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The voice of Texas Wesleyan University students since 1917
The RamblerGive Chopper and other homeless a permanent home. Community, page 5
Author of Killed By Indians visits campus for signing. Arts & Entertainment, page 4
WEDNESDAYMarch 2, 2011
Vol. 94 • No. 7
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Elizabeth Armstrong Hall runs hotShauna [email protected]
After approximately 2 1/2 weeks without hot water, residents of Eliza-beth Armstrong Hall can breathe a sigh of relief.
“Losing the hot water really made me appreciate a good shower,” Brit-tany White, junior exercise major, said. “When I turned on the shower and saw steam, I got too excited.”
Ken Dunson, director of facili-ties operations, said the issue was
solved completely on Friday, Feb. 25, when a new motor and fan as-sembly arrived for the boiler that supplies hot water to Elizabeth, Dora Roberts Dining Hall and O.C. Armstrong Hall.
The affected boiler was repaired within the same day, and hot water now runs again for Elizabeth’s residents.
Dunson said the issue started with sporadic main boiler motor prob-lems. The boiler went out completely on Feb. 7 and was replaced with a backup, Dora’s dish machine boiler,
on the same day. By Wednesday, Feb. 9, the backup boiler went out due to a bad sensor.
After the sensor was replaced, hot water was available, but still not reaching students in Elizabeth.
Dunson later determined that the use of Dora’s industrial dish washing machine was using all the hot water being produced by the backup boiler.
“We are able to arrange the water piping valves that allow the dish machine boiler to supply Elizabeth too,” Dunson said. “But when the
dish machine runs excessively, the water temp goes down and Eliza-beth is left with no hot water.”
Sharon Manson, director of resi-dence life, said Will Timmerman, food service director, agreed to use paper plates and other disposable products in Dora’s to eliminate the use of the dish washer completely until the problem was resolved.
Dora’s ended up only using these types of products Feb. 24-Feb. 25, since the new motor for the main boiler came in sooner than the pro-
jected Feb. 26 date. Heath Scott, president of the Stu-
dent Government Association, said he is happy the situation was re-solved.
“I thank maintenance for the work they put into it,” he said. “It was just unfortunate that the students had to endure those days where there was not really hot water. I don’t expect this issue to come up again, because I know once our maintenance de-partment handles an issue, it’s per-manently fixed.”
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In February, five teams made up of Wesleyan students and faculty submitted concepts to the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning to design an empty classroom in the Eunice and James L. West Library for the classroom.NEXT project.
The project allowed faculty and students the opportunity to understand how a learning envi-ronment can affect the teaching process.
“I think it’s good to give students [and faculty] a chance to see what it’s like,” said Krista Rosso, education EC-6 post-bach student.
As a part of concept development, each team was required to conduct research on learning en-vironment design.
One of five design team leaders, Dr. Elizabeth Alexander, associate professor of history, said her team did its research during winter break, based on discussions in her methods of teaching his-tory class.
Alexander said her team wanted to create a space that followed three basic principles: flex-ibility, pleasing asthetics and the concept of de-centeredness.
“We wanted a classroom that didn’t have a front so that the students would be creators of knowl-edge,” Alexander said. “The professor would be someone who works with the students to create that knowledge.”
Alexander said her team created an active and social learning experience to focus on the net generation of students under 30 years old.
Alexander also said some of the other teams also incorporated flexability, but each design was unique.
“I’m very excited about it,” Alexander said. “I hope we win!”
Based on the Signature Student Experience project, the classroom.NEXT project, sponsored
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Part of the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life for three years, the Texas Wesleyan commu-nity is putting together a team for this year’s event April-15-16 at the Fort Worth Cats Stadium.
Michael Chaney, coordinator of student activi-ties and volunteerism and greek adviser, is the head of the Wesleyan chapter of Relay for Life, currently consisting of six members.
“I am hoping some more students get involved in this project,” Chaney said. “We will start with fundraisers on campus, selling popcorn to ‘pop away cancer.’”
Chaney said he also plans to barter with Texas Roadhouse to create “Wesleyan Night,” in which 10 percent of all proceeds go to the Relay for Life funds.
Although the Wesleyan team has only partici-pated for the past three years, Dr. Allen Hender-son, provost and vice president, has been com-peting for more than 12 years.
Henderson has been a volunteer for the Ameri-can Cancer Society for more than 20 years, is a member of the national board and a coordinator for the local board.
“This is an amazing event that I really encour-age students to participate in,” Henderson said. “It’s about bringing communities together to work for one cause.”
