Oct. 21, 2022

BRIEFS

Student loan forgiveness applications are now open

The Biden-Harris administration’s one-time student loan debt relief plan is now accepting applications. For more information, visit studentaid.gov.

Homecoming begins next week Annual Homecoming celebrations kickoff on Saturday, Oct. 22 with the Spirit Rally at 12pm.

Gaming Club hosts Tabletop Terror

Stangs Gaming Club is hosting its second annual Tabletop Terror event on Friday, Oct. 21 to celebrate Halloween.

Studying smarter instead of harder

THE WICHITAN STAFF

can be one of the most difficult things a student has to do, but it doesn’t have to be. Normally studying is seen as sit ting down with a textbook or notes and cramming all the information but there are other ways to study. Not everyone learns the same way and it’s important to know what is the best way for you. Here are a few study techniques to try:

Studying

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Estudiar puede ser una de las cosas más difíciles que tiene que hacer un estudiante, pero no tiene por qué serlo. Normalmente, estudiar se considera sentarse con un libro o notas y acumular toda la información, pero hay otras formas de estudiar. No todos aprenden de la misma manera y es importante sa ber cuál es la mejor manera para ti. Aquí hay algunas técnicas de estudio para probar:

Create the perfect studying environment: The perfect study environment can be different for everyone but here are some tips: have a change of scenery, eat some healthy snacks, no distractions such as your phone and listen to some calming music.

Distributed Practice: This method is the opposite of cramming the night before. This practice is studying

over an extended period of time. This helps with retention by going over the material multiple times.

The Feynman Technique: This technique is explaining concepts in plain terms. The technique simplifies concepts and makes them easier to understand.

Mind Mapping: For visual learners, creating a mind map can be helpful.

A mind map begins with a word written in the center of a page followed by writing keywords and major ideas surrounding the central concepts.

Conclusion: There are many ways to study and those are just a few. Finding which works best for you will help the dread that is studying.

“Whether you’re a tabletop gaming veteran, or only know of tabletop gaming through Stranger Things, we have games for all types of players!” Zachary Zoet, esports & gaming coordinator, said via Postmaster on Oct. 17.

Delta Sigma Theta hosts a dance class

The Sigma Theta Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. will host “Dancing with the Deltas” on Friday, Oct. 21 in Comanche Suite in the Clark Student Center. The class will be from 6pm -8pm

Registration for Turkey Trot is now open

Crea el ambiente de estudio perfecto: El ambiente de estudio perfecto puede ser diferente para todos, pero aquí hay algunos consejos: cambio de escenario, comer bocadillos saludables, sin distracciones como su teléfono y escuchar música relajante.

Práctica Distribuida: Este método es lo contrario de tratar de aprender todo el material en solo una noche. Esta práctica consiste en estudiar

durante un período prolongado de tiempo. Esto ayuda con la retención al repasar el material varias veces.

La Técnica Feynman: Esta técnica explica conceptos en términos sencillos. La técnica simplifica los conceptos y los hace más fáciles de entender.

Mapas mentales: Para los estudiantes visuales, puede ser útil crear un mapa mental. Un mapa

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mental comienza con una palabra escrita en el centro de una página seguida de palabras clave escritas e ideas principales que rodean los conceptos centrales.

Conclusión: Hay muchas formas de estudiar y esas son solo algunas. Encontrar cuál funciona mejor para usted ayudará al temor que está estudiando.

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Halloween is the best holiday that ever existed

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Here at Midwestern State University, we are gearing up for our Centennial Homecoming Cele bration but also for Halloween.

From going costume shopping to shopping for candy for the Homecoming Trunk and Treat, the MSU community seems to be very excited for Halloween. Therefore, in celebration of the spooky season, Spooktober or whatever you call the month of October, I am going to tell you all the reasons why Halloween is the best holiday humans have ever invented.

Joey Arthur

Adapted from the Celtic Festival of Sam hain, Halloween is a holiday that started as a celebration of the dead as the eve of All Hal lows’ Day (now known as All Saints/Souls Day) but quickly turned into a night of scares, frights and candy. Previously known as All Hallows’ Eve or Hallowe’en, it was first cel ebrated by ancient British, Irish and Scottish folks as its significance the beginning of the Celtic year but also was the eve of the celebra tion of the dead but as time passed the holiday began to modernize. Although Halloween is a more modern holiday than the Celtic festival, a majority of different modern-day Halloween traditions draw their roots from the Celtic fes tival.

