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Mechanical engineering senior and running back Vincent Johnson makes a run though the West Texas A&M University defense, Nov 11.
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FOOTBALL MISSES CHANCE AT PLAYOFFS, DESPITE FINAL WIN CHLOE PHILLIPS CO-EDITOR
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hile the football team had a good season, finishing 8-2 overall, the mustangs will not be participating in the playoffs this year. Bill Maskill, head football coach, said, “Well it’s not my decision, it’s made up of a committee of 8 or 10 guys from our region which is the far west. Central Washington, Azusa Pacific I think they call it the greater northwest region, the Minnesota league, which is the norther sun, and the lonestar and we have two representatives on that and the other teams have representatives as well in their region and we were seventh- we were
actually fourth or fifth early in the year and then we got beat by Tarleton, we backed up. There’s criteria involved and the biggest criteria is strength of schedule and apparently, our strength of schedule is slightly higher than the team that got in but the committee determined that their strength of schedule was almost equal to ours and that they beat-- we were seventh. Central Washington who would beat them, Acuza Pacific earlier was eighth and this team Azusa Pacific was ninth. Apparently a week ago they started talking about having a quality win over a top ten team in the region which to me, is bullshit because there’s teams in the region that are rated after seventh, are just there because they
have to rate ten teams and Azusa Pacific beat Central Washington, so they had a win over a top ten team we had two losses against top six teams, the number two team and the number six teams on the last play of the game by one point. They don’t look at that, all they look at it as, that’s a good loss but that’s not in factor of the criteria that they use. Azusa beat central Washington conference team at an away game so that became a quality win. We don’t have a quality win against a top ten opponent, we have two quality losses and they don’t take that in to consideration. We got beat by [Texas A&M] Commerce 20-19 on two different days in Denton because of lightning and missing a field goal with three seconds left to go in the
game. They beat us 20-19. Three weeks later, we played Tarleton at homecoming and they beat us, whatever the score was, by one point on that last play we were kicking the field goal again and our holder dot-bottles it and we don’t get a chance to kick the field goal and they beat us by one point and they’re number two in our region. In a nutshell, they’re saying their quality win is better than our two quality losses to teams that are second and sixth in our region which is bullshit, I don’t agree with it. There’s no reason why we shouldn’t be [in the playoffs]. They were excited that they won, but they didn’t even expect to get in the conference, they’re gonna get beat by 40 points this weekend.
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Go to the EURECA research forum OUR VIEW: The Wichitan staff believes that viewing other students research is an opportunity to have fun while learning and maybe it can inspire you to try doing a research project.
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ver discover something new or have a EURECA moment? Undergraduate students do not get a lot of opportunities to do large research projects but the EURECA (enhancing undergraduate research endeavors & creative activities) and UGROW (UnderGraduate Research Opportunities and summer Workshop) research programs let students come up with their own inventions or discoverys. They then get to display the research for their peers to see. During the forum you get the chance to speak to students and faculty that you may not usually get to. This is a very rewarding program for undergraduate students, we believe it is a good way for students who did not participate to see what their peers are working on. If you go to the forum you can have fun viewing the different projects and learn from your peers. The forum gives students the chance to talk about controversial topics while engaging in healthy debates and conversation. It could also inspire you to partake in your own research. Another good reason to attend is you could find good research material and sources for your own projects or research through your peers. It can also provide examples for future research projects. This is one of the few events on campus held by the students for the students.
