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“I’ll never get that image out of my head” Student witnesses shooting rampage while waiting to pay for movie rentals Brittany Norman Editor in Chief

When MSU student David Thompson got in line to check out at Hastings on April 20th, he thought his evening would consist of sitting on the couch eating Little Caesar’s pizza while watching Sherlock Holmes on DVD. He didn’t even have a chance to pay for his rentals before the first gunshot rang out.

“I didn’t know he was there until he shot off the first round,” Thompson said.

Thompson found himself in the middle of an active shooter situation, in which suspected gunman Ross William Muehlberger shot and wounded four women at Hastings, killed 23-year-old doorman Tim Donley at Toby’s, a local nightclub, and then led police on a pursuit across town before fatally shooting himself.

Even when that first shot rang out, the weight of the situation didn’t register immediately.

“At first I thought someone tossed an artillery shell inside the store or something, just goofing around,” he said. “Everyone in the store just kind

of froze.”

Thompson said he looked over from the checkout line to the café area and saw the shooter, Muehlberger, shooting a woman at close range.

“He was just shooting and yelling,” he said, though the words were unintelligible over the sound of the gunshots.

Thompson said the sound of shooting practice at the firing range during his Army Basic Training was nothing compared to the sound of the shotgun blast indoors.

“If you’ve ever heard a gunshot outside, it’s loud and there’s an echo.

Inside it was like ten times louder and there was no echo. Like a firework blowing up right next to you, it was that loud.”

His initial reaction was “shock.”

“I couldn’t believe what was happening,” he said. “It was just surreal.”

Instinct kicked in quickly, and Thompson grabbed his girlfriend, Katie Adams, and made for the door.

“After he shot off the second round we ducked down,” he said. “I Police officers stand outside Hastings the night of April 20th after a grabbed her sweater and started to shooting that left four inside the store wounded. (Photo by Brittany

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Local bar becomes homicide scene after gunman opens fire, killing one Trevor Hunter For the Wichitan

MSU student Brandon Pieratt was sitting in a bar enjoying a Bud Light while he watched a basketball game when his life changed forever.

A man was shot to death 20 feet away from the MSU junior. It happened at Toby’s, a popular bar within walking distance of campus.

Tim Donley, the doorman, was shot to death by Ross Muehlberger, a former MSU student.

“He always worked when I was there,” said Pieratt. “I was probably one of the last people he talked to.”

Pieratt was with a friend at the time.

“We hear a loud pop. It sounded like a balloon but magnified. So we kinda jumped and looked right and the bouncer is falling backwards,”

Pieratt said. “And then there is a skinny white guy with a shotgun. I saw the shotgun and didn’t try and pay attention to the details of his face. And he fired off that second shot. I guess he was pumping again, I didn’t stick around to watch.”

Pieratt didn’t see the actual shooting, nor did he hear Donley make any sounds when he was shot.

In the chaos some girls sitting at a table near the entrance started screaming.

After Muehlberger’s second shot, Pieratt said he ducked down and ran to the back patio. He heard more shots.

“He just kept firing until he was empty I imagine,” said Pieratt, who said others soon joined him on the patio.

Students in Dr. Peter Fields’ Young Adult Fantasy course gave presentations on Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass in Moffett Library Thursday. (Photo by Julia Raymond)

Surreality Forum finds meaning in fantastical literature Chris Collins Managing Editor

Dr. Peter Fields isn’t concerned with ‘What is.’

Rather, he’s interested in ‘What if.’

The associate professor of English kicked off his Young Adult Fantasy course in Spring 2008. The course, which studies the correlation between popular series like Harry Potter, Twilight and Alice in Wonderland, blurs the boundary between reality and imagination.

“It posits the possibility of a remarkable world,” Fields said.

This was the focus of the Fantasy Forum held on Thursday in Moffett Library.

Students in Fields’ class gave presentations on Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass during the forum. Their presentations, which they gave to packed audiences in the library, mainly focused on how Alice finds a way to participate in a surreal dream world.

“It teaches students to experience the world in

See FANTASY on page 5

Is Moffett Library the new Netflix?

Derek Baker For the Wichitan

Officers gather around Toby’s after doorman Tim Donley was shot to

See TOBY’S on page 3 death. (Photo by Brittany Norman)

You’ve had a tough week and now the weekend is here. You want to get a few movies to tide you over between homework and whatever else you have going on, but you don’t want to spend any money at Blockbuster and you don’t have a Netflix subscription.

In this situation, people on campus head to the Moffett Library’s 2nd floor Media Center, where as long as you have your Student ID card, students can check up to five movies for free at any time.

For those who haven’t up there since last semester though, you might be surprised at the changes you’ll find.

On Jan. 19, an entirely new system of organiza-

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Fair forgoes corn dogs, serves up healthy advice instead Chris Collins Managing Editor

Flexibility tests were offered at the Community Health Fair Friday. (Photo by Dr. Betty Bowles)

Another presentations ranged from injury prevention to Zumba dance training to smoking cessation.

Students from many academic backgrounds MSU students worked alongside the Wichita participated alongside nursing majors, including Falls Fire Department, the Texas Blood Institute respiratory care, dental hygiene, kinesiology and and others to inform Wichita Falls residents the Wellness Center, Bowles said. about how to stay healthy.

The grounds department set up the tents and The ninth annual Community Health Fair, housing helped haul and set up tables. held Friday afternoon, was the culmination of “We’re really proud of the interdisciplinary asa semester of work for graduating nursing stupect,” Bowles said. dents.

Each presenting group was made up of about Most of the students who participated in he three students. Each group had to maintain one fair were from the nursing department, though community sponsor, such as United Regional others helped out, said Dr. Betty Bowles, an Health care and the Food Bank. assistant professor of nursing in charge of the In all, the fair collected 20 community sponhealth fair. sors.

Nursing seniors Tabitha Yannetti, Kristine “This was the way to make it more communiFurlong and Amy Smith set up a booth to meaty-oriented,” she said. sure Body mass index and flexibility.

The fair in a food drive, 30 pairs of glasses for “Obesity has become a really big problem,” the needy and 26 units of blood. said Yannetti.

They collected 118 signatures of people who were pledging to exercise three times a week.

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The only people who like group work are those with no intention of actually working. This is a conclusion most responsible human beings come to somewhere between preschool and junior high.

At first, there’s always the kid who just can’ color inside the lines of the class mural because he’s in too big of a hurry to get to the snack table for cookies and grape juice. Later on, the incompetence holds larger implications. After three or four “partnerships” end with a last-minute scramble to do something so-and-so PROMISED they’d finish, any remaining faith in groupkind tends to vanish.

A the college level, group work becomes more complicated and frustrating. Everyone has different class/work/ social schedules and getting together at all can be a challenge. Unfortunately, the fact that it’s hard becomes, apparently, a perfectly valid excuse to just give up.

Listen, we get it. Your fraternity/sorority/club/boss/significant other/sports team/mother/regular bartender needs you. You’re a very busy person. So is everyone else. Just because we responsible

people manage to clean up after your incompetence time after time doesn’t mean we normally spend our days vegged out in front of the TV. We probably have just as much going on in our lives as you do. You’re not that much of a special, important, unique snowflake, no matter what your mother tell you.

Sometimes the fact you’re choosing to try and squeeze an education in between your obviously more-important extra-curriculars can be inconvenient, but it shouldn’t be inconvenient for other people.

It must be nice to walk in emptyhanded and well-rested on a due date. Those of us wh were up all night finishing the portion of the project you were too busy “working an extra shift you couldn’t get out of ” to finish would have liked to sleep. Unfortunately, after we rearranged or completed our other obligations, we had to put forth the effort you couldn’t be bothered with.

Oh, and just a hint: next time, make sure you get the Sharpie X’s off your hands. It makes your story seem a little bit like a lie.

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forth the effort and contribute (in a useful manner) when you can claim the grade your group members earn despite you? It must be nice to so easily switch off your conscience. It takes a real winner to take credit for the hard work of others. It’s funny that people who would never even consider cheating on a test or copying an essay off the Internet feel no guilt whatsoever for doing nothing and yet claiming equal credit.

Maybe it isn’t written out specifically in the student honor code, but coasting by on the merits of others and pretending to have played a part is definitely academic dishonesty. Just because you’re not as likely to get caught as if you brought a cheat sheet into an exam doesn’t mean it’s not cheating.

