Before the day is over, Chris Riley will have consumed two pounds of red meat and downed one chicken shake.

“Yes, I make chicken shakes,” said Riley with a grin.

The unappetizing beverage is the daily diet of Riley, a powerlifter who on March 2 deadlifted 705 pounds at The Arnold, an international event held in Columbus, Ohio in honor of Arnold Schwarzenegger, a former Mr. Universe and California governor. Con-testants from 48 countries took part in powerlifting, weightlifting and strong-man competitions.

This year, Riley, a 25-year-old gradu-ate assistant working on his master’s in exercise physiology, took second place in the USA Powerlifting Raw Chal-lenge.

Riley’s final stats were: bench press, 374 pounds; squat, 661 pounds; and deadlift, 705 pounds.

And yes, Schwarzenegger was there to enjoy the show.

The win was pretty impressive for someone who has only been lifting weights since late 2008. At that time, Riley was doing Olympic weightlifting, which consists of the events “clean-and-jerk” and “snatch.”

Today, at 296 pounds, he competes solely in RAW drug-tested USAPL com-

petitions which do not require the use of bench shirts or squat suits.

According to Justin Lascek, Riley’s long-time friend and coach, Riley in-formed him in 2009 that he wanted to deadlift 600 pounds for five repetitions. Lascek said knew this was a distant goal but had faith that Riley could pull it off.

According to Lascek, Riley would always wear the same hole-ridden Ar-kansas T-shirt whenever he deadlifted. Joking around with Riley, he asked, “Hey man, is that your deadlift shirt?”

“Yeah, I’m gonna wear it when I pull 600 for five,” Riley shot back.

That became his ritual, Lascek said. Riley would show up for workouts wearing his “ratty-ass” shirt and they kidded around that it would explode off him when he finally pulled up his fifth rep of 600 pounds.

According to Riley, the T-shirt sur-vived, but now has even more holes and is paper thin.

Lascek not only trains Riley, but owns and operates the website 70sbig.com which tracks Riley’s and other powerlifters’ progress and competition statistics. The site also displays each in-dividual powerlifter’s workout regime affiliated with the site, as well as diet and workout recommendations.

A powerlifter’s daily routine, espe-cially what he eats, plays a big role in the dedication of an avid competitor.

As unappetizing as a chicken shake may sound, it’s a necessary shot of protein that helps strengthen Riley. He subsidizes his vegetables with V8, drinks 1 1/2 gallons of water and eats

one sweet potato per day. Riley trains four days a week, two to

three hours per session, in his make-shift gym he shares with his roommate in their garage. His progress has been tracked over the years on 70sbig.com where one can find videos of Riley during particular training sessions and lifts.

Powerlifting isn’t always fun and games, however. Riley got a bloody nose while deadlifting a few times, and admittedly, had an “accident” once while doing a squat, but continued on with his workout. That’s dedication.

In the future, Riley hopes to move to a larger city or move out-of-state and become a strength trainer for a D1 university. Right now, he has his eyes set on “strongman” competitions. The winner of the strongman competition at The Arnold took home $45,000. Had Riley won first place in his powerlifting division, he would have walked away with $750.

While money is definitely a motiva-tor, it’s the pure love of the sport that drives Riley. It’s his passion, he said.

Lascek encourages every one of his trainees to look at Riley and how far he’s come in such a short amount of time

“You see him deadlift 705 and think it’s a lot, but he was just an average lift-er three years ago,” Lascek said. “He didn’t just all of a sudden squat 661 and deadlift 705. He had to earn it ev-ery step of the way.”

Riley will compete in the Raw Na-tionals, held in Killeen, Texas in Au-gust.

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Graduate assistant makes a name for himself as a powerlifting machine.

Dept. chair arrestedon lewdness charges

Wedding mistakecosts universityover $11,000

Dr. Adalberto Garcia, chair of the Foreign Languages department, is facing public lewdness charges after he was found engaging in sexual activity at Lucy Park Tuesday morning.

“This is a personnel matter,” MSU president Dr. Jesse Rog-ers said. “However, Dr. Garcia has been placed on adminis-trative leave pending our full investigation on the matter.”

According to police reports, Garcia was observed by an officer having sex in the park bathroom with a man identified as Harold Jefferson.

Garcia, who became chair in 1999, was re-leased from jail after post-ing a $1,500 bond.

The Harvard graduate has been teaching at Mid-western for 29 years, earn-ing tenure in 1995.

If he is found guilty, Garcia could be terminat-ed under policy 3.124 of the MSU policies and pro-cedures manual for moral turpitude.

“We will have a plan set so students aren’t im-

pacted by what has happened,” said Dr. Samuel Watson, dean of College of Hu-man and Social Sciences.

Provost on the huntfor new two deans

Two of MSU’s six colleges will be deanless next fall.

Dr. Rodney Cate, interim dean of the College of Science and Math, and Dr. Barbara Nemecek, dean of the Dillard College of Business, are stepping down.

A national search to select permanent deans has already begun, according to Provost Dr. Alicia White.

There will be four finalists for each position.

“Both searches were expected,” White said. “One search is to replace someone who left to become provost in 2010 so we knew a search had to be conducted to name a permanent replacement. The second search is to replace someone

whose three-year contract is ending (Nemecek).

Cate, who has been a professor at MSU since 1978, was made interim dean in July 2010. The dean before him held the position five years.

“It’s common to put someone in as in-terim dean while a search is conducted,” White said. “We cancelled the search last year because of budget uncertainties.”

As a tenured full-time professor of chemistry, Cate said he will return to the chemistry program if he is not chosen to remain as dean of the college.

Cate said since he has been dean there have been many issues put in front of him.

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Dr. Adalberto Garcia

A marital mishap at the Wichita Falls Museum of Art in 2010 cost the univer-sity more than $11,000 in donor funds.

Instead of using the money to buy equipment or fund scholarships, MSU ended up paying to host a wedding.

The foul-up, uncovered through state Open Records statutes, shows that on-going construction at the museum near-ly derailed the fall wedding of Elizabeth Gipson, daughter of Nick Gipson, aca-demic adviser and internship coordina-tor in the Dillard College of Business Administration.

Museum officials said they had expect-ed renovation of the main gallery and re-moval of asbestos to be complete when Gipson and his wife, Linda, booked the October venue for their daughter, put-ting up a $192 deposit.

But as the wedding date approached, it was obvious the work wasn’t going to be finished. By then, about 300 wedding invitations had been mailed out.

Complaints were lodged with the uni-versity, according to documents, forcing

administrators to scramble for an alter-native. MSU ended up renting a 40-by-100 foot tent from Taylor’s Rental Equip-ment Company in Fort Worth, pitching it in the museum parking lot.

Broken down, the rental included:$2,500 for the tent•$60 for sidewalls•$400 for eight lights•$5,400 for flooring•$1,800 for turf•$362 for tables•$45 for extension cords•$400 for other supplies•

Mary Helen Maskill, events coordina-tor at the museum, said the reception party used a gallery inside the museum.

The museum ended up compensat-ing the family with $11,092 in supplies, along with some of its own tables, chairs and personnel.

“It was clear the contractors weren’t going to finish,” said President Dr. Jesse Rogers. “I felt like it was our responsibil-ity to make good. I could not imagine a family having a wedding planned and

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Mars is still untouchable

After the space exploration pro-gram was shut down last year, it was unclear how the private multi-billion dollar industry was going to continue.

NASA’s 30-year shuttle program ended last July with the voyage of Atlantis.

The space shuttle Discovery has become a museum piece, turned over by NASA in mid-April to the Smithsonian Institution.

Private space exploration compa-nies have decided they are going to try and keep on shuttling, even if it is at a much slower pace than in the past.

United Technologies Corp. has announced it will sharply scale back its role in space exploration by sell-ing Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, a

manufacturer of rocket engines and liquid-propulsion systems that it has owned for seven years.

The space exploration cut was strategic for financial reasons.

But in the hearts of Americans it was just another blow to the ego.

How can America be one of the most influential and powerful na-tions in the world without a na-tional desire to for humans explore outside of our world?

The NASA Constellation program was a huge hope for Americans.

Exploring the moon and Mars have been a topic of discussion for generations, but alas, these missions have been put on hold, at least for now.

NASA plans to drop nearly $310 million from the budget for its Plan-etary Science division in 2013, a 20 percent cut that affects future mis-sions to Mars, lunar science, and the

study of the outer planets.Yes, the United States isn’t in a

financially perfect situation, but is cutting the exploration programs further each year really going to solve the problem?

The morale of citizens isn’t at its highest, unemployment rates are still at horrifying lows, and people just want to see a positive change.

It shouldn’t be up to private com-panies to explore space.

But since the U.S. passed the ex-ploration baton to China and India, it seems all those 8-year-old astro-nauts should put their dreams on hold, and the rest of America should too.

