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Freshmen Haley Cheney, Ryan Houston, De’Laone Dobbins and Samantha Leal walked into Stella Russell Hall’s first-floor hallway.

The four are close friends; they hang out in each other’s rooms, eat dinner together, and share jokes.

And it all started right here. “(We met) in the hallway,” said Cheney, a criminal justice major.

“Yeah, we met in the hallway in Stella.”

“There isn’t really any specific way on how we met,” said Leal, a Spanish major with secondary certitication. “We were all just met and we all are friends now.”

“We met by the hallway,” said Dobbins, an accounting major. “The first-floor hallway. We were all attracted by something.”

When they first met, they weren’t as close as they are now.

“When my uncle passed away,” Cheney said, “this group of people were the ones that checked up on me. We weren’t even that close at the time, but we’ve grown stronger and closer.”

When the university created an all-freshman dorm last fall, the hope was to strengthen relationships between freshmen, according to Sarah Ouimet, the assistant dean of students for Residence Life.

But like all creations, this new system still has some kinks to work out.

“I think it’s a change that will happen slowly,” Ouimet wrote in an email. “The first-year experience is a unique time in a student’s higher education journey. By putting them together in one residence hall, we’re providing them with a community of support as they’re surrounded by other students experiencing similar issues.

“As this is our first year providing an all- first year hall, we are able try new things and then to see what works and what needs to be improved for our population of residents for future years.”

According to senior forensic accounting major Anthony Harper II, the root of many of the issues with the all-freshmen dorm was freshmen misunderstanding dorm policies.

“A lot of the challenges evolve around freshmen not understanding and following policies,” Harper wrote in an email. “The resident assistants are the ones with a bigger weight on their shoulder to hold residents accountable.”

One of the ways of holding freshmen accountable is writing incident reports, which is Harper’s least favorite part of the job, especially when it’s for repetitive policy vioPhoto Illustration by Hannah Onder lations.

According to Sarah Ouimet, this is Stella’s count at the end of last semester.

According to Leal, there have been a lot of noise complaints and when it was supposed to be quiet Another issue last semester was write-ups in the dorm. hours 24/7 they would stay up to like roommate pairings in the new triple “I have a room in front of me and three or four in the morning just par- dorms. a room next to me who won’t shut tying and listening to music while “When they first told me it’s goup,” Leal said. “During finals week some of us were trying to sleep.” ing to be $1,750, I was like, `That

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sounds great,’” said Cheney, who had issues with her roommates. “But then you move in and you don’t have any space and you have to share a closet with somebody.”

Harper believes the triple dorms could be improved with more research into roommates before the pairings.

“I think it (triple dorms) was not a good idea,” he wrote. “The only grounds that could have made them better was if triples were given to those who didn’t mind, and/or had hopes of staying in a room with someone they got to know before Wesleyan.”

Housing decided to have three people per room in Stella because with increased housing demands the community-style bathrooms worked best to accommodate more people sharing rooms versus the other dorms, Ouimet wrote.

“To accommodate an increased demand for on-campus housing, we transformed a number of Stella Hall rooms into triples,” she wrote. “To create more space in those rooms, two of the beds were bunked and the third bed was lofted. This is a common practice on many campuses that also have greater demand for housing than available spaces.

“We determined who was placed in a triple based one two things: 1.

If a student volunteered for a triple, as residents in triple rooms were

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History Program advances with new MEMNTO conference and certificate Karan Muns

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The History Program has been making an effort to be more active, assistant professor of history Dr. Alistair Maeer said.

Texas Wesleyan is hosting the second annual Medievalists and Early Modernists of North Texas and Oklahoma (MEMNTO) undergraduate conference in February; the program has also added a public history certificate and will be offering eight-week courses soon, Maeer said.

“What makes (the conference) so unique is that there are very few organizations in the nation that cater specifically for the regional exchange of information between small and big universities specifically for undergraduates,” he said.

The first MEMNTO conference was held at Southern Methodist University, he said. Wesleyan’s MEMNTO will be held on campus from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Maeer said.

“MEMNTO is a conference and an organization designed specifically for undergraduate students to share their knowledge, interests, and perspectives of medieval and early modern history,” Maeer said.

Any undergraduate with a re-

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search paper based on the time period between 300 and 1650 CE could have applied to present at MEMNTO. Twenty-four applicants from multiple universities in the Metroplex area and Oklahoma will be participating, Maeer said.

this amazing array of interdisciplinary undergraduate work. It’s an opportunity for our students to learn from other students and also from their faculty.”

