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The voice of Texas Wesleyan University students since 1917 The Rambler WEDNESDAY October 13, 2010 Vol. 93 • No. 19 www.therambler.org Men’s basketball veterans and newcomers vie for ring contention. Sports, page 5 5 Burgers & 2 Fish offer a smorgasboard of different food. A&E, page 7 Students encouraged to register for WEMS system Rachel Peel [email protected] Due to the shooting incident at the Univer- sity of Texas at Austin, Wesleyan administra- tors have asked students to register with the Wesleyan Emergency Management System as of Sept. 29. WEMS allows the university to alert stu- dents, faculty and staff in times of crisis. “If it’s in response to an incident similar to the UT-Austin situation, that [the system’s ac- tivation] would depend on each administrator being notified of the urgency and then making an individual decision to activate the system,” said Dean of Students Cary Poole. e WEMS system was brought on campus about three years ago and has been functioning for the last two years, Poole said in an e-mail. “By activating the UT-Austin system, the vast majority of their students, faculty and staff were able to take evasive action based on knowing about a developing situation,” Poole said. UT-Austin has more than 50,000 enrolled students, of which 43,000 had signed up for their emergency response system. Although Wesleyan has asked students to register for WEMS by going online as soon as possible, some students are still unfamiliar with the sys- tem. “I’ve never heard of it,” said Tyler Guderyahn, sophomore biology major. “It’s a good idea.” Other students believe the system could be useful. “It could help, because people could get it sent to their phones,” said Wiley Lindsey, sophomore music education and vocal perfor- mance major. “[It could be] helpful for other kids that commute, so they don’t have to make the drive.” When students register for the system, it will allow them to receive text, voicemail and e-mail messages that are related only to emergencies or campus closures such as bad weather. “Please sign up for the system, because it is the main means of notifying the Wesleyan commu- nity of developing events,” Poole said. Accounting society cleans up Rachel Peel [email protected] Wesleyan’s Accounting Society repainted the mural on the Collard Bridge Oct. 2. e Accounting Society began the graffiti cleanup last spring but was unable to com- plete the project. ey originally partnered with the Don’t Mess with Texas litter cam- paign to clean up around campus but soon re- alized it was more work than expected. What started out as a campus cleanup led to the Accounting Society repainting the mural that was originally painted in 1991 by local Girl Scouts, said Wesleyan accounting graduate Photo courtesy of Joe Garcia Senior finance major Airelle Mitchell dabs paint on the Collard Bridge during the Accounting Society’s cleanup Oct. 2. e vast majority of their [UT-Austin] students fac- ulty and staff were able to take evasive action based on knowing about a developing situation. Cary Poole Dean of Students Wesleyan community gives back to alumnus Rachel Peel [email protected] e Wesleyan Sports Medicine So- ciety and human resources honored alumnus Mark Puente by holding a blood drive in his honor on Sept. 29 at Lou’s Pavilion. Puente, former soccer player and current Fort Worth firefighter, was seriously injured in a car accident on July 11. He was hospitalized at John Peter Smith and then transferred to Baylor Institution for Rehabilitation on July 27 where he remained in in- tensive care until Aug. 18. “When I woke up, I didn’t know anything that happened, and now more and more is coming to me,” Puente said. “I’m a fighter so I’ll just keep on fighting, keeping on doing whatever I want to do.” More than 50 Wesleyan students, faculty and staff donated blood dur- ing the day-long event honoring Pu- ente. “It was something we could give back to the community in honor of Mark,” said Kyle Morgan, head ath- letic trainer. “[We could give back] to the fire department and to the police department for putting their lives on the line every single day.” Aſter two months of planning the event, society members worked alongside human resource special- ist Sara DeLeon to get Carter Blood Care on campus. “We saw over the summer the news about Mark, and we knew we wanted to schedule a blood drive,” said ath- letic trainer Melissa Tice. “But when we went to call Carter, Sarah had already had one scheduled, so we joined forces and that’s how we came to be.” Different people had different rea- sons for coming out and donating. “I’ve had a family member in the past that was terminal and somebody took the time to give blood and I was able to have a few more months with that person, so I feel that it’s impor- tant,” said administrative assistant Linda Humphrey. With the convenience of the blood drive being held on campus sev- eral faculty and staff members had a chance to donate blood. “I’m O negative. I know it’s one that they really, really want, so if I’m well and not sick, then I always try to give,” said Cynthia Daniel, records management assistant. “Plus it’s very convenient. It’s right here at the school.” e gesture touched Puente’s fam- ily. “ere’s a lot of emotion, a lot of thoughts, mostly because he’s been through a lot, but we’re glad to see him here today, see him recover as well as he has,” said Puente’s father Michael Puente. “He has a ways to go yet, but we have all the belief in the world that the Lord will heal him and take him back to where he was before the accident, if not better.” Puente said he plans to be finished with rehabilitation by Oct. 29 and back fighting fires in January. “is has been such an honor and such a blessing I think,” said Puente’s mother Jody Puente. (Top left) Phlebotomist 1 Zachary Fletcher draws blood from Wesleyan financial aid coun- selor Anna Perez. (Above) Jody Puente is all smiles as she joins her son, Mark, during the blood drive honoring him. (Bottom left) WBAP reporter Ellie Hogue interviews Puente dur- ing the event that drew about 50 people. Photos by Jonathan Resendez. Website targets plagiarism Shauna Banks [email protected] With the pressures of day-to-day life and multiple classes, students sometimes test the ethical limits when it comes to turning in their work. In an effort to detect plagia- rism and grade work with a more modern method, more professors at Texas Wesleyan are now using turnitin.com. Turnitin.com is a website that not only scans writ- ten work and compares it to sources on the Internet, it also offers professors a plat- form to grade papers online and get them returned to stu- dents faster. “Part of the main thing is that it gives me a timestamp on their material, so I know what time they actually handed it in,” said Dr. Phillip Pelphrey, assistant professor of chemistry. “It allows me to do corrections within it and then turn around and give it back to them.” Pelphrey said turnitin. com also helps cut down on wasting paper, since students submit many assignments electronically instead of sub- mitting hard copies in class. “Initially teachers were concerned that the plagia- rism detection soſtware was only used as a punitive mea- sure,” said Meghan Foster, Title III instructional tech- nologist. “But aſter reviewing all of the tools and features, they discovered all the ways it can be used as a powerful instructional tool.” In addition to helping fac- ulty, turnitin.com also pro- vides useful tools for students who have active classes with teachers who use it. 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The voice of Texas Wesleyan University students since 1917

The RamblerWEDNESDAYOctober 13, 2010

Vol. 93 • No. 19

www.therambler.org

Men’s basketball veterans and newcomers vie for ring contention.Sports, page 5

5 Burgers & 2 Fish offer a smorgasboard of different food.A&E, page 7

Students encouraged to register for WEMS systemRachel [email protected]

Due to the shooting incident at the Univer-sity of Texas at Austin, Wesleyan administra-tors have asked students to register with the Wesleyan Emergency Management System as of Sept. 29.

