The Rambler Vol. 94 No. 7

WEDNESDAY March 2, 2011

Vol. 94 • No. 7

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Author of Killed By Indians visits campus for signing.

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Give Chopper and other homeless a permanent home.

Community, page 5

Arts & Entertainment, page 4

Elizabeth Armstrong Hall runs hot Shauna Banks

sbbanks@mail.txwes.edu

After approximately 2 1/2 weeks without hot water, residents of Elizabeth Armstrong Hall can breathe a sigh of relief.

“Losing the hot water really made me appreciate a good shower,” Brittany White, junior exercise major, said. “When I turned on the shower and saw steam, I got too excited.”

Ken Dunson, director of facilities operations, said the issue was

solved completely on Friday, Feb. 25, when a new motor and fan assembly arrived for the boiler that supplies hot water to Elizabeth, Dora Roberts Dining Hall and O.C. Armstrong Hall.

The affected boiler was repaired within the same day, and hot water now runs again for Elizabeth’s residents.

Dunson said the issue started with sporadic main boiler motor problems. The boiler went out completely on Feb. 7 and was replaced with a backup, Dora’s dish machine boiler,

Teams create new classroom concepts Stephan Moritz

on the same day. By Wednesday, Feb. 9, the backup boiler went out due to a bad sensor.

After the sensor was replaced, hot water was available, but still not reaching students in Elizabeth.

Dunson later determined that the use of Dora’s industrial dish washing machine was using all the hot water being produced by the backup boiler.

“We are able to arrange the water piping valves that allow the dish machine boiler to supply Elizabeth too,” Dunson said. “But when the

dish machine runs excessively, the water temp goes down and Elizabeth is left with no hot water.”

Sharon Manson, director of residence life, said Will Timmerman, food service director, agreed to use paper plates and other disposable products in Dora’s to eliminate the use of the dish washer completely until the problem was resolved.

Dora’s ended up only using these types of products Feb. 24-Feb. 25, since the new motor for the main boiler came in sooner than the pro-

jected Feb. 26 date.

Heath Scott, president of the Student Government Association, said he is happy the situation was resolved.

“I thank maintenance for the work they put into it,” he said. “It was just unfortunate that the students had to endure those days where there was not really hot water. I don’t expect this issue to come up again, because I know once our maintenance department handles an issue, it’s permanently fixed.”

Wesleyan students represent in Cowtown

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In February, five teams made up of Wesleyan students and faculty submitted concepts to the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning to design an empty classroom in the Eunice and James L. West Library for the classroom.NEXT project.

The project allowed faculty and students the opportunity to understand how a learning environment can affect the teaching process.

“I think it’s good to give students [and faculty] a chance to see what it’s like,” said Krista Rosso, education EC-6 post-bach student.

As a part of concept development, each team was required to conduct research on learning environment design.

One of five design team leaders, Dr. Elizabeth Alexander, associate professor of history, said her team did its research during winter break, based on discussions in her methods of teaching history class.

Alexander said her team wanted to create a space that followed three basic principles: flexibility, pleasing asthetics and the concept of decenteredness.

“We wanted a classroom that didn’t have a front so that the students would be creators of knowledge,” Alexander said. “The professor would be someone who works with the students to create that knowledge.”

Alexander said her team created an active and social learning experience to focus on the net generation of students under 30 years old.

Alexander also said some of the other teams also incorporated flexability, but each design was unique.

“I’m very excited about it,” Alexander said. “I hope we win!”

Based on the Signature Student Experience project, the classroom.NEXT project, sponsored

 NEXT, page 3

Relay for Life team calls for participation Eliana Mijangos

emmijangos@mail.txwes.edu

Part of the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life for three years, the Texas Wesleyan community is putting together a team for this year’s event April-15-16 at the Fort Worth Cats Stadium.

Michael Chaney, coordinator of student activities and volunteerism and greek adviser, is the head of the Wesleyan chapter of Relay for Life, currently consisting of six members.

“I am hoping some more students get involved in this project,” Chaney said. “We will start with fundraisers on campus, selling popcorn to ‘pop away cancer.’”

Chaney said he also plans to barter with Texas Roadhouse to create “Wesleyan Night,” in which 10 percent of all proceeds go to the Relay for Life funds.

Although the Wesleyan team has only participated for the past three years, Dr. Allen Henderson, provost and vice president, has been competing for more than 12 years.

Henderson has been a volunteer for the American Cancer Society for more than 20 years, is a member of the national board and a coordinator for the local board.

“This is an amazing event that I really encourage students to participate in,” Henderson said.

“It’s about bringing communities together to work for one cause.”