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Chris Pratt in Jurassic World (2015)
RHA HOSTS ‘JURASSIC WORLD’ SCREENING
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The Residence Hall Association hosted a movie night with a screening of Jurassic World on Nov. 9 at 8 p.m. The movie screening took place at Legacy’s Multipurpose Room. “With RHA events we focus mostly on the residence halls since we’re the Residence Hall Association, so all of our events happen in the residence halls. Each residence hall does different events,” criminal justice senior and RHA president Steven Ehlert said. Previous events held by the RHA include game nights in Pierce Hall, girls nights in Killingsworth Hall and movie nights and ice cream socials in Trigg Hall. In the upperclassmen apartments, the RHA have hosted cookouts. “In Legacy we do the bigger events such as this movie screening which is for all of the residents because there’s 500 students in Legacy,” Ehlert said. Because of an increase in budget, Friday’s showing of Jurassic World was the first time that the RHA has hosted a movie night of that scale. “Last semester we didn’t have a big budget, so we applied for a budget this semester and now we have a [bigger] budget,” Ehlert said. The choice of movie was also determined by the RHA at the
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beginning of the semester. “We voted on a movie and [Jurassic World] was the one that got selected,” Ehlert said. “[one of the other choices] was some new movie called Jumanji.” “I found out when they had the dinosaur going around the Commons,” finance junior Karina Maynard said. “I was intrigued. I was like ‘what is that?’” In addition to the movie screening, the RHA also provided popcorn and hot chocolate to the students who went. “I didn’t expect snacks,” psychology freshman Ra’Chanel Bailey said. “I know last time when they showed the Incredibles 2, they had just basic popcorn and things like that. I figured that was fine because it was a movie.” Having a movie screening on campus makes it easier for students who have limited transportation to have the movie theater experience. “Some people don’t feel comfortable taking the bus and other people don’t have transportation, so this does give them something on campus that they can do with their friends,” Bailey said. “I do think it is a good idea, but I think that one other way that they could probably improve it is by letting people vote on the movie that they actually would want to see. I feel like it would get more attraction if it was something that people really, truly wanted to see.”
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Assistant theater professor Sally Story helps theater senior Christopher Cruz, visualize his monologue by pretending to be a dead body at the Kemp Center for the Arts on Nov. 4
Theater professors held Shakespeare Workshop NICOLE SMALLS REPORTER
Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet in Beautiful Boy (2018)
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’Beautiful Boy’ an authentic story of addiction BRIAN LANG FILM CRITIC
Sometimes you can do everything right as a parent but still feel like a failure. That’s how David Scheff feels when his bright son Nic admits that he has a major problem with drug abuse. Director Felix Van Groeningen takes on the Brian struggles of addiction and recovery in his new Lang film“Beautiful Boy,” detailing the lengths a father will go to rescue his son from himself. ‘Beautiful Boy’ is the true story of teenager Nic Scheff starring Timothee Chalamet (“Call Me By Your Name”) and Steve Carrel (“The Office”). This movie is brutally authentic and packs a powerful emotional punch. The story feels a lot like “Finding Nemo” except, of course, with a lot more heroin. Its heartfelt take on drug abuse is inspired by the memoirs that Nic and Dave wrote about their lives “Beautiful Boy” and “Tweak.” Although it’s definitely not a light-hearted film, “Beautiful Boy’s” message is an important one that needs to be heard. Van Groeningen succeeds in using the actors’ strengths whenever possible. Challamet plays one of his most angsty roles to date but works hard to humanize Nic and give his character substance beyond just the label of an addict. Carrel propels the story with his filial love and desperation, going to unbelievable lengths to save his son. The side actors, Amy Ryan (“The Office”) playing Nic’s
mother and Maura Tierney (ER) as Nic’s step-mom, shine in the wings, grounding Carrel’s frequent hysterics with quiet strength. I wish that Ryan had been in more scenes only to rekindle that classic Michael and Holly chemistry. Even with Oscar-caliber actors and a story sad enough to tempt any member of the Academy to give it a nomination, ”Beautiful Boy” has some imperfections. The story often feels repetitive, with Nic sobering up for a while, but then ultimately falling back into his old habits. It’s remorse, recovery, relapse, repeat, which can make the movie drag, especially towards the end when even Nic’s family begins to tire of this pattern. Of course, this vicious cycle is all too real for many people struggling with addiction and the film evokes that frustration and tiredness from its audience. Some moments feel too dramatic and heavy-handed, almost like Van Groeningen is scared to loosen up the reins and let the story be told naturally. The music choices sometimes don’t quite mesh with a moment or the fast-moving scenes don’t give the character’s time to breath and develop organically. He also chose to use three different child actors to portray Nic as a kid, which really makes no sense. At the end of the day, “Beautiful Boy” is a lot like Nic: it’s precocious and full of potential but struggles to live up to your expectations. Amazon Studios’ newest attempt for an Oscar is just not enough to be a true contender at this year’s Academy Awards. “Beautiful Boy” has good moments and great acting scenes for its leads, but its whole doesn’t equal the sum of its parts.
