studo povdes a good eheasal

envonment and fundasng

held dung the semeste pays fo

costumes, so patcpatng wll not

cost a dme.

Each dance s esponsble fo

helpng wth communty sevce

events and sellng ads fo the po-

gam.

GoVetgo dance ChstneCockett, Owasso juno, enjoys

he tme wth the goup. i have

ganed new fends and con-

dence n my dancng abltes. i

would advse those consdeng

tyng out to be themselves and

neve thnk ts too late to lean.

The company s vey nvolved

on campus. Last yea they patc-

pated n the Small Event, Pant

the Town Geen and many moe

NSU functons. Most of thedances ae nvolved wth othe

oganatons as well. Some ae

n sootes, othes ae n Baptst

Collegate Mnsty, and seveal

dance fo NSU pom.

Ou bggest event wll be ou

Fall 2011 Concet n Novembe,

whch we wll pefom all of ou

dances we put togethe ths se-

meste that ae choeogaphed

by dffeent gls n the company,sad Lane.

The concet wll nclude a va-

ety of dances. Past pefomances

nclude hp-hop, tap, contempo-

ay, ballet, ja, and Boadway.

Hopeful futue dance Haley

ross, Locust Gove sophomoe,

s excted to get nvolved wth the

company.ive head a lot of good thngs

about GoVetgo and im eady

to audton, sad ross. its been

awhle snce ive danced and im

excted to get back nto t.

Audtons wll be held Thus-

day August 25 at 4 p.m. n the

noth gym.

GoVetgo, a goup that stated

wth such detemned ndvduals

contnues to seach fo dances just as dedcated and passonate

to shae a common pupose.


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Courtesy photoGoVertigo Dance Company will soon hold auditions to gain

new dancers. An appealing quality of the dance group is thatthe girls are willing and excited to make new friends whilethey perform.


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Fratrnt rv tunt multl bnt

blair taylorTNE WriTEr

rush week s undeway, and

potental membes ae leanng

what bothehood s all about.

Fatenty membes ae spendng

the week beakng steeotypes by

pushng the mpotance of com-

munty sevce and lfelong ben-

ets.

The week wll begn wthround robn, whch s whee

new ecuts get to meet membes

of each fatenty. Each nght, a

dffeent fatenty wll be mak-

ng a pesentaton whch can

nclude sldeshows about the fa-

tentys phlanthopy, hstoy and

the meanng of beng a membe.

The pesentatons ae Aug 23- 25

at 5 p.m. n the UC balloom.

Thoughout the week, dffe-ent events wll take place n ode

to get potental new membes n-

teested. Fday s Bd Day and

begns at 5 p.m. at the Beta eld.

Ace McCathy, Tahlequah soph-

omoe, says that rush week s not

all busness.

Wee gong to be dong a lot

of actvtes lke cookouts and df-

feent thngs, sad McCathy.

Anyone can come out f theyenteested n ushng.

Fatentys have hgh expecta-

tons of the membes and fo

good eason. A membes actons

and the conduct eect on the

fatenty as a whole. Students go-

ng though ush must have a 3.0

hgh school o 2.5 college GPA to

qualfy. Patcpaton n commu-

nty sevce s also expected of ev-

ey membe thoughout the yea.All togethe, the fatentes accu-

mulate thousands of communty

sevce hous each yea.

Most people have steeotyp-

cal deas that beng n a fat s all

about the pates, but we get so

much moe out of t than that,

Mchael Floa, Boken Aow se-

no and actve membe of Tau

Kappa Epslon sad. We get n-

volved wth communty sevce

and beng n a fat teaches youhow to un a busness. Thee ae

a lot of busness majos gong

though ush.

Thee ae many advantages to

beng a membe of a fatenty.

Anthony McKene s the inte-fatenty Councl pesdent at

NSU. Mckene beleves that be-

comng a fatenty membe can

be vey benecal thoughout lfe.

A majoty of the leades hee

on campus ae Geek and thees

a lot of socal benets because

you get to meet all the othe oga-

natons on campus, McKene

sad.

Once jonng a fatenty,membes ae able to connect wth

othe chaptes acoss the naton.

