While the majority of students

travel home for Thanksgiving

break, there may still be a few

students who have to or prefer

to stay on campus.

Our staff has compiled a sim-

ple recipe collection for the

typical college student—

everyone should be able to

enjoy a good Thanksgiving

dinner.

While a student still needs to

go to the store to get all the

ingredients, all the recipes only

require the use of the micro-

wave!

Stuffing

Ingredients:

- 8 cups breadcrumbs

- 1/2 cup minced onion

- 1 cup minced celery

- 1/3 cup melted butter

- 1 cup chicken broth

- 2 tsp. salt

- 1/2 tsp. poultry seasoning

- 1 dash pepper

Directions:

1. Mix all ingredients.

2. Microwave 4-6 minutes on

high.

3. Serve immediately. Serves

about 10.

Green Beans

Ingredients:

- 1/2 cup of bacon (chopped)

- 2 cans of green beans

- 1 onion (chopped)

- 2 tbsp. of sugar (or to taste)

- 2 tbsp. of vinegar (or to

taste)

Directions:

1. Combine bacon and onions

in microwavable bowl.

2. Cover bowl and heat in

microwave, stopping and

stirring periodically until

bacon is fully cooked.

3. Drain green beans.

4. Combine beans, sugar, and

vinegar with bacon and on-

ions.

5. Continue heating as before

until beans are tender.

5 Cup Salad

Ingredients:

- 1 cup of Mandarin Oranges

- 1 cup of Pineapple (crushed

or chunks)

- 1 cup of Sour Cream

- 1 cup of Marshmallows

- 1 cup of Coconut (shredded)

Directions:

1. Drain and mix together in a

big bowl.

2. To get the desired consis-

tency add more marshmal-

lows or coconut. For a gooier

texture add more of the wetter

ingredients.

3. Serve immediately. Chill

leftovers.

Thanksgiving Dinner: College Style

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City council considers alcohol tax ordinance

Lyon students dining out

may soon have to pay a little

bit more for a glass of wine or

a bottle of beer.

At its meeting on Tuesday,

Nov. 8, the Batesville City

Council heard the first read-

ing of a proposed ordinance to

establish a supplemental tax

on alcoholic beverages sold

within the city.

The 5 percent tax would

apply to all liquors and would

be levied upon the annual

gross receipts for serving

mixed drinks and cooling beer

and wine.

The supplemental tax would

exist in addition to the state tax

on alcoholic beverages.

―It is something we‘ve basi-

cally thrown around for the last

couple of

years,‖

Mayor Rick

Elumbaugh

said. ―I‘ve

visited with

other cities,

other may-

ors. I‘ve

had encouragement from other

citizens that say this is the way

of making revenue enhance-

ment for the city.‖

In addition, Elumbaugh said

that in a time of budget short-

falls, the tax could be a way

of alleviating fiscal stress on

the city. If the ordinance

passes, Elumbaugh said the

council would then

consider a resolu-

tion to dedicate the

alcoholic beverages

tax to the purpose

of public safety,

including fire and

police.

The council will

hear a second reading of the

proposed ordinance at its next

meeting on Nov. 22.

FALL 2011 , I SSUE 6

NOVEMBER 22 ND , 2011

Batesville Theatre 2

Psych Seniors 2

OCC 2

Green: Part 3 3

Gabrielle Burton 3

Calendar of Events 4

Greek Life 6

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Compiled by: Highlander Staff

Continued on page 5

Jon-Michael Poff

Staff Writer

“This is the way of

making revenue

enhancement for the

city.”

FALL 2011 , I SSUE 6 P AGE 2

Lyon has ever had.

The students‘ projects are independent,

with the students coming up with a hy-

pothesis, figuring

out how to test

their hypothesis,

gathering 20 to 60

sets of data, en-

tering the data

(some projects

have up to 120

different variables

to input), and

then analyzing

the data and pro-

ducing results. The group is advised by Dr. Jennifer

Daniels, Dr. Patrick Mulick, and Dr.

Nikki Yonts.

Dr. Daniels noted that though the pro-

fessors are there to advise, the students

themselves are the ―principal investiga-

tors of their projects.‖

The purpose of the capstone project is

to ensure that each student can create an

―individualized experience,‖ in which

they apply what they‘ve learned in previ-

ous psychology classes.

