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Guns In The Woods

May 3, 2017

By Gabrielle Moore, Editor in Chief

As the effective date of August 1,of the Campus Carry Law (formally known as Senate Bill 11 or SB11) approaches for Texas community colleges, the 51-member Lone Star College Task Force has worked diligently to incorporate, and compile the suggestions and considerations of system-wide 1,227 (Fall 2016)forum participants and 497 survey commentaries into 15 developed recommendations regarding the implementation of SB11 within the LSC System.

The chairs of the Lone Star College Campus Carry Task Force, Police Commissioner and LSC System CEO Rand Key and Chief of Police Paul Willingham, paid LSC-Kingwood a visit to conduct another campus carry forum along with several LSC-Kingwood specific task force members, including Vice President of Student Success Darrin Rankin and Student Government Association President Brandon Skidgel.

According to a poll survey administered on campus last semester by the LSC-Kingwood Student Life, “not too many people knew about Senate Bill 11 or what it [pertains] to, and even more, people did not know…what weapons can be carried, how old you have to be to have a [License to Carry a Handgun (LTC)],” Skidgel said.

“That [poll survey] was a little shocking, and that really made us kind of spur on the development of this forum here,” Skidgel added.

(Left) Vice President of Public Relations Nileh Irsan introduces the chairs of the Lone Star College Task Force, Police Commissioner and CEO Rand Key and Chief of Police Paul Willingham at the Campus Carry Forum on Apr. 18 in Student Conference Center. (Right) Student Government Association President Brandon Skidgel speaks at the Campus Carry Forum on Apr. 18 in Student Conference Center. Photo by Taylor Robson.

The forum held on April 18 in the Student Conference Center (SCC) , provided those attending a progress report on the developed policies and recommendations embodying the implementation of SB11 on LSC, as well as have discourse with the chairs of the Task Force. Moreover, the forum presented a different kind of environment that reconfirmed the reality of the effective date of this law as fast approaching.

“We all have had strong opinions of Senate Bill 11 from the far-left to the far-right,” Rand said. “It really doesn’t matter what my opinion is or what your opinion is, it is state law. We want to raise the bill, keep the spirit of the bill, and be the very best example. Keep in mind…that has been our overall goal.”

Police Commissioner and CEO of Lone Star College System Rand Key updates Lone Star College-Kingwood students, faculty, staff, and community members on the current and further steps in preparation for the full implementation and enforcement of Senate Bill 11 on LSC campuses at the Campus Carry Forum on Apr. 18 in Student Conference Center. Photo by Taylor Robson.

The Campus Carry Law became effective on August 1, 2016 for all public four-year institutions, while it will not go into full effect at community colleges until August 1 of this year.

Within the forum, Willingham provided one particular plan of safety precautions; a spreadsheet of locations on each LSC campus which are to be gun-free zones. This spreadsheet will become accessible on the Lone Star College website soon.

Lone Star College-Kingwood students, faculty, staff, and community members attends the Campus Carry Forum presented by the Student Government Association on Apr. 18 in Student Conference Center. Photo by Taylor Robson.

There will also be more educational materials for people to access through a link on the LSC website coming soon, Willingham said. Some of these materials will be available through different media and avenues, such as videos and fact sheets. Seminars and workshops will be provided for students and community members on campuses, too.

“The campus becomes no different now than your experience,” Willingham said. “It’s not going to be any different now than how it is now when you go to the grocery store…You probably have been around someone with a concealed handgun and a license to carry it, and you didn’t know.”

Chief of Police Paul Willingham reassures the crowd by clarifying what entails Senate Bill 11 on community colleges at the Campus Carry Forum on Apr. 18 in Student Conference Center. Photo by Taylor Robson.

Willingham guesstimated that “maybe 3 to 5 percent,” or 4000 to 5000 students system-wide would be handgun carry-license holders and properly utilizing SB11. Furthermore, Willingham hoped to reassure people that not only are there strict requirements and criteria to acquiring a LTC (such as having to be 21 years old and attending costly LTC classes), but that there is “a level of responsibility” within LTC holders that is “extremely [serious].”

First-year student and SGA president-elect Sarah Porter recognizes that “there’s always going to be that worry [of ‘what if’s’]. I don’t think that’s ever going to go away.” Nevertheless, she “[doesn’t] see much happening” because “we already have more of a realized campus as it is.”

“I’m not necessarily pro or against [SB11], but I think that having protection is beneficial, and I think that [this law is] timely,” Porter said.