Joyner is going to lead a workshop at the conference about understand-

“We had our history meeting last week, and they’re trying really hard to amp up the history major.. I love all of the professors here and I think they deserve to have more students to share their knowledge with, so I’m glad it’s growing.”

- Alanna James “(The presentation topics are) going to be loads of different things from loads of different perspectives from English majors to art majors,” he said.

A small team of professors can’t teach every topic, but MEMNTO allows the students to experience new ideas in the same field in an engaging way, he said.

“SMU has art history and one of their art historians teaches medieval studies, so her students are going to present,” he said of Dr. Danielle Joyner. “We’re just going to have

ing and deconstructing medieval imagery and the medieval concept of time, Maeer said.

The conference was created by Joyner; Maeer; Dr. Margaret Cotter-Lynch from Southeastern Oklahoma State University; and Dr. Kelly Gibson at the University of Dallas.

The conference has continued to grow, and the founders hope to start an online undergraduate journal as well.

“Imagine if we could share the faculty knowledge and faculty re-

sources,” Maeer said. “We took four Wesleyan students to SMU. We got to look at medieval manuscripts, honest to God medieval manuscripts, and go to a conference hosted by SMU all because we’re a part of this undergraduate research consortium.”

Maeer said when he first arrived at Wesleyan he couldn’t believe all of the museums and libraries that are close to campus. The department then came up with the idea to add another class to their curriculum, which created a public history certificate opportunity.

“This might sound daunting but really what it is it’s an applied studies opportunity for any student at Texas Wesleyan,” Maeer said. “If you’re in the humanities or the sciences and you really like museums, archives or libraries, then the public history certificate is designed specifically for those people in mind.”

The public history certificate gives students an applied knowledge and field experience that will give them a leg up when applying for jobs, Maeer said.

“If that had existed when I was an undergraduate,” Maeer said, “I would have jumped on it. What’s really cool about this (is that) mas-

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No net neutrality can hurt students EDITORIAL

Spending hours binge-watching Netflix and YouTube may soon become too expensive for college students.

On Dec. 14, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 to end net neutrality.

Net neutrality is a system that makes the internet free and equally accessible to users without any filtering or censorship from broadband companies. Net neutrality also prevents the companies from charging fees for using certain websites like Facebook or Google. The net neutrality rules removed were put in place by President Barack Obama in 2015, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The chairman of the FCC, Ajit Pai, a former lawyer for Verizon Wireless who was appointed by President Donald Trump, is strongly against net neutrality. He claimed the net neutrality rules put in place during the Obama era were only made to put more government control on the internet.

Without net neutrality, internet companies have more power, and with that power they have opportunities to make the internet too expensive and restrictive for their customers. What many fear is that the companies will begin to charge fees for using certain sites and make other sites harder to reach by making the internet speeds very slow.

This can become unfair quickly because, for example, if one of the companies creates their own platform for streaming movies and TV, they can slow down the speeds on competing websites like Netflix or Hulu to bring customers over to their site. The companies can even make using those websites more expensive.

Without net neutrality, internet companies have the option to offer packages in the payment plans for certain bundles of websites. For example, you could pay for a bundle, just like cable, that would include social media sites like Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. This would cause majority of internet consumers to miss out on smaller forms of social media sites because they are not included in the package.

The big internet companies stand to profit greatly from the end of net neutrality because they can charge extra for high speeds.

Before and after the vote to end net neutrality, the internet went crazy fighting to keep the policy in place. Pai became the public’s biggest enemy and was heavily criticized. A myriad of celebrities, including Sophia Bush and Mark Ruffalo, took to social media to express their views on the issue.

Cher tweeted, “Net Neutrality means Trump can change the internet,” she wrote. “It will include less Americans not more!!

Now Comcast, AT&T, Google will show you ONLY WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO SEE!! SLOWER AND MORE EXPENSIVE AT THEIR WHIM!! See less charged more…”

Host of “Last Week Tonight” John Oliver expressed the importance of saving net neutrality on his show back in 2017 and encouraged the public to fight for an open internet. Oliver also spoke on this issue in 2014 with a video that went viral and encouraged his fans to let the FCC know net neutrality is needed.

Several companies expressed their support of net neutrality including Netflix and Amazon.

“We’re disappointed in the decision to gut #NetNeutrality protections that ushered in an unprecedented era of innovation, creativity & civic engagement,” Netflix tweeted. “This is the beginning of a longer legal battle. Netflix stands w/ innovators, large & small, to oppose this misguided FCC order.”

Burger King released a video last month explaining net neutrality with a whopper on their twitter page.

Something Americans need to remember is that anyone who uses the internet will be affected. This issue is not Democratic or Republican; it is a human issue.