With only two MSU students in attendance, assistant theater professors Sally Story and Christie Maturo held their monthly Shakeshop: Actor’s Workshop at the Kemp Center for the Arts on Nov. 4. “The theater department wants to do more community outreach. By doing this we can serve the community, and also the students,” Story said. Story and Maturo said they hope to help the community better understand the works of Shakespeare and to make his plays less “scary” and more accessible. “A lot of adults have always wanted to try acting but haven’t and this is a great outlet for them to do that,” Story said. “We’re not here to scold you on your acting, we’re here to help you understand Shakespeare and to have fun.” By having an event that is open to the public, and not just the theater students, Maturo said she hopes to build a stronger relationship with the community. She said she hopes that by teaching people to understand the language, people will be more excited to support the department when a Shakespeare show is being put up. “Hopefully they’ll say, ‘those people made Shakespeare easy to understand and not intimidating so let’s go watch that’,” Maturo said. Even though there were only two students in attendance, the professors worked hands-on with the students. Theater senior Christopher Cruz was the first to seek out the professors’ help and came prepared with three monologues. After reading them aloud, Maturo gave her opinion on which monologue she liked. At one point during his monologue Story even got on the ground to help Cruz visualize the moment. Story said she is open to doing almost anything if it helps her students. Cruz said he plans on attending the university/resident theatre associate auditions as a way to discover possible graduate programs and must have both a contemporary and classical monologue. Cruz used the Shakeshop as a way to help prepare for his upcoming auditions. “Doing this was really beneficial and helped me connect to my piece,” Cruz said.
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Craig Gregg
‘I just really feel like myself there’ ALLISON ATHERTON REPORTER
Endless scrolling is how Craig likes to start their morning. After the alarm goes off at 7:15, psychology freshman Craig Gregg rolls over to hit snooze. Ten minutes later, they finally pick up their phone to check what’s happened over night. Five minutes until their first class, Craig brushes their teeth, fixes their hair, and runs out the door towards ProthroYeager. “After my first class ends, I’ll go to the dining hall and eat breakfast,” Craig said. “I’ll usually eat eggs or sausage, and if it’s a day with real bacon, not turkey bacon, I’ll always get real bacon.” They identify as gender non-conforming. Craig is neither male nor female. Craig’s pronouns are “they” and “them.” “Personally, I’ve never felt only female or only male. I’ve never been into traditional female or male things. People should care about people, like me, who identify as gender non-conforming, because we are still people. People should respect transgender people because we just wanna be accepted like everyone else,” Craig said. They think it is important for people to acknowledge that third-gender and non-binary people exist. Craig said, “Third-genders have appeared in cultures other than western civilizations.
For example, third genders have showed up in native Hawaiian and Tahitians cultures, they’ve also showed up in indigenous people here in North America. We exist.” A typical day for Craig includes classes, friends and YouTube. They’ll usually go to their first class then work on French homework after. Monday through Thursday Craig has French at 11 a.m. “[My favorite thing about my classes is] just the lectures because I enjoy listening and following along with it,” Craig said. After French, they will grab a quick lunch at Chick-fil-A and watch YouTube while eating. All of Craig’s friends have classes that get out later so they’ll take a nap while waiting for their friends to be done with class. Craig said, “[My least favorite thing every day] is right after my classes because my friends are still in theirs and I’m pretty bored. That’s why I just watch YouTube and wait.” After napping, Craig will go to dinner with their friends and spend the rest of the day procrastinating work which eventually leads to them finally doing their work. “My favorite part of my days is hanging out with my friends and especially playing Mario Kart with my best friend Spencer,” Craig said. Craig doesn’t have a day of the week they consider to be insanely busy, or a certain day where their workload is less. Their schedule is fairly balanced.
