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1. What is one of your favorite Harding memories? 2. What is your favorite Sonic drink? 3. What is one thing you can’t live without? 4. Who is one famous person you would invite to dinner? 5. If you could be anyone besides yourself, who would you be?
Hilary Dycus
SENIOR FOOTBALL TEAM NOMINEE 1. Living on the second floor of Kendall. Staying up late, laughing constantly, making embarrassing music videos, and going out and playing in rain storms.
2. Unsweet tea with blackberry. 3. My morning coffee. 4. Jennifer Lawrence. 5. Belle from Beauty and the Beast.
Emily Herr
SENIOR SIGMA PHI MU NOMINEE 1. Since freshman year we have had an annual camping trip to Heber where we try to cook gourmet meals over a fire and I try to use all my wilderness skills.
2. What’s Sonic? (I’m a northerner, I don’t go to Sonic). 3. Food. 4. Morgan Freeman. 5. Megan Smith.
Kelly Donaldson
S E N I O R P I T H E TA P H I N O M I N E E 1. Some of my dearest memories 2. Blue raspberry slush with are those that have proven nerds. Harding as a community. 3. Baked goods. Through times of loss and death, 4. Anne Hathaway. I’ve seen this community join
together unlike any other school. 5. My mom. She’s the greatest.
Katie Weatherly SENIOR JU GO JU NOMINEE
1. Club week 2011 when I (was inducted). 2. Does an Oreo blast count? 3. Music and (this is probably a typical girl answer) coffee.
4. Queen Elizabeth. 5. A tie between Queen Elizabeth, Kate Middleton and Anthony Bourdain. photos by LINDA FERELLE graphic by CINA CATTEAU
Student goes through cancer treatment By Joshua Johnson News Editor
When freshman Thanaydi
mden -- Henry Sandoval began taking Aspirin
and Tylenol regularly in high school to relieve pain below her knee, she had no idea that a tumor was growing in the top of her shin. Now a patient at St. Jude’s Hospital in Memphis, Sandoval is taking a break from being an international business major to receive chemotherapy treatments and recovery therapy that will last most of the school year. According to Sandoval, she is currently three weeks into a six week window therapy program, which is an experimental procedure usually utilized to help prevent or treat cancer relapse. She will most likely undergo surgery in early spring of 2015 and plans to return to Harding next fall. “The people at St. Jude’s are amazing,” Sandoval said. “They worry about every little thing for me. They’ve really made me feel comfortable while I’m here.” Mike Allen,assistant professor of business and Sandoval’s adviser, said Sandoval can be described as sweet-spirited, but would also include the words “driven” and “motivated.” “Anytime there’s something new, she doesn’t shy away from it,” Allen said. “Rather, she goes after it and attacks it with vigor.” Sandoval was part of Upward Bound, a grant program housed at Harding that works with area high school students who intend to receive a college education, according to Katrina
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Smeltzer, director of Upward Bound. Smeltzer said Sandoval has been preparing for college through Upward Bound since 9th grade. “She is an outstanding young woman, both in mind and spirit,” Smeltzer said. “This unexpected illness was a shock but I know Thanaydi will hold to her strong spirit and get through this tough year. I, for one, am thankful she chose Harding. I look forward to seeing her on campus next fall with books in hand, ready for classes.” Sandoval said she cannot wait to start her classes again and looks forward to being part of the Harding experience again. “I think I’m going to try (being in a social club) next year,” Sandoval said. “I started playing on an intramural volleyball team on campus, and I only got to play a few games, but I’m really looking forward to doing more of that next year as well.” Sandoval said she is glad she chose Harding. “Everyone has kept in touch with me, and I really appreciate that,” Sandoval said. “I had just started, so I didn’t know many people at first. But even though I didn’t know them very well, they have still been there for me when I needed them.” Allen said that Sandoval is most encouraged by knowing that people are praying for her and thinking about her. “Coming to Harding allowed her to join the Harding family, which has allowed all of us to become her extended family,” Allen said.
