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Right when the Cards thought they were done for the season, they will have another opportunity to strap on their helmets and hit the field. The team re-ceived an invitation on Nov. 16 to play in the Citizens Bank Bowl Game.

The Cards (8-2), who are ranked No. 10, will face No. 3 Butler College (10-1) in what will be their final game of the season. The game is scheduled for 1 p.m. Dec. 4.

Owner and chairman of Citizens Bank said the citi-zens of Pittsburg, Kan., will have a chance to see a great ball game.

"We are incredibly excited about the match-up for our bowl game," said Dean Mann, in a press release sent out by the bowl committee. "Butler and Trinity Valley are high-caliber teams, and we are proud to bring such a great event to Pittsburg and Southeast Kansas. The first two years of the bowl provided a tremendous opportunity for area football fans to see the best of what junior college football has to offer, and this year will follow that tradition."

The players had a short intermission after their

42-16 semi-final loss against Navarro College earlier this month.

The game will be held at the Carnie Smith Sta-dium at Pittsburgh State University. General admis-sion tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students in K-12. Reserved seating tickets are $15.

The players are getting excited to play in the game now that they realize how much fun the game is go-ing to be. Some of the first-year players did not un-derstand the importance of going to a bowl game. Coach Smiley said that playing in a bowl game has its benefits because there are plenty of college scouts at the game.

The Cards finished out the regular season with several accolades in the National Junior College Athletic Association. The team finished ranked No. 7 in total team offense (480 ypg); No. 10 in team passing (262 ypg); and No. 14 in team rushing of-fense (219 ypg). The Cards also had several players to be named Player of the Week on different occa-sions throughout the season. Conference Players of the Week included:

Week 3 – Josh Reed was defensive player of the week with 11 solo tackles (2 for assist) and 2 for loss. Week 5 – Martez Shabazz broke up 2 passes,1 interception, and 7 tackles including 2 for loss. Week 7 – Jermaine Longino accounted for 9 tack-les (6 solo), 1 interception, and 1 pass break up. Week 8 – Tucker Carter had 22 out of 39 passes for 395 yards and 4 touchdowns, along with 47 yards rushing. Saul Martinez made 4 extra points, hammered in a 44 yard field goal, and had 2 touch-backs for the Cardinals. Week 10 – Tucker Carter had 7 touchdowns, completed 25 of 37 passes for 358 yards and had 4 touchdowns. He also rushed for 37 yards and 3 touchdowns.(Information courtesy of the TVCC football Face-book page.) Spring is coming soon and "Breakfast Club" will be-gin. Cardinal fans have just a few months to see who makes the program out of the walk-on class and the players who were red-shirted this season.

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Thanksgiving is an original American holi-day. The story of the first American Thanks-giving can be read about in Bradford’s History of the Plymouth settlement covering the years 1608-1646. From the first Thanks-giving have grown the modern traditions of today which rela-tives share together. The best tradition of Thanksgiving Day is a table full of food, and family gathering to en-joy it.

A large family can make a full table. Add to that table cous-ins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents and then it becomes a house, full of person-ality. There is the big-mouthed comment someone just has to make; it goes with the personality. Or the overly sensitive person-ality, and then those personalities who help to balance the others out, so usually there is harmony. Somehow it all seems to fall into place as a pleasant family time.

The men like their

deep discussions and jokes. They have in the past spent their time butchering the turkeys for the meal, but more recently the turkey comes from the store. There might still be wood to stack. The la-dies are in the kitchen, for somehow the kitch-en seems to usually be-come the domain of the ladies; either when cooking the meal or at clean-up time. The ladies organize the food for the Thanksgiv-ing meal. This arrange-ment has been per-fected, almost to an art, through the years. The cousins help with the food too, while the youngest cousins play underfoot. Everyone joins in the games for all ages.

The food includes an extensive menu that is the combined effort of all of the aunts and some of the cousins. The list may include mashed potatoes and gravy, broccoli and cheese casse-role, squash casserole, green bean casserole, bread rolls, and pink salad. Desserts served may include Mississippi

mud cake, pumpkin pie, pecan pie, sweet potato pie, and other pies; as well as bon-bons, petite pumpkins, brownies, and pump-kin rolls. Finally, there is the dressing with cranberry sauce and the traditional baked turkey, and tea or wa-ter to drink. Seating ar-rangements are vari-ous folding tables set end-to-end and card tables tucked away in corners where space allows, or the privilege is given to sit on the couch to eat.

The turkey breast-bone adds a bit of traditional fun when two people get to pull it. Tradition has it the person who breaks off the longer piece lives longer, and the person who breaks off the shorter piece gets married first. The only problem is when the boys learn to break the bone so they al-ways have the longest piece. Somehow it seem to lose some of the predictability then.

As it grows dark, sleeping arrangements are made; either crashing on the couch,

mattresses on the floor, sleeping bags, camp-ers, tents, or even the barn. The barn at one time was a favorite spot. A cousin had the incident of once for-getting the purpose of the hay bales around the exit hole in the floor of the loft. That cousin proceeded to vault the hay bales and ended up gasping for breath on the ground floor below while as-suring the concerned cousins still in the loft above they were truly OK.

