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Sciences selects new dean Victoria Slaten vslaten@txwes.edu

After three months of interviewing and deciding, a new dean for the School of Natural and Social Sciences has officially been appointed as of March 20, 2013.

Dr. Marcel Kerr, professor of psychology, who was serving as interim dean for the School of Natural and Social Sciences has been officially chosen the serve as the dean.

Steven Daniell, dean of Arts and Letters and dean representative of the committee that chose Kerr, said the committee was looking for a candidate with experience and communication skills.

“We were also looking for somebody who had a good grasp of something like budgets and data analysis, maybe not to the degree that Dr. Kerr is able to do it,” Daniell said, “But somebody who can actually receive some data and then be able to understand it, and then convey that meaning to the faculty or the administration.”

Daniell said aside from the experience Kerr has from being interim dean, she is organized, understands the issues facing higher education.

“She’s also a straight shooter as far as if there’s information that needs to be conveyed, or she needs to be seeking out information to make decisions,” Daniell said.

Timothy Grammer, assistant professor of history and chairman of the committee, said Kerr was the obvious choice due to her background in teaching, administration and scholarship.

Grammer said the committee was looking for someone who could communicate with both the faculty and the administration.

Grammer said, “Deans are

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SGA candidates prepare for elections Rolandra West

rdwest@txwes.edu

The Student Government Association is set to start the 2013 election for SGA president when?

Laura Alexander, current president of SGA, said this year students will be able to vote online, in the sub [in the Sid Richardson Building] or in the library.

“All students will receive an email in their inbox with the link to click on and vote,” Alexander said. “We have two candidates who are running fro president, Kendal Carnley and Kelsi Holland. Both have been in SGA for the past year; they are going to be campaigning for the next two weeks.”

Current SGA members Carnley, junior pre-law major, and Holland, junior sociology major, have gotten their petitions signed and are starting their campaigning for this year’s up and coming election for SGA president.

Holland expresses her intentions if elected president.

“In my efforts to run for SGA President, I have taken the opportunity to listen to the concerns of the stu-

Kelsi Holland

Kendal Carnley

dents and plan accordingly on how to approach these issues if elected,” Holland said.

Holland said if she is elected her main concern would be to enhance the overall experiences of the oncampus and commuter students . “[This] includes working with administration to ensure that certain policies are adjusted to benefit the students,” Holland said. “I find that with my experience of work-

ing in SGA as a representative and as an executive council member for three years, it is policy change that can overall better everyone’s experiences.”

Carnley said his slogan for his campaign is ‘Kenal Carnley: The Student’s President.’

“I have a lot of experience within SGA and with my experience it gives me a better view on what students want and what students need,” Carn-

ley said. “I can actually relate to the students on and off campus.”

Carnley said what he looks forward to most in this campaign is the debate with Kelsi Holland. Carnley said Holland has been in SGA at Wesleyan longer than he has, but he has had experience as president of student government and vice president of region three of the Texas Junior College Student Government Association at Lon Morris College where he transferred from.

“I feel like we are both experienced in government, especially student government and I look forward to some really good debates,” Carnley said.

Carnley said in regards to his potential voters, he believes he can relate to them and has heard their voices multiple times throughout the year of being in SGA. As current president of Social Rams Carnley said, “ I look forward to is having SGA be more involved with student life , providing more fun and safe atmospheres for students to socialize and have a good time while they are in college. Although college is made for education you should also have a good time while you’re here.”

Historical group sues over Dillow House demolition Alejandra Garica agarcia@txwes.edu

Historic Fort Worth, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of Fort Worth landmarks, has taken an interest in Texas Wesleyan property.

On Feb. 14, the organization filed a lawsuit against the city of Fort Worth for removing historic designation on the Dillow House, a property located across the historic campus, without going through an appeal process.

According to the minutes from a Fort Worth city council meeting on Feb. 5, council member Joel Burns requested the Historic Preservation Ordinance to be reviewed and in a 6-2 vote, the council approved Wesleyan’s request to remove historic designation of the Dillow House, moving a step closer to demolishing the building.

As stated in the Historic Fort Worth, Inc.’s website, w w w. h i s t or i c for t w or t h . org, the nonprofit organiza-

tion filed a lawsuit against the city of Fort Worth because it did not give applicants against the removal of historic designation on the Dillow House a chance to appeal the decision, but rather went straight to the Planning and Zoning Commission.

Jerre Tracy, executive director for Historic Fort Worth, Inc., said preservation is a complicated process but allows for appeals.

Tracy said this is the first time the process of appeals has been skipped.

“Everything in preservation is complicated. It’s not what people think,” Tracy said. “Texas Wesleyan filed an appeal then withdrew the appeal and somehow got straight to Zoning.”

In an article by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Tracy said, “We are dismayed by the process being used to remove the historic designation on the Dillow House.”

Currently, only the city of Fort Worth is being sued.

However, the state district judge requested Texas Wes-

Alejandra Garcia | Rambler Staff Dillow House located on East Rosedale Street, near Vaughn Boulevard.

leyan be included in the lawsuit.

John Veilluex, vice president of marketing and communications, said the judge indicated that Texas Wesleyan would be impacted by

the results of the lawsuit.

“They have said they are going to look at including us in that suit, but they haven’t yet,” Veilluex said. “We are waiting to hear from them.”