Imagine all the research engines, social media outlets and streaming services a student uses in a day. Most classes at Texas Wesleyan require access to the internet either with Blackboard or email. College students can spend hours at a time conducting research online for projects and papers.

The Rambler relies on Word Press, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Email and Instagram just to share news. Who knows how the school will deal with the high fees that could be added to their data bill? Will tuition rise even higher, once again?

Graphic by Hannah Lathen The Federal Communications Commission voted to get rid of net neutrality in December. This decision could lead to an unequal internet for Americans and a rise in internet data prices.

There are so many scary possibilities broke college students may have to deal with in many different ways.

People who also stand to hurt from net neutrality are content creators for the internet. College students who are studying how create websites and blogs may find doing so to be harder.

With internet traffic pushed to certain areas of the internet, it could really hurt the smaller sites. Small startup businesses may not even be able to afford the sites they need due to the fees they could potentially get charged.

Without net neutrality, anyone who uses internet will have to face the possible fees and lower speeds coming their way, which largely includes college students. It is important for this generation to speak up and share their objections because already light pockets could be getting even emptier just to accomplish basic tasks with these changes.

Rams should respect their roommates Hannah Lathen

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Now that the spring semester is in full swing, I feel I need to address an issue for those who are living with roommates in a dorm room.

I have lived in a dorm here at Texas Wesleyan and at the University of North Texas, and I have also shared a room my entire life. Through this I have learned that discussing rules with a roommate can be awkward, but they are necessary for living harmoniously with them. Issues like sleep times, cleaning, loud music, etc. must be worked out. All roommates and suitemates need to be aware of their expectations for living together.

Something I try to remember is that not everyone has the common sense I do, and that becomes very apparent when living in a dorm. It is better to get this conversation out of the way as soon as possible because conflict can and will arise.

Probably the most uncomfortable issue, but most important to work out, is when visitors are allowed to be in the room, particularly romantic partners.

Living in a dorm and maintaining a romantic relationship can become tricky business but when you are respectful and mindful of your roommate, it doesn’t have to be a big deal. But it can be.

While one might want to express their love for their partner in their own room, they need to keep in mind it is also someone else’s room.

When couples are together, especially while they are in the infatuation phase, sometimes it is easy to forget that the rest of the world is not in love with you two as well.

Kissing and other forms of affection are not wrong, but keep in mind that you are subjecting your audience to your behavior, and it can get really weird, really fast.

With Valentine’s Day here, I wanted to share some stories that hopefully prevent future accidents from happening.

When I started college in 2014, I never even thought a conversation would be needed for such instances until I heard several horror stories from everyone I know who lived in a dorm

The most common roommate horror stories I have heard involve walking in on the other having sexual intercourse. These situations can definitely be traumatizing but can easily be prevented.

For dorm residents who want intimate time with their partner, but want to remain respectful of their roommate, there are ways to work it out, and roommates should do so right away.

The easiest thing to do is know where your roommate is and when they are coming back to the room. Save them the surprise because that is an experience they will never forget.

The wildest story I have heard was a roommate having sex with their partner, while the roommate was in the room.

Never in a million years could I imagine someone comfortable enough to do that, and it really is sad that a roommate would have to have a conversation about not having sex in front of each other.

If you are someone who thinks it is OK to put your roommate through that, I am telling you now, it is not. Don’t do it.

Even if you think your roommate is asleep, even if you think you can be quiet, don’t do it.

Unless your roommate is cool with the situation, know that that is a boundary never OK to cross.

If that wasn’t an obvious fact to you before, I am telling you now. Do not have sexual intercourse in front of your roomPhoto Illustration by Hannah Lathen mate. Make the pledge now.

When living in a dorm, it is important to remember that the If you find yourself in an unpleasant situation like the ones room equally belongs to each roommate, and each person I mentioned, or any situation that makes you uncomfortable, should have respect for the other. Keeping romantic relationships out of the room can prevent many awkward situations. speak up. Talk to your roommate about the issue, let them know how you feel and ask them to stop. with a roommate.

For many people, it can be easy to be unaware of your acSome stories were PG. One friend of mine said she was doing tions, especially with love involved. They need to know that homework in her dorm and her roommate and her roommate’s around their roommate and suitemates they may need to chill boyfriend would cuddle and occasionally kiss. It did not freak out a little. If y’all can’t work it out, talk to the RA. Something my friend out but it did make her uncomfortable. can be done.