There was an epi-sode when a cousin slid into a raccoon caught chasing chick-ens. There was the hike the boys returned with dabs of mud on their face and arms to soothe the stings of a nest of hornets or bumblebees they had encountered. One cousin when young was racing between hillside and creek bank and ended up clutch-ing tightly to a vine while another cousin grabbed hold and hoisted them back to the top of the bank. The same young cousin

at another time heed-lessly ran through the trash pile and cut their foot. Somehow the an-tics were all survived. The games of chase and hide-and-go-seek also add fun. On one occasion, a cousin being chased let their imagination run wild and suddenly turned to scream, causing an immediate halt to the game. Several con-cerned viewers came running to find it was only a vivid imagina-tion that had elicited the scream and not a real threat.

While we cousins played, the uncles might chop more fire-wood together. One uncle teased the oth-er uncle by splitting a piece of last year’s dried wood and then setting up a piece of green firewood for the other to try. The other uncle was for some-time baffled as to why the ax head bounced off the green wood un-til the difference in the logs was revealed to him.

In our family, there is a goat milk joke among the relatives. My uncle

refused to drink the fresh goat's milk. So, my parents poured it into a plastic jug and sat it in the refrigera-tor. My uncle poured himself glass after glass of the milk and drank it zestfully, declaring numerous times how delicious the milk was. Finally, the day he was leaving, my Daddy told him the reason it was so good was be-cause it was the fresh goat's milk. From then on, my uncle and his family became advo-cates for fresh goat's milk.

So, in conclusion, while the red and yel-low autumn leaves color the outdoors, inside, cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandpar-ents color each others lives at Thanksgiving with prayers of thank-fulness, a table full of food, and enjoyable times together as fam-ily.

Tammie Unger is a student on the Pales-tine Campus. Thanks-giving is the Unger family's time for getting together with relatives.

My family Thanksgiving is filled with fun, togetherness, traditions

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"No I don't feel safe, that's why I walk with bigger peo-ple. Every car should stop in front of the crosswalk. There should be a stop or yield sign. They should lower the speed limit to 20 and have a police officer there every morning and evening."

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"I feel safe. But they should probably put a stop sign up, because all the cars don't stop. Most of them keep go-ing. They should also put the speed limit at 20."

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"At times, I don't feel safe. I think they need another crosswalk, a light and also give out tickets. They need to do something about it. When someone's life is in danger it becomes an issue."

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There is a major problem at the in-tersection of Lake-side Drive and Dean Street on Trinity Val-ley's Athens campus.

Even though cross-walk signs are visible, many students have said crossing at that intersection is a big problem. Some have said that they've al-most been hit by a car while trying to cross the street, but others don’t see it as an issue at all.

What should be been done about this prob-lem? Several students think this is something that definitely needs to be addressed. Some students think there should be a stop sign or a stoplight at the intersection, or the speed limit needs to be reduced; while others suggested that a bridge over the crosswalk will eliminate the problem altogether. Seeing as there are already cau-tion lights, perhaps the lights should be moved closer to the crosswalk.

This is definitely an is-sue that needs to be addressed. Students are putting them-selves in danger just to get to class. So what should be done about this problem? There are many suggestions for correcting this is-sue. Students should feel safe at all times and crossing the street should not be a safe-ty issue. There should be some way to slow down the traffic and regulate its flow, which could make cross-ing safer; some drivers simply just do not slow down or stop at the

college’s crosswalk.One suggestion is

a stop sign and four clearly marked cross-walks. This could help slow down the traffic but it would not regu-late the flow. Howev-er, this could cause a back up of cars, which would not be help-ful and could make people late. But this suggestion would pre-vent students from be-ing hit by cars. Many students have almost been hit while using the crosswalk while others have had no problems.

Another suggestion is a stoplight, which could monitor flow, as well as tell the students and cars when they can or cannot advance. Hav-ing stoplights could also cause a back up; however, not every car would have to stop.

Dropping the speed limit to 20 miles per hour is another sug-gestion. The college should have a school zone during the busiest hours of the day. Most school zones in Athens are 20 mph, but that is not case here at TVCC.

The local and cam-pus police could help in this issue by ticketing speeders and monitor-ing the traffic during the mornings and after-noons. Issuing speed-ing tickets will defi-nitely slow down most people, and police presence could help re-enforce the speed limit. Since the cross-walk is city regulated, the police should aid in keeping the students safe from motorists.

Other students have suggested a crossing

bridge so that students would not have to stop and neither would the cars. The bridge would be built above the road, eliminating prob-lems with traffic flow and student safety all together. That would be a decent solution, but that costs money.

Still other students, however, think it is not an issue. They feel it's simple enough to look both ways before crossing and proceed when it is safe to do so.

Actions should be taken to make the crosswalk safe for the students of Trinity Val-ley. All of the afore-mentioned suggestions involve the college having to spend mon-

ey, but most of the suggestions would cause little to no traf-fic buildup. A bridge, although outlandish, would be effective in having no traffic build-up and keep students safe, but the bridge would be very costly.

Whichever is the best solution, the college should not wait until something bad hap-pens to take action. TVCC should be pro-active when it comes to keeping the stu-dents safe and put in a stoplight. The stop-light would cause some traffic buildup, but it would be the most ef-fective way to show who has the right away and at what times.

Are students putting their lives in danger?

The crosswalk at the intersection on Dean Street and Lakeside Drive is one of the busiest intersections on campus. Students living in Cardinal Hall and Northwest Hall use this crosswalk daily to get to class or to go to the cafeteria.

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Campus UpdateStudent Music

RecitalsThe student music re-

citals are being held from 12:45 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. every Friday af-ternoon in the Fine Arts Building.

TVCC Annual Art Show

The TVCC annual art show will be Nov.

30 and Dec. 1 in the cafeteria conference room. Students’ art work will be on display and several pieces will be auctioned to help raise money for the art department.

