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nuestras habilidades periodísticas con la comunidad de Wichita Falls. Por último, The Wichtan pasó por un rediseño durante el verano. Estamos de vuelta con un aspecto más limpio y secciones renovadas. A pesar de todos los cambios, El Wichi tan sigue contando historias reales de estudiantes reales.

Student competitions for MSU’s 2022 Homecoming are open for registration

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The Office of Student Leadership and Involvement announced via Postmaster that student organizations can now register for 2022 Homecoming competitions. This year’s competitions are the Lip Sync Competition, Banner Competition,Graffiti Board Competitions, Cardboard Boat Race, Community Trunk or Treat, Mustangs Pantry Donations and the Bonus MustangsLink Photo Challenge.

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workshops to share our journalistic skills with the Wichita Falls com munity.Lastly, The Wichtan went through a redesign over the sum mer. We are back with a cleaner look and revamped sections. Despite all the change, The Wichitan is still re porting real stories by real students.

The Wichitan is looking forward to the future. Last semester The Wichitan introduced a Spanish sec tion and a Spanish editorial. This school year The Wichitan welcomes a new position, Spanish editor. We hope to continue reaching broader

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The start of a school year is for new beginnings. Students are attending university for the first time, learning how to be adults. Others are entering their final year, preparing for the real world. Some are continuing on and tackling a new school year. Whatever the situ ation may be there is always some thing to look forward to.

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The Counseling Center hosts activities for Suicide Awareness Month

El Wichitan está mirando hacia el futuro. El semestre pasado The Wichitan introdujo una sección en español y una editorial en español. Este año escolar The Wichitan da la bienvenida a un nuevo puesto, editor en español. Esperamos seguir llegando a audiencias más amplias.

After a spring semester with no sports, The Wichitan brings back its sports section. Readers can expect bimonthly updates on all things MSU sports.

l comienzo de un año escolar es para nuevos comienzos. Los estudiantes asisten a la uni versidad por primera vez y aprenden a ser adultos. Otros están entrando en su último año, preparándose para el mundo real. Algunos continúan y abordan un nuevo año escolar. Cual quiera que sea la situación, siempre

Moffet Library announced the dates of its walking tours for the fall semester. The tours serve as a way to inform student of the resources and services that the library has available to them.

To normalize speaking openly about suicide and getting support, the Counseling Center is hosting five activities throughout September. For more information, check out the CORQ app.

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The WPE exam period is from Tuesday Sept. 27 through Sunday Oct. 1. The exam will be available during those days from 8 am to 11 pm on D2L.There is a $25 fee to take the exam. The last day to sign up and pay is Friday, Sept. 16 at 11:30pm.

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The remaining walking tours for September will be on Tuesday Sept. 13 to Thursday Sept. 15 at 11am and 3pm on each day.

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Reason for joining The Wichitan: I joined the Wichitan to prioritize writing.

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Reason for joining The Wichitan: I joined The Wichitan because I wanted to write in Spanish and cater toward the Hispanic community.

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“I’ve gone to the art walk before, I’ve gone to the Wichita Falls brewery, I didn’t participate in Hotter N’Hell but I was there at the end of the route and there a bunch of food trucks and activities there, and I’m wait ing to attend Caribfest. I know there’s hiking, like the Wichita Mountains. I’m really excited to see all that Wichita Falls has to offer me. I would also like to see the beaches in Texas, around Corpus Christi and Galveston. I also want to go to Austin, I haven’t gone yet, and also El Paso. So far, I’ve gone to Dallas – many times, San An tonio, Houston. Other than that, I’m also interested in going to Oklahoma City,” Johnson said.

Despite living in Colorado all his life, Johnson said he’s taken a liking to the university and Wichita Falls. Johnson sees himself in this job for the long term.

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Johnson graduated from the Univer sity of Colorado with a degree in international affairs. During his time at university, Johnson participated in a study abroad program in France.

Only being in Texas for under just two months, John son said he still has a lot to explore in Wichita Falls and the Lone Star state in general.

“This job combines my interest in education, traveling and doing study abroad,” Johnson said.