Henderson said he was inspired to become such a large part of this society after he lost a

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Photos by Meisa Keivani Najafabadi | Rambler Staff Top: Timothy Reece, Senior Spanish and comparative religion major, runs in the 10K race at the 33rd Annual Cowtown Marathon Feb. 26 in Fort Worth. Above left: 40-year-old Lori Stich from Colorado Springs, Colo. crosses the finish line at 19:08, winning the 5K race. Above right: 24-year-old Logan Sherman from Dallas, Texas crosses the finish like at 15:37, winning the 10K race Feb. 26.

Melissa Bates

mdbates@mail.txwes.edu

Students, staff and faculty represented Texas Wesleyan each morning at the 33rd Annual Cowtown Marathon Feb. 26-27 in Fort Worth’s Cultural District.

The Cowtown Marathon is a two-day event with 11 races varying in distance. There are races for adults, children and teams. Adults and children can participate in the 5K, which is 3.1 miles. Teams can run in the 5K or the 10K. Music education major Selena Stewart ran in the 5K last year to celebrate her 21st birthday.

“Last year was my first year to do any kind of running race,” Stewart said. “So I did the 5k and I loved it and it actually fell on the day of my birthday so this year I decided to do it as a tradition.”

Stewart said she is a swimmer.

“I thought it’d be a good thing to get me started and because I’m a swimmer, I eventually want to work up to doing triathlons, but that’s my weakest link,” Stewart said.

This year Stewart ran the 10K, coming in at 59:27.

Chuck Burton, assistant vice president for marketing and communications, ran in the 5K.

Burton said the marketing department came up with the idea to promote Wesleyan at the Cowtown by giving Wesleyan runners a free Texas Wesleyan T-shirt, specifically designed for the event. Marketing collaborated with the Morton Fitness center to distribute the shirts to participants from the historic campus, Burleson campus and Law School.

Burton said he hadn’t run in the Cowtown before but he had run in the Run to Joe’s race.

“I wanted to prove to myself I can do it,” Burton said. “I’m not a serious runner. I just

thought it’d be nice to do this.”

According to www.mychiptime.com, Burton’s time was 30:23.

Mychiptime.com also reported that 11,595 people ran on Feb. 26 and 7,661 people ran on Feb. 27, totaling 19,256 both days.

“I think it builds the fellowship between students, faculty and staff even from the law school,” said AAron Whaley, director of the Morton Fitness Center. I think it’s good because it’s going to get people out and about, get them doing things but also represent Wesleyan.”

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Opinion

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QEP tests student’s knowledge, patience ing in high school? Guess not.

My biggest qualm though, Shauna Banks was not the test itself, but the Editor - in- Chief fact that we’d have to waste an sbbanks@mail.txwes.edu entire class to take it. Not only was my professor not on board with this test, but neither were any of the other students in the class.

Somehow I’m still not completeMore than a third of the class ly caught up from those five snow didn’t even show up on test day. days in February.

During the test, titled the ETS Projects, papers and assign- Proficiency Profile, I found out ments have piled up so high, that I that it was one of the steps bewonder if there really are enough ing taken for development of the hours in the day to complete them Quality Enhancement Plan at Texall if I decided to never sleep as Wesleyan. again. Too bad I can’t freeze time Even though we’d all been told like Zack Morris. this, many students around me Classes are definitely going full- were simply clicking through steam ahead, with multiple chap- questions as fast as possible, seters covered in a single class just to lecting answers at random. get things caught up. However, in They’d also been told the test one of my once-a-week classes, we wasn’t going to count for a grade, hit another road block last week. or really affect them in any way A couple of days before class, we no matter how high or low they received a not entirely happy e- scored. mail from our professor letting us On top of that, the directions know we’d be taking a standard- said we didn’t even have to use our ized test. real name when taking the test.

Like most other students in the For the entire hour it took me to class, I responded to the e-mail take this test, I was Blair Watson. with a “What the heck?” thought Beside the fact that we were alin my head. ready way behind and didn’t need Standardized tests in college? to be wasting valuable classroom Didn’t we escape TAKS-type test- time, many students also grum-

bled about the content of the test.

To be tested on something so abruptly that we may not have been exposed to in years seems like a poor way to determine the effectiveness of the university’s general education program.

What if other students like myself, took their core classes at another school? If we didn’t even take the classes here, how can the results (good or bad) apply to Texas Wesleyan effectiveness evaluations?

I took the test as I was instructed to, and in general the questions, which concentrated on math, writing and reading/critical thinking, were not difficult.

However, I figured it may have been slightly easier for me since it had not been more than two or three years since I’d had classes in these subjects.

This university has so many effective professors, who do everything they can to make sure their students grasp every concept.