The element of bothehood s

what many membes enjoy most

about beng a pat of such a tght

nt goup.

i know guys fom othe col-

leges that ae n the same fate-

nty and theyll come hang out fo

a football game o somethng,

sad McKene.Cody Knght, Ochelata seno

and actve membe of P Kappa

Alpha, also agees that faten-

tes have a lot to offe.

You get the full college expe-

ence out of you tme hee,

sad Knght. You meet people

you wouldnt f you ddnt ush,

lfetme fends that always have

you back no matte what, and

many netwokng oppotuntes

afte you gaduate. NSU offes nne dffeent iFC

fatentes to choose fom. Each

fatenty s unque n ts phlan-

thopc deas and goals. The best

way fo someone to decde whch

fatenty they should belong to,

s to patcpate n the intefate-

nty recutment Week.

The cost to go though ecut-

ment s $35 and anyone who s n-

teested can sgn up n the GeekLfe Ofce n the UC basement.

Students ae encouaged to check

out the intefatenty Coun-

cl recutment Week event on

Facebook.


[email protected].

Blair Taylor/TNENSU fraternity rush week is underway for the 2011-12 aca-

demic school year. Fraternity members are spending the weekbreaking stereotypes and welcoming in new brothers to theirchapters.


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JNSU has exciting plans for fall 2011 semesterYOSHi MizUNOTNE STAFF WriTEr

NSU Japan was establshed

Mach 2004. its goal s speadng

Japanese tadtonal and moden

cultue to local people. it wll hold

vaous ntecultual events to ex-

cte cuosty.

JNSU s an oganaton that

was selected nto the NSU Hall

of Fame on Apl 28, 2006.Pesently, appoxmately 40

membes, ncludng not only Jap-

anese but also local students, wok

to shae the cultue.

in Novembe 2010, JNSU

event, Matsu 2010 was held n

UC Balloom. 350 students, fac-

ulty and staff and local people

enjoyed Matsu. The event ttle

Matsu means a festval n

Japanese. Fo Japanese the wodMatsu, geneally speakng, s as-

socated wth a summe festval

lned wth a numbe of booths.

Matsu 2011 wll be held n

UC Balloom, Novembe 19.

Callgaphy, foldng papes, cos-

tume plays, shootng and socce

bowlng booths wll be desgned

to delght vstos.

The JNSU Pesdent Yuk Ka-

kegawa, Japan seno, has actvelypatcpated n JNSU snce hs

feshman yea. He wants to feel

the dffeence between Ame-

can and Asan cultue. He says t

would be amang.

Not only we shae ou Japa-

nese cultue, but also we want

evey vsto to expeence ou

cultue, sad Kakegawa. id lke

to know local people how beaut-

ful ou cultue s.

As the numbe of Japanese stu-

dents decease, unnng JNSU s

petty tough fo Kakegawa, but

he woks had wth each membe

to acheve ts goal. Akane Ohash, JNSU vce-

pesdent and Japan seno, has

been n chage of a callgaphy

goup. She has also been ts ac-

tve membe snce he st yea

at NSU.

My pupose to jon JNSU s i

wanted to pefom So-an Bush

and contnue and shae my cal-

lgaphy expeence to local stu-

dents, sad Ohash.Ohashs goup made a geat

pefomance n Matsu 2010.

i stated to jon JNSU because

So-an Bush looked so fantastc,

sad Ohash i wanted to dance

So-an Bush and shae my callg-

aphy expeence n the U.S.

D. Thomas Salmon, pofesso

of Optomety, has patcpated n

JNSU as one of the sponso snce

t was establshed. He was bon nHawa, and s a Japanese Ame-

can.

Manly i hope the audence

can lean about and enjoy Japa-

nese cultue, sad D. Salmon i

love Japan, Japanese cultue and

Japanese people, so i want othe

people to enjoy them too. im

vey poud of the JNSU students,

and i want othe people to also

enjoy gettng to know them.A cuy ce booth wll egulaly

open n font of UC dung lunch

hous statng ths Septembe. it

s popula wth both ntenatonal

and local students. Wam cuy

ce wll be seved fo only two

dollas. The evenue wll go nto

JNSU event unnng.