Henderson said he was inspired to become such a large part of this society after he lost a
Teams create new classroom concepts
Relay for Life team calls for participation
RELAY, page 3
NEXT, page 3
Wesleyan students represent in Cowtown
Photos by Meisa Keivani Najafabadi | Rambler StaffTop: Timothy Reece, Senior Spanish and comparative religion major, runs in the 10K race at the 33rd Annual Cowtown Marathon Feb. 26 in Fort Worth. Above left: 40-year-old Lori Stich from Colorado Springs, Colo. crosses the finish line at 19:08, winning the 5K race. Above right: 24-year-old Logan Sherman from Dallas, Texas crosses the finish like at 15:37, winning the 10K race Feb. 26.
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Students, staff and faculty rep-resented Texas Wesleyan each morning at the 33rd Annual Cowtown Marathon Feb. 26-27 in Fort Worth’s Cultural District.
The Cowtown Marathon is a two-day event with 11 races varying in distance. There are races for adults, children and teams. Adults and children can participate in the 5K, which is 3.1 miles. Teams can run in the 5K or the 10K.
Music education major Selena Stewart ran in the 5K last year to celebrate her 21st birthday.
“Last year was my first year to do any kind of running race,” Stewart said. “So I did the 5k and I loved it and it actually fell on the day of my birthday so this year I decided to do it as a tradition.”
Stewart said she is a swimmer.“I thought it’d be a good thing
to get me started and because I’m a swimmer, I eventually want to work up to doing triath-lons, but that’s my weakest link,” Stewart said.
This year Stewart ran the 10K, coming in at 59:27.
Chuck Burton, assistant vice president for marketing and communications, ran in the 5K.
Burton said the marketing department came up with the idea to promote Wesleyan at the Cowtown by giving Wesleyan runners a free Texas Wesleyan T-shirt, specifically designed for the event. Marketing collabo-rated with the Morton Fitness center to distribute the shirts to participants from the historic campus, Burleson campus and Law School.
Burton said he hadn’t run in the Cowtown before but he had run in the Run to Joe’s race.
“I wanted to prove to myself I can do it,” Burton said. “I’m not a serious runner. I just
thought it’d be nice to do this.”According to www.mychip-
time.com, Burton’s time was 30:23.
Mychiptime.com also re-ported that 11,595 people ran on Feb. 26 and 7,661 people ran on Feb. 27, totaling 19,256 both days.
“I think it builds the fel-lowship between students, faculty and staff even from the law school,” said AAron Whaley, director of the Mor-ton Fitness Center. I think it’s good because it’s going to get people out and about, get them doing things but also represent Wesleyan.”
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“We are not afraid to follow the truth ... wherever it may lead.”
— Thomas Jefferson
What are you planning to do for spring break?
“I’m going to go visit my family down in Mexico.”- Jorge Ruiz,
junior, business
“I’m going to Mexico with my boyfriend.”- Kristen Thorn,junior, biology
“I’ don’t have anything planned because we don’t really know what we are doing for track practice.”
- Taylor Gill,sophomore, athletic training
“My friend’s mom is out of town, so I’m going over to her house and play a bunch of video games.”
- Kameron Ratliff,senior, liberal studies
“My mom is going out of town, so I’m going to have a bunch of friends over.”
- Richelle Pulever,junior, paralegal studies
“I’m going to Panama City Beach, Florida with some friends from high school.”
- Tyler Lackey,junior, exercise science
QEP tests student’s knowledge, patience
Somehow I’m still not complete-ly caught up from those five snow days in February.
Projects, papers and assign-ments have piled up so high, that I wonder if there really are enough hours in the day to complete them all if I decided to never sleep again. Too bad I can’t freeze time like Zack Morris.
Classes are definitely going full-steam ahead, with multiple chap-ters covered in a single class just to get things caught up. However, in one of my once-a-week classes, we hit another road block last week.
A couple of days before class, we received a not entirely happy e-mail from our professor letting us know we’d be taking a standard-ized test.
Like most other students in the class, I responded to the e-mail with a “What the heck?” thought in my head.
Standardized tests in college? Didn’t we escape TAKS-type test-
ing in high school? Guess not. My biggest qualm though,
was not the test itself, but the fact that we’d have to waste an entire class to take it. Not only was my professor not on board with this test, but neither were any of the other students in the class.
More than a third of the class didn’t even show up on test day.
During the test, titled the ETS Proficiency Profile, I found out that it was one of the steps be-ing taken for development of the Quality Enhancement Plan at Tex-as Wesleyan.
Even though we’d all been told this, many students around me were simply clicking through questions as fast as possible, se-lecting answers at random.
They’d also been told the test wasn’t going to count for a grade, or really affect them in any way no matter how high or low they scored.
On top of that, the directions said we didn’t even have to use our real name when taking the test. For the entire hour it took me to take this test, I was Blair Watson.
Beside the fact that we were al-ready way behind and didn’t need to be wasting valuable classroom time, many students also grum-
bled about the content of the test. To be tested on something so
abruptly that we may not have been exposed to in years seems like a poor way to determine the effectiveness of the university’s general education program.