“I enjoy the warmer weather and actually, I also enjoy the small town – Wichita is like a big, small town, it is big but has the environment of a small town. People here are a lot more outwardly friendly, they hit you with the ‘Hey, how are you doing’ with the little Texan accent,” Johnson said.

rycen Johnson is the newest addi tion to the Global Education Office, replacing Johnna Lynn Weigand as the study abroad specialist.

“My experience doing study abroad really impacted and changed my life. I had never been out of the coun try for more than two, maybe three weeks at a time, and in France, I actually spent around seven – eight months there,” Johnson said. “Having that experience made me understand the importance of having an international background and being able to work cross culturally.”

Brycen Johnson: Here for the long term

Brycen Johnson, newly hired study abroad specialist in the Global Education Office, looks forward to contributing to the university’s study abroad program.

During his study abroad experience, Johnson took advantage of the easy access of traveling within coun tries in Europe. He visited the United Kingdom, Spain, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, Italy and Iceland. Johnson said he looks forward to returning to Europe in his current position.

“Further down the line, I would still like to visit Sweden, Portugal and Greece. At the end of the day, the Global Education Office is always looking to expand. I’ve never been to Latin America and would like to go one day, and this job may lead me there too,” Johnson said.

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Besides traveling and getting to know the area more, Johnson said that he is most looking forward to meeting more people and wants everyone to know that his door is always open to speak about study abroad. His mission is wanting students to know that if they have a desire to study abroad, he can help you do just that.

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What’s new

While the proposed new consti tution features some large changes like the inclusion of a diversity, eq uity and inclusion statement, many of the changes were small and re flective of a need to clarify and re define both the constitution and the roles outlined in it. This included a new table of contents and the chang

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But perhaps the most impact ful item on the new constitution’s agenda is a change to the college senators program. Instead of elect ing student senators for the fresh man, sophomore, junior and senior classes, the SGA hopes to implement a new system in which each college on campus will be represented by two senators in the student senate. For example, the Dillard College of Business would be represented by two senators, as would all other col leges across campus.

ing of several SGA position titles.

tors. Having more representation at Dillard. Two senators come here, they show me what is happening at Dillard, what are their problems. Because their problems are widely different than Fain Fine Arts, and very different issues than ProthroYeager. And all of those issues need to be addressed, and I haven’t seen that in my three years here at Mid western State University,” Queller said.

Student government preps new constitution

Zetta Cannedy, political science and global studies junior, serves as secretary of the SGA. Cannedy, who was involved with the revision pro cess, said the decision to overhaul the constitution was spurred by a number of previously identified in adequacies that would be too hard to address through the amendment process.“Iactually helped revise the last constitution, but we kind of found that there were so many issues, and that there were just kind of so many

But the SGA doesn’t plan to stop at codifying the new senator system and polishing the framework of the constitution.

“More than anything, we’re try ing to make a change for the centen nial that we can go forward into the coming years. We want to make sure that we’re accessible to the student body, and we’re in a place where they feel comfortable coming to us and expressing their concerns,” Pet tijohn said.

A common refrain among SGA leadership is that the goal of the proposed change is to increase aca demic representation in universitylevel student leadership positions. The new system is based on the be lief that senators from each college will be better able to identify and act upon the needs of more specific groups of students, rather than one senator representing the entire freshman, sophomore, junior or se nior class.

SGA Vice President of External Affairs Zetta Cannedy leads the activity on Robbs Rule, a method that will be used to vote on various topics during SGA senate meetings, Sept. 6.

Eric Queller, management junior and vice president of student gov ernment, said making sure the con stitution makes sense is part of how the SGA is able to be a clear voice for students.“Thereal reason why we wanted to rebrand and redo our constitution is to kind of condense and solidify. This is the organization at MSU that is primarily responsible for report ing to university administration and what the students want and need, not any other governance group,” Queller said.

“One thing that I think was criti cal is going to be the college sena

SGA Vice President of Internal Affairs Eric Queller takes time at the beginning of the SGA Senate meeting to have a moment of silence, reflecting on the May shooting at Robb Elementary School, Sept. 6

PHOTO BY COLIN STEVENSON | THE WICHITAN. Economics senior Gabbie Pettijohn introduces herself as SGA’s new president, Sept. 6.

