WEDNESDAY March 10, 2010
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Tuition expected to jump 5 percent Jonathan Resendez
jlresendez@mail.txwes.edu
Wesleyan faces a tuition increase similar to other local public and private institutions. Wesleyan tuition will increase 5 percent in the fall, according to Vice President of Finance and Administration Bill Bleibdrey. Wesleyan’s increase estimate comes from predicting what peer institutions will do along with predicted fall enrollment numbers, Bleibdrey said.
“We want to stay in the same range as a lot of other institutions,” Bliebdrey said. “The issue is a lot of us come out with our price increases at the same time, so nobody really waits and see what’s there. We kind of expect, and react to, what’s gone on in prior years.” Bleibdrey said Austin College, University of Texas at Arlington and University of North Texas are among the schools Wesleyan looks at. UTA is increasing tuition 3.95 percent while UNT’s expected tuition increase is 5 percent, according to news
reports. Texas Christian University is increasing tuition 6.2 percent. However, Bleibdrey said he does not consider TCU a peer institution. Wesleyan’s scholarship budget will also go up more than 5 percent in the fall, which means more money available for students, Bleibdrey said. “We think that’s necessary based on the economic climate and what student’s tell us about the affordability,” Bliebdrey said. “It’s part art, part science.”
Director of Financial Aid Shanna Hollis said it’s important that students remember Wesleyan is a private institution. “It allows more flexibility in terms of how we award some institutional funding,” she said. “The more you have to pay in direct costs is directly related to the total amount you can receive in financial assistance.” Public institutions are feeling the pinch more than private ones, she said.
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Formerly homeless students find niche
Rene’ Edwards lredwards@mail.txwes.edu
Wesleyan’s student body is vast. It is made up of traditional, non-traditional, international and even previously homeless students. Two of these students are Melissa “Red” Bates, 29, and “Max”, 42, a current Wesleyan student who wants to keep his identity private. Red and Max have different backgrounds and stories, but share the commonality of going from homeless in Fort Worth to pursuing a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan. For Red, the choice to attend Wesleyan stemmed from childhood. She and her family have been members of the Polytechnic United Methodist Church since 1992. “I always loved the campus and knew that TWU was where I wanted to go when I decided to go back to school,” Red said. An English major and a current staff writer for The Rambler, Red said she lived in two Fort Worth homeless shelters for a total of three years. “The domino effects started when my mother died on Dec. 15, 2004,” she said. “After that, I moved in with some family friends who were like second family to me for about a year and a half, and that’s when I started TCC. Then the husband of the family said that I needed to find a job in a certain amount of time or I was going to have to move out. “I have no hard feelings because he was trying to make me jump into life with both feet, because I grew up kind of sheltered.” She didn’t find a job. “I went to the Presbyterian Night Shelter first, and I stayed there for about a year and a half,” she said. “Then I stayed with some friends at a camp site for a little bit, and then I went to the Union Gospel Mission.They’re the ones who put me back in school.” Eventually, Red got hired working the front desk at a women and children’s shelter across from Presbyterian Night Shelter “I really did love my job, and I loved working with the kids,” Red said. “Even though I was working and I loved my job and I felt like I had a purpose, I never forgot that I was homeless.”
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Rebecca Moore | Rambler Staff
There are approximately 6,378 people who are homeless in Fort Worth over the course of a year.
