The RambleR is HIRING for SPRING 2015 WEDNESDAY
November 5, 2014
Vol. 98 • No. 12
www.therambler.org The voice of Texas Wesleyan University students since 1917
INDEX Opinion 2 News 3 Campus 4,5 A&E 6 Sports 7,8
Campus AROUND
Second forum coming soon
Abigail Ross alross@txwes.edu
On Nov. 6, President Frederick G. Slabach will host his second open forum of the semester. The forum will take placefrom 12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. in the Baker Building, located on the corner of Wesleyan and Rosedale Street. Faculty and staff will be able to ask Slabach questions as he addresses concerns and ideas for the campus. Ideas can be submitted to the idea box located on the second floor of the Oneal-Sells Administration Building (near the main entrance). Ideas can also be submitted online at https:// txwes.edu/info/office-ofthe-president/forums-andideas/my-idea-box/.
Financial Literacy Month begins with gold tags Abigail Ross alross@txwes.edu
On Nov. 4, Texas Wesleyan University hosted Tag Day as part of Financial Literacy Month. The event showed how much those donating to Texas Wesleyan have impacted the campus. Gold tags were placed around campus to signify buildings, programs, scholarships and other things that benefit students, which were made possible because of university donors. Alumni, faculty and staff were also adorned with gold tags to signify their support for the education of Wesleyan students. Students were asked to snap and post a photo of the gold tags around campus using #TXWESTAGDAY. The first 100 hashtag users won a free t-shirt.
Freshman registration coming soon
Power, pain, presence of returning LadyRam guard Paula Justice
prjustice@txwes.edu
Onyesonam “Oni” Nolisa issues a warning: you don’t want to talk to her just before game time. “When it’s game time, I’m completely focused. I have my music on. I like to listen to really hoodmusic or really [upbeat] music. You don’t want to talk to me a couple of hours before game mode; I’m in game mode,” said Onyesonam “Oni” Nolisa, guard for the Lady Rams at Texas Wesleyan. The 21-year-old Connecticut native was getting game-ready and hooping long before Wesleyan. “I started playing ball when I was 11,” she said. “I played with my brothers outside in the street. There weren’t a lot of girls playing [basketball] around my neighborhood, so I just played with my brothers and their friends.” And as time went on, she said she saw her game improve. She played in a few leagues before trying out for her middle school team and making varsity. Workouts, rather than hair and makeup, became routine. “When I was younger, I was convinced I was a boy,” she said laughing. “I wasn’t a girl. I was probably the biggest tomboy around. I never did my hair, always wore basketball shorts and t-shirts, and I was always hanging out with the boys.”
alross@txwes.edu
Freshman may begin registration Thursday, Nov. 13. Students who have not yet been advised are urged by their advisors to do so before beginning the registration process. For easy registration, class times, dates, and course locations students may visit Ramlink.
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Bounty Hunter on the path to US Marshall Martika Cook mncook@txwes.edu
“I don’t go around looking for a fight, but if a fight comes I’m ready,” he says. He has chased, cuffed and captured criminals. He has injured himself and others by doing so. He is a warrant investigator and a Texas Wesleyan student. “The reason I became a [warrant investigator] was because I needed a thrill,” said Clint Riggins, senior criminal justice major. “I needed something that gives me the adrenaline rush I am used to.” On July 1, 1997, Riggins made a speech in front of city council defending the rights of the Fort Worth Firefighters. Lisa Riggins, his mother, wrote an email that he made a speech at the age of 13 to promote three black captains to fire chief, creating Fort Worth’s sixth Battalion to accommodate growth in the city. Riggins served in the military for 10 years from, 2002 to 2013. He was
active for six years and was a part of the Reserve for four years. The military taught him self-control, which is beneficial in his current profession, warrant investigating. Now as a student, he faces the challenges of being a full-time student and a full-time employee. Riggins said he became a warrant investigator after being introduced at a Christmas party several years ago. From there, he shadowed a warrant investigator to learn the ropes. Today, he continues to shadow and partner with his mentor. Riggins said, he knew he had already developed the skills needed to become a warrant investigator. From being in the military Riggins said he developed the skill to hunt his prey. “Ever since I’ve been in combat, I don’t like to hunt animals. But I don’t have a problem hunting someone on the same intelligence level as myself. Animals don’t seem to be much of a challenge,” he said.