Developmental MathStudents can com-

bine developmental math I and II into one

semester. To apply go to www.tvcc.edu/mathprep. Classes will be held from 10:50 a.m.- 1 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Classes that will be of-fered are Dev Math I, Dev Math II, Inten Devl Math (Labs), and Learn-ing Framework. For ad-ditional information please contact Jenny

Hughes (903)670-2680 or jhughes@tvcc.edu.

Winter Study BreakThe 4th annual SSC

Winter Study Break will be from 10 a.m. - noon Monday, Dec. 5 on the 3rd floor of the Baugh Technical Building room 321. They will be offering free tutoring for finals. Cookies and milk will be served, and the center

will have a drawing for a prize.

TVCC Christmas Concert

The annual TVCC Christmas concert will be at 3 p.m., Dec. 4 at Dogwood Baptist Church in Athens. The TVCC Cardinal Singers along with other guests, including our own TVCC President, Dr. Glen-

don Forgey. Dogwood Church is located at 6467 FM Road 2494.

Buy BackTextbook buy-back

starts Dec. 5 in the bookstore. All students must have an up-to-date Cardinal I.D. be-fore they can sell their books.

By Krista Newman

The 2012 Mr. Charity America title was won by a Trinity Valley stu-dent from the Athens campus.

Josh Joblin, 24, of Athens, Texas was crowned Mr. Charity America for 2012 on Oct. 23 at the Round-Up Saloon in Dallas. He represented Garlow’s in Gun Barrel City.

Joblin raised more than $1,400 for Home for the Holidays Texas, Inc. The organization was founded in the early 1990s and assists in sending people with HIV/AIDS to see their families during the holi-day season, as well as assist them with see-ing their families during the final stages of their disease. Home for the Holidays also provides families with emergen-cy travel funds and cremations services.

Contestants in the pageant were award-ed 10 points for every $100 they raised. Joblin raised a total of $1,405 in pre-show donations, along with additional amounts from multiple pre-pageant events, which also went to-ward his total winning score. He had to win

a preliminary pageant and attended several events throughout the year leading up to the pageant.

All the money raised from the events con-tributed to Joblin’s points, which made him the winner of the 2012 Mr. Charity Ameri-ca. The pageant, in to-tal, raised $13,000 and 100 percent of the pro-ceeds were donated to Home for the Holi-days Texas, Inc.

“This is such an amaz-ing experience," Joblin said. "I've become a better person, and I couldn't have done it without my best friend, Brian Paris."

The theme for this year’s pageant was “A Night at the Theatre.” Other categories in-cluded "Broadway Glamour," "Hollywood Glitz" and "America’s Showtunes." Joblin stole the show in all the categories at the pag-eant. He was named “Best Talent” for his version of Tom Cruise’s "Old Time Rock and Roll," from the movie "Risky Business." Joblin also performed a num-ber from the movie "Singing in the Rain,"

impersonating dance extraordinaire, Gene Kelly.

Joblin, a full-time stu-dent, is a double major in mathematics and mechanical engineer-ing. He is also an ac-tive member of TVCC’s Cardinal Regiment Band where he plays trombone and french horn. Joblin likes to give back to the communi-ty by raising awareness and helping to remove the stigma of HIV and AIDS, along with raising money for Home for

the Holidays Texas, Inc.“In the short period

of time I've been in-volved in the commu-nity, I've grown closer and closer to every-one," Joblin said. “Ev-eryone knows some-one who is affected, in one way or another, and every single hu-man being on the planet deserves to be treated with respect."

The Mr. and Miss Charity America is an annual fundraising event that benefits Home for the Holidays.

Joblin crowned Mr. Charity America

By Kelly DavisEditor-in-Chief

Money raised from the pageant will go to Home from the Holidays of Texas, Inc. charity.

Joblin, a member of the Cardinal Regiment, also won the Best Talent award at the pageant.

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"One Dead in Attic" is this year’s motiva-tional book at the Val-ley. Read through the Valley was created to promote reading in college students.

The project is in its first year at Trinity Val-ley.

The book "One Dead in Attic" de-scribes life in New Orleans after the le-vees broke during the disaster of Hurricane Katrina and what was to come of the peo-ple that lived there.

It tells about the traumatic year and a half after the disaster and what the citizens of New Orleans had to endure during that amount of time.

There were sev-eral events held for the book. Each pre-sentation was a little different but overall they didn’t just de-liver awareness of the book, but acknowl-edgment to the real situation.

On Aug. 22 and 23, Phi Theta Kappa and

the Student Senate held readings from "One Dead in Attic". This started off the program for the book.

The next event was on Sept. 15 when Dr. Michael Felty, one of TVCC’s Physical Sci-ence faculty, gave his presentation on "Café Conversation : Great Weather Catastro-phes" on the disaster.

On Sept. 21, Audrey Hawkins, Director of School Relations, gave her presenta-tion "When the Levees

Broke", along with a Spike Lee documen-tary on the issue.

Deidre Jones, of TVCC’s Journalism Department, gave her presentation on "Café Conversation: The Real History Be-hind New Orleans" on Sept. 28.

On Oct. 5, Kelly Driskell of TVCC's Eng-lish Department and Cortney Curran, Di-rector of Human Ser-vices, gave their pre-sentation with the film "A Streetcar named Desire" followed up by a group discussion.

Then on Oct. 12, Chip Chilton of TVCC's Psychology Department, gave his presentation on "Café Conversation: The Dramatic Disas-ter and the Mental Health Issues Caused by it."