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Honor society collects books
Melissa Bates mdbates@mail.txwes.edu
Mortar Board, the national senior college honor society at Texas Wesleyan, is hosting a book drive. Mortar Board’s national project is reading literacy. “If you look at the statistics, a child that hasn’t learned how to read by the time they are in second grade will not graduate high school,” said Alice Wade, president of Mortar Board. “Seven out of 10 will end up in jail.” The book drive will benefit a school that caters to Pre-K through 12th grade students. Mortar Board chose to work with a private school, Vision Academy. “The school has 47 students they are currently helping,” Wade said. “A lot of them are low income and they live in this neighborhood.” Pre-K through fourth grade children need books like Easy Readers, while upper grades need biographies, fiction and nonfiction. “We have children 3 years old learning how to read, then we have students all the way up to 12th grade,” said Tiffanie Alexander, Visions Academy teacher. Multiple copies of the same book are preferred so the entire class and teacher can read the book together, although single copies are accepted. “I think this is a wonderful opportunity for the community to become aware that we are here and
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Study abroad trip offers firsthand exposure Jonathan Resendez
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Some students crack a textbook and learn Spanish. But others can learn Spanish and receive course credits by actually living in Mexico. Wesleyan’s International Programs department will travel to Cuernavaca, Acapulco and Mexico City, Mexico from July 11 to 25. The majority of the trip takes place in Cuernavaca where students pick two out of three upper-
level Spanish courses to study while they stay with Mexican families. “We want to give students an experience that’s beyond what they would see as a tourist,” said Marie Boisvert, director of international programs. “The real value in the study abroad experience is seeing how everyday people in Mexico live, what their everyday life is like and experiencing their culture more firsthand.” Boisvert used the example of staying in a beach resort to
illustrate a tourist’s disconnection with the real essence of a location. “If you never explore beyond that, you’re not going to have a real sense of what it is to experience the culture,” she said. There are both obvious and hidden benefits to studying abroad. Complete language immersion is an advantage taking courses in Mexico has over taking courses in a Wesleyan classroom, Boisvert said.
“Instead of going home and speaking English, ordering something at the store or getting around here speaking English,” she said. “If you’re in Mexico, you have to do everything in Spanish. You’re thinking in Spanish and your language capabilities grow exponentially.” Roberto Gomez, assistant director for the Language Education Travel Service, said that seeing how the Mexican
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Opinion Smoking litter makes us all look bad
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Melissa Bates Rambler Staff
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Smokers leaving their trash on the ground is repugnant. I am a smoker, but I always try to find an ashtray or smoker’s cease-fire, and I have never thrown an empty cigarette pack on the ground. One day while walking across our beautiful campus, I passed the library and saw an empty cigarette pack that had been thrown on the ground and stomped on, yet there was a trash can 20 feet away. It infuriates me that some people are so disrespectful. Don’t claim you have school spirit then flick a cigarette away or throw your pack down. You have to remember that this is your campus. This is my campus. This campus belongs to everyone. Treat it like your home. This campus actually is home to some students. Do you throw cigarette butts down inside your house? No, you have an ashtray for that. So what if you have to walk 20 feet out of your way to throw a pack in the trash or put a cigarette in the smoker’s cease-fire. You’re a smoker, you need the exercise. If you don’t want to walk out of your way, just keep the cigarette in your hand until you reach your destination. It’s a pretty safe bet that wherever you are going will have a place for cigarette disposal.
If you just finished your pack of cigarettes and are not near a trash can, then put the pack in your pocket or backpack and throw it away when you reach a trash can. Don’t get me wrong, I am not claiming sainthood here. I am not claiming that I have never flicked a cigarette butt when I am on campus. I, however, do my best to always find the proper receptacle for my trash. Also, please be respectful of the nonsmokers on campus. At least try to blow your smoke in the opposite direction or wait until they have passed before even taking a puff. Does anyone remember that last semester there was a petition to make this a smoke-free campus? If smokers are not respectful of this campus, we may lose our privileges. In the summer of 2009, Tarrant County College banned smoking across the board, on all campuses. Students, faculty and staff are allowed to smoke in their cars, but no ‘smoking remnants’ are allowed to leave the car, i.e. butts, ashes, smoke. University of Texas at Arlington has initiated a campus-wide ban as well, effective August 2011. Many other colleges are following suit. If we smokers are not more respectful of where we smoke and what we do with our trash, then eventually we may not be able to smoke anywhere except our own houses or cars, maybe. Texas Wesleyan has gone to great lengths to cater to smokers by installing the smoker’s cease-fire receptacles in strategic locations. The least we can do is thank them for their consideration by using the ash trays and receptacles. Being a smoker, I understand that you can’t always be at a designated smoking area
Rebecca Moore | Rambler Staff
Litter make a dirty habit even dirtier.
because you are trying to get from one class on one end of campus to another class on the other end, but whenever possible, please do try to use the designated smoking areas. Not only is it polite and cuts down on trash, but it also shows others that you are trying to be respectful of them and this campus. You also have to remember that cigarette butts are not biodegradable. Cigarette filters may look like cotton, but are made of cellulose acetate, a plastic that takes between 18
months and 500 years to degrade, according to cigarettelitter.org. The Centers for Disease Control has determined that approximately 25 percent of adult Americans, about 46 million, are smokers. Cigarette butts may seem small, but butts add up, and that is severely affecting our environment, according to cigarettelitter.org. Remember those numbers the next time you finish your cigarette.
