Oct. 7, 2015

Oct. 7, 2015 | Midwestern State University | thewichitan.com | Your Campus. Your News. | Vol. 80 No. 7

Before I Die

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Students write life goals on the ‘Before I Die’ board set up in Clark Student Center for Wellness Week.

PHOTO BY RACHEL JOHNSON | THE WICHITAN

CESAR ADAME, sports and leisure senior, went to help out at the Fantasy of Lights Workshop, Oct. 3, by moving pieces of the different floats to be cleaned.

“This is part of our class and we have to have seven hours of community service, doing behind the scenes work,” Adame said. | SHERIMA FERLANCE, finance junior, SUSAN MARRS, Kiwanis sponsor, JUSTIN ESDAILLE, accounting junior, and MARY RHOADS, kiwanis member an MSU graduate, clean the candy canes off with brushes during the Fantasy of Lights Workshop. | REILI SCHELL, 8th grader at Barwise Leadership Academy, helps move a saw horse during the Fantasy of Lights Workshop early morning, Oct. 3, as part of a community service project for a class she is taking at her school.

FA NTA S Y O F LIGHTS

Students help at workshop New President

Holiday displays washed, repainted during weekend event pg. 4

President Suzanne Shipley has made an impression on students and staff in her first few weeks in office.

Empty Bowls

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Fundraiser utilizes creativity to raise money to fight community hunger.

TAYLOR WARREN REPORTER

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eter Pan and Captain Hook. Cinderella and her pumpkin coach.

Snow White and the seven dwarfs.

Santa and his reindeer.

Just a few of the exhibits that were brought out, washed off and repainted last Saturday at the Fantasy of Lights workshop.

Eight MSU students — and dozens of local junior high students — attended the work day and contributed to refurbishing the displays.

“We are required to volunteer 60 hours for the nursing program,” Kelsey Beaird, nursing senior, said. “I really had no idea what Fantasy of Lights was until today. I am from Oklahoma so it is neat to see what the display is all about.”

Three students in Program Planning of Recreation and Leisure Services also participated for the first time in the work day.

“Our teacher wanted us to see what goes on before and how much time is put in to preparing the display before it is brought to the university,” Cesar Adame, kinesiology and sports leisure senior, said. “Fantasy of Lights is a family event and now I am able to appreciate it more seeing what takes place before hand.”

Justin Esdaille and Sherrima Ferlance, members of Circle K international on campus, repainted exhibit light poles and candy canes at the work day.

“I saw the display last year and it was really pretty,” Ferlance, junior in finance, said. “It was awesome to work

behind the scenes repainting because when I see the exhibit this year I can say, ‘Hey, I painted that.’”

This year, Raggedy Ann and Andy, Santa’s Village and the reindeer are listed to be repaired.

“The donations given help pay for supplies needed to repaint and reconstruct the displays,” Joey Greenwood, exhibit director, said. “Each display is adopted by a family or businesses in the community. The sponsorship is used to keep the exhibits updated.”

Greenwood said Fantasy of Lights is a huge part of the university and community holiday tradition.

“It is one of the largest displays of its kind in this area,” Greenwood said. “We have over 200,000 visitors each year.”

KICK-OFF | Nov. 23 at 6 p.m. Local elementary school choirs will perform and university President Suzanne Shipley will speak.

HOURS | Open Nov. 23 - Dec. 27 | Sunday - Thursday, dusk until 10 p.m. | Friday - Saturday, dusk until 11 p.m.

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S TAFF E D I T O RI A L

You can still cheat the system

OUR VIEW: Although Student Government Association has made changes to how the election process works, they are still missing the key factor of validity.

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Breathe, keep walking; you’ll be okay

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s I walk into the student center I can already feel it coming. As the crowds build my breathing becomes uneasy. The people at the booths are going to talk to me. It’s okay. The lines at Chick-fil-a are long and are blocking the walk way.

My heart begins to race uncontrollably.

I am going to have to break through it.

Emily I really don’t want to be in the way.

Richburg Maybe I’ll just turn around, go home, and stay in bed for the rest of the day.

Breathe, keep walking, and you’ll be okay.

I break through the crowds quietly apologizing. A few of the people working at the booths say hello and hand me a flyer as my heart rate slows back down.

This isn’t just a one-time thing. This happens on a daily basis.

According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, I am not alone. There are 40 million others who are like me in the United States. Being a woman, I am actually more prone to anxiety and depression. The U. S. spends $42 billion a year on anxiety disorders alone, individual costs include health care services, research and treatments.

The best solution I have found for my anxiety and depression is completely free: Talk to someone about it.

In high school, no one knew what I was going through.

I thought I was completely alone.

I’d walk the crowded halls and be screaming so loud in my head there would be times where I’d have to run

our years ago, the election process was different.