Veilluex said the adminis-

tration has not applied for a demolition permit, but the long-term plan is that the building will come down.

He said right now the administration is waiting to see what happens.

GPNA gets students Table tennis readies for Nationals prepared for careers Rolandra West rdwest@txwes.edu

Texas Wesleyan’s Graduate program of Nurse Anesthesia [GPNA] continues to maintain the highest standards and expectations from their students, all the while claiming the spot for one of the top contenders in the nation.

Deborah Maloy, director of the graduate program of Nurse Anesthesia and who has worked at Wesleyan since 2003, said Wesleyan’s Nurse Anesthesia program started at Harris Hospital downtown Fort Worth back in 1947.

Maloy also graduated from the program several years ago.

Maloy said nurses have been trained to do anesthesia

as early as the Civil War. “In the late’80s early ‘90s, nurse anesthetists decided to make [nurse anesthesia] a master’s level entry,” Maloy said. “So you had to have a bachelor’s degree in nursing and then earn a master’s in anesthesia.”

Health science classes started in 1982 where students would earn a master’s in health science and a nurse anesthesia certificate from Harris Hospital.

Maloy said a couple of years later Wesleyan took over the entire program, but Harris Hosptial remained the primary clinical site.

Maloy said Wesleyan’s nurse anesthesia program

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Texas Wesleyan’s nine-time Collegiate National Table Tennis winning team are headed to Nationals April 12-15, and are planning to bring back the title again this year.

Sara Hazinski, senior accounting major and table tennis player who has been playing for 18 years, said there will be about 25 colleges who will attend nationals and 250 players from the U.S. and Canada teams that will compete against each other.

Hazinski has won two women’s singles, two mixed doubles, one women’s doubles and three coed team titles overall.

“Since this is my last year to compete in the collegiate national, I am really looking forward to compete and try to win my third women’s singles title and fourth coed team title,” Hazinksi said.

Jose Barbosa, senior general

business marketing and management major and table tennis player, said the table tennis team has had a winning streak since 2004. Barbosa said he will be involved in three events: doubles, singles and teams.

“I look forward to representing Texas Wesleyan and hopefully coming back with one more title,” Barbosa said. “This one would be very special because it can be the 10th in a row.”

Barbosa has won titles twice from 2011-2012 and won two doubles from 2010-2012, one win from when he represented a different school. Barbosa said competition will be very tough because many of the schools competing recruited high-level players this year.

“As previous nationals we always go with a lot of pressure because everybody wants to beat us since we are the top

seed,” Barbosa said. “The team event is the most important for us and that’s what we are looking for, obviously a title on singles or doubles would be great but the main goal is to win the team event.”

Barbosa said the team is very focused for the up and coming competition.

“I’m sure everybody will give 110 percent if necessary to bring this title one more time,” Barbosa said.

Bryan Simcox senior computer science major and table tennis player will not be competing in Nationals.

Simcox said the competition is really strong this year.

“We have a really strong team so we should win;each year the competition gets better and better,” Simcox said. “Were going against schools from all over the country like Harvard, Princeton, and Ruckers.”

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Wesleyan secrets hushed at Dora’s cafeteria

Santiago Munoz smunoz@txwes.edu

Several students at Wesleyan said their freedom of expression was hindered recently.

Someone from the Department of Student Life took down several anonymous posts from a bulletin board in Dora’s. Some students are inquiring why they were taken down.

Jeremy Hunt, sophomore mass communications major, said early this semester he and a group of stu-

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dents came up with the idea to help students express their feelings in an anonymous way by using a Facebook page and bulletin boards in various buildings throughout campus, including Dora’s.

“Its intention is to help students anonymously post their emotions or whatever they’re dealing with,” Hunt said. “It’s just a space for them to express themselves.

Chris Windsor, assistant dean of students, said in an email that all non-Communications Office postings must be approved.

“All non-communication Office postings on bulletin boards or other locations must be approved by and stamped through Student Life,” Windsor said in an email. “Since the postings on the bulletin board in Dora’s did not follow this policy, they were removed upon notification to the Student Life Office.”

Hunt said he believed taking down the anonymous posts from Dora’s limits students and violates freedom of speech.

“If you’re taking down someone’s freedom of speech, someone’s ac-

tion, that to me shows the limitations and boundaries,” Hunt said.

“We are all adults here, and I feel if we can’t express ourselves due to board of trustees, due to faculty, due to the ‘Wesleyan way’ or what have you, where’s the growth?—where’s the diversity?—where’s the uniqueness of individuals?”

Evan Carr, junior criminal justice major and marine veteran, said as long as students don’t offend anyone by their anonymous posts, they should have the right to express themselves without censorship.

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is one of the largest programs in the nation.

“When you’re a very small program and [there is] one particular hospital, sometimes they may have 150 applications for five spots, you pretty much have to walk on water to get into that school,” Maloy said. “ Those people do really well because they are brilliant but this program [Wesleyan’s GPNA] takes qualified people from all over the country, and it allows them to stay in their home hospitals.”

Maloy said the program is distance education but it is not online, students participate in the classroom. Maloy said there are 70 hospitals that train the nurse anesthesia students, and 25 of them that take the students on full-time [16-month residency].