Onyesonam Nolisa, guard for Wesleyan’s Lady Rams. Photo illustration by Paula Justice
LKK finds loophole, gets Greek house on campus
Four LKK brothers landed a new house on campus just before the semester started. Photo by Ryan Grounds Ryan Grounds rrgrounds@txwes.edu
Clint RIggins, bounty hunter is working to be a U.S. Marshall. Photo by Martika Cook
HUNTER, page 3
For the first time since the 1980s, Texas Wesleyan University has a fraternity house. The Wesleyan chapter of Lambda Kappa Kappa is renting a 5-bedroom, 3-bathroom house at 3005 Avenue D. From the outside this house is designed in the same southern plantation style, similar to the Baker-Martin House, admissions building of Wesleyan University, which is right next-door. The house has big blue letters AKK above the front entryway. The fraternity house is surrounded by Texas Wesleyan property but is not owned by the University. The front yard is clean with freshly mowed grass, and the smell of cigarettes is in the air. The downstairs contains the dining areas, and living room and kitchen, which also contains a pool table and some couches.
The brothers were hustling in and out between their jobs, working on campus, or getting to and from classes. “Four brothers currently live in the house, but it is not just a house to us -- it is a home,” said Emilio Mimo Castrellon, junior business management major and Lambda public relations officer. Every room is clean and only features a few decorations. A wall in the living room features a large colorful representation of the knight of knowledge. Lambda Kappa Kappa is a national volunteers based fraternity that donates time to helping with community projects and volunteer efforts, Castrellon said. “Rent is $500 per person, or $2,000 month,” Castrellon said. “All furniture was included, and it came with a nice pool table.” The number of applicants Lambda
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Yik Yak app elevates campus bullying concerns Abigail Ross
alross@txwes.edu
Abigail Ross
Nolisa said she was “just one of the boys” back then, and there wasn’t ever a need to acknowledge differences. She was just a ball player. “When you’re younger, it’s easier to not separate [the boys from the girls],” she said. “But when you get older, the guys are way bigger and a lot stronger. So, you’re trying to prove yourself against them. The guys look at girls like ‘Oh, you’re all right, but you’re not that great. You won’t beat me.’ When you get older, it gets a little more complicated.” The junior public relations major grew up “running around and causing trouble” in a park near her childhood home. But after being mistaken for a boy and the passing of a few years, the girl behind the ball player came out to play. “As I got older, I was like ‘Okay, I am a girl. Let me try to be more girly and do girly things,’” she said. “But the whole doll thing, I never got into that. I was always into sports, any sport that you could play outside: baseball, football. But basketball — I was just always good at [it]. And I love the sport. “Look out,” she said with a warning, because she’s waiting for the coming Wesleyan tennis team. “But basketball has always been my passion. It feels good.”
Yik Yak, an app that provides a bulletin board to college campuses, has made its way onto the phones and tablets of students on the campus at Texas Wesleyan University. Yik Yak is targeted toward college students but can be used by anyone. The app allows users to post anonymously to a feed based on their geological location. It works like a “virtual bulletin board” for any 1.5-mile radius, said Tyler Droll, co-creator, in an interview on FoxNews.com. Droll and his partner Brooks Buff-
ington said the app was created and should be used to give students a platform. “We saw on our college campus that only a few people really had a voice,” Droll said to Bella English of The Boston Globe. “They’re the people with big Twitter accounts, maybe student athletes, who had thousands of followers. My thought was why can’t everyone have this power?” Yik Yak can be used to announce get togethers, set up study groups, promote campus events, or to give a good word of advice to other users. Maegan Mariscal, social work ma-
jor and resident assistant of Stella Russell Hall, said she mainly uses Yik Yak to find out what is being served in the cafeteria, but sometimes comes across some disturbing things. “I use it to watch what people are saying and to see what is going on on campus,” she said. “People use it to talk [crap]. That’s all they really use it for.” Some high schools, entire school districts and universities in the U.S. have banned the use of the app because of bullying, harassment and threats made over the app according
to USA Today. More than a dozen schools and universities have had high-profile incidents with the app. However, for Texas Wesleyan it is an issue that has not reached a level of concern. Therefore, it has not been addressed. “We were naïve,” Buffington said during an interview with Diana Graber of Huffington Post. “We designed the app primarily for college students. Using the app the way we intended it to be used requires a certain amount of maturity and responsibility. We were idealistic about who possessed that.”