What if other students like my-self, took their core classes at an-other school? If we didn’t even take the classes here, how can the results (good or bad) apply to Texas Wesleyan effectiveness evaluations?
I took the test as I was instruct-ed to, and in general the ques-tions, which concentrated on math, writing and reading/critical thinking, were not difficult.
However, I figured it may have been slightly easier for me since it had not been more than two or three years since I’d had classes in these subjects.
This university has so many ef-fective professors, who do every-thing they can to make sure their students grasp every concept.
I truly hope these tests aren’t used for any official reports for accreditation in the near future, as they would seem somewhat inac-curate to me.
I do recognize the value of this QEP topic being developed though, because the bottom line
is, without accreditation, our uni-versity would not be able to offer anyone the degrees they seek.
That’s why it is important for people to voice their issues or concerns with the university in
the QEP sessions being held on campus, and to the administrators involved.
Your voice does need to be heard on these issues … just not in class.
Re: Split ceremony spoils graduation for students
I’m part of the 2011 Graduation class this spring semester so I am well aware of not only the split ceremony but the uproar this has caused. I understand that not everyone is go-ing to be happy about this new change, but the positive aspects should be pointed out instead of just focusing on the negatives.
First, students will not be rushed out after the first ceremony. There is about 2 hours between ceremonies so students from the first half will have time to “bask in their success”. This is a lot more time than what students normally get af-ter a ceremony is over because everyone is try-ing to hurry and rush out of there to get to some kind of celebration with family and friends.
Second, Fort Worth does not offer a lot of venue choices to hold a group our size. Plenty of research went into this because it is not a de-cision taken lightly. The arena was not available since Tarrant County College uses it for their ceremonies. As a student I REFUSE to have my graduation ceremony at TCU’s Daniel-Meyer coliseum which was an idea I heard from some of my fellow graduates. I am a Wesleyan stu-dent, not a TCU student.
Third, Will Rogers would not guarantee not to bump our ceremony to Saturday if some-thing came up or even a future date despite us reserving the facility so far in advanced. Imag-ine how upset you would be if you told your family to reserve that night for you only to find out at the last minute that now you can’t gradu-
ate until the next night or weeks later. Some of you probably have people flying in – do you really think it would be fair for them to fly in for nothing?
Fourth, what a lot of students probably don’t realize is that this 2011 Graduating class is the largest one Wesleyan has had in recent years or maybe ever. As much as I’m looking forward to graduating and basking in my success, I don’t want to wait 4 hours for that to happen. I also have selfish reasons because my family will be there, including my infant daughter and 7-year-old son. Anyone who has young kids surely knows how hard it can be on them to sit through a 2-hour movie much less a 4-hour ceremony.
This idea about separating us is not com-pletely foreign. A lot of other universities have their ceremonies broken up on different times or even spread out over different days so that each school within the university graduates separately from the others. Wesleyan has been lucky they managed to keep everyone together in previous years. Instead of focusing on the negative of having a split ceremony, how about being excited that our university has grown to the point that we HAVE to have a split cer-emony? Just because we graduate hours apart doesn’t diminish our bond or make us less of a family. We are Rams, whether we graduate at 4:30 p.m., 8:00 p.m., in December 2011, or May 2012. Nothing can take that from us. I’m a member of the 2011 Graduating Class. I’m graduating at 4:30 p.m. I am a RAM!
— Tara Sheehan Cates
Shauna BanksEditor - in- Chief [email protected]
I recently caught myself thinking a little too much about our American culture.
I consider myself an ex-pert on the subject, but only because I have been around long enough to see so many changes—more negative than positive.
If I had to sum it up in a single sentence, I would just
say this culture is in decline—steep decline.
Americans are no longer viewed as gritty, adventur-ous risk takers.
Instead we are seen by most in
the world as whiny, fearful and paranoid.
We have spent nearly a decade brooding over the events of 9/11, and although it seemed to ignite an explo-sion of pride and patriotism early on, I hear little more than a whimper outside the military community these days.
I’m not saying the events
didn’t change us. I just don’t think it changed us for the better.
The surge in digital tech-nologies has had as much to do with our decline as any-thing else.
Let’s face it. We are a lazy population determined to have instant gratification in everything we do.
Patience has no place in the digital world. With our smartphones and social net-works, we have carefully dis-guised our retreat from the wholesome relationships of past generations.
At one time we had con-versations with each other. Now, just a few words in a
text message seem to be the standard communication.
I recently read an article in the Wall Street Journal suggesting our new national identity as one of sissies and whiners. I thought about it for a while and realized I tend to agree.
Our television programs focus on vulgarity, obesity, deception, crime and more manufactured drama than I can stand.
We literally have 499 channels of crap.
I defend the Discovery Channel and a couple of oth-ers just to be fair.