And, unfortunately, Newt Ging-rich is bowing out of the presiden-tial race on Wednesday so we can’t even dream about making the moon the newest state in the union.

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I’ve heard, from multiple sources, that everyone in the Wichitan hates ev-eryone else and is out to drag all organi-zation names through the mud.

To be honest, that’s all a little exag-gerated.

No, we don’t hate everyone. Yes, we report quite a bit of negative

news. But, which news sources (you know,

the ones that get the most website hits, the tabloids, US Weekly, etc.) don’t run negative stories?

Negative stories are what sell. Nobody cares to read about how Chi

Omega raised another $6,000 doing Swishes for Wishes...just like they did last year and the year before that and probably the year before that too.

Sure, it’s feel good stuff. But since when does feel-good stuff

make the news unless it’s astounding and not the same-old, same-old?

I will be the first to admit that I am hypocritical as well as judgemental.

And if you don’t think you are then you had better re-evaluate yourself or you might as well start a new religion...because you just may be the new Mes-siah.

But seriously, why is it that because negative stories are printed (stories of fact or opinion, for that matter), people throw fits and think that they were printed as a personal attack.

News is not a personal attack.New is news. Dr. Rogers has made quite a few mis-

takes and spent quite a bit of money in the past few years.

Why should The Wichitan NOT re-

port those types of stories?How would things be if the stories

weren’t reported?There would be no news. Would anyone read US Weekly if it

were just stories about how Angelina raises her 7,000 children?

No. Is the New York Times one of the

most respected news papers because it only prints positive stories on every-one?

Does President Obama think the New York Times is out to get him be-cause they wrote about his errors?

Of course not. News is news and public figures, as

well as organizations, are in the lime-light and when mistakes are made, there will be a reporter to write about it.

Shouldn’t each negative news story or piece be motivation to improve, to stop making the same errors?

Instead of taking the story like a personal attack, the smart thing to do would be to look at it objectively and re-alize that facts were reported. The facts

were taken from information given. Just because something is outlandish

or negative doesn’t mean it is “slan-der”.

What other information are reporters supposed to obtain other than the facts that are available and given?

Dr. Rogers is a public figure and his actions are in the public eye. His spend-ing habits are matters of the public.

As for Greek life, the philanthropy of the Greeks is obvious to the public, the lower-than-average median GPA of the Greeks is also public knowledge.

Why should it not be reported? Quotes are quotes and people will

backtrack on what they say. Unfortunately bad things happen and

mistakes are made. But news papers, including The Wich-

itan, are there to report the mistakes, as well as the important victories.

What would the campus be like if The Wichitan didn’t exist?

There were out cries like “why does the Wichitan exist again?” and other things such as “what a worthless pa-per”.

Now, think about it, who on campus would report the news...even the bad things?

Would you?Would you step up to the plate and

take the good, the bad and the ugly and put it down on paper for the world (or community) to see?

If you would then why aren’t you do-ing it?

Without the paper reporting the negative stories would you ever know about things that go on around campus, or went on? Would you even care about the mistakes Dr. Rogers has made?

If you don’t care about the mistakes, what does that show about your inter-est in the university?

Sure, you want your degree. Want to get in and get out. But, everyone who attends MSU is an important part of the community. And why shouldn’t the community members be informed?

So no, we don’t hate everyone. But, personally, I think everyone has

room to improve. Including me.

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Newspapers are fueled by what the patrons want to read

The 2012 summer Olympics, held in London, England, are fast approaching.

There has been much uproar about the logo for the games, which was accused of looking first like the word “Zion” and then the word “Nazi”...and now appar-ently looks like the swastika symbol.

The logo hasn’t been the only prob-lem the organizers are facing; there has been much backlash about photo, video and social network rules set forth by the organizers.

On event tickets it states, “Images, video and sound recordings of the Games taken by a Ticket Holder cannot be used for any purpose other than for private and domestic purposes and a Ticket Holder may not license, broadcast or publish video and/or sound recordings, including on social networking websites and the internet more generally…”

This, to most people would mean “do not take pictures with your phone or camera unless you’re just going to print them and put them in a family album.”

But London is backpedaling and stat-ing that is not what the clause is refer-ring to.

The Olympic committee’s internet guidelines say “Participants and other accredited persons can post still photo-graphs taken within Olympic Venues for personal use. It is not permitted to com-mercialize, sell or otherwise distribute

these photographs.”So, which is it, London?Are photographs allowed on Face-

book? Or will the 14 year old who post-ed a picture of a runner be arrested for sharing his excitement?

London is trying to run a totalitarian type of games this summer, so what does this show about the unity of our world?

The Olympics is supposed to be a sym-bol of world unity.

Instead London is making it seem like a prison event which is only to be attend-ed by the well-behaved inmates.

Not only that, but an event that is sup-posed to promote unity and athletics is boasting McDonald’s as one of it’s pri-mary sponsors.

The largest ever McDonald’s will be open around the Olympic grounds- seat-ing 1,500 people. How is London at-tempting to have people perceive them?

The obesity loving, anti-social network Nazi’s? Because, honestly, this games doesn’t look like it will be a favorite.

London has hosted the Olympics two times in the past; 1908 and 1948, and it doesn’t seem the backlash was and buzz about their rules has ever been this big.

People who attend the Olympics as spectators remember their experiences for the rest of their lives.

But it seems those going to London won’t be able to relive those memories through pictures...only through their new-found obesity.

Olympics: no Facebook!

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DEANS from pg. 1“The maintenance of leadership conti-nuity throughout this transition period was my initial goal,” Cate said. “One large component was the continuance and development of assessment needs as directed for not only our college, but the entire campus.”

He said another continuing endeavor he has contributed as dean is the growth of several of the college programs.

In 2009, administrators pulled Nem-ecek out of retirement to be the dean of the Dillard College on a term contract that ends this summer.

White said she was hired specifically because of her experience with the As-sociation to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).

“She worked with the college faculty on accreditation,” she said. “She did a great job with that and now its time to find a permanent dean.”

Nemecek served as dean at two other universities.

“The best accomplishment in the past three years has been completing the AACSB accrediation and moving the Dillard College to a new level of qual-ity,” Nemecek said. “I would like to be known for helping the college in this ac-complishment.”

Two committees, made up of faculty, have been created to manage the dean searches. White said each committee sends her a list of strengths and weak-ness of each acceptable candidate.

The provost then will make an offer after obtaining input from stakeholders and in consultations with MSU Presi-dent Dr. Jesse Rogers.

White said administrators hope to have both positions in place by next se-mester.

finding out the place they had it planned for was not available to them.”

The flub, according to Juan San-doval, vice president of business affairs and finance, may have been caused by a change in leadership at the museum near that time period. That year, Direc-tor Cohn Drennan stepped down and was replaced by Professor of Art Richard Ash.

A voucher submitted to MSU for pay-ment by the Fort Worth business carried the notation by Sandoval: “Museum was not able to host this event and the customer submitted a complaint to the president for the cost they incurred by

changing the venue. MSU is liable.” Rogers said Gipson’s status as a faculty

member had nothing to do with the de-cision.

“That was not done because he had any relationship with the university at all. If it had been someone I’d never heard of we would have handled it the same way,” he said.

However, had the Gipsons not made a fuss, they may never have gotten the money to change the reception venue.

“If you’re a customer and you don’t complain, you think I’m going to give you anything?” Sandoval said, adding that without the complaint, “We would

not offer anything.”Rogers denied meeting with the family

on the issue but both Gipson and Maskill said the situation was resolved in Rogers’ office.

This story shouldn’t discourage other families from booking receptions at the museum, Rogers said.

“Wedding receptions are going to be a big part of the income of that museum.”

Museum officials were unable to come up with records showing how much it would have charged the Gipsons for the rental.

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MSU has spent $75,248 on champi-onship rings for student athletes over the past five years, more than a quarter of it – $20,358 – coming from the student body at large.

In most cases, donor money financed the purchases of rings for sports teams, but administrators dipped into athletic fees paid by students twice in 2007 and three times in 2011. The Wichitan ob-tained records about spending on rings through state open records statutes this semester.

Charlie Carr, athletic director, ex-pressed surprise when told that athletic fee money was used to buy rings. He said the money was “never intended” to be used like that.

“The intent is that the money comes from donors,” Carr said.

He said that athletic fee money used was probably replaced later on with do-nor funds. There is, however, no record of this.

“I wouldn’t have a problem with it if the funds were available,” Carr said. “But they’re not.”

But Juan Sandoval, vice president of business affairs and finance, held the opposite view. He said he prefers to use athletic fee money as opposed to donor funds or tuition to purchase the rings.

“The use of athletic fee funds is great if you have it,” he said.

Athletic fee money was treated differ-ently when it was used to buy rings in 2007. In 2008, the student body voted to make the athletic fee a freestanding fee. Before that it was contained within the Student Services fee.