WEMS allows the university to alert stu-dents, faculty and staff in times of crisis.

“If it’s in response to an incident similar to the UT-Austin situation, that [the system’s ac-tivation] would depend on each administrator being notified of the urgency and then making an individual decision to activate the system,” said Dean of Students Cary Poole.

The WEMS system was brought on campus about three years ago and has been functioning for the last two years, Poole said in an e-mail.

“By activating the UT-Austin system, the vast majority of their students, faculty and staff were able to take evasive action based on knowing about a developing situation,” Poole said.

UT-Austin has more than 50,000 enrolled students, of which 43,000 had signed up for their emergency response system. Although Wesleyan has asked students to register for WEMS by going online as soon as possible, some students are still unfamiliar with the sys-tem.

“I’ve never heard of it,” said Tyler Guderyahn,

sophomore biology major. “It’s a good idea.”Other students believe the system could be

useful.“It could help, because people could get

it sent to their phones,” said Wiley Lindsey, sophomore music education and vocal perfor-mance major. “[It could be] helpful for other kids that commute, so they don’t have to make the drive.”

When students register for the system, it will allow them to receive text, voicemail and e-mail messages that are related only to emergencies or campus closures such as bad weather.

“Please sign up for the system, because it is the main means of notifying the Wesleyan commu-nity of developing events,” Poole said.

Accounting society cleans upRachel [email protected]

Wesleyan’s Accounting Society repainted the mural on the Collard Bridge Oct. 2.

The Accounting Society began the graffiti cleanup last spring but was unable to com-plete the project. They originally partnered with the Don’t Mess with Texas litter cam-

paign to clean up around campus but soon re-alized it was more work than expected. What started out as a campus cleanup led to the Accounting Society repainting the mural that was originally painted in 1991 by local Girl Scouts, said Wesleyan accounting graduate

Photo courtesy of Joe GarciaSenior finance major Airelle Mitchell dabs paint on the Collard Bridge during the Accounting Society’s cleanup Oct. 2.

“The vast majority of their [UT-Austin] students fac-ulty and staff were able to take evasive action based on knowing about a developing situation.”

Cary PooleDean of Students

Wesleyan community gives back to alumnus

Rachel [email protected]

The Wesleyan Sports Medicine So-ciety and human resources honored alumnus Mark Puente by holding a blood drive in his honor on Sept. 29 at Lou’s Pavilion.

Puente, former soccer player and current Fort Worth firefighter, was seriously injured in a car accident on July 11. He was hospitalized at John Peter Smith and then transferred to Baylor Institution for Rehabilitation on July 27 where he remained in in-tensive care until Aug. 18.

“When I woke up, I didn’t know anything that happened, and now more and more is coming to me,” Puente said. “I’m a fighter so I’ll just keep on fighting, keeping on doing

whatever I want to do.”More than 50 Wesleyan students,

faculty and staff donated blood dur-ing the day-long event honoring Pu-ente.

“It was something we could give back to the community in honor of Mark,” said Kyle Morgan, head ath-letic trainer. “[We could give back] to the fire department and to the police department for putting their lives on the line every single day.”

After two months of planning the event, society members worked alongside human resource special-ist Sara DeLeon to get Carter Blood Care on campus.

“We saw over the summer the news about Mark, and we knew we wanted to schedule a blood drive,” said ath-letic trainer Melissa Tice. “But when

we went to call Carter, Sarah had already had one scheduled, so we joined forces and that’s how we came to be.”

Different people had different rea-sons for coming out and donating.

“I’ve had a family member in the past that was terminal and somebody took the time to give blood and I was able to have a few more months with that person, so I feel that it’s impor-tant,” said administrative assistant Linda Humphrey.

With the convenience of the blood drive being held on campus sev-eral faculty and staff members had a chance to donate blood.

“I’m O negative. I know it’s one that they really, really want, so if I’m well and not sick, then I always try to give,” said Cynthia Daniel, records

management assistant. “Plus it’s very convenient. It’s right here at the school.”

The gesture touched Puente’s fam-ily.

“There’s a lot of emotion, a lot of thoughts, mostly because he’s been through a lot, but we’re glad to see him here today, see him recover as well as he has,” said Puente’s father Michael Puente. “He has a ways to go yet, but we have all the belief in the world that the Lord will heal him and take him back to where he was before the accident, if not better.”

Puente said he plans to be finished with rehabilitation by Oct. 29 and back fighting fires in January.

“This has been such an honor and such a blessing I think,” said Puente’s mother Jody Puente.

(Top left) Phlebotomist 1 Zachary Fletcher draws blood from Wesleyan financial aid coun-selor Anna Perez. (Above) Jody Puente is all smiles as she joins her son, Mark, during the blood drive honoring him. (Bottom left) WBAP reporter Ellie Hogue interviews Puente dur-ing the event that drew about 50 people. Photos by Jonathan Resendez.

Website targets plagiarismShauna [email protected]

With the pressures of day-to-day life and multiple classes, students sometimes test the ethical limits when it comes to turning in their work.

In an effort to detect plagia-rism and grade work with a more modern method, more professors at Texas Wesleyan are now using turnitin.com.

Turnitin.com is a website that not only scans writ-ten work and compares it to sources on the Internet, it also offers professors a plat-form to grade papers online and get them returned to stu-dents faster.