Our families are failing too. The truth of the matter
is our adults coddle our chil-dren, and our children para-lyze our adults with guilt until nobody seems to have the courage to do the right thing.
America was once con-sidered a global superpow-er, but I don’t believe the world perceives us that way anymore.
We owe everyone mon-ey. Our economic systems are on life support and key principles this country was founded like family values and social freedom have been mutilated and manipulated, mostly by politicians, until they are barely recognizable.
The decline is viral and
with few exceptions, it has infected and affected all of us.
I’m not trying to get preachy or philosophical here. There’s no telling what the cure will be, or if there is a cure.
All I’m saying is that Americans are not doing their best these days.
It would be more accu-rate to say we’re doing what makes us feel best. That is not the selfless attitude that built and defended America for more than two centuries.
On the bright side, we are still free, and there is plenty of room for improvement.
Where we go from here is up to us.
Barry GrubbsOpinion [email protected]
Americans slowly losing cultural identity
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close friend to cancer at 32 and then lost his father-in-law to lung cancer.
“This relay is more like a celebration really, a cele-bration of life,” Henderson said.
The Relay for Life is one of the largest relays in the world. Henderson said oth-
er countries have started to follow in the footsteps of the American Cancer Society.
Henderson said the ACS’s main goal is to fund young people who are looking into cancer research and that the ACS has funded 43 Nobel Prizes.
“It’d be great to see a Wes-
leyan alum or current student receive some of this funding for their efforts and educa-tion towards cancer,” Hen-derson said.
Wesleyan will have its own booth at this year’s Relay for Life event in Fort Worth, in which the goal is to raise $5,000, an increase from last year’s $1,000 raised.
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by CETL, was first thought of during a conversation between CETL’s director, Dr. Amy Collier and Mar-cus Kerr, chief information officer.
“The goal of the project was to give the teams op-portunities to design learner-centered spaces,” Collier said.
Collier also said the class-room.NEXT project was designed so that the faculty would think carefully about the outcomes of the stu-
dents who would learn in the room. The winning team’s design will have its name on a plaque in the room, as well as priority scheduling for the classroom. Each team mem-ber will also receive a digital camcorder.
“As much as possible, we wanted to encourage inter-disciplinary collaboration because learning spaces are learning spaces, they don’t have to be discipline specific,” Collier said.
Collier also said the proj-ect may become an annual event.
“In the future, I’d like to have it where the teams ac-tually propose the room and the design,” Collier said.
The winning design of the classroom.NEXT project was announced during the lun-cheon March 1.
To find out which design won, go to therambler.org or visit the CETL’s website from the Texas Wesleyan homep-age under the tab informa-tion resources.
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To raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Assoica-tion, Texas Wesleyan’s chapter of Kappa Alpha Order, Zeta Xi, is selling bracelets for $3 at 12:15 p.m. March 1, in front of the Brown Lupton Campus Center.
Baron Yarborough, presi-dent of Zeta Xi, said the or-ganization’s goal is to sell 100 bracelets. The sell will contin-ue every Tuesday and Thurs-day until bracelets run out.
Since 1975, KA has donat-ed more than $2.5 million to help the MDA find cures for muscle diseases.
Zeta Xi was founded in 2003 at Wesleyan and has worked with the MDA since that time.
“With the money we’ve raised we’ve helped cure eight out of the 21 types of muscu-lar dystrophy,” Yarborough said.
Yarborough said he hopes his chapter can raise more money than it did last year.
“We were one of the lesser raisers,” he said. “We’re a small chapter but we usually raise a little bit more than we have.”
Yarborough said his chapter is also planning a mud volley-ball tournament for later this semester, and will participate in the MDA Muscle Walk on March 5 at Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington.
Barron Branch, freshman religious major and corre-sponding secretary of Zeta Xi, said he thinks it is im-
portant to support raising money for MD.
“It’s a serious disease that affects a lot of people and makes it hard for people to walk and debilitates them from using their muscles,” Branch said.
Branch said he hopes KA can help to find even more cures and treatments for MD.
Michael Chaney, coor-dinator of student activi-ties and volunteerism and greek adviser, said he thinks everyone should support any good cause they come across.
“I think it’s fantastic this chapter has fallen in line in helping raise awareness and raise funds for this cause,” Chaney said.
Zeta Xi raises money for cause
Top left: Robyn Bone, career services career counselor, and husband Tahajudd run in the 5K race at the 33rd An-nual Cowtown Marathon Feb. 26. Top right: Chuck Burton, assistant vice president for marketing and communications participates in the 5K marathon. Lower right: Casey Brown, Texas Wesleyan student, runs in the 5K race, along with thou-sands of othe participants. Lower middle: Local Fort Worth citizens walk the 5K race. Lower left: 26-year-old Joseph Latham from Arlington runs the 10K race.