In most cases, though, athletic fee money hasn’t been available. Private gifts have bought the majority of sports rings since 2007.

If private money weren’t available, Sandoval said, he would be forced to use designated tuition for the purchases.

“Are the rings necessary? I think so,” he said.

An invoice shows MSU paid Gradu-ate Sales at 906 Denver St. in Wichita

Falls $5,694 for 26 championship rings on Aug. 28, 2007. Each ring cost $219. The same company billed $4,100 for 25 championship rings for the girl’s soft-ball team that same year. Each ring cost $164.

In 2011, JLewis Small Company in El-wood, Ind. charged $1,668 for 12 white alloy rings, each valued at $139. Thir-ty-two men’s and 32 women’s soccer championship rings cost $8,896. Each ring was valued at $139.

A team must win the Lone Star Con-ference to be awarded a ring. A team that wins the Super Regional wins a dif-ferent type of ring than a team that wins a national championship.

“That’s their reward,” said President Dr. Jesse Rogers.

Donors of the President’s Excellence Circle, who contribute at least $1,000 to the university, gave $30,516 since 2007 for rings.

“Many people who belong to the PEC give significant money to athletics,” Rog-ers said.

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Student athletic fees payfor championship rings

The Texas Attorney General Greg Ab-bott will deliver the commencement ad-dress at MSU’s graduation ceremony on May 12.

The ceremony will begin at 10 a.m. at Kay Yeager Coliseum. Approximately 674 undergraduate and graduate stu-dents are walking the stage this semes-ter. This is a jump up from December’s graduating class of 504, and last May’s 617 graduates. “I think he’ll [Abbott] give a very good speech and I’m excited to hear what he has to say,” graduating senior Leah Thomas said.

Abbott’s career in public service be-gan in Houston, where he served as a highly rated state trial judge in the 129th District Court for three years. The Texas Association of Civil Trial and Appellate Specialists named him “Trial Judge of the

Year.” Abbott was then appointed to the

Texas Supreme Court where he earned several awards including “Jurist of the Year” from the Texas Review of Law & Politics and Appellate Specialists, and “Appellate Judge of the Year” from the Texas Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates.

“I think anytime a high authority fig-ure is able to speak on campus, it has a powerful effect on the students,” gradu-ating senior Curtis Lester said.

For some students, graduation means more than just receiving a diploma and moving forward in life. “It gives family and friends a chance to celebrate with you and you receive recognition for all of your hard work,” Thomas said. “Also, it’s cool to graduate with all of your class-mates that have gone through the whole experience with you.”

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Jimmy and Deanna Whetsell are slat-ed to become neighbors of a brand new parking lot, courtesy of MSU.

The Whetsells bought their home at 2525 Hampstead Lane, next door to the Biology House in 2001.

“We always wanted to live in a college town,” said Mrs. Whetsell. “We chose to live near a campus. We didn’t know we would be living on campus.”

While not technically true, it may seem that way in a couple of years when both the Biology House and MSU police station are razed to make room for 130 commuter parking slots.

In February, the Board of Regents gave the nod to a master plan that includes tearing down both structures.

The Whetsells are familiar with the parking situation. Their daughter, Kourt-ney, a business major, parks in their cir-cular driveway and walks to classes.

Despite MSU’s parking woes, the Whetsells wish a parking lot didn’t have to go up next door to their property. The couple is concerned that the location of the concrete lot will alter the lush ap-pearance of the neighborhood.

Instead, Mrs. Whetsell would like to see MSU reserve the land as a green

space. “Make it a park,” she said. “Put some

benches there for students who have a couple hours to study. Keep the green, keep the trees, and keep the feel of the neighborhood.”

One member of the Board of Regents agrees with her.

Regent Sam Sanchez opposed the plan at the BOR’s February meeting.

“It seems like we’re cutting out a lot of the green space on campus, which is part of the charm of the university,” San-chez remarked.

“We understand that MSU needs more parking, but there are better alter-natives,” said Whetsell. The Whetsells would prefer a parking garage as a viable option, if it was centrally located to cam-pus.

“I would be willing to buy a parking decal to donate to the idea of a parking garage,” said Mrs. Whetsell. “I would pay $50 for my daughter to have cov-ered parking on campus.”

That appears unlikely, however.For now, it remains a few years down

the road. Demolition of the campus police sta-

tion can’t move forward until a new sta-tion is built at the location of the current Martin Building. Kyle Owen, associate vice president of Facilities Services, said

funds to design the station will not be available until the 2014 fiscal year. The project is expected to cost approximately $500,000.

Owen said he doesn’t anticipate city zoning ordinances to impact the project because the university must follow state-regulated policies.

“We’ll just have to make the best of it,” Whetsell said.

If you thought Wichita Falls was lacking entertain-ment, then how would you like to live in Antarctica?

Antarctica only has two bars. Now doesn’t that make Wichita Falls look like a big city?

MSU graduate Clinton Kidwell knows all too well what living in Antarctica is like.

“Antarctica is known as the coldest, windiest, dri-est place on the planet,” Kidwell said.

“No one actually lives in Antarctica,” said the for-mer grad. “But there are normally about 1,200 sci-entists and support person-nel who are working there during the summer, and about 100 of the employees stay during the winter,” said Kidwell.

With that many people around it’s hard to get lonely, but the 57-year-old said he does get homesick.

Kidwell spends most of the year in Antarctica working for Scientific Re-search Corporation (SCIRES), a corpo-ration that controls air traffic.

“They are always looking for experi-enced personnel,” said Kidwell about SCIRES. “I applied for the job and was accepted based on my experience.”

SCIRES employees work during the months of August through February, which is known as the austral sum-mer.

Kidwell recalled the scariest part of his excursion to Antarctica as the flight because once you are around the icy desert, there is nowhere to land if the plane has engine trouble.

He travels on plane from Austin to San Francisco to Christchurch, New Zealand then finally to McMurdo Sta-tion, Antarctica.

“We fly commercial to Christchurch then on a C-17 military transport to McMurdo Station.”

Although the weather is harsh, Kidwell wasn’t scared to embrace the coldness.

“We go through survival training in

case we are ever caught out in open.”Luckily the base camp is fully heat-

ed and insulated. The McMurdo has its own water and power plant, mak-ing it the Taj Mahal of Antarctica.

Since it’s daylight 24 hours a day during summer, employees literally work around the clock.

After working as a civilian control-ler for the FAA for twenty-four years, Kidwell retired. “I now work for a couple of independent contractors,” he said.

With the temperature between five to twenty degrees Fahrenheit, it’s not surprising that their food and other necessities must come from other lo-cations. The employees are cared for by aircrafts. Food, supplies and other amenities are carried and shipped many times before reaching the final destination.

The temperature can drop to below 20 degrees at the main base camp if a cold front comes through.

The main base camp is the McMur-do Station, which is a former Navy base along the Antarctic coast. Now the camp is managed by the National Science Foundation.

This past January, Kidwell was able to travel to the South Pole station and stay there for two days.

During his time at the South Pole,

the temperature was between -30 to -40 degrees.

Kidwell said it was a very special time for him to be there because 2012 marked the 100th year anniversary of the conquest of the South Pole.

He put MSU on the map during his adventure by displaying a banner from his alma mater at the South Pole.

Besides enjoying the beautiful land-scapes of Antarctica, Kidwell said he enjoys reading, exploring when the weather is good, taking lots of pic-tures, and playing chess, backgammon and cribbage tournaments.

Sadly no visitors are allowed on base so he has to keep in touch with his family via internet, phone calls and snail mail.

Kidwell wants to go back to Antarc-tica and work at the McMurdo Station camp a few more times, but not this coming season.

“I loved working in Antarctica. It was an incredible adventure that few get to experience,” he said.

Kidwell graduated from MSU with a BA in Journalism in 1981.

The Quanah native is married to his best friend Barbara and has two daughter and two step-daughters.

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Kidwell represents his alma mater proudly at the South Pole.

Twitter didn’t exist the last time the Federal Trade Commission examined alcohol advertising, back in the last de-cade.

Now hundreds of millions of tweets fly daily across the micro-messaging site, including an increasing number from wine, beer and liquor companies seek-ing market buzz. It’s part of a new media frontier, one that federal regulators are about to explore.

In an ambitious venture, the Federal Trade Commission is requiring 14 major alcoholic beverage producers to release information about their Internet and digital marketing efforts. The parent companies for storied wineries including Kendall-Jackson, Robert Mondavi and Beaulieu Vineyard, as well as the likes of Anheuser-Busch and Bacardi, are all being tapped for precious data likely to shape future advertising rules.

“The industry is innovating quickly,” Johns Hopkins University public health specialist David Jernigan said in an inter-view Tuesday, while “the pace of regula-tion and monitoring” has lagged.