You don’t have to go to college. If your life outside school is so much more important that you can’t balance it with even minimal effort on simple class projects, you should sit down and reevaluate your priorities and figure out what really matters to you.

Oh, and please hurry. We have better things to do than continue to earn your grades.

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You may kiss the bride Donace Wilkinson For the Wichitan

the triplets were born, Abbie’s husband, Dan, notified her parents that he was “I take you to be my be- ready to move on. He filed loved…for better, for richer, for divorce in 2007 and Abin health, in good times, in bie has not seen him of the joy ‘til death do us part.” children since.

Despite Abbie’s parents’ About four years ago, I was appalled at these vows that pleas to let the children my former classmate and visit their mother, Dan her husband took. I could has refused. He has, hownot believe my ears. They ever, maintained that Abwere vowing to stay mar- bie’s $7.8 million estate—a ried only if things were fa- medical malpractice settlement used to fund her vorable.

But I have since had an treatment—should be used eye-opener. I read about to pay child support. This a woman who was hap- man has the gall to claim pily married to a man who he still loves his wife.

These are not the acvowed to love her forever.

Five years ago while giving tions of a lover, but those birth to triplets, Abbie Dorn of a selfish coward who began bleeding severely and does not deserve to be anywent into cardiac arrest, body’s anything. Not Abwhich deprived her brain of bie’s husband and certainly oxygen for 20 minutes. As not these children’s father. a result, she suffered severe Somebody needs to tell him the best gift a man can brain damage.

But just when Abbie give his children is to love needed her husband the their mother, especially most, he took their children when she has done him no and left her. One year after wrong. His abandonment

of his wife makes marriage vows seem like a cheap set of words that you can use at your costly wedding to make an empty promise to a fool in love. And while many are prepared to spend thousands of dollars for a wedding, no one is ever prepared to pay the price of marrying a deserter.

Perhaps, the key may be to rewrite the traditional wedding vows to include a few extra clauses so, like my former classmate and her husband, people would declare their true intent. “I take you to be my beloved…only if things stay the same or get better, only if we won’t lose anything but get richer, only if you remain healthy, if we will have only good times, and you’ll bring me joy ‘til death, debt or some other less than perfect situation, do us part. Oh yeah…and maybe, only maybe, we’ll live happily ever after.”

Too young to ring the wedding bells Courtney Foreman For the Wichitan

I have four weddings to go this summer and none of the brides are older than the age of 22.

I’ve come to realize that as I approach my college graduation, within the past six months all I hear is talk about planning weddings, wedding dresses and proposals.

Weddings, weddings, weddings. I’ve also noticed, though, with all this talk about weddings, there is even less talk about the actual marriage these bridesto-be are entering into.

It might just be me, but it sounds like these 20 something girls have an incredibly warped view on the whole “getting married early” thing. What could possibly be so appealing about being poor and financially responsible for another human being?

I understand that for girls, planning the perfect wedding day starts by the age of about eight. All her life she dreams about this magnificent event.

As a child however, there is no dreaming and fantasizing about bills, finding a place to live, taking care of a home or all the endless unromantic details that

an actual marriage includes.

Beyond the actual day of wedding bliss, the reality of married life will eventually set in and suddenly picking up his clothes off the floor and doing the dishes probably wont sound as amusing.

Unfortunately, I am taking part in this ridiculous celebration by accepting the honor of being a bridesmaid for a friend.

Besides the incredible privilege it will be to stand up in front of a crowded room of friends and family of the bride and groom for close to an hour, I have to pay $150 for the dress, have my hair professionally done, buy silver shoes to match the dress and of course, get my

nails done with the bride (As if people are really going to be looking at the bridesmaid’s nails)!

I hear from so many of these girls that they’ll “live on love even if we’re poor!”

Are you kidding me? I guarantee that the whole “living on love” idea will soon come to a screeching halt once the excitement of the wedding day has passed and no one is asking to see your engagement ring anymore.

I’m not a cynic when it comes to love, but I am a realist when it comes to getting married. Statistics today show that half of all marriages end in divorce. To me, the question becomes why rush it?

You have your entire lives to be married, there’s no need to jump into housewife duty and sock folding tasks just yet. Why not enjoy being in your twenties while you still can and travel, save money or just enjoy time to yourself?

I think if women can get past their vision of their wedding day and take a second to look further into the future, they’ll come to see that rushing into a life commitment doesn’t sound as attractive after all.

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HASTINGS.....................................................................................................................................................................................................continued from page 1 pull her out of the store. No one really tried (to stop the shooter). He was right by the door; he shot off as many rounds as he could, and then he was gone. It happened so fast. By the time Katie and I got out of the store and into the parking lot, he was driving off.”

Later, Thompson realized that Adams’ knees were scraped up from when he was pulling her out of the store. At the time, it hadn’t been a concern.

“The instinct was to get us out of there as fast as possible. Everyone was running for the door.”

Thompson said it was only minutes before police began arriving on the scene.

He and the rest of the witnesses were led back into the store.

“We went in through the café door,” Thompson said. “I saw four people lying on the ground. There was blood all over,” he said. “They had all the uninjured people and the people not helping (the victims) go to the other side of the store. There was a guy there who was EMT certified and he ran out to his car, got his bag and started helping out.

Mainly, everyone was just kind of talking (to the victims), trying to

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The back patio was surrounded by a chain link fence around the top, according to Pieratt.

Someone spotted an opening and people started climbing over the fence. Pieratt was one of the last to leave. He ran behind Toby’s until he heard sirens. A few minutes later he ventured back to the front. “ I just wanted to get the hell out of there,” he said. “I walked to the front door ‘cause I left my phone on the bar.” A police officer stopped him. “You don’t wanna come in here,” the officer told him. That’s when he spotted Donley on the floor.

Two officers remained at the bar, according to Pieratt. After waiting for about 30 minutes, the bartender brought Pieratt’s phone out to him.

Pieratt said he didn’t sleep at all that night. He skipped both of his classes on Wednesday. He saw his dad and called his mom.

“It’s totally different now. You learn to appreciate your life a lot more. I could have been just walking in the door. I could have been sitting closer to the front,” Pieratt said.

He said that he can’t take life for granted anymore, especially after seeing Donley dead.

“It could happen on any day to any person. Nobody expected that to happen,” he said.

When Toby’s re-opened on Thursday, Pieratt returned.

“I’m not gonna let it scare me.

I’m not gonna become a turtle and stay home and not do stuff any more. Toby’s is my favorite place in town and I’m not gonna let some psycho take that away from me. That would be like honoring the shooter if I stopped wearing my clothes and stopped going out.”

On Thursday, though, the atmosphere was different. According to Pieratt, six officers were in the bar. It was quiet and unusually slow. He said he was in a daze during his first hour there.

He stayed away from the front door. He looked for bloodstains and bullet holes. He didn’t see any.

“I’m sure Toby’s will be the same place sooner or later. It will still be fun,” Pieratt said.

Pieratt said he is upset that Muehlberger was out of jail in the first place after being charged with multiple crimes, including aggravated assault.

“He should have been in jail.

The fact that he was out just pisses me off. He should never have had the opportunity.”

Pieratt said he’s heard people talk about how they would have stood up to the gunman. He said you really don’t know what you are going to do unless you were there.

“My first instinct was to get as low as I can and take off. It gives you a lot more respect for the people who are the heroes, people who do extraordinary things in extraordinary circumstances.

There’s a lot more respect going there ‘cause I ran. And so did everyone else. “

keep them conscious until paramedics showed up.”

One of Thompson’s friends is a firefighter who responded to the scene. The fireman told him about the severity of the victims’ wounds.

“He told me there was a hole in one of the girls he could almost put his first through,” Thompson said.

He doesn’t know what kind of shells the shooter had loaded the shotgun with, but said “as close as he was, it probably wouldn’t have mattered.”

Detectives questioned Thompson and other witnesses after the shooting. He arrived at the store at around 9:15 with the intention of running in, renting a couple DVD’s, and heading home. Instead, he and his girlfriend were stuck behind crime scene tape until after 11:30 p.m.

Ambulances had arrived on the scene when Thompson heard about a shooting at Toby’s, a bar and restaurant near MSU. “I had no idea it was the same guy.

The police never even really told us there was another shooting, we just overheard.

When I got home, I found out it was the same guy,” he said.