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Texas Wesleyan Universityand
The Department of Musicpresent
Stephen Barr Memorial Concert
March 10 at 7:30 p.m.Martin Hall
Stephanie Ho and Saar Ahuvia, duo-piano2005 Silver Medal Winners, Dranoff Two-
Piano Competition
For more information, visit http://www.txwes.edu/music/music/index.htm or call 817-531-4992
The Koebbe-Dunn Piano Duo in Recital
March 22 at 7:30 p.m. Martin Hall
Jessica Koebbe and Lori Dunn, duo-piano
Guest Recital
March 8 at 7:30 p.m.Martin Hall
Amir Khosrowpour, piano
Religious Life at Texas Wesleyan
Live music with brief time of worship Tuesdays at 12:15 in PUMC Chapel Free lunch after on PUMC 3rd Floor – Room 312
Free lunch and discussion/dialogue Thursdays at 12:15 in PUMC Chapel PUMC 3rd Floor – Room 312
“Faith seeking understanding” – ALL are welcome!
For info: http://www.txwes.edu/religiouslife/index.htm
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Students meet Pulitzer Prize authorRachel [email protected]
Seven creative writing stu-dents from Texas Wesleyan attended the Annual Writers Conference Feb. 17-18 at An-gelo State University.
They listened to presenta-tions from distinguished au-thors and other presenters, including critical papers, cre-ative nonfiction, fiction and poetry.
Dr. Jeffrey DeLotto, profes-sor of English, was among the presenters.
“Once I discovered that the focus of this writing confer-ence was creative non-fiction and I was teaching a creative nonfiction writing class, [I thought] this was a perfect opportunity to show some undergraduate students what graduate students and profes-sors do at conferences,” De-Lotto said.
On the first day of confer-ence, DeLotto read from his fiction work A Gutting on the Camino Real to a group of 50 students and presenters.
“A presentation that was a favorite of mine, was a creative multimedia presentation,” De-Lotto said. “It was a simple story about a young man set-
ting out to be a cowboy.” Art Spiegelman, a Pulitzer
Prize winning author, was the guest speaker. Spiegelman’s book Maus is the only graphic novel to ever win a Pulitzer Prize.
Maus is a collection of memoirs to his parents, who were in Auschwitz during the Holocaust.
All seven students and De-Lotto were invited to dinner with the writer on Feb. 17.
Amy Hensley, junior Eng-lish literature major, said the experience was touching.
“I like that he is very forth coming on how he feels about everything that he’s gone through,” Hensley said. “He’s not trying to mask or bury the emotions and feelings that he still carries with him.”
When the conference ac-tivities had quieted down each night, DeLotto and his students visited Miss Hat-tie’s Bordello Museum and shopped in downtown San Angelo.
“I hope that they have it open for students again next year,” said Sasha Banks, junior Eng-lish creative writing major. “I would really like to come and see who they have and be in-troduced to new authors.”
Dr. Jeffrey DeLotto | Courtesy PhotoCreative writing students were given the opportunity to attend the Annual Writers Conference Feb. 17-18 at Angelo State Univer-sity. Jill Dusza, Sasha Banks, Suhasini Yeeda, Rachel Peel, John Cohen, Art Spiegelman, Amy Hensley and Rebecca Moore gath-ered for dinner one of the nights. Art Spiegelman, the guest speaker, is the only author to win a Pulitzer Prize for a graphic novel.
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A book signing was held for Alan C. Huffines at 7 p.m Feb. 22. in Lou’s Place.
The author spoke to a crowd about his newly pub-lished book Killed by Indians 1871.
The book is based on true events from the 19th century in the Fort Worth to Graham area.
Brit Johnson, the main character, is based on a real person. Johnson was an Af-rican-American man who was slaughtered by Indians.
Huffines said although the story is true, he had to fic-tionalize some parts because there was not enough infor-mation available to make it a non-fiction book.
At the event, Huffines sold and signed copies of Killed by Indians 1871.
The book was published by Texas Wesleyan University’s Press. Killed by Indians 1871 is the third book published by the TWU Press and the fourth published by Huffines.
Professor of English, Jef-frey DeLotto, general editor of the TWU Press, was the first author published by the press.
DeLotto said the editing and publishing process of a
book through the TWU press involves two student editors and two faculty editors.
“It was always my inten-tion to have the press as an outlet for the Texas Wesley-an University community but as much as anything to provide a learning oppor-tunity for students to work on real manuscripts and be involved in a genuine book publication,” DeLotto said.
He also believes holding a book signing is important because it gives the univer-sity’s community an oppor-tunity to see what the press is doing and recognize the importance of its work.
The student editors were Lisa Puente, a junior Eng-lish major, and alumna Erin Tucker, a senior history ma-jor at the time of editing in fall 2010.