Director of the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth at the university’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, Jernigan said the new study “can shine a bright light” on industry marketing that’s rapidly evolving to exploit new technol-ogies. Once completed, probably next year, the study will guide Federal Trade Commission recommendations on how the alcohol industry should regulate it-self both on- and offline.

“We as an industry have always been upfront about our practices,” Larry Kass, director of corporate communications for the Kentucky-based Heaven Hill Dis-tilleries, said Tuesday.

The last study of this kind, completed in 2008, compiled alcohol marketing

data for 2005. That year, 42 percent of the surveyed companies’ $3.3 billion in marketing expenditures went for tradi-tional media such as television, radio, print and outdoor billboards. Only 1.9 percent covered Internet efforts.

It was a different time, though. In 2005, Twitter was still months away from being launched. YouTube had just debuted, and Facebook was barely a year old. Since then, some companies have really bellied up to the social media bar.

“They’re everywhere. They’re blan-keting online,” said Sarah Mart, research director for the San Rafael, Calif.-based group Alcohol Justice, an advocacy group that criticizes what it calls the alcohol in-dustry’s “negative practices.”

The makers of Southern Comfort, for one, several years ago diverted most of their marketing efforts to social media and away from traditional advertising. Bacardi, Jernigan’s research found, has at least seven Facebook pages that together claim some 1.7 million fans. Captain Morgan Rum promotes a video game app for iPhones.

“Fearless adventurers battle friends and rivals in the true spirit of the leg-endary Captain Henry Morgan,” the game’s introduction states, adding that one should “raise your glass, always in moderation.”

Other companies are still finding their virtual way.

Mike’s Hard Lemonade Co., for in-stance, is one of the firms being surveyed by the trade commission. But though it has had a Twitter account for 13 months, the @mhl Twitter address has trickled out only about 140 tweets for a scant 77 fol-lowers as of Tuesday. Other companies, meanwhile, can sound so excruciatingly straight-arrow that boosting sales seems secondary to seeming responsible.

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Feds review online marketing of alcohol

MSU junior Tanner Colley spent last summer living in two different worlds.

One was with the Benny and Niki Nowell family and their three kids in Boulder, Colo.

The other world Colley inhabited was the gritty streets, alleys and soup kitch-ens of that affluent city. There, he rubbed shoulders with the poor and homeless,

calling scruffy men by the unique and crude alias they dreamed up. Names like “Rat” and “Dr. Mother Fucking Tasty” and “Wizard.”

“That’s what they want you to know them as because they are trying to push you away and put on a persona,” Colley explained. “Some have had a negative experience in the past and don’t want to risk getting too close to the public.”

Colley worked as an intern for the Sevens Ministry from late July to mid-August.

The Nowells were part of the home-less ministry in Boulder, a city where visi-tors are more likely to encounter colorful street performers and talented musicians

on the side-walks, not those with-out shelter.

But they were there,

Colley soon discovered. “When you have a lot of rich people

you also have a lot of people in poverty,” Colley said. Speaking of Boulder, he said, “There is no Middle Class.”

Boulder County has about 30,000 res-idents living in poverty, 2,000 of them homeless, according to statistics. Sixty percent of the homeless families have children.

Colley’s mission was to reach out to them.

“The Sevens main goal is to just give value to people,” he said.

“We’d go down to the Pearl Street Mall and just love on them because ev-eryone else overlooks them.”

Colley interacted with heavy drug and alcohol abusers, transvestites, hippies, prostitutes, and children and adults.

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Student Regent has her eyes and ears glued to what concerns the student body, including administrative spend-ing.

But she stands firms in her beliefs, holding on to her experience in student government.

Student Government Vice President Holly Allsup has been appointed to serve as the Midwestern State Univer-sity Student Regent by Governor Rick Perry.

Allsup will serve her term effective June 1, 2012 for one year. She is an in-tern for the Chamber of Commerce and is currently pursuing a degree in mar-keting and plans to graduate next fall.

“I believe I am the voice of the stu-dents and a leader in all areas of my life, and in everything I do, I strive to do better,” she said. “I’m never content. I always want what’s next.”

Allsup, 22, born and raised in Wichi-ta Falls, presides as president of the Stu-dent Senate.

Allsup also serves as the chair of the Traffic Appeals Committee and on the Student Conduct Committee.

She is active in several campus orga-nizations including Alpha Phi, Ameri-can Advertising Federation, and Big Brothers Big Sisters.

“I like volunteering in any way I can so I can give back,” she said. “I do it because I like helping out. It’s hum-bling. it pushes me a lot more just to help out as much as I can. Whenever I can volunteer in the community, I do that, because that’s our job to support one another.”

Allsup was ecstatic when she found out the news but had a feeling she might be selected.

“I love politics and I love doing things on campus,” Allsup said. “I thought about it for a while and decided to ap-ply. Governor Perry asked each of us some questions and then three weeks later I got the phone call. I had a smile on my face the entire day!”

Perry is the one who chooses each Student Regent for Texas universities.

Senator Craig Estes, District 30, Wichita Falls, commented on the elec-tion of the student regent program.

“I thought it was a great idea,” Es-tes said. “We started this a couple years back and it allows for students to have a voice, but the students don’t get to pick the student regent. I think the students should decide, but I am very happy for Holly and wish her success.”

She said her stint in student govern-ment has given her great training to be a leader.

“I want to be more vocal on what the students on campus want because that it my responsibility,” she said. “As student regent I can give the board the students incite, so my fellow students are happy.”

Allsup said she is familiar with the current views by some students and teachers toward the administration but stands her ground of support.

“I know there have been concerns about the administration and the use of funds, but being a student at MSU, I pay for my own tuition and being in government I know that the funds are necessary to make our campus better,” she said. “The funds have to come from somewhere. We should be happy to be building an even greater campus.”

She doesn’t mind correction and even encourages for others to rate her performance.

“I love constructive criticism, any-thing that someone says to make me a better person or to do a better job, I’ll take it,” she said.

Current MSU Student Regent and president of the Criminal Justice Honor Society, Linda Aguilera, term is expiring at the end of May.

“When I took the position, friends and family members told me to be slow to speak, even though I am very opin-ionated,” said Aguilera. “However, I advise the next student regent to speak up.”

“I do however think that the term of office is a bit short. Even board mem-bers can attest to the fact that the first two years are a learning process,” she said. “My duties were very minor un-fortunately. When I took the position I

vowed to be as active as possible, not only with the school but also with the community. I hope that Holly does the same.”

Aguilera’s position on the board was to give incite from the student’s per-spective.

She wished more students had voiced their opinion to her specifically to mes-sage to the administration.

“As a student Regent, you don’t have the luxury to learn,” said Aguilera. “One must immediately try to under-stand in order to maximize the effec-tiveness of one’s term. As a student that is new to the process, it is often difficult to engage.”

She placed her picture and informa-tion on the OrgSync page in case any students ever wanted to reach out to her, and was never contacted.

Allsup believes that she will make a difference.

She has no problem voicing her opin-ion in and out of the boardroom.

“I plan on attending the student gov-ernment meetings next year for the students,” said Allsup. “A student came to me about the banning of skateboards and I suggested writing a bill to reverse the current law.

Now it is being pushed all the way to the board of regents.

This is one example of how students can make a difference.”

To show Allsup’s dedication to the MSU students she created a blog to update students on current events and what is directly happening with the ad-ministration.

“I need for students to tell me their thoughts,” she said. “Students need an outlet and I’m here for them.”

Allsup relayed that the Internet is a great place to share ideas and encour-ages everyone to log on.

“I want everyone to go to my new blog at hollyallsupmsu.wordpress.com to express their concerns and opin-ions,” Allsup said. “If you cannot reach me there simply address me on my Fa-cebook and add me as a friend.”

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MSU student turns strangers into friendsTanner Colley goes on mission trip and experi-ences a whole new lifestyle

When students graduate they will begin their 6 months grace period (unless previously used) before entering repayment on their student loans. Loans may have sold to different lenders so please check on NSLDS (National Student Loan Database Service) to verify the loan/lender info @ http://www.nslds.ed.gov/nslds_SA/ prior to entering repayment. Students should begin receiving notification from their lender(s) approxi-mately 3-4 months after graduation.

Workers in the office are here and more than happy to assist students with their loans. For additional questions regarding their loan info, loan consolidations, and forbearance or defer-ment options please contact Kathi Shilanski at her direct line 940-397-4851.

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While some students go home after classes and have their weekends free, others are giving their time to needy causes. Students are involving them-selves in volunteer opportunities all around Wichita Falls.

Junior Cori Bobbett has put school aside to lend a hand on many occasions.

“I’ve done The Great Day of Service, canned food drives, trips to the Humane Society, packing and passing out meals at elementary schools for the weekends

for the kids whose parents can’t afford much,” she said. She’s also sorted food at the Food Bank and served meals at Faith Mission.

According to Dominique Calhoun, coordinator of Multicultural Services, , volunteer work can help fill the gaps on a resume.