“Part of the main thing is that it gives me a timestamp on their material, so I know what time they actually handed it in,” said Dr. Phillip Pelphrey, assistant professor of chemistry. “It allows me to do corrections within it and then turn around and give it back to them.”

Pelphrey said turnitin.com also helps cut down on wasting paper, since students submit many assignments electronically instead of sub-mitting hard copies in class.

“Initially teachers were concerned that the plagia-rism detection software was only used as a punitive mea-sure,” said Meghan Foster, Title III instructional tech-nologist. “But after reviewing all of the tools and features, they discovered all the ways it can be used as a powerful instructional tool.”

In addition to helping fac-ulty, turnitin.com also pro-vides useful tools for students who have active classes with teachers who use it. Foster said it helps students learn to use proper quotes, citations and bibliographies.

“I have found that so many

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Opinion2 | October 13, 2010 The RambleR | www.therambler.org

Does our right to free speech cause people to misuse social media?

Bradley Stone, sophomore business

“In some cases, I think our rights are being used

irresponsibly.”

Cathy Vallejo, freshman business

“I definitely think those rights are being abused a little bit by some people.”

David Martin, senior management

“It only takes one click to leave a site where you see

something offensive.”

Desiree Rodriguez, junior psychology

“People have to be more em-pathetic and put themselves in

other people’s shoes.”

Gidget Adams, freshman political science

“We can’t always say what we want when we know it is going

to cause problems.”

Jonathan Resendez, editor-in-chiefBarry Grubbs, opinion editor Eliana Mijangos, sports editorChuck Fain, arts & entertainment editorDwight Conerway, college life editorMeisa Keivani Najafabadi, photo editorErica Estrada, graphic designer/cartoonistWendy Moore, faculty adviserDr. Kay Colley, faculty liaison

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Opinions expressed in The RambleR are those of the individual authors only and do not neces-sarily reflect the views of the Texas Wesleyan community as a whole.

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— Thomas Jefferson

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Bargain shoppers may sacrifice service

There’s only one place people can trip over a busted jar of baby food, get their arm jerked back by an elderly greeter and discover the true definition of patience.

It’s everyone’s favorite discount supercenter, and it’s not necessary to call the store by its name here.

Considering most people visit this store about once a week (if they’re lucky), you would think the more bad experiences we had,

the less likely we would be to return for another dose of the same medicine.

It seems like people are glut-tons for punishment, and do it for the sheer convenience af-forded them by the multi-bil-lion dollar retail chain.

The worst experience is sim-ply returning something to the customer service counter for a re-fund or exchange.

By the time customers actually makes it to the counter, they’re questioned like they have just committed a crime.

When someone tells the cashier why they’re returning the item, the cashier looks at them like they’re out of their mind.

Maybe you’ve had an experi-

ence like my mother did a couple of weeks ago. The cashier was too parched to continue working and walked away from her post and proceeded to take her sweet time mixing a packet of drink flavoring into her bottled water before tak-ing a long gulp.

Eventually, she remembered there were six people waiting in line and she needed to attempt to do her job.

Of course, it can’t be all bad, or people wouldn’t keep flocking back to this iconic chain—would they?

On those rare occasions, peo-ple find themselves wandering around aimlessly and may have an associate ask them if they need help finding something.

To be fair, there are rare occa-sions when someone attempts to return an item with the sales re-ceipt, and they’re able get in and out of customer service within 15 minutes.

In these shaky economic times, our favorite discount supercenter is still booming with business simply because it’s able to under-sell everyone else.

Hey, we live in a society where time is of the essence, and we all think that ours is more important than everyone else’s.

Instead of going to three dif-ferent stores, people can get their groceries, replace an old office desk and refill an allergy medica-tion all in one. How’s that for time management?

Sure, I could shop at a com-petitor, but who really wants to spend more? If you’re saving time and money, it just may be worth nearly busting your butt step-ping in a broken jar of baby food or having an elderly greeter haul you in because you’ve dared to go through the exit with something not bagged in your buggy.

Apparently taking a full nano-second to review your receipt of at least a hundred items is an accept-able security check.

But hey, that’s the Wally world way. We all just have to hunker down and remind ourselves that our wallets will hurt a lot less by making the weekly trip(s)—even if we may need a margarita, or three, afterwards.

Free speech in social media carries risk

The time has come to change the way Americans view the First Amendment to the Constitution. I’m not suggesting we change the way we interpret our laws, but when total freedom of speech results in the need-less loss of human life, we need to change our focus.

Americans have recently witnessed news reports of an 18-year-old Rutgers Univer-sity student who committed suicide following the online release of a secret video taken of him in compromising situ-ations with another man.

Tyler Clementi was mocked and ridiculed over his sexuality by his own roommate, and the result of the irresponsible behavior pushed him to take his own life.

The roommate and his fe-male accomplice were each charged with two counts of invasion of privacy, nothing more.

Another unfortunate event followed the recent shooting at the University of Texas.

Jaz Reynolds, a receiver for Oklahoma University, was suspended indefinitely by head coach Bob Stoops for making “insensitive remarks” through his Twitter account.

Maybe our use of social networking has gone too far. We have slowly become a society that equates our freedom to speak with our freedom to say anything we want.

Most adults would be more accountable for their words in situations like these. This is not a question of age, but a question of maturity.

State and federal lawmak-ers are becoming more fo-cused on the government’s responsibility to protect so-ciety from the irresponsible use of Internet technology.

The Internet offers a far greater challenge than tradi-tional forms of media.

No one wants more regula-tion on speech in any form. We do, however, need to take steps to punish this kind of behavior before we have an epidemic.

Social networking can be a valuable tool in our modern society. But it can be used as a weapon just as easily, and the results can be tragic.

Young people have used social media connections to bully and torture each other for years over issues of re-ligion, race and sexuality, among others.

There seems to be a grow-ing lack of sensitivity within certain segments of our soci-ety.

People are fascinated with their ability to get their mes-sages in front of the entire world with the click of a mouse, but they rarely stop to consider the negative impact the message may have.

With the increased free-dom technology affords us there comes an increased re-sponsibility to use it wisely. If laws aimed at penalizing these defective people will enhance civility in cyber-space, I am in favor of those laws.