“After you get your classes behind you, [students] spend 16 months full-time usaully 55 to 60 hours a week working in the hospital on patients,” Maloy said.

“You’re actually giving anesthesia to patients under the supervision of a CRNA or an anesthesiologist.”

Maloy said some of the hospitals that the GPNA works with range from border to border of the coast, from California, North Dakota, Texas, Florida and more.

Each of the hospitals take about two to 10 students to practice at their hospital.

“Our people pass the boards, at the same rate or better than some of the places that only take five people [into the program],” Maloy said. “It is a really solid program and we have several hospitals that won’t hire brand new graduates unless they are brand new graduates from Wesleyan, so that speaks a lot because it shows you what those people know.”

Maloy said the GPNA program has connections with hospitals in different cities where a lot more nurse anesthesia programs who would rather take students from Wesleyan’s GPNA because of the quality of their education.

“Nurse Anesthesia is a hard thing to learn but the graduates are just very, very capable,” Maloy said. “It is a competitive program. We’re very lucky because we’re still in a field where everybody who graduates can find a job and everyone who graduates passes their boards.”

Maloy said a small number of the GPNA students have had to take the boards more than once because the test is extremely hard, but they all pass within the 90-day qualifying period. Some students are subject to move because of where their job is located, but they all are certified to give anesthesia.

“Right now in the United States today there are 40,000 nurse anesthetists and 2,000 of them have graduated from this program [Wesleyan]. There are four programs in Texas. [Texas Christian University] has about 60 students and we have about 100 students a year,” Maloy said. “ They are all good programs.”

Maloy said the best part of Wesleyan’s nurse anesthesia program is the solid academic core before going to clinical training; students get to know what you need to know.

“You still have to practice and you have to learn hands-on skills, but you can make good decisions and know what should happen because you have a solid knowledge base behind you” Maloy said. “I think that is a strong part of this program.”

Teri Kane, clinical instructor of graduate programs, said one of the benefits of Wesleyan’s GPNA being one of the largest programs in the nation is variety of resources, especially with getting a choice of which hospital students want to train at.

“One the big benefits of our program is dedicated faculty, so our chemistry professor and our AP professor, they teach a number of classes around campus. They are dedicated,” Kane said. “Our students almost have 24-hour access to us. We just help and give and take and get to know our students because their classes are right here in the building.”

Andrew Dell, a graduate student in the nurse anesthesia program at Wesleyan, said he has been a part of the program since August and appreciates the program because it focuses on the didactic learning the first year and then the clinical, hospital-based setting.

“The style of front-loading classes is beneficial because it promotes learning medications, rationales, and physiologic principles prior to being immersed in the anesthesia world,” Dell said. “The faculty have made themselves very available and have been nothing but helpful throughout these last two semesters.”

Dell said the only hard part about the program he has experienced is to have the will power to study.

“I have to continually remind myself that this schooling is an investment, and that I am going through the rigor of this program so that later in life, I will not only be able to enjoy my career better, but also be able to provide for my family in the best way possible,” Dell said.

“It shouldn’t happen at all, if it’s anonymous,. Students should have the right to express however they want to as long as they don’t offend anybody,” Carr said. “I fought for these freedoms, and it makes me mad to know that they’re taking our freedom of expression away.”

According to the student handbook under the Freedom of Inquiry and Expression on page 67, students shall be free to examine and discuss all questions of interest to them and to express opinions orally or written, publicly and privately.

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kind of like a sandwich position. They’re dealing with faculty below but administrative above.”

Grammer said after three months of shuffling through applications, the committee narrowed their search down to three candidates they wanted to talk to on campus. Grammer said Kerr was clear in her vision for the future, and Kerr was the clear choice for the position.

“She was clearly a superior candidate regardless of what university she may have applied,” Grammer said. “Clearly someone who would have been in the running at virtually any university.”

Kerr said she started teaching at Wesleyan as an assistant professor of psychology in 2000.

“I’ve had the unique opportunity to serve an interim or acting dean twice,” Kerr said. “So four years ago I was able to serve this school [Natural and Social Sciences] plus the other half which is over in arts and letters.”

Kerr said while serving as interim dean she realized she liked the job. Kerr said the job requires a detailed, organized, and energetic person who can also listen

and solve problems.

“You also have to be able to see the big picture,” Kerr said. “So every decision you make, how it effects everybody, the whole institution, not just individual students or individual programs.”

Kerr said as dean she removes barriers from the faculty so they can focus on teaching and mentoring their students.

Kerr said she is very passionate about Wesleyan’s mission.

“I know exactly what we’re doing and want to be true to that mission for our students and for our faculty,” Kerr said. “I want to preserve and protect the right to do what they need to do in the classroom.”

Kerr said now that she has been chosen as dean she will get back to work. She said she is trying to get the alumni more involved and continue to encourage students to become involved in the opportunities that will benefit them.

“Basically I want us to continue what we already do, which I consider our niche in natural and social sciences, and not just our niche in the university, but our niche in the community,” Kerr said.

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Never judge a book by its cover, even the Bible Rolandra West

rdwest@txwes.edu

God, church, judgment, restraints and hypocrisy are almost always associated with or thought of when it comes to religion.