[email protected].

Yoshi Mizuno/TNEMore than 300 students

and local people visited Mat-suri 2009, rst Japaneseevent held on at NSU.


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JNSU2011

Yoshi Mizuno

TNE STaff WriTEr

JNSU

http://pho.nsuok.edu/%7Ejnsu/

Yoshi Mizuno/TNE

Visitors are fascinated with calligraphy at rst JSNU event.


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Jonathan DallsTNE Wte

NSU and the 2011 Notheast-

en Actvtes Boad, ae bngng

the exctement of TV to eal lfe.

The wdely popula game show,

Mnute to wn t, s an audence

patcpaton show that allows

contestants to showcase odd tal-

ents by dong vey stange tasks

n less than 60 seconds. The eventwll be Thusday, August 25th

fom 7 to 9 p.m. n the UC Ball-

oom.

Students should attend be-

cause not only s the event fee, but

evey students who walks though

the doo wll have a chance to

wn an assotment of pes, sad

Danel Adney, Oktaha seno.

Also the games should povde

some comc eleve fo stessedstudents n the audence.

Adney along wth the NAB de-

cded to do ths event because t

would gve multple students the

chance to wn some pes as well

as beng entetanng fo all of the

audence.

Contestants wll be able to wn

cash pes fo each level passed,

sad Adney. Each contestant wll

compete n seveal level of chal-lenges and as the levels get hade,

the pes get bgge.

if students would be nteested

n patcpatng they wll be able

to sgn up at the doo and the

contestants wll be dawn at an-

dom fom the sgn up.

if students would lke to get n-

volved they can go to the Student

Actvtes ofce n the UC Base-

Popular game show inuences NSU organization

ment and sgn up at the font desk

to be a membe o voluntee.

The NAB wll also be bngng

othe exctng events to NSUs

campus thoughout the fall se-

meste. One event s Monday, wll

b August 29, Musc Mondays

Kaaoke 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. UC

basement.


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Delta Zeta sorority car wash benets communityamaNda eNglemaNTNE WriTEr

Membes of Delta zeta soo-

ty wll be wokng the annual

ca wash ths Satuday. it wll be

held at Orellys Auto Pats on

Muskogee Ave. The lades wll be

thee fom 9:30 a.m. to aound 3

p.m.

But we wont efuse anyone a

chance to get the ca washed.sad BeeAnna Pekns, Fot

Townson seno. We dont have

a set pce. it wll be anythng that

the communty wants to gve us.

Anythng s geatly appecated.

The ca wash s one of my fa-

vote fundases, sad Hannah

Knman, Haah seno. its e-

ally geat because youe asng

money but not n a bong way.

Playng n the wate and nte-actng wth the communty at the

same tme sounds lke a pefect

way to get out thee and sup-

pot an mpotant cause as well

as show othes about the sste-

hood. The lades do not have a set

goal. The man focus s to get

out thee and spead the message

about the actvtes they suppot

and ase money fo.

We dont have a goal becausewe would be so thankful fo what-

eve we can eceve, Pekns sad.

Even just a hunded dollas wll

be put to geat use.

Delta zeta eally stves to

make a dffeence n the commu-

nty. it s mpotant fo them to

gve back.

its eally mpotant to be

nvolved wth the communty

to us, Knman sad.Pat of the poceeds wll go to

the phlanthopy, speech and

heang. They ae also splttng

the donatons wth Tahlequah

Speech and Heang Clnc. They

ae suppotng an oganaton

called the Panted Tutle Camp

n Calfona.

Accodng to the webste,

the ae ove 17,500 chlden

unable to attend summe campdue to the medcal needs. The

Panted Tutle s pat of Paul

Newmans famly of Hole n the

Wall Camps. it s also the only

mult-dsease camp and famly

cae cente of ts knd on the west

coast. At the Panted Tutle, evey

chld s able to patcpate fully

because of the access the camps

faclty has set up fo them.