Similar to Thanksgiving, Halloween is a

holiday that has an array of fun activities for all age groups and can be enjoyed by everyone regardless of gender, sex, race, sexual orienta tion, economic and social status, political af filiation, religion and disability. Contrary to popular belief, Halloween isn’t just a western hemisphere holiday. It is celebrated in over 15 countries worldwide with examples like Aus tria, Japan, South Korea and so on.

As stated above, Halloween is a night for all age groups, each participating in a variety of different fun packed activities. For kids, Hal loween is a night of trick-or-treating, trunko-treating, running around in their costumes and so on. For teenagers and young adults, Halloween is a night of horror movie mara thons, Halloween parties, costume parties and so on. For adults, Halloween is a night of hand ing out candy, scaring little kids, rewatching old horror flicks and so on. Other general Hal loween traditions include costume shopping, zombie walks, haunted house, Six Flags Fright Fest, haunted mazes, pumpkin carving, visit ing a pumpkin patch, Halloween baking, tell ing scary stories and so on.

Halloween is my favorite holiday because of all the amazing memories I have associated with the holiday. Although it isn’t an Ameri can holiday like Thanksgiving, it is one of the most American things to participate in. I hope y’all have an amazing Halloween and Happy Spooky Season.

PHOTO COURTESY OF PIXABAY Halloween, celebrated annually on October 31, is one of the world’s oldest holidays.

MSU celebrates LGBTQ+ history month

ANNE AKPABIO MANAGING EDITOR

Octobercommemorates the history of the LGBTQ+ community. This month is observed to prevent the suppression of the history of the LGBTQ+ community and is centered around edu cating people about that history to high light the progress of the community. The commemoration of LGBTQ+ History month started in Missouri in 1994 as a month to celebrate and teach Gay and lesbian history.

LGBTQ+ History month is all about providing context to the history of the LQBTQ+ community, where they started and where they are now.

“LGBTQ+ History Month is all about the historical context...here at MSU we make sure that we are providing context, historical context as well as information to people about a community of people who have been brave and resilient...de spite all of the societal pressure and all of the societal needs they’ve still made sure to let people know that they exist in this world and that they are they’re people,” Jamilah Kangudja, MOSAIC cross cul tural center programs coordinator, said.

This month serves not only as a time to educate oneself but as an opportu nity to acknowledge the existence of the LGBTQ+ community.

“I guess what it means to me is just ac knowledgment of LGBTQ history...that is so often not discussed because despite a lot of folks acting as if it’s like an entirely new concept, you know being queer, it’s like gay people have been around for ever, trans people have been around for ever, and people in between that on the LGBTQ spectrum have been around since the beginning of time,” Bella Muniz, Eng lish junior and community service chair of PRIDE, said.

The showcasing of the 31 LGBTQ+ icons creates representation for the younger members of the LGBTQ+ com munity

“I love seeing representation and as a kid I didn’t get much representation... so seeing representation that isn’t cruel, and knowing that I don’t have to see a character die after they are revealed as being gay or like it’s not someone that was a martyr for our history or what ever, seeing that combined with people that are like still alive, still have a bet ter legacy than just being a martyr or something... it gives me hope that people are fighting both inside and outside and that there’s better hope for more normal ized representation for everyone,” River Adams, criminal justice junior and vice

president of PRIDE, said.

PRIDE month celebrates the LGBTQ+ community, while LGBTQ+ History Month celebrates the the barriers that have been crossed by the LGBTQ+ com munity and the ones they continue to face.

“Pride is a celebration like you go out and you have a good time and you’re around a community of people includ ing allies.....with LGBTQ+ History Month we’re giving context how did we get here what are we still going through what barriers do we still need to overcome where do we need to make a change how can change be made you know how far have we come,”Kangudja said.

LGBTQ+ History month is being com memorated and recognized on campus and MSU through the Mosaic Cross Cul tural Center is providing support to the LGBTQ+ community on campus through passive programming.

“We’re doing passive programming by holding our flags in the atrium area to make sure that people know what these flags mean and again just like it’s important for you to see yourself it’s im portant for people to be able to see those flags and know that you know there is someone, something, a place that is backing them...Desmond Tutu I think said basically when you don’t pick a side essentially you know you’re standing on the side of  the oppressor and so I think having those flags out there it lets people know we’re not afraid to show the fact that there’s a community of people that exist and we need to let those people know we support you,” Kangudja said.