Those that were here remember the “election scandal” that occurred. It was full of fraud and juvenile behavior. In short, it was all a popularity contest at the time where organizations cheated their way to the top, to help their friends out by using other student’s private M-numbers to use their vote.

SGA has put in place rules today that make it harder for just anybody to win the election. Good job SGA for stepping up the game and making this more than a popularity contest.

Even though the nominees have to meet these requirements, doesn’t mean there still aren’t holes that need fixing. We still have problems with validating who is voting and who isn’t.

Anyone can get people’s M-numbers to submit as many votes as we want. We did.

Today, we sat down and submitted a least a dozen different M-numbers, that we made up, with nomie’re constantly told to surround nations. In addition, we submitted more than two ourselves with people who make names in each contest. No validation. us happy, not to stay in relationGranted, at the end of the week there is a supposed ships were we feel unappreciated, unworthy, or were our feelings are invalidated. committee that will go back through and validate Most college students are stuck in toxic every candidate. Sounds like a lot more work than it friendships and relationships. Perhaps, we should be for one committee of six people who are be- Wadzanai try to seek for a sense permanence in clinging onto people, failing to realize everyDzvurumi ing kept anonymous. thing is impermanent. The problem is that Set up a system through the secure portal. Ensure when people cause us pain, it reminds us of how much that the election results are never questioned. they mean to us. We allow them to remain as a part of our

to the bathroom and have to calm myself down. It got to the point where there would be days where I didn’t want to leave my bed. I didn’t want any human contact. I was afraid that other people were going to think that I was insane and that what I was going through wasn’t normal.

Shopping for shoes is what made me decide I had to break through my fear and tell someone.

I had found a pair of shoes, but I couldn’t find them in my size. Just as I was about to ask one of the workers if they had any of the shoes in the back, it felt like my heart dropped.

I couldn’t breathe.

My sisters got frustrated with me because I wanted to leave. I didn’t care about the shoes anymore. I could feel the tears coming. My mom didn’t understand. No one did.

I ended up crying right in the middle of the store, which brought complete embarrassment. I ended up leaving without the shoes, but I knew I needed to speak up.

Speaking up about my anxiety and depression had an instant relief for me. It allowed me to learn that I wasn’t the only person with it which made me feel more human.

It became a therapy for me. Instead of feeling so ashamed of my panic attacks, freak-outs, and random burst of tears, I could be open about my disorder. My family and friends were able to find ways to help me out, too.

I still deal with my anxiety on a daily basis. It is the shadow that will never go away, but I learned to not be afraid of it. Now that I have been open about it, each breath is easier.

Emily Richburg is a Nursing Major

Surround ourselves with happiness

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CLARIFICATION: An earlier version of the column in last week’s paper, “Too much for Family Day; not enough for Homecoming,” did not report that 2,933 people registered for the event. The Office of Student Development and Orientation does not track actual attendance. Last year, 2,300 people registered. In addition, the budget for Homecoming is actually $7,500 more than the Family Day budget, not $7,500 as originally reported. The Wichitan apologizes for the confusion.

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lives. Maybe this is how we fall apart, and get trapped in toxic relationships.

Do not let the, “We fight because we love each other” belief make you think it is okay to stay in unhealthy relationships.

If there is more fighting in any kind of relationship, than care and love – there shouldn’t be a relationship at all.

As college students; too often, we struggle letting toxic

PHOTO EDITOR: Rachel Johnson PHOTOGRAPHER: Francisco Martinez, Kayla White DESIGN EDITOR: Brianna Sheen DESIGNER: Justin Marquart ADVISER: Bradley Wilson

people go. We fear going through the entire college course without any friends, or loved one’s, so instead we let the fear of being alone hold us hostage in toxic relationships.

It is when you are alone that you realize your worth, you start discovering that you can be whole by yourself, without half on another. It is important that from a young age, we nurture and protect our feelings and hearts. This may mean breaking up with someone we care deeply about, letting go of longtime friends, or loving a family member from a distance. Even if it means being alone, maybe, a bit of heartache is required for us to grow.

Above all, it is also important to take a step back and take responsibility for our actions too, that we might be the toxic friend, or partner.

Letting go off toxic people is an act of self-care, not cruelty. Take care of yourself before anything else. You’re allowed to put yourself first. You have the power to choose the healthiest options for yourself.

Life is about balance. Be kind. Do not let people abuse you.

Wadzanai Dzvurumi is a Junior in Marketing

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Music: a part about being human

PHOTO BY PATRICK GERMAN | THE WICHITAN

The bucket list wall, put up in the atrium of the Clark Student Center, Sept. 28- Oct. 2 brought attention to Kendal Brinlee, psychology sophomore, who signed, “I want to be a Pokémon master,” on the wall, Oct. 2.