The projects include research regarding

This semester, eight

psychology seniors are

spending their evenings

collecting data to write

their senior theses.

Andrew Cox, Tesla

Fields, Brianna Forbis,

Elizabeth Fuller, Kris-

tan Inman, Brandy

Jones, Kurtis Platt, and

Lauren Pyle make up

the biggest thesis class

If you‘ve noticed the set on the stage

of Brown Chapel, you have likely

wondered why it is there.

The Batesville Community Thea-

tre will be showing their production

of The Curious Savage in Brown

Chapel on November 18, 19, 20, 25,

26, and 27 at 7:00 pm (Sunday mati-

nees are at 2:30 pm).

The Curious Savage, written by

John Patrick, is about a woman,

Mrs. Savage, whose husband had

recently died and left her quite a

sum of money.

When her greedy stepchildren attempt

to take the money from her, they com-

mit her to a sanitarium. There, she

meets a hodge-podge group of patients

living in their own ―eggshell world.‖

In the constant struggle to change her

stepchildren‘s morals and characters,

Mrs. Savage makes some strange but

charming new friends, and learns a

lesson or two along the way.

Ticket information can be found on

the bank billboard and on the playbill

fliers around town.

Lyon College lends out the space in

Brown Chapel to the community theatre

on a regular basis, so there are sure to

be a variety of shows right here on cam-

pus!

For more information and updates,

you can follow the community theatre

on www.batesvillecommunitytheatre.

com.

hygiene products, and a booklet con-

taining the story of Christ to children in

need every Christmas season.

BCM‘s director, Judy Woolf, de-

scribed the event as a chance to

―brighten the children‘s lives.‖

While students filled their boxes with

various gifts, Woolf described how this

Lyon tradition started.

It began ―around ‘84,‖ according to

Woolf. ―We started doing these shoe-

boxes in Lyon because there was a girl

here … who as a child had received a

shoebox.‖

This Lyon student told of the joy she

Lyon‘s Baptist Collegiate Ministries

(BCM) hosted an Operation Christmas

Child packing party Monday, Nov. 14,

in the Morrow building.

The group spent the night preparing

shoeboxes full of gifts to be sent to

children around the world.

Operation Christmas Child (OCC) is

an annual event organized by the phil-

anthropic organization, Samaritan‘s

Purse.

OCC works to provide toys, clothing,

felt after receiving such a gift. BCM

has participated ever since.

This year Sudan and Haiti, both coun-

tries recovering from recent tragedy,

will be the primary focus areas for the

operation.

This year, BCM completed 17 boxes

at its event, giving 17 children a special

holiday season.

While speaking at the Thanksgiving

Convocation, Thursday, Nov. 17,

sophomore Melanie Barker encouraged

her fellow students to take on this chal-

lenge themselves and make a shoebox

on their own.

Psych seniors create research projects

Batesville Community Theatre

Operation Christmas Child

“Seven of the eight students are

doing their research on campus,

while two of those seven are also

gathering data at White River

Medical Center and the Family

Violence Prevention Center.”

Madison Gallagher

Staff Writer

Tommie Ricker

Staff Writer

Continued on page 5

Molly Young

Staff Writer

Continued on page 5

THE H IGHLANDER NEWSPAPER P AGE 3

Everyone seems to be talking about

―going green‖ these days, and leaders

across campus—from the President of the

College to the President of the Recyclers

Club—are sounding

the same call: reduce,

reuse, recycle.

Sustainability has

been a concern of the

college for several

years, but the empha-

sis this year is re-

newed.

Along with several

other leaders on cam-

pus, Sodexo Dining

Services General Manager Paula Zagata

is on a mission to reduce the college‘s

impact on the environment. ―Sodexo is greatly invested in sustain-

ability efforts, both here with dining and

also with the facilities,‖ Zagata said.

Over the summer, dining services

moved into its new home in ―The

Temp,‖ and with a new year came new

goals. One of its main goals was to begin

composting food waste.

As with all best laid plans, however,

Zagata ran into a problem: the massive

amount of food that is thrown away.

―On average, we throw away 250-350

pounds of food away each day,‖ Zagata

said. ―This waste is just from the food

that students throw away, not the food

scrap waste from the

kitchen. I do not feel

that this amount of

waste would be man-

ageable to create a

compost pile with…

as it is simply too

much for us to han-

dle.‖

As a result, Zagata

set a more immedi-

ate goal of reducing

the amount of food thrown away.