On Oct. 19, John Miles of TVCC's Emer-gency Medical Train-ing program, and Patsy Gilbert of the Spanish Department , gave their presenta-tion on "Café Conver-sation: Disaster Pre-paredness" and the panic that was sent out after the disaster due the magnitude of damages and its citizens being unpre-pared.

Again on Oct. 24, Audrey Hawkins gave her presentation on "When the levees Broke" and followed up with a Spike Lee documentary on the issue.

On Nov. 2, Norma Lambert from the Henderson County Humane Society, gave her presenta-tion on "Filling the Ark-Animal Welfare in a

Time of Disaster". The presentation was also part of Read Through the Valley series.

Then Nov. 9, Audrey Hawkins the School Relations Director and the TVCC Singers gave their presenta-tion, adding a twist to the disaster by sing-ing, which put things in a musical perspec-tive.

On Nov. 16, Dr. Hud-son, of TVCC’s Music faculty, gave his own presentation with an outstanding musical performance.

The last event this semester will be the Art and Library Exhibi-tion hosted by the Art and Library Depart-ments. To get the time of the event check with the Learning Re-source Center.

The 21st century is full of trends that people follow for a few weeks or even years. One of the most recent trends, that has been out since 1999, is for a great cause. The only requirement: you have to put up with the itch-ing for a month.

Movember is where participants don't

shave throughout the month of November to raise awareness about prostate cancer and other health-related is-sues that men might have.

The movement was started by a small group of men back in 1999 in Melbourne, Australia. In order to be fully joined in the event, partici-pants have to first reg-ister at movember.com to be accredited. Then, on the night of Hallow-een, participants must completely shave any facial hair so they can start November 1st clean shaven. The Mo Bros (the name given to the participants) are not allowed to shave for the rest of Novem-ber. Some go even fur-ther; they groom and trim their moustache, taking great care of it.

Mo Bros seek sponsor-ship through the efforts they have put in their moustaches.

According to official rules of Movember, men should following this simple motto creat-ed by Colonel Booch-ie R. Blight: "Whether you're stopping or go-ing; Just you remem-ber; To keep that mo growing; Whilst in Mo-vember"

Students, don't be alarmed by those stu-dent walking around TVCC campus with a full beard; they are probably supporting Movember. Sopho-more Hunter Carter,19, an agriculture business major from Babson Park, Fla., is a proud Movember participant. Carter said he started supporting Movember last year.

"The rodeo team did it, so I was just a part of it," Carter said.

Movember has be-come a powerful movement spread-ing to many countries such as New Zealand, the US, Canada, the U.K., Finland, the Neth-erlands, Spain, South Africa and Ireland.

According to movem-ber.com, there are 1.1 million registered par-ticipants all over the world and over 64,500 Mo Bros participated in the movement last year, raising $7.5 million in the U.S. All the funds raised are directed to programs run by the Movember organiza-

tion, the Prostate Can-cer Foundation and LIVESTRONG.

For more info visit www.movember.org/ and us.movember.com.

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Hunter Carter, a member of TVCC's rodeo team, is doing his part to raise more awareness about prostate cancer. He is growing out his moustache and beard for Movember.

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Bros make that beard grow; celebrate Movember

'One Dead in Attic' book selected as first Read through the Valley project

By Kelly A. DavisEditor-in-Chief

One of the most popular places for some of the TVCC students to hang out is on County Road 1205.

And how do you get there? Just drive down

Valle Vista Drive, turn left on to FM 753, then turn right on County Road 1205. Follow the road un-til it turns into bare-minimum asphalt, then to dirt. Once you see the red dirt and the arena on the right, you've made it to the most happening place in Athens--the TVCC rodeo practice facility.

Once you're there, you'll know it's more than just a sport; it's a family affair.

At the helm of this family is Brent Bratton, who has been the men's and women's head coach for the last four years. Coach Bratton has been in-volved with rodeo most of his life and competed in rodeo when he was in high school. In coach Brat-ton's college days, he participated in rodeo at Sam Houston State University where he later received his degree. He then worked at the Texas prison in

their horse operation training horses for about 15 years prior to coming to TVCC to teach.

Bratton's wife, Dawn, play's an important role on the team. She handles all the e-mails, schol-arships and all other paper work concerning the team. “We just love doing the rodeo with the kids,” said his wife Dawn Bratton, who also attends the events to support the team. She is not too hard to spot at the rodeos; she is the one with the camera. Dawn is the team’s official photographer.

When it comes to the Brattton's, the school is getting a "two-fer."

"They're like a two-in-one", said TVCC photog-raphy instructor, Richard Hawkins, who has taken his classes to the practice facility to help his stu-dents get more experience taking action pictures.

The other half of this family are the approxi-mately 32 students that make up this year's team. While some members are just starting at TVCC, it will be the last year for some of the members before they go to a four-year college.

"I love the closeness everyone on the team shares. It seems like they've become closer than

family to me since I've been here," said Drew Fly-nn, a member of TVCC's rodeo team.

Coach Bratton has made the team a viable con-tender in the Southern Region of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association. The Southern Region consists of approximately 400 contes-tants. The team competes against juniors and seniors from four-year colleges such as Texas A&M, Sam Houston State University, McNeese State University, Stephen F. Austin, Texas A&M-Kingsville, along with participants from other two-year colleges that include Hill College, Wharton County Community College, Southwest Texas Junior College, Northeast Texas Community Col-lege, Panola College and Sowela Technical Com-munity College. The top two rodeo teams and top three contestants of each event will qualify for the College National Finals Rodeo in Casper, Wyo., in June.THE TEAM

The men's rodeo events include team roping, tie down roping, bull riding, bare-back riding, saddle bronco riding and steer wrestling. The men that

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compete in two events for the rodeo team are students Jake Anuez, Sean Plank and Justus Whitche. The rest of the men compete in one event for the team and are students Tad Cannon, Blaine Confalone, Drew Flynn, Josh Gatewood, Brian Keighley, Stevo Keighley, Caleb LaFrance and Jerod Mock.