I have been in several of these situations where I all felt I I know having to establish rules and agreements with your could do it put my headphones in and hope it stops. roommates can make you uneasy, but in the long run those It gets a little weirder. I heard a story from a classmate who rules pay off. Those conversations are not as awkward as having said her roommate kept her up until 2 in the morning because to face your roommate after walking in on them in a comproshe was having dirty conversations on the phone. mising position.

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continued from page 1 offered a discounted room rate and 2. When the student applied for housing. The later the application, the greater the chance the student was placed in a triple.”

Cheney may not have received a good match-up, but Dobbins did.

“I’m not going to lie. Having two roommates wasn’t too bad for me,” Dobbins said, “but I like my roommates.”

“Compared to the old housing, I do think that freshmen are making better relationships with others; and if not, they have a better opportunity.”

- Anthony Harper II With noise complaints, broken items, and roommate agreement issues put together, RAs have had to write more incident reports than before.

“As an RA I have had to address more situations than in recent years because of freshmen newness to policies,” Harper wrote, “but (I) have had the chance to develop newer relationships with residents.”

Harper wrote that his favorite part about being an RA in an all-freshmen dorm was seeing how they grew into being Rams.

“My favorite part is seeing students I’ve known since orientation and Ram Camp develop as students of Wesleyan,” Harper wrote.

“I like seeing the comfort on residents’ faces from already knowing someone they met on day one, and watching their character develop as a Ram.” While Harper and many of the old residents would have preferred to see Stella remain mixed, they have begun to see the positives in having an all-freshman dorm.

“Compared to the old housing, I do think that freshmen are making better relationships with others; and if not, they have a better opportunity,” Harper wrote. “Before the change, a freshman in West Village could disappear from existence and no one would notice. Now, I walk past freshmen who don’t try to have much social interaction but end up speaking in passing because they are around more people before even leaving the hall.”

Leal appreciates living with other freshmen because it gives her people to relate to and led her to meeting her friends.

“I met these really good friends,” Leal said.

“Something I like about it is the fact that you’re surrounded by a bunch of people that are going through the same things as you. Like if they’re freshmen class-wise and stuff you can relate to them a lot.”

Dobbins also sees the benefits of grouping all the freshmen together.

“I see how it would cause less problems having a bunch of freshmen all in one area instead of mixed up,” Dobbins said. “I feel like it makes it easier to adjust when you’re around more people that are like you because you see that this person is having the same hard time that you’re having.”

Leal, Cheney, Houston, and Dobbins agree

they don’t get enough exposure to upperclassmen, especially in the dorms.

“Well, it (living with freshmen) has its pros

and cons,” Cheney said, “but it would be nice to get to know more people instead of just spending day and day out with the same people 24/7.”

Houston and Dobbins say they only usually see the few upperclassmen that still live in Stella. Houston, an English major and football player, can understand why freshmen could be better off separate.

“A lot of freshmen aren’t prepared to be integrated with people who have already been on their own for a while,” he said.

Dobbins can understand the benefit of separating freshmen, but he can also see the benefit of living with more upperclassmen.

“I feel like having upperclassmen in there would make it easier to live in there,” Dobbins said, “because upperclassmen wouldn’t want to deal the majority of things (issues) done in there.”

Leal can also see the benefits of living with more upperclassmen.

“They’ve (upperclassmen) have already done the classes that we’ve taken so they can help us,” Leal said. “They can help us in the

library, but it’s easier when somebody’s two feet away and I can knock on their door.”

According to Ouimet, freshmen still should have the opportunity to interact with upperclassmen anywhere else on campus and are allowed to visit with upperclassmen in dorms as well. Harper agrees with that, but he also agrees that freshmen don’t interact much with upperclassmen in the dorms.

“Freshmen are not getting exposure to upperclassmen in the halls, of course,” Harper wrote, “but Wesleyan is a small campus that interaction with other classifications is easily obtained through classes, organizations, sports, and more.”

Harper believes one way to improve on the all-freshmen dorm next semester is for the RAs to maintain all their expectations from the beginning.

“I think persistent and consistent programming and expectations at the beginning and throughout the semester will help RAs set the tone at the beginning and maintain throughout the year,” Harper wrote, “so that the community doesn’t suffer from rule breakers who may just not know any better.”

The all-freshmen dorm may have its rough patches, but Cheney, Houston, Leal and Dobbins still see it as home.

“Honestly, it’s nice having the privacy of a room that you can go to and just chill out with your people,” Dobbins said. “All we do is just play games, joke around, talk, and make fun of each other. There’s always something to do in Stella.

“It’s not too bad living in Stella because it’s like home, but it still has its ups and downs.”

a lot of schools don’t recommend their undergraduates to go out and do conferences,” James said.

James said she wants to present because she is proud of her paper; she also wants to improve her public speaking skills.