Students acknowledged MSU’S ef forts to support the LGBTQ+ community on campus.

“I’ve been a student here for almost three years and definitely this time it’s been better like I haven’t ever seen the pride flags in the atrium like they are in this CSC atrium like they are right now... they’ve done posting on social media about what those flags mean... mosaic posted a pronoun guide, the postmaster e-mail that I saw about the month some thing happening right now is also a good effort. I think MSU is doing a better job this year than they have in the I appreci ate that,” said Adams.

This Saturday P.R.I.D.E. will be host ing a drag show in honor of LGBTQ+ History Month in the legacy multipur pose room and in the coming months they anticipate that they will be hosting events for the Trans day of remembrance in November and World AIDS day in De cember.

PHOTO BY COLIN STEVENSON | THE WICHITAN Drag queen Tiffany Addams plays with an audience member’s hair as she passes by, Oct. 22, 2021.

PHOTO BY COLIN STEVENSON | THE WICHITAN Genevieve Addams walks back and forth between the pews during her performance, collecting tips along the way, April 8.

Museum opens “From Boom to Bust” exhibit

A. DEFORE REPORTER

The Wichita Falls Mu seum of Art presented its latest art exhibit Thursday night. The museum brought 25 different artworks into conversation with one another ranging from the 1920s through the 1940s. Each piece is part of the museum’s permanent collection.

“Printmaking, works on paper, is the core of the col lection. So, a lot of these pieces you are seeing were collected back in that time pe riod,” Danny Bills, curator of collections and exhibitions, said. “You can have work by significant artists on paper, it is a lot easier to get those than large paintings.”

In 1913 the Armory show, an art exhibition that

brought European art into connection with American art, was held in New York City. The experimentation of Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp shocked the public while driving the artists for ward to evolve with the times and find new ways to create.

“The Armory show was, you could say, the most im portant artistic event to hap pen on American soil till this day,” Todd Giles, associate professor of English, said.

“We have a total of seven art ists who appear in the exhi bition who actually showed their work at the Armory show.”

Jerry Bywaters, a regional ist artist based out of Dallas, has three pieces featured in the exhibition.  Each piece is a lithograph, a form of

printmaking where the art ist draws on stone or metal sheets then bonds it chemi cally before inking it and placing the paper for imprint ing. In 2015, Jerry Bywaters Cochran, the daughter of Jerry Bywaters, gifted these artworks to the WFMA.

“I thought including an artist from Dallas in the show was a good choice,” Alec Bur ton, English senior, said. “It really shows you that the art movement during that time period was a nationwide movement.”

The English department held a class this semester that coincided with the exhibit. Students read literature that related to the artworks. The students gained the opportu nity to understand the cultur al significance behind each piece of literature.

“We spent the last few months looking at them on the screen. So much detail is lost when you’re looking at them on the computer. Now we can see all the little marks and notches,” Madison Howard, English senior, said. “It’s another level that we just haven’t really been able to ap preciate until now.”

Along with the art works on display are books from Giles’ personal collection, lent to the WFMA for the exhibi tion. In one display case, the books are opened, showcasing artworks inside the covers by artists featured in the exhibi tion. The artwork on the in side cover of “Moby Dick” was illustrated by Rockwell Kent, whose piece “It’s Me O’ Lord” hangs on the wall next to the case. Many of the books on display are being read in the class, such as “Winesburg, Ohio” by Sherwood Anderson and “Manhattan Transfer” by John Dos Passos.

“The artworks help me as a reader to set a district scene for whatever piece of litera ture we are reading at the time,” Rebekah Meyer, educa tion senior, said. “This class is very different from any litera ture class I have taken previ

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Three of Jerry Bywater’s lithographs are on display thanks to his daughter’s donation of the works to WFMA, Oct. 20.

ously. I’m really enjoying see ing the connections between the artworks, films and litera ture we are reading.”

Giles opened the exhibi tion with a reading of the poem “Spring and All” by Wil liam Carlos Williams, an au thor featured in the class. The poem was Williams’ way of calling out the other writers of the time, pushing them to leave the old ways behind and grow into something new.  The exhibition and the class answer Williams’ call, driving education within the English department down a more in terdisciplinary path.

“The liberal arts are all about breaking down barriers and recognizing that learning doesn’t just happen in little vacuum sealed rooms,” Giles said. “We are not just reading literature; we’re discussing that literature in relation to art and films that were be ing created during the same time.”