Freedom of speech is not the freedom to harm.

Shauna BanksStaff [email protected]

Barry GrubbsOpinion [email protected]

Bad judgement of a few shouldn’tjeopardize rights

The saying goes, “even a few bad apples will quickly ruin the whole barrel.” When it comes to the First Amendment, this should never be the case.

Circumstance and insensi-tivity can often make tasteless humor cruel and dangerous. From the excessive loss of lives at the Columbine tragedy to schoolyard fights, bullying re-mains a problem. At the same time, it’s rampant in our cul-ture.

Rivalries between groups for or against millions of causes often resort in hateful speech. As long as it remains an opinion and no one is harmed, it’s a person’s right to think a certain way or believe in something.

Popular Fox News TV show host Bill O’Reilly demonized physician George Tiller more than 20 times on his program from 2005 to 2009 for per-forming late-term abortions. O’Reilly called Tiller “a baby killer” and said state represen-tatives who didn’t stop him had blood on their hands.

In May 2009, Tiller was shot

through the eye and killed by anti-abortionist activist Scott Roeder.

Writers for websites such as Salon.com argued that O’Reilly had blood on his hands although ultimately the blood is on Roeder’s.

It’s like blaming a rock or rap group when someone who listens to their music commits an atrocity. Seldom can fingers be pointed at a single entity or a motive be explained com-pletely.

The logic and motives of a situation are hard to compre-hend when lives are lost. From either end of the spectrum, when people are driven to commit violent acts on them-selves or others, things have gone too far. The fact of the matter is an opinion remains an opinion until someone gets hurt.

Social networking sites offer an easy way for people to make themselves look stupid, act un-professional and—look more stupid.

Should people who post ig-norant remarks on a network-

ing site be punished? Prob-ably. But that opens up a can of worms involving imbeciles who aren’t worth the time.

A quick Oct. 7 search on Facebook pulled up a fan page for the Dallas Cowboys Hat-ers Club where a member said, “We would root for Osama Bin Laden if he were playing against the Cowgirls.”

While this guy probably won’t be tracked by Homeland Security, I’m sure family mem-bers of 9/11 victims don’t find his unintelligence amusing.

Infusing more litigation into what people can or can-not say—anywhere—will only single people out more.

If a line is drawn in the le-gal sand restricting opinion, it won’t be long before it’s hard to make out the space for free-dom of speech in between the lines.

While circumstance and in-sensitivity should never jeop-ardize lives, they shouldn’t jeopardize or compromise laws against censorship either.

The challenge is to protect freedom of speech—period.

Jonathan [email protected]

I remember the day I applied to Texas Wesleyan University. The first thing I noticed about the web site was how small the layout was.

I then browsed through the stu-dent life page to see what I might become involved with.

I was unable to find a lot of in-

formation about the organiza-tions on the web site. Despite my disappointment, I went ahead with my application partially based on the fact that I had visited the campus sev-

eral times before. To this day, nothing much has

changed about the web site. Recently, some content on the ath-

letics web site, financial aid and the admissions pages have been updated with a new look and information.

That does not change the fact

that almost every page on Texas Wesleyan’s web site appears to be miniaturized. You almost have to squint to see some of the small-est text. I am not the only student with this opinion. Throughout my years at Texas Wesleyan, I have heard many people comment on the web site and its layout.

Natalie Demetre, freshman, chemistry major said, “It needs to be more organized, so when find-ing what you need for school is much easier.”

Even sophomore psychology major Lindsey Barnes who has been here at Wesleyan for two years said, “I can’t find anything when I look on the site. All I use it for is to get Ram Link.”

Those responsible for the in-formation on these pages should update the information so stu-dents won’t have to go searching for their answers through other resources.

If the information is not current and easy to access and read, what

use is there for the web site? The faculty wants the student body to be more active, but that becomes difficult if the pages are not up-dated.

The university and its webmas-ter need to keep in mind that Wesleyan’s web site is not only a source for important informa-tion about the school, but also a means of advertising Texas Wes-leyan University.

Erica EstradaGraphic [email protected]

Wesleyan’s web site could benefit from a fresh look

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Melissa [email protected]

The beginning of the se-mester brought many chang-es to Wesleyan, including the use of bicycles by security of-ficers to patrol the campus.

Wesleyan’s new security firm Guardsmark imple-mented the plan on Aug. 23 to help increase security’s presence on campus, said Blake Bumbard, relationship manager for Guardsmark.

“The bikes seem to be working pretty good,” said Jason Leach, Guardsmark site supervisor. “We scare so many people because they’re used to the golf carts.”

Although security has yet to use the bikes in the pre-vention or pursuit of a crime, Leach said he believes the program is advantageous to Wesleyan.

“It’s one of those things that you can’t put a stat on it because you can’t say how much crime you’ve prevent-ed,” he said.

Many Wesleyan commu-nity members may not see security officers on the bikes, but that does not mean they are not being used.

“We ride in the evenings more than anything,” Leach said. “We don’t have a set time to be on the bike. Four or five days a week we’ll be out there but we vary our times.”

Leach said the bike pres-ence cuts down on a lot of the speeding that occurs on Wesleyan Street.

“If I’m sitting on the curb and I’m on that bike, people tend to slow down versus me on the golf cart,” he said. “They think I’m a police of-ficer. When a car crests the hill, I see the nose go down because they’ve just hit the brakes.”

Before the beginning of the semester, officers went through eight hours of train-

ing to receive cer-tification to use the security bikes. There are currently two of-ficers who use the bikes on a regular ba-sis, but other officers are showing interest in using the bikes.

“I think the cam-pus community was very excited to see us expand to another way of being mobile around campus,” said security manager Fe-lisa Barnes.

Although some students don’t know about the bikes, most seem to think it is not a big deal that the bikes are not visible on-campus.

“Just because we don’t see

the bikes it doesn’t mean there isn’t security,” said Julia Anderson, sophomore music vocal performance major. “It doesn’t really bother me.”

Other students feel safe at

Wesleyan and think the secu-rity firm is doing a good job.

“I’m always seeing secu-rity out on the golf carts and stuff,” said Jonathan Blake, senior liberal arts major.