Lone Star College-Kingwood students, faculty, staff, and community members participate in quiz on Campus Carry Law through their mobile devices at the Campus Carry Forum on Apr. 18 in the Student Conference Center. Photo by Gabrielle Moore.

Women Writers Forgotten No More

April 25, 2017

By Michelle Lecumberry, Design Editor and Emily Slater, News Editor

Katerina Wagaman, interview courtesy

Women are a crucial part of history. Nevertheless, women are often forgotten even though they are usually the game changers.

Next semester, Lone Star College-Kingwood English Professor Joan McAninch Samuelson has a mission to bring back women’s’ writers who are often forgotten and left out of the narrative.

Samuelson said, “That’s what I want to show the students. They may think they know some famous women in history. They may not know that in their own time they were also known as brilliant writers, but that got lost due to prejudice.”

Samuelson’s English 2341 class is designed to empower women and teach them about their history. Students can sign up for the fall class now.

“I don’t want someone who’s just looking for a class…I want students who are interested, men and women…interested in literature…history…in women’s’ struggle,” Samuelson said.

Samuelson said the best Women’s Studies students are men. “ You don’t get the men involved in the marches if you yell at their faces. That’s what happened in the 70s and that’s why the movements lost ground with the men.”

The Women Writers course (ENGL 2341) will be offered during Fall 2017 on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 11:00-11:50 a.m.

Isabella Arguello, first-year student, said, “I want to major in creative writing and having a women’s writing class would be a really great experience for me and other women.”

Rose Koch, first-year student, said, “Knowing more about women writers is important.”

“I will be really interested in the women’s writing class because I think that women are often overlooked in terms of literature and that is really important to bring women to the spotlight to promote women into writing more,” Koch said.

This class includes literature from women such as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the Brontë sisters, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Isabel Allende, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, and more.

Cara Young, first-year student, said, “The class [Women Writers], to me as a woman writer, is meant to give names such as Hemingway and Hughes someone to stack up with. Ladies like Mary Shelley, Louisa May Alcott, and Maya Angelou deserve the respect their work inspired, and I’m happy to see someone taking an interest in it.”

Women writers using a man’s “nom de plume” is not outdated. J.K. Rowling, the writer of the Harry Potter novel series, used her initials because her publisher, Barry Cunningham, thought Harry Potter’s targeted young male audience might be put off by a book written by a woman. This phenomenon is nothing new. Charlotte Brontë, the writer of the classic novel Jane Eyre, had to publish her books as Currer Bell for her work to be taken seriously. Louisa May Alcott wrote gothic thrillers as A.M. Barnard, because that genre was considered “unladylike.”

“The class [Women Writers] helps women feel empowered and intelligent. It is a class that celebrates women’s’ excellence and changes and enhances the perception of writers in history,” Emory Aguilar, first-year student, said.

“New generations are born into equality and diversity, but [women] still have to fight some battles,” Samuelson said. “I need my students to understand, I’ve taught this class for years, but it’s never been more important than it is right now.”

To enroll in the class, students must have completed both English 1301 and 1302. The students interested must want to work with other people. It is both a history class and a writing class. Students read great works and then write about them. Aside from the the few essay assignments, students will also be required to keep a journal about their thoughts on their readings. Enrollment is now open.

Graphic design by Emory Aguilar.

From Generation to Generation

April 24, 2017

By Cara Young, Columnist

Sunday, April 9, from 12pm to 3pm students of Lone Star College- Kingwood had the opportunity to attend a master class in music.

In layman’s terms, a master class is when a professional artist in the area comes to campus to offer their experience and expertise on a subject to the students willing to attend. The artist teaching Sunday was Irina Kulikova, a Russian classic guitarist and experienced master class educator.

Kulikova advises student in Master Class with his personal set Apr. 9 Photo by Cara Young.

Under the wing of her mother and cellist, Vinera Kulikova, she developed a relationship with music early on. At twelve, she was travelling through Russia and abroad, for concerts and festivals. Two years later, she was included in the book, The Classical Guitar, its evolution, players and personalities since 1800 by Maurice Summerfield. She has given concerts in twenty-five countries, performed as a soloist and with several orchestras.

Over the years, she received over thirty awards, culminating in 2008 with first place at the prestigious competitions of Michele Pittaluga in Italy, Guitarra Alhambra in Spain, Forum Gitarre.