Muehlberger, the shooter at both locations, had a history of arrests for violent crimes. He was out on bail at the time of the shooting.

“I’m a little frustrated,” he said. “I found out (his bail had been reduced), and it just makes me think about the way we’re running things.”

One of Muehlberger’s pending charges regarded an incident where he allegedly stabbed two men. Thompson can’t

imagine why he was released from jail.

“How is that not a danger to society?” he asked.

When he found out the shooter had taken his own life, Thompson said he didn’t feel pity for him.

“I was relieved, glad he wasn’t out there any more,” he said.

Following the shooting, Thompson admits he was a little shaken.

“I was more cautious. I’m getting better already, though,” he said. “I know it’s only been a week but I just thought about it and it’s just a random thing. It’s never happened before so I don’t think it’s going to be one of those things that will happen all the time. “ He even returned to Hastings when it reopened Saturday.

“I didn’t really want to go in but I fig-

ured I might as well just get it over with,” he said. “The first thing I saw was a police officer standing inside, and I felt a little more relieved. I went during daylight, though, not at night.”

He said friends talked him into going to Stage West last Thursday, just two days after the shooting.

“I didn’t really want to go,” he said.

“And when I got there I was kind of looking around for a rear exit.”

He said he still doesn’t really want to go out at night, that he prefers to stay home for the time being.

And though the nervousness is fading, Thompson will carry the things he saw that night with him forever.

“Just looking over and seeing him shoot somebody… I will never get that image out of my head.”

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ULTIMATE COMPETITORS

A respiratory care student administers a pulmonary test at the health fair Friday. (Photo by Dr. Betty Bowles)

FAIR...................................continued from page 1 “This fair is a gift to the community, and the community can give back , too,” Bowles said.

Many services were offered at the Fair, such as screenings for glaucoma, cholesterol, HIV, sleep disorders and stroke. All the services were free expect for the cholesterol test, she said.

“We’re teaching people how to prevent illness and promote health,” she said. “You have to take accountability for your health and not only depend on your doctor. With today’s controversy about health care, to stay well is a good thing.”

The nursing students profited from the fair by learning how to plan and evaluate community projects.

“There’s a lot more to nursing

than just the hospital,” Bowles said.

These students also work in schools and other agencies so that they are able to explain medical terms to a variety of audiences.

“If they’re on committees during projects, they can now set goals and write objectives,” she said.

The nursing department has held the fair at the Museum of Art for the last two years, she said. They don’t pay to use the lawn of the building. Also, University President Dr. Jesse Rogers allowed staff and faculty to take a one-hour break during the workday to check the fair out.

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Third place winners included: Jenny Holding, Meredith Humphreys, Russ Lawrenz, Kaitlin Morrison and Charisma Thrash, television public affairs program; Vanessa Vick, sports feature story; Colleen Wilson, radio advertising; Colleen Wilson, television sports writing.

Honorable mention winners included: Loren Eggenschwiler and Julia Raymond, newspaper picture story; Jody Fisher, Colin Frank, Chance Gibbs and Julia Graham, commercial/PSA/ promotion; Patrick Johnston, feature photo; Jamie Monroe, public relations press release writing; Bobby Morris, sports page design; Brittany Norman, newspaper column; Brittany Norman, newspaper feature story; Brittany Norman, newspaper headline; Brittany Norman, newspaper single subject presentation; Brittany Norman, print news writing; Brittany Norman and Colleen Wilson, two-person photo essay; Janelle Paterson, radio sports writing; Jody Smith, newspaper news feature.

MSU brings home 36 TIPA awards

(Above) The MSU Ultimate Frisbee team’s elected president Sam Hassell plays Tuesday afternoon in the Bolin quad.

Currently her team (below left and right) is just a club, but Hassell and other team members are working toward creating an Ultimate Frisbee League team at Midwestern, putting them on the same level as the MSU Rugby team.

Hassell said they have filed all the necessary paperwork and are waiting on committee approval. In the meantime, they are applying for a grant of up to $1,500 from

the Ultimate Player’s Association.

They hope to get sponsors and come up with fundraisers next semester as well. The team has meeetings every Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the CSC Atrium. They play every Tuesday and Thursday at 3:30p.m. by Bolin fountain.

(Photo by Julia Raymond)

MSU raked in 36 awards at last month’s Texas Intercollegiate Press Association competition, including an on-site Sweepstakes award.

Students participated in 22 contests on-site in Kerville, Tex., placing in 11.

The annual contest is a statewide organization of journalism programs. About 75 universities participated this year.

Campus Watch placed second in general excellence and second overall in the television sweepstakes.

The Wichitan received an honorable mention in general excellence and third place in the newspaper sweepstakes.

Seven first-place awards, eight second-place awards, four third-place awards and 13 honorable mentions were given at the contest.

First place winners included: Whitney Coggin, Caitlin Hurley, Kristin Mullen and Heather Primavera, television public affairs program; Jamie Monroe, print advertising; Jamie Monroe, public relations crisis management; Brittany Norman, feature page design; Brittany Norman, front page design; Brittany Norman, newspaper headline; Janelle Paterson, television announcing.

Second place winners included: Nicole Allen, Drew Bernard, Ashley James and Lana McCarley, television

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campus briefs n today:

Library snapshot at Moffett Library Beta Beta Beta Annual Plant sale in Bolin at 8 a.m.

Retirement reception for Dr. Ronald Hough in the Fain Fine Arts Center Atrium at 3 p.m.

It’s Library after Dark at Moffett at 5:30 p.m.

Severe Weather Education program in Shawnee Thetre at 7 p.m.

n tHURSDAY:

Beta Beta Beta Annual Plant sale in Bolin at 8 a.m.

Max Glauben: an Evening with a survivor in the House of Jacob Synagouge at 7 p.m.

University Singers concert in Akin at 7:30 p.m.

n Friday:

Brownbag Teaching presentation: Tim

DeGroot in the Bryant Edwards Conference Center at 1:15

Department of mass communication student-directed documentaries in Dillard 101 at 3 p.m.

n Sunday:

Chamber Orchestra concert in Akin

at 3 p.m.

n Tuesday: Didzun Recital in Akin at 3 p.m.

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MEDIA.....................................................................................................................continued from page 1 tion was instituted so students can find and check any of the 1,900 DVDs in selection.

Originally relying on students navigating an online database to see what was available, now the actual cases of the various movies are organized in specific arrangements. Much like an actual video store, the case of a movie being on the shelf means it’s in stock. Students take the cases of the movies they want to the checkout window, hand over a student ID card, and be done.

“We wanted to do this a few years back, but we didn’t have enough DVDs nor a large enough budget to put it all in place.” said Chris Henderson, electronic access media librarian. The costs, he said, are staggering, and only expected to go up as time goes on. “It cost $1,500 just for the two racks and about $23 per DVD we order. Plus, costs are going to go up in other areas as we order more DVDs and need more shelves to organize them. For now though, its been worth it. Students don’t like to browse through a computer; they’d prefer using their own hands.”

Along the two main shelves, DVDs are

arranged depending on their section: anything with PN1995.9 in its index is organized by genre (horror, romantic comedy, action, etc.), while anything under PN1997 is arranged in alphabetical order. Foreign films are put under the latter category.

Henderson said the films on display are categorized under entertainment. Plays, documentaries and most non-fiction film material are kept in the back and, for the most part, are only brought out by request from students and faculty.

“We have an amazing selection back there. We have an entire genre devoted to Shakespeare alone.”

With the new system or organization in place, Henderson said new DVDs will continue to be ordered as the semesters roll on, a queue determined by a mix between student and professor requests.

“Generally, anything that gets nominated for Best Picture gets top priority, but it’s always changing depending on what professors want or think is needed,” he DVD selection in Moffett Library. (Photo by Julia Raymond) said.

FANTASY.................................................................................................................continued from page 1 extraordinary terms,” he said. “Alice is connecting with her own creation.”

Fields argued that young adult fantasy is a genre separate from others because it opens up the mystery of our everyday existence.

“We can shake a stick at this genre,” he said.

The genre takes imagination as reality and leads students to one important question: “Is the imagination reality?”

Imagination is a witness of our own participation, he said.

“Participation is a connection to what we encounter everyday,” Fields said. “This is the unique, peculiar, dynamic claim of young adult literature.”

This brand of writing is the antithesis of realism, which Fields characterizes by technicality and logic.