People believe religion is sanctioned as an organized belief system that criticizes the non-believers, defines the sinners, and refuses to accept the “heathens” (what most people know as non-believers). This assumption is not a fact and is no where near true. People like to clump all religious organizations into one.

Truth is, all religions consist of different beliefs/morals and are divided by those beliefs.

Although there are many religions which are glorified around the world, statistics show Christianity is the most

popular religion in the U.S. Christianity in U.S involves more than 78.4 percent of all adults.

Believe it or not, a lot of people do not know how Christianity is subdivided.

The religion includes: Protestant, then the historical churches (Baptist, Methodist etc.), Catholic, Mormon, Jehovah’s Witness, Orthodox (Greek, Russian etc.). Other religions that are recognized include Jewish, Buddhism, Muslim, etc. Considering Christianity involves such a large number of the U.S. citizens, this religion is criticized ever so often.

Many non-believers and other skeptics seem to believe people who are Christian, or who are under the sub-religions, are all overly-critical, obnoxious and hypocritical.

Yes, there are Christians who display themselves as superior beings and criticize others’ sins over their own, but in this case, one apple does NOT spoil the whole bunch. This ignorance is something that we should definitely steer away from in order to maintain some sort

of common ground.

Of course as Americans, it is common for us to believe our way is the right way, but there is no such thing as one right religion in which everyone must follow.

I personally am a Christian who is a member of a Baptist denomination church. I believe God is my personal savior and that I am a child of God, and it is becoming of me to witness to those who may not know about God. What I won’t do is criticize someone for their particular religion or for not having a religion at all, neither will I force someone to believe.

I have encountered many people in my life who have judged me along the way for being a Christian. People say “Oh you’re one of those” or I would often hear “You’re a minister’s child?” simply because my dad became a minister. People who don’t believe in Christianity often encounter the so called witnesses that picket everywhere they get a chance and assume that every Christian is like this, but that isn’t true.

Another assumption I have

understood over the years is people think preachers’ or ministers’ children are always wild and out of control, or are stuck up saints. I am neither of those things and I do not proclaim to be.

I have lived my life like any other normal 21-year-old, except God just happens to be the center of it. As a Christian,

you are supposed to build up the people around you, not put them down by criticizing every bad thing they have ever done. I could go on and on about what I believe ,but there just would not be enough room on this page.

I suggest to those who do not believe or who do not know much about “the

word” (Bible) and religion to take the time to educate themselves. Educating yourself on what Christianity is really about and what the Bible says excludes you from being the victim of ignorance and believing in the false-witnesses that exclaim Christianity and instead judge, criticize and betray.

Mexico: beautiful, yet not as safe to travel around

Santiago Munoz

smunoz1367@txwes.edu

Ever since I could remember, my family and I would visit family members throughout Mexico, which included Tijuana (TJ), Baja California, Hermosillo, So-

nora and Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico.

Even though Mexico is a third-world country, Tijuana, Mexico was always my favorite place to visit because it was close to home and it had lots to offer: beaches, great night life and the best street tacos in the world.

As an older teenager and even during my early 20s, I would drive over the boarder to party on its infamous boulevard known as Revolution Street or Revolucion, which is the heart of TJ’s night life.

Never did I imagine that taking a trip over the border would become so complicated or dangerous — even for a first-generation MexicanAmerican such as myself.

According to Univision news, ever since 2006 when Mexico’s reigning president at the time, Felipe Calderon, declared war on all Mexican drug cartels, there has been more than 15,000 related deaths. Many of the victims were decapitated or disintegrated in acid.

Due to the extreme level of violence, Mexico has not been the same. Many stories

linger about tourists being kidnapped, robbed or even killed.

A lot of those stories never truly made me concerned because I always thought it couldn’t happen to me or to a family member.

However, it wasn’t until early this year when my perception changed. My father took a vacation trip to Mexico by bus about midFebruary. Three miles after he crossed the border into Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, the bus was stopped by a group of corrupted federal agents; it was a total of four men,

three of them wearing ski masks and holding high caliber weapons. One of the federal agents went in the bus and handpicked a group of male passengers, which included my father, to step out into a shack on the side of the road.

One-by-one, the passengers were searched and stripped of their money. The corrupted officers illegally ceased $2,000 from my father and then they released him.

It is a shame that our neighboring country in the south can capitalize on its

tourists and its residents by robbing or extorting them.

As long as corrupted government officials and drug cartels exist throughout Mexico, innocent people will always be prone to these unfortunate situations.

I highly recommend those who are brave enough to visit Mexico to fly in and try to avoid carrying large amounts of cash. And keep in mind Mexico is considered one of the most dangerous countries, and that the possibility of being kidnapped, robbed or murdered are much higher than before.

Wesleyan can save money with collaborative efforts

Erica Estrada

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Texas Wesleyan has been attracting new students with the new branding recently.

More students means Wes-

leyan will have more money, right? Not necessarily.

The Wesleyan community could work toward saving money in several areas.

Some of these ideas could also help the campus look nicer.

For starters, the lights could be shut off at night in the Eunice and James Library. Unlike other universities, Texas Wesleyan is one of the few that does not have overnight hours. There is no use in having the whole

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building lit up. If anything, there can be at least half of the main lights turned on.

According to June Johnson, West Library circulation assistant, security used to turn off the lights a couple of years ago, but they have not recently.