“Even throughout the hours of the night and the morning, I always see the lights going round and round the cam-pus. I don’t think it matters if they don’t use the bikes.”

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Wesleyan security continues bike use

Melissa Bates | Rambler StaffGuardsmark relationship manager Blake Bumbard trains on a bicycle with other security officers during a session held at the beginning of the semester. Guardsmark site supervisor Jason Leach said the bike presence cuts down on a lot of the speeding that occurs on Wesleyan Street.

“If I’m sitting on the curb and I’m on that bike, people tend to slow down versus me on the golf cart. They think I’m a police officer.”

Jason LeachGuardsmark site supervisor

New website administrator seeks fresh directionRachel [email protected]

Two Wesleyan digital staff members are using cyber-space to attract prospective students.

Digital content manager Neal Cornett was hired at the beginning of September by Texas Wesleyan Universi-ty. Joining Cornett is recent computer science graduate, Jeffrey Lamoureux, as digital content specialist. Together they will promote Wesleyan online.

“He seems very knowl-edgeable about what to do, with presence and web pre-sentation,” Lamoureux said.

Cornett’s job will involve using online applications such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to promote Wesleyan to incoming fresh-

men or transfers. “The idea is that there will

be a sort of clearing house for the great efforts that are being put out there for the web: online content, Face-book, Twitter, video and YouTube,” Cornett said.

The other side to his job is marketing. As Wesleyan’s online tour guide, he attracts prospective students to Wes-leyan without them even knowing he is there.

“When people are search-ing for schools, we need to have good advertising on the web,” Cornett said.

The purpose of his posi-tion is to convey the mes-sage that Wesleyan is a qual-ity university that students should consider attending. In doing this, he will be cen-tering on what makes Wes-leyan unique whether it is

the student body, the faculty or academics, Cornett said.

Lamoureux said to achieve the recruitment goal, the school needs to create a web presence that best represents the university through a web experience.

Lamoureux’s job will be updating the website with new pictures and new day-to-day content.

Cornett came from The University of Texas in Ar-lington, where he was the technology director for the College of Education.

Lamoureux graduated from Wesleyan this past May with a degree in computer science.

Students and faculty should see the changes in Wesleyan’s online presence slowly, but not all at once Cornett said.

Cornett said he hopes to establish consistency and direct a message promoting the benefits of the university, faculty, staff and the atmo-sphere on campus.

Students and faculty are not necessarily concerned with Wesleyan’s current website; they just hope the new website will make the online experience better, Cornett said.

One adjustment students and faculty are looking for is

better organization of online content.

“It doesn’t tell you that you have to keep certain schol-arships as a freshman and that you can’t get a scholar-ship if you do better while you’re here,” said Cassandra Holland, sophomore liberal studies major.

Assicuate professor of computer science Dr. Yu-kong Zhang said he thinks everything is fine, but the current website needs to be

a little bit more organized, because sometimes it’s hard to find certain information.

“They need to reorganize the information, maybe coordinate individual pro-grams,” Zhang said.

From a former student’s perspective, Lamoureux said he hopes to see a new, fresh-er look, geared more toward prospective students then it currently is.

“It’s not a revolution, but an evolution,” Cornett said.

“The idea is that there will be a sort of clearing house for the great efforts that are being put out there on the web: online content, Facebook, Twitter, video and YouTube.”

Neal Cornettdigital content manager

Faculty member chronicles weight-loss in blogShauna [email protected]

On a quest to meet the goal many Americans set each New Year’s Day, one staff member is climbing the fitness ladder to her ideal weight.

Carolyn Brown, purchas-ing secretary at Wesleyan, is continuing the quest she started a little after the first of this year to lose weight. In an effort to hold herself ac-countable for continuing to lose weight, she’s chronicling her journey in a public blog dubbed Carolyn’s Crusade.

“I have wanted to lose weight and get fit for years,” Brown said. “I thought, ‘New Year, new me.’”

Brown said she finds moti-vation in a couple of things: first and foremost from her two 10-year-old sons. She

also finds inspiration in her sister, Nikki Simpson.

“She often serves as a deter-rent by telling me how many fat grams are in something I want to order in the drive-thru,” Brown said.

Outside of her family, Brown said one of the great-est things that has touched her heart and motivated her to lose weight is a sermon on OnePlace.com by Dr. Charles

Stanley called “A Healthy Body.” In the Feb. 16 sermon, Stanley talks about God’s view on how people should take care of their bod-ies.

“If I had to tell some-thing about myself that I would like  others to know it would be that God is mine and I belong to Him,” Brown said. “He will help me

accomplish my goals, and is available to  others if they only ask.”

Although she has not tried any of the extreme diets, Brown said her sister has tried the cabbage soup diet and Hilton Head diet, and al-though she loses weight, has usually gained it back due to the drastic diet change when not on the diet.

Brown herself has decid-ed to take an approach that will fit better into her busy schedule, and joined Weight Watchers Online.

This program is based on a points system, and allows users to lose a healthy one or two pounds per week and still eat things they would

normally eat, just in more controlled portions.

“I’m happy that she is still trying,” Simpson said. “She has lost some and gained some back. The good thing is she knows how to get back up after she falls.”

As a part of her crusade, Brown has also begun a cardio machine workout at home.

“My schedule is pretty full, but you make time for what’s important,” Brown said.

She also said if exercise classes are offered at the new fitness center on campus when it opens, she and a co-worker want to sign up for a weight-loss class and attend together.

“I think the key is a bal-anced, disciplined approach,” said Kevin Millikan, athletic director. “It’s a combination of eating right, exercising regularly and setting realistic, attainable goals.”

With the year’s end draw-ing closer, Brown’s goal is to get to a noticeable change in her appearance by Christ-mas, and to shape up even more for a trip her family is planning to take to Jamaica during spring break next se-mester.

“Fortunately life happens. Unfortunately events that come up in life are not always good. The main thing is to keep going despite your ob-stacles,” Brown said.

Photo courtesy of the Office of CommunicationsWesleyan purchasing secretary Carolyn Brown began blogging about her goal to lose weight at the beginning of the year at http://carolynscrusade.blogspot.com.