I truly hope these tests aren’t used for any official reports for accreditation in the near future, as they would seem somewhat inaccurate to me.

I do recognize the value of this QEP topic being developed though, because the bottom line

is, without accreditation, our university would not be able to offer anyone the degrees they seek.

That’s why it is important for people to voice their issues or concerns with the university in

the QEP sessions being held on campus, and to the administrators involved.

Your voice does need to be heard on these issues … just not in class.

Americans slowly losing cultural identity say this culture is in decline—steep Barry Grubbs decline.

Opinion editor Americans are bgrubbs@mail.txwes.edu no longer viewed as gritty, adventurous risk takers.

Instead we are seen by most in the world as whiny, fearful I recently caught myself and paranoid. thinking a little too much We have spent nearly a about our American culture. decade brooding over the I consider myself an ex- events of 9/11, and although pert on the subject, but only it seemed to ignite an explobecause I have been around sion of pride and patriotism long enough to see so many early on, I hear little more changes—more negative than than a whimper outside the positive. military community these If I had to sum it up in a days. single sentence, I would just I’m not saying the events

didn’t change us. I just don’t think it changed us for the better.

The surge in digital technologies has had as much to do with our decline as anything else.

Let’s face it. We are a lazy population determined to have instant gratification in everything we do.

Patience has no place in the digital world. With our smartphones and social networks, we have carefully disguised our retreat from the wholesome relationships of past generations.

At one time we had conversations with each other.

Now, just a few words in a

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Re: Split ceremony spoils graduation for students I’m part of the 2011 Graduation class this spring semester so I am well aware of not only the split ceremony but the uproar this has caused. I understand that not everyone is going to be happy about this new change, but the positive aspects should be pointed out instead of just focusing on the negatives.

First, students will not be rushed out after the first ceremony. There is about 2 hours between ceremonies so students from the first half will have time to “bask in their success”. This is a lot more time than what students normally get after a ceremony is over because everyone is trying to hurry and rush out of there to get to some kind of celebration with family and friends.

Second, Fort Worth does not offer a lot of venue choices to hold a group our size. Plenty of research went into this because it is not a decision taken lightly. The arena was not available since Tarrant County College uses it for their ceremonies. As a student I REFUSE to have my graduation ceremony at TCU’s Daniel-Meyer coliseum which was an idea I heard from some of my fellow graduates. I am a Wesleyan student, not a TCU student.

Third, Will Rogers would not guarantee not to bump our ceremony to Saturday if something came up or even a future date despite us reserving the facility so far in advanced. Imagine how upset you would be if you told your family to reserve that night for you only to find out at the last minute that now you can’t gradu-

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ate until the next night or weeks later. Some of you probably have people flying in – do you really think it would be fair for them to fly in for nothing?

Fourth, what a lot of students probably don’t realize is that this 2011 Graduating class is the largest one Wesleyan has had in recent years or maybe ever. As much as I’m looking forward to graduating and basking in my success, I don’t want to wait 4 hours for that to happen.

I also have selfish reasons because my family will be there, including my infant daughter and 7-year-old son. Anyone who has young kids surely knows how hard it can be on them to sit through a 2-hour movie much less a 4-hour ceremony.

This idea about separating us is not completely foreign. A lot of other universities have their ceremonies broken up on different times or even spread out over different days so that each school within the university graduates separately from the others. Wesleyan has been lucky they managed to keep everyone together in previous years. Instead of focusing on the negative of having a split ceremony, how about being excited that our university has grown to the point that we HAVE to have a split ceremony? Just because we graduate hours apart doesn’t diminish our bond or make us less of a family. We are Rams, whether we graduate at 4:30 p.m., 8:00 p.m., in December 2011, or May 2012. Nothing can take that from us. I’m a member of the 2011 Graduating Class. I’m graduating at 4:30 p.m. I am a RAM! — Tara Sheehan Cates

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I recently read an article in the Wall Street Journal suggesting our new national identity as one of sissies and whiners. I thought about it for a while and realized I tend to agree.

Our television programs focus on vulgarity, obesity, deception, crime and more manufactured drama than I can stand.

We literally have 499 channels of crap.

I defend the Discovery Channel and a couple of others just to be fair.

Our families are failing too. The truth of the matter

is our adults coddle our children, and our children paralyze our adults with guilt until nobody seems to have the courage to do the right thing.

America was once considered a global superpower, but I don’t believe the world perceives us that way anymore.

We owe everyone money. Our economic systems are on life support and key principles this country was founded like family values and social freedom have been mutilated and manipulated, mostly by politicians, until they are barely recognizable.

The decline is viral and

with few exceptions, it has infected and affected all of us.