Puente said although she does not normally read historical fiction novels, she found Killed by Indians 1871 interesting.
“It gave me a completely new perspective on some things I didn’t know a lot about,” Puente said. “I think anyone with a big interest in history will really enjoy it.”
Tucker said the book is not her type either, but also found it interesting and un-like anything she had ever
read before.“It opened my eyes to how
things really were and, be-ing a history major, I found it interesting,” Tucker said. “I didn’t know anything about it so it was interesting to learn about Brit Johnson and his family.”
Tucker said Killed by Indi-ans 1871 is not for the faint of heart.
“I think it will probably shock people who aren’t fa-miliar with that period in history, with how things re-ally were on the frontier be-cause it’s not romanticized like most stories of that time seem to be,” Tucker said.
Alan Huffines, author of the book, grew up in Gra-ham, Texas, the main setting for the story.
“I hope the reader has a great trip back to the pe-riod,” Huffines said. “It’s life on the frontier in the middle of the 19th century in a very rough time. It’s not necessar-ily a feel good book.”
Huffines said he was hap-py when the TWU press ac-cepted the task of editing and publishing his book.
“This novel has been re-jected by the best,” Huffines said.
Huffines said he is working on making a book trailer and has hired actors to play the characters. Huffines said the trailer should be available on Youtube within the next few months.
Copies of Killed by Indi-ans 1871 are available in the Texas Wesleyan book-store. Soft covers are $20 and hard covers are $30.
Texas Wesleyan Press publishes again
Rachel Peel | Rambler StaffAlan C. Huffines (right), author of Killed by Indians 1871, held a book signing at 7 p.m. on Feb. 22 in Lou’s Place. Killed by Indians 1871 is the fourth book published by Huffines and the third book published by Texas Wesleyan’s Press. The book is available in Texas Wesleyan’s bookstore.
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Men’s soccer reaches out to communityEmma [email protected]
With the Texas Wesleyan men’s soccer team under a new coaching staff, the team is starting to reach out to the surrounding community.
Head coach Tyler Powell said the team is working hard in practice each week, and providing com-munity service for Polytechnic Heights.
“Part of the project is to take pic-tures and write an outline about what they did and why,” Powell said.
In April, the team is also going to volunteer its time by helping at the Dallas Cup, the largest interna-tional youth soccer tournament in the country.
Powell said volunteering for the Dallas Cup gives the team a chance to be around youth soccer players, while also being a part of some-thing bigger than the team.
Along with the Dallas Cup, Wes-leyan men’s soccer will also volun-teer at the Panda Cup, a tourna-ment for soccer players 6-19 years old.
However, the Panda Cup is not
just about winning. Since ages are sometimes mixed for games, it allows older players to mentor younger ones.
“There are teams from around the world but it is set up to play friendly games and host events for the community,” Powell said.
Specific events the team will par-ticipate in are the Fort Worth Spe-cial Olympics and Veterans Para-plegic game in April.
Powell said the team is asking Wes-leyan students to also get involved.
“We are currently collecting sportswear for a local church that
is housing refugees from Burma, Thailand, South Africa and East Asia,” Powell said.
Sportswear items include old running shoes, cleats, shorts, shirts and warm-ups.
Powell said the Rams will contin-ue to contribute to the community in numerous areas and are dedi-cated to helping out not only local areas, but also countries around the world.
“To me, it brings the team closer together as we help people in need,” Kyle Fritz, junior forward, said. “It also, in my opinion, gives the team
a place among the community.”Marcus Harris, junior, said he
believes the projects will lead to people becoming more involved with Wesleyan and assist in spread-ing the name of the university.
“I think that the community ser-vice will show the community that we are not just a school of Rose-dale, but a school that wants to get the community support in all we do,” Harris said.
Anyone wanting to make dona-tions can drop them off in Powell’s office, room 212 in the Sid Rich-ardson Center.
The most important dog responsibility I have not mentioned so far is training.
In the past 10 years, proper dog training has become a popular subject with shows on TV such as The Dog Whis-perer and It’s Me or the Dog. The proper way to train a dog has changed as more people have become interested in animal behavior and the de-velopment of new techniques that are proven to work.
The largest difference in dog training is the move from negative reinforcement to positive reinforcement.
With negative reinforce-ment, the dog owner essen-tially beats his dog into sub-mission so that it learns to fear the owner and “do what
it’s told.” This technique
includes hitting a dog when it does wrong, rubbing his nose in his accidents during house training, and using shock
collars. Why, in the world, would you want to hit a puppy? Negative reinforce-ment is hardly taught by any professional dog trainer any-more and primarily only ex-ists in owners that feel their dog doesn’t need training.
The correct way to train a dog is using positive rein-forcement. This method in-volves using treats or toys to reward good behavior and is so much more effective.