“We took a hard look at our pre vious constitution and realized that there were some errors, and more than anything we wanted to start fresh with a new document. We thought it was important for stu dents to feel very represented and seen in a form of change through student government, so we thought that was the most effective way,” Pettijohn said.

“The number one thing, that we haven’t written yet because we do want it to be a student body-writ ten document, is the student bill of rights,” Cannedy said.

Apart from change and student representation, one other theme echoed throughout the meeting was taking advantage of MSU’s centen nial to build toward the next 100 years.

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Plans are also being laid for a stu dent bill of rights, which Cannedy said has not been started yet. Canne dy said the reason nothing has been written for the bill of rights yet is that the SGA wants input from the student body first.

hange wasn’t just in the air at the latest Student Govern ment Association meeting Tuesday night – it was a deliberate theme, and has been since the sum mer. Foremost among the changes for the SGA is an updated student constitution that seeks to better rep resent the student body and better define the roles of student govern ment. The revised constitution will have to be ratified by an SGA vote, then will go to a student body vote for final approval.

revisions that needed to be made, the amount of amendments that we would have to pass was just too great,” Cannedy said.

What’s next

Gabriella Pettijohn, economics senior and student body president, also aided in the revision and echoed that the document, originally writ ten in 1974, needed an update.

PHOTO BY CECIL WITHERSPOON | THE WICHITAN BlueLights are emergency beacons that alert the police of your location when you press the button, Sept. 8.

The “red zone”

The QR code on the bathroom flyers is not the only way to report. There are multiple ways to report. The Title IX page in the MSU web site has an online report form, the MSU Safety app has a report sexual misconduct app, anyone can go to the Title IX office which is located in the Vinson Health Center or speak to faculty and staff who can refer the report to Hetrick.

According to Kristi Schulte, dep uty Title IX coordinator for students and director of residence life and housing, Hetrick will work with the student to determine if there are any types of protective or interim mea sures that will need to be provided to help them be successful because this is about access to education. Opening a case after reporting is a resource that Title IX also provides.

“[The red zone] is part of the rea son [the Title IX department does] so much programming this time of year. We really want to try to combat it to make sure people know what consent is and know what to do if something happens to them and how to stay safe…Statistically we know that a very high level [time] for it to happen is in that first eight weeks,” Hetrick said.

“In August and September it’s always consent because we [are] in the red zone…We also do healthy relationships, stalking and human trafficking. [The flyer] has all the information, there’s a QR code that you can scan to report any issues to my office and it will also take you to some resources,” Hetrick said.

“Just because you file a report or come talk to me does not mean that a whole case will be opened. If you don’t want [to open a case] we can talk about providing you with

Situations that fall

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Title IX Director and Coordinator Laura Hetrick.

- Dating violence Sexual assault Sexual harassment Stalking misconduct.

what it is and that we don’t want it to be a taboo topic. We want people to re ally be comfortable saying ‘Let’s talk about consent. Do you like this? Are you okay with this? Can I do this?’,” Hetrick said. “[We want for] students [to be] a little more comfortable approaching it because we ask for consent all the time, whether it’s ‘can I sit here?’, ‘can I use your pen?’ , ‘Will you give me a ride?’ We ask for consent throughout the day for dif ferent issues and we want to make sure students are very comfortable and they understand how consent is given and how it is also taken away if needed.”

“If a student decides they want

tudents received three crime alerts concerning fondling within the week leading up to the first day of classes. Two in cidents occurred in the residence halls and one near Ligon Coliseum. The second crime alert stated that the MSU Texas Police Department is investigating. “Ican’tgointo the specifics of the cases because they’re being looked at now by the DA’s office for pros ecution,” Joseph Snyder, MSU Texas police sergeant, said. “I can tell you that two suspects were developed in those cases, one in each case, and both have been arrested and incar cerated for the offense of indecent assault.”