The lights in the hallways of the West Village could be turned off in the daytime.

The outside lights are on a timer, but West Village’s inside hallway lights could be on a timer as well to save

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electricity since it is outside.

The sprinklers could also be fixed to where the water is on the grass instead of the concrete. The problem is that the sprinklers spray people walking on the sidewalks. Then they kick the heads off of the sprinklers, break them and they cause other problems, like hemorrhaging water and soaking other surfaces.

Perhaps a solution could be to post signs to warn stu-

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dents to watch out for sprinklers.

It is inconvenient to students when they have to go the long way to avoid the sprinklers.

As a result of the broken sprinklers, the concrete and benches are soaking wet.

Students have to move their electronics from the tables outside when they study because of the mess.

The lack of water to the grass leaves the grass dry and dying. This diminishes

the attractive appearance of the campus.

Campus living could use some extra money as well.

Resident Assistants could supplement their budget by having fundraisers and raise money for their resident events.

Earth Day is also coming up April 22. It would be helpful if Wesleyan used that day to be green and improve the school for a day rather than just have a typical event with food.

thumbs up Thumbs up to The Rambler entities for 21 awards at TIPA. Thumbs up to University College Day giving students the opportunity to show off their research.

Thumbs up to summer break being so close. Start the countdown!

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Thumbs down to the delay of establishing an election date, SGA. Thumbs down to cost of getting a new I.D. 15 bucks for a new I.D. card is just very inconvient.

Thumbs down to those who have final-itis. Yes, summer is just around the corner but think of it this way we only have three more weeks left!

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Veteran student battles PTSD, heads toward graduation Ryan Grounds rrgrounds@txwes.edu

While sitting in class listening to a lecturing professor one of your classmates starts moving around in her chair more and more. She starts looking around the room frantically and begins to clasp together her hands until her knuckles turn white.

Her eyes begin to turn red and swell, and tears begin to roll down her face. Now she is staring at the exit.

She seemed fine just a moment ago and no one else in the room is acting like this.

It is not uncommon for Jessica Anne Pounds, Wesleyan junior mass communications major, to get nervous suddenly. Jessica currently has a 3.5 GPA and has made the dean’s list every semester. But Jessica is also a veteran, who is dealing with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder[PTSD].

According to PudMedhealth.com, PTSD is a type of anxiety disorder.

It can occur after someone has seen or experienced a traumatic event

that involved the threat of injury or death.

Pounds said she was diagnosed with PTSD in the summer of 2010, a few months after she was honorably discharged and has struggled with anxiety side effects since her experiences of taking traumatic photographs in combat areas.

“With my anxiety it makes it hard to focus and pay attention to my schoolwork, when my brain is thinking about other things,” Pounds said.

“I served in the Navy and was a mass communications specialist who did photo journalism.”

She was deployed to the horn of Africa and the Mediterranean in 2007.

“It was fun because I got to experience different cultures, but it was tough being away from my family,” Pounds said.

“Last year my little brother passed away, two weeks before school started,” Pounds said. “I didn’t want to go back to school, but I did. All of my professors at the time were very helpful.”

Jessica said in an e-mail that there were times right after her brother died when she felt like nothing was worth doing.

“But, I never gave up,” she said. “I pushed myself back into gear, with the help of family and friends, and I have been able to continue being successful with good grades.”

Dr. Kay Colley, assistant chair of mass communications was one of Pounds’ professors at the time.

“Jessica was a good student,” Colley said. “She had several different family members die in one semester, and I think that some of her PTSD issues may have impacted her.”

Despite her personal family losses and her PTSD anxieties, Jessica kept moving forward in life.

“I think she is a very mature person, and she is a professional dealing with her school work as well as her life,” Colley said.

Pounds said she started attending Texas Wesleyan in the fall of 2010.

“Financially, being a veteran who is attending school is beneficial be-

cause all my school is 100 percent paid for by the VA [Post 9-11 GI Bill, offered by the Veteran Affairs Office],” Pounds said.

Pounds also said with the housing allowance she receives for the VA for attending school, she is able to go to school and does not have to work, since her husband Jonathan Pounds works full time.

Shonda Christensen, Pounds’ sister-in-law, said Pounds’ faith has helped pull her through the loss of her brother and dealing with her PTSD. “She has used her relationship with God to bring her inner peace,”

Christensen said.

Jessica Pounds is due to Graduate this winter or next spring with a Bachelors in Mass Communication.

“After graduation I plan to work for a small town newspaper or magazine company,” Pounds said.

Her dream job would be working as a public affairs specialist within a major company, perhaps even the police department.

I was diagnosed with PTSD a few months after I was honorably discharged (so in the summer of 2010).

I went through a series of tests from doctors through the department of Veterans Affairs.

“With my anxiety it makes it hard to focus and pay attention to my schoolwork, when my brain is thinking about other things.”

Jessica Pounds

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Photos by Rambler Staff Above left by Erica Estrada: (From left to right) Josh Matthews, freshman athletic trainer, Niky Morrison sophomore psychology major, Trevor Baxter, freshman criminal justice major, and Nowaf Alotaibi freshman computer science major, show off their eggs and prizes from West Village’s Easter egg hunt.