MEKALA CONWAY REPORTER

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im Justus, associate professor of music, sits in his office, surrounded by books, papers, sheet music, and magazines stacked on counters and filing cabinets, and trumpets on stands on the floor. A guitar stand sits across from him, his guitar nestled upon it, waiting for the next time it will be played.

Justus has been in rock bands in college and high school, the service band for the Marines, and a professional musician before he became a music professor, calling it the “the nirvana of musicians,” for its schedules, graceful old age, and dignified retirement.

Of course he would know all about how students use music, how it affects their brains, and why they like it so much.

Music captures the imagination. Justus said many elements of music come into play when it comes to how the brain is affected; the rhythm, the chord progression, and the key the song is played in.

Justus talked about the Greeks’ Doctrine of Ethos, the Greeks’ belief that music affected the mood a person had. According to their belief, Justus said, music was played for men that would encourage masculine, warlike moods, while women heard music that encouraged them to be more feminine.

“They [the Greeks] had a complicated system,” Justus said. “They believed if men listen to the wrong kind of music, they would be too tender and effeminate to make war.”

Justus knows from experience the importance of music to people. He said while music is not a necessity or life, it is not a luxury either.

“Music is a part of what it is to be human.

We really can’t classify it as something we need to live or something that we really can do without. But I think we can’t stop our musical urges or needs than we can change the color of our eyes,” he said, “and there has never been a civilization on earth that has not had music.”

And Summer Florida, a nursing sophomore, said she wouldn’t be able to live without music.

“I listen to music almost all day, everyday,” she said, gesturing to her iPod and headphones in her lap. “It helps me clear my head.”

Justus said students use music for exercising, driving, worship, waking up and going to sleep, and to escape from the silence of a person’s mind.

“If there’s something playing on the surface, then we really don’t have to face that aloneness that so many people feel so much of the time,” he said.

Justus said music is mostly employed for its sensual uses, but most people only hear the

PHOTO BY RACHEL JOHNSON | THE WICHITAN

Timothy Justus, associate professor of music

music, they really don’t listen to it.

“It goes in one ear and out the other,” Justus said.

Listening is an active activity, and requires that a person listen to the melody of a song rather than just the lyrics, Justus said. He said people should ask themselves why their music makes them feel the way it does.

“There is a special device that composers use. Music that moves forward makes us think happy thoughts,” Justus said, as he played a lively tune on his guitar. He continued his demonstration by playing a more melancholy tune, followed by one that sounded like homesickness.

“The way composers arrange chords has an affect on what we think,” he said, “and I think we don’t listen enough to the structure of music, and we don’t pay enough attention to the details of music.”

In contrast, Florida listens to music based on the mood she’s in.

“If I’m sad, I’ll listen to sad songs, and they’ll make me more sad. If I’m really hyper, I’ll listen to music that will pump me up, and get me excited,” she said.

Computer science sophomore Cameron Troester makes playlists based on his moods.

He has one made up of sad songs, with artists such as Passenger, Ron Paul, and the Great Big World. Troester also has a playlist for when he’s in a good mood, with Ellie Goulding and Calvin Harris on it.

“Music paints a picture. When events are happening in my life, sometimes I think of a song that fits that event,” he said.

Justus said people tend to listen more to the lyrics of song rather than the sound, because they want to identify with the music.

“People want to feel that the music is saying something to them. Maybe they want to know that they’re not alone, but in a way that they’re the only ones who are suffering the way they’re suffering,” he said.

PHOTO BY FRANCISCO MARTINEZ | THE WICHITAN

Niko Padilla, business junior, signs the ‘Before I Die’ wall in Clark Student Center on Oct. 6.

Padilla said, “I want to be a billionaire.”

This is a four-col heagline FIRST LAST REPORTER

Vincent Health Center and four other groups sponsored a ‘Before I Die’ wall from Sept. 28 - Oct. 2 giving a chance for students to get to know their peers and find out their aspirations and goals.

The ‘Before I Die’ wall gives students a chance to write out on the board, what they want to achieve with their life. It puts it into reality by writing it down. And gives the students a chance to read what their peers have written down and gets to know their MSU community.

The wall has grown in popularity world-wide. It has reached more than 70 countries and 35 languages.

Assistant Director of Residence Life

Norma Ramirez said, “It’s going really well.

It’s very exciting to see what people have written on it. Some of them are silly, but some of them are serious, and you can tell from the people that have really thought about it. I also think it’s very interesting this side of the students.

The wall has goals ranging from curing aids and cancer, make a difference in some ones life, to pass pre-cal, find a date to fall semi-formal. But, the fan favorite one is visit Bikini Bottom.

Miranda Neagle, criminal justice junior said, “The wall is a great idea. A lot of people only worry about the here and now, but it’s super fun to think about the future.

I wrote, I want to be a tenth degree black belt before I die.”