I’m not trying to get preachy or philosophical here. There’s no telling what the cure will be, or if there is a cure.

All I’m saying is that Americans are not doing their best these days.

It would be more accurate to say we’re doing what makes us feel best. That is not the selfless attitude that built and defended America for more than two centuries.

On the bright side, we are still free, and there is plenty of room for improvement.

Where we go from here is up to us.

What are you planning to do for spring break?

“I’m going to go visit my family down in Mexico.”

- Jorge Ruiz, junior, business “My friend’s mom is out of town, so I’m going over to her house and play a bunch of video games.”

- Kameron Ratliff, senior, liberal studies “I’m going to Mexico with my boyfriend.”

- Kristen Thorn, junior, biology “My mom is going out of town, so I’m going to have a bunch of friends over.”

- Richelle Pulever, junior, paralegal studies “I’ don’t have anything planned because we don’t really know what we are doing for track practice.”

- Taylor Gill, sophomore, athletic training “I’m going to Panama City Beach, Florida with some friends from high school.”

- Tyler Lackey, junior, exercise science

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Students join community in marathon

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Top left: Robyn Bone, career services career counselor, and husband Tahajudd run in the 5K race at the 33rd Annual Cowtown Marathon Feb. 26. Top right: Chuck Burton, assistant vice president for marketing and communications participates in the 5K marathon. Lower right: Casey Brown, Texas Wesleyan student, runs in the 5K race, along with thousands of othe participants. Lower middle: Local Fort Worth citizens walk the 5K race. Lower left: 26-year-old Joseph Latham from Arlington runs the 10K race.

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by CETL, was first thought of during a conversation between CETL’s director, Dr. Amy Collier and Marcus Kerr, chief information officer.

“The goal of the project was to give the teams opportunities to design learnercentered spaces,” Collier said.

Collier also said the classroom.NEXT project was designed so that the faculty would think carefully about the outcomes of the stu-

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dents who would learn in the room. The winning team’s design will have its name on a plaque in the room, as well as priority scheduling for the classroom. Each team member will also receive a digital camcorder.

“As much as possible, we wanted to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration because learning spaces are learning spaces, they don’t have to be discipline specific,” Collier said.

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close friend to cancer at 32 and then lost his father-inlaw to lung cancer.

“This relay is more like a celebration really, a celebration of life,” Henderson said.

The Relay for Life is one of the largest relays in the world. Henderson said oth-

er countries have started to follow in the footsteps of the American Cancer Society.

Henderson said the ACS’s main goal is to fund young people who are looking into cancer research and that the ACS has funded 43 Nobel Prizes.

“It’d be great to see a Wes-

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Collier also said the project may become an annual event.

“In the future, I’d like to have it where the teams actually propose the room and the design,” Collier said.

The winning design of the classroom.NEXT project was announced during the luncheon March 1.

To find out which design won, go to therambler.org or visit the CETL’s website from the Texas Wesleyan homepage under the tab information resources. leyan alum or current student receive some of this funding for their efforts and education towards cancer,” Henderson said.

Wesleyan will have its own booth at this year’s Relay for Life event in Fort Worth, in which the goal is to raise $5,000, an increase from last year’s $1,000 raised.

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Zeta Xi raises money for cause Melissa Bates

mdbates@mail.txwes.edu

To raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Assoication, Texas Wesleyan’s chapter of Kappa Alpha Order, Zeta Xi, is selling bracelets for $3 at 12:15 p.m. March 1, in front of the Brown Lupton Campus Center.

Baron Yarborough, president of Zeta Xi, said the organization’s goal is to sell 100 bracelets. The sell will continue every Tuesday and Thursday until bracelets run out.

Since 1975, KA has donated more than $2.5 million to help the MDA find cures for muscle diseases.

Zeta Xi was founded in 2003 at Wesleyan and has worked with the MDA since that time.

“With the money we’ve raised we’ve helped cure eight out of the 21 types of muscular dystrophy,” Yarborough said.

Yarborough said he hopes his chapter can raise more money than it did last year.

“We were one of the lesser raisers,” he said. “We’re a small chapter but we usually raise a little bit more than we have.”

Yarborough said his chapter is also planning a mud volleyball tournament for later this semester, and will participate in the MDA Muscle Walk on March 5 at Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington.

Barron Branch, freshman religious major and corresponding secretary of Zeta Xi, said he thinks it is im-

portant to support raising money for MD. “It’s a serious disease that affects a lot of people and makes it hard for people to walk and debilitates them from using their muscles,” Branch said.

Branch said he hopes KA can help to find even more cures and treatments for MD. Michael Chaney, coordinator of student activities and volunteerism and greek adviser, said he thinks everyone should support any good cause they come across.