Faces in the Crowd, a piece by Mable Dwight in 1931, is the newest acquisition to the exhibition. The piece came to the museum through the Col

lectors Circle, a group com mitted to collecting works to grow and diversify the WFMA’s permanent collec tion. Bills said that it’s really difficult to find works from the Works Progress Adminis tration time period and even more difficult to find works by women during that time.

“For me it’s that transition we’re talking about between 1920 and 1940,” Bills said.

“You see fashions that re

mind me of the 1920s but you see that somber kind of mel ancholy that you see when you hear the Great Depres sion. I looked at a lot of her work and still feel this one is the best.”

The exhibition will be open until February 4, 2023. Those who view the exhibit are encouraged to explore The Vault Unlocked podcast that is interconnected with multiple pieces on display.

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While standing in front of “Faces in the Crowd” by Mable Dwight, Giles reads the poem “Spring and All” by William Carlos Williams to open the exhibit, Oct. 20.

PHOTO BY COLIN STEVENSON | THE WICHITAN Books from Giles’ personal collection sit on display to complement the exhibition, Oct. 20.

O’Rourke rally allows students

CECIL WITHERSPOON REPORTER

Amid a furious campaign to unseat incumbent Greg Ab bott as Texas governor, Beto O’Rourke stopped and spoke to as sembled students and community members Thursday in the Clark Stu dent Center. The rally drew a large crowd, with all seats filled and close to 100 people standing, and provided O’Rourke with the opportunity to en ergize his supporters and outline his platform.

The room was energetic leading up to the rally, with a loud buzz of conversation and laughter that es calated as O’Rourke’s appearance drew closer. Organizers for the event signed up volunteers, passed out rally signs and sold pins and shirts to the gathered crowd. For MSU stu dents, it provided an up-close-andpersonal chance to increase their involvement in the election process.

Cristin Martin, political science senior and president of MSU Demo crats, was the student organizer for the rally. Martin said the event came

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O’Rourke talks about unseating incumbent Texas governor Gregg Abbott and urges students and other attendants to go vote for the upcoming election, Oct. 20.

O’Rourke stands for photos with

students to engage with politics

together on short notice.

“It all happened really fast. We had about six days’ notice that they had a day for us to come. So we worked together, worked with MSU, worked with other students to make sure that we could make this hap pen,” Martin said. “This was so suc cessful, and I couldn’t have done it without everyone who came and sup ported us.”

Student body president and eco nomics senior Gabriella Pettijohn said the rally and other events like it help involve students with govern ment and help with overall under standing of politics.

“More than anything, students have to be really involved from a young age in the civic government because it helps them become, not just better citizens, but better stu dents as they go into their careers in the United States as a whole,” Petti john said, “I think just going to any rally like this helps you get a new experience on the other political platforms and understand what you want more in general. I wish that we

actually had more events like this on campus.”

Martin agreed with Pettijohn, and said students should be aware of their power as a voting group.

creay, computer science seniors, at tended the event to get a better idea of the issues at play in the statewide election. Browne said staying in formed is important for students.

“We saw something was happen ing, so we checked it out. And then we saw that it was for the upcoming election, so we decided to partake because it’s very important for us to know what’s going on in Texas and everything,” Browne said, adding “I think it’s very important because this political process, it affects our coun try and our freedom.”

a whole.

“I was really interested to see how it was going to turn out and what the platform was with Beto,” Pettijohn said.

Pettijohn also said she hopes to bring more events like the O’Rourke rally to campus in the future.

“We’re always looking for bipar tisan ways to bring political parties to campus, more than anything we’re just looking for ways to let students engage more in their civic govern ment and get more involved in any way they can,” Pettijohn said.

better state. They are registering to vote and they are turning out in re cord numbers, and I’m confident that students just like those here at MSU are going to bring it home for Texas, and make sure that we do great big things by and for one another.”

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“It’s so important that students get a first-hand access to our election system, because students and young people are the largest voting bloc in the United States. So, because of that, they need every access and every op portunity to be able to exercise that right, because they will make up the majority of the vote come Novem ber,” Martin said.

Dymon Browne and Alexia Du

Ducreay echoed the sentiment, and added that the rapidly changing nature of politics makes it more im portant than ever to stay informed.

“It’s where we live, and we can stay knowledgeable about what’s going on in where we live, because something could happen tomorrow and we do not understand what’s happening,” Ducreay said.