“Many future employers and graduate schools look for the work that students do outside of the classroom,” he said.

Volunteer organizations teach the spe-cific skills needed for the work students will be doing. Therefore, no prior train-

ing is needed. These organizations are also willing to work around students’ schedules to make sure student-volun-teers don’t become overwhelmed.

Bobbett managed to take a full course load of classes, be involved in her soror-ity, and rack up many volunteer hours. However, her sorority’s 10-hour volun-teer minimum isn’t the only thing moti-vating her to give back to others.

“If I weren’t in a sorority, I’d be a part of some other group that does commu-nity service as well,” Bobbett said. “One thing I’ve always wanted to do is go on

a mission trip. So I’ll probably do that when I’m not so busy with the sorority thing anymore.”

Volunteering can do more for students than just spicing up a resume.

“Students should get involved because of the benefit that it not only provides to our society as a whole, but the intrinsic value that they will receive for ‘doing the right thing,’” Calhoun said.

More volunteer information is provid-ed at just the click of a mouse. Students can go to MSU Volunteer website to re-ceive up-to-date information. In addition,

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It is never too early to prepare for sum-mer volunteer opportunities.

“Many organizations pre-plan for sum-mer placements as early as mid-March. This is so that they can have an idea of the resources at their disposal through-out those months where the influx of college-aged students tend to leave the community,” Calhoun said.

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Hacking into computers.Programming top-secret software.Developing intelligent technology.No, this isn’t a James Bond movie –

these are things MSU Computer Science majors are trained to do.

Dr. Stewart Carpenter, professor of computer science, has been integral in helping students develop these unique skills.

In fact, Carpenter founded the pro-gram 34 years ago. Now Computer Sci-ence claims 100 majors.

Though the Computer Science pro-gram will continue at the university, Carpenter will not. This semester, he’s handing in his resignation. The 71-year-old Texan native said it’s time to leave his legacy behind.

“It’s time for me to go,” Carpenter said.

As far as after-retirement plans go, he

said nothing is set in stone.“I’m going to take it easy for a while

and then I’ll find something to do,” said an upbeat Carpenter.

“He (Carpenter) is a super nice guy – well-spoken and intelligent,” said Keith Enloe, a former graduate student of the computer science professor. “He always answered my questions academically and helped me solve my problems.”

To many students, Carpenter was someone they could come to when they just needed to talk, Enloe said.

“He would help anyone with any-thing, even if it wasn’t about computer science,” he continued. “I have never heard anyone say anything bad about him.”

Carpenter said he will miss his stu-dents.

“I have enjoyed being here and I have really enjoyed the people I have worked with. I couldn’t have asked for a better faculty.”

Carpenter earned his bachelor’s de-

gree from the Agricultural and Mechani-cal College of Texas in 1962.

He earned his master’s in Computer Science from Texas A&M in 1968.

He earned a doctorate in Computer Science in 1972.

He founded the Computer Science department at MSU in 1978.

He said he was chosen to begin the program because the university needed someone who could start from scratch.

“We had one computer, which was a mainframe,” Carpenter said.

Computer Science is a major that is always advancing new ideas, he said.

Up-to-date manuals are produced about every five years to give students the most current information.

With a Computer Science degree, a prime job for graduates is programming software.

Many job opportunities are associated with a degree in computers.

In fact, most jobs now require the applicant to be proficient in computer

knowledge. Carpenter has taught most MSU’s

computer classes at some point in his tenure.

As the department has grown in size, more faculty members have been added on over the years. Now the department has seven faculty members.

“The scarcity of hardware required a rather strict process of students having to reserve time on one of the 12 termi-nals available to them. It also imposed a need to monitor usage to assure that no individual was abusing the system to the detriment of other students. A simi-lar system was used when we acquired our first PCs, even though the number of PCs doubled the number of available stations,” Carpenter said.

He started the Computer Science De-partment, before computers were even cool.

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The student told MSU Housing he was only growing organic mushrooms.

It turned out to be more than that af-ter police arrived.

Officers found marijuana, rolling pa-pers, a wooden pipe and syringes.

The occupant told officers he didn’t know the marijuana was in the closet.

Upon questioning, he admitted smok-ing it, but only for “pain relief.” The story continued to unravel as he rattled on about how his experiment with the mushrooms had gone awry.

The student ended up being banned from housing. In addition, he had to un-dergo counseling.

It’s a wilder tale than most, but one common thread runs through it: mari-juana.

It’s not uncommon for housing to find it in students’ rooms or apartments.

From fall 2009 to fall 2011, 59 situa-tions involving marijuana have arisen in campus housing.

Wayne Schields, assistant director of Housing and Residence Life, said the drug is a fairly common problem, one he deals with on a regular basis.

“Each case varies depending on the amount of marijuana, or if there had been a previous incident,” he said. “The punishment can range from removal of housing to community service or taking an online class.”

Over the years all kinds of punishment have been meted out, ranging from a verbal reprimand to even expulsion from college.

“All students make mistakes,” Schields said. “It’s important that they learn from them.”

Schields said that the drug policy starts with the RAs.

“After the RAs notify me, the police are summoned, and we fill out an inci-dent report,” he said. “The students can choose to have a hearing with me or the Dean of Students.”

Campus police is notified each time drugs are found. According to Housing, documents obtained through Open Re-cords requests, most cases involve mari-juana.

“Basically anything more than a stem or seed we notify the police, “Schields said. “The police take the drugs along with any other paraphernalia.”

Police utilize a test kit. A liquid turns blue if it is marijuana.

Police Chief Dan Williams said he has noticed an increase in marijuana in the dorms over the past year.

“We usually don’t have to go great lengths to find it,” he said. “Sometimes we walk in ready to search the whole dorm, but the marijuana or parapherna-lia is sitting on top of a desk or inside of a drawer. We usually find very min-ute amounts, nothing to ruin a student’s life.”

Once, two males were caught smok-ing pot on the roof. A resident assistant locked a window that gave them access to the rooftop and summoned police. Re-cords show one was given one year pro-bation and ordered to take a “marijuana 101 online class.”

Punishment varies. One student was given two years probation, ordered to be screened at the Counseling Center, assigned a five-page paper and directed to meet with Schields weekly. Some are told, “Any further violation can/will re-sult in removal from Housing.”

Sometimes students end up getting expelled from the university.

“It is possible for a student to be ex-pelled,” Schields said. “The Dean of Stu-dents has that authority.”

According to the circulation statistics of Moffett Library, fewer students, facul-ty and area card users utilized its facility in 2011 than in 2010.

Last year, 9,878 fewer people walked into the library.

Fewer people means fewer books, au-dio equipment, projectors and like items were checked out and renewed. A total of 1,731 fewer items were checked out and 479 fewer items were renewed.

Jason Brezina, circulation department manager, said more students are going to the library just to study or to use the

computers to surf the web. “You don’t even have to physically be

here to use this library,” said Brezina.Through the MSU website’s databas-

es, anyone can access Net Library, which has 50,000 eBooks, and eLibrary, where you can search magazine and newspaper articles as well as books.

Both programs are integrated with the MSU’s library catalog. Net Library allows the user to have a free account to read eBooks.

Cindy Seegers, psychology major, said that she has never checked out a book from the MSU library because everything

she needs to look up is online. “I would rather be in the comfort of

my own home doing research on my laptop than be in the library doing it,” Seegers said.

However, she has been there at least 30 times this semester to study for ex-ams.

“It’s the only place I can study for five hours straight,” she said.

When she is studying, she brings her own laptop and books, and only uses the library’s computers when she needs to print something.

Josh Hernandez, biology major, is like

Seegers because he goes to the library at least twice a week only tostudy.

“No one goes to the library to get books because it’s all on the net,” Her-nandez said.

Brezina said old magazines and jour-nals are being thrown out because no-body uses them anymore.

“Magazines used to be bound into books, now they’re made into micro-fiche slides,” Brezina said.

A microfiche is a four by five inch piece of photographic film, containing printed information in a size too small to be seen by the naked eye.

Statistics show that January through March of last year compared to the same months of this year, 204 fewer people have gone to the library.

This decreasing statistic seems to be trending, but that doesn’t have Brezina worried. He said that the budget for the library stays the same no matter how many people go.

“We’re always going to need a li-brary,” Breniza explained. “We’ll always need someone to catalog the information and also archive it. One has to be able to control that information.”

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GILLIAN JONESFOR THE WICHITAN

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Marijuana increases on campus, chief says

Student presence is fading at the MSU library. Photo by HANNAH HOFMANN

Honors Recognition Banquet Winners and Nominees

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Here’s a sampling of what will be turn-ing up on screens this summer.