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All these incidents happened in what is known as the ‘red zone.’ Ac cording to the Director and Coordi nator of Title IX Laura Hetrick, the ‘red zone’ is the first seven to eight weeks in any university campus that statistically over half of any sexual assault, harrasment or Title IX viola tions are going to happen.

The first programming event was consent day. During this event the residence life and housing staff and Title IX department handed out shirts to students. The front of the shirts read ‘The way I dress does not mean yes,’ and on the back it had an abbreviated version of consent. Stu dents were also asked what consent meant to them. If students couldn’t answer the question it became a teachable moment for what consent is.

some resources. Making sure you have counseling, if you need to move residence halls, if we need to look at changing up classes because two people are in class together. There’s a lot of things we are able to do and provide resources for,” Hetrick said.

- Other forms of sexual

Consent Day

“[Consent] is a clean, clear sober yes that can be withdrawn at any time. Making sure we’re talking about it as a campus, we understand

Other programming is flyers in the bathrooms. The buildings where the flyers can be seen are in the Clark Student Center, all the residence halls, counseling center, Vinson Health Center and this year academic buildings will be included as well. The flyers are changed every month with different topics.

Understanding Title IX and knowing

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MSU Safety App

As a reminder it’s a policy decision are they responsible for a policy violation or not.”

to move forward with a case, what will happen…generally speaking… two investigators are assigned to the case and all of our Title IX investiga tors are employees of the university who have been trained in civil rights investigation practices. Those two investigators will then meet and in terview the parties involved. They will interview any witnesses, they’ll take into account any evidence that is provided to them and they will write up a report that summarizes their investigation,” Schulte said. “If the parties decide to continue, because at anytime the reporting party can say they want to stop,... then there is a formal hearing pro cess…the hearing panel will deter

“We try to make sure with the Title IX process that we are providing stu dents with informa tion along the way. I think this is one of those situations where it’s intensely personal. There’s trauma involved and we recognize that. I think students seem to appreciate when we’re able to help them see around corners,” Schulte said. “For those reporting students we try to make it as clear as possible that they’re in the driver’s seat. If they just want to share the information with the university and say ‘This happened to me. I don’t want to move forward with the report but I want you to know.’ That limits what the university can do in response but having that information can be helpful for us.”

don’t want to involve their name they don’t have to…If they want to make a criminal report usually if its a sexual offense their name is removed from all reports, they get what’s called a psedonym form…We make a report, it’s turned over to a detective, detec tive use all the resources that they can to try to identify a suspect and then they file criminal cases with the district attorneys office. Since most of those are felonies…they will go to a grand jury for indictment,” Snyder said.

“We really have to step up as a community…if you see something out of place then we want you to say something, if you’re not com fortable intervening we want you to call someone,” Hetrick says. “I really want to work to develop that as our campus culture, that we’re all gonna make sure we’re safe and if we see something out of place we’re gonna call it.

knowing how to make a report

“The university provides the MSU safety app. We encourage peo ple to use the bluelight on that so if they get into a problem they can im mediately access our dispatch cen ter either through text or through a phone call. When they use that app, as soon as they initiate that call, a map comes up in the dispatch cen ter and it shows the dispatcher right where you are…There’s also other safety tools and how to go about re porting,” Snyder said.

The MSU safety app can be used to make a report but it has other safety features as well, Sept. 8.

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The main focus for Hetrick is for the campus to continue talking and acknowledging actions that fall un der Title IX violations.

If a student wants to make a re port but stay anony mous there are con fidential reporting options. Students can utilize counsel ing services or the health center to re port because those are confidential ser vices.

Title IX only looks at policy violations meaning they do not do criminal cases. The police depart ment does investigations and pos sible criminal charges. Students can choose to do either case or both.Title IX and the MSU police work togeth er and can have both a policy and criminal case at the same time.

mine whether or not there’s a fining of re sponsibility or not…

“If [a student] makes a report to Title IX, the clery act requires that Title IX makes a report to the police department so we can document that something happened. If they

Stepping up as a community

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The MSU Safety App can be used to make a report but it has other safety features as well. The friend walk feature allows for two people with the safety app to see where one is walking. There is also a mobile blue light that works similarly to the blue lights around campus.