The famles dont have towoy about payng fo anythng

and hosptals because t s all po-

vded fo them by donatons,

Pekns explans. Ths cause

means so much not only to me,

but evey Delta zeta because we

eale how blessed each and ev-

ey one of us s to be able to lve

ou lves the way we do so t only

makes sense to buld up each oth-

e and ou beautful communtyas well.

its a eally geat cause and

i know that the money wll help

ou phlanthopy a lot, sad Jo-

dan Wntes, Haah seno.

Delta zeta has anothe annual

fundase comng up n Octobe,

whch s a chl dnne. Havng fun

whle at the same tme emem-

beng what s mpotant s the

key to the sstehood.im excted to spend tme wth

my sstes as we do what we do

best, gve back and have fun,

sad Cecla Dnh-Nguyen, Unon

seno. We take pde n what we

do and what we stand fo.

Delta zeta membes ae con-

stantly gong out and showng

the pde of the sooty to ev-

eyone they can.

We would love to see eveyoneshow up to hangout and suppot

us, but we undestand that people

ae busy, sad Pekns.

if you ae not able to make the

ca wash but would stll lke to

donate, emal the fundasng

cha, Beanna Pekns, at pekn-

[email protected].

Fo moe nfomaton, emal

[email protected].


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NsU workhop offer tudent a chance to harpen killmisty grady

TNE WriTEr

When oganatons o bus-

nesses have meetngs, thngs can

get chaotc. Luckly thee ae

aleady ules of ode, known

as Masons rules and robets

rules that can help meetngs

be un smoothly. Unfotunately

these ules of ode ae not well

known and can seem ntmdatng

to some students. That s what awokshop n Octobe hopesto do.

i am desgnng a couse ta-

loed speccally fo membes of

student oganatons whch want

to know the pope channels fo

the oganatons to make

them as efcent as possble,

sad Dustn Woods, nstucto of

communcaton, at and theate.

What we cove can be appled

to any stuaton wth a goup of

people, ncludng n busness andn oganatons lke the NSGA.

The class s called Palamenta-

y Pocedue unde secton 2120

and COMM 4621 n the sched-

ule. it wll be held on Fday, Oct.

28 fom 5:30 p.m., to 9:00 p.m.,

and Satuday, Oct. 29 fom 8:00

a.m., to 5:00 p.m., wth an hou

beak fo lunch n Semnay Hall

oom 205. Students can enoll n

the wokshop untl t begns and ts woth one cedt hou.

We wll cove daftng legsla-

ton, electon of ntenal ofces

and nvestgatve heangs, sad

Woods. Well look at the basc

pocedues, look at a hstocal

ovevew of the ules of ode

and we wll go moe nto the po-

cess, fo example we wll engage

n a mock heang, legslatve ses-

son o electon.

As a student, Woods patcpat-ed n the mock legslatve goup,

Oklahoma intecollegate Legs-

latue fo ve yeas. Ths s whee

he ganed the majoty of hs pa-

lamentay knowledge. The wok-

shop comes meely a few weeks

befoe some students wll attend

sesson at the Oklahoma inte-

collegate Legslatue and ths

offes those students a chance to

shapen the palamentay skllsbefoe leavng.

We wll vst both Masons and

robets ules of ode and look

at the dffeences, sad Woods.

They can both be used as tem-

plate fo bodes that can then al-

te the ules to sut the ogana-

tons.

Such a wokshop may also be

wothwhle fo membes of the

Notheasten Student Goven-

ment Assocaton. The NSGA sun unde a moded veson of

robets rules of Ode. Ths

wokshop may be useful to the

student senatos and the oga-

natons.

id love to have a lot of NSGA

senatos jon the class and lean

the ules so that they can be en-

gaged popely n the pocedue

of NSGA as soon as they nsh

the wokshop, sad Woods. And the vce-pesdent of

NSGA, Thomas Teague, Tuska-

homa juno agees that the wok-

shop wll be helpful to student

senatos. Teague has also been

nvolved n OiL.

Dustn Woods has long been

nvolved wth and a leade n

NSUs chapte of the Oklahoma

intecollegate Legslatue, sad

Teague. i cant thnk of anyone

moe qualed to teach NSUsstudent leades how to pofesson-

ally un a meetng and use pala-

mentay pocedue to do so.