“I think it’s fantastic this chapter has fallen in line in helping raise awareness and raise funds for this cause,” Chaney said.

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Arts & Entertainment

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Students meet Pulitzer Prize author Rachel Peel

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Seven creative writing students from Texas Wesleyan attended the Annual Writers Conference Feb. 17-18 at Angelo State University.

They listened to presentations from distinguished authors and other presenters, including critical papers, creative nonfiction, fiction and poetry.

Dr. Jeffrey DeLotto, professor of English, was among the presenters.

“Once I discovered that the focus of this writing conference was creative non-fiction and I was teaching a creative nonfiction writing class, [I thought] this was a perfect opportunity to show some undergraduate students what graduate students and professors do at conferences,” DeLotto said.

On the first day of conference, DeLotto read from his fiction work A Gutting on the Camino Real to a group of 50 students and presenters.

“A presentation that was a favorite of mine, was a creative multimedia presentation,” DeLotto said. “It was a simple story about a young man set-

ting out to be a cowboy.”

Art Spiegelman, a Pulitzer Prize winning author, was the guest speaker. Spiegelman’s book Maus is the only graphic novel to ever win a Pulitzer Prize.

Maus is a collection of memoirs to his parents, who were in Auschwitz during the Holocaust.

All seven students and DeLotto were invited to dinner with the writer on Feb. 17.

Amy Hensley, junior English literature major, said the experience was touching.

“I like that he is very forth coming on how he feels about everything that he’s gone through,” Hensley said. “He’s not trying to mask or bury the emotions and feelings that he still carries with him.”

When the conference activities had quieted down each night, DeLotto and his students visited Miss Hattie’s Bordello Museum and shopped in downtown San Angelo.

“I hope that they have it open for students again next year,” said Sasha Banks, junior English creative writing major. “I Dr. Jeffrey DeLotto | Courtesy Photo would really like to come and Creative writing students were given the opportunity to attend the Annual Writers Conference Feb. 17-18 at Angelo State Universee who they have and be in- sity. Jill Dusza, Sasha Banks, Suhasini Yeeda, Rachel Peel, John Cohen, Art Spiegelman, Amy Hensley and Rebecca Moore gathtroduced to new authors.” ered for dinner one of the nights. Art Spiegelman, the guest speaker, is the only author to win a Pulitzer Prize for a graphic novel.

Texas Wesleyan Press publishes again Melissa Bates

mdbates@mail.txwes.edu

A book signing was held for Alan C. Huffines at 7 p.m Feb. 22. in Lou’s Place.

The author spoke to a crowd about his newly published book Killed by Indians 1871.

The book is based on true events from the 19th century in the Fort Worth to Graham area.

Brit Johnson, the main character, is based on a real person. Johnson was an African-American man who was slaughtered by Indians.

Huffines said although the story is true, he had to fictionalize some parts because there was not enough information available to make it a non-fiction book.

At the event, Huffines sold and signed copies of Killed by Indians 1871.

The book was published by Texas Wesleyan University’s Press. Killed by Indians 1871 is the third book published by the TWU Press and the fourth published by Huffines.

Professor of English, Jeffrey DeLotto, general editor of the TWU Press, was the first author published by the press.

DeLotto said the editing and publishing process of a

book through the TWU press involves two student editors and two faculty editors.

“It was always my intention to have the press as an outlet for the Texas Wesleyan University community but as much as anything to provide a learning opportunity for students to work on real manuscripts and be involved in a genuine book publication,” DeLotto said.

He also believes holding a book signing is important because it gives the university’s community an opportunity to see what the press is doing and recognize the importance of its work.

The student editors were Lisa Puente, a junior English major, and alumna Erin Tucker, a senior history major at the time of editing in fall 2010.

Puente said although she does not normally read historical fiction novels, she found Killed by Indians 1871 interesting.

“It gave me a completely new perspective on some things I didn’t know a lot about,” Puente said. “I think anyone with a big interest in history will really enjoy it.”

Tucker said the book is not her type either, but also found it interesting and unlike anything she had ever

read before.

“It opened my eyes to how things really were and, being a history major, I found it interesting,” Tucker said. “I didn’t know anything about it so it was interesting to learn about Brit Johnson and his family.”

Tucker said Killed by Indians 1871 is not for the faint of heart.

“I think it will probably shock people who aren’t familiar with that period in history, with how things really were on the frontier because it’s not romanticized like most stories of that time seem to be,” Tucker said.

Alan Huffines, author of the book, grew up in Graham, Texas, the main setting for the story.

“I hope the reader has a great trip back to the period,” Huffines said. “It’s life on the frontier in the middle of the 19th century in a very rough time. It’s not necessarily a feel good book.”