Spring vacation
Break from monotony According to “College News,” South Padre Island is soon to become one of the most popular places to spring break in the U.S. for college students. Port Aransas seems to be coming in a close second. When most college students are asked about their plans for spring break, you tend to hear, “I’m going to Padre to fist pump all week, obvi,” as stated by Undecided junior, Miguel Arreguin. However, there seems to be a growing number of students like me, who don’t necessarily swoon over dirty, crowded beaches and having sand in your shorts all week. So for those of you out there I present: The Alternative Spring Break - it’s not a lifestyle, just a new path. High Beam Research Group defined spring break as “an American college ritual known for extreme behavior--binge drinking, drug taking and sexual promiscuity.” Well no offense to you lovely binge drinkers out there, but I am forging a path filled with sobriety and adventure that I might actually remember when I get back to campus. If you don’t feel like couch surfing this spring break, the perfect solution is to take
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a random road trip. My roommate and I searched for bands that we like and found a concert in a random location. Then we planned our spring break around that. It’s fun to plan because it’s a change from the norm, but it also seems to cost less money because you are venturing to a location that isn’t flooded by tourists. The Alternative Spring Break has something to offer for everyone, without the loud overcrowded beaches of Padre and Cancun to ruin the drama-free fun. The first step is to pick something you’re interested in: concerts, arts shows or the world’s best apple pie, whatever you enjoy. Rock climbing is great this time of year. Plan your trip around that one activity and find crazy, odd things to go see or do that lead up to the big event. Spend the week on the road, enjoying the things that we, as busy Americans usually overlook. Stop to smell the roses, as they say, and turn up the tunes. The road trip is the way to go when you’re planning a safe and unique spring break. So get out the map and enjoy. Trust me; this will be one spring break you will not forget.
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people live and play helps students understand immigrants in the U.S. “Students often express how their experiences in Mexico broadened their understanding and increased their appreciation for the people of this country,” he said. “They have expressed their amazement at the way Mexican families display their emotions, respect and family unity in the home. Some of their preconceived ideas are dispelled.” Gomez said studying in Mexico allows students to see the riches, grandeur and poverty of Mexico, something which cannot be shown in a classroom. “In the classroom, they couldn’t see or understand why there are so many street
HOMELESS The lack of freedom and sleeping on a mat every night is a constant reminder of not having your own home and warm bed, she said. “It’s definitely harder for women to be homeless,” Red said. “The PNS is very unsafe for women; there have been rapes and murders inside the building.” According to the Mayor’s Advisory Commission on Homelessness, in Fort Worth there are approximately 6,378 people who are homeless over the course of a year. Of that amount, 52 percent have disabilities, which include addiction and mental instability. Approximately 3,800 people are homeless right now. Red said she has been an avid reader since she was 5 and is thankful that she never got involved with drugs and rarely drinks. “My only addiction is coffee and cigarettes,” Red said. For Max, addiction, among other things, was paramount for his decline into homelessness. “A lot of it was my own making,” he said. “I created a lot of problems for myself from my teenage years on. I came from a family that was very dysfunctional. They had run rampant for generations from alcoholism and all kinds of abuse.” When Max turned 18, he ventured into the world with no guidance or emotional or financial support. “I didn’t have a lot of social skills,” Max said. “I didn’t know how to be someone’s friend. There are a lot of things that led me into alcoholism and addiction.” For Max, the past 20 years of his life consisted of jail time, treatment facilities, and his own personal demons. He kept himself from overcoming his struggle for decades. Asking for help, Max said, was the biggest hurdle and he spent the entire year of 2006 at the Presbyterian Night Shelter. “As a man, I’ve got to make
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“If they close for siesta you’re not getting your product. Just have a beer.” Dr. Amy Bell
associate professor of Spanish vendors in Mexico—some as young as 5 years old,” he said. The trip also creates a sense of community which helps students perform better academically and can increase their chances of earning a degree, she said. “Once you feel that connection, you’re more likely to graduate,” Boisvert said. “Research suggests that study abroad helps students persist to graduation in a four-year degree.”