The summer blockbusters kick off with a team of superheroes: “The Avengers 3D” features Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Black Widow (Scar-lett Johansson) and The Hulk (Mark Ruf-falo; wait, Mark Ruffalo?). “Battleship,” based on the game that involved sticking pegs into holes but presumably a little more exciting (let’s hope), arrives May 18; “G.I. Joe: Retaliation,” inspired by those handsome dolls, opens June 29. “Prometheus,” Ridley Scott’s sort-of-pre-quel to “Alien,” arrives June 8 and stars Noomi Rapace (the original Girl with a Dragon Tattoo), Charlize Theron and Michael Fassbender.

In the sequels-and-remakes depart-ment, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones team up again for “Men in Black 3” (May 25), whether you wanted them to or not, and Jeremy Renner stars as a spy who isn’t Jason Bourne in “The Bourne Legacy”(Aug. 3). And, if you’ve ever looked at Colin Farrell and thought, “That guy reminds me of Arnold Schwarzenegger,” then you might un-derstand the casting of the “Total Recall” remake (Aug. 3), with Farrell taking over the Schwarzenegger role, alongside Bry-an Cranston.

Based on ...Johnny Depp dons fangs for “Dark

Shadows” (May 11), the Tim Burton film based on the ‘60s vampire soap opera. Snow White turns up on screen in her second incarnation this year (following “Mirror Mirror”), this time played by Kristen “Bella” Stewart, in “Snow White and the Huntsman” (June 1). “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” (June 22) goes from page to screen. Michael Win-terbottom’s “Trishna” (July 20), starring Freida Pinto (“Slumdog Millionaire”), is a version of Thomas Hardy’s “Tess of the d’Urbervilles,” set in contemporary

India. “Sparkle” (Aug. 17), inspired by the 1976 movie, features American Idol Jordin Sparks and the final screen

appearance of Whitney Houston. And the year’s most unlikely adaptation has to be “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” (May 18), based on the popular how-to-be-pregnant book and transformed, somehow, into a romantic comedy.

Are we laughing yet?Sacha Baron Cohen returns as “The

Dictator” (May 16) _ that character he was portraying on the Oscar red carpet earlier this year, when he tossed fake ashes on Ryan Seacrest. Will this start a trend? In “Ted” (July 13), Mark Wahl-berg’s teddy bear comes to life; in “That’s My Boy” (June 15), Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg play father and son; in “Neighborhood Watch” (July 27), Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn defend their suburb against alien invasion, and some-times it feels like I’m making all of this stuff up, doesn’t it? Meanwhile, Tyler Perry returns with “Madea’s Witness Protection” (June 29), starring Perry and Eugene Levy as unexpected housemates, and Bobcat Goldthwaite directs “God Bless America” (June 29), in which a man goes on a rampage to rid the coun-try of its most repellent citizens. (Why does no one do that for movies?)

Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dancy star in “Hysteria” (June 15), a proper lit-tle Victorian comedy about the invention of the vibrator. Channing Tatum plays a stripper in Steven Soderberg’s “Magic Mike” (June 29), and Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis play unlikely political rivals in “The Campaign” (Aug. 10). In “Lola Versus” (June date TBD), Greta Gerwig plays a young woman dumped by her fiancee.

For the kidsPixar, bouncing back (let’s hope) from

the disappointing “Cars 2,” presents “Brave” (June 22), with Kelly Macdon-ald voicing a Scottish princess who must overcome a curse. “ParaNorman”(Aug.

17), a stop-motion-animation tale of a boy who faces off against ghosts and goblins to overcome (yet another) curse, features the voices of Anna Kendrick, John Goodman and Casey Affleck. And it wouldn’t be summer without a host of kid-friendly sequels: “Madagascar 3” (June 8), “Ice Age: Continental Drift” (July 13), and “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days” (Aug. 3).

Thrill meA group of tourists visits the former

site of a nuclear reactor, for some reason, in the thriller “Chernobyl Diaries” (May 25). “Twilight” vamp Ashley Greene stars in the ghost story “The Apparition” (Aug. 24); Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick turn up in another supernatu-ral tale, “The Possession” (Aug. 31); and more ghosts haunt the airborne thriller “7500” (Aug. 31). The psychological thriller “Sound of My Voice” (May 4), starring and cowritten by Brit Marling (“Another Earth”), features two investi-gative journalists who infiltrate a cultlike group.

Shall we dance?Toes will be twinkling with three

dance-themed movies this summer: “Step Up: Revolution” (July 27), featur-ing plenty of dance-crew moves, and the documentaries “First Position” (May 18), about an international youth ballet competition, and “Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance” (June 1), about the groundbreaking dance company found-ed by Robert Joffrey.

They’ll mention this in the trailerA handful of Oscar-winning actors

turns up in movies this summer_includ-ing the currently reigning Best Actress, Meryl Streep. She reunites with her “Devil Wears Prada” director, David Frankel, for “Hope Springs” (Aug. 10), in which a middle-age couple (Streep and Tommy Lee Jones) attempts marriage counseling. Jane Fonda (who won an Oscar 40 years ago for “Klute”) turns up in the comedy “Peace, Love and Misun-derstanding” (June 8) playing Catherine

Keener’s hippie mother. Woody Allen’s new comedy, “To Rome with Love” (July 6), features Penelope Cruz (who won an Oscar in another Allen film, “Vicky Cris-tina Barcelona”) and Roberto Benigni (“Life Is Beautiful”). And Tilda Swinton (“Michael Clayton”) and Frances Mc-Dormand (“Fargo”) star in Wes Ander-son’s latest, “Moonrise Kingdom” (May 25), set in 1960s New England.

Well, that was fastThose seeking action films sans su-

perheroes this summer might watch for “Premium Rush” (Aug. 24), with Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a bike messenger pur-sued by a cop; “The Expendables 2” (Aug. 17), with Sylvester Stallone leading a crew of tough guys; and “Hit & Run” (Aug. 24), with Dax Shepherd and Kristen Bell chased by both the Feds and a gang. (Which sounds unfortunate.)

Against the lawOliver Stone’s latest, “Savages”

(July 6), pits a pair of pot growers (say that three times fast) against a Mexican drug cartel. And “Lawless” (Aug. 31) is the tale of a Depression-era bootlegging gang, starring Tom Har-dy, Shia LeBoeuf and Guy Pearce.

But I always wanted to write

A novelist cre-ates his ideal woman in “Ruby Sparks” (July date TBD), di-rected by the “Little Miss Sunshine” team of Jonathan D a y t o n a n d Valerie Faris. I n

the French thriller “Nobody Else But You” (May 11), a popular crime novel-ist investigates the murder of a Mari-lyn Monroe look-alike. Juliette Binoche (“The English Patient”) plays a writer, also French, investigating college-student prostitution in “Elles” (May 4).

Play the musicMusic-related documentaries this

summer include the concert films “Neil Young Journeys” (July 13) and “Katy Perry: Part of Me” (July 5). Tune-ful fictional films include the mu-

sical “Rock of Ages” (June 15), starring Tom Cruise, Cath-erine Zeta-Jones and Alec Baldwin; “Tonight You’re Mine” (June 1), a British comedy in

which two rock stars are handcuffed together

at a music festival; and “Restless City” (May 4), a

drama about an immi-grant musi-

cian in N e w York.

Don’t sweat it: waterproof makeup for summerIt happens every day in Texas. You

apply your makeup perfectly, grab your things, step out the door and...sweat it all off. Ugh! It’s extremely frustrat-ing, and some girls even give up and don’t wear it at all in those hot summer months.

SUN BLOCKA good sunblock should always be

applied under your makeup if you plan to be outside for an extended period of time.

Neutrogena Clear Face Sunblock Lo-tion SPF 30 ($10 at Walgreens)

--------------------------------------------------------Murad Waterproof Sunblock SPF 30

($31 at sephora.com)

FOUNDATIONYour foundation is the base creating

a perfect face, and you don’t have to go without it just because of the heat and humidity.

Avon ExtraLasting Cream-to-Powder Foundation SPF 15 ($9.99 at avon.com)

--------------------------------------------------------Make Up For Ever Face & Body Liq-

uid Makeup ($40 at sephora.com)

BRONZEREvery girl needs a touch of bronzer,

whether or not you’ve been tanning. It gives an instant healthy glow.

Hard Candy Bronzer + Highlighter Duo Face Stick ($7 at Walmart)

--------------------------------------------------------Charlotte Ronson 2 X A Charm Dou-

ble-Ended Blush & Bronzer Cream Stick ($26 at sephora.com)

BLUSHOf course blush is also a factor in giv-

ing you that glowing look - a pinch of color on the apples of your cheeks will pull any face together.

Hard Candy Blush Cheek Tint Duo ($7 at Walmart)

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Charlotte Ronson 2 X A Charm Dou-ble-Ended Blush & Bronzer Cream Stick ($26 at sephora.com)

LIP PRODUCTIt’s called “Peace, Love & Lipgloss,”

right? So naturally there’s going to be at least some mention of lip products in this column. For this specific topic, let’s go over some nice lip stains.