“Realism leaves us out,” he said. “It makes us passive observers instead of creative agents.”

More than anything, it’s a rejection of modernity.

“The modern person is a deeply internal person, Fields said. “We’re closed in on ourselves and trapped out of this rich, internal world. Young adult fantasy is shared, connecting ideas instead of separating them.

“No other genre is quite so ambitious,” he said.

Allison Steiger, young adult librarian at the Wichita Falls Public Library, spoke on popular themes in the genre.

“Fantasy fiction is a lot more popular than it used to be,” she said.

Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series was the biggest seller in fantasy fiction last year.

But with that acclaim comes criticism.

“Twilight is quickly becoming one of the most challenged books, too,” Steiger said.

“Until last year, most people weren’t challenging it.”

Fantasy fiction involving vampires will be a big trend next year, too.

Two other titles, ‘Bloodthirsty’ and ‘Fat Vampire,’ will be released next year at the library.

The Twilight-craze has also caused an

anti-vampire backlash.

YALSA, the Young Adult Library Services Association, made a list called, ‘Zombies, werewolves and things with wings – because vampires suck.’

Urban fantasy is a big trend right now, too “High fantasy is set in some ye olden time,” she said. “There’s royal horses and magic. Urban fantasy is more modern day and there is magic going on that we don’t know about.”

Dis-topian novels, like Brave New World or 1984, are becoming popular again.

Steiger mentioned The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins, a novel about a girl in the post-apocalyptic United States who must fight to the death in order to eat.

Fantasy novels are popular among the teenaged audience but aren’t winning critical awards, Steiger said.

“The things that are going to be big are going to cross boundaries. Supernatural mysteries are going to be something we’ll keep seeing.”

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‘Losers’ rises above its title, aims for laughs Lauren Wood Entertainment Editor

The Losers is a classic action film that is jam-packed with intense, high-speed fighting scenes, a few hot and heavy moments and great one-liners and humorous moments that will leave the audience intrigued through the entire film.

The flick follows five members of an elite U.S. Special Forces unit that are sent into the Bolivian jungle on a search and destroy mission. They soon find themselves the target of a lethal betrayal instigated from a powerful enemy known as Max. After the group puts 25 children on their rescue helicopter to get them to safety, Max’s forces attack it, killing all aboard.

They know it was supposed to be them killed in the explosion so the group throws their dog tags

into the burning helicopter, and they roam the streets of Bolivia, searching for a way home and for a way to get revenge on Max. However, plans change when a mysterious and hostile woman, Aisha, finds the group and offers them her own plan: find and kill Max. Working together, the group must remain deep undercover while tracking the heavily-guarded Max, a ruthless man bent on embroiling the world in a new high-tech global war.

The film’s star is no doubt, Clay, the leader of the highly trained bunch. Played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who has also dabbled in movies such as P.S. I Love You and Watchmen, Morgan was most recognized by his small role in ABC’s hit show Grey’s Anatomy as a sick heart patient, Denny.

He definitely is the

mysteriously sexy one of the film who has a history of making mistakes because of women.

Aisha, played by Zoe Saldana, especially catches his eye.

Saldana has been in the Hollywood spotlight recently with her major role in Avatar, as well as Death at a Funeral and the soon to be released, Takers. She has her own agenda in Losers and plans to see it through, whatever the cost.

The other four main characters include Chris Evans as Jenkins, Idris Elba as Rogue, Columbus Short as Pooch and Oscar Jaendada as Cougar. Each man has his own specialty that makes them lethal weapons.

Evans definitely is the comedic relief in the film, but is familiar with that role since his earlier role in the two Fantastic Four films, and he recently made a name for himself in Push. He

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Take your eyes off Hudson’s boobs Tornados left ten dead and a wake of destruction in Mississippi. Arizona passed a completely bogus and racist immigration law. An Apple engineer left the next-gen iPhone sitting on a barstool.

This weekend was filled with tons of legitimate newsbut what were people talking about? Kate Hudson’s boobs.

I wasn’t aware Kate Hudson’s boobs were newsworthy. I mean, no offense to Kate Hudson. I don’t really find any boobs newsworthy. But when rampant speculation about Kate’s chest popped up on the top of my news feed, eclipsing other, way more interesting stories, I was intrigued, too.

Here’s the deal.Kate Hudson is, apparently, well-known for not having any boobs.

Still, she happily wears plunging necklines and makes them look “classy.” She never has to worry about matching up what bra to what dress, and because she’s roughly the size of a Dr. Pepper bottle, she can wear just about anything and look cute.

She also has dated men such as Owen Wilson and A-Rod, so she can’t be that disgusting and horrible.

But, breaking news!

Suddenly, Kate is an A-cup.

It must be a boob job. Or pregnancy. Or a conspiracy.

Or a complete waste of time.

Jamie Monroe Advertising Manager I can list, on both hands and a couple of my toes, all of the celebrities that would be considered freakishly flatchested were they real, normal people. Just off the top of my head. Gwyneth Paltrow. Claire Danes. Cameron Diaz. If you combined the Olsen twins, you might get one complete set of cans.

These celebrities are freakishly flat-chested, mostly, because they’re celebrities, and in Hollywood it’s against the law to eat.

But that’s beside the point.

The point is, if Kate Hudson has tiny boobs and is okay about it, why can’t everyone else be okay about it, too?

Why is it an E! special report that Kate Hudson’s boobs are slightly less tiny today than they were last month?

Kate has neither confirmed nor denied the rumors

of pregnancy or a breast enhancement. I can understand that.

If blogs and tabloids compared before and after photos of my breasts, trying to discern whether or not I’d jumped half a cup size, I’d be a little creeped out/offended too.

I know full and well that blogs and tabloids will never examine or speculate about photos of my torso. However, as a fellow small-chested lady, I’ll say what Kate Hudson isn’t saying.

One, boobs are boobs. We don’t pick them out, and we don’t have any say about how big/small/round/perky/heavy they are. They’re kind of like kidneys or elbows. They came with the initial package, and they’re just there.

Two, be happy with whatever boobs you have.

They’re yours, and that makes them automatically awesome.

Men, be happy with your boobs, too.

Three, don’t judge other people’s boobs. It perpetuates the vicious cycle.

If you find a pair too big or too small for your liking, get over it. The only exception is if that particular pair is hanging out in public, in which case, judge at a respectable distance and volume.

I hope you’re all clearbecause I never want to have to touch this issue again.

keeps the audience laughing throughout the film with his awkward way with women and hilarious shirts.

Elba, Short and Jaendada work well together with the group and the chemistry is very believable. They convey well that these men trust and depend on each other and need each other to survive.

Personally, I was just glad the film wasn’t in 3-D like everything else these days.

This movie is based on a comic strip and has brief moments of graphics of drawn superheroes, but just enough to add some unique moments.

Overall, it is a intriguing film that keeps your interest throughout the entirety of it.

There isn’t a slow moment, and you will be cracking up for at least

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Bret Michaels hospitalized Lauren Wood Entertainment Editor

Rock singer and TV reality star Bret Michaels remained in intensive care Monday after suffering a brain hemorrhage, but further testing is scheduled to help locate the source of the bleeding, his Web site said.

After an excruciating headache late Thursday night, Michaels was rushed to an undisclosed hospital where doctors discovered he suffered a massive subarachnoid hemorrhage (bleeding at the base of his brain stem).

A report from doctors is expected this week.

Michaels’ Web site also said to fans to “please remember Bret is, and always has been, a fighter and survivor and is under the best medical care possible.”

The 47-year-old former Poison front man had an emergency appendectomy April 12 after complaining of stomach

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half of it. There is a twist, in case you were wondering, and it is not one you would be expecting.

The downside to the film: they left it open for a second one, so it leaves off without giving you that satisfaction of a good ending.

“The Losers” opened in theaters April 23. Zoe Saldana stars as Aisha in the film.

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Bret Michaels was the front man in the 1980s band, Poison and has since, made a name for himself. (Photo Courtesy)

pains before he was scheduled to perform at Sea World in San Antonio. It is still uncertain whether this incident is related to his appendectomy, or to his diabetes, which he was diagnosed with as a child.

Michaels rose to fame in the 1980s as a member of Poison, whose hits included the ballad “Every Rose Has Its Thorn.”

Michaels is a contestant on Donald Trump’s competitive reality show, The Celebrity Apprentice. He has served as one of the season’s most outspoken celebrities and has so far avoided being fired in the boardroom.