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Veronica Mars, back in action on the big screen Hello, fellow pop culture junkies. I found out some really cool news over Spring Break.

One of my favorite TV shows of all time will be resurrected as a film.

Veronica Mars ran for three seasons and chronicled the adventures of Veronica, played by actress Kristen Bell. At first glance, Veronica seems to be a normal high school girl. But as the daughter of the former sheriff turned private investigator of the fictional town of Neptune, California, she is anything but normal. Veronica herself is a private investigator and a pretty good one. Every season, in addition to the episode-by-episode mysteries Veronica solved, there was a large overarching mystery for her to solve.

The first season, she was determined to solve the death of her best friend, Lilly Kane.

The second season, she spent the entire season trying to find out who caused a bus crash that killed a bunch of her classmates. During the third season, the format was changed and there were shorter story arcs, but the show never lost its charm.

Everything from the acting to the writing made the show superb. And while it never had earth-shattering ratings, it was a critical darling.

The CW cancelled Veronica Mars back in 2007 and for years, the creator of the show, Rob Thomas, and lead actress Bell, have been trying to get a movie made. Warner Brothers and Thomas finally came to an agreement. If Thomas could raise $2 million for the film’s budget using the fund raising site KickStarter, they would make the movie and pay for the cost of marketing and distribution. They gave Thomas the entire month of March to raise the funds.

In less than five hours, 55,000 people had pledged to donate the money for the film’s budget, and when it was all said and done, the film had a total of $3.6 million in donations.

Now, as you might guess, with that type of budget, we’re talking a very low budget, limited release, indie style movie. But for fans like me, that’s enough. The show had a huge impact on its fans, I know that it definitely had one on me.

My advice is to get on Netflix and watch the three seasons of Veronica Mars before Summer 2014 rolls around. You’ll be glad you did.

I promise.

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Keorah Strain, junior theater major, is finally making her dream become a reality. Strain’s fashion line will be displayed at the fashion show “Klear the Runway” at the Fort Worth Water Gardens on May 4, 2013.

Strain first started her passion in fashion when she was 8 years old. Her parents would buy her dolls. One day out of frustration, she took apart her tiger stuffed animal and made it into an outfit.

Her mother then encouraged her to pursue her passion in fashion design.

Every time things would occur in her life, Strain would cut up clothes and socks then piece them together to make an outfit.

“I didn’t know the name for it. I just knew I like to do it,” Strain said. “Then as I got older I was like, ‘Oh this is what I’ve been doing all along. It’s called fashion

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design.’ My mom still has the picture to this day. I look at that picture all the time.”

Strain ran across SLM Productions in March 2013. SLM Productions is a company which promotes young aspiring fashion designers. She then got in contact with Michael Styles, Klear the Runway Fashion and model coordinator, through her friend Jordan Twine.

Strain and Styles said the fashion line is for a youth line to help prevent bullying. Fort Worth ISD will be there as well.

“It is a benefit fashion show that is called Klear the Runway that is going to bring awareness to an anti-bulling campaign called Courage on the Move,” Styles said.

Strain was hesitant to start out. She showed different fashion pieces to the people in charge of the fashion show before she could get into the show.

Sketch courtesy of Keorah Strain

“I had mixed feelings at first because starting off you want to be perfect.

You don’t want to start off with flaws. You don’t want people to see you fail,” Strain said. “I think my biggest obstacle with accepting this challenge was

doubting myself.”

However, Styles continued to motivate Strain to get her fashion designs exposed.

“I’m really looking forward to Keorah getting more exposure,” Styles said. “I’ve seen the draw-

ings she has designed and I think they’re absolutely wonderful. And I just feel as designers, sometimes we need exposure to a big stage.”

Strain also works with her assistant and best friend Mikia Franklin.

Strain said she confides in Franklin for advice, ideas and encouragement as well.

Franklin said she has seen Strain grow throughout the experience. There a lot of tasks she finds exciting in helping her throughout the preparation over the last few months.

“I think it’s the process and actually seeing her more involved in the fashion now and actually making the clothes and getting the models to walk down the runway,” Franklin said. “I think what I’m most looking forward to with her is debuting her fashion line.”

Difference feminist book enjoyable, thought-provoking BOOK REVIEW

A feminist and a cowboy walk into a bar. Actually it’s a brew pub with 20 in-house brewed beers to choose from and located on the legendary Route 66 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

So begins the story of one sassy, authoritative and somewhat confused Alisa Valdes in her recent memoir, The Feminist and the Cowboy.

Valdes, a lifelong rallying feminist, had no intention of redefining her beliefs. She, a true child of the ‘70s, was raised to question all the rules of modernday society and reject the social norm. Her parents, a Marxist Cuban father and a hippie trophy wife mother, made it a goal of theirs to make sure their child was not shackled by the chains of traditional femininity.

Such an upbringing eventually caused Valdes to lose sight of her femininity until age 42 when she met The Cowboy. In this account, Valdes writes her own story of how one person caused her to question all her beliefs and as a result, rediscover her womanhood.

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nistic beliefs and stubborn pride anymore and has found they have caused her more grief than joy.

She also finds she is more in tune with herself and her womanhood when she lets the Cowboy take charge of their relationship. To sum up, Valdes learns to become more accepting, to better control her emotions and to understand she does not have to be the only person responsible in a relationship.