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Title IX and the police

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que la policía no está tan invo lucrada como antes. Cuando se le preguntó si tenía un mensaje para los estudiantes Jimenes re spondió, “Que la policía de MSU está aquí para proveer un lugar seguro para vivir y un lugar se guro para aprender y que yo sé que los oficiales arriesgarán su vida para protegerlos. Yo les diría que somos accesibles, a decir hola y que queremos a MSU y nos encanta apoyar al programa de deportes y es tar cerca de las diferentes orga nizaciones”.Enelsitio del departamento de policía de MSU, se declara que su misión es apoyar a la gran misión de la universidad, de una educación superior, en proveer un ambiente seguro en el cual vivir, aprender y crear; para cumplir sus metas la policía de MSU Texas emplea una fi losofía de patrullaje centrada en la comunidad, y se esfuerza activamente para establecer y promover relaciones positivas con los estudiantes, la facultad, los trabajadores y los visitantes que componen la comunidad de MSU Texas.

El sargento Albert Jimenes creció en Wichita Falls y se graduó de Old High antes de empezar su carrera en la ley con la oficina del sheriff en 1996, donde trabajó como un sargento en la cárcel. En 2002, Jimenes empezó a trabajar con el depar tamento de policía de MSU y durante este tiempo sirvió como policía, detective, sargento y el jefe interino de la policía.

Un policia leal: Sgto. Albert Jimenes cumple 20 años con MSU PD

“Tengo que decir que debo haber nacido de esta manera, en como me siento en ayudar a la gente. Siempre he tratado de ayudar a las personas que se han lastimado o han tenido sus cosas robadas. Ser un policía era una manera en la cual podía tener la autoridad dada por el estado de Texas y sus ciudadanos para hacer el trabajo,” dijo Jimenes.

El sargento Jimenes super visa una variedad de activi dades para el departamento de la policía universitaria, incluy endo el cuarto de evidencia y la oficina de comunicaciones, y es el coordinador del acceso terminal para la agencia. Muy conocido por la comunidad de MSU, el sargento Jimenes repre senta el departamento de policía de MSU Texas en el comité de salud del medioambiente, el manejamiento de seguridad y riesgo y el equipo de la universi dad que responde a situaciones

e dar una multa, a buscar a alguien que ha robado tus efec tos personales, y a cuidar el pus durantecamla noche y el día - la policía está lista para protegerte. Hay mucho que pasa entre basti dores en el campus. Este artículo es una mirada al pensamiento de uno de nuestros policías que ha dedicado su vida para prote gernos y estar a la orden desde 2002.

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Jimenes compartió lo que es pera para el futuro del departa mento de policía MSU. “Que con tinúe sirviendo a la comunidad del campus con el mayor profe sionalismo y que crezca como el campus continúa crecer.”

El sargento Jimenes ha traba jado por veinte años para asegu rar exactamente eso.

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Sgto. Albert Jimenes ha servido con la policía por 20 años.

La parte favorita de Allen de es tar en España era la rutina que tuvo y el acceso a viajar entre España y Europa.

“No me gusta manejar, es una carga para mí. Me gusto que podía caminar en todas partes y si me can saba de caminar entonces me podía parar en cualquier esquina y agarrar

FOTO POR OMAR COMBIE | THE WICHITAN (De izquierda a derecha) Profesor Asistente de Francés Eric Lynch, Profesor Asistente de Español Philip Allen, Profesor de Español Roberto Fuertes, Presidente del Departamento de Lenguas y Culturas Extranjeras Jeffery Oxford, Profesor de Español Claudia Montoya, Instructora de Español Sarah Butler y Profesor Asistente de Alemán Kyung Lee Gagum, 24 de septiembre.

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ex profesor de la Universidad de Pennsylva nia State, Philip Al len, es la más nueva adición en el depar tamento de Culturas e idiomas extranjeros. Dice que él y la Universidad de Midwestern State se encontraron.

La contratación más reciente del departamento de español: ¿Quién es Philip Allen?