Before joining the third season of The Celebrity Apprentice, Michaels starred as the bachelor on VH1’s lusty reality dating series Rock of Love from 2007 to

2009.

For three seasons, Michaels searched for the women of his dreams among a sea of obvious implants, arm tattoos and fake blonde hair.

He also served as a judge on the fifth season of the USA singing competition Nashville Star in 2007.

His latest album Custom Built is due to be released later this year and he recently recorded a song with Disney diva, Miley Cyrus.

On The Celebrity Apprentice, which was filmed several months ago but is about halfway through its broadcast run on NBC, Michaels has raised $100,000 for his charity, the American Diabetes Association, and is a strong contender to win.

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Mamma Mia! Marsala!

New Italian eatery revamps dining and flavor

Marsala is located off of Seymour Highway. (Photos by: Julia Raymond)

Lauren Wood For the Wichitan Marsala is a new Italian restaurant in Wichita Falls trying to make a name for itself.

It’s located where the recently closed Toscani’s used to be on Beverly Drive off of Seymour Highway. (If you are coming from campus, go down Kemp Avenue until you get to Seymour Highway.

Turn left and then make a right onto Beverly Drive and it will be on your left).

I was never too impressed with Toscani’s, so I had high hopes for this new Italian kitchen in town.

When you walk into Marsala, you can definitely tell the difference from this and the older restaurant. Some paint and decorations go a long way – the lights are dim and the atmosphere is romantic. The wait was a bit long, so if you are planning to attend for a dinner date, reservations are a good idea.

Once we got a table and ordered drinks, two huge rolls we placed at the table. I’m talking half-a-loaf-of-bread, huge rolls covered in butter and Italian seasoning.

Glancing over the menu, I noticed the usual choices such as lasagna, cheese ravioli, fettuccini alfredo and baked ziti, all around $8 or $9. If you are indecisive, the Marsala Mix includes portions of lasagna, manicotti and cheese ravioli.

Besides the usual pastas, Marsala also has a selection of chicken

dishes, fish entrees, and veal plates. The prices on these specialty dishes ranges from $12 to $17.

We ordered spaghetti with meatballs and a chicken parmigiana and then tore into the rolls. My advice: only eat one roll if you actually want to be hungry by the time your food arrives. They are very filling.

I was actually expecting a bit more flavor from the bread, but it was only mediocre. They were fluffy and warm, but lacked that strong Italian garlic-y taste.

Soon after ordering, our salads arrived. The house dressing is a tomato vinaigrette that compliments the basic salad of lettuce, cucumber and tomato. It isn’t too strong, but has a light flavor that doesn’t overwhelm the taste buds.

When our food arrived, I was shocked by the huge portions. They made a show of the food’s presentation with dried basil sprinkled around the plate and a sliver of orange on the corner. I was a little confused about the orange. I assumed it was to cleanse your palate after the meal, but oranges and spaghetti didn’t sound too appealing to me.

The spaghetti and meatballs was quite good. I asked for easy sauce because I don’t like a little pasta with my sauce – I prefer a little sauce with my pasta. But if you like a pile of sauce, don’t be timid to ask.

They give you two huge meatballs, which turn into quite a lot of meat that compliments the pasta sauce well.

It was tasty, but wasn’t anything out of the ordinary.

The chicken parmigiana was, again, huge. It was covered in marinara sauce and melted mozzarella that was very filling.

Marsala has four desserts: Italian Cream Cake, Tiramisu, Spumoni and Cannolis, all of which looked delicious. But due to my overstuffed stomach, I regrettably didn’t try any.

Marsala is definitely a higher-end Italian eatery that is trying to be more than the hole-in-the-wall restaurant that gets forgotten two months after opening.

The restaurant might do better after being open a couple of weeks and working all the first-time kinks out.

The one downside to my experience there was the wait staff. My waiter was extremely distracted, probably due to the dinner rush that evening. The staff lacked that professionalism needed at this fine of a restaurant.

Overall the food was delicious, but a little pricey due to the enormous portions. The atmosphere is dim and romantic. It’s a great place to take a date, but not so great to grub with the family.

One thing to note to all true pie lovers out there: Marsala’s doesn’t serve pizza, which is understandable, due to its quality. Just warning you in advance.

Marsala is open Monday through Thursday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., and Sunday 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The restaurant offers catering services, to go options and a VIP room for parties, seminars, meetings and special occasions.

Now, I’m no huge fan of South Park, a show I find occasionally funny, occasionally offensive and mildly irritating - mainly because I’ve spent hours explaining to my kids why they can’t watch it, even though it’s a cartoon. But it doesn’t matter, because what happened this week isn’t about South Park or even Comedy Central. It’s about whether we, as a society, are going to allow a group of crazy people to dictate what we see on television.

It was not just the brutal murder of Van Gogh that the bullies on this website used as a threat; it was also 9/11. On that day, extremists hijacked not only planes, but the power of television to terrorize a country so large and powerful they could never hope to wage, much less win, an actual war against it.

By claiming to be religious extremists, these particular bullies and murderers also hijacked Islam, just as those who have killed or terrorized physicians performing the legal act of abortion hijacked Christianity.

Which is why, though it would be easy to dismiss this as just one in a string of those South Park controversies, it is much more.

If one group of crazy people claiming religious outrage is allowed to use the threat of violence as a way to control the public dialogue, what’s to stop every crazy person with an objection or a grudge or a website and too much time on their hands from doing the same? Certainly South Park has

or even erases it.

Inevitably, mistakes are made, both in decisions to say and air certain things and to avoid or delete them. People are fined or fired, rules and guidelines are modified.

But the punishment is never death.

No doubt, the South Park numbers will jump in the next few weeks, and I suppose that’s one way of making a statement.

But it is important for us to remember that the airwaves are

‘South Park’ Muhammad episode faces censorship Mary McNamara MCT

The terrorists won.

It’s become something of a joke, that line, overused to the point of banality, a punch line so easy a child can use it. But when Comedy Central decided to bleep mentions of the prophet Muhammad from a recent South Park episode because, and only because, an extremist website had made what amounted to death threats against co-creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the terrorists won.

Because that is the point of terrorism - to use acts of violence, in this case the murder of the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, who dared to make a film critical of Islamic society, as a continual and pervasive threat in order to change social and political policy.

In this case, that policy would be free speech.

Free speech has never meant you can say whatever you want.

Regulation of content occurs all the time on television, where certain words and acts of sex, violence, vulgarity, racism and other forms of incitement to hate are not allowed.

There are rules, after all, even on cable. But South Park did not break any of them. Neither did the network’s decision to modify the content of the second half of a two-part episode, in which the prophet Muhammad appeared in a bear suit, come as the result of rational protest or conversation with Islamic watchdog groups.

No, it was made out of fear, for the lives of the show’s creators and perhaps the network executives who decided, basically, that the joke wasn’t worth the risk.

And so the creator, or creators, of what purports to be an Islamic extremist website was allowed to dictate American policy by taking free speech hostage.

Characters on “South Park” are usually vulgar and crazy, but are now being censored due to death threats made by extrem-

managed to offend every group of living organisms at one time or another.

Stone, Parker and other satirists court condemnation, disgust and even hatred because that is their job, that is the point of satire: to, by the act of offending, force society to contemplate its definition of offensiveness and, more important, acceptance.

It operates, by its very nature, at the far end of free speech. A good satirist steps over the line all the time; a great satirist moves

just as vital and fragile as our airspace.

And if we are serious about national security, it must protect our essence as Americans with the same dedication it protects our lives as Americans.

Free speech, in all its messy, profane, heretical, offensive, irritating and soul-stirring glory, built this country.

And whether it’s South Park or the State of the Union, we, as a nation, must rise to defend it.

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Hemp becomes chic in the world of fashion Susan Carpenter MCT

It’s not just for the stoner set. The sturdy, versatile textile has been embraced by major designers. Plus, it’s easy on the

environment.

It’s durable. It’s versatile. And when it’s used in textiles, it’s easier on the environment than, say, cotton. Yet its cannabis connection has slowed its widespread use. We’re talking about hemp, and, by extension, hemp fashion _ a concept that seems like an oxymoron but is quietly being embraced by the mainstream as major designers and clothing retailers take on the material that has long been equated with burlap and granola-munching hippies.