Sephora Collection Lush Flush Lip & Cheek Stain ($12 at sephora.com)

--------------------------------------------------------Laura Mercier Lip Stain ($20 at sep-

hora.com)

EYE SHADOWA good cream eye shadow that glides

on easily and stays all day will leave you fresh-faced until sunset.

Maybelline Eye Studio Color Tattoo 24 Hour Cream Gel Eyeshadow ($5.84 at Walmart)

--------------------------------------------------------TARTE Amazonian Clay Waterproof

Cream Eyeshadow ($19 at Ulta)--------------------------------------------------------Bobbi Brown Long Wear Cream Eye

Shadow ($24 at sephora.com)

EYE LINEREyeliner adds definition and can

make your eyes appear larger if applies properly.

Sonia Kashuk Bare Minimum Pressed Powder Bronzer ($9.99 at Target)

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Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil ($19 at Ulta)MASCARAMascara is an absolute must, but

many girls go without it in the hot sum-mer months to avoid fallout or smudg-ing. A good waterproof mascara can get you through all of the sweat and pools.

Maybelline Volum’ Express The Fals-ies Flared Waterproof Mascara ($5.04 at Target)

--------------------------------------------------------Yves Saint Laurent Mascara Volume

Effet Faux Cils Waterproof Luxurious Mascara ($30 at sephora.com)

HAIR PRODUCTAn extension of beauty that all girls

need to be concerned about for sum-mer is their hair. With the use of a good hair serum, you can prevent frizz from the terrible humidity.

Organix Ever-Straight Brazilian Kera-tine Therapy Anti-Breakage Hair Serum ($7.99 at Target)

--------------------------------------------------------Aveda Light Elements Smoothing

Fluid ($26 at aveda.com)

FACE BLOTTERSFinally, always carry a pack of face

blotters in your purse. If you begin to feel greasy, simply use one sheet to lightly pat away the oil.

Sephora Collection Matte Blotting Papers ($8 at sephora.com)

--------------------------------------------------------Boscia Blotting Linens ($10 at sep-

hora.com)

So stock up on these waterproof, sweat-proof makeup products and you’ll be set for the summer heat!

What beauty topics would you like to read about?

E-mail ideas: wichitan@mwsu.edu

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WEDNESDAYMay 2The 2011-2012 Midwestern State University Student Government Association annual Tree Planting Cer-emony at 3:30 p.m. South of the University Press Building.

THURSDAYMay 3Relieve your stress before finals and attend Finals Fren-zy from 7 p.m till 10:30 p.m.

FRIDAYMay 4Senior design and directing students will collaborate to put their theatrical creativity on the line for audiences to experience. Senior One-Act Plays will run April 27 and 28, as well as May 4 and 5. For ticket informa-tion, call: 397-4399 or 397-4393. General admission is $3 for all faculty, staff, students and guests.

SUNDAYMay 1The combined choirs will showcase their vocal abili-ties in a concert in Akin Auditorium at 3 p.m.

MONDAYMay 4The ceramics area of the Juanita and Ralph School of Visual Arts will be having their sixth Annual Mother’s Day Sale, benefiting the ceramics area. The sale will be from 8 a.m.-6 p.m. May 3-5 in the ceramics studio.

ENTERTAINMENTBRIEFS

There are reasons why “Team Arrow” cycling team has always been above the competition.

It could be because MSU has a coach who was a former Junior National Cham-pion who has worked with professional riders. It could be because MSU is locat-ed in a very pro-cycling community. It could even be because MSU cycling has

great athletes from around the world. But the biggest reason for success may

be that MSU is the only school in con-ference that offers cycling scholarships. Scholarships give MSU a huge leg up competition-wise.

Team Arrow is a part of The South Central Collegiate Cycling Conference (SCCCC). This conference consists of college teams from Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana.

Of the 350 cycling clubs in America,

MSU is one of 11 colleges recognized as having a varsity team. A few things dis-tinguish varsity teams from club teams. Not only do they have a USA Cycling li-censed coach, but they receive a greater degree of school funding. To be known as a varsity team, one of the require-ments is that the team must award at least $10,000 in scholarships yearly.

“The scholarships count for interna-tional students as well as out-of-state students and is therefore another attract-

ing force for MSU’s cycling team,” rider Claire Routledge, junior, said.

This lets MSU attract cream-of-the-crop racers.

The recruitment process goes both ways between the coach and the ath-lete.

Typically junior athletes are the prime recruits. Junior athletes are recognized as cyclists under the age of 18 who race competitively.

The first scholarship was awarded in 1992 due to a large amount of financial support from the Wichita Falls cycling community.

The spark started from Wichita Falls’ Hotter’N Hell Hundred. The Hotter’N Hell Hundred is Wichita Falls’ own an-nual cycling race. The members of the community suggested a cycling scholar-ship fund to get better racers to come cy-cle at MSU. The Hotter’N Hell Hundred jumped on board and scholarships have been around ever since.

It was estimated by the Wichita Falls Convention and Visitors Bureau that an economic impact of $8.3 million was raised from The 2012 Hotter’N Hell Hundred. “The Hotter’N Hell Hundred is the biggest touring race in the nation, maybe even in the world,” Coach Julie Carter said.

Typically, students who show an in-terest in the cycling team begin as walk-ons. As they progress as an athlete, they are awarded scholarships down the road. About half of Team Arrow’s 27 current riders are on some sort of scholarship.

“We give away $16,000 each year in scholarships,” Robert Clark, Vice Presi-dent for Institutional Effectiveness, said. “The awards are split in half each semes-ter. If Person A gets $1400 total, they would receive $700 in the fall semester and $700 in the spring semester.”

The scholarship money awards vary from year to year. Similarly, riders on the team do not all receive the same amount. The sizes of the scholarships are decided by a seven-member board.

Clark said the highest amount he’s seen given out was $1,800 in a single semester. Bailey Hess, sophomore rider, says she’s awarded $150 each semester.

The scholarships seem to be paying off. MSU, a Division II school, is ranked 8th in the nation.

MSU is ranked above schools such as The University of Florida, Texas A&M, and Iowa State, according to USACy-cling.org.

Since MSU is the only school in Texas to offer scholarships, some bitterness from competing schools exists.

“MSU has a stranglehold on the con-ference,” said Texas A&M racer Shane Haga. He said other schools despise the MSU cycling team because of its status as a varsity team, as opposed to being a club sport like most other schools.

“It’s their choice to go to a school with cycling scholarships, or without cycling scholarships,” Carter said. “I don’t know why other schools don’t invest money into their cycling teams, it really pays off.” Clark said the reason why most schools don’t give out scholarships and invest into their team is because they lack dedi-cation.

“It takes a lot of dedication to coach a team, do recruitments, and organize races. Thankfully, we have a very sup-portive cycling community,” Clark said.

Overall, the MSU Cycling Team ben-efits from its privileges. It shows in the record books, and in the national rank-ings. Team Arrow continues to zoom past the competition with its superior athletes.

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Team Arrow, above the competition

Team chemistry keeps MSU in formWhether it’s a touchdown, a goal or a

home run, Midwestern State always is one of the top Division-II schools in the nation.

What makes MSU the 2nd most winningest team in the history of The Lone Star Confer-ence? How can Midwestern State be an elite school every year, while Division-I schools tend to cycle through years that they’re good and years they’re bad?

“I don’t know why MSU is always good at sports. Good recruits, I guess?” Christopher Portillo, a freshman fan, said.

“Good recruits” is an understatement. More like good recruiting.

According to the MSU website, 72 ath-letes played together in high school, which currently play together at MSU. Two on the men’s basketball team, 39 on the football team, eight on the men’s soccer team, two on the women’s basketball team, five on the cross country team, and 16 on the women’s soccer team.

Since MSU has 12 sports total, these num-bers are equivalent to having six people on each sports team, already possessing prior experience playing together. This doesn’t even account for the amount of athletes who played together on club team sports.

According to West Texas A&M and Incar-nate Word’s websites, they average about 3.5 athletes per team, almost half of MSU’s amount.

So what does this even mean? So we have about three more athletes per team with prior experience, does this really matter?

“I think the biggest advantage of having girls that played together in high school is they’re built in togetherness,” Heather Prima-vera, assistant girls soccer coach, said. “It is important to have a team get along and work well together.”

Having the three extra people who already possess experience playing together in high school makes it so there are less people who need to build chemistry with one another.

Chemistry is detrimental to any sports team. Take the Miami Heat, for example. They took a few of the best basketball players, who had never played together, and expected them to do great things their first year as a team. Well, they lost in the NBA finals. Most critics said the loss came from being too inexperienced as a team and they lacked chemistry.

If Miami had better team chemistry, you can bet they might have started the 2012 sea-son by raising a banner.

“The advantage with already playing with

them is you know their style of play,” Callie Briseno, freshman soccer player, said.