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PHOTOS BY RACHEL JOHNSON AND FRANCISCO MARTINEZ | THE WICHITAN

President Suzanne Shipley gets food at the Presidential Picnic held at the Sike’s House. | Shipley and her family are recognized during half-time of the first football game of the season. | Shipley discusses local restaurants with media reporters at a press conference.

New First university president impressions go both ways SAMUEL SUTTON REPORTER

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n her first six weeks as president, Suzanne Shipley has not had much time to sit still.

In between constant meetings with administrators, alumni and prospective donors, she is learning the MSU lifestyle and even building a social media presence in a town close to her roots.

“Everybody has been so nice to me, and it’s made it easier to adjust to the new campus,” she said. “Another thing that I like is the city of Wichita Falls. I like that my husband and I can go out and find somewhere to eat pretty quickly,” she added.

And the students have noticed her presence around campus, eating in the dining hall and attending events, from convocation to football games.

“Instead having the students come to her, she goes to the students,” said Megan Piehler, student regent and junior in mass communication.

To get to know the students, something she said she wasn’t able to do as much as she wanted to at her previous job, one of the first official events she held was a picnic at her home — the Sikes House — Aug. 31 “The picnic was a really neat thing. She walked right up and talked to us,” Piehler said.

SOCIAL MEDIA

She has also become involved through the use of social networks, including Twitter, @shipleysuzanne1.

“I’ve found that Twitter works as sort of a vehicle for connecting with students. I’ve learned how to tag other students, and how to post pictures as well,” Shipley said.

On her profile, she posts pictures with students, and tweets about her time here.

“She tries to get rid of the ‘president’ persona so that she can relate to the students,” Piehler said.

Shipley admitted that previously she wasn’t very interested in Twitter, saying that she felt it was a lot like her email.

“I’d have to read every post and comment on them.

When I found out that wasn’t the case, and learned about

what it was, I couldn’t wait to join in,” she added.

In addition to using Twitter, Shipley uses short video clips – “Mustangs Minutes” — posted to the university’s website.

In her first post, she introduced herself to the community from inside her home.

In her second and third posts, she talked about the undergraduate research program. She talked to two undergraduates and two project managers about how the program works and what benefits that they required from it. Doing this, she was able to learn more about one of our most popular educational programs so that she can have an easier time completing her goals.

In her fourth post she walked around campus talking to students about the first week of school. Students got to see her outspoken personality. She toured the student center and interviewed six students, asking them about their first week of classes, helping her connect with some of the students while learning about the atmosphere of the campus.

VISION

English Assistant Professor Todd Giles said “I am very excited about Dr. Shipley’s vision for moving MSU further along the path of our liberal arts and sciences mission. Her hands-on approach to leadership and public support of our COPLAC (Council of Public Liberal Arts College) mission and the institution of a new first-year seminar are much needed and appreciated.”

Shipley, a former president of COPLAC, has helped that organization raise more than $25 million for the foundation and she wants to help MSU grow as well.

She said her plans for this campus are to expand its name in places like Fort Worth and to expand internationally. She hopes the encourage Caribbean and Hispanic students, noting that one-fourth of incoming students are Hispanic.

“I am very fascinated with Caribbean students. They have a lot of stories and they bring a lot of diversity to the campus.”

While she wants the school to get bigger, she said she doesn’t want it to be too big because size can be intimidating to incoming students.

“One of the many things that I want to do is to make this campus grow through the years. I want a gradual, but significant growth,” she said.

She also talked about changing up the campus a little bit.

“I love the campus so far. I think we can add more on to it so that it would attract more students to come here,” she said.

She also wrote that there would be a lot of change on the campus, talking about the addition of a new residence hall as well as the new food services here.

“I like the new food services a lot,” said Becca Rhone, a special education junior. “Having these options made me actually want to get a meal plan this year.”

HISTORY

Shipley has spent almost her entire life on a college campus. Shipley’s mother worked as a professor at Texas Tech, and she would bring her along with her from time to time.

She even learned how to swim at the school’s public pool.

One thing that she said was that she always wanted to work at this campus.

“I’m from Texas, and ever since I started my career [in other places], I’ve never been back. When this opportunity came up, I jumped right at it and I was so glad that they let me run,” she said.

Shipley attended Texas Tech in her college years, and earned both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in German.

Shipley also participated in campus athletics and learned the importance of being socially involved on campus. She began her career at the University of Cincinnati, where she worked as the director of the Honors Program. Shipley worked at Arizona State and eventually moved over to Northern Arizona University where she served as dean of the College of Arts & Sciences. Shipley then worked in at Notre Dame of Maryland University as president of Academic Affairs and the dean of faculty In 2007, she became president of Shepherd University, in West Virginia, where she spent seven years preparing students to make a dent in society with liberal arts concepts, hands-on experience and critical skills.

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Homecoming elections vulnerable to fraud NATALIE BURKHART REPORTER

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Jacob Spicer, nursing junior, donates blood at the MSU vs West Texas A&M blood drive completion in Jesse Rogers Memorial Promenade on Oct 6.