One student who has expessed

nteest n the class, but has not yet

enolled has also been a membe

of the NSGA, and has attended

OiL sessons. He s aleady well

vesed n palamentay poce-

due and vews t as a valuable

skll to have.Palamentay pocedue s

key to opeatng a meetng ef-

cently, sad Cody robnson,

Tahlequah juno. Any bus-

ness o communcatons student

should lean how to conduct bus-

ness usng robets o Masons

ules.


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The Northeastern

RiverHawks football kicks-off seasondaNiel talbot

TNE WriTEr

The st football game of the

season aganst Bacone wll be on

Satuday, August 27 at Doc Wad-

ley Stadum. Ths game wll mak

the begnnng of the 2011-12

season n whch the NSU athlet-

cs depatment wll compete as an

ndependent pogam.

Ths wll be the st tme NSU

has played Bacone n seveal yeasbut head football coach Kenny

Evans sad they ae pepaed to

squae off aganst the Muskogee

college.

As a coach, you go back to

thngs that have been successful,

sad Evans. Bacone has a lot of

talent, a new head coach and a lot

of exctement n the pogam.

Despte the fact that Bacone

looks to have a stong team ths

yea, Evans sad thee s a lot of

exctement n the rvehawks

pogam as well.

We do have numeous guys

etunng and a good olde goup

of leades, sad Evans. Last

yea we had the st wnnng sea-

son n ove 10 yeas and won the

Lone Sta Noth. Thee s a lot of

condence n the team. Thee s

a lot of talent n the team. Wee

eal excted about whee we aeat.

The fact that ths s a home

game wll play nto the rve-

hawks favo. Evans sad they e-

ceve a lot of suppot fom the

NSU student body.

its huge fo us, sad Evans.

The students, the band, the fans

and all the people n the aea have

been geat even though some of

the tough yeas weve had. Whentheye behnd us, i know that ou

guys play bette.

in addton to beng the st bg

game of the season, the event wll

be televsed va Cox Communca-

tons to oughly 400,000 house-

holds. Evans sad ths wll allow

a lot people to watch NSU play

fo the st tme o gve alumn achance to watch the alma mate

n acton.

Kenny Davs s a thee-yea

state who wll begn the season

as quateback. The seno fom

Ada has completed 154-of-303

passes fo 2,068 yads and 20

touchdowns aganst just sx nte-

ceptons.

We wll go out and ty to wn

evey game. Thats not gong tochange, sad Davs. i feel that

we ae as sold as we have eve

been and i thnk t always plays n

you favo playng at home.

Backng up Davs wll be OSU

tansfe, Johnny Deaton. As a

feshman, Deaton was consdeed

the second-stng quateback fo

the Cowboys but afte appeang

n only two games he began to

look fo othe optons that would

gve hm moe tme on the eld.

Wth two geat playes competng

fo the top spot, people ae won-

deng who wll play quateback.

Thats the queston evey-

one wants to know, sad Evans.

its a good poblem to have as a

coach. it s also had to make a

decson. Thee s no doubt that

Deaton has a lot of talent but he

has neve stated n a college foot-

ball game. Davs has. Thee s no queston the team

has the age and the talent ths

yea. NSU wll take the eld on

Satuday n font of many loyal

fans excted to see how the new

season wll play out.

Wee dong some thngs n

ths ndependent yea that ae e-

ally exctng, sad Evans. Wee

playng a bg game on egonal

TV, we ae gong to a dvs on 1pogam and playng n font of

50,000 people. The unvesty wll

get a lot of exposue ths season.

i thnk ths s all geat fo Noth-

easten.


[email protected].

Courtesy photoThe rst football game, marking the beginning of the 2011-12 season will be played against

Bacone College this coming Saturday. This will be the rst time NSU has played Bacone in sev-eral years.


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Golf teams gear up for new seasonPaola torres herNaNdez

TNE WriTEr

NSU mens and womens golf

teams ae gettng eady fo a new

season. Women wll play ve

tounaments n the fall and seven

tounaments n the spng. Men

wll play ve tounaments n the

fall and sx n the spng countng

the NCAA champonshps.

