WEDNESDAY
November 4, 2009
Vol. 92 • No. 22 ONLINE:
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Macabre play, Woman in Black, hits the stage. A&E, page 5
School of business adds new professors Kimberly Saleh
ksaleh@mail.txwes.edu
Volleyball student is a ‘country girl in the city.’ Sports, page 6
Wesleyan celebrates neighbor’s success
The school of business added three new faculty members to its ranks this semester, making the school a stiff competitor. “With all of the professors hired, I see them being able to help reach the goal of [earning] an Advance Collegiate School of Business accreditation,” said Dr. Hector Quintanilla, dean of the school of business. “Only about 5 percent of all schools of business hold the elite title.” One of the new additions is Dr. Trisha Woolley, who was hired as assistant professor of management and is looking forward to connecting with students. “My favorite thing about teaching is that I can connect with the student’s and have them come back and share,” she said. “I was motivated to teach instead of working specifically in the field, because I love helping people and explaining.” Woolley received her bachelor’s degree and MBA from Marist College and earned her doctorate in management from the University of Massachusetts. Woolley was a research assistant before coming to Wesleyan. “I researched the area, and I came to Wesleyan because it is a small private community,” she said. “My favorite thing about Wesleyan is that just like the students are not just a number, neither are the professors.” Woolley said she has always loved to teach. “In college is when I first realized that I wanted to teach,” she said. “I started out substi-
Laura Rosser | Rambler Staff
Texas Wesleyan and the Poly community celebrated the recent success of Polytechnic High School Oct. 31. Sen. Wendy Davis spearheaded the event and was joined by participants such as Poly High’s ROTC (above). The crowd paraded from the high school down Rosedale to Wesleyan where University President Harold Jeffcoat and others spoke (left). The high school recently avoided closure by the state after improving its test scores significantly.
BUSINESS, page 3
New crime lab to increase area safety Jonathan Resendez
jlresendez@mail.txwes.edu
An old neighbor is finally getting a makeover. This city of Fort Worth is beginning construction to turn the old Stripling & Cox building on East Lancaster into a police department crime lab. The city purchased the building, which had stood vacant for two years, in late 2007. With all the financial pieces in place, construction crews have toiled through inclement weather to begin renovating the building since the official groundbreaking Oct. 13. “I am delighted that the crime lab is coming to East Lancaster,” said City Councilmember Kathleen Hicks, also a member of Wesleyan’s board of trustees. “The facility will give new life to a building that has stood empty for far too long.” She said the advantages are multiple “Residents will also benefit from the increased police
“It doesn’t make sense for a city as big as ours to have to outsource. The new crime lab will save time and money” Carlos Flores
CCPD Board Member presence,” Hicks said. “This, along with many other initiatives, is helping to rebuild the area around the great TWU campus in a special way.” The police department currently has 15,000-square-feet of space at its headquarters downtown to keep evidence and other property. The new building almost triples that, providing 40,232 square-feet. Mayor Mike Moncrief said at the groundbreaking that this will be a benefit. “This isn’t just a bigger crime lab. This will be a more efficient lab,” he said. “It will streamline the process by combining the evidence room with the crime lab.” Moncrief went on to credit
the Crime Control and Prevention District for the new lab’s inception. In 1995, Fort Worth was the first city in Texas with a sales tax-funded CCPD. It also helps fund Neighborhood Crime Control and Prevention and provides anti-gang initiatives. “It might be hard to believe, but in the ‘90s, Fort Worth Laura Rosser | Rambler Staff had one of the highest crime The new crime lab will provide more than 40,000-square-feet of space for storage and testing. rates in the United States,” Moncrief said. “Since [the member, said the group’s goal testing allows for the fast hanHe said completion is inception of the CCPD] our is to make Fort Worth the saf- dling of cases without com- scheduled for next spring. city’s [violent] crime rate has est city in the nation. promising the integrity of the Moncrief said that the plummeted 32 percent—this, “Businesses and people will evidence, Flores said. building would not only mark despite adding thousands of feel safer,” he said. “It doesn’t make sense for a a milestone in building a safer new citizens.” The new lab will also give city as big as ours to have to city, but also would be a maThe tax was up for renew- the police department the outsource,” he said. “The new jor investment in aesthetically al during elections Nov. 3. ability to perform DNA test- crime lab will save time and improving southeast Fort Carlos Flores, CCPD board ing on site. In-house DNA money.” Worth.