The team’s women hold their own in their events. The women's rodeo events include barrel racing, breakaway and goat tying. The women's rodeo team members who compete in all three events are students Tori Beckley, Mariah Luallen and Maddie Nickle. Competing in two rodeo events are students Brooke Williams, Skye Wright and Rose Buffington. Competing in one event for the team are students Johanna Trimble, Jane’e Steger, Me-gan Muras, Robin Davis, and Maci Culligan.FALL RODEO SEASON

So far this semester, the team has been in four competitions. Their first rodeo was on Oct. 6-8 in Uvalde, Texas where the team had a good show-ing.

At their next event--on Oct. 17-19 at Northeast

Community College in Mount Pleasant, Texas-- the TVCC men’s team placed second in the rodeo, which put them in the No. 3 spot in the Southern Region. They beat out competitors from Texas A&M, McNeese, SFA, South Western Louisiana and Texas A&M-Kingsville.

"It is my understanding that placing this high in the standings has never happened before in the history of the college," Bratton said. "The team would not be able to do what they do without the support of the college and the community."

TVCC dominated the bareback and bull riding competitions, according to Bratton. Freshman Garrett Jones, who won the bareback event with a score of 79, also competes on the roping team.

Hunter Carter, who competed in last year's bare-back event at the College National Finals Rodeo, finished third at the rodeo with a score of 72. Bran-don Confalone and Trey Taylor also competed in bare back.

In bull riding, sophomore Chase Hudson placed second with a score of 82, and freshman Gary Brown finished fifth with a score of 78. Also com-peting in bull riding was freshman Chase Shafer, sophomore Caleb LaFrance and Carter.

The first recipient of the Kevin Till Memorial Ro-deo Scholarship, freshman Clay Hayes from Can-ton, Texas, placed third in tie-down roping with a time of 9.0 seconds. He also competes in the steer wrestling event for the team.

For the women's team, Tiffany Niemietz from Floresville, Texas, placed fourth in breakaway rop-ing.

Following the Mount Pleasant competition, TVCC participate in the McNeese State Univer-sity Rodeo where the men continued their team score of second place in the competition. After that event, the team was able to maintain their third-place standing.

Shafer won second in bull riding with a score of an 81. Hudson split fourth and fifth in bull rides with a score of 78. Clay Hayes placed third in tie down calf roping with a time of 9.5 seconds. Chance Koenning came in fourth place in the tie-down roping event with a time of 10.1 seconds, and also competes in team roping.

For the women, Niemietz split fifth, sixth, sev-enth and eighth in breakaway roping with a time of only 2.7.

The team fared well at their last rodeo of the fall season. They traveled to Conroe, Texas to partici-pate in Sam Houston State University’s rodeo. A LOOK AHEAD

While they have a slight break before the Spring season starts, the team returns to their practice facility to prepare for rodeos to come.

So on any given day, team members can be found at their little rodeo haven, honing their skills and getting better, day-by-day, at their event. Their one goal is universal: a National Rodeo title.

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TVCC Rodeo is a family affair

Photo: Kenya Balderas

Freshman bull rider Caleb LaFrance had a great outing at the Northeast Community College rodeo. The men’s team finished second at the event, beating out competitors from four-year schools.

Photo: Dawn Bratton

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Before I get into the meat of this review, per-haps some background information is in order.

"Professor Layton" is a popular game series in Japan that is known for its challenging puzzles and amazing 2-D anima-tion. The series' develop-er, Level-5, has earned a reputation with their work on such games as "Dark Cloud" and the widely-popular "Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King" (and before anyone points this out, Square Enix was the publisher, not the developer). The devel-opers have, nowadays, focused their attention on their successful "Pro-fessor Layton" series with the exception of their collaboration with Studio Glibli to make "Ni no Kuni" also for Nintendo DS.

The "Professor Layton" series follows a professor of archeology, named Hershel Layton, as he and his young appren-tice, Luke, go to different locations to solve myster-ies and puzzles.

In '"The Last Specter," Professor Layton receives a letter from an old friend, so Layton sets off to the mysterious town of Misthallery with his new assistant, Emmy Altava. There, they find that the town is burdened with the presence of "The Specter" which is destroy-ing parts of the town; the sound of a flute echos in the fog that summons a creature. Seeing as this is a prequel, players will get to see when Layton meets Luke for the first time.

Graphics: The in-game background is done very well, almost as good as the animation, which is a tricky thing to do.

Characters: All of the characters are colorful

and interesting, from the odd guy who's not good at hiding, to the main characters, and even to the Inspector, who is so over-the-top, he's awe-some. Without giving too much away, the villain sure knows how to make an grand entrance, yet keep himself shrouded in mystery.

Gameplay: The major-ity of the game, with the exception to "London Life," is played with only the stylus. Navigation is made simple with both an arrow on the upper screen pointing the play-er to the next objective and a shortcut to differ-ent parts of town in the form of a boat. The puz-zles have a lot of variety to keep the player inter-ested.