“We had our history meeting last week, and they’re trying really hard to amp up the history major,” James said. “We’re getting a public history certificate and eight-week history classes. It’s growing and it’s trying to expand.

They’re trying to get more types of classes and (get more) people to go to conferences.

You don’t even have to be a history major to present. I love all of the professors here and

I think they deserve to have more students to share their knowledge with, so I’m glad it’s growing.”

Lane Kelly, a sophomore history major, said he is most excited for the conference since it will be his first time presenting a history paper; he also wants to hear Joyner lead her workshop.

“Each presentation should be somewhere around 10 to 15 minutes,” Kelly said. “There is not a definite time yet since we do not know how many people will be attending and we do have to fit all the speakers in the time window.”

Graphic by Karan Muns There will be six universities partnered for the second MEMNTO conference on Saturday.

Photo by Hannah Onder Stellla been a freshmen dorm since fall 2017.

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continued from page 1 ter’s programs in public history have become exceedingly popular in the last ten years, but there are few if any public history certificates for undergraduate students. It’s just a great opportunity for Wesleyan students.”

In the next few years, Wesleyan will offer this program, which will allow students to translate what they are learning in the classroom to the workplace, Maeer said.

History major Alanna James said her professors do a really good job of encouraging their students to participate in conferences.

“The history professors are really good at wanting us to expand our skills and this was a really cool thing Wesleyan is doing because

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1) Eunice and James L. West Library first floor - Academic Success Center - Circulation Desk - Coffee Bar The Academic Success Center, located to the back right wing of the first floor of the West Library, assists students with tutoring, workshops, studying support, and helpful links, according to txwes.edu.

The circulation desk, located at the front left of the library first floor, provides the students with assistance with IDs, parking permits, textbooks on reserve, interlibrary loans, library material check-outs, lost and found, and more, according to the circulation services sign located at the desk. The librarians are usually open to assisting with printing, photocopying, and just answering questions in general.

The library also started serving coffee, hot chocolate, and apple cider at their coffee bar for $1 and tea for free, according to westlibrary.txwes.edu. The coffee bar opened around a year ago and is located in the back left of the library first floor. These are Photo by Hannah Onder just a few examples of areas of support West Library offers.

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“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

- Winston Churchill

2) Eunice and James L. West Library basement - IT Service Desk - Mailroom The IT service desk assists students and faculty with technical issues such as password set-up and reset, software set-up, and general technology issues if you put in a request form, according to txwes.edu. The service desk is located through the door located at the library side entrance labeled “Information Technology.”

The mailroom is located beside the other side entrance to the library through the sliding doors. The mailroom offers students who live in the dorms post office boxes and sells stamps and postage to all students and faculty for university-related things, according to txwes.edu.

Photo by Hannah Onder IT assists students with getting access to Ramlink, BlackBoard, their student email, wifi, and other technological issues.

3) Oneal-Sells Administration Building second floor - Financial Aid office - Cashier’s office - Registrar’s office The Financial Aid office provides students with a counselor who can go over tuition, loan, and scholarship information, according to txwes.edu. The office is located on the second floor of the administration building directly to the right of the stairs.

The cashier’s office assists with all student account issues from payments, payment plans, withdrawls, etc. The cashier’s office window is located to the left of the stairs past the transcipt evaluation window on the second floor of the administration building.

The registrar’s office is located on the second floor of the adminstration building to the right of the stairs next to the Financial aid office in the door labeled “Office of Student Records.” The registrar helps students with registration and schedule changes, graduation registration, ordering transcripts, grades, degree verifications, and degree plans, according to txwes.edu.

Photo by Hannah Onder The adminstration building has several other services avalible throughout its floors with the second floor being the heaviest The Financial Aid office helps students with paying for college. concentration.

4) Polytechnic United Methodist Church - Chapel - Common Meal - Food Pantry According to txwes.edu, the church offeres a Christian service with live music, prayer, and a short message every Thursday during free period in the PUMC Chapel. The PUMC Chapel is located straight to the back of the church from the main entrance.

Common Meal is an interfaith meal and dicussion that occurs every Tuesday during free period in the church’s third floor multi-purpose room, according to txwes.edu.

The pantry is located on the first floor of the church behind the first stairwell to the right, and offers students an on-campus volunteer opportunity and free food any time its open. The schedule is located in front of the stairwell in the church.

Photo by Hannah Onder The food pantry is open as long as there are volunteers.

5) Glick House - Career Services Career Services is located on the first floor of the Glick House. According to txwes.edu, Career Services offers students help with career prep, resumes and interviews, career counseling, jobs, and interships.