Fo each team the goal s the

same, to wn the NCAA natonaltounament. Both teams ae con-

dent that t s a goal that can be

accomplshed ths yea.

Fo the women, i thnk we

have the oppotunty to be vey

specal ths yea, Sad Scott Va-

ne, head golf coach. We have

a temendous amount of talent

and eveybody has a geat deal of

expeence now. Ou mens team

s vey smla n that we have ev-

eybody back wth temendous

expeence and comng off ou

11th NCAA ii Natonal Cham-

ponshp Tounament bd n the

last 13 yeas.

Each team s gettng pepaed

to compete fo the natonal tou-

naments ttle. Wokouts and

pactce ounds have stated fo

the NSU golf teams.

Wokouts nclude unnng

thee mles thee tmes a week,

as well as httng the weght oom

thee tmes a week, sad Bady

Wood, golf assstant. A nomal

week, that s not suounded by

a season tounament, wll con-

sst of playng on days Monday,

Wednesday, and Fday, wth ht-

tng balls and wokng on shot

game on Tuesday and Thusday.

Both mens and womens golf

teams ae smla and have the

same goals but each team has df-

feent stengths. Fo the women s

the wokout and pactce stuc-

tue what wll gve the playes the

condence to compete.

i thnk the stength fo the

team ths yea wll be ou pac-

tces and wokouts, sad Kelsey

Kkpatck, Golden, Texas ju-

no. Pactcng and gettngeady fo all of ou tounaments

wll be a bg help.

On the mens sde, the advan-

tage wll be on the numbe of

new playes ecuted ths yea,

and the expeence of the olde

playes.

The stength s that we have

eally good feshmen comng n

and vey talented playe that also

have had expeence compet-

ng at college level. Sad Jonas

Ganel, Gemany sophomoe.

Wth the expeence of the old-

est, the enegy of the feshman,the NSU golfes wll compete to

acheve the goal of beng the

next natonal golf champons.


[email protected].

Courtesy photoNortheastern State University mens and womens golf teams are gearing up for a new season. For each team the goal is the

same, to win a national tournament.


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NSU marching band goes Gaga for rst game

Courtesy photoTheNSU Marching Band began practice for the 2011 season in early August, doing practice sessions and eld rehearsals. The

band is set to perform the music of the popular recording artist Lady Gaga at the rst NSU home football game.

Membes of the NotheastenState Unvesty Machng Band

took to the tuf n ealy August

fo pactce sessons and eld e-

heasals dung band camp 2011.

Led by D. Noman Wka, asss-

tant pofesso of musc, the rv-

eHawk Machng Band wll pe-

fom dung the pe-games and

halftmes of home football games.

NSU opens ts season August

27 at 6 p.m. aganst Bacone atDoc Wadley Stadum.

The st few machng ses-

sons consst of machng fun-

damentals whee we wok on

eveyone movng and cayng

the nstuments unfomly,

sad Wka. Then we stat lean-

ng ou machng shows. The

st s ou pe-game show, whch

conssts of Oklahoma, the Sta

Spangled Banne, the NSU Alma

Mate and the ght song. Then

we wok on the halftme shows.

in a bt of a twst, the band

wll pefom musc showcasng

pop dva Lady Gaga and tumpet

geat Bll Chase dung two half-

tme shows.

We wll pefom the Lady

Gaga set fo the st football

game and t wll consst of Bad

romance, Bon Ths Way and

Poke Face, sad Wka. Theband Chase was a 1970s ja-

ock ensemble and Bll Chase was

a famous tumpet playe whose

lfe was cut shot n a plane cash

n the late 70s. Well featue hs

musc at the second game.

Band membes aved on cam-

pus August 6, eheasals began

August 7, and contnued thoughthe 10th. The camp concluded

wth a cookout and pool paty at

the Semnay Sutes Clubhouse.

Kappa Kappa Ps, the honoay

band sevce fatenty, oganed

the gatheng.

Socalng s an mpotant el-

ement of band camp, sad Wka.

Besdes leanng musc and

machng dll, t s also a tme fo

all band membes to get to knoweach othe and fo the new people

to lean the way aound.