The class consisted of three students informally playing pieces of music and receiving feedback, tips, and strategies to improve their performances. Steve, the student who performed first, said he was hoping to get feedback on how to go about fixing a personal set that he was sure had technical problems.

Kulikova answering Master Class students questions Apr. 9. Photo by Cara Young.

One of the students not performing, but having received word of the event, Garret, said he looked up the artist’s work and understood the level of skill the teacher possessed and was wanting to gain similar classical guitar abilities and showing up seemed like a good step.

When asked Kulikova responded-

What made you choose Kingwood?

“It fit the schedule, but I was glad I got to come to this particular campus. Everything is lovely here and the campus is beautiful.”

Do you enjoy teaching? Why?

“Yes. I love to share my experience and knowledge from practicing, traveling, and facing situations I have. I want to help people establish a very good basis for the guitar. I see a problem, I want to solve the problems, people want to be useful and helpful and this is my way of doing that and it is my way of providing help to the future.”

What made you choose the guitar?

“I didn’t chose it. To my mother, it was popular and I was just a child and I saw it like a toy, but when I started to see music as a profession, I saw I made people happy by playing. It was so natural even when I tried to stop I couldn’t. It gets inside of you like part of your soul and we are part of each other. I cook and sing just for myself so I can sound better in classes like this. But the guitar is my tool that I know best. Even with other guitars, not only Simon Marty, I feel an expression I love. Teacher inspiration was also important. I had a piano teacher I loved but when she moved away my new teacher began to make me see it as an obligation not as a pleasure, but I never felt that with the guitar.”

How do you relax before a performance?

“When you are playing for yourself imagine that you are playing for a million people, but when you’re playing for one, either yourself or someone close to you, or if you look out and see someone in the audience smiling and excited, you say I will play for them.”

Kulikova adjusting students grip in Master Class Apr .9 Photo by Cara Young.

Design with Heart

April 24, 2017

By Michelle Lecumberry, Design Editor

On April 7 in the Administration building, The Design-a-thon took place. The Design-a-thon was created to help the community. The purpose was to provide non-profit organizations with free graphic design. Organizations like Mothers Against Cancer, Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (NACA), Millennium Global Prosperity (MGP) , and Kingdom Soccer Project all received free graphic design services from Lone Star College-Kingwood students.

Zoila Donney said, “Students have the opportunity to get community service hours, practice, create new pieces for their portfolio and an overall a rewarding experience.”

Students working on their projects for nonprofit organizations in the Administration Building, Apr. 7. Photo by Keyla Lerma. Click picture for a quick video by Michelle Lecumberry.

The Design-a-thon is 12 hours long from, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Most students stayed for 8 hours.

Julio Rodriguez, third year student said, “This event helps me grow as a designer because it pushes my mind for ideas”.

In the first two years,the event had about 50 students donate over 240 work hours and complete 55 out of the 63 projects that were submitted. Each year, LSC-Kingwood helped anywhere from 9 to 14 local areas.

Zoila Donney said, “This year was one of the largest years. Approximately 29 non-profit organization with 69 projects.”

Non-profit chairs with Zoila Donney, graphic designer and Visual Communication Professor in Administration Building, Apr. 7. Photo By Keyla Lerma.

Jesus Verastegui, first year student said, “It’s going to help me with creative aspect because it definitely requires critical thinking, and especially with the short time range, you just have to pump up all these ideas.”

Design-a-thon “Better Community, Better World” slogan banner Administration Building, Apr. 7. Photo By Keyla Lerma.

Future Humans at LSC-Kingwood

April 24, 2017

By Emily Slater, News Editor

“The people of tomorrow will not be the same as the people of today,” said Scott Solomon, professor of Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Scientific Communication at Rice University and author of Future Humans: Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution.

Solomon gave a book talk at the Lone Star College System’s Bayou City Book Festival, a weeklong event taking place across the LSC campuses, beginning on April 3 with “Mystery Monday” at LSC-Montgomery and culminating with Friday’s Saturday’s events at LSC-Kingwood.

In his book, Future Humans, Solomon discusses the ongoing evolution of man.

Future Humans Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution by Scotto Solomon. Apr 8. Photo by Michelle Lecumberry.

“People think of evolution as something that happened a long time ago, but as an evolutionary biologist, I see it as an ongoing process,” said Solomon during his presentation talk in LSC-Kingwood’s Student Conference Center.

First-year LSC-Kingwood student Thomas Stillman said, “I found it interesting to hear Dr. Solomon talk about the potential future of mankind and if we’d keep evolving or not.”