Pettijohn said the main reason she came out was just to get a better understanding of O’Rourke’s poli cies, and the issues of the election as

O’Rourke stressed, both in his speech and after the event, how criti cal it was for students to embrace their ability to impact their govern ment and their state by voting. He also said he does not plan to take that impact and the impact of Wichita Falls for granted.

“I am confident that young peo ple, like those we were just visiting with at MSU here in Wichita Falls are gonna win this election,” O’Rourke said. “They want to do commonsense things that will make this a

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As O’Rourke lists off points for his campaign, members of the audience applaud and cheer for the gubernatorial candidate, Oct. 20.

PHOTO BY COLIN STEVENSON | THE WICHITAN attendees at the end of his rally, Oct. 20.

“I am confident that young people, like those we were just visiting with at MSU here in Wichita Falls are gonna win this election.”

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“Romper el círculo” escrita por Colleen Hoover

El libro, “Romper el círculo” es un New York Times

#1 Bestseller y es el me jor libro que he leído. “Romper el círculo” trata de Lily y su vida amorosa entre Altas, su primer amor, y Ryle, su amor actual. También se trata de la infancia de Lily y por qué toma las decisiones que toma. Lily, desde niña, vio a su padre golpear a su mamá y ella siempre supo que nunca se permitiría estar en esa posición, pero como dicen, el amor te ciega. Enfrentan muchos retos y decisiones difíciles. Vas a experimentar cada emoción que sient en los personajes. El libro te consume y es como estás ahí con ellos.

lo que yo quiero en un compañero, una relación llena de respeto y confianza. Si un libro puede ser todo eso, yo creo que deberías darle una oportunidad.

Liliana Huerta

Cuando leí el libro por primera vez, recuerdo exactamente donde estaba y que lo leí en un día. El final del libro está lleno de emociones y lágrimas. Este libro ha hecho darme cuenta de

Recomiendo “Romper el círculo” a todos los que les gustan libros de ro mance o a las personas que solo quieren leer un buen libro. Colleen hace un tra bajo excelente con todos los personajes. Ella describe los personajes tan bien que puedes imaginar exactamente como se ven. Cuando lees el libro es como ver una película en tu mente. El desar rollo de los personajes hace que en un punto los ames y en otro los odies. Col leen también escribe desde diferentes perspectivas de cada personaje. Es una montaña rusa de emociones.

Finalmente, “Romper el círculo” es un libro del triunfo del amor. “Romper el círculo” ha cambiado la manera que yo veo el mundo y las diferentes experi encias que enfrento. Cuando “Romper el círculo” se convierta en una película, yo voy a ser la primera en la línea.

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FOTO CORTESÍA DE COLLEEN HOOVER.. “Romper el Círculo” es el decimocuarto libro publicado por Colleen Hoover, 2022.

El Programa “She Hulk” de Marvel falló

Esmeralda Solorio

El nuevo programa de She Hulk empezó este año en agosto. El programa es parte de la nueva etapa del uni verso de Marvel. A pesar de que Marvel siempre ha producido las películas y los programas más vendidos con altas cali ficaciones, últimamente con este nuevo episodio han bajado las calificaciones y las críticas de los críticos. El programa se basa en el superhéroe Hulk, pero en esta versión, Hulk ahora es una mujer y es una miembro de la familia del verdadero Hulk que se gana la vida como abogada. Este programa ha tenido malas críticas entre los fanáticos de Mar vel por falta de desarrollo de los personajes, imá genes pésimas y mala escritura. En mi opinión, los críticos de Marvel tienen razón en que Marvel ha declinado desde donde alguna vez estuvieron por producir programas y películas  en masa a un ritmo rápido y no poner el esfuerzo que alguna vez pusieron.

La historia empieza con el “Hulk” original y su prima Jennifer Walters, quienes conducen y caen repentinamente de un acantilado, esto causa que Hulk y Jennifer tengan heridas y que la sangre de Hulk se mezcla con la de ella. Esta introduc ción de cómo recibió sus poderes muestra una escritura perezosa y habilidades cinematográfi cas deficientes. Esta rápida escritura de la intro ducción de She Hulk en Marvel mostró poco es fuerzo además las malas habilidades de edición

del programa. La personalidad de “She Hulk” en el programa es alguien que solo se centra en su trabajo como abogada que solo quiere ser vista de esa manera. En mi opinión, siento que eso es un cliché, la mayoría de la historia de los super héroes es que no quieren hacer el trabajo.