Wka sad the band numbes

90 and that eheasals have been

excellent.

Courtesy photoThe NSU marching band

will perform the songs of BadRomance, Born This Way andPoker Face, each made fa-mous by Pop sensation LadyGaga.


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Frt m ftball gam t b tlv

NSU announced that t has

sgned an ageement wth CoxCommuncatons to televson the

Oklahoma Kckoff Classc late

ths month.

NSU wll host Bacone Col-

lege at 6:05 p.m. Satuday, Aug.

27, at Doc Wadley Stadum n

Tahlequah. it s the st ofcalfootball game of 2011 n the state

at any level, and wll be dstb-

uted by Cox to subscbes acoss

Oklahoma, ncludng the Tulsa

and Oklahoma Cty metopoltan

aeas.

Vetean boadcaste Chs Ln-coln, Spots Decto at KTUL-

TV n Tulsa, wll call the ac-

ton. Allan Tmble, Jenks Hgh

Schools football head coach and

NSU alumnus, wll povde colo

analyss.

Oklahomans ae excted

about the football season begn-

nng and Notheasten State has

the dstnct hono of playng the

st game n the state, sad TonyDuckwoth, decto of athletcs

and chef athletcs ofce at NSU.

The oppotunty to patne wth

Cox Communcatons doesnt

come along evey yea. Televsng

the game to some 400,000 house-

holds s an unbelevable way to

begn the yea and povde expo-sue of ou unvesty, and foot-

ball pogam, to the thousands of

ou alumn n the state.

Fo moe than fou decades

Chs Lncoln has been cove-

ng spots. He has wtten about

t and talked about t n newspa-

pes, maganes, ado, televson

and the intenet.

Wheeve thee have been ma-

jo spotng events to cove, Chshas gone! On Amecan Alnes

alone he has logged ove 7.5 ml-

lon mles of tavel. He has been

to 47 states, and taveled to 16

foegn countes on fou cont-

nents.

He has done netwok televson

play-by-play of ove 20 dffe-

ent spots and has been to majo

spotng events fom the Supe

Bowl; Wold Sees; the Wnte

and Summe Olympcs; inda-napols 500; the Tple Cown

(Kentucky Deby-Peakness and

Belmont); The Beedes Cup;

NCAA & NiT basketball touna-

ments; Wold Cup Socce; golf;

tenns; Natonal Fnals rodeo,

etc.

Lncoln has also wtten, po-

duced and voced many natonal

spots specals ncludng ESPN

Spots Classc shows.in Tulsa he s emembeed as

the Voce of the Tulsa rough-

necks (NASL socce team); the

Oklahoma Outlaws (USFL Po

Football); and the Tulsa Twst-

es (pofessonal team odeo). He

s featued on ado locally as a

weekly announce on the Spots Anmal 97.1 FM show. He has

also done local hgh school foot-

ball play-by-play fo KrMG a-

do.

The Cox telecast s one of sev-

eal multmeda enhancements

Notheasten State s makng ths

season.

NSU has contacted wth

Payne rado Goup fo the 2011

football season. KTLQ-AM wllcay evey rveHawk boadcast

lve, whle KEOK-FM wll cay

games that do not conct wth

Oklahoma State games.

Just ecently, rveHawks Ath-

letcs sgned on fo anothe yea

wth The Spots Anmal, KYAL

97.1 FM n Tulsa. Ths yea,

The Spots Anmal wll a thee

games lve on 97.1 -- Bacone on

Aug. 27, UT-San Antono on

Sept. 3 and Mdwesten State onNov. 12 -- and eboadcast the e-

mande of the slate afte 10 p.m.

on Satudays. rveHawk Talk

wll contnue fo ts thd season

on Sunday at 9 a.m.

Also ths season, NSU Athletcs

wll steam lve vdeo of ts home

football and basketball games,

and selected away games, fom

Ameca One on the intenet.

Fans can puchase the football vdeo steam fo $8 pe game,

o puchase a season pass fo

$69.95. The basketball pass wll

be $89.95. The ente schedule

wth Ameca One clents wll

be posted on the NSU Athletcs

webste shotly.