Photo by Hannah Onder Career Services assists students with getting jobs.

6) Brown-Lupton Student Center - Student Life - Residence Life Student Life is located straight through the entrance to Brown-Lupton that has the Student Engagement sign beside it.

Student Life assists students with getting involved on campus through clubs and organizations, volunteer opportunities, and student events.

Residence Life is located directly to the right of Student Life in Brown-Lupton. Residence Life assists students with housing and meal plan issues. It also employs students as resident assistants.

Photo by Hannah Onder Student Life helps students get involved.

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Theatre Wesleyan puts on ‘Important Hats’ Hannah Onder

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Theatre Wesleyan’s production of “Important Hats of the Twentieth Century” will be a show full of firsts.The biggest one is that the show is a comedy fresh off Broadway.

“We are actually going to be for what we know the regional premier (of this production),” said junior theatre major Kimberly Owen. “It’s cool because other shows have preconceptions about what it should be, but for this show we’re getting to kind of make it up right from the beginning, which is nice.”

According to txwes.edu, the show is a comedy featuring multiple timelines. In the 1930s, Sam Greevy’s top fashion designs are challenged by Paul Roms’ crazy new creations from another time, while in 1998 a teenage stoner keeps losing his clothes to a man bursting out of his closet.

“Important Hats” will premier Feb. 15 at 7:30 p.m. in the Thad Smotherman Theatre and run six more times. Student admission is free.

“We’re going to make you laugh,” Owen said.

“It’s right around Valentine’s Day so we keep saying it’s the after party for Valentine’s Day. It’s just a wacky, feel-good show with a lot of fun characters. The set is going to be in a round so the audience is looking in on this crazy world.

It’ll be a really cool experience for them.”

This is Owen’s first opportunity as assistant director, which is something she has been working up to since she got to Texas Wesleyan.

“I have been kind of everything up to this point,” Owen said. “I have stage managed, I have acted, I’ve done dramaturgy, I’ve been a publicity designer, and my goal has been to lead up to directing. Now being able to assistant direct the production after experiencing all the other elements has been a really cool experience.”

Owen will be assisting director Bryan Stevenson, who selected the play for its unique material.

“I’ve been a part of every show that he’s (Stevenson) done since I was a freshman, and he loves things that make people think, travel, and are comedies, so this show was perfect for him,” Owen said. “He read it with a group of alum, and he thought it would be perfect for us. It was hard to find, but when we all found it and read it everybody loved it.We’ve had a really good time working on it.”

This is Darin Martin’s first comedy and his

first lead role at Wesleyan. He plays Paul Roms, the antagonistic character of the play.

“He (Roms) uses the important hat of the twentieth century to travel forward in time and steal clothes,” Martin said. “He brings them back to the 1930s and starts his own business to get ahead on the competition. He’s kind of a wacky kind of person, or at least that’s how I’m playing him. To prepare for that I kind of wanted to do a certain voice that was very wacky to kind of fit his standpoint in the production.”

Martin, who perfected his voice and portrayal of Roms over numerous read-throughs of the show, is excited for the opportunity.

“It’s definitely been very fun to jump over here from high school not expecting to get roles, but then to actually get roles,” Martin said. “It was really exciting for me.”

For junior theatre major Alfredo Tamayo, who plays T.B Doyle, “Important Hats” is also his first comedy, but his second main role at Wesleyan. He called the rehearsals fun but also “controlled chaos.”

“I think at first, all of us going through it we kind of like thought about how weird it was, what we were going to do with it, how we were going to do it,” Tamayo said. “Now further into the process, I think we have a ground ready and we’ve all collectively hit a single, ‘This is how we’re going to do it.’”

He says the play will have a lot of crazy events, flip-flopping, and jokes. According to sophomore theatre major John Traxler, when rehearsing students had to pause for laughing at times.

Graphic by Hannah Onder “It’s one thing to read the script and see “Important Hats of the Twentieth Century” is a comedy fresh off of Broadway about a man where the writer has put in jokes,” he said, “but from the 1930’s who finds a hat that allows him to time travel. Student admission is free. whenever someone adds their physicality to it and their timing it just makes it a lot funnier.

“The most challenging part has been prob- see this,they should be prepared to laugh.”

Often times,we have to pause during rehears- ably learning all the lines,” Traxler said. “I’ve Traxler says if the audience takes anything als just to laugh at what someone’s done. It’s never been one with a good memory, but it’s away from the play it will be a good time from very funny.” just something that you do again and again. all the comedic aspects.