Dr. Amy Bell, associate professor of Spanish who leads the trip, attests to the benefits of studying abroad. As both of her parents are retired professors of German, she said traveling abroad is “in her blood.” “I’ve been going on programs like this since I was an Travelers visit an ancient Mexican temple while in Cuernavaca. undergraduate,” she said. “It’s the best thing.” lifelong friendships. ‘no mas.’” Bell said living with fami“It’s always the same famiStudents accustomed to lies helps students think, act, lies, so evidently it’s a positive strict schedules are in for culeat and drink like them. Past experience,” Bell said. “Other- ture shock. experiences have resulted in wise, the families would say, “If you’re used to everything
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“I thought that it was my responsibility
to get myself out of it since I got myself into it.” “Max”
previously homeless Wesleyan student my own way,” Max said. “I thought that it was my responsibility to get myself out of it since I got myself into it. I finally realized that sometimes you have to ask for help, and that was hard. My pride wouldn’t let me. I thought that I didn’t need anyone’s help.” The breaking point occurred several years ago when he was convicted and incarcerated for a crime he didn’t commit. Max said his lifestyle put him in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people. But things began to change. “I had a public defender, and she looked me in the eye and said some key things that I know made me realize that God was involved in this meeting between she and I,” Max said. “She said she could get me the minimum sentence, and when I got out, I needed to go to a treatment center.” When he was released from jail, he made an unsuccessful attempt at rehab and immediately relapsed. Soon after, he encountered a previously homeless friend who was doing well, and he became Max’s mentor. “He taught me how to appreciate life again, and things just started happening- incredibly good things would fall into my life,” Max said. Soon after, Max found and maintained a job in downtown Fort Worth and met another person who was instrumental in helping him get into college. He became friends with a frequent customer, who gave him $2,500 to pay an outstanding debt to Wesleyan, which he obtained from a
failed attempt at college in 2002. Max said he had severe apprehensions about going back to college. He was worried about what people would think and felt as though he wouldn’t fit in, but he knew he was ready. Not caring what others think was one of the most important lessons his mentor taught him, Max said. “He said, ‘Whatever they think of you, whether it’s good or bad, is none of your business. That’s not the deal we have, your business is to stay clean and sober today and let God take care of the rest.’ That was so huge for me,” he said. Max is now a mentor for several men who battle addiction, and he counsels at treatment facilities and hospitals. He hopes to attend law school after graduation. In October 2008, Fort Worth enacted a 10 year program to end homelessness called Directions Home: Ending Chronic Homelessness in Fort Worth, Texas. According to the Permanent Supportive Housing production program model for Tarrant County, the city will spend $66.7 million on construction for 662 permanent emergency housing units, which includes facilities to serve people with addiction and mental health issues. The brief states that Tarrant County spends more than $30 million a year facilitating the homeless. Directions Home is an initiative that will also prevent homelessness, which will be less taxing and expensive in the future. To help, visit www.ahomewithhope.org.
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being done on time, that’s just not the way,” Bell said. “If they close for siesta you’re not getting your product. Just have a beer.”