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En cinco años, Allen espera que todavía esté en Midwestern junto con una rotación regular de clases, como cada dos años hacer una clase de expresión oral y los otros dos años tener una clase de com posición, además de extender el es pañol fuera del salón – Allen crea que tanto que el español está bajo el

título “idiomas del mundo” que no debería ser tratado así.

“A causa de la diversidad, siem pre estaba alrededor del español y entonces lo más que aprendía sobre él y me interesaba, el idioma mismo, tenía sentido para mí, la gramática y el formato, aún más que el inglés. El español tiene una perfección y todo coincide...” dijo Allen.

Allen habla el español con fluidez y dice que no lo va a confundir con un español aunque su acento deter mina que es un español – Allen está lejos de ello. Allen originalmente es de un pueblo chico en Kentucky.

“Crecí alrededor del español. Es taba muy cerca de una base militar y teníamos una comunidad grande multicultural e incluso hubo una fá brica en el pueblo que originalmente era de España. Teníamos mucha

“Estaba mirando a mis posi bilidades y miré el anuncio de Mid western State y lo mas que empecé a investigar el departamento y la universidad y Wichita Falls, más me emocionaba por ello y quería entregar una aplicación y a ver si Midwestern estaba interesada y por suerte, lo fueron”, dijo Allen.

Allen dice que quería que se le permitiera ser creativo. Él quería usar su creatividad más en el salón por la forma en que prepara sus lec ciones, cómo las enseña y hasta los materiales que se traen al salón.

“Pienso que tanto que somos los idiomas y culturas del mundo, el es pañol bajo ningún motivo debe ser un idioma extranjero en este país. Quiero que las habilidades de espa ñol y de las culturas se extienden a la comunidad y trabajen con los museos y The Wichitan y se integren más en general con la comunidad y nuestros vecinos hispanohablantes”. Hechos divertidos sobre Allen:

gente de México, España, Puerto Rico, Alemania y Japón en esta área muy chica y todos fuimos arrojados en esta mezcla diversa de cultura,” dijo Allen.

Allen confesó tener un platillo favorito – todos. Dice que no ha pro bado un platillo que no le guste.

“Hay algo para todo. No creo que solo pueda escoger una cosa y creo que esa es mi favorita de ella. Hay algo que querer porque primero la gente – y aunque no te gusta la gente, pues tienes la comida y si no te gusta la comida, pues entonces el estilo de vida.”

En breve, el español tendrá más sentido, dijo Allen. Cuanto más es tudiaba y estaba interesado en el idioma Allen dijo, que gramatical mente, todo tiene más sentido.

un café”, dijo Allen.

“Hay arroz con guandules, sé que eso es popular en Puerto Rico. Me gusto mucho los platillos de carne de cerdo desmenuzada, carnitas y barbacoa. Soy un gran carnívoro...”, dijo Allen.

Allen dice que su parte favorita de la cultura hispana es lo abarca dora que es.

Finalmente, ya que Allen es nue vo en Midwestern State y Wichita Falls, le gustaría que todos sepan que su puerta siempre está abierta para una conversación.

“Sinceramente tengo muchas ga nas de conocer a todos aquí. Hasta ahora, todos los que he conocido son geniales y muy amables que me encanta. Cualquiera pregunta que cualquiera tendría sobre el uso del español en sus profesiones, la comu nidad y la vida personal - mi puerta siempre está abierta...Ni siquiera tiene que ser español; me encanta todo de cultura e idioma. Podría pon erlos en contacto con nuestros profe sores de alemán y de francés porque nuestro departamento de verdad tiene mucho que ofrecer, y todas nuestras puertas están abiertas y son bienvenidos para venir sentarse y hablar solamente”.

FOTO POR OMAR COMBIE | THE WICHITAN Philip Allen, profesor de español, es el integrante más reciente del departamento de Lenguas y Culturas Extranjeras, el 24 de septiembre.