Traxler will also be playing his first lead role You start to learn more about the script and the “They’re going to take away that it was a fun in one of the big four Theatre Wesleyan pro- characters as you just do it a thousand times.” night and that it was just a good time,” Traxler ductions as Sam Greevy.

Traxler says the play will have a focus on said.“It’s a great date night because it’s some“He’s (Greevy) eccentric because he makes a fashion and humor. thing that is just silly enough that it’s fun to be lot of outrageous and flamboyant dresses for a “This play is about the importance of fash- at.” lot of starlets in 1937,” Traxler said.“I’ve pre- ion, at least from my point of view,” Traxler “Important Hats of the Twentieth Century” pared for this role by studying all my lines and said.“I think it’s a lot of how different time runs Feb. 15-17 and Feb. 22-25 at the Thad by looking at the way other actors have por- periods express their confidence in different Smotherman Theater. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. extrayed characters similar to him.” forms of fashion and how other people may cept for Feb. 25, when showtime is 2 p.m. Tickets Traxler also values the rehearsals since not necessarily see it as that. Then there’s a lot are $5 for senior citizens, faculty and non-Westhey’re a chance to get a better grasp on his of other absurdist kind of themes to the show leyan students; general admission is $10. For character. and it’s very funny. If an audience is coming to more information, go to txwes.edu.

2 artists display their ‘fluid dialog’ in gallery Hannah Lathen

hrlathen@txwes.edu

Photo by Hannah Lathen Artists Thomas Motley and Liz Trosper have been engaging in a collaborative dialogue for more than four years; they send each other their work and then discuss them.

Photo by Hannah Lathen These paintings are a part of fluid dialog, a combination of colorful paintings, drawing and digitally created artwork on display in the Bernice Coulter Templeton Art Studio.

fluid dialog, a collaborative exhibition from two Texas artists, is on display in the Bernice Coulter Templeton Art Gallery until March 1.

The two artists, Liz Trosper and Thomas Motley, have been in a collaborative dialog since 2013, Motley said. The exhibition features colorful paintings, drawings and digital artwork.

“There are some art projects that are collaborative where more than one artist will work together on a project,” Motley said. “This sort of just developed naturally from Liz and I critiquing each other’s work over the last four years now. There is a dialogue going on between all of these pieces.”

Motley said the dialogue started when he sent images of his work to Trosper and one drawing of a bird resonated with her.

“She did a collage, and then I responded with other collages,” he said.

Motley focuses more on drawings and paintings while Trosper does a combination of print, ink and paint. Trosper said she feels really vulnerable having this collection in a gallery because it is not the traditional gallery work she usually shows.

“It is a little more experimental, a little more personal,” Trosper said. “It is more immediate although there is a lot of digitally fabricated work. There are some traditionally painted images. There is a lot of varied, sort of previously hoarded in the studio, kinds of work.”

Trosper said she and Motley both came up with the idea of displaying the dialogue in a gallery.

“It really is centered around our exchanges and sort of having the courage to put things out that are totally experimental and that have never been seen before,” she said.

Art professor Kit Hall said she does not understand the dialogue, but she does appreciate the color, the scale of the work and the craftsmanship.

“It still leaves me confused and I think that is not a bad thing because when you are a little bit confused about the art, I appreciate the point that they made that it makes you want to come back and try to understand it,” Hall said. “As human beings, our natural inclination, I believe, in looking at art is to be able to tell a story about it. When we can’t tell a story about it like that, just immediately, then we do get confused.”

The studio held a reception for the exhibition on Feb. 3.

Sylvester Rodriguez, a sophomore biology major, said the exhibition is interesting in looking at how the pieces were made. His favorite piece is Motley’s “Nest Egg.” “I am not sure about what an egg should be, but you can probably get an idea that it might be a blue jay egg or something of that sort,” Rodriguez said. “I like it though. It’s simple.”

Artist Genevieve Armstrong had her work on display in the gallery last fall in the ANIMUS exhibition. She said the work on display in fluid dialog is beautiful.

“There is a lot of thought put into things like color palette and presentation that I as a naïve artist didn’t think about,” Armstrong said. “It is a very professionally well put together show.”

Motley’s wife, Rebecca Motley, watched Trosper and Motley go back and forth for years and she said it is nice to have it all together in one room.

“It is almost kind of hard to tell who’s whose,” she said. “I think it is wonderful.”

The Bernice Coulter Templeton Art Studio is open 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday. The exhibition is free.

Photo by Hannah Lathen fluid dialog, an exhibiton featuring the work of artists Thomas Motley and Liz Trosper, is currently on display in the Bernice Coulter Templeton Art Studio across Rosedale. The exhibition will be on display until March 1. The studio is free and open to the community 10 a.m.- 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday. For more information on the gallery visit txwes.edu/art-gallery.