Marvel es conocida por su acción en estas películas y nunca han escondido el dolor o limita do la exposición a esto, una gran parte de la serie tiene poca o ninguna acción. Perder la atención del público comienza con no tener suspenso y lo que Marvel siempre trae en todas sus produccio nes pero pasó diferente en esta serie. La pérdida de la audiencia ha resultado en tener cameos de otras celebridades en el programa para aumen tar su  audiencia, esto muestra medidas deses peradas que Marvel tiene que hacer. El humor que una vez fue sarcasmo, ahora son cosas como bailes de perreo con celebridades que se siente forzado porque es un nuevo tipo de humor que nunca han hecho.

En conclusión, Marvel ha tenido que hacer co sas que nunca había hecho antes para compensar las bajas calificaciones que han traído consecuen cias aún peores a la serie. La escritura perezosa junto con el mal CGI para este programa ojalá no sea un comienzo para muchos programas fallidos de Marvel. En mi opinión, la trama de este nuevo personaje me lleva a afirmar que las cualidades que hacen grande a Marvel han cambiado en esta serie y han hecho que no solo sea diferente sino también una mala serie.

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La actriz principal Tatiana Maslany interpreta a She-Hulk en “She-Hulk: Attourney at Law”, 2022.

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Mark Ruffalo interpreta a Hulk, quien intenta mostrarle a She-Hulk, interpretada por Tatiana Maslany cómo usar sus poderes, 2022.

genius in his new album, “CHARLIE”

From making viral songs on YouTube in 2010 to being a 12-time Grammy winner, Charles Otto Puth Jr most commonly known as Charlie Puth is breaking the in ternet with his new third album, “CHARLIE.” Different from his 2016 debut album, “Nine Track Mind” or his 2018 sophomore album, “Voice notes,” “CHARLIE” is about the New Jersey singer’s vulnerability as he narrates in twelve songs about the biggest breakup in his life in 2019. In an interview with Apple Music, Charlie Puth stated that the theme of the album is catharsis and how therapeutic finishing the album was.

Joey Arthur

Growing up with a mother who was a music teacher and learning classical music on the piano at the age of four and possessing a rare musical ability called absolute pitch, Charlie Puth is no stranger to musi cality and the power and influence

music has on people. As stated above, “CHARLIE” is about finally getting closure from a really bad breakup and thanks to Charlie Puth’s musi cal background, that message was effectively sent across. “CHARLIE” has twelve tracks with features from artists like South Korean singer Jeon Jung-Kook more commonly known as Jung Kook of the popular K-Pop band, BTS and American Musi cian and Drummer, Travis Landon Barker of the rock band, Blink-182. The album is also inspired by music icons Bruce Springsteen, The RedHot Chili Peppers and The Ying Yang Twins. Charlie designed each song to represent a different time in his life. In “That’s Hilarious,” he uses a beautiful chord regression accompa nied by explicit lyrics and a low sine wave bass that gives the song a dis torted feeling. In his interview with Apple Music, he said he did that to represent a turbulent time in his life where he was the most uncomfort able, he’d ever been. In “Left and Right,” he took three simple chords, he and Jung Kook’s vocals and put it against a grimy bass which when lis

tened to in spatial audio makes the music move from one ear to another. In “I Don’t Think That I Like Her,” he layered Travis Barker’s drums amongst synthetic drums and then threw his vocals into the mix to con vey the message of being in denial. He also adds a key change.

Lyrics are an important aspect of properly telling a message in a song. The lyricality of a song conveys the artist’s overall idea for the album. Charlie Puth is an accredited song writer who has written songs for many artists like Justin Bieber, The Kid LAROI and so on therefore he understands the importance of lyri cality. In “That’s Hilarious,” he uti lizes explicit language to emphasize the pain he feels and to set the tone for the album. In “Loser,” he repeats the word “Loser” and the phrase “Lose her.” throughout the song and he uses them as a rhyme to convey how he believes he is a loser for not being with his ex and he also uses to question how it ever happened. In “I Don’t Think That I Like Her,” he says “I don’t think that I like her any more” repeatedly as if he is trying to

convince himself that he’s not into her while he men tions some of the best ex periences, he had with her. In “No More Drama,” he writes about how he is fi nally healing and how after all that he’s finally happy. He ends the album with the words, “I’m better without you, oh alone hmm-hmm” to let all his listeners know that he is ready to move on. Charlie Puth told his story in the most beauti ful and wholesome way he could, and his fans listened. Prior to its official release, Charlie Puth posted several Tik Toks teasing the album, all which went viral and caused six of the songs on the album to go viral upon their individual releases and the album release in whole. From the mind of a child prodigy, “CHARLIE” is as the name implies, a story about Charlie Puth.