Story: The story itself is pretty exciting and in-volved; it actually feels like the player is solving the cases. There are a few times in the game where Layton asks the player questions about how a trick was pulled off or why something happened. By doing this, it makes the player feel like they are a part of this game, just like the char-acters. Once or twice, I kind of scratched my head when I saw a small detail or concept that was either nonsensical or pointed out but nev-er fully explored. How-ever, the ending liter-ally brought a tear to my eye. However, the story

formula is not too differ-ent from the previous games.

Music: The music is nice to listen to, though in my personal opinion, I sometimes find myself nodding and being put to sleep if I listen for too long.

Difficulty: The puzzles range from relatively sim-ple to "head-scratching-ly" hard, but luckily there's a hint system in the form of coins that you'll find hidden throughout the game.

Cinematics: Level-5 continues to be amaz-ing in it's 2-D animation, even in a DS game.

Extras: Three mini-games, between-the-scenes episodes, weekly puzzles, plenty of "unlock-ables," and of course, London Life. A role play-ing game separate from the main story lets the player customize their 8-bit character. Play-ers can explore London, meet familiar characters and complete quests. It's like two games in one game card.

Audience: Fans of Nintendo DS, Professor Layton, and/or puzzle games. The game is rat-ed E10+.

Final rating: My final verdict for "Professor Lay-ton and the Last Specter" is an eight-out-of-ten. It is a worth while play with a good 13 hours of gameplay on story mode alone.

Professor Layton and the Last Specter will please the pickiest gamerBy Jamie Pettijohn

Staff Writer

Image/Courtesy Nintendo.comProfessor Layton and Last Specter was released on Oct. 17.

Breathe Carolina is a pop/electronica/rock band from Denver, Colora-do. The band consists of David Schmitt and Kyle Even, who both sing.

The band's name comes from a dream that Schmitt had when he was in high school.

"It was about this older lady named Carolina who kept showing up all throughout this dream I had. Whenever she entered my dream, she’d be super active, and I’d tell her to breathe and chill out. The dream hap-pened way back in ninth grade. Then about four years later we started this band, and I asked, “What do you guys think about Breathe Carolina, and the name has just stuck," Schmitt explained.

Breathe Carolina is signed to Fearless Records and just recently dropped a new album in July 2011. The name of their new album is titled "Hell Is What You Make It." Their first single off their new album is called "Blackout." (Listen to "Blackout" on www.tvccnewsjournal.com.)

The band has been together since 2007 and they are growing strong. Their first release is titled Gossip, followed by It's Not Classy, It's Classic, and Hello Fascination. Their newest album is their fourth release.

"We’re so excited for you guys to hear this crazy record we’ve been working on. It’s harder, faster and just a wild ride! We felt at home making these songs and can’t wait for you guys to dig into them and see what we’ve come up with," the boys expressed.

Breathe Carolina has been using social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, to reach their fans. They currently have 468,075 people who like their Facebook page. On Facebook they have music, merchandise, pictures, events and tour dates.

On Twitter, Breathe Carolina, has 54,677 followers and are constantly giv-ing updates and reaching out to their fans.

They are currently touring the east coast with "Big Chocolate." After that tour, Breathe Carolina will be playing multiple music festivals for the Winter Holidays.

To hear other music, buy merchandise and more visit Breathe Carolina's social networking sites:

www.facebook.com/breathecarolina; www.twitter.com/BreatheBand.

Bandmates Kyle Even (left) and David Schmitt (right) of Breathe Carolina have a hit song, "Blackout," which is currently ranked No. 6 on Billboard's Heatseekers List.

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Breathe Carolina mainstream after Kimmel performance

By Olivia SenagooStaff Writer

Music Review

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Have you ever wondered if money was time? Well in the new film “In Time,” directed and writ-ten by Andrew Niccol, the old saying, “time is money” is true.

The story is set in the future, when everyone stops aging at age 25 and only lives for a year after that. The people of this era use time as a currency and if you make enough, you can live forever.

One man, named Will Salas (Justin Timber-lake), is living day by day, literally. Like many of the poor, he is in debt and doesn’t have enough time to make a living. While at the bar with his buddy Borel (Johnny Galecki), he runs into a man named Henry Hamilton (Matt Bomer) who has over 100 years of time.

Henry tells Will, after they escape a gang, that he is ready to die. When Will falls asleep, Henry gives Will all his time, then jumps off a bridge. Raymond Leon (Cillian Murphy), a time cop, starts to investigate why a man with over a hundred years is dead and starts trying to find

out where the missing hundred years are. Will leaves the slums and heads to the rich area of town where he meets a lovely young woman named Sylcia Weis (Amanda Seyfried).

Things are going well for Mr. Salas, that is until Officer Leon tries to arrest him for the murder and robbery of Mr. Hamilton. Will escapes and takes Sylcia as a hostage. After they escape Will tries to get Sylcia’s father to give the poor in the slums about 1,000 years if he want to see his daughter again.

After her father fails to give in to Will’s de-mands, she decides to help Will steal time from her father to give to the poor. After this the sto-ryline gets kind of boring. They just keep stealing time and giving it away.

Even though the beginning of this film is great, by the time you reach this point in the movie, the pace changes to a boring bank heist mov-ie. If at any time you need to go to the rest-room, that is the time to do it, you won’t miss anything.

Jake's Movie TakeBy Jake Yarbrough

Save your time, don't watch 'In Time'

Image/courtesy gotchamvies.comPop heartthrob-turned actor Justin Timberlake takes on a seri-ous role, playing the time-defying "Robin Hood" in the movie "In Time," alongside Amanda Seyfried.