Huffines said he was happy when the TWU press accepted the task of editing and publishing his book.

“This novel has been rejected by the best,” Huffines said.

Huffines said he is working on making a book trailer and has hired actors to play the characters. Huffines said the trailer should be available on Youtube within the next few months.

Copies of Killed by Indians 1871 are available in Rachel Peel | Rambler Staff the Texas Wesleyan book- Alan C. Huffines (right), author of Killed by Indians 1871, held a book signing at 7 p.m. on Feb. store. Soft covers are $20 22 in Lou’s Place. Killed by Indians 1871 is the fourth book published by Huffines and the third and hard covers are $30. book published by Texas Wesleyan’s Press. The book is available in Texas Wesleyan’s bookstore.

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The Department of Music present

Guest Recital

Amir Khosrowpour, piano March 8 at 7:30 p.m.

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Stephen Barr Memorial Concert

Stephanie Ho and Saar Ahuvia, duo-piano 2005 Silver Medal Winners, Dranoff TwoPiano Competition March 10 at 7:30 p.m.

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The Koebbe-Dunn Piano Duo in Recital Jessica Koebbe and Lori Dunn, duo-piano March 22 at 7:30 p.m.

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For more information, visit http://www.txwes.edu/music/music/index.htm or call 817-531-4992

Community 5 Men’s soccer reaches out to community

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Emma Fradette

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With the Texas Wesleyan men’s soccer team under a new coaching staff, the team is starting to reach out to the surrounding community.

Head coach Tyler Powell said the team is working hard in practice each week, and providing community service for Polytechnic Heights.

“Part of the project is to take pictures and write an outline about what they did and why,” Powell said.

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In April, the team is also going to volunteer its time by helping at the Dallas Cup, the largest international youth soccer tournament in the country.

Powell said volunteering for the Dallas Cup gives the team a chance to be around youth soccer players, while also being a part of something bigger than the team.

Along with the Dallas Cup, Wesleyan men’s soccer will also volunteer at the Panda Cup, a tournament for soccer players 6-19 years old.

However, the Panda Cup is not

just about winning. Since ages are sometimes mixed for games, it allows older players to mentor younger ones.

“There are teams from around the world but it is set up to play friendly games and host events for the community,” Powell said.

Specific events the team will participate in are the Fort Worth Special Olympics and Veterans Paraplegic game in April.

Powell said the team is asking Wesleyan students to also get involved.

“We are currently collecting sportswear for a local church that

is housing refugees from Burma, Thailand, South Africa and East Asia,” Powell said.

Sportswear items include old running shoes, cleats, shorts, shirts and warm-ups.

Powell said the Rams will continue to contribute to the community in numerous areas and are dedicated to helping out not only local areas, but also countries around the world.

“To me, it brings the team closer together as we help people in need,” Kyle Fritz, junior forward, said. “It also, in my opinion, gives the team

Negative reinforcement cautioned it’s told.”

This technique Stephan Moritz includes hitting a Staff writer dog when it does srmoritz@mail.txwes. wrong, rubbing his nose in his accidents during house training, and using shock The most important dog collars. Why, in the world, responsibility I have not would you want to hit a mentioned so far is training. puppy? Negative reinforceIn the past 10 years, proper ment is hardly taught by any dog training has become a professional dog trainer anypopular subject with shows more and primarily only exon TV such as The Dog Whis- ists in owners that feel their perer and It’s Me or the Dog. dog doesn’t need training.

The proper way to train a dog The correct way to train has changed as more people a dog is using positive reinhave become interested in forcement. This method inanimal behavior and the de- volves using treats or toys to velopment of new techniques reward good behavior and is that are proven to work. so much more effective.

The largest difference in While every trainer has dog training is the move his own techniques based on from negative reinforcement what has worked for him in to positive reinforcement. the past, positive reinforceWith negative reinforce- ment is the foundation for ment, the dog owner essen- teaching all commands from tially beats his dog into sub- basic to advanced, and even mission so that it learns to in the dog sport of agility. fear the owner and “do what To make positive rein-

forcement training even easier, trainers will use a tool called a clicker. A clicker makes a distinct sound that remains constant every time it is used. By clicking when a dog is performing what is being asked, the dog knows exactly what it is being rewarded for.

Training in a class environment enforces socialization, allows a professional to assist, and teaches a dog to work around distractions. Socialization is a must for puppies in order to prevent any fear, aggression, or dominance issues from developing.

While some extensive courses can be expensive and some highly qualified trainers might charge more for their services, there are some low-cost solutions that exist. Petsmart offers a basic, puppy course that is six weeks long and costs $109.