Several times during the month of

September, she posted facts about food

waste to the dining service‘s Facebook

page. For example, on Sept. 21, she

wrote, ―The students, faculty and staff

subject, ―but it fascinates me because it

shows the American dream gone

wrong.‖

Burton first became interested in the

Donner party – a group of pioneers that

lost their way while traveling to Califor-

nia and eventually resorted to cannibal-

ism – when her husband, Roger Burton,

brought her attention to it.

She immediately picked up books

based on Tamsen Donner, one of the

main traveler‘s wives, and Burton‘s fas-

cination took root.

Both of Burton‘s recently released

novels began almost thirty years ago.

According to Burton, she continually

picked up writing whenever the mood

struck and when she could take time

away from being a full-time mother and

writer.

Gabrielle Burton has won many awards

and recognition, so it‘s no surprise that

one of her best memories involves a pres-

tigious fellowship.

Burton, then just a young writer on the

cusp of fame, was told by an older man –

one of the fellows – that she would find

herself writing on a very interesting topic

in the future.

According to the fellow, Burton would

write a novel ―about humans eating each

other.‖

And just this past year, Burton released

two novels, both concerning the infamous

Donner Party.

―The Donner Party is a really minor

event in US history,‖ Burton said of the

Manager of “The Temp” has long-term sustainability in mind

Visiting Writer: Gabrielle Burton

While her child was still fairly young,

Burton decided to take the family on a

cross-country trip tracking the Donner

party..

This trip became the focal point of her

book Searching for Tamsen Donner.

The novel, which Burton released in

conjunction with Tamsen Donner‘s imag-

ined journal, Impatient with Desire, has

three parts.

―The novel covers Tamsen‘s journey,

my family‘s journey retracing her jour-

ney, and my own journey learning to

balance love and work,‖ Burton said at a

book reading on Nov. 8 in Lyon‘s Bevens

Reading Room.

Along with her novels, Burton has been

published in the New York Times and

writes for The Huffington Post. She has

also written several screenplays.

threw away 106.8 pounds of food today

at lunch. That's the size of a small,

wooden sailboat, small snowmobile, or

small generator.‖

As Zagata put it, ―If we could cut

down what we are wasting, then it would

be much more attainable and manage-

able to have a compost pile.‖ And that,

of course, is her ultimate goal.

Zagata also named some other steps

Sodexo has taken in an effort to ―go

green.‖ She said dining services:

— Purchased new servery equipment

created from 50% recycled materials.

―These units will go into the new facility

once that is built,‖ Zagata said.

— Eliminated straws and disposable

drink cups to reduce waste.

— Stocks napkin dispensers with nap-

kins made from recycled materials.

—Uses eco-friendly chemicals in the

kitchen.

Most of all, Zagata said she wants ―these

ideas (composting, reducing food waste)

to be student-led initiatives.‖ Because

like McSpadden and Soule, she realizes

that ―going green‖ takes a village.

“On average, we throw away

250-300 pounds of food away

each day.”

Jon-Michael Poff

Staff Writer

Editor’s note: This is the third and final

article in a series reporting on the cam-

pus’s ongoing efforts to reduce its impact

on the environment.

Samantha Jones

Sub-Editor

FALL 2011 , I SSUE 6 P AGE 4

His favorite era

in art history is

between the Late

Roman and the

Early Renaissance

periods.

Hernandez

grew up in the

80‘s, playing

video games

on devices

such as Atari,

Nintendo, and

Playstation.

As a man

now in his

thirties, his interest in these video

games is for their entertainment value

and for the visual element.

This show displays those interests; in

every painting there are video game graph-

ics and early Christian style painting.

The pop culture of the 80‘s has influ-

Thursday, Nov. 10, Dan Hernandez

spoke at

Lyon‘s Kresge

Gallery about

his displayed

art. Hernan-

dez‘s art pre-

sents images of

holy and his-

toric figures

mixed with

video game

graphics.

The themes

of his art center

on subjects that

he ―as a person

is interested in‖ and ―as an artist is really

interested in art history, particularly in

early Christian painting.‖

enced his work and to Hernan-

dez ―stories like Star Wars are

like mythologies‖ for the 80‘s

generation.