Rating: 2 out of 5

Many students who live on the Athens campus complain that there is nothing to do, but right down the road from campus is place where you can sit, relax and drink some coffee. It has a nice and chill environment and some of the best cof-fee in town. Although their food and drinks are kind of pricey, the coffee is just as good a cup of Joe from Starbucks.

Coffee Love is located at 613 South Prairieville Street, which is across from the fire department. Instead of standing in line, the shop takes phone orders and can be reached at 903-670-1000. They have many different brews of coffee and each one is good in its own way. If you want a frozen latte and don’t mind paying $4, Coffee Love has one of the best frozen lattes in town.

They also have entrées for sale for lunch, like the Grown-Up Grilled Cheese which is a croissant with Colby Jack and Muenster cheese melted togeth-er with ham and bacon with a roasted raspberry sauce. Their sweets, however, are somewhat plain due to the fact they taste like they were shipped there in a box.

Coffee Love also has drinks for non-coffee pa-trons like their Chai Tea or Frozen Granitas, which come in many different flavors.

If you need a place to relax, grab some grub or drink some coffee, Coffee Love is the place.

Good cup of JoeBy Jake Yarbrough

Entertainment Editor

“Twilight” has been adored by many girls everywhere. There is an assortment of "Twi-hards" from young to old and from Edward to Jacob fanatics at each midnight showing.

The “Twilight” casting, overall, was exactly what the people want-ed, except for the Bella and Edward’s charac-ters.

Bella, played by ac-tress Kristen Stewart has only one facial expression through-out the whole movie. In some points in the movie, these lifeless expressions are ap-propriate, but most of the time these expres-sions made no sense. Her dull expressions brought no life to her

character and are now mostly a joke among the people.

Actor Robert Pattin-son who plays Edward, however, does not have acting issues but image issues. He has no abdominal muscles to speak of and is not ooz-ing with good looks, in my opinion.

“Twilight” has also brought about a Civil War, of sorts, with the debate over who is on which team. Team Ed-ward fans will not asso-ciate with Team Jacob fans and vice-versa.

This vampire-were-wolf debacle has torn apart family members and friends. It seems the fans take their loyalty to new heights and some believe that choosing

a side could get them a chance with either man. There is no point in fighting over a fic-tional character. That is ridiculous.

Another wrong that “Twilight” has made is the image of vampires. The original “Dracula” by Bram Stoker por-trayed vampires as se-ductive killers; howev-er, Twilight has ruined that image entirely and made them sparkly, romantic, vegans. The vampire persona has been soiled by a "girly facade" surrounded by glitter.

“Twilight” has also caused an epidemic of vampire fiction. Many books being produced today have some form of vampire romance or

an element of the su-pernatural. There are no other books being written.

The supernatural-vampire fiction has taken over the book in-dustry. Barnes & Noble even has a huge sec-tion dedicated to teen paranormal romance fiction but only a shelf of new teen fiction sec-tion that is not about vampires.

Overall, “Twilight” has become popular by sheer luck alone. If it were not for Taylor Laut-ner’s (Jacob) abs and the overpowering hor-mones of swooning girls everywhere, “Twilight” would be obsolete just like the real manly, non-sparkly vampires.

Instead of 'Twi-Hard' how about 'Twi-don't'By Krista Newman

Managing Editor

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The Lady Cardinal's basketball team has started the season off on the right foot. They are currently 9-0 and ranked number one on National Junior College Athletic Association's Top Ten National Poll.

They are averaging 101 points a game and are holding their oppo-nents to 65 points per game.

Their nine-game winning streak started on Nov. 2 when they beat Dallas Diesel, 95-58. During the game, five Lady Cards scored in double digits. Sha'Kayla Caples (5'11", G, soph., Vicksburg, Miss.) started off the game with 21 points, followed by

19 points by Breanna Lewis (5'7", G, soph., Greenville, Miss.), 18 by Keuna Flax (5'11", F, soph., Ft. Worth, TX), 14 by Jenea Barrett (5'11", G, soph., Toronto) and 12 by Starr Breedlove (5'6", G, fresh., Teaneck, N.J.).

The game against Dallas Diesel also marked co-head coach's Mi-chael Landers' 300th win.

They won their second game, scor-ing in triple digits, 122-86, against Austin Elite on Nov. 5. Three nights later the women continued to win with triple digits when they beat Southwestern Christian College by 68 points with a score of 130-62.

On Nov. 17, TVCC traveled to Mid-land to play in the WNIT. The Lady Cards won three games in the tour-ney. They beat Odessa, 96-66; Cen-tral Arizona College, 84-50; and Mid-land College, 86-82.

TVCC played Lon Morris in Jack-sonville on Nov. 22 and came out with a win, beating the Lady 'Cats, 82-64.

The women have a four-game home stretch before they close out the calendar year.

Nov. 30 - TVCC vs. Angelina (7:30 p.m.).

Dec. 3 - TVCC vs. Kilgore (2 p.m.).

Dec. 7 - TVCC vs. Navarro (7 p.m.). Dec. 9 - TVCC vs. Arkansas Baptist

(7 p.m.).Flax is leading the team with a

scoring average of 20 points. Flax is tied Alice Robinson (6'0", P, soph., Bossier City, La.)in rebounding, both players are averaging 9.8 rebounds per game.

Taneshia Davis (5'6", G, fresh., Dal-las) is giving out 3.8 assists a game, a team high.