Stella McCartney, Giorgio Armani and Calvin Klein are among the designers who’ve seen through the smoke and incorporated hemp textiles into their lines. And Whole Foods, Urban Outfitters, American Rag and Fred Segal are some of the better-known stores selling fashion-forward hemp brands, such as Livity Outernational, Jung Maven, Satori and Hemp Hoodlamb, all of which exploit hemp’s various attributes in chic items that run the gamut from technical outerwear to dresses that would hardly be the first choice of the dreadlocks-and-doobie crowd.

“Hemp clothing has definitely come a long way,” says Al Espino, the owner of two hemp clothing boutiques called Hempwise in Santa Barbara and Isla Vista. “Ten years ago, a lot of the hemp clothing played on the connection with marijuana with labels saying ‘contains marijuana fabric.’ There was a lot of confusion and I think it held back the industry. Now, there are a lot of small [fashionforward] companies. It’s gone from a niche market with an illegal drug connection to appealing to the organic and natural crowd.”

Hemp is an industrial, nonpsychoactive plant that is part of the cannabis family; the fibers are different and stronger than a marijuana plant, making it suitable for textiles.

What’s drawing designers to hemp textiles are their natural performance attributes and their low impact on the environment.

Hemp fibers are highly absorbent, UV resistant, antimicrobial and long lasting. Growing it also requires less water and fewer pesticides than cotton. Growing hemp in the U.S. has been prohibited since the ‘50s, so most of the hemp used by American clothing designers comes from China. “It’s so high value and so much lower impact in every other way that it eclipses the carbon generated through shipping,” said Isaac Nichelson, founder of the Santa Monica-based hemp clothing line Livity Outernational.

Eco-chic is a rising tide in the fashion world, and the use of hemp is swelling - aided by technological advances that have produced appealing and increasingly refined hemp textile blends, the most common being hemp and organic cotton and hemp fibers woven with recycled plastic, both of which soften a material that can be coarse.

Still, hemp’s illicit image is hard to shed. Two teenage girls read the sign for Hempwise and giggled before walking into the shop on a recent weekday to peruse the women’s section, which is stocked with slinky hemp-blend T-shirts and Capri pants, and asymmetrical mini-dresses. All of it was set out in displays that play up the “eco” with only the merest hint of “Rasta.”

One of the brands sold at Hempwise is Livity, which Nichelson started after a friend pointed out that the materials he was using as a clothing designer weren’t in sync with his environmental beliefs.

“I was using nylon, PVC, Teflon - every toxin known to man wrapped up in a garment that we were putting on ourselves Jane (Meryl Streep) is the and dropping in a landfill later,” mother of three grown kids, said Nichelson, who started to owns a thriving Santa Barbara look for alternatives and found bakery/restaurant and has one in hemp. Eight years later, after a decade of divorce - an he’s running a multimillionamicable relationship with dollar business that sells outdoorher ex-husband, attorney Jake wear to Whole Foods and Urban (Alec Baldwin).

Outfitters.

But when Jane and Hemp is as high performance Jake find themselves out of and functional and as cool and town for their son’s college flashy and sexy as any conventional graduation, things start to get product, but it doesn’t impact the complicated. planet in terrible ways.

An innocent meal together turns into the unimaginable an affair. With Jake remarried to a much younger woman, Jane is now, of all things, the other woman.

Caught in the middle of their renewed romance is Adam (Steve Martin), an architect hired to remodel Jane’s kitchen. Healing from a divorce of his own, Adam “Crimson, White & Indigo” starts to fall for Jane, but soon (Rhino, A-minus) shares the realizes he’s become part of a complete, three-hour Dead love triangle. performance from July 7, 1989 Should Jane and Jake move at Philadelphia’s JFK Stadium, on with their lives, or is love momentous on several counts. truly lovelier the second time “It was the last show to ever around? It’s-complicated. play the facility, though we didn’t have a clue of that back then,” recalls Dennis McNally, and occasionally me, and he the band’s longtime publicist got a conversation going with and author of “A Long Strange Garcia (on guitar) that no other Trip: The Inside History of the keyboardist ever managed.”

Grateful Dead.”

You hear it in the hot fun in On the artistic side, notes the summertime grooves they group bassist Phil Lesh, that summoned in Philadephia on JFK show is arguably from “one tunes like “Iko Iko” and “Fire of the strongest periods in the On the Mountain,” and on band’s touring history, thanks to Mydland’s impassioned debut the presence of Brent (Mydland) of “Blow Away,” which earns as on keyboards.” Sadly taken just big a stadium roar as standard a year later (a drug O.D.), Brent bearers like Garcia’s “Loser” and “had a soulful vocal tinge that the Lesh-sung “Box of Rain.” was special. He harmonized Also, dig the then-new, great with Jerry and Bob (Weir) synthesized tones that the band

Hemp clothing is now a hot item in clothing stores. (Photo Courtesy)

New on DVD: ‘It’s Complicated’ DVD released: Tuesday, April 27 Genres: Comedy, Romance Running Time: 1 hour 58 minutes Rating: R for some drug content and sexuality Starring: Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin

Museums, magazines, fans all agree: Bring out your Dead Jonathan Takiff MCT

For a band that was counted out 15 years ago when front man Jerry Garcia died, the Grateful Dead has shown remarkable endurance and staying power.

Last month they were subject to a major analysis in The Atlantic, with academicians testifying to the Dead’s groundbreaking, pre-Internet inventions of social networking and viral marketing.

Now, the New York Historical Society, the city’s oldest museum, is staging an exhibit of Grateful Dead memorabilia - through July 4 - that argues the same points. Along with the expected rare disks, band instruments and props, like that Jerry Garcia skeleton marionette that jiggled in the “Touch of Grey” video, are artifacts ranging from the

Deadhead hot-line answering machine to genial letters sent out to the fan base (“Got a good place for us to play?”).

This exhibit-goer also relished survey responses from viewers of a closed-circuit Dead telecast.

“This will be even better when it’s holographic,” prophesied one futurist.

These exhibit materials are culled from The Grateful Dead Archive, a collection of “600,000 linear feet” of stuff which the band recently donated to the University of California at Santa Cruz. Eventually, all the content will be available as an online resource for students, fans and scholars at www.

GratefulDeadArchive.org.

And, for those seeking a fresh music fix, a “new” Grateful Dead CD/DVD package has hit stores and download sites.

The Grateful Dead memorabilia is shown at the New York Historical Society. (Photo Courtesy)

Streep, Martin, Baldwin all play part in a crazy love triangle in “It’s Complicated.” (Photo Courtesy)

snowflakes, no two were exactly alike.

The inventory “really became important as a source of income after Jerry died” in 1995 “and we stopped touring,” says Lesh. Sales of the “Dick’s Picks” series of mixing-board tapes put together by band archivist Dick Latvala would prove so compelling to fans that it eventually grew to 36 volumes. Simultaneously, Rhino was putting out “From the Vaults” shows captured as higher-quality multitrack recordings. And, of late, there’s was applying to the percussion- emerged yet another series of centric “Space” jam. “Working disks/downloads called “Road with electronics was just a Trips” which cobble together natural evolution for us, part of sets from different shows. the search for different sounds,” Still, historian McNally says Lesh. “I had fun coaxing disputes the contention of flute sounds out of my bass. It Dead scholars, expressed in the allowed me to operate in stealth Atlantic magazine piece, that mode. You didn’t know it was the Dead were sharp marketers, coming from me.” somehow envisioning the gold Much is now being made they could someday reap from over the Dead’s prescience in these recordings. It’s even been recording most of its shows. asserted that they laid the “We did something like 2,300 groundwork by first allowing performances, and we have amateur tapers to record the tape on about 1,500 of them,” same shows in lesser quality and calculates Lesh. then trade the material with Several concert recordings others, in the process building were released, of course, up the “legend” of certain during the band’s working life, performances. most famously the jamming “It never occurred to the Dead improvisers’ chronicle of a that they could make money “Europe ‘72” tour. Those concert from the board tapes,” says packages repeatedly underscored McNally. “The taping started the bumper-sticker slogan when Owsley (soundman/ “There is Nothing like a Grateful chemist August Stanley “Bear” Dead Concert” because, like Owsley) was their mixer and was

attempting to get the band to be disciplined, which was hysterical in the abstract, as he was also the most manic of people. I can’t think of anyone less disciplined.