Hernandez incorporates the

graphic element another way;

first, the paintings are made

digitally,

and then

they are

printed out

and applied

to the

painting‘s

surface.

The

drawings exhib-

ited in the show

are studies for

paintings Hernan-

dez will create

later.

Dan Hernandez Exhibit

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

11/27—Ultimate Frisbee @ 3 on

Couch Garden

11/28—BCM @ 6:30 in Morrow,

NTSA holding toy drive through

Dec. 16: Contact Tonya Clapp for

details, Swim Club @ 3 in Gym.

11/29—Scot Basketball - 6-10 in

Becknell Gym, NTSA toy drive.

11/30—Mighty Mighty Discus-

sioneers @ 6 in Lower Derby,

NTSA toy drive.

12/1—FCA @ 9 in Lyon 204,

NTSA toy drive.

12/2—Tree Lighting and Christ-

mas Concert— 6:45 at Brown

Chapel, NTSA toy drive

12/4—Ultimate Frisbee @ 3 on

Couch Garden, NTSA toy drive

12/5—BCM @ 6:30 in Morrow,

NTSA toy drive

SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT

20 21 22 23 Thanksgiv-

ing Break!

24 Thanksgiv-

ing Break!

25

Thanksgiv-

ing Break!

26

27Ultimate

Frisbee 28 BCM,

NTSA,

Swim Club

29 Scots

Basketball

games

30 Mighty

Discussion-

eers

Dec. 1 FCA

2 Tree

Lighting &

Concert

3

4 Ultimate

Frisbee 5 BCM 6 7 8 9 10

11 12 13 14 15 16 17

18 19 20 21

Nov/Dec 2011

Would like to see your organization‘s public meetings, events, or fundraisers on our schedule?

Contact Chelsea Guess (Katherine.guess@lyon.edu) for more information or to submit your event.

Elizabeth Ellis & Chelsea Guess

Staff Writers

THE H IGHLANDER NEWSPAPER P AGE 5

students, and their data is being gathered

from internet blogs.

The psychology seniors gather their

participants through e-mail recruiting and

posting sign-up sheets outside of the psy-

chology labs.

Students in the Introduction to Psychol-

ogy classes garner extra credit for partici-

pating in the experiments.

Dr. Daniels mentioned that they‘re

hoping to formalize the process next se-

mester so it will be more of a unified

system.

Dr. Daniels reflected on the purpose of

the senior theses by equating the class to

a science lab, but ―instead of everything

being in beakers, it‘s all out there in the

world.‖

For those interested in learning of the

results of these projects, there will be a

Psychology Research Forum on Dec. 8

at 7 p.m. in Derby 16. The senior thesis

students will be giving presentations of

their projects and sharing their results.

synesthesia, eating behaviors, and coping

abilities after stressful events, just to

mention three of the eight.

Seven of the eight students are doing

their research on campus, while two of

those seven are also gathering data at

White River Medical Center and the

Family Violence Prevention Center.

Only one of the eight students is doing

their project without the help of Lyon

Microwave

Caramels

Ingredients:

- 1/4 cup butter - 1/2 cup white

sugar - 1/2 cup brown

sugar - 1/2 cup light

Karo syrup - 1/2 cup sweet-

ened condensed milk

Directions:

1. Combine all ingredients.

2. Cook 6 minutes, stirring every two min-

utes.

3. Stir and pour into lightly greased dish.

4.Let cool.

5. Cut, wrap in wax paper

& store in air tight con-

tainer.

Thanksgiving in a

Microwave

Ingredients:

- 1 can of carrots

- 1 can of green beans

- 1 package of Idahoan Potatoes (cheesy

optional)

- 1 package of sliced deli ham

- 1 package of sliced deli turkey

- Instant mac and cheese

If any student wishes to participate next year, he or

she may visit samaritanspurse.org and follow the link

to Operation Christmas Child or watch out for news on

BCM‘s next packing party.

As Woolf explained, ―There are so many stories of

people who have been touched‖ by the boxes.

Woolf pauses and continues saying, ―It‘s kind of like

‗pay it forward.‘‖

Barker concluded the party with a prayer expressing

this same sentiment, thanking God for blessing them,

and allowing them to pass on their blessings through

the shoeboxes.