‘Blood battle’ rivalry saves lives MAKENZIE ANDERSON REPORTER

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idwestern has measured the Texas Blood Institute trophy and made the appropriate room in the trophy case in anticipation for the announcement of the winner from the MSU vs. West Texas A&M blood drive competition.

The winner of the competition will be announced at halftime of the MSU vs. West Texas football game on Oct. 10 at Memorial Stadium.

But this week’s blood drive is only the most recent example of students donating blood on campus. Two weeks ago, the Institute came to campus for a one-day blood drive working with theResidence Hall Association.

“Jennifer Risinger, account manager for Texas Blood Institute, approached me about RHA volunteering again for this year’s blood drive,” said Clint Coulter, resident hall director.

“RHA is always looking for opportunities to get involved and to give back to the community. We were pleased to volunteer.”

Kenadi Campbell, a sophomore in computer science and RHA member, helped out at the blood drive by working the check-in desk.

Campbell said she tried to get people to come donate by yelling out, “You want a free shirt? All you need to do is bleed?”

Ashley Ates, a sophomore in international studies, said she has donated blood seven times and she enjoys it because she has O-negative blood, which is a universal blood donor.

“When they poked my vein, I could see my blood splatter, which was cool,” said Ates. “They were really friendly and talked to me.”

Taylor Dinkins, a freshman in business management, said she was at the blood drive to volunteer with RHA but was going to donate blood as well.

Dinkins said, “I signed up to donate but the line was so long that by the time they were ready for me, they weren’t taking anymore people.”

There were 102 people signed up to donate blood. Out of 102, 47 successful donations were given. This was Institute’s second largest donation with the dating back to November 2005.

President of the Student Government Association Jesse Brown, a senior in criminal justice, said the blood drive was created last year to help support the friendly rivalry between the schools.

“Students should donate blood not for rivalry’s sake, but because this kind of action can legitimately save lives and leave a positive impact in out community,” he said. “We should all want to serve our communities in every way possible.”

omecoming is rich with tradition.

Alumni come back to reminisce about their time at school, whether as Indians or Mustangs. Students rally around the bonfire to support the, as of now undefeated, football team and vote for the traditional Homecoming king, queen, and court.

“We really encourage students to vote, vote, vote. And nominate your friends. Nominate the people that you’ve seen that really exemplify what a Mustang man or a Mustang woman should be for MSU,” Shayla Owens, student assistant to the Student Government Association office, said.

In 2012 students voting in the Homecoming election were accused of using Mustang ID numbers to stack the deck for individual candidates. After two years of elections held behind the protected portal, this year, the online system is again vulnerable to fraud.

Last year, students logged in to the university’s portal requiring both an ID number and password. This year the system uses OrgSync and manual validation. The name and classification of every nominee and nominator have to be manually verified as being students in the same grade level. The votes of students voting for other students not in their classification would be discarded, Mikayla Dunlap, chair of the student elections board, said.

Students can vote for two people, one male and one female, in their classification although nothing in the online system prevents students from voting for multiple females or people outside their classification.

However, Dunlap said, “If I see that you have only voted for two females, or the same female twice, one of those will get thrown out.”

Because the university has no online directory and releasing student identification numbers is a violation of university policy, only a university employee can validate that an M-number manually typed into the system matches the name entered with it.

And nothing prevents one student from voting on behalf of a number of other individuals as long as he or she had their M-numbers.

“You’re not supposed to give out your Mnumber,” Dunlap said, noting that she and Treva Clifton, assistant to the vice president, were the only ones looking at the M-numbers.

This year, rather than being handled through the university portal, the election is being handled through OrgSync, a private, online management system for campus groups.

Cammie Dean, director of student development and orientation, said OrgSync is a software package purchased on a bi-annual basis.

She said there is no cost to use it specifically for the Homecoming elections. After it is pur-

PHOTO BY RACHEL JOHNSON | THE WICHITAN

Sabina Marroquin, history education senior, won 2014 Homecoming Queen and Elijah wire, sport and leisure studies senior, hug with excitement when they find out the won 2014 Homecoming Queen and King, Saturday night at Memorial Stadium.

chased, there is no additional cost.

“Everything that’s related to the process of running organizations is handled through OrgSync,” Dean said.

With all validations scheduled to be complete before a meeting of the top vote-getters Oct. 6, Dunlap said she thinks the elections of the eight members of the Homecoming court will go smoothly.

“I hope they do, but you can never predict something like this,” she added.

The modifications to the Homecoming rules made in 2013 will be kept for these elections, including student involvement, volunteer hours and recommendation letters. She said these help to make sure candidates are involved and help to find a well-rounded student. Once candidates are announced, a formal meeting will be held with them as well.

Dunlap also said a committee of elected student senators will help her deal with problems.