But he got into the habit of recording every show and then afterwards the band would gather and listen and evaluate the performance.”

“For a while, we even carried a whole listening room with us on tour,” remembers Lesh.

That business of taping just about every show “then continued as a matter of record keeping,” says McNally. Then when the group got mega-huge in the late 1980s, after “Touch of Grey” went to No. 1, “and they were doing summer tours of sheds and stadiums, they also started accruing video recordings of shows. In a stadium, they needed video reinforcement to make it colorful for people in the last row. And they’d run a copy for the archives because, well, that’s what we did.”

Lesh says he’s certain that the entire Grateful Dead collection of 1,500 shows “will eventually become available online, with random access.” And he’s finally starting to create some new music with Bob Weir in their current incarnation as Furthur.

“We’re going to dribble the music out a little at a time on the Internet,” Lesh hints. “I have no interest in making a record. In this day and age, why bother?”

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Mustang victory over NSU sets softball record

Most wins in a season at 46-6 Chad Steele MSU rises F W The No.4 ranked Mustangs to top spot scraped by to sweep Northeaster State Saturday at Mustang Park. in rankings or the

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The Mustangs beat the River Hawks 2-1 in both games to improve their record to 46-6 and set a new MSU record for most wins in a season.

The Mustangs, 20-2 in the Lone Star Conference North Division, clinched their third straight division title earlier last week.

Katie Petersen took the circle in the first game and provided enough arm power to win the heavily defensive competition.

Petersen, who claimed her 88th career win, won her 21ststraight decision. The senior from Plano is now only four wins away from the record of 92 wins set by Midwestern alumni Brittany Wilson (2002-06).

The offense came from the duo of freshman shortstop Natalie Rodriguez and sophomore third basemen Mallory Mooney.

Rodriguez reached base on an error in the first inning. She was sacrificed to third. Mooney’s sacrifice fly allowing Rodriguez to plate the first run and take an early 1-0 lead over Northeastern State.

Rodriguez and Mooney would work together again in the sixth to give the Mustangs enough runs to hold on to the lead. Rodriguez hit a lead of single to right field and stole second before being moved to third off Elena Bennett’s infield single.

Junior Bo Zaputovic earned the LSC’s top newcomer award, and senior Carlos Bataller earned sportsmanship player of the year mention.

Vjekoslav Stipanic, from Tivat, Montenegro, earned allconference singles honors after going 17-4 this season with showings of 2-2 at No.1, 7-2 at No.2 and 8-0 at No.3 Stipanic and Zaputovic were also awarded all-league doubles honors after posting a record of 9-3 at the No.1 position in doubles.

On the women’s side, the trio of Leah Roberts, Monika Graff and Alex Odell-Michels earned

spots on the All-Lone Star Conference women’s tennis squad.

Roberts, a junior transfer from Texas Tech, garnered the leagues top newcomer honor after posting a record of 10-8 in singles matches between the No. 2-5 positions. Roberts also had an impressive combined doubles record of 19-2.

Graff teamed up with Roberts to earn All-LSC doubles honors after they had an astonishing 18-0 record while playing mostly in the No.2 position.

Odell-Michels was awarded all-league honors after posting a record of 10-8 while playing at the No.1 position in singles.

Midwestern State’s Mallory Mooney garnered Lone Star Conference North Division Hitter of the Week honors Tuesday afternoon when the league announced its weekly awards.

The sophomore from Mesquite returned from an 18-game injury absence and didn’t miss a beat.

Mooney hit .455 with a pair of homers and seven RBIs to help

the Mustangs clinch their first outright LSC North Division title since 2007 with a sweep of Northeastern State.

She belted a three-run homer in Game 1 Tuesday in Tahlequah, then blasted a two-run shot in Game 2.

Mooney then added a pair of sacrifice flies in MSU’s sweep Saturday at Mustangs Park.

The third baseman raised her season batting average to .359 to go along with seven doubles, seven homers and 35 RBIs.

Midwestern State closes the regular season with a non-conference twin bill against Angelo State Saturday afternoon at Mustangs Park. First pitch is set for 3 p.m.

April showers, bring...: Junior pitcher Brittney Tanner is a perfect 7-0 in the month of April while posted a 1.47 ERA with 58 strikeouts in 47 2/3 innings.

She might be even hotter at the plate hitting .354 with five doubles, three homers and 13 RBIs.

The Lady Mustangs were not able to overcome Tarelton State last Friday at the Lone Star Conference Championships at the Oklahoma City Tennis Center.

Tarleton was able to string together four straight-set victories to defeat the Mustangs 5-3 and advance to semifinals.

The Mustangs stared strong as Leah Roberts and Monika Graff defeated Mariana Freitas and Rocio Cabanillas 8-4 for their 19th-straight soubles victory at No.1. Also, MSU’s Lindsey Holcomb and Alex OdellMichels defeated Tarleton’s Jade Charlot and Evgeniya Prokofeva 9-8 at the No.2 position to give

the Mustangs a 2-0 lead. Tarelton would close the margin with a victory at doubles No.3.

In single play, Odell-Michels was the only winner as she defeated Adrianna Jaskova 6-4, 6-0 at No.1. Tarleton then dominated single play winning straight set matches at Nos. 2, 4, 5 and 6 to seal the victory.

For the Wichitan After a successful season, on both the men’s and women’s sides of the court, the Mustangs tennis teams took home several Lone Star Conference postseason honors.

Tennis coach Larry Wiggins was named Co-Coach of the Year Thursday when the league announced the postseason awards.

Wiggins led the men’s team to a 15-7 record in the regular season and a berth in the LSC Championships last week.

Mooney once again delivered a clutch sacrifice fly to allow Rodriguez to score and take a 2-0 lead.

The second game would be just as tough defensively as junior Brittney Tanner took the circle. The pitcher had a onehitter going into the seventh inning. Tanner, 7-0 in the month of April, struck out eight, allowed one run off three hits, and didn’t walk anyone.

Senior Catcher Lauren Craig got the offense started in the bottom of the fifth with a single to center to drive in Rodriguez to give the Mustangs a 1-0 lead.

In the seventh, Rodriguez again reached base off a double to left field. Rodriguez moved to third on Bennett’s sacrifice bunt and score off of Courtney Bingham’s sacrifice fly.

The Mustangs will end the regular season Saturday afternoon at Mustangs Park with a non-conference double header against Angelo State. First pitch is set for 3 p.m.

MSU’s Nicki Duff slides into third base after a triple against NSU. (Photo by Patrick Johnston)

Tennis teams take LSC honors; Wiggins picked Coach of Year Chad Steele

The Mustangs remain on top of South Central Regional rankings and continue to rise in the national rankings.

The NCAA Division II Softball Championship Committee released its South Central Regional rankings with Midwestern still holding the top spot.

Gridiron Ballet

Mooney gains LSC North Hitter honors MSUMustangs.com For the Wichitan

Lady Mustangs fall to Tarleton State Friday

Footballers get in the swing of things in a Tuesday practice. (Photo by Julia Raymond)

Ex-MSU player signs with Vikings MSUMustangs.com For the Wichitan

Former Midwestern State offensive lineman Matt Hanson has agreed to terms with the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings.

Hanson was a second-team All-Lone Star Conference performer in 2009 while making 12 starts at right tackle and was selected to play in the 2009 Valero Cactus Bowl.

As a two-year starter, Hanson played a key role in helping the Mustangs to their third NCAA Division II postseason appear-

ance and to their first conference championship last fall.

Hanson transferred to MSU after competing at Division I Sacramento State as a freshman and was an All-Mid-Empire selection after his sophomore campaign at Sacramento City College of the Northern California Junior College League.

Hanson is Midwestern State’s first NFL free agent signing since former Harlon Hill finalist Daniel Polk inked with the Dallas Cowboys following the 2007 NFL Draft.

Hanson is among 10 rookie undrafted free agents signed by

the Vikings Sunday after the completion of the draft.

He will join quarterback R.J. Archer of William & Mary, offensive lineman Thomas Austin of Clemson, wide receiver Kelton Tindal of Newberry (S.C.), offensive lineman Tommy Hernandez of UC-Davis, wide receiver Aaron Rhea of Stephen F. Austin, safety Terrell Skinner of Maryland, wide receiver Ray Small of Ohio State, cornerback Angelo Williams of Ferris State and offensive lineman Marlon Winn of Texas Tech as undrafted free agents in Minnesota.