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Hollis also said the price increase could provide some students with the opportunity to receive more financial aid. While some of the money will go toward providing more Internet access and investing in expanding some of the doctorate programs, other funds will cover cost increases in faculty health insurance. “Our medical insurance rates for all the employees went up 18 percent this year,” Bliebdrey said. “So all of the sudden, that additional revenue from the price increase has to cover things like insur-
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ance cost increases.” Wesleyan President Dr. Harold Jeffcoat agreed that the “astronomical” increase in health insurance rates is a top priority. “There’s just not another way to do it,” he said. “For the first time in recent memory, we’re asking every employee to pay a portion of their own health insurance.” Faculty and staff of the university pay 5 percent of their medical insurance premium for insuring themselves, Bleibdrey said in an e-mail. Additional costs are borne by
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serving the community,” Alexander said. “It’s good for people to understand that there is a school in the community that provides all types of things outside of just teaching.” Mortar Board placed collection boxes in strategic locations throughout the cam-
pus, including the library and student union building. Mortar Board will collect books through March 29 and will present the books to the school at the Mortar Board induction ceremony and luncheon March 30. Unused books will be recycled or sold to Half Price
employees if they choose to insure a spouse or family member. Student Government Association President Heath Scott said raising tuition to cover faculty healthcare is “an unfortunate evil that must be dealt with.” “It is my hope though, that we shift the main burden off the backs of the students and spread it evenly among all members of the Wesleyan family,” he said. “A 5 percent tuition hike will be hard for a lot of my fellow students to handle.” Books, depending on their condition, and the money will be used to purchase books that are needed, Wade said. Wade hopes to make the drive a yearly event, ideally in the fall. “This will be a good way to rally the kids together and get them out of their stupor from summer,” Alexander said.
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Summer break in India Wesleyan students and faculty get ready for cross-cultural journey
Suhasini Yeeda
syeeda@mail.txwes.edu
As the 2010 summer break approaches and students make their plans for the three month break, a group of Wesleyan students will use their break to participate in a study abroad trip to India. The trip is scheduled for July 1-14, with a total of three professors and 24 students going. Dr. Mark Hanshaw, assistant professor of comparative religious studies, said this will be Wesleyan’s first trip to India. Hanshaw said the experience will “help expose students to a culture and set of religious systems that are very different from what we are accustomed to.” Hanshaw said this exposure will help challenge barriers or assumptions students often have about other areas of the world, especially third world countries. But students have a variety of reasons for going on the trip. Senior religion major Carlos Careaga said one reason he is going is because Wesleyan makes the trip financially possible for students. “I decided to go to India, because it was affordable,” Careaga said. “The price, $1,250, was peanuts compared to what it would normally be if you were paying on your own.” The price includes airfare, lodging, in-country transportation, transfers, insurance,
Hindus pray outside the temple in Mathura where the Hindu god Krishna was born.
hand-outs, lectures, museum and tour site fees. Hanshaw said most of the students going are religion and education majors, but he encourages students from any major to join. One such student, sophomore business major Oscar Lazarky, said this trip could look great on a future resume. “I feel like having this on my resume will help my career tremendously,” Lazarky said. “It says I can go places and take care of different things and communicate with many different races and cultures of people in the work force.” But aside from listing this experience on his resume, Lazarky said he intends to enjoy the trip as well. “I’m not too excited about the food, but I can’t wait to see all the crazy souvenirs I can find,” Lazarky said. Hanshaw said the cross-
“The
study of religion can build bridges. Ignorance is what divides us.” Carlos Careaga
senior religion major disciplinary aspect of this trip is perhaps one of the greatest opportunities for students. Hanshaw also said students from both religion and education majors can complete up to six hours in a span of two weeks. But Careaga said the credits weren’t as important to him as the experience itself. “I don’t even need those six hours,” Careaga said. “I would have graduated this semester,
Local Hindu priest sits meditating in an alley.
Photos courtesy of Dr. Hanshaw
but I wanted to go…so I postponed my graduation until August.” Careaga said it will benefit him in his future career in the ministry. He believes this trip will give real experience to his studies in Buddhism and Hinduism. “The study of religion can build bridges,” Careaga said. “Ignorance is what divides us.” Hanshaw said students would have the opportunity to travel to many famous locations in India. Students will tour the Dalai Llama’s home in Dharmashala, the Himalayan Mountains, and the fairgrounds where the Beatles studied under the Maharishi yogi. “This trip will allow you access to places you wouldn’t normally be allowed to go,” Careaga said. Toward the end of their journey, Hanshaw said they will travel down the Ganges River to witness a traditional ceremony of the scattering of cremated ashes and visit Varanasi, the birthplace of Buddha. “I hope that the university Buddhist monks gather for their morning meditation at the resikeeps helping students with dence of his holiness Karmapa, the religious leader of Tibetan trips like this,” Careaga said. Buddhism second to the Dalai Lama.