“Nos encontramos en un tiempo cuando en realidad estaba buscando trabajos en un clima más caliente porque yo estaba en Pensilvania y literalmente hacía frío todo el tiempo. Sé que eso es una razón per sonal para buscar otro trabajo, pero además estaba buscando un trabajo que me daría un poco más libertad con respecto a preparar mis propias clases. La universidad en la que es taba ya tenía todo listo y sabían exactamente dónde querían a cada uno de sus profesores y facultad,” dijo Allen.

MSU has questions to solve over the course of the season, but Maskill is already working on them. Fore most among those questions is who the starting quarterback will be for

What could be...

Still, Maskill made it clear that the position is still open to either quarterback.“Ithinkwe’ve got two starting quarterbacks, I think both those guys are quite capable of being start ers,” Maskill said.

MSU football 2022: past, present and future

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PHOTO BY COLIN STEVENSON | THE WICHITAN Applied arts and sciences junior and defensive back Sergio Medina tackles an opposing Colorado State-Pueblo player, Sept. 3.

“We’re not down, we’re not out, we just didn’t play very good, and when you beat yourself, not a whole lot you can do about it,” Maskill said, adding that “I’m disappointed with the way we played, but I think we can be better. I know we’ll be bet ter, but we’re going to have to work to make ourselves better.”

If the Mustangs are able to create more consistency on both sides of the ball, Maskill said he’s confident the season can turn around.

Now, the Mustangs sit at an un enviable 0-1 to begin the season, and Maskill said there’s a lot of work to be done to put the team in the best position to win.

the football season ramping up, what expecta tions should students have for the Mustangs?

What was...

Up next for the Mustangs is a road clash with Eastern New Mexi co University Saturday at 7 in Grey hound Stadium.

the Mustangs moving forward.

Neiko Hollins started the game for the Mustangs and threw a firstquarter touchdown, before Dillon Sterling-Cole took over in the second and third quarters. Hollins returned in the fourth quarter and threw two more touchdowns, and was the only quarterback to score for the Mus tangs.

PHOTO BY COLIN STEVENSON | THE WICHITAN Criminal justice junior and wide receiver Ja’Marzeyea Arvie celebrates a touchdown in the fourth quarter, being held up by teammate, business administration and offensive lineman Mark Burke, Sept. 3.

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MSU is coming off of what should have been considered a success ful season; seven wins against only three losses, and a 6-1 mark in con ference play. It was hardly the best Mustangs season in recent history, but it was enough to win the con ference. Unfortunately for the Mus tangs, it wasn’t enough to secure a playoff spot, as they had to sit at home while conference rival Angelo State advanced to the postseason. Talk swirled around campus about how an Angelo State Rams team that finished behind MSU in the confer ence, and which lost head-to-head against MSU, could have gotten in over the Ultimately,Mustangs. the playoff seeding came down to NCAA Division 2 play off qualification rules; D2 has no guaranteed qualifiers, so the Rams’ better overall record and higher na tional ranking earned them the nod to the playoffs. All MSU could do was plan for the next year.

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Fast-forward several months to Saturday night around 6 o’clock, when fans were still filtering into Memorial Stadium as the Mus tangs prepared to open their season against the Colorado State-Pueblo Thunder Wolves. With new school president JuliAnn Mazachek on hand to conduct the opening coin toss, the sweltering heat detered neither the Mustangs or their fans. Almost immediately, the Mus tangs took their first lead of the sea son with a 73-yard pass from quarter back Neiko Hollins to Jayden Moore. But then the Thunder Wolves began to score, and they simply didn’t stop. While the Mustangs managed some big plays, the final score was a lop sided 59-27 in favor of CSU-Pueblo.

“I think right now we’ve got to look at tape and see where we are and find out if we got the right play ers playing, and then if we got the right scheme for the players that are playing,” Maskill said. “And then put guys in the right position and try to figure out how to get them off blocks on defense and just get clean er all the way around, we weren’t clean today.”

Head coach Bill Maskill said there were things the team could build off of, but overall said he was disappointed in the performance.

“There were some bright spots, more dim spots than bright,” Maskill said, “We made too many,

probably too many errors, we had a hard time getting off blocks on defense and missed a lot of tackles. Probably missed more assignments than what we would have liked. Of fensively, we had some big plays but really couldn’t sustain anything.”