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Football signee dies in one-car accident MSUMustangs.com For the Wichitan

Midwestern State football signee Matthew McKenzie died in a single car accident early Monday morning near San Antonio.

“It’s a real tragedy for the family and right at the height of his senior year,” MSU coach Bill Maskill said. “It’s unfortunate that something like this could happen. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family.”

Bexar County sheriff ’s officials said McKenzie, 18, lost control of his red Toyota Camry and the car became lodged nose-down between trees and large rocks in a drainage culvert.

According to the San Antonio Express News, McKenzie was wearing his seat belt, and officials said they don’t suspect alcohol played a role in the accident.

David Malesky, head football coach at O’Connor High School in Helotes, Texas, told the Express News that McKenzie was a model athlete.

“He was an example of what all of our athletes should be,” Malesky said. “He was a great student; he made really good grades, and not many kids could match his work ethic.”

McKenzie was a unanimous District 28-5A first team pick at O’Connor High. The 6-2, 225-pound defensive lineman signed a National Letter of Intent to play at Midwestern State in February.

“He was a great student from a really good family,” Maskill said.

“He had great character and would have been a real asset to our football team.”

A memorial fund has been set up for Matthew McKenzie at the Firstmark Credit Union to cover the cost of his funeral.

Dallas goes for quality with Bryant in NFL Draft Clarence Hill MCT

South Central Collegiate Cyclist Championship winners include, left to right, (Men’s A Conference top three) Josh Carter, second; Jason Short, first; Shane Haga (Texas A&M), third; and Claire Rouitledge, second; Loren Eggenschwiler, third; and Jen Purcell, first, (Women’s A Conference top three).

Austin wins put cyclists on the road to Wisconsin Loren Eggenschwiler For the Wichitan MSU’s cycling team racked up a big win at the South Central Collegiate Cycling Conference Championship hosted by UT in Austin this weekend.

In the overall results, Jason Short took first. Josh Carter followed in second. The women were able to take a clean sweep, with Jen Purcell coming in first, Claire Routledge, second, and Loren Eggenschwiler, third. As a team, MSU was also able to win the conference with a total of more than 10,000 points added up from many wins and results in collegiate races.

MSU will be driving to Madison, Wisc. to race in the Collegiate Cycling Nationals taking place May 7-9. Up to 12 racers will be representing MSU, about 6 men and

6 women among an estimated 500 athletes representing some 300 U.S. colleges and universities.

Races began early Saturday morning in the capital city. In the men’s A, Josh Carter took first in a sprint against Texas A&M with teammates Jason Short and Alexi Martinez in third and fourth, respectively.

The men’s B and women’s A categories raced together again and the field quickly scattered. Jen Purcell finished in the lead with the field of men, taking first. Loren Eggenschwiler, Claire Routledge, Tiffany Stewart and Mindy Burns filled in third, fourth, fifth and sixth for the women’s A. Roy Bracey took third in the finish for the men’s B. Stanton Porter landed sixth for the men’s C. In Team Time Trials MSU had 4 different teams. For the men’s A, there were two teams. Team 1, Matt Fox, Danny Robertson,

and Sean Brown took second place with 26.03. Team 2, Jason Short, Todd Elenz, Alexi Martinez and Josh Carter took first with 23.08. The women’s A team Jen Purcell, Tiffany Stewart, Loren Eggenschwiler and Claire Routledge took first with 27.16. The men’s B team, Matthew Sauls, Fidel Goytia, Roy Bracey and Tyler Matthies also took first with 26.52.

Stanton Porter started Sunday’s crits for MSU, where he was able to take third in the sprint. Brown was able to take third for the men’s B in the crit. For the women, Claire Routledge and Jen Purcell were able to take the sprint for first and second. Loren Eggenschwiler, Tiffany Stewart, and Mindy burns took fourth, fifth and sixth. In the men’s A crit, A&M was able to get a few off the front, but MSU was still able to get third, Carter , and fifth, Short.

MSU golf gains berth in Central Regionals MSUMustangs.com For the Wichitan

Midwestern State gained its second berth in the Midwest/ South Central Regional Friday afternoon when the NCAA Division II Golf Committee announced the 2010 championship field.

The Mustangs, who finished as runner-up at the Lone Star Conference Championship earlier this week, will make their first trip to a regional since its inaugural season of 2006-07.

The 20-team field is set for competition at The Territory Golf Club in Duncan, Okla.

NCAA Division II Midwest/South Central Region Qualifiers South Central Region Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

School

Abilene Christian Central Missouri St. Edward’s (Texas) St. Mary’s (Texas) Dallas Baptist

Midwestern State Cameron (Okla.)

hosted by Cameron University from May 3-5, 2010.

The top five teams and the top

Conference Lone Star MIAA Heartland Heartland Heartland Lone Star Lone Star

two student-athletes not with a team from each regional (regardless of region) will advance

to the finals on May 18-21 to play at The Sagamore Club in Noblesville, Ind.

IRVING, Texas - Owner Jerry Jones wouldn’t go as far as declaring the Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl ready following the conclusion of the 2010 NFL Draft.

But he acknowledged he made moves with a 2010 Super Bowl run in mind.

He also said beyond a doubt that the team’s draft that was headlined by two immediate impact players - receiver Dez Bryant and linebacker Sean Lee - had already made the Cowboys a better team than they were at the end of the 2009 season.

Jones said the Cowboys, who won the NFC East with an 11-5 mark before losing to the Minnesota Vikings in the divisional playoffs, are poised to take the next step.

“The kind of thing we did with this draft ... was to maybe address more quality than quantity, which logically tells you that, ‘Hey, you feel pretty good about your team,’” Jones said. “I think that what Sean Lee can bring immediately and Dez and what we can get out of them, if we haven’t materially improved with those guys we are already pretty excited about, then we did miss here.”

The Cowboys thought so much of Bryant and Lee that they traded up in the first and second rounds, respectively, to secure their services, to ensure that this draft will be remembered for the team sticking to its guns and taking quality over need.

But the Cowboys’ work over the past three days should also be remembered as another vote of confidence in tackle Doug Free and a mulligan of sorts at safety.

Because of the release of tackle Flozell Adams and free safety Ken Hamlin, those positions were considered the team’s biggest positions of need going into the draft.

The Cowboys didn’t address them until the draft’s final day Saturday _ with developmental players in fourth-round pick Akwasi Owusu-Ansah, a safety out of Indiana (Pa.), and sixth-round pick Sam Young, an offensive tackle out of Notre Dame.

The Cowboys rounded out their picks with Texas Tech cornerback Jamar Wall in the sixth round and William & Mary defensive tackle Sean Lissemore in

the seventh.

The decision not to force a supposed need spoke volumes about the confidence they have in Free.

Jones has talked all off-season about how much the Cowboys believe in Free’s potential. They liked what they saw from him as a replacement for an injured Marc Colombo at right tackle last season. They believe his natural position is left tackle.

Jones backed up his words in the draft by sticking to his board and not drafting a tackle early.

“Yes. Doug is our left tackle as we sit right here today,” Jones said. “I’m very comfortable with that.”

The Cowboys would like to add a veteran backup in free agency for depth purposes, Jones said. He added that he wouldn’t rule out bringing back Adams as a backup for the right price if he doesn’t get picked up.

Adams has yet to sign with another team, though the market for him will heat up after the draft.

Jones, however, is admittedly not comfortable with the team’s starting options at free safety.

Four-year veteran Alan Ball, a converted cornerback, will get the first look among the holdovers with possible competition from Mike Hamlin, a 2009 fifth-round pick who got little playing time last year due to injury.

Jones said the Cowboys will continue to look at a startingquality safety in free agency.

“I’m not as sure about safety (as I am about tackle),” Jones said. “I’d like to see Mike Hamlin out there in OTAs (organized team activities) before I answer that question. He’s put on some weight and is looking good there. You sure like to see that. I’ll leave it at that. I’m just not clear.”

The Cowboys were interested in taking a starter-quality free safety in the second round and even considered moving up to take South Florida safety Nate Allen, who was nabbed by the Philadelphia Eagles. But the Cowboys valued getting Lee more than Allen and decided to pass with the hopes of taking Owusa-Ansah in the fourth round.

Secondary coach Dave Campo said Owusa-Ansah has as much upside as any safety in the draft. He will just have a steep learning curve because he played at a smaller school.

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