Psych seniors, continued

Thanksgiving Dinner: College Style

Operation Christmas Child

- Bread

- Mayonnaise (optional)

Directions:

1. Put can of carrots into microwavable

bowl and microwave on high for about 5

minutes.

2. Repeat same process for green beans.

3. Follow directions to cook instant pota-

toes.

4. For mac and cheese, also follow direc-

tions for cooking in microwave.

5. Then place slices of ham and turkey on

microwavable plate and heat until warm

or crispy (depending on preference).

6. Serve with slice of bread for a side.

For sandwiches, use bread with cooked

ham or turkey with a little bit of mayon-

naise for lunch the next day.

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them,‖ Chi Omicron presi-

dent Lindsey Walters said.

―They bring new ideas, in-

sights, ideas and jokes to our

sorority. It is always a won-

derful sight to see how ex-

cited they are to get started

and keep the spirit of our

organization alive.‖

Phi Mu accepted two new

members this fall.

―Getting new sisters is

exciting because it means

your Chapter is growing,‖

President Maggie Hance

said. ―It also is so exciting to

see how new sisters mature

in our faithful bond.‖

The sororities weren‘t the

only ones to get new mem-

bers; fraternities at Lyon

also inducted new members

into their brotherhoods.

Kappa Sigma inducted three

new members.

―The brothers are ecstatic

to have new members in the

fraternity,‖ Kappa Sigma

president Sean O‘Toole said.

―It makes us proud to know

that we have added individu-

als who we know will carry

This fall, many new brothers

and sisters have been in-

ducted into the Greek or-

ganizations on campus.

Alpha Xi Delta, Chi Omi-

cron, Kappa Sigma, Phi Mu,

Tau Kappa Epsilon and Zeta

Beta Tau have welcomed

more than 25 new members

combined.

Alpha Xi Delta initiated

nine new members this fall.

Sophomore Rachel Newell,

Alpha Xi Delta‘s new presi-

dent, is excited about what

the new sisters have to offer.

―We are incredibly ecstatic

to have our new members,‖

Newell said. ―They are all

amazing, diverse, talented

girls that have so much po-

tential to make Alpha Xi

Delta even more incredible.‖

In October, Chi Omicron

inducted seven new mem-

bers, its first group of new

sisters.

―We absolutely love

on the high standards and

legacy of Kappa Sigma.‖

Tau Kappa Epsilon added

four new brothers to their

family.

―We're all very excited

about our new brothers,‖

TKE President Tyler

Hudgens said. ―This is a

wonderful group of men,

who we know will become

campus leaders and do great

things for the fraternity.‖

Hudgens believes that new

members are vital to the

growth of every Greek or-

ganization.

―New members are the

lifeblood of any Greek or-

ganization, and it's always

exciting to have new broth-

ers with new ideas and new

talents to contribute to the

fraternity,‖ Hudgens said.

As the fall pledge season

is coming to a close, all of

the organizations have big

hopes for the future.

―We can't wait to do it all

again next semester,‖ Wal-

ters said.

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On Saturday, Nov. 12th,

several Lyon math students

had the opportunity

to participate in the

Missouri/Arkansas/

Kansas/Oklahoma

(MAKO) Under-

graduate Mathe-

matics Research

Conference.

Sophomores

Paige Blades, Jona-

than Dannatt, John

Pope, and senior

Andrew Todd all

travelled to Mis-

souri State Univer-

sity in Springfield,

Mo. to participate.

Missouri State University‘s

official website says the

conference is for

―undergraduates from Mis-

souri, Arkansas, Kansas, and

Oklahoma‖ who ―are invited

to present short talks on their

research.‖ The website also

says that members of faculty

are welcome to present topics.

The four surrounding states

Participants have the opportu-

nity to win cash awards and to

have their work ―published in

the online proceedings of the

conference.‖

According to

Dr. Megan Pow-

ell, assistant

professor of

mathematics at

Lyon, each stu-

dent gave a 15-

minute presenta-

tion on various

mathematics

topics at the

conference.

This year

marked the sev-

enth annual

conference that Missouri State

has hosted.

MAKO Conference

Lilly Hastings

Editor

Lilly Hastings

Editor-in-Chief

Lillian.hastings@lyon.edu

Samantha Jones

Sub-Editor

Samantha.jones@lyon.edu

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Sub-Editor

Andrew.hudgens@lyon.edu

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