Briseno came to MSU knowing her old teammate at Amarillo High, Alyssa Cooper, and also her older sister, Leisha Briseno.

“Being a freshman this year and having them [Alyssa and Leisha] here helped me get to know the other girls a lot quicker than most of the other incoming freshmen,” Briseno said. “Most of us have actually been playing with or against each other for years through club and high school that we already know each other.”

Establishing an early relationship with her team helped Briseno start in 16 games as a freshman.

VcMor Eligwe, junior soccer player, used to play with Zach Funk at McKinney High School. He said he benefits from this expe-rience together because of the chemistry they’ve developed.

Funk played on several teams before he settled into MSU. Eligwe noted that because of Funk’s experience from playing on a wide variety of teams, he has a developed a sense of leadership on the field.

“It worked out because I think we both got a lot of experience playing with other for-wards, so now we both have improved our style of play,” Eligwe said. “It’s made us bet-ter players individually.”

Eligwe and Briseno are grateful for the rela-tionships that were already established before having the opportunity to play collegiately with their old teammates. They both believe that the bond made prior to MSU has helped their college athletic career.

Recognizing that chemistry is important to any sports team, and noticing that the MSU teams start off each season by skipping the “name-game” step really opens up more time for practice, rather than meeting and greet-ing. Obviously, the more you practice, the better you become.

In the Fall 2011 and Spring 2012 sports matchups against our rival Incarnate Word, we had 12 wins and four losses.

“It’s not that we necessarily have the better team, but from what I’ve witnessed, we have more chemistry than they do on the field,” Eligwe said.

Midwestern State athletics is ranked 319 of the 1,004 colleges that are ranked on Col-legeProwler.com. Incarnate Word is 458th, and West Texas A&M is 566th.

Midwestern’s teams seem to have a special bond within them. MSU’s recruitment pro-cess of staying local and getting athletes who know each other already is golden. Junior striker VcMor Eligwe juggles a ball at the free play fields. Photo by DAMIAN ATAMENWAN

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Evan Bybee and Jason Short racing at the Green Wave Classic. File Photo by LOREN EGGENSCHWILER

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SPORTSAROUNDTHEWORLD

FootballAmini Silatolu, a former Midwestern State University football player, was selected by the Carolina Panthers as the 40th overall pick in 2012 NFL draft.

SoccerManchester City defeated Man-chester United 1-0 as the local rivals

met for the third time this season.West Brom manager Roy Hodgson is on the verge of being England’s next head coach after an interview with Football Association.

German and Cologne striker Lucas Podolski will move to Arsenal this summer for an undisclosed fee.

BasketballBoston Celtics Rajon Rondo is facing a two-game suspension as a conse-quence of bumping into a referee in his team’s defeat against the Atlanta Hawks Sunday.

Chicago Bulls Derrick Rose is out for the season due to a torn ACL he

sustained in game one of the first round against the 76ers.

TennisRafael Nadal defeated David Ferrar to claim his seventh Barcelona Open title.

The end of the season came early for the Lady Mustangs who were eliminated from the Lone Star Conference Postsea-son semifinals by Incarnate Word Satur-day.

But before seeing its demise, Mid-western State saw a sensational 9-8 vic-tory over Tarleton State University in the opening round of the tournament. The Lady Mustangs were in prolific form thus their ability to overcome the TexAnns’ style of play was no surprise.

After both teams had endured an ago-nizing first inning with no runs, Tarle-ton got three points in with the help of Courtney Vroman and Kelsey Latta.

However, the Lady Mustangs domi-nated the third and fourth with three runs apiece. Elena Bennett, Courtney Bingham and Kim Jerrick were respon-sible for the runs at the top of the third while Jerrick scored a homerun to give way for runs from Courtney Ford and Elena Bennett.

Katie Welborn then took the liberty of narrowing the lead as she scored another run in favor of the TexAnns.

The Lady Mustangs benefited from the hard work of Bennett, who scored her third, and Duff as she awarded the MSU its eighth point. Kelley Schaefer homered at the top of the seventh to round up the nine points put together by Midwestern.

Nevertheless, the match became cap-tivating when Arianna Rodriguez scored a homerun to introduce subsequent runs from Latta, Amber Sotelo and Alexandria

Orf. Still, Tarleton was unable to make a comeback to the delight of the Lady Mustangs.

“I was very excited to beat Tarleton at a different complex,” said Bingham. “It showed who was the better team and we were.”

Evidently, Lady Mustangs’ encounter with Incarnate Word was not as remark-able for the former as their previous competition.

“I wasvery proud of how we ended,” said Bingham. “It’s not how you start, its’ how you finish.”

The Cardinals split their total six points evenly between the bottom of the first and third while MSU was able to muster in three runs at the top of the seventh.

Melanie Padilla, Ashley Freeman and Sarah O’Brien were architects of the Cardinals’ first inning triumph while Lea Padilla, Whitney Waltrip and Monica Acuna doubled the lead by the bottom of the third.

Finally after three innings with no runs, Kallie Noble, Megan Chartier and Carey Campbell added excitement to the game as well as three runs to the Lady Mustangs’ repertoire.

But their effort was too little too late as the Lady Mustangs were unable to strike a comeback.

“We made it to the post season tour-nament and some teams can’t say they did,” continued Bingham. “It’s not ex-actly how we wanted it to end but it will be our driving force next year.”

Midwestern State thus ended the sea-son with a 26-25 record.

DAMIAN ATAMENWANSPORTS EDITOR

Lady Mustangs fall to Incarnate Word

With the final day of the season near-ing, most teams are taking games seri-ously while others are a bit indifferent about their current situation.

Chelsea took credit for the most impressive result of the weekend af-ter defeating Queens Park Rangers 6-1 with three goals from Fernando Torres. Daniel Sturridge got the Blues on the scoreboard with a decent curler after just 47 seconds of play whereas John Terry doubled the lead with a terrific header from a corner kick.

Torres then slotted in the third, fourth and fifth goals to give Chelsea a 5-0 advantage before Florent Malouda made six with a precise strike in the 18-yard box. Djibril Cisse finally rolled in a late goal to give QPR a consolatory departure from Stamford Bridge.

While we’re talking about hat tricks, Luis Suarez was able to net all three goals as Liverpool shutout Norwich at Carrow road.

The Uruguayan took advantage of a defensive blunder while sending in the opener after a fine pass from Steven Gerrad. Suarez was quick to capitalize on another defensive error as he fired a terrific shot past John Ruddy.

Norwich found space to test the palms of Pepe Reina but the Spanish goalkeeper saved The Cannaries’ effort comfortably. Suarez exploited the Ca-naries’ third costly defensive mistake as he chipped a 45-yard shot over Ruddy in the 84th minute.

Meanwhile, Arsenal was not enjoy-

ing its visit to Stoke City. The hosts got on the scoreboard first with a well-timed header by Peter Crouch in the 10th minute.

However, Robin Van Persie can-celled the opener with a superb shot in the 15th minute. Despite subsequent attempts to take the lead, the Gunners had to settle for a 1-1 draw.

Fellow Londoners, Tottenham Hotspurs, had a better fixture Sunday as they thrashed Blackburn Rovers 2-0. Rafael Van Der Vaat opened scoring with a close range shot in the 22nd minute while Kyle Walker rounded up the game with a remarkable curling free kick in the 75th minute.

Everton registered a captivating 4-0 victory over Fulham with goals from Nikica Jelavic, Marouane Fellaini and Tim Cahill. Jelavic was awarded a pen-alty kick in the sixth minute after his free kick was thwarted by a handball. The Croatian sent Mark Schwarzer the wrong way to give the Toffees a 1-0 ad-vantage.

Fellaini instilled satisfaction in the minds of the Goodison fans when he leaped high to head in Everton’s sec-ond of the match.

But there was still more to come in the first half as Jelavic’s clever footwork earned him his eight goal of the season. Eventually, Cahill put the nail in the Cottagers’ coffin after receiving timely lob-pass from Steven Pienaar.

Wigan followed suit with an identi-cal score line humiliating Newcastle at the DW Stadium. Victor Moses net-ted two outstanding goals within 15 minutes while Shaun Maloney drove through the Magpies defense to give Wigan a 3-0 advantage. Sure enough, the game came to an end before the break when Franco Di Santo lobbed Steve Harper to make it 4-0.

Still, the most interesting game of the weekend was the Manchester Der-by, which featured an unfortunate loss by the Red Devils.

Vincent Kompany’s 45th minute header was pretty much game-decisive as City continued to pull off defensive tactics at the Etihad.

Get more updates on the English Premier League on FOX Soccer and the EPL website.

DAMIAN’SHERALD

DAMIAN ATAMENWANSPORTS EDITOR

Freshman pitcher Lindsi Glenn throws the ball to the catcher. File Photo by Hannah Hofmann