During his talk, Solomon outlined the ways humans are continuing to evolve, through natural selection, sexual selection, globalization, and modernization.

First year LSC-Kingwood student Melanie Quijano said, ““[Solomon] was brave enough to speculate about the future of humans through evolution,” first year LSC-Kingwood student Melanie Quijano said, “I learned a lot of interesting stuff, too, like that a study found that women choose men based on their scent and women that are taking birth control are losing that ability.”

Scott Solomon signs copies of his book Future Humans Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution by Scotto Solomon. Apr. 8 Photo by Keyla Lerma.

Solomon noted that his book is not science fiction and doesn’t try to say where human evolution is headed, “taking what we know about the past and present and applying it to our future.”

Untold Stories

April 23, 2017

By Michelle Lecumberry, Design Editor

Untold stories are the ones that haunt us.

Bayou City Book Festival was presented by Lone Star College from April 3-8, 2017. The main day was conducted on the LSC-Kingwood campus.

On April 8 during the Book Festival in the Performing Arts Center building, the Comic(al) Biographies conference was taking place.

Joe Ollmann and Peter Bagge thrive on untold stories.

Peter Bagge’s “Fire! the Zora Neale Hurston Story” on sale in the Bayou Book Festival at Lone Star College-Kingwood, Apr. 7. Photo by Keyla Lerma.

Bagge is the author of “Fire!!: The Zora Neale Hurston Story”. In the comical biography, he tells the story of Zora Neale Hurston who challenged the norms of what was expected of an African American woman in early 20th century society. She was the fifth of eight kids from a Baptist family in Alabama.

Hurston arrived in New York City at the height of the Harlem Renaissance. Her love for dramatics compelled her to become friends with Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman.

“The Abominable Mr. Seabrooke” by Joe Ollmann on sale during the Bayou Book Festival at Lone Star College-Kingwood, Apr. 7. Photo by Keyla Lerma.

Ollmann wrote the story of Journalist William Buehler Seabrook, who participated in voodoo ceremonies, riding camels cross the Sahara Desert, communing with cannibals, and ultimately becoming one.

Seabrook was a barely functioning alcoholic who was deeply obsessed with bondage and the so-called mystical properties of pain and degradation.

His life was a series of traveling highs and drunken lows; climbing on and falling off the wagon again and again. Something Ollmann could relate to being an alcoholic himself.

Ollmann said, “Seabrook was extremely famous during his life but his downfall was becoming a cannibal which made people want to forget about him.”

Due to his second wife burning everything, Ollmann spent 10 years looking for his story and more details about his life.

Both Ollmann and Bagge agreed and said that even if the process of creating a Comical Biography is “hell” and sometimes “they question why are they doing this,” but in the end when there is a finished product, it is worth it.

Authors Joe Ollmann and Peter Bagge with Lone Star College-Kingwood faculty moderator in Performing Arts Center building on Apr. 7. Photo by Keyla Lerma.

Rising Thrill

April 23, 2017

By Michelle Lecumberry, Design Editor

“Writing is the one profession that you don’t choose. It chooses you. It’s like an itch you have to scratch. You don’t have a choice.” -Stephen King

The Rising

Heather Graham is a New York Times bestselling author. Jon Land a bestselling author of 41 novels. They collaborated to create a book called the The Rising. On April 7, during the Bayou City Book Festival. The pair participated in Lone Star College’s Bayou City Book Festival with a panel discussion on their careers, and their novel, moderated by LSC-Kingwood English Professor Icess Fernandez.

Fernandez read the summary of this book as;

“Twenty-four hours. That’s all it takes for the lives of two young people to be changed forever.

Alex Chin has the world on a plate. A football hero and homecoming king with plenty of scholarship offers, his future looks bright. His tutor, Samantha Dixon, is preparing to graduate high school at the top of her class. She plans to turn her NASA internship into a career.

When a football accident lands Alex in the hospital, his world is turned upside down. His doctor is murdered. Then, his parents. Death seems to follow him wherever he goes, and now it’s after him.

Alex flees. He tells Samantha not to follow, but she became involved the moment she walked through his door and found Mr. and Mrs. Chin as they lay dying in their home. She cannot abandon the young man she loves. The two race desperately to stay ahead of Alex’s attackers long enough to figure out why they are hunting him in the first place. The answer lies with a secret buried deep in his past, a secret his parents died to protect. Alex always knew he was adopted, but he never knew the real reason his birth parents abandoned him. He never knew where he truly came from. Until now.”