Not only will positive reinforcement make training a dog easier, it also strengthens the human-dog bond.

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Marcus Harris, junior, said he believes the projects will lead to people becoming more involved with Wesleyan and assist in spreading the name of the university.

“I think that the community service will show the community that we are not just a school of Rosedale, but a school that wants to get the community support in all we do,” Harris said.

Anyone wanting to make donations can drop them off in Powell’s office, room 212 in the Sid Richardson Center.

“Chomper”

Age: 3 years Primary Breed: American Bulldog/Pitt Bull Chomper is best in a one dog home with no cats. He will work better with children over 7 years old. Would fit in an apartment or house with a fence. contact: Humane Society of North Texas 1840 E. Lancaster Ave. Fort Worth, TX 817-332-4768 Or visit www.hsnt.net

“Macy”

Age: 7 years Primary Breed: Old British Shorthair Macy will in an apartment or house with children over 7. Requires lots of love. contact: Humane Society of North Texas 1840 E. Lancaster Ave. Fort Worth, TX 817-332-4768 Or visit www.hsnt.net

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Exhibit shows students what they may potentially look like at age 72

Alonzo Reed, sophomore

Evan Simpson, freshman

From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Feb. 24 in the Brown Lupton Student Center students experienced an interactive exhibit, Evolution of the Aging Process, explaining how humans age. Aging is a continuous, complex and dynamic event beginning with birth and ending with death. This exhibit showed students what to expect as they aged from their current ages through eight different future ages and was free to all in attendance.

Glen Morrison, freshman

Ricardo Aguilera, junior

John’nelle Thomas, freshman

Students recognized for high GPAs at Dean’s Honor Reception First Right: At 12:15 p.m. on Feb. 22 in the Baker Building, students who made the Dean’s list for fall 2010 are honored during a reception.

Second Right: Greg Gullion, assistant professor of criminal justice presents senior criminal justice major and forensic science minor Kristina Roberts with her award for holding a GPA of 4.0 throughout the fall 2010 semester.

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Softball goes 3-2 in USAO Tournament Eliana Mijangos

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The Lady Ram softball team traveled to Chickasha, Okla. Feb. 25-26 to win 3 of their 5 total games in the University of Science and Arts Tournament.

“We did well this weekend but we should have come back with five wins instead of three,” Caitlin Bradley, junior utility player said. “We are lacking the consistency right now, but the moment we get that to click it will be very hard to beat us.”

Game one against Avila University was a 7-4 win for the Lady Rams after coming back from a 4-0 Avila lead.

Lady Ram offense stepped up to bat as Lindsay Cline, freshman first and third base, Tara Martinez, senior utility player, Makelle Akin, junior outfielder, and Marissa Rangel, junior outfielder, all hit RBI singles.

Ashley Tarrant, senior pitcher, added to the win by pitching two scoreless innings.

Game two was against fifth-ranked Lubbock

“We have all the tools we need to win and once we start using them consistently we will be unbeatable.”

Taylor Hodge

Pitcher and first base Christian University in which the Lady Rams barely fell short 7-5.

The Chapparals took a swift 7-0 run in the first four innings, sparked by a two-run homer.

Kline, Akin and freshman second base Ashley Seibel all scored in the fourth and fifth innings to bring the Lady Rams within two points, but were unable to pull away.

Game three took place Feb. 26 as the Lady Rams clobbered York College 101.

“Our chemistry is amazing and the fact that we have a lot of depth is making us even stronger,” Skyler Gentry, freshman utility player, said.

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In the first inning the Lady Rams scored nine runs of seven singles and four walks allowing every player in Ram line up to reach the base.

They took the 10-1 win after a double hit by Rangel in the fifth.

Game four against the home team, the University of Science and Arts was a 6-0 loss for the Lady Rams.

The Lady Drovers scored early in the first, taking four runs on three hits and three walks on junior pitcher and first base Taylor Hodge.

The Lady Rams went out with a bang as they took a 4-1 win against McPherson College.

Taking a run from a walk and stealing a base off of

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In the third inning, however, Lady Ram offense stepped up as Hopie Perez, junior short stop, and Ashleigh Jiminez, junior second base, both hit RBIs. Lady Rams capitalized on Bulldog errors as Hodge cleared her name allowing only one run and racking in eleven strike outs in the win.

“We are a very strong team,” Hodge said. “We have all the tools we need to win and once we start using them consistently we will be unbeatable.”

Lady Ram softball will compete March 4-5 in the Friends University Tournament in Wichita, Kan.

Wesleyan Week in Sports • The Ram basketball team, now no. 1 in the Red River Athletic Conference will compete in the RRAC conference tournament March 3-5 at Southwest Assemblies of God University.