Caples has a team-leading 2.8 assists per game, and Keiana Vines (6'4", P, fresh., Port Hueneme, Calif.) is averaging 1.5 blocks per game.

#00Breanna

Lewis5’7" Guard So. Greenville, Miss.

# 1Starr

Breedlove5’6" Guard Fr.

Teaneck, N.J.

#2 Ashley Jones

6’1" Forward Fr. Tulsa, Okla.

#3Taneshia

Davis5’6" Guard Fr.Dallas, Texas

#5Brittney

Gill5’8" Guard Fr.Pine Bluff, Ark.

#12Keiana Vines

6’4" Post Fr.Port Hueneme,

Calif.

#15Jenea

Barrett5’11" Guard So.Toronto, Canada

#20ShaQuita

Arnick6’0" Post Fr.Dallas, Texas

#21Keuna

Flax5’11" Forward So.Fort Worth, Texas

#24Alice

Robinson6’0" Post So.

Bossier City, La.

#32Sha’Kayla

Caples5’11" Guard So.Vicksburg, Miss.

Lady Cards ranked No.1; looking to add another titleBy Olivia Senagoo

Staff Writer

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# 00Devon Agusi

5’9” 170 Fr.Dallas, Texas

#20Stargell

Love6’2” 180 Soph.Lumberton, NC.

#2Daniel

Ehambe6’0” 240 So.

Mansfield, Texas

#3Will

Bond6’3” 190 So.Phoenix, Ariz.

#10Javarick

Ware5’11” 175 Fr.

East Chicago, Ind.

#11LaDarrian Williams

6’4” 180 So.Monroe, La.

#15Jeverick Nelson

6’6” 200 So.Jackson, Miss.

#24Abdul

Ahmed6’8” 220 Fr.

London, England

#23D.D.

Scarver6’4” 180 So.

Birmingham, Ala.

#31Billy

Johnson6’2” 170 Fr.

Cedar Hill, Texas

#32Dominique

Elliot6’7” 220 Fr.

Savannah, Ga.

#34Dominique

Reed6’4” 190 Fr.

Washington,D.C.

#40Collin

Weyand6’1” 170 Fr.

LaGrange, Texas

#45Hendrix

Emu 6’4” 190 Fr.

Philadelphia, Pa.

#52Jaywuan

Hill6’6” 195 So.Detroit, Mich.

In the Cards Nov. 16 game, the team defeated East Texas Flight, 117-62.

The game was truly a sight to see--just for the aerial-dynamic dunks alone. The team had a of total of eight spectacular slam dunks in the game. The one that "brought the house down" was the crowd-pleas-ing windmill dunk from sophomore Stargell Love (6'2", 180, So., Lumber-ton, NC).

Daniel Ehambe (6'0", 240, So., Mansfield, Texas) shot a game-high 20 points, with nine of those coming from behind the three-point line.

D.D Scarver (6'4", 180, So., Birming-ham, Ala.) continues on his ram-page this season. He had 19 points from the floor with two dunks.

The Cards other double-digit scor-ers were Billy Johnson (6'2", 170, Fr., Cedar Hill, Texas) who busted out 4 three's for a total of 20 points. Devon Agusi (5'9", 170, Fr., Dallas) finished the game with 10 points.

For East Texas Flight, Dralon St. Paul kept the light shining on the team with 16 points, along with Justin Hen-derson who scored 13 points.

TVCC has played three games since that Nov. 16 match-up: Team Elevate (W 114-67), Bossier Parrish (W 62-55), Howard (L 71-60).

The Cards will be at home for their next four games: Nov. 30 vs. El Cen-tro (5:30 p.m.), Dec. 3 vs. Kilgore (4 p.m.), Dec. 7 vs. Navarro (7 p.m.) and Dec. 10 vs. SFA Club Team (4 p.m.).

Cards 'dunk-d-fy' FlightBy Adrian Price

Sports Editor

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The Trinity Valley Commu-nity College flag football team R.N.S traveled to Ste-phen F. Austin (SFA) in Na-cogdoches, Texas earlier this month to compete in the 2011 regional flag football tournament for a chance to play for a national champi-onship. R.N.S beat out the Fighting Unicorns 2, 28-14, to represent TVCC at the re-gional tournament.

“There was a lot of good talent here at the Valley, and luckily we got a chance to go and show our talents on a bigger stage,” said co-captain Michael Smith,19, a liberal arts major from Pales-tine, Texas.

The team competed in the division 1 bracket along with conference rivals Tyler Junior

College and Navarro Com-munity College.

“Playing against bigger schools is fun but to have a chance to win a title and beat your rival is even bet-ter,” said the team’s leading rusher Christopher Vasquez, 21, from Fort Worth, Texas.

However, R.N.S didn’t have a chance to meet up with TJC or Navarro because they dropped two games on the first day of the tourna-ment.

In the first game, R.N.S lost to Sam Houston State Uni-versity, 28-6. In the team’s second game, they were not able to get into the win-ners' bracket; R.N.S lost by 10 points (24-14) to a team called the little Mexicans.

Even though R.N.S lost both games, team members said they enjoyed the expe-rience of traveling to SFA.

R.N.S. plays in flag football tourneyBy Joshua Roberts

Staff Writer

Roll, bounce...fallThe TVCC Of-

fice of Student Af-fairs hosted an "old school" skate party at the Athens Skate Center in Athens. Students laced up their skates and showed off their best moves. To see pictures from the event, visit www.tvccnewsjournal.com.

The office prints out a calendar with all of the events scheduled for the month. Pick up a calendar so you don't miss the next event.

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