However, she refused to reveal the members of the committee despite repeated requests, and they were not listed in SGA minutes from the first meeting this year.

Dunlap, who is also a student employee in the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs, said, “I don’t feel comfortable disclosing their names in case anything happens.”

The top four vote-getters in each of the eight categories will be placed on a second ballot and must also meet other requirements as approved in 2013.

The next election for the Homecoming court is Oct. 19-23.

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Einstein Bros. Bagels to open in November YVETTE ORDONEZ REPORTER

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ccording to students, Einstein Bros.

Bagels, now expected to open in November, might be one of the best things to happen in Dillard.

“Oh yeah. I’m planning on eating there at least two times a week,” Patrick Barker, senior in marketing, said.

But it is not just bagels they sell. Students can expect to see coffee, sandwiches, cookies, cold drinks, and other snacks as part of the addition.

“We desired a full-service coffee shop to serve the northern portion of the campus’ academic core, but we also wanted the location to serve retail food items throughout the day and our resident students to have the ability to use their meal plans,” Matthew Park, vice president of student affairs, said.

“This should include fresh-baked bagels, beverages, breakfast sandwiches, handcrafted lunch, and sweets/snacks.”

Barker said he is excited for the opening.

“I had Einstein Bros. back in July for the first time and it was amazing. I ate until I couldn’t anymore and I still wanted to keep eating,” Barker said.

Park said students should expect to see the staple items, similar to other colleges and universities which have implemented this concept.

“I must admit, I am not a coffee drinker nor breakfast enthusiast, but I am really looking forward to enjoying some bagels fresh from the oven with a double-whipped shmear,” Park said. “A good gourmet bagel sandwich for lunch also sounds tasty.”

Students that have tried it can say only positive things about it making its way to the campus.

“I get a sandwich with the jalapeño bagel as the bread. I don’t remember the name of it, but it may be the best sandwich of all time,” Barker said.

Even the students who have yet to try it have been infected by the excitement.

Caitlin Hartman, graduate student, has been told about it by her friends. She said she is also curious to try it.

“They told me that they’re delicious and that they offer good smears with the bagels.

I’m curious to try them. I typically like toasted Asiago bagels with cream cheese,” Hartman said.

And Asiago Cheese Bagel are on Einstein’s menu, only a 7-minute walk from anywhere

PHOTO BY LAUREN ROBERTS | THE WICHITAN

Attendees choose their bowl at the Empty Bowls event at the WIchita Falls Muesum of Art at MSU Tuesday afternoon.

Empty Bowls fundraiser to fight local hunger PHOTO BY FRANCISCO MARTINEZ | THE WICHITAN

Einstein Brother’s Bagels construction Oct. 6.

on campus.

“All of my classes are actually in Dillard.

If I liked it, I could easily make it a regular breakfast spot,” Hartman said.

However, the construction has posed some challenges for faculty in the building particularly those around Room 133 which is being partially taken over by the bagel shop.

“Certainly with construction there’s a little bit of inconvenience associated with it, but I haven’t been receiving any complaints,” Park said who noted that the space required for Einsteins was more than the space the Starbucks previously located in that space required. “The good news is that space that was there was not being utilized for anything, it was an auxiliary room.”

Professors note noise arising from construction, but agree it could be worse.

“I don’t think it’s an issue. It’s an issue if you allow it to be an issue,” said Christopher D’Amico, a mass communication lecturer.

“We have to roll with the punches.”

Additional reporting by Jake Lanoux

STARTING HOURS OF OPERATION : MONDAY- THURSDAY 7:30 A.M.-7 P.M. AND FRIDAY 7:30 A.M.- 4 P.M. DURING THE LONG SEMESTERS. IT WILL BE CLOSED SATURDAY AND SUNDAY.

EMMA LABEDIS REPORTER

T

he Empty Bowls fundraiser will be held at the Wichita Falls Museum of Art on Oct. 13 to raise money for feeding the community.

“It’s kind of grown into something much bigger than that,” said Steve Hilton, associate professor of art. “Here at Wichita Falls, just like in a lot of places, it’s become more of a social event that’s held in a venue. Here we do it at the museum.”

Attendees will turn in their tickets for a meal provided by different vendors such as Cotton Patch Cafe and Texas Roadhouse, and will be able to choose their favorite bowl. The bowls are meant to remind them of the how many empty bowls there are in the world. Gallery pieces will be on display from Oct. 9-24 and available for purchase.

The proceeds go to the food bank which distributes the money to the community.

“The reason why we do it here in Wichita Falls is all the money is donated to the food bank,” Hilton said. “The food bank disperses food throughout the community and is able to feed people more than just canned goods or processed canned goods, they’re actually able to do fruits and vegetables that they hadn’t been able to do before.”

Students from the school, as well as members from the community helped make the bowls that are available to those who attend the event. 1,000 bowls were made by 50 different students, continuing

education students, and members from the community.