• The Lady Ram basketball team, now no. 2 in the RRAC, will compete in the conference tournament March 3-5.

• Ram baseball will take on Southwest Assemblies of God in a double-header March 4-5 in Waxahachie.

• Lady Ram softball will compete in the Friends University Tournament March 4-5 in Wichita, Kan.

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Rams clench No. 1 after Bulldog defeat Eliana Mijangos

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Now No. 4 in the nation, the Ram basketball team took on Red River Athletic Conference No. 7 Jarvis Christian College Feb. 26 as they held on to their No. 1 spot in conference.

The Rams started out with a swift 4-0 run as Jeremy Mayfield, senior forward, hit a hook shot first play of the game followed by a lay-up from Jeremy Smith, senior point guard.

The runs never stopped as Mayfield topped off an 8-0 run with a slam dunk. With seven minutes left in the first half, Bryan Wanamaker, senior Brian McDaniel | Rambler Staff guard, hit a jumper to spark a 14-2 run, giving the Rams a Ty Gough, senior center, and mother celebrate senior night at the Sid Richardson Center Feb. 21. 52-37 lead at the half.

“At this point there is no room for error. In

order to take it to the next level you have to strive for perfection.”

Jonathan Blake Senior guard

The second half turned into the Jonathan Blake, senior guard, and Smith show as the Rams never allowed Jarvis closer than 13 points within the game.

“At this point, there is less room for error,” Blake said. “In order to take it to the next level you have to strive for perfection.”

Although some glimpses of turnovers made the play in

second half sloppy, the Rams led 23-14 in points off turnovers and 22-14 off fast break points.

“I don’t think this game prepared us for the conference tournament,” Mayfield said.

“Even though we won, we still did a lot of things wrong that will hurt us in the conference tournament. I think we need to focus on fixing the little things and everything else should

take care of itself.”

The Rams led 52-36 in points in the paint and out shot Jarvis by 16.1 percent from the field.

Leading scorers include Wanamaker, who led all players with 27 points and 9 assists, and Smith who threw in a solid 21 points. Mayfield once again racked in a double-double 20 points, 14 rebounds as Blake followed in his path with 12 points and 10 boards.

“Every team we play is a way to prepare us for our overall goal to get to Kansas, City [nationals],” Ty Gough, senior center said.

The Rams are now preparing for the Red River Athletic Conference tournament Feb. 3-5 at Southwest Assemblies of God University.

Lady Rams hustle to defeat RRAC No. 1 Erika Ferrell

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The Lady Rams racked up another 89-64 win while hosting the No. 11 nationally ranked Langston University Lady Lions Feb. 21 in the Sid Richardson Center.

It was senior night for the team and the last home game this season.

“Beating Langston was one of the greatest experiences of my basketball career,” Shayla Moore, senior guard, said. “It was so unreal to me and I still can’t believe we beat the No. 11 nationally ranked team.”

The start of the game was a little rough for both of the teams as they struggled to take the lead.

Junior post Veronica Mergerson knocked down a threepoint shot to give the Lady

Rams a 5-point lead.

The Lady Lions went on a run and regained the lead 1716 with less than 10 minutes remaining in the first half.

After scoring a basket to put the Lady Rams ahead by one point, senior forward Rachelle Franklin finished a lay-up followed by three consecutive three-pointers by Moore to put the Lady Rams up 30-21. The lead stayed within single digits until junior guard Eliana Mijangos sank two three-point shots, sending the Lady Rams into the second half with a 42-30 lead.

“I think this win was just what we needed it to keep us hyped to finish out conference and head into the conference play,” Ashley Bringol, junior guard, said.

Starting the second half off

with a 9-2 run as Mergerson kept the hot hand going with another three-pointer. With 12minutes left in the game, the Lady Rams increased the lead 62-35. Sticking to a 3-2 zone defense, the Lady Lions couldn’t feed their hot hand, senior post Stephanie Madden and Lady Rams Cruised the rest of the way taking the 89-64 victory.

“I believe the win over Langston gave us even more confidence to know that we have what it takes to beat a nationally ranked team,” head women’s basketball coach Staci Francis said.

The Lady Rams are now preparing themselves for the Red River Athletic Conference tournament March 3-5 at Southwest Assemblies of God University. Visit www. ramsports.net for game times.

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Brian McDaniel | Rambler Staff The Lady Rams celebrate after an 89-64 victory against the Red River Athletic Conference no. 1 and the nation’s no. 11, Langston University Feb. 21, during senior night in the Sid Richardson Center. (Left to right) Octavia Mullens, junior forward, Ashley Bringol, junior guard, Tiffany Adaire, senior guard and Eliana Mijangos, junior guard.