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Kaci Hitchcox, a Doctors Without Borders nurse who returned to the states after working with Ebola patients, announced Wednesday that because she has shown no symptoms of the disease, she does not intend to agree to the 21-day quarantine imposed upon her by authorities. According to an article on www.usatoday. com, Hitchcox believes her constitutional rights are being abused in a way that is not based on any scientific evidence. While some Americans are worried about the spread of ebola in the U.S., sophomore Riley George, who is studying abroad in Zambia, said both Zambian locals and the students in the HIZ program still feel safe because Africa is so massive. “Granted, they aren’t taking it lightly and people are taking precautions, but most people don’t realize how huge Africa is,” George said. “If the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak is in Liberia, then I’m currently more than 3,000 miles away. That’s more than the distance between L.A. and Portland, to put it in U.S. perspectives.” George said that in contrast to the panic many Americans are experiencing or promoting, Africans view the situation with cautious optimism. “Nowhere in Zambia have I found a populous so up in arms and worried about catching Ebola as the U.S., who is currently twice the distance away from the outbreak,” George said. “No, people here aren’t unconcerned or callous, but they also know the likelihood of contamination is minimal, so they focus their attention on helping the sick around them.” George said in his opinion, the U.S. should increase aid to the most highly affected countries
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in order to eradicate the virus at its source. “In times like this, people need all of the help they can get,” George said. “Supplies are always appreciated, but manpower is more so.” Harding students on American soil recently formulated their own plans of action for Ebola treatment for a Capstone nursing project. Dr. Susan Kehl, dean of the Carr College of Nursing, said her students learned about the proper measures to take when dealing with such a dangerous disease and then compiled all of their research into a document, which she distributed to the entire nursing department. According to Kehl, the document includes information on Ebola, its spread in Africa, how healthcare personnel should evaluate potential patients and what personal protective equipment healthcare personnel should wear. In spite of the alarm recent American Ebola cases have caused, Kehl said our nation is well equipped to contain and treat this disease. SEE EBOLA, PAGE 2A
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Senior Savannah Morris and junior Sam Morris practice on Oct. 28 for their Lyceum performance with The Rhodes Show. The band is made up of nine members and will perform on Tuesday, Nov. 4 at 7 p.m.
Siblings to perform as part of Lyceum By Maeghen Carter Student Writer
On Tuesday, Nov. 4, the Lyceum Concert Series will feature The Rhodes Show, including performers junior Sam Morris and senior Savannah Morris. The concert will begin at 7 p. m. in the Administration Auditorium and is $3 or free with a CAB pass. According to Savannah Morris, The Rhodes Show started in the 1930s with the Morris’ grandparents, Dusty and Dot Rhodes and Dusty’s brothers, Slim Rhodes, and Speck Rhodes. These four were the traditional members of the The Rhodes Show that toured the Mid-South and had their own Memphis-based television show that aired for more than 25 years. The show was popular and featured several other famous musicians including Elvis Presley. The band now includes seven family members and junior Austin Westjohn and sophomore Heath Bennett who will all perform at
Harding for the Lyceum. Throughout the years, all members and generations of The Rhodes Show have worked with multiple well-known artists. The Morris’ mom was a back up singer for many of Al Green’s number one hits as well as for Elvis. Both of the Morris’are third generation family members in The Rhodes Show. Working with their family has not only made them all closer as a whole but has made them closer musically as well. “Music is my life, and music is what I love to do,” Savannah Morris said. “God couldn’t have given me anything greater than being able to share music with my family.” Both Sam and Savannah Morris are active in Harding’s music community. They are both members of Belles and Beaux and perform individually all around Searcy. This performance will show what their musical roots are. “I’m really looking forward to this
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show because very few Harding students really know what Savannah and I do as far as performing outside of campus,” Sam Morris said. The Lyceum Concert Series has been an ongoing event on Harding’s campus for almost 60 years. The series features different kinds of musical performing genres for students to enjoy. Music department chair Dr. Cliff Ganus III works closely with the concert series. “Any university needs to provide to its students and its community the opportunity to see and hear a variety of performances,” Ganus said. While The Rhodes Show has been primarily country, they plan on doing some popular pop song covers and some original songs written by Sam Morris and Bennett. “These are talented musicians who will put on a good show — and Savannah and Sam are part of our family as well as theirs,” Ganus said.
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