Lve audo wll contnue to be

steamed lve va the NSU Athlet-

cs web ste at no chage though

an ageement wth Stetch inte-net.

The nal enhancement wll

be E-Scoes, whee fans can sub-

scbe fee of chage fo scoe up-

dates and quck ecaps dung all

rveHawks athletc events ths

season.

Courtesy photoNSU will host Bacone College at 6:05 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 27, at Doc Wadley Stadium in

Tahlequah. The game will be will be distributed by Cox to subscribers across Oklahoma, in-cluding the Tulsa and Oklahoma City metropolitan areas.


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NSU soccer teams look to leadership for upcoming seasonsJasmiNe wrightTNE WriTEr

NSU fans keep a lookout fo

the mens and womens socce

team ths upcomng season. New

ecuts, ncludng some Dvson i

playes, and a new coachng staff

fo the mens team have bought

a new atttude about the game.

Ths s pobably the most tal-

ented team weve eve had n

the hstoy of ou pogam,sad Chase Wooten, head coach

of the NSU womens socce

team. ive got some condence

that ths s a petty salty goup.

The NSU womens socce team

fell shot last yea nshng just

one spot out of the confeence

tounament. Oveall they n-

shed 7-6-5. They ae lookng to

tun up the heat ths new season.

Ou bg pctue goal s that

we would lke to get n to thatlage bd to the natonal tou-

nament, sad Coach Wooten.

Talent wse ts thee, ts just

now a matte can we put t all

togethe and play at that level.

The womens socce team has a

lot of depth ths yea wth theuppe classmen. They have seven

senos and two of them ae cap-

tans. Wth the amount of leade-

shp on the team ths season, they

have the potental to go vey fa.

My pesonal goal fo ths sea-

son s to do whateve i can do

to help the team move fowad,

sad Melssa Mchelsen, seno

and captan of the NSU wom-

ens socce team. Beng a se-no, ths s my last yea, we only

have 18 games n egula season

play, and fo me that s too shot.

i have been playng ths game

compettvely snce i was 6-yeas-

old and i want to pogess to

postseason play so i can extend

my last yea of compettve soc-

ce caee as long as t can go.

The NSU mens socce po-

gam s lookng to tun thngs

aound as well. The seach fowns n the past seasons has been

a constant stuggle, but ths s a

new yea and a tme fo change.

i would lke ou guys to play

consstent, team oented defense

and be vey quck and agges-

sve n tanston to attack, sadrob Clonka, head coach of the

NSU mens socce team. That

s ou geneal goal, we ae look-

ng fo a wnnng season. NSU

[mens socce] hasnt had a wn-

nng season snce about 2004,

so we ae lookng to beak that

and get double dgts wns.

Mens socce nshed the sea-

son oveall 7-10-0. They have

fou senos ths yea and alage feshman class. The team

s countng on those fou se-

nos to play the best and lead

them n the ght decton.

i thnk we ae gong to do

good ths yea, dentely wn

moe games than last yea,

sad Mchael Wlson, seno

and captan of the NSU mens

socce team. [We ae] push-

ng fo a egonal ttle and look-

ng fo natonals but we have toevaluate ouselves as a team.

The NSU mens socce team wll

have the home opene Fday,

Sept. 9 vesus Fot Hayes. Not only

wll t be the home opene but

they ae celebatng the 30th ann-

vesay of the pogam beng the

st state nsttuton to hold mens

socce as a vasty spot. They wll

also be dedcatng the eld to D.

Dan DeLoache, the ognal coachwth a new achway to the eld.

They have lots of celebatng to

do Sept. 9 so make sue NSU fans

ae thee to help make t pefect.

The NSU womens socce team

wll have the home opene Sept.

10 aganst Centenay (La.). Coach

Wooten was the pevous coach at

Centenay so he s lookng to un

the scoe up on them just a bt.

They wll need fan suppot ths

game to stat the yea off ght.

Fo moe nfomaton, emal

[email protected].

Courtesy photoThe NSU mens soccer

team will have their homeopener Friday, Sept. 9 versusFort Hayes. The NSU wom-ens soccer team will havetheir rst home game Sept.10 against Centenary (La.)


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