The Rising by Heather Graham and Jon Land. Photo by Michelle Lecumberry.

Defining a thriller.

Land said, “I think every book is a thriller, as long as it keeps you turning the page. It is the book that you can’t put down.”

Graham said, “A thriller– It doesn’t matter what genre it is in as long as it keeps you interested,”

The Rising is defined as a Young Adult, thriller and Sci-fi. Graham defines her book as a Young Adult.

Starting a writing career.

Land said, “I’ll talk about book negative one, because we are in a college. I wrote my first book as a senior thesis independent study project at Brown University. When I went to college, I didn’t know what I wanted to do. I fell in love with writing because with Brown’s curriculum I was able to explore something different. The book was not very good it was terrible but the fact that I finished it and I learned from that because before you can be a published author you have to finish a book that can’t be published.”

After having her third child, theater major Heather Graham had a typing machine that was missing the letter “e”. Once she began writing, Graham later had to fill in the letter “e” herself. Being in a desperate mood, she got published by the unexpected Harlequin Publisher.

(Left to right) Author Jon Land, English Professor Icess Fernandez and Author Heather Graham at The Rising Thrill panel during the Bayou City Book Festival in LSC-Kingwood. Apr 8 . Photo by Michelle Lecumberry

More than 25 Universities all over the state attend LSC-Kingwood College Transfer Fair.

April 4, 2017

By Michelle Lecumberry , Design Editor.

Where are we going? That’s a hard question. College teaches you better than anything that life happens. If you are lost or if you just want confirmation that you are on the right path, Lone Star College-Kingwood will enlighten the way with their annual Transfer Fair.

“This transfer fair will give students and the public an opportunity to shop around, examine several options, collect transfer materials, speak with a representative and make a decision on what school suits their needs” said Nicole Keenan, director of admissions and outreach.

Transfer Fair in the Student Conference Center (SCC). On March 9. Photo by Keyla Lerma.

On March 9 in the Student Conference Center (SCC), the Transfer Fair hosted universities from all across the state. Universities such as, University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas A&M University, Lamar University, University of Houston, Concordia University, Sam Houston and more, were in attendance.

Marim Hakem, a third year student, is planning to transfer to the University of Houston and she said this event helped her learn more about the university and realize the benefits of staying close to home.

More than 25 universities attended LSC-Kingwood. With so many options available, it gives students a chance to explore and learn about new universities. Financial Aid experts were available to advise students about scholarships and Transfer helpers were giving advice on the spot.

“This event helped me learn more about universities and keep my options open” said Gabrielle Henley, first year student.

Maybe we don’t know where we are going but this event definitely helped LSC-Kingwood students clear up their options and open some new possibilities.

Transfer Fair sign, on March 9 in the Student Conference Center. Photo by Keyla Lerma.

New York Times Best-selling Author, Ibram X. Kendi visits LSC-Kingwood as a guest speaker.

April 4, 2017

By Michelle Lecumberry, Design Editor

College is the time to be exposed to new ideas and learn more about the world. Students are the future workforce. They have an incredible amount of power to make a change around them.

“If you understand the past, maybe you can understand how to change the future,” said John Barr, U.S history professor.

Ibram X. Kendi is a New York best-selling author and National Book Award-winning historian. He came to LSC-Kingwood on March 9 to the Student Conference Center (SCC) to talk about his book, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.

“For students is a great opportunity for, one, to hear a great author, and two, hear about the racist ideas that have been part of our history,” Barr said.

Kendi speaks to the audience. On March 9 in the Student Conference Center.Photo by Michelle Reyes Lecumberry.

Angie Cervantes, an LSC-Kingwood Honors Students, introduced Kendi. She started her introduction by urging students to keep an open mind and saying that sometimes we must have uncomfortable conversations that are terrifying but help us move on as a society.

“Regardless of where you stand politically or socially, or where you stand on issues regarding race, we can all probably agree on the importance of dialogue,” Cervantes said.

Kendi tackles the notion that slavery and racist ideas were born and not cultivated in ignorance but rather cultivated by intelligence.

He defines intelligence by not just someone who knows a great deal, but on a person’s desire to learn and understand. Coincidentally, the ones with the desire to know are the most open minded and also possess the most ability to critique and reflect on their own ideas.

He said that he had yet to come across someone who is willing to admit that their ideas are racist.

Ibram continues to explain further, “no matter what they say, they say, ‘I am not a racist.’” What is interesting about that is that if you ask someone what a racist idea is, they don’t know how to define it.