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Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The Fort Worth Water Gardens offers a refreshing break for spring break.
Chuck Fain
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When someone says “spring break,” it usually evokes visions of beaches with scantily clad beauties at Fort Lauderdale or some other tropic getaway. If you’re like me, however, you have neither the organizational foresight, nor the cash to bring such a trip to fruition. So, for those of us stuck in DFW for this school-free week, the Chuck’s Cheap Thrills team has compiled a list of fun(?) and frugal activities to fill your spring break. Dollar Movies: There used to be several movie theaters in the Metroplex that showed second-run movies for only a dollar. Unfortunately, only one
remains in our neighborhood. Cinemark 8 in North Richland Hills offers the theatrical experience for a dollar or less and is about a 20-minute drive from Wesleyan. You can check out other locations and show times at www.cinemark.com. There’s also Netflix, Redbox and a host of other cheap movie services that you can use to fill up all that time. For a complete listing of movie rentals, see previous “Cheap Thrills” columns at therambler.org. Six Flags/Hurricane Harbor: Right in our backyard, in Arlington, Texas, sit two massive amusement parks that offer great ways to fill a day or two. Six Flags has rides, shows, games and ridiculously overpriced food. You can avoid the price gouging,
however, if you bring your lunch or eat at one of the local fast food places – just get your hand stamped when you leave so you can reenter. Admission will cost about $50, which is the same price as a “Play Pass” that allows unlimited visits to any Six Flags throughout the year. You can purchase tickets online and pay the children’s price of $31. Hurricane Harbor, the Six Flags water park, is a bit cheaper – only $26 for admission – and offers fun for the whole day. They even have a new ride, the “Mega Wedgie,” which sounds… delightful. Check out their Web site sixflags.com for more deals, tickets and coupons. Also, if you visit an Arlington visitors center, they usually have discount tickets for both theme parks.
Museums: Great works of art and intriguing exhibits await your perusal in any of Fort Worth’s magnificent museums. Aside from their usual masterpieces, the Modern Art Museum (themodern.org) features awe-inspiring architecture, great masterworks of art and, for a limited time, the exceptional Andy Warhol exhibit featuring work from the last decade of his life. Admission is only $4 with student ID and half price on Wednesdays. There’s also the Amon Carter Museum (cartermuseum.org), the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History (fwmuseum.org) and the Kimball Art Museum (kimbellart.org) to name a few. Zoo: The Fort Worth Zoo (fortworthzoo.org) offers an afternoon of fun and fascinating animal watching. Their new exhibit, The Museum of Living Art, is a $19 million project featuring a “30,000-square-foot, indoor/ outdoor herpetological facility, which houses more than 100 amphibian and reptile species, representing more than 850 animals,” according to the zoo’s Web site. There’s also many more exhibits including the penguins, primates and “Parrot Paradise” included with price of admission, which is $12 – and half price on Wednesdays. Botanic and Water gardens: If you’re looking for a more laidback, scenic place to spend some time, check out Fort Worth’s acclaimed Botanic Gardens or the Water Gardens. Both are free. Located in downtown Fort Worth, the Water Gardens is “an oasis in the concrete jungle of the center of town,” according to fortwortharchitecture.com. The Botanic Gardens are located off University Drive and are a great spot for a nice day. Additional options for a fee include Butterflies in the Gardens, where 12,000 live tropical butterflies from around the world are released, the Japanese Gardens and Concerts in the Garden, featuring the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.
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March 10, 2010
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Hazinski can start packing for Moscow Jacqueline Wittman
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Texas Wesleyan table tennis player Mark Hazinski won the men’s National Team Trials, qualifying to represent the United States at the World Championships. The Texas Wesleyan table tennis program hosted the USA Table Tennis National Trials and the Leone Texas Wesleyan Open back-to-back March 4 to 7. Hazinski beat Yu Shao in the final of the National Trials on March 5 to qualify for the World Championships. Shao won the first of five games 117, but Hazinski went on to win the match after beating Shao 11-9, 11-7, 11-6 and 11-6.