She gives up her second wave feminism and adopts difference feminism, a belief that men and women are different for the purpose of being biologically programmed to be attracted to each other with men being the stronger, masculine type. However, this should not be confused into thinking of them as the better sex.

Men and women are different, but they are also complementary, which is exactly what Valdes says in her book.

“Men and women were not designed differently so that we could battle one another for dominance in a patriarchal paradigm; we were created differently so

that we could complement, care for, respect, love, support, and honor one another in a human paradigm.”

In short, men and women are two peas in a pod.

Being a modern feminist, I thoroughly enjoy reading literature regarding the many tribulations women face. This book was no exception.

This book was especially interesting to me because Valdes believes in everything I do. Before reading this book, I never knew there was a name for that type of feminism. This book validated all of my philosophies.

However, even though I consider myself a difference feminist, I cannot say I entirely agree with Valdes’ opinions, and more importantly, I do not agree with her choices. Remember those nights when you’re home watching a horror movie and all you can think is to yell at the screen saying, “No don’t go in there. What are you doing? You’re walking right into a trap!”

Those were my thoughts exactly when reading this book. Yes, the cowboy is charming, manly and handsome, but those are not good enough reasons to be treated like a dog. (And that isn’t me talking; Valdes herself makes the comparison to animals in the book too.)

Though I have to be honest, after having attended a book-signing where author Valdes admits the Cowboy became abusive; there was no way I was going to freely enjoy this book.

I did not give myself the opportunity to trust this book because I simply could not bring myself to trust this man. My preconceived notions of him did not allow me to read at leisure. I was always on my guard and searching for the clues that revealed his

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Though I heartily agree with difference feminism, I found this man, this cowboy to be mean and undeserving.

From the very beginning, I took notice of all his controlling ways. Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with being a leader and wanting to be in charge. But there is a difference between being commanding and being demanding. And this man, boy was he demanding.

Valdes makes an excellent point in stating women are attracted to the strong, masculine type. Unfortunately for her, she fell for the wrong one.

While reading this book, I found myself shaking my head in disappointment and frustration, but also nodding in agreement.

It was interesting to see Valdes making so many new discoveries about herself, the world and life in general.

I do believe this book was more upsetting than it was cheerful. It left me feeling sad and confused. I would love nothing more than for Valdes, and every woman on the planet, to find the right, compatible partner.

However, we all have to be honest with ourselves and understand it may not be that simple.

But that’s how life is sometimes right? We can’t just write the good and ignore the bad.

If readers get only one thing out of this book I hope it is this: there is still time to change. If we strongly believe in something but find that belief is making us miserable, then we need to reconsider. We only get one life in this world. We should spend that life happy.

Kudos to Valdes who never gave up on finding happiness.

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March Madness teaches hard work pays off In the past article I wrote about March Madness. I discussed the bracket play and how many people participate in the bracket competitions.

Since then, March Madness is in full effect and millions are tuned in to continue to see games and results.

I think this March Madness has been insane, changing and upsetting everyone’s brackets.

This tournament has been full of upsets and surprises and it has just begun. Kansas State losing to La Salle by two was a surprise. Florida Gulf Coast University was ranked No. 15, and they played against No. 7 ranked San Diego State University. Many had SDSU to win but FGCU fought hard to win the game by 10 points.

One of the biggest upsets so far in bracket play however has been the Gonzaga v. Wichita State game. Gonzaga was predicted to win by millions, and shockingly Wichita State took the win by six points. This game alone diminished thousands, maybe even millions of people’s brackets. The thing people and athletes can learn from this game is never underestimate your opponent.

I remember when I played on the women’s basketball team for Texas Wesleyan last year and we played in Hobbs, New Mexico against the University of the Southwest. They were ranked last in their conference, while we were in the top three at the time.

We completely went into that game with the wrong mindset and ended up losing the game.

That loss put us in a bad position for the conference tournament.

In every sport there are upsets and there are what seems like impossible wins. It’s not luck, it is hard work and the will to win. As athletes, you have to know if the team has the determination, it can always be a close game; in any sport, in any league.

It takes both mental and physical strength and skill to outscore an opponent in a Judo tournament.

Joe McWatt, freshman exercise science major, has studied that art of Judo for 13 years, and has since then become a black belt and placed third at the State Collegiate tournament in February.

“I was homeschooled and wanted a sport that was all year round,” McWatt said.

“There was a Judo class down the street. The first time I put on a gee, I fell in love with Judo.”

McWatt said he loves the rivalry and the camaraderie with the other teams he faces.

McWatt said his coach and his teammates feel like family, and he owes a lot to them.

McWatt said to win a match you have to outscore the opponent or pin them where they have to tap out.

McWatt said in Judo there are no pads, and he has sustained injuries such as a strained neck and shoulder, a hyper-extended arm, and some bruised ribs.

McWatt said he was proud to represent Texas Wesleyan at the state collegiate tournament where he placed third.

McWatt said he wanted to show everyone that a small school with no Judo club could do just as well as a big university.

McWatt said Judo takes commitment and practice.

McWatt said he only takes time off from Judo for studying or if he is injured. McWatt said he wants to be the best in Judo that anyone has seen.

“Sometimes I lost because I wasn’t as good,” McWatt said.