“I don’t really have busy days, but when I have tests I feel really busy and stressed. Friday is probably my least stressful day of the week, because I don’t have any French homework to do right away and only have two, hour long classes,” Craig said. The college experience for Craig so far has gone well. French is one of their special interests as well as their favorite class. Although they’ve had thoughts about changing their major, they’ve ultimately decided to stick with psychology. Craig said, “I like to help people. I wanna help other LGBTQ+ people [like myself]. I wanna get a well-paying job where I can support myself and my family. My main goal is to help people with my psych degree,” Craig said. “I’ve thought about changing my major a little bit because I’ve thought about going into sociology or social work, but ultimately I’ve decided on psychology because I can do more with this major, and there are more opportunities.” Craig spends a lot of their free time watching YouTube and hanging out with friends. This semester Craig has also joined the campus PRIDE club. They’ve enjoyed getting to know the members in PRIDE and going to the club’s functions. “I really enjoy going to the PRIDE club. It’s like a home away from home. I’m always most excited for the PRIDE club. I really like the en-
ergy in pride and the vibe of the people. I just really feel like myself there,” Craig said. Although Craig spends a majority of their free time not focused on work, they still try and dedicate at least an hour or two every day to schoolwork and studying. For Craig, stress can stem from financial troubles and being away from home, however, they’re trying to focus on enjoying the time they have here. “Being away from home and worrying about money and financial aid [is what’s most stressful]. I don’t really do anything to cope with the stress but I’m looking into the Counseling Center and have been going to the financial aid office for help. I’m possibly considering a job because I need money. I’ve decided I want to work on campus for flexibility, but I’m not exactly sure yet,” Craig said. Craig has learned a lot since coming to college. They’ve prospered academically and had personal growth. They’ve learned that note taking is very important, as well as time management and memorization skills. Craig said it’s been different having to do their own dishes and laundry and has also struggled with being homesick despite frequent trips home. Craig said, “I definitely miss my mom and my pets. I haven’t really found a way to deal with my homesickness yet. I try and go home every weekend to see my family, to help with it.”
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Board of Regents discuss campus updates
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he Board of Regents members met for their last meeting of the fall semester Nov. 8. in the J.S. Bridwell Board Room in Hardin Hall. They gave an update on campus construction, enrollment/academics, annual financial report, proceeds of mineral rights. Caven Crosnoe, vice chairman of the board opened the meeting, giving a special welcome to the three new regent members appointed the board in late August: Oku Okeke, Karen Liu Pang, and Tony Fidelie. “For our new regents, previously our board meetings began on a Thursday afternoon with all regents attending all of the committee meetings, while each committee took separate action on items. The meetings were legally determined to be committee as a whole meetings since a form of the board attended the meetings. On Friday mornings, the committee chairs presented consent agendas of items approved by each committee for the full boards consideration. Since we have now moved to one day board meetings, at the conclusion of our committee reports, I would like for us to have a brief discussion about how we see the committee’s functioning in the future,” Crosnoe said. University Dashboard — Fred Dietz, vice president for enrollment management, presented the university’s dashboard indicator and projections to the board members. Beginning in 2012, the administration developed a dashboard, containing measures deemed important by the university and presented to the board each November. According to Dietz, the key metrics are enrollment, residential living, student success, operation efficiency related to finances and outside resources related to
Screen shot of university dashboard from Nov. 8 board meeting
“This is an area where we really are focusing a lot of attention this fall we anticipate coming to you in the spring with a report.”