“I feel like I should do it, like I should help out, and give back to the community,” Michelle Castro, fine arts senior, said.

“I’m so fortunate and I think it’s important to help those who are not as fortunate. It is a lot of work but it’s rewarding, just knowing that everything that’s done is going for a good cause.”

The first year at Empty Bowls, the sale of tickets raised $65,000. The next two years saw an increase to more than $80,000 that went to the food bank to fight hunger.

Only $35,000 is gained from ticket sales which leaves the rest being donations and sponsorships.

“It’s almost unheard of for a community this size to have an Empty Bowls event that raises that much money,” Hilton said.

“In my experience, cities five times larger aren’t raising this amount of money. It’s a pretty amazing thing that Wichita Falls as a community steps up to feed the hungry here.”

Empty Bowls was started 25 years ago at a high school in Detroit to raise money for a food drive and to remind students of how many empty bowls there are in the world. Wichita Falls has adapted this and has made it into a community-wide event to help fight hunger in the town.

“It’s one thing for an adult to be hungry,” Hilton said. “But it’s a whole other thing for a kid, who’s supposed to be going to school, to be hungry.”

Computer malfunction causes frustration during writing exam LANE RIGGS REPORTER

The Writing Proficiency Exam is required of students who have completed 60-90 credit hours to determine whether or not the students can meet minimum expectations for writing, including grammar, spelling and punctuation.

In addition to normal problems with taking any exams, students can take the test either using pen and paper or on a computer, raising, potentially other problems such as the computer crash that occurred during the administration of the test this fall.

“Anytime computers freeze, we are able to retrieve information,”program administrator Kristen Garrison said.

“But some we are not able to retrieve, and the students had to rewrite. It’s the risk of having the convenience,”

There is no advantage to taking a computerized test.

“I don’t think that computerized tests are inherently better than pen and paper. I just think that the option needs to be available. Computerized tests level the field for students. Some compose better when typing, several factors may slow them down when writing,” Garrison said. “Those students who take the computerized test know of the very slight risk of losing their essay.”

Students in high school practice for what may be months in advance of a test such as the Scholastic Aptitude Test, but MSU’s writing exam tests whether students will carry writing skills with them whenever they begin a job.

“The reality is that no one will get a job if they don’t know how to write correctly,” Garrison said. “You have to be

able to write memos. If your boss asks you to and you don’t know how to, they won’t be very happy.”

The two-hour exam tests that skill exactly, and can help to determine if a student is ready to enter the workforce as they write from one of two prompts, taking a stand for or against the argument presented in the prompt.

Students who do not pass the test must enroll in English 2113: Intermediate Composition & Grammar.

Two faculty members in the English Department grade the test, looking at everything from content development to control of syntax.

CRIME LOG Sept. 30

Graffiti | 10:30 a.m. | Parking lot #19 | A student reported someone wrote on her vehicle windows.

Sept. 30

Burglary: habitation | 10:32 a.m. | Pierce Hall | Residents reported items missing from their room.

Sept. 30

Theft: misdemeanor | 11:01 a.m. | Prothro Yeager | A student reported her laptop was taken from a restroom.

Sept. 30

| Oct. 7, 2015 | 7 U P C O M I N G E V E NT S Imagine Graduation Oct. 6 – 7 | 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. | CSC Comanche Suites | For all degree candidates who will be attending the December 2015 commencement ceremony to answer all of your questions

Volleyball vs Southern Nazarene Oct. 6 | 6 p.m. | D.L. Ligon Coliseum | Free with MSU ID

HHM: Movie – Spare Parts

Oct. 6 | 7 p.m. | CSC Shawnee Theater | Film inspired by the true story of undocumented MexicanAmerican students competing in a robotics competition

Health Professions Roundup

Oct. 7 | 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. | Bridwell Hall | Meet Bridwell Hall’s faculty and students

Women’s Soccer vs Colorado StatePueblo

Oct. 7 | 7 p.m. | Soccer Field | Free with MSU ID

Cross Country vs Midwestern State Invitational

Oct. 8 | TBA | Wichita Falls | Free with MSU ID

Assault: misdemeanor | 12:30 p.m. | Tee Pee Drive | A resident female student reported that an unknown male assaulted her.

PRIDE meeting

Sept. 30

Empty Bowls Art Show and Sale

Burglary: habitation | 2:29 p.m. | Pierce Hall | Two roommates reported items had been stolen from their dorm room.

Oct. 1

Criminal Trespass | 7:22 p.m. | Clark Student Center | A subject was barred from all MSU after causing a disturbance.