“A few times I lost because I goofed.”

Photo courtesy of Joe McWatt Joe McWatt and his coach Ruben Martin celebrate after a tournament in San Antonio.

McWatt said in May he will be competing the Senior National tournament where he will face nationally ranked opponents form all over the country.

Ruben Marin, McWatt’s Judo coach, said he has known McWatt since he was nine. Martin said McWatt is committed to Judo and has learned so much from it.

“Joe is amazing when he is training,” Martin said. “He gives me 110 percent.”

Martin said when McWatt struggled through his teenage years, he controlled his emotions by doing Judo. Martin said he can see the positive change in McWatt over the years due to Judo and more recently due to his friends at Texas Wesleyan.

“Now I can talk to Joe sitting down and have a nice conversation with Joe about different things he likes other than martial arts,” Martin said. “Before it was the sky was blue and no matter what anybody else said the sky is blue.”

Martin said McWatt teaches some Judo classes at his club and has become a good instructor.

“By me showing him kindness and by me showing how a black belt truly is and it’s not about beating people up, it’s about knowledge and about teaching people,” Martin said.

Jonathan Towne, who graduated in 2010 from Texas Wesleyan with a degree in political science prelaw, trained with McWatt at Judo for near-

ly 10 years.

“He’s always trying to beat me up,” Towne said. “It’s been his goal for years. Every time I see him he tries to win no matter if we’re on the mat or not.”

Towne said he told McWatt about the professors and the science department at Wesleyan and encouraged McWatt to attend Texas Wesleyan.

“I was going to college, and I was still doing Judo with him,” Towne said. “I just let him know about the school. I told him about my experiences and how much I enjoyed it.”

Towne said McWatt is motivated and dedicated to Judo and throughout the years he has seen McWatt evolve into a good man.

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Seniors share Wesleyan experience, shoot for more Emma Fradette ekfradette@txwes.edu

The Texas Wesleyan men’s and women’s basketball seasons have ended and both have seniors on the team who will either graduate this May, or plan to continue their education in the next few years.

The women’s basketball team finished 21-10 in their overall season and finished 15-7 in the Red River Athletic Conference. The women held their ground at the Sid Richardson Center, only losing four home games.

The Lady Rams will lose three senior this year: Andre’a Davis, senior exercise science major, Courtney Turner, senior mass communications major, and Jazmyn Gindratt, senior psychology major.

Davis was a guard for the Lady Rams and said she will graduate in May 2013.

She plans on going into the

medical field of cardiac rehabilitation.

She also did not start out at Wesleyan, but heard about the school and decided to visit it and earned a spot on the basketball team.

Davis said more than just basketball brought her to Wesleyan.

“There are friendly faces of campus faculty, staff, and the exercise science program is really good here,” Davis said. “Basketball also brought me to Wesleyan.”

Davis said she is more than pleased with her experience at Wesleyan, not only as a student but an athlete as well.

“This is the hardest I have worked out of my entire college career in this major,” Davis said. “It is all starting to pay off slowly but surely.”

Gindratt was a forward for the Lady Rams and will be graduating in the May ceremony in psychology.

“Once I graduate, I plan on getting a job so I can eventually go back to

graduate school,” Gindratt said. “I would like to get a job somewhere where I can live off of because jobs are so hard to find in my degree; either I am too qualified or under qualified.”

The last senior on the women’s basketball team who will be graduating is Turner. Turner was a guard and a forward. Once she graduates, Turner said she plans on getting a job with a local college team doing sports public relations dealing with media guides.

Turner said she really enjoyed playing on the team.

“I really thought my experience at Texas Wesleyan was good,” Turner said. “It had its ups and downs but it taught me a lot and I’m glad I was a part of the TWU Lady Rams.”

Turner said while on the team, she had one moment she will remember the most.

“I will never forget beating Langston, who was undefeated for two

Lupe Salas/Rambler Staff Andre’a Davis, senior guard, plays defense against the Univeristy of St. Thomas at home.

years in our 2011-2012 season,” Turner said. “We beat them back to back and we were the only team in conference to do so.”

The men’s basketball team finished 20-12 overall and 12-10 in conference play. For the men’s team, Brian Talley, Oscar Griffin and Chris Angsomwine were the three senior Wesleyan men’s basketball players who have finished their last year of college hoops.

Griffin, senior guard, chose not to comment on his future plans.

Talley, senior accounting major and point guard for the Rams, said he will be graduating in the next few years as he continues his education.

“When I graduate, I want to work for one of the big four accounting firms coming out of school and eventually become a certified personal accountant,” Talley said.

Talley said although he did not start out at Wesleyan, he received

a good education, was a part of a good basketball tradition, and Wesleyan was close to his home.

Angsomwine, senior forward and who is currently working on his master’s in business administration, graduated in Dec. 2012 and is still continuing his graduate work.

Angsomwine said once he does complete his master’s degree, he wants to work for a little and then eventually own a business of his own.

He also said besides his education, his most memorable experience at Wesleyan was going to the national tournament with the men’s basketball team during the 2011-2012 season.

Angsomwine said he has learned multiple things since being a student-athlete at Wesleyan.

“I have really have learned about hard work and dedication,” Angsomwine said. “I have also learned to apply yourself in whatever you want to do.”

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