While every trainer has his own techniques based on what has worked for him in the past, positive reinforce-ment is the foundation for teaching all commands from basic to advanced, and even in the dog sport of agility.
To make positive rein-
forcement training even easier, trainers will use a tool called a clicker. A clicker makes a distinct sound that remains constant every time it is used. By clicking when a dog is performing what is being asked, the dog knows exactly what it is being re-warded for.
Training in a class environ-ment enforces socialization, allows a professional to assist, and teaches a dog to work around distractions. Social-ization is a must for puppies in order to prevent any fear, aggression, or dominance is-sues from developing.
While some extensive courses can be expensive and some highly qualified trainers might charge more for their services, there are some low-cost solutions that exist. Petsmart offers a ba-sic, puppy course that is six weeks long and costs $109.
Not only will positive re-inforcement make training a dog easier, it also strength-ens the human-dog bond.
Stephan MoritzStaff [email protected].
“Macy”Age: 7 years
Primary Breed: Old British ShorthairMacy will in an apartment or house with chil-
dren over 7. Requires lots of love. contact:
Humane Society of North Texas1840 E. Lancaster Ave.
Fort Worth, TX 817-332-4768
Or visit www.hsnt.net
“Chomper”Age: 3 years
Primary Breed: American Bulldog/Pitt BullChomper is best in a one dog home with no cats. He will work better with children over 7 years old. Would fit in an apartment or house
with a fence. contact:
Humane Society of North Texas1840 E. Lancaster Ave.
Fort Worth, TX 817-332-4768
Or visit www.hsnt.net
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Softball goes 3-2 in USAO TournamentEliana [email protected]
The Lady Ram softball team traveled to Chickasha, Okla. Feb. 25-26 to win 3 of their 5 total games in the University of Science and Arts Tournament.
“We did well this weekend but we should have come back with five wins instead of three,” Caitlin Bradley, ju-nior utility player said. “We are lacking the consistency right now, but the moment we get that to click it will be very hard to beat us.”
Game one against Avila University was a 7-4 win for the Lady Rams after coming back from a 4-0 Avila lead.
Lady Ram offense stepped up to bat as Lindsay Cline, freshman first and third base, Tara Martinez, se-nior utility player, Makelle Akin, junior outfielder, and Marissa Rangel, junior out-fielder, all hit RBI singles.
Ashley Tarrant, senior pitcher, added to the win by pitching two scoreless in-nings.
Game two was against fifth-ranked Lubbock
Christian University in which the Lady Rams barely fell short 7-5.
The Chapparals took a swift 7-0 run in the first four innings, sparked by a two-run homer.
Kline, Akin and freshman second base Ashley Sei-bel all scored in the fourth and fifth innings to bring the Lady Rams within two points, but were unable to pull away.
Game three took place Feb. 26 as the Lady Rams clobbered York College 10-1.
“Our chemistry is amaz-ing and the fact that we have a lot of depth is making us even stronger,” Skyler Gen-try, freshman utility player, said.
In the first inning the Lady Rams scored nine runs of seven singles and four walks allowing every player in Ram line up to reach the base.
They took the 10-1 win after a double hit by Rangel in the fifth.
Game four against the home team, the University of Science and Arts was a 6-0 loss for the Lady Rams.
The Lady Drovers scored early in the first, taking four runs on three hits and three walks on junior pitcher and first base Taylor Hodge.
The Lady Rams went out with a bang as they took a 4-1 win against McPherson College.
Taking a run from a walk and stealing a base off of
Lady Ram error, McPherson took an early lead.
In the third inning, how-ever, Lady Ram offense stepped up as Hopie Perez, junior short stop, and Ash-leigh Jiminez, junior second base, both hit RBIs.
Lady Rams capitalized on Bulldog errors as Hodge cleared her name allowing only one run and racking in eleven strike outs in the win.
“We are a very strong team,” Hodge said. “We have all the tools we need to win and once we start using them consistently we will be unbeatable.”
Lady Ram softball will compete March 4-5 in the Friends University Tourna-ment in Wichita, Kan.
“We have all the tools we need to win and once we start using them consistently we will be unbeatable.”
Taylor HodgePitcher and first base
Texas Wesleyan vs. York (10-1w) Player ab rr h rbi
Rangel, Marissa cf 3 3 2 0
Akin, Makelle rf 0 0 0 1
Kelley, Christina 1b 3 1 2 3
Butler, Haley c 1 1 1 0
Boles, Chelsea ph/c 1 0 1 1
Cline, Lindsay dp 1 1 1 0
Jiminez, Ashleigh ph/dh 1 0 0 0
Martinez, Tara 3b 2 1 0 1
Sebel, Ashley 2b 2 1 0 0
Bradley, Caitlin ph 1 0 0 0
Perez, Hopie ss 3 1 2 2
Totals 21 10 11 9
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•The Lady Ram basketball team, now no. 2 in the RRAC, will compete in the confer-ence tournament March 3-5.