PHOTO COURTESY OF ATLANTIC RECORDS

“CHARLIE” is Charlie Puth’s third studio album, 2022. Puth released this album after scrapping original progress in 2020 and reconsidering his approach.

Ceramics professor Steve Hilton inducted into IAC:

“It’s one of my most major accomplishments”

After being nominated by fellow co-workers and vetted by members of the International Academy of Ceramics, associate art profes sor, Steve Hilton was indidted into the IAC.

total, there were over 600 other artists from all over the world. There were people from Taiwan, China, Singapore, Turkey, Africa, Eu rope, Latin America and several states across the United States. It was fascinating to see the different influences of culture and society de pending on where you’re from, in everyone’s work,” Hilton said.

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“They look at everything from your artwork, and your art practice; not just your aes thetic but your conceptual view of art and why you make the work that you do. They view your involvement in the ‘clay world’ nationally and internationally, and what you are able to bring to the organization to make it better,” Hilton said.

After spending nine days in Geneva, Swit zerland this September, Hilton was officially initiated into the organization. His art was displayed in one of the fifty exhibitions in the city held by the organization along with work of the other hundreds of artists there.

“Each one of us had a piece of our work in one of the fifty exhibitions the organization put throughout the city. I have to say, hav ing your name on a list is cool but - the best thing about being in this organization was the cross pollination with the other artists. In

Hilton’s original college degree is in Geol ogy. After quitting his teaching job at a local high school, Hilton and his wife then went on to teach snowboarding in Colorado. Ironically, Hilton never considered himself to be an art ist, it wasn’t until his wife encouraged him at the age of 40 to get his MFA in Ceramics and for him to come to a conclusion that ceramics was his passion and path he wanted to follow for the rest of his life.

“I found ceramics through throwing pots. The pottery teacher at the high school I taught at kept asking me to come and make bowls with her and for me at the time, that was the last thing I wanted to, I was too ‘busy’, and she told me once that I’d never have to buy anoth er Christmas gift and that’s eventually what made me give in. Next thing you know, I was addicted to putting clay on a thing that spun around and around and around. I had never considered myself an artist until re cently. Even if you would’ve asked me a few years ago, I would’ve told you no, I just make pots. Stepping foot on at Arizona State, getting my MFA, really pushed me to call myself an artist, I had to be an artist to be in a program like that and do what I was doing,” Hilton said.

Hilton says he views his own work as process oriented, noting that the process is the concept be hind each one of his works. Some thing that inspires him the most is people.

PHOTO COURTESY OF SYDNEY DORMIRE

Professor Steve Hilton guides his ceramics class, Sept. 1.

“At the end of the day, I want the object to be beautiful. What inspires me is that I think we are put on Earth for two things: To be kind and to teach people and I really think that’s what inspires me. Looking back af ter everything I’ve accomplished; I can say that grit is what’s gotten me here. That’s what gets me through every day is just perseverance and having grit, just knowing that ei ther way you got to do it. Observing and hearing people’s stories also in spires me, hearing people’s stories and their backgrounds inspire me,” Hilton said.

Hilton, as an artist itself, also

hopes to inspire as many aspiring artists as well. At one point of his teaching career here at Midwestern State, Hilton says he practically lived here. An attribute of himself as an artist and educator that he’s proud of, is being al ways being available to help is students.

“If you were to ask a student of mine, a qual ity I possess, it would be, it doesn’t matter the time or if I’m walking out the door in that mo ment, if a student needs me, I’m going to help them. I actually lived in legacy for four years and essentially, we lived here. We would get here at 7 a.m. and work until midnight, seven days a week. I take my students failure very personally, it hurts my heart if they fail, I want them to be as best as they can be,” Hilton said.

Hilton acknowledges his acceptance into

being a member of the IAC, but more than any thing, he wants to be able to impact the world around him.