Because of this lack of a definition, it allows people to claim that their ideas are not racist–
from slaveholders or people who mass incarcerate groups of people of color today by the millions.

Kendi defines racist ideas as “Any idea that suggests a racial group is superior or inferior
to another racial group in any way” and “Anti-racist ideas suggest that racial groups are equal.”

“In our society, we don’t say black people are inferior, but what people say is what is wrong with them. People don’t recognize that to say something is wrong from [with] a particular group is to say that something is inferior about them. ” Kendi said.

He uses this definition to search among the nation’s history and to chronicle its racist ideas, but more specifically to chronicle the impact of these ideas in the course of American history.

What racist ideas do is normalizes racial inequality.

Bigotry against any group causes us as a society to blame the people as opposed to questioning our own policies. Because we have been led to believe that there is something wrong with the people, we think that there is an actual hierarchy between racial groups.

This was done rather strategically. Kendi entered into his text assuming that people had come to racist conclusions because they were ignorant or that they were hateful. Then he realized in his research that that was not largely true.

Ibram X. Kendi’s book Stamped from the beginning. Photo by Michelle Lecumberry.

That idea inspired Kendi not only to write a book about racist ideas but to write a book about racist ideas showing how and why these ideas were developed and redeveloped, created and recreated over the course of American history.

He wants to explain the historic circumstances that allowed these ideas to emerge, and to figure out the motives that explain why an individual creates racist ideas.

“You cannot generalize a group of people based on the actions of one person,” said Kendi.

Over 100 LSC-Kingwood students gather to hear about Radical Feminism.

April 4, 2017

By Emily Slater, News Editor

A recent speaker on campus, Robert Jensen, said, “Feminism is a gift to men.” Jensen said feminism allows men to escape traditional masculinity and the controlling, demanding, and aggressive attitudes and actions required of a traditional man.

Jensen spoke during an event at Lone Star College-Kingwood on March 2 to speak on his new book, The End of Patriarchy: Feminism for Men.

Over 100 students and faculty members gathered in the Student Conference Center to attend Jensen’s talk.

Jensen discussed many of the core issues of radical feminism, which he defines as a “movement against suffering,” which differs from the more mainstream “liberal feminism” in that liberal feminism tries to “optimize female opportunity in the existing [patriarchal] system,” while the radical feminism that Jensen subscribes to questions the validity of that system.

Much of the discussion focused on what Jensen calls the “industry of sexual exploitation,” or the pornography and prostitution industry.

“[Jesnen’s presentation] was informative and insightful on some aspects of the issues with gender inequality, a small story to add to a larger picture,” LSC-Kingwood, first-year student, Rosemary Culver said.

In addition to commenting on the way pornography, and prostitution harms both men and women.Jensen also spoke on the choice that those who are a part of the powerful groups in society must make: to continue in being a part of that elite group of to be human.

This controversial statement caused many LSC-Kingwood students in attendance to question the argument being presented.

“He talked about feminism as a way to abolish the problems of a hierarchy, but he did it while demeaning men,” said first-year student Amy Palacios, “You’re talking about how we’re unequal and that’s not okay, but the things you’re saying seem to only establish more inequality.”

Jensen, a journalism professor at University of Texas at Austin, is no stranger to controversy and dissent, after his 2001 article published in the Houston Chronicle comparing the September 11 terror attacks to American military actions caused the then president of UT, Larry Faulkner, to write a letter to the Houston Chronicle, distancing himself and the university from Jensen’s views, saying that he was “disgusted” by the views expressed in the article.

The radical feminism Jensen champions is also a source of controversy, particularly in its exclusion of transgender woman in its defense of a woman.

This March 2 event was Jensen’s third time presenting at LSC-Kingwood– something of a rarity for Jensen, who said that he is often not invited back to the institutions he presents at to speak a second time.

Jensen’s presentation on The End of Patriarchy: Feminism for Men was co-sponsored by The Men’s Center and the LSC-Kingwood “Writers, Thinkers, and Ideas” committee. The next speakers presented by “Writers, Thinkers, and Ideas” will be Nicole Dennis-Benn presenting on her novel, Here Comes the Sun, on April 8 at 11:15 a.m. in the black box theatre and LSC-Kingwood professor of Biology, Brian Shmaefsky, presenting “Facts & Myths: DNA Genealogy” on April 13 at 12:30-1:30 p.m. in CLA 114.

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