•Ram baseball will take on Southwest Assemblies of God in a double-header March 4-5 in Waxahachie.
•Lady Ram softball will com-pete in the Friends University Tournament March 4-5 in Wichita, Kan.
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Lady Rams hustle to defeat RRAC No. 1Erika Ferrell [email protected]
The Lady Rams racked up another 89-64 win while hosting the No. 11 nationally ranked Langston University Lady Lions Feb. 21 in the Sid Richardson Center.
It was senior night for the team and the last home game this season.
“Beating Langston was one of the greatest experiences of my basketball career,” Shayla Moore, senior guard, said. “It was so unreal to me and I still can’t believe we beat the No. 11 nationally ranked team.”
The start of the game was a little rough for both of the teams as they struggled to take the lead.
Junior post Veronica Merg-erson knocked down a three-point shot to give the Lady
Rams a 5-point lead. The Lady Lions went on a
run and regained the lead 17-16 with less than 10 minutes remaining in the first half.
After scoring a basket to put the Lady Rams ahead by one point, senior forward Rachelle Franklin finished a lay-up followed by three consecutive three-pointers by Moore to put the Lady Rams up 30-21. The lead stayed within single digits until ju-nior guard Eliana Mijangos sank two three-point shots, sending the Lady Rams into the second half with a 42-30 lead.
“I think this win was just what we needed it to keep us hyped to finish out confer-ence and head into the con-ference play,” Ashley Bringol, junior guard, said.
Starting the second half off
with a 9-2 run as Mergerson kept the hot hand going with another three-pointer. With 12minutes left in the game, the Lady Rams increased the lead 62-35. Sticking to a 3-2 zone defense, the Lady Lions couldn’t feed their hot hand, senior post Stephanie Mad-den and Lady Rams Cruised the rest of the way taking the 89-64 victory.
“I believe the win over Langston gave us even more confidence to know that we have what it takes to beat a nationally ranked team,” head women’s basketball coach Sta-ci Francis said.
The Lady Rams are now preparing themselves for the Red River Athletic Confer-ence tournament March 3-5 at Southwest Assemblies of God University. Visit www.ramsports.net for game times.
Brian McDaniel| Rambler StaffThe Lady Rams celebrate after an 89-64 victory against the Red River Athletic Conference no. 1 and the nation’s no. 11, Langston University Feb. 21, during senior night in the Sid Richardson Center. (Left to right) Octavia Mullens, junior forward, Ashley Bringol, junior guard, Tiffany Adaire, senior guard and Eliana Mijangos, junior guard.
Rams clench No. 1 after Bulldog defeatEliana Mijangos [email protected]
Now No. 4 in the nation, the Ram basketball team took on Red River Athletic Conference No. 7 Jarvis Christian College Feb. 26 as they held on to their No. 1 spot in conference.
The Rams started out with a swift 4-0 run as Jeremy May-field, senior forward, hit a hook shot first play of the game fol-lowed by a lay-up from Jeremy Smith, senior point guard.
The runs never stopped as Mayfield topped off an 8-0 run with a slam dunk. With seven minutes left in the first half, Bryan Wanamaker, senior guard, hit a jumper to spark a 14-2 run, giving the Rams a 52-37 lead at the half.
The second half turned into the Jonathan Blake, senior guard, and Smith show as the Rams never allowed Jarvis closer than 13 points within the game.
“At this point, there is less room for error,” Blake said. “In order to take it to the next level you have to strive for perfec-tion.”
Although some glimpses of turnovers made the play in
second half sloppy, the Rams led 23-14 in points off turn-overs and 22-14 off fast break points.
“I don’t think this game pre-pared us for the conference tournament,” Mayfield said. “Even though we won, we still did a lot of things wrong that will hurt us in the conference tournament. I think we need to focus on fixing the little things and everything else should
take care of itself.”The Rams led 52-36 in points
in the paint and out shot Jarvis by 16.1 percent from the field.
Leading scorers include Wa-namaker, who led all players with 27 points and 9 assists, and Smith who threw in a solid 21 points. Mayfield once again racked in a double-double 20 points, 14 rebounds as Blake followed in his path with 12 points and 10 boards.
“Every team we play is a way to prepare us for our over-all goal to get to Kansas, City [nationals],” Ty Gough, senior center said.
The Rams are now prepar-ing for the Red River Athletic Conference tournament Feb. 3-5 at Southwest Assemblies of God University.
“At this point there is no room for error. In order to take it to the next level you have to strive for perfection.”
Jonathan BlakeSenior guard
Brian McDaniel| Rambler StaffTy Gough, senior center, and mother celebrate senior night at the Sid Richardson Center Feb. 21.