finances, and outside resources really important to us as we coming to the institution. move forward are percentage “Overall, we saw a slight of Hispanic students enrolled, increase in enrollment. We’re we’re just shy of 21 percent, at 6,102 which is always enwe’re at 20.5 percent. This will couraging and some of the be important as we move foritems here, 1.1.2 is really enward. Ultimately, we want to couraging, we’re at 889 new hit 25 percent as a long term freshman. That’s our freshman goal which would make us a count so that’s almost an 8.5 Hispanic institution and open percent increase over last year, up many more avenues for which is really strong. The next title four funding for the instiitem, 1.1.3, looks at our new tution,” Dietz said. “Our pertransfer population and we centage of African-American saw about a 6 percent increase students continues to grow in our new transfer students we’re up 14.8 percent this is reso this is really encouraging as ally encouraging, the Hispanic FRED DIETZ well,” Dietz said. “Overall these VICE PRESIDENT FOR ENROLL- and African-American populanumbers are quite solid. semestion it’s really a good indicator MENT MANAGEMENT ter credit hour generated, 1.1.6, of the diversity here at Midis a really important number as western state so we’re proud of tuition revenue are generated off the semester those increases.” credit hours so we saw a 1.2 percent increase Residential University Experience: in semester credit hour productivity in the Dietz stated there was a population increase fall.” of 5 percent in the residence halls and the Dietz also talked about he growth of diver- halls are at 93 percent capacity. sity on campus. Student Success: The first-time, full“As we go down, the enrollment portion time student retention rate (first year, fall to of this dashboard, a couple of items that are fall) is 64.6 percent and there is a target rate of
75 percent. Dietz also stated our university is behind our peer group institutions for retention. “This is kind of a mixed bag here as you look at student success, not all of the numbers on this dashboard are strong and student success is an area we need to have some improvement,” Dietz said. “As you look at item 3.1, which is First-time, Full-time Student Retention Rate (First year, fall to fall), this is an area where we really are focusing a lot of attention this fall we anticipate coming to you in the spring with some with a report and some measures to look at improving retention.” Operational Effectiveness: Administrative cost rate dropped 7.3 percent Average student debt dropped to 237,000 Campus Construction Update — Kyle Owen, associate vice president of facilities services, gave the board an update on construction such as the Health Sciences and Human Services Building, TAS/ADA Fire Marshal Upgrades Project and Moffett Library renevations. According to Owen, rain held up a lot of construction. Mineral Rights — After a special called meeting Sept. 14 regarding the purchase offer (that was accepted) for a mineral acquisition, the administration presented recommendations related to the use of the proceeds from the sale of the mineral interests. The administration recommended the following actions related to the proceeds of the university’s mineral interests located in Sections 45, 47, 48, 61 and 63 of Block 4, H&GN Ry. Co. Survey in Reeves County, Texas. The funds will be used in accordance with the bequest from Mr. Homer Donohoo, Jr., with to evenly suppoone-half of the funds to support the Music Department to support Nursing Department.
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Elyssa Henderson, sociology junior, presents with partner Catherine Stepniak, psychology and sociology senior, on sexual attitudes and hook-up culture. | Abdullah Albakhurji, mechanical engineering senior, presents his research on a smarter parking system. | Chiara Del Vecchio, chemistry junior, presents with partner Dorcas Matuwana, biology senior, on identification of antibiotic activity during EURECA on April 27, 2017.
ANNUAL RESEARCH FORUM THURSDAY JASON WILSON REPORTER
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bout 140 people will participate in the 11th Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Forum to showcase the results of a semester or more of research or development of creative activities. The forum will take place on Nov. 15 in the Clark Student Center from 9 a.m. until about 4:30 p.m. EURECA — Enhancing Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities UGROW — UnderGraduate Research Opportunities and summer Workshop “It started out as a symposium for EURECA and UGROW scholarship students and it expanded to all colleges after the initial symposium as a way to give undergraduate students the opportunity to participate in research,” Julie Scales, undergraduate research secretary, said. Scales said, having started in 2013, the undergraduate research forum gets students involved in research that she said has benefits to their education. “Undergraduate research is important because it helps students with their learning and learning how to ask questions to get re-
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sults,” Scales said. Students work with faculty to learn how to do research. They are given the choice to do a poster presentation in the student center or oral presentations in the Wichita, Comanche and Kiowa rooms in the student center. “Since the forum started in 2013, it’s continued to get bigger with each semester,” Scales said. “There will be presentations from UGROW and EURECA students, independent research, class projects and senior design projects.” As experts learn the most efficient ways students learn, universities strive to incorporate new methods of research. Magaly Rincon-Zachary, director of undergraduate research, said, “There is a national movement to have undergraduate research available for students because we know they learn more and better by doing research.” Research opportunities have been mostly unavailable to undergraduate students until universities have began incorporating programs like EURECA and UGROW. “Very few undergraduate students participated in any kind of research because it just wasn’t available,” Rincon-Zachary said. “The students like it. And thats what its all about,
and they are learning. They have a positive attitude toward it so it’s worth the extra time and effort.” Rincon-Zachary said that this is the first year elementary students in the 1-5 grades will participate in the forum. These students from Fain Elementary School will present research they have done to the college students at MSU. “We encourages students to come and visit and support the kids,” Scales said. The staff in the undergraduate research office support the early incorporation of new learning methods through research participation in elementary students and juniors from Hirschi High School who will present at the forum. “We may have the next president in the group, or the next physicist who will discover something about the universe,” Rincon-Zachary said. Rincon-Zachary said there are a lot of reasons students should participate in undergraduate research. “There are a few reasons students should participate in research. One is to learn and the second is that jobs and graduate programs are looking for students who have participated in
and can conduct research,” Rincon-Zachary said. “They know those students will be able to learn more because they already know how.” Melanie Ronoh, engineering senior, and participant in the undergraduate research forum said the hands on learning gained while participating in research helps students learn more effectively. “A big part of the reason I do research is because it’s hands on. It looks good on my resume, and I get to learn more about things I’m not learning in class. For example, I learned about coding before I took the class,” Ronoh said. Ronoh says she’s been working on a project and is excited to showcase the results of her work to other students to see and get excited about. “I’m excited to present the new results. We have found new results between last forum and this forum. We are excited to present the things we’ve learned and the challenges,” Ronoh said. “Seeing other people’s research gives idea about things they never thought of. And give them an opportunity to come up with new ideas, or improve something we already have for society.”