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Jenkins learning to win at Wesleyan Karan Muns

kemuns@txwes.edu

Branden Jenkins was named the Sooner Athletic Conference Men’s Basketball Player of the Week twice in a three-week period, according to ramsports.net.

The first award the guard received for his 44 points against Oklahoma City University on Jan. 6; the Rams won 106-92. He was also named the NAIA Division I Men’s Basketball Player of the Week for Jan. 1-7 for the same performance, according to ramsports.net.

The second was for averaging 27 points and seven rebounds per game in the wins against Southwestern Assemblies of God University and Southwestern Christian University on Jan. 15 and Jan. 20.

Jenkins said he was “locked in” during the OCU game and that led to his great game.

“Don’t get it wrong, I’m locked in each and every night, but I woke up that morning with dominating on my mind and that’s what I did,” he said. “I appreciate my teammates for helping me with that and coach putting me in the right position to be successful. I had fun that night. That’s what it’s all about.”

Jenkins left Louisiana State University, where he played during the 2016-2017 season, because he wanted control over his basketball career.

“Coach S (head men’s basketball coach Brennen Shingleton) gave me the opportunity to come here and show what I can do on and off the court,” Jenkins said. “Taking school seriously, and also becoming a better person and player. I love it here, the fans, the community; it’s a great place to focus and simplify your life.”

Jenkins feels he brings a lot to this team through leading and encouraging everyone in the program.

“I’m a leader, a brother,” he said. “I owe it to those guys for giving me the chance to lead and make mistakes and through it all they stand right beside me. I encourage one through 15 all the way down to the manager, Alec (Daniels). I treat everyone the same. I’m not this cocky guy because of where I came from.

This is my family.”

Wesleyan has helped Jenkins learn how to win and become a better player, he said.

“This place shows you what you’re really made of with so many guys that can play,” Jenkins said. “So every day it’s a challenge. Coach S is a great mentor to me as well as a great father figure. He wants the best for all of his guys and I needed that. So I’ll always be a Ram. Rams Up!” Jenkins said his main goal for the season is to get better. He wants to learn the game and get the opportunity for the team to play for something bigger than themselves.

“We care and we hate letting each other down,” he said. “We play for each other. Anything else is an extra, so we’re pretty close.”

Jenkins is an easygoing, charming guy, Shingleton said.

“He fits in really well,” Shingleton said. “He’s a dynamic guy and a big-time athlete. He’s a very good basketball player. The thing that Branden has done well is he has kind of let go of everything in the past and really tried to form himself into a good

Photo by Karan Muns Branden Jenkins (white T-shirt) practices the Wednesday before the Soutwestern Christian University game on Feb. 10.

college player here. I think that’s helped him.”

Jenkins works day to day and it helps that he has great men for teammates that encourage him to get better daily, Shingleton said.

“He’s obviously a dynamic player,” he said, “and he’s on a good team so that helps him. It’s scary to say it, but I don’t think we’ve seen his best basketball yet. We are still on him every day about holding back.”

This team is unique because there isn’t one guy that really stands out, Shingleton said. They all fit together and complement each other’s abilities.

“He’s kind of created a way in his head to take advantage of this opportunity,” he said. “I really appreciate that as a coach, but he’s kind of finding himself right now. That’s a good thing because we have a lot of basketball left to go.”

Shingleton said Jenkins’ personality is right where it should be; he is selfless and driven.

“He’s reliant on his teammates and maybe not many people know that,” he said. “He searches sometimes for encouragement, and we all do.”

Jenkins has stayed consistent and learned to win as a member

of the Texas Wesleyan team, Shingleton said. It’s tough because after each season there are only a handful of returning players, and they have to carry on the previous team’s legacy.

“So when new guys come in and they’re supposed to play and are expected to contribute they have to now figure out what works here,” Shingleton said. “And Branden’s been really good with that. At times he bucks the system a little bit. But that’s okay; it’s a good thing to do.”

Jenkins is great with his teammates; they support each other in any way they can, Shingleton said.

“He’s a charming guy. He’s fun to be around, so that helps him for sure,” he said.

Jenkins has a tremendous work ethic and will do whatever he can to help the team, forward Dare Brazeel said.

“Our team chemistry is really good,” he said. “We all enjoy each other and have each other’s backs.”

Everyone on the team contributes with their best ability, Brazeel said.

“Branden helps the team by just doing what he does best, which is defend and score,” he said. “He guards the other team’s best player every night while averaging 22 (points) a game.”

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