Mark Hazinski
The top three winners of the national trials qualified for nationals. Shao, who won second place, was followed by Peter Li. Along with Ariel Hsing, winner of the women’s na-
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tional team trials, Hazinski will represent the U.S. at the World Championships May 23-30 in Moscow, Russia. The competition between Shao and Hazinski was high as Shao beat Hazinski in the semifinals of the Leone Open. Hazinski also won first place in group one of the men’s round robin while, Shao finished first in group two of the men’s round robin. Other players from the Texas Wesleyan table tennis team also played well throughout the Leone Open. “We had good results from many of our players, such as Chance Friend and Sarah Hazinski,” Head Coach Jasna Rather said.
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Chance Friend won the under 2400 event after defeating a competitor from Korea in the semifinals to move to the of the Leone Open. “The tournaments were great preparation for college nationals,” Rather said. “Our players haven’t gotten to play at this high level since December, and I hope it helps our team to be exposed to better players.” The Leone Texas Wesleyan Open totaled $9,000 in cash prizes, drawing top competitors from New York, China and Peru. “The tournaments were different because we had a lot of new players come out and many from different states,”
said Texas Wesleyan player Ines Perhoc. “The high cash prizes attracted many strong competitors, and, overall, it was a fun experience.” The first place winner of the Leone Open, Shao Yu, won $3,000 and the second place winner, Huijing Wang, won $1,500. “The tournaments were very well-organized, and all the players seemed to be satisfied,” Rather said. “They were excited to have the opportunity to compete with the best players in the U.S.” Rather also said hosting the tournaments was very successful. “Participants were happy with how the Wesleyan ta-
ble tennis program ensured everything ran smoothly throughout the tournaments,” Rather said. According to Rather, the known success of Texas Wesleyan hosting tournaments is beneficial when they apply to host the 2012 Olympic Trials.
“I hope it helps our team to be exposed to better players.” Jasna Rather head coach
No. 1-seed Rams fall in conference seminfinals
Courtesy of athletic department Jeremy Smith (above) made the all-tournament team, along with Jamel White.
Jamel White was also named all tournament, scoring 28 points, with eight rebounds and six assists. “I am proud to be a member of the all-tournament team, but now it’s about our team taking advantage of every opportunity to get better for nationals,” White said. The Rams will have less than two weeks to bounce back from the loss. “Hopefully we can use the loss as a learning experience and it will help us refocus as we prepare for the biggest stage of all,” Waldrop said. Although the Ram’s didn’t win the conference tournament, they won the regular season championship and earned an automatic bid to the 73rd Annual Buffalo FundsNAIA national tournament in Kansas City, March 17-23. Bacone College won the conference tournament and is also headed to the national tournament with the Rams. In conference play, the Rams split wins with Bacone. At home, the Rams beat Bacone 78-71, but lost in Waxa-
Jacqueline Wittman
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The Texas Wesleyan men’s basketball team lost in the semifinals of the Red River Athletic Conference basketball tournament, 78-64 to Bacone College. “We knew Bacone was a good team and had been playing very well,” said Head Coach Terry Waldrop. “We expected to compete at a high level that afternoon.” The Rams were the No. 1 seed in the tournament and knocked out hosting team Southwestern Assemblies of God University in the quarterfinals with a 76-72 victory. Fifth-seeded Bacone College won the RRAC tournament after defeating Texas College, 86-85 in the final. After the championship game, two Rams were announced to the RRAC men’s basketball all-tournament team. Jeremy Smith, junior guard, was named all tournament, scoring 29 points in the tournament. Senior forward
hachie 70-67. “We have to have the mindset that our regular season is over now, and if we lose, we are out,” White said. “We have to play each game like it’s our last.” According to Waldrop, the team’s top competitor in the national tournament needs to be itself. “The men will have to work hard to do well in Kansas,” Waldrop said. “We are a team. If we can quickly grasp that we need to work together, then our time in the tournament can be very interesting and fulfilling.” The NAIA national tournament is a 32-team single elimination tournament. The bracket announcement will be live at 4 p.m. March 10 on College Fanz TV. “We want to compete at a high level in the national tournament and represent Wesleyan the way our previous teams have, with class and tremendous effort,” Waldrop said.
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