“Fortunately life happens. Unfor-tunately events that come up in life are not always good. The main thing is to keep going despite your obstacles.”

Carolyn BrownWesleyan purchasing secretary

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Invisible Children movement visits WesleyanMelissa [email protected]

Junior English major Re-becca Moore discovered the Invisible Children movement when she was a junior in high school, and it inspired her to become an activist.

The Invisible Children organization started seven years ago when three South-ern California college stu-dents went to Africa and found that hundreds of chil-dren were left home every night to evade being abduct-ed and forcibly enlisted into the Lord’s Resistance Army, according to the Invisible Children website.

The Invisible Children’s mission statement is to use film, creativity and social ac-tion to end the use of child soldiers in Joseph Kony’s reb-el war and restore Northern Uganda to peace and pros-perity.

“Invisible Children is working to end the longest running conflict in Africa,” said Rebecca Cassinari, road-ie with Invisible Children.

“Joseph Kony started a civil war trying to overthrow the Ugandan government 24 years ago.”

Kony has troops occupying the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic and Southern Su-dan, Cassinari said.

“Kony terrorizes villages and abducts their children to use as guerrilla soldiers in his war,” she said.

In May, President Barack Obama signed the LRA Dis-armament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act. This legislation aims to stop Kony and help the children whose lives are at risk.

“Obama now has less than 180 days to come up with a plan to end the war and help rebuild Uganda,” Cassinari said.

The Invisible Children organization encourages students to find as much in-formation as they can and spread the knowledge. This is exactly what Rebecca Moore was trying to do when she in-troduced the organization to Texas Wesleyan.

“Here we are four minutes from downtown, and we’re in a poor community,” Moore said. “But we’re in our own bubble. We don’t really com-municate with any of the out-side people. We don’t interact with the world.”

The Invisible Children or-ganization also has a scholar-ship program to help Ugan-dan students who weren’t able to go to high school or college because of the war.

Francis Ojok, sophomore public administration and management major at Gulu University in Gulu, Uganda, is one of those students and supports ending the Ugan-dan conflict. Ojok is currently touring with the Invisible Children movement.

“The war has destroyed our community,” Ojok said. “We’ve lost our lives, our properties and our families.”

The movie screenings and concerts that took place Oct. 5 was the fifth time Invisible Children came to Wesleyan. Moore hopes they continue to come and spread knowledge.

“Education is the best way

for us to be able to obtain sustainable peace,” Ojok said.

Moore said she is hoping someone will take the reins before she leaves, because she wants to start a Wesleyan or-ganization that supports In-

visible Children.“Invisible Children has

this thing called Schools for Schools,” Moore said. “If someone starts an organiza-tion or chapter of Invisible Children, they can help to

raise money by doing watch parties, have fundraisers and just different kinds of fun events to bring more attention and donate money to Invisible Children and have fun while doing it.”

Photo courtesy of Invisible ChildrenThe Invisible Children’s mission statement is to use film, creativity and social action to end the use of child soldiers in the Lord’s Resistance Army and restore Northern Uganda to peace.

Karen Avelar.“We are trying to finish

the work that we started in the spring,” said Kimberly Webb, assistant professor of accounting.

The city of Fort Worth pro-vided all the supplies for the new mural at no cost. Sup-plies were courtesy of the Fort Worth Abatement Pro-gram.

“The students wanted to come up with a service proj-ect,” Webb said. “So we as-signed a committee, and they generated a whole list of ideas, this being one of them.”

Volunteers scanned up to

three blocks within Wesley-an’s perimeter and down to the soccer fields looking for graffiti, said Joshua Stone, president of the Accounting Society and senior forensic accounting major.

“I’m passionate about vol-unteering,” Stone said. “I’m passionate about community involvement.”

Last year about 25 to 30 students attended the cam-pus cleanup that lasted from about 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Avelar said.

“We will also be working with the Graffiti Abatement Program who will be provid-

ing all the supplies,” she said.According to the Graffiti

Abatement Program website, the program helps residen-tial and commercial property owners comply with the law by offering graffiti removal services at no cost.

Fort Worth property own-ers can receive five gallons of beige paint every three months for use on graffiti surfaces, according to the city of Fort Worth’s website.

For more pictures and in-formation on the Account-ing Society, visit https://sites.google.com/site/twuacctso-ciety.

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students don’t reference their work,” said associate profes-sor of art Kit Hall. “There are times it has been a blatant at-tempt to plagiarize. And then there are times that students seem to just not know how to determine what plagiarism is.”

Well known for its abil-ity to scan and detect pla-giarism, the system actually rates work it has scanned on a color and percentage scale.

If a paper shows up in green for a professor after scan-ning, it indicates that about five to 10 percent of the pa-per is similar to things found

on the Internet, but not nec-essarily that those parts are plagiarized. The next color professors may encounter is yellow, which can indicate up to 50 percent of a paper be-ing similar to content found on the Internet.

Pelphrey said the third level is red, meaning more than 50 percent of the paper matches other content on the Internet, and that most or all of it has been plagiarized.

“Turnitin is not the end-all-be-all to detect plagia-rism but if plagiarism is suspected, it is a very good aid to substantiate that suspi-

cion, or not,” Hall said. The GradeMark resource is

another useful tool for pro-fessors who want to grade their work online.

“I have been wanting to do more grading online, but I didn’t want to use Word,” said Dr. Elizabeth Battles, professor of English. “The CETL told me about turni-tin, and I really like it. I am not really that interested in the ‘originality reports’ that match student work to essays and articles on the web. I think it is useful for students to see it, but I just want to use the online grading system.”

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Men’s basketball joins old, new players in fight for ringEliana [email protected]

The Wesleyan men’s basketball season offi-cially began Oct. 3.

With a core of veter-ans returning from last year’s Sweet 16 and con-ference championship team, head coach Terry Waldrop said the team is ready to continue where they left off.

Returners from last year’s starting five in-clude senior guard Brian Wanamaker, senior point guard Jeremy Smith and senior post Jeremy May-field.

Smith described his feelings for the new sea-son in one word: “unde-feated.”

As for Wesleyan’s large

group of newcomers, Waldrop said senior post Ty Gough is a “huge in-side force.”