PHOTO BY COLIN STEVENSON | THE WICHITAN Kinesiology senior Eurtis Downs, mechanical engineering junior Miguel Bethel, education senior Darina Wilkinson and economics senior Karona Augustine model this year’s Caribfest costumes. Caribfest is a series of cultural events put on by Caribbean Student Organization to promote Caribbean culture. The gold and green costumes are titled “Masquerade Bliss” while the yellow and red costumes are titled “Caribbean Phoenix,” Sept. 3.

PHOTO BY COLIN STEVENSON | THE WICHITAN Economics senior Jeffrey Neptune (left) and chemistry senior Joshua Griffith (right) dance on stage in “Jab Jab” attire. Jab Jab is a devillike character in Caribbean carnivals, Sept. 3.

PHOTO BY COLIN STEVENSON | THE WICHITAN Community Integration and Behavior Specialist Frank Del Rio speaks at Caribfest launch. The Arc supports individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Some of the proceeds from this year’s Caribfest events will be donated to the Arc. Sept. 3.

Caribfest season opens with launch party

PHOTO BY COLIN STEVENSON | THE WICHITAN CSO senator and mechanical engineering freshman Vincent Peter opens the launch in prayer with radiology senior Ebany Hanna and mass communication senior Neila Jones in the background , Sept. 3.

PHOTO BY COLIN STEVENSON | THE WICHITAN DJ Blick plays soca music at Caribfest launch. As an MSU alumni and CSO alumni, Blick has DJed at many prior Caribfest events, Sept. 3.

President Biden’s three-part plan promises to cancel $10,000 - $20,000 of student debt for low-to-middle-income borrowers.

“Obviously it’s a good thing. Especially since there’s so many costs nowadays, inflation making it harder to live every day. We are constantly having to adjust our budgets because prices haven’t been staying consistent and continue to rise. I think it’s harder for people in our generation to become financially independent and or stable because of this, so any type of help that our government can give us I think is a great step in the right direction.”

“I think it’s extremely helpful and definitely the beginning of relieving stress for many students like me. For instance, after I graduate, I’ll be focusing on moving out of my parents house and getting a place of my own, since rent has risen tremendously, my paychecks will already largely go toward living and food expenses, and then I’ll have the burden of trying to pay off my student debt as well. I haven’t checked if I’ve received any loan forgiveness but I hope I do because that will relieve a burden off my shoulders.”

Alisha Joshi, finance senior

“I knew about the government giving out loan forgiveness thanks to President Biden, however, I guess I never thought it would apply to myself. I went and checked the amount for my loans, especially after paying my tuition for this semester and my balance had said $0.00. I wanted to cry. I couldn’t believe what I saw; I was completely shocked and just felt this pressure and burden on my back, come completely off.”

Faayo Shogbanmu, nursing senior

Kathryn Ryan, elementary education junior

“I think it might be a great relief actually, because of peoples’ situations, and the economy especially going up and stuff. So it’d kind of be like a relief for some people without jobs and without parents’ financial help and stuff like that, so I think it’s real positive. It will actually take off a burden on their back, I believe, when [students] get out of school. They won’t have to be worried about so much money they would have to be giving back instead of making, coming from school.”

Shaughnessy Emanuel, nursing senior

“I think it’s amazing for those people who are eligible to receive money back. I think graduating and trying to find a job with all that stress, is stressful enough without having to know that you are $40,000 in debt with student college loans. So I think it’s really great any amount really helps, $10,000 off of the loans really helps.”

“As someone who has no student loans but receives the Pell grant, I’m a bit frustrated but happy there is some form of aid for those who need it. But before the loan forgiveness came into play, I applied for loans. I wasn’t able to receive any loans by myself, and I had to pay out of pocket because I am not able to find a cosigner for loans. I believe that this could’ve been handled in a different way that provides opportunity for people in my situation, such as focusing on the regulation of university prices for Pell grant students, instead of just limiting this opportunity to college students who are able to receive loans. ”

Students chime in on loan forgiveness

Jennifer Herrejon, respiratory junior

Chima Maroni, nursing junior