Oct. 8 | 4 p.m. | CSC Caddo meeting room

Oct. 8 | 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. | Wichita Falls Museum of Art at MSU | Invitational ceramics exhibit

Men’s Soccer vs. St. Edward’s (Texas) Oct. 8 | 7 p.m. | Soccer Field | Free with MSU ID

MSU Theatre: She Kills Monsters

Oct. 9 – 10, Oct. 11 | 7:30 p.m., 2:30 p.m. | Fain Fine Arts Center Theatre | The Department of Theatre presents an encore weekend of She Kills Monsters

Women’s Soccer vs Angelo State

Oct. 9 | 7 p.m. | Soccer Field | Free with MSU ID

Football vs West Texas A&M Oct. 10 | 7 p.m. | Memorial Stadium | Free with MSU ID

Artist-Lecture Series: Herman Boone

Oct. 13 | 7 p.m. | Akin Auditorium | Legendary coach from Remember the Titans | Free with MSU ID

Top Chef LatinoStyle

Oct 14 | 6 p.m. | CSC Atrium | Have cooking skills? Enter your best Latin?Hispanic dish to wish a gift card!

Martha Grover Workshop

Oct 14-15 | 9 a.m. - 8 p.m. | Fain C-119 | Martha Grover is an internationally recognized ceramic artist who has given workshops and has exhibited her work around the world

8 | Oct. 7, 2015 |

FLAG FOOTBALL

V O LLE Y B A LL PHOTO BY KAYLA WHITE| THE WICHITAN

Madelyn Johnson, early childhood education junior, watches with Meghan Bettis, undecided sophomore, as Matti Dix, nursing freshmen, bump the ball for the volleyball game of MSU vs. TWU in the D.L. Ligon Coliseum on Oct. 2nd.

PHOTO BY KAYLA WHITE | THE WICHITAN

Adam Sutton, finance sophomore, about to catch the ball during flag football practice on Oct 6th. Semi-finals for flag football will be Oct. 8 and the finals are Oct. 13.

Senior tennis players plan to leave legacy JACOB SMITH REPORTER

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eniors have a lot on their plates from heftier school workloads, to more demanding and in-depth classes, higher expectation from coaches, to even full-time jobs. But for three seniors on the women’s tennis team the demands on their time are even more excessive.

After earning a doubles victory in the first and only home tournament this semester, Lauren Pineda, a senior double majoring in nursing and sociology, said, “Having senior level nursing school classes together with tennis is definitely a struggle. Starting this semester, it being my senior year, I am taking 15 hours, nine in nursing and six in sociology. While everyone else is tired and trying to sleep on our six to nine hour bus rides, I’m there with my little bus light trying to study for exams.”

Having such a busy lifestyle doesn’t exclude these girls from their roles as senior leaders on the tennis team though. Being in that position brings about more responsibilities and their job is to take on those challenges and push their team toward victory.

“We have huge responsibilities as seniors to make sure everyone else is doing what they need to be doing”. Pineda said. “That’s just the assumed role as a senior. Every senior that we have had before have always been that to us.”

These responsibilities include their personal influence with the girls on their team.

“We have three new girls on our team this

year”, Pineda said. “As upperclassmen we have to make sure that they are staying on track.

It’s our job to hold each other accountable.

It’s something that we all have to own up to.”

While winning does motivate these girls to succeed their main goal is not just for the team’s success but the team itself as a whole as well. Their teammates need leadership examples in every aspect of life including off the court.

“Our main job is to be a good role model,” said Maddie Schorlemmer, psychology senior who received a doubles victory in the home tournament. said. “Ever since I was a freshman I have always wanted to be in a leadership position, so this year it’s exciting for me.”

The role models the senior girls are is more than being a good tennis player. Their teammates see them throughout their day to day lives and it’s important to set a good example in that context as well.

“It’s important both on and off the court.

It’s difficult to listen and respect someone on the tennis court if you know they aren’t having integrity off the court.”

However extensive their responsibilities are off the court it is important for their team to be prepared for tournament play too. Their presence and work ethic on the field can’t be affected or diminish.

“My main goal is to get my team ready.

Ready for everyday practice, everyday weight training, everything. In my perspective we have to always strive to do better than the week before. It’s about continuous growth.”

PHOTO BY KAYLA WHITE | THE WICHITAN

Addison Semer, undecided freshmen, blocks the ball from a spike made by Texas Women’s University volleyball team in the D.L. Ligon Coliseum, Oct. 2. MSU lost to TWU 3-0 (15-25, 1725, 20-25), during the pink-out game of the season for breast cancer awareness. They have an overall record so far of 4-12.

WO M E N S ’ S O C C E R

PHOTO BY KAYLA WHITE | THE WICHITAN

Carina Dunnahoo, sports and leisure studies senior, follows the ball beside a competitor during the womens’ soccer game of MSU vs Eastern New Mexico University, Oct. 2. MSU beat ENMU 2-0, both goals made by Destinee Williamson, criminal justice sophomore, in the first half of the game. This was the first women’s soccer home game of this season.