Senior guard Jonathan Blake and junior guards Sutan Burris and Bryce Hill, were also noted by the coach for their ex-ceptional athleticism and ability to score.

“We feel we have some veteran leadership and experience to go along with some talented new comers,” Waldrop said.

The men have been conditioning, working on agility and weight train-ing since the first day

of school. R e f e r e n c e s to the team work outs can be seen

on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/TWURamsBasketball.

“Hard work beats tal-ent when talent doesn’t work hard,” Blake said. “We probably have the most talent in the coun-try, but we need to keep working hard.”

Waldrop said a lot of the team’s success comes from establishing a goal to acquire national championship rings from the start of the season.

“We are circled on ev-eryone’s schedule the minute it comes out,” Waldrop said.

Last year, the men lost the semifinal game of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics National Championship series by four points in

over-time to Oklahoma Baptist University.

They did, however, finish with a conference title.

“We were close last sea-son, and I think that is a great motivator for our seniors,” Waldrop said.

The basketball team is currently ranked 9th in the country by Sporting News and picked to fin-ish first in the Red River Athletic conference, ac-cording to coaches polls.

“Texas Wesleyan bas-ketball has a big target, and everybody wants to beat us,” junior guard Burris said.

“Our coaches put us in situations during prac-tice that prepare us to win, and that’s exactly what we plan on doing.”

Meisa Keivani Najafabadi | Staff PhotographerTy Gough, senior post gets up for a dunk, confirming his coaches reference to him as a “Huge force inside.”

Volleyball takes a 3-0 win

And an 0-3 lossEliana [email protected]

After a strong win Friday, Saturday’s game went down-hill as the Lady Rams took a three-game loss to Wiley College.

In the first set, Wiley’s out-side hitter Jessica Lopez led both teams with eight kills, all of which the Rams could not return. The first set’s score ended 25-18.

In the second set, the Lady Rams tried to take over, but Wiley’s defense answered back as Lopez once again led all with six kills giving the Lady Rams a 25-17 loss.

With 16 ties throughout the third set, the Lady Rams refused to go down easy. Evoni Darling, senior setter, had a kill to tie the game 25-25. However, the back row couldn’t return two back-to-back kills, and Wiley took the game 27-25.

Darling finished the game with 26 assists and 10 digs, while freshman outside hit-ter Hannah Horton had eight kills. Haelee Horne, fresh-man outside hitter, had seven kills and nine digs. Marissa Rangel, junior defensive spe-cialist, had 14 digs and led all players. Katherine Rosen-bush, freshman middle

blocker, had four kills and six block assists.

“This weekend we played hard, but we didn’t effective-ly execute our game plan un-

til late in the second set, and by then, it was too late. We will be ready to beat them at their place next time we play

them,” Darling said.The Lady Ram’s next home

game will be a “Pink Out” to raise money for Breast Can-

cer awareness at 7 p.m. Oct. 21 against University of Tex-as at Brownsville in the Sid Richardson Center.

Rachel [email protected]

The Lady Rams hog-tied the Lady Steers by winning all three games Oct. 8.

The Lady Rams took on the Texas College Lady Steers Friday night at the Sid Rich-ardson Center.

The Lady Rams started the game with a hard kill by freshman middle blocker Katherine Rosenbush, but the Lady Steers took a 5-3 lead shortly after.

Haelee Horne, freshman outside hitter, changed the momentum with six kills assisted by Evoni Darling, senior setter, and giving the Lady Rams a 7-5 lead. A serve by Stephanie Dominguez, freshman setter, followed by an assist by Darling and a kill by Rosenbush gave the Lady Rams a 25-16 win.

In game two, the Lady Rams took an early 10-0 lead. The Lady Steers scrambled to gain a lead, but the Lady Rams answered by capital-izing on Texas College’s er-rors. Freshman outside hitter Horne raked in another six kills in game two doubling her total kills for the match.

The Lady Rams won off of an assist by Dominguez and a kill by Rosenbush, sweeping the Steers 25-11.

In the third game, the Lady Rams took the lead with an assist by Darling and a kill by Christina Daniel, sopho-more outside hitter. The Lady Steers kept the score tight.

A save by Kristen Venhui-zen, senior outside hitter, kept them in the game. Once again Texas College’s errors amounted to a change in mo-mentum and a 25-21 win for the Lady Rams.

“I think they were a little nervous,” said head volleyball coach Christy Clawson. “We let up a little bit just because we were winning, but we still stayed disciplined and fin-ished.”

Horne led the team with 12 kills, hitting .440 on 25 at-tempts and one error. Darling led all players with 30 assists in the match and eight digs. Daniel hit .545 with seven kills out of 11 attempts with only one error. Jennifer Kline, freshman middle blocker, hit .400 with seven kills out of 15 attempts and one error in the win.

“I think we played well to-gether as a team,” Daniel said. “It was a good win to take us on the road next week.”

The win sets the Lady Rams with a 4-3 record in their conference and 11-13 overall.

“This weekend we played hard, but we didn’t effec-tively execute our game plan until late in the second set, and by then, it was too late. ”

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Angie Ruiz | Rambler StaffThe Wesleyan music department prepares to perform at the Museum of Modern Art.

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Wesleyan’s music department will offer a preview of an upcoming concert which will premiere at 2 p.m. Oct. 23 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

The preview takes place at 12:15 p.m. Oct. 19 in the West Library.

“We’re trying to showcase the range and the greatest possible variety of things that we do and present that face to the west side of Fort Worth,” said John Fisher, Wesleyan professor of music and

department chair.The Modern is letting Wesleyan’s

music department use the auditorium for the concert and there is no cost to anyone who wants to attend the event.

“The preview is just a kind of a warm-up act,” Fisher said. “This will be a 30 minute preview of

the full 70-minute concert at The Modern Art Museum.”

West Library and the music de-partment are working together to bring previews of larger concerts to Wesleyan students.

The previews will take place twice each semester.

“The previews are used to reach out to students who might never come to a concert at Martin Hall or other locations,” Fisher said.

Fisher said he hopes the cultural district community takes notice of Wesleyan students and faculty in the music department.