“I love being a part of IAC, it’s one of my most major accomplishments, but what I’m really most proud of is having a resident art ist program here that nine of my ten residents have gone on after to full time teaching g jobs. I was able to change nine lives that will change then thousands of peoples lives throughout their careers, The empty bowls program is catered to helping feed people, and with that, we’ve raised  700,000 dollars in 10 empty bowl events. That’s what I’m proud of. Impacting and helping people to go on and inspire more people,” Hilton said.

PHOTO COURTESY OF STEVE HILTON

Ceramics professor Steve Hilton tests glaze for an upcoming mural, Oct. 19.

MSU and Sheppard Air Force Base clash in flag football

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Two of Wichita Falls’ most iconic institutions clashed on the gridiron last Friday in the spirit of both competition and community. The MSU intramural flag football championship team and Sheppard Air Force Base’s rec reational league flag football cham pion played on MSU’s practice field and delivered a thrilling game that MSU ultimately won by a score of 42-34.

Sheppard took a 20-14 lead into halftime, and led for most of the game until MSU tied the game at 28 with 4:20 remaining in the game. As soon as Sheppard got the ball back, the airmen began to drive down a field with a methodical, marching drive that stalled with just under two minutes left in the game. On a critical fourth down, MSU came up with a tide-turning stop and capital ized with a touchdown to take their first lead of the game.

Cason Shank, nursing junior and team captain, said the fourth-down stop was the biggest moment in the game and provided a springboard for the Mustangs to take control of the game.

“The whole first half we didn’t stop them, every time they had the ball they scored, and so on that fourth down, they needed maybe five or six yards. I was telling [the team] ‘nothing over the top, keep it short,’ and we came up with the hold and as soon as we did that I knew all we had to do was capitalize with a touchdown. We went up and we had the momentum,” Shank said.

After MSU scored to take a 3628 lead, Sheppard answered with a quick deep strike for a touchdown but missed the two-point conversion to put the score at 36-34. One more MSU touchdown would complete the scoring and leave the final score board at 42-34 for the home team.

Cody Ford, assistant director of the Wellness Center, was one of the

primary organizers of the exhibi tion. He said the game was exactly what he hoped for.

“It was amazing, we couldn’t ask for a better game honestly. That’s the type of game you want, highscoring and it’s decided by the last few plays. I feel like everybody was on their seats the last few minutes, and regardless of the winner, every body had a blast I think. They really enjoyed it, everybody thanked us for setting it up, and we’re definitely going to have more support in the future for programs like this,” Ford said.

The game was set up to deepen ties between the MSU and Shep pard communities, and Sheppard sports and programs director Chris Hall said there are plans for similar events in the future.

“[We] want to have a good part nership with MSU and Sheppard go ing forward, right now with all our intramural sports programs. Next we’ll do volleyball, then basketball and softball. And really just want to strengthen this relationship, I mean

we’re the two largest entities that kind of make Wichita Falls run,” Hall said.

Falls trophy. We want to join forces and try to make sure that this com munity is going forward,” Ford said, “The whole idea is to build those connections.”

Shank said he was excited both to compete and to help further the ties between Sheppard and MSU.

“They have a bunch of great guys too. Just being able to come here, kind of collaborate with them not only brings us together as a commu nity, but it gets us out here, gets us active. Being able to put on a show for the people that want to come out,” Shank said.

Ford joked about the competi tion both on and off the football field between MSU and Sheppard, but stressed that ultimately the event was about bringing the two closer together.

“We like to joke we’re the two big gest campuses. Sheppard Air Force Base, if you didn’t know, is one of the largest training bases in the coun try, and we’re the biggest university in Wichita Falls, so we’re kind of fighting for the biggest-in-Wichita-

After all the coordination be tween the two entities, the logistics of making the game happen and the significance of the collaboration, Hall summed up the final event.

“Ultimately, both teams played great, so it was a fun game to watch,” Hall said.

Sheppard Air Force Base is slated to hold a similar exhibition in vol leyball in December, and basketball and softball games are planned for spring of 2023.

PHOTO BY A. DEFORE | THE WICHITAN Sheppard Air Force Base’s recreational league flag football team put up a strong fight during the game, staying ahead of MSU until the final quarter, Oct. 14.

PHOTO BY A. DEFORE | THE WICHITAN

The MSU intramural flag football championship team took a close win in the final quarter at 42-34, Oct. 14.

“[We] want to have a good partnership with MSU and Sheppard going forward, right now with all our intramural sports programs.”

CHRIS HALL