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Students practice Spanish at Speed Spanglish
PHOTOS BY YERASLY DURAN | THE WICHITAN
Frida Arredondo, Spanish and French junior, speaking to other attendees at the Speed Spanglish event. | Tanner Flores, social media Spanish club officer, serving chicken tostadas to Speed Spanglish attendees. | Speed Spanglish attendees lining up to receive chicken tostadas and refreshments Nov. 7. YERASLY DURAN REPORTER
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s a way for students to have fun and practice their Spanish speaking skills, Spanish club hosted a Speed Spanglish conversation table in Clark Student Center Comanche suites on Nov. 7. “[This event] is a good way to come out and learn about other cultures, to practice using another language and to get to know other people and other fellow students. Sometimes students just show up to class and sometimes don’t talk to students that sit next to them the entire semester,” Valencia Tamper, assistant professor of Spanish and Spanish club advi-
sor, said. The one and a half hour event held from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. was originally held in October but the turn out wasn’t as high as the second event. “This is a way to get students active, get them out of their dorm rooms and expose them to another language, another culture,” Tamper said. At the second Speed Spanglish event Spanish club expected to have around 20-30 students to attend Tanner Flores, Spanish club social media officer, said. “We did [the first] test run in October, basically we went to the language learning lab,
the new one, to see the turn out. We saw what we need to improve on and then we made sure we were prepared for this event,” Flores said. Students were able to go around the table and practice their Spanish skills. Spanish club spent around $85 on chicken tostadas, refreshments and pan dulce for over 25 attendees. “We wanted to eat tostadas again like we had before, we already decided to do [tostadas] because last time we only had Spanish snacks,” Flores said. All members, regardless of majors are encouraged to attend the conversation table. “Learning another language is crucial
to the world. Learning another language is beautiful. [Students] should come to have fun, learning a language shouldn’t be a lot of pressure, I think it should be fun,” Flores said. The event was held for students to become engaged on campus and practice new language skills outside of a classroom environment. “Wichita Falls is a large community, there is a large Hispanic community. This conversation table is a way to have students to not be afraid about speaking Spanish. They don’t feel comfortable speaking Spanish and this event can be like a step in learning Spanish,” Norma Castro, Spanish club president, said.
MILITARY APPRECIATION
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The Military display American flag for the crowd to see during half-time at the game against West Texas A&M at memorial Stadium Nov. 10 . | The Military cheer on the mustangs in the fourth quarter.
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PHOTOS BY BRIDGET REILLY | THE WICHITAN
Head coach Nelson Haggerty and assistant coach Dylan Dudley tell their players to relax and “do not foul” with 30 seconds left. Mass communication junior and guard Elijah Lee dukes the Rogers State University defense to get the ball past the free throw line, Nov 9.
Business management junior and guard Josh Wallace scoots past Rogers State University defense and passes the ball off.
Head coach Nelson Haggerty calls a timeout to talk tactics with his team. | General studies junior and forward Bishop Coulter shoots for a basket
N E X T GAME: C OLORADO STATE PUEBLO AT 8 P.M. AT M A S S A R I A R E N A