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College students need food, and when we have a killer craving or just a bad case of the munchies, food must come in hoards. Some-times a burger sounds good, but maybe fries or a teriyaki bowl do too.

No need to look any further, because right in Wesleyan’s neigh-borhood is 5 Burger & 2 Fish, the place to go when you’re in the mood for everything.

Located near Wesleyan on East Lancaster, the restaurant packs a whole lot of grub for a small place. It was quite humorous to drive up to the location.

It was a small, simple blue box with a huge yellow sign that read “5 Burger & 2 Fish.” I learned that the name of the restaurant has a biblical connotation referring to Luke 9:16.

On the windows are hand paint-ings of hamburgers and catfish. Walking in was an even bigger eye opener. There were horrible cur-

tains in the windows and the walls looked like paint cans had been thrown on them. Each wall was a different color with patterns that would even make your grand-mother cringe, but regardless of the décor, the place still smelled amazing.

The menu options were tick-ling. The restaurant offers burgers, shrimp and fish nuggets, teriyaki bowls, combination fried rice, ti-lapia, catfish, french fries and my personal favorite — sour dill pick-les. The last one completely threw me off, because I haven’t seen theater-style pickles since I was a kid. At this point I was completely sold, and I hadn’t even tried the food yet.

I figured I’d start simple and go for a shrimp teriyaki bowl while my friends ordered bacon burg-ers. I managed to creep a little and saw the cooks in the back were making everything from scratch or by hand.

Fifteen minutes passed and our food was out. My teriyaki bowl was served on an intricate china piece,

while the burgers were served Tex-as style in baskets with butcher pa-per — my kind of place.

The teriyaki bowl was amazing. The sauce wasn’t overpowering or tart; the shrimp were perfectly cooked, and the vegetables were steamed but not soggy.

The burgers looked just as good. A third pound beef patty topped with cheese, lettuce, tomato and crispy bacon, none of that flimsy bacon here.

The fries are what really caught our attention. They looked as if a potato was thrown into a fan, and whatever came out is how they were served. They were little shards of potato baked to a crisp brown.

The portions were beyond belief as each plate was enough to feed at least two people.

Overall, this Lancaster jewel is placed high on my list. I’m look-ing forward to returning and try-ing something else. If you’re ever in the mood for a Texas sweet tea and a giant pickle, 5 Burger & 2 Fish can be your hunger buster.

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First Wesleyan African-American graduate diesDwight [email protected]

Dr. Beatrice Hurst Douglas was a country girl from Marlin, Texas who always wanted to make the world a more peaceful place to live.

The first African-American to graduate from Texas Wesleyan, Douglas was born in 1938 to the late Monroe and Emma Hurst and was the sixth of seven girls. She also had four brothers. Her older sister Juanita Mackey said one of the most unique things about Douglas was her desire to climb and achieve.

“It didn’t matter, she wanted to conquer it,” she said.

Douglas’ other pastimes were horseback riding and swimming, Mackey said.

Douglas most admired her first teacher, Rosetta Wheeler, who in-spired her to become a teacher.

“I remember our one-room schoolhouse out in the country where grades one through six were taught,” Mackey said. “Bea-trice was always watching and mimicking the teacher.”

Douglas graduated from Dun-bar High School in Lubbock, Tex-

as and attended Jarvis Christian College in Hawkins, Texas for a short time. Later, she married and had two sons, Robert and Rodney Cooksey.

Her love for teaching was passed to her son Rodney Cooksey who is currently a principal at South Oak Cliff High School in Dallas.

“She loved family and regarded extended family members as her own,” Rodney said.

In 1966, Douglas graduated from Texas Wesleyan with a bach-elor’s degree in elementary educa-tion and said she never felt dis-crimination at Wesleyan.

University president Law Sone congratulated Douglas in a Fort Worth Star-Telegram article. “Congratulations on being the first of your kind to graduate from Texas Wesleyan,” he said.

Douglas later said Sone meant well, “I don’t think he meant any harm.”

Douglas continued her educa-tion after Wesleyan.

“If I want something, I go after it, and I don’t stop until I get it,” she said in a past Star-Telegram article.

She earned a master’s degree at East Texas State University and

later earned a doctorate from Texas Woman’s University.

She retired

from her post as principal of Sun-rise Elementary School in 2001.

Douglas’ best friend as an adult was Eva Lenoir, who actu-ally lived with Douglas for three years and remained her best

friend for almost 50 years.“I met Beatrice Douglas in

1960 at Jarvis Christian College. She was a true diamond who al-ways wanted to give back,” Lenoir said. “Dr. Douglas was a Chris-tian woman who loved God and believed and trusted in His word. She displayed the courage to act upon God’s promise and was thankful and appreciative to God for His blessings in her life.”

Lenoir also said Douglas loved mankind, was humble and honest and was always willing to share her blessings, time and knowledge voluntarily. She loved to work in both church activities and in the community because she always wanted to give back.

“She achieved everything she set out to do,” Lenoir said.

Stephanie Boatner, previous di-rector of freshman admissions at

Wesleyan, also had good things to say about Douglas in a Star-Tele-gram article.

“The students on campus need to see her [Douglas’] success; and we need more students to step for-ward and take leadership roles,” she said.

Douglas is preceded in death by her parents, Monroe and Emma Hurst, brothers Monroe, S.V., Matt William, Sam James and Jesse James Hurst; sisters Jernice Ford and Lucille Presswood; son Jon Douglas; and granddaughter Rachel Cooksey.

She is survived by sons Robert Ferrell Cooksey, Rodney Renard Cooksey and Kenneth Wayne Douglas; daughter Kelly Joy Free-man; sisters Velma Lewis, Mazzie Cofer, Emma Jean Hurst and Juanita Mackey; and two grand-children.

“She was a true diamond who al-ways wanted to give back. ... She displayed the courage to act upon God’s promise and was thankful and appreciative to God for His blessings in her life.”

Eva Lenoir50-year friend

of Dr. Beatrice Hurst-Douglas

Courtesy of Douglas familyHurst-Douglas’ passion for teaching kept her going beyond Texas Wesleyan until she earned a doctorate degree.

Courtesy of Douglas familyHurst-Douglas receives her bachelor’s in education from Texas Wesleyan University in 1966.