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The women's soccer tea m takes on archrival West Texas A&M at 2 p.m. Monday at the MSU Soccer Complex

The Wlc hltan starts a new feature next week as Amanda Hamilton of " Hardcore Quirky" fame begins her weekly movie reviews

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Kimberl)' Boggs. dropping 1 ·Y.,.. means that whe n the 11 goes on 1hcir u-anscript. a 1 fill show up in place of a i D'.I the course will not count ~ 1be Student's grade point

:said tha1 in order to drop a u wdcnt must first go to the · office 10 get o drop slip. t~she then mus1 fill i1out wi1h ia((ltll3l.ion about the cour~ iain a signat ure on the slip die adviser and fro m 1hc

mstruc1or of1hc course. Following that 1hc student mu st get the financial aid offi ce 10 sign the fonn. Then comes the pan thal most students dread the most - the money. The final stop in !he process is the husincss offi ce. where student s must pay S5 10 comple1c !he drop of a eour.;c. Accon.Hng ro Boggs. 1hcre arc many reasons a i.tudent would drop ac la.,;,;, "Some s1Udcn1s· schedules at 1heir workplace change. ca usi ng them 10 he unahle 10 :111cnd a cl : 1.~s at ~a~~nain time of the day.'· Boggs

Women 's soccer players Catherine Bonner and Meg Morrison s how their spirit as they brave nearfreezing temperatures at Saturday night's football game. The lndlans lost the Homecoming game to Angela: State,.by a score

She al so said _gmdcs arc a major rea,;011 for dropping d ll.,sc.~ . "!fa s1udc-nt realizes that lhcy iffC nol maki ng lhc grJdes they wou ld like 10 he makinl!, !hey may choose

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A b~ats goal r food drive

had." Dirt.'l:tor of Stu<knt Activities Lcs:k-e Ponder s:lid. " It was huge." " MSU ~lilcstom.:s" h.id a. 101al The 75th anni \'Cr.-ary nnd Home- atlcndance of 850 peopl e fo r coming •Q7 cclcbmtion~ :trc 11nally Tltu~day and Friday nights toscther. over. and administrators were ··Toa1·:- ulmo:;1 full cup.icily." lluss s;1id. plcused with the lU OlOU I. ·· we were plcu!>e<I wi th the Mos1 of thl· 1,;V\'.n ls we re well 111tcndcd de:.pitc the bad wc.ilhc r 1t1m1Ju1 .'' coordin:uor of the m.iss conditions. Some ut·tivitics were the communication:- dcpar1111cn1 Carla s:tid. "Ovemll . 1 thought it Bennett l'lcJ: l ll llCllUCd iu ycnrs. " II (the 75th nnni \·c~ary) was a wusrccein."dwell ." Rodriguc1. thought 1he program MSU i.ucccss." trcmendou-. President Louis J. Rodriguez suid. was i.:.\'ceptionul. " t'11ISU Milestone.,;• ·'We hnd excellent aucndoncc. The wns superbly done. It wa~ profe:$.sional work.·· he said. programs were ou1~tnnc.Ji ng.·· S1uden1:- nlso enjoyed the proThen: were ubout 300 pancake brenkfn.4-t 1ickets given out. plus the gr.un. Preshmun Enmunettc l )'son students who cat there on the mcnl suid, ··1 thought it wus very cntenainplw1, :iceording to Director of Public ing. l learned a lot ubout the hb1ory ofsehool 1hu1 I didn·1even know." lnfom1a1ion Janus Buss. Comedian George Wall:icc WIL" 11 II wu<. cst inuitcd thil\ more than 2,000 !r.lwJcnts ,mended the bonfire. Festivities on 4 See ''Timt's 1hc higgcst crowd we've ever JENNIFER TILLERY

The Wichltan

and I' m very pmud uf them:· The 1hrcl· o rgan izat io ns 1h.1t rai sed thc 111os1 food wcrc 1he Cherokee Boys inlrnmu ra l team. Ch1 Omega sorority and 1J1c Associa ti on for Social and Beh;n ioral Science~. The w111nc~ wen: ;mnounced during the I lomc1."0ming 1=-amc and won S500, $)(XI aml Sl 50. rtSJ)(C livdy. ··1 " 'ould have liked more orgamGationi. 10 get involved. but the imix,nant thing. i-. we beat o ur g:oal. We M:I and met a goal. ;ind I think that'~ a good sign for any organi,..a1ion.'0 Young s.a..id. 'The Wichita Fall s Food Dank was down IO percent. and ii w;i, good we could help.'·

organizations hcl~d the Government Association il5goal fo r lhe 75th auni,·erdrl\'c. Praidcn1 Aaron Young said \~ raised approxi rnat~ly pounds of food for the Falb Food Bank by , I j()() pounds more than of7.SOO. It was an incn-ase than twice the amount tha1 raised a<; ofTucsd;i~·did really well in J1c 1~1 ol days:· Yount? MIid . " We flr¥ani1.utions panici palc and organizations wi1h 1.100 « more. Thcrc·s a handful !'lie who real ly worked hard.

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The bonfire didn't make much ,mok4ThursdaJ night after rains that a fternoon dampened the Homecoming ~ tradition. Photo by Michael Fitzsimmons

Ghosts, Goblins and Witches? Witchcraft not lil<e stereotype, says practictng witch TERAH CURRY News

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She doc:sn'1 have :i long, green nose. Shi! doesn' t dress in hlack. She doc.,n·1 C\'Cl1 ride ai. broom. Nunclhelc~~. she is a practicing wi rch. II may !oound a bit Slr.tngc. b111 lhis Midw~tem S1a1c studcm. who did 1101 want her name used. has been inrnl\'cd in wi1chcrofl for~ \·eral yc.irs. .. , ,hose lhis rcligiou~ path ahout four yea.rs ago." the Mudcnt said. "II seemed like the right thing: · She said wi1clu.:r:1rt docs ntll fit lhi: ,-1i:rcolYJX"S often :lSSOC ia1cd wi 1h ii

The Jcli11i1ion of wi 1d1rn1f1 or wicca is "a pnsim·c journey Ill enligh1cnmcnt through yuddc~!>•\\'Or\hip and the myslical art of whi1e 'magick.' II is a n.iturc-oricnted religion ;md ;i uni4uc ;md cxci ling hlcnd of the 1rnd i1ional .ind the e.dcc1ic that seeks neither IO convcn. conform or control.'. " \Vicc:1is 1101an1i-Chri ~1ian,·• she !>aid. " I t is a cclchration of the cycle of sea.\ons and of li fe.'' AccorJini; to the wi1d1 . lhere Uri! h:L-.ic rules in wi1chcrnft. ''If )'OUdclibcmtcly h.inn or numiputate ill\other person, throu!,!h t,J ack magick or any form uf c"il, )'tlU will pay for it by h.iving the evil retum In ynu 1hrecfold.'' ~he ,aid . ... Ilic ,umc i.\ true in the foci that if

you do sornc1hi11g i;oo<l likc a healing spe ll. lhal good energy will rcltlm 10 you threefold.'' A lot of mi)l,cont.·cption, :,bout spclb exist a!> well . '"People loye spell:,,,'· thl!' wi1ch s.iid. "But you cnn't do :my1hi11g 1ha1 would change anyone's own will.'. The witch snid hcrhs, ineen,c, candle-. nnd oil" arc ll.~C'd in spells or the ·•Witch's Pra)'Cr." ··spell~ inrnlving d rnnging thin~s for the l'k!Uer must he dune by the waxing moon," )!,he saiJ . ··spells 10 get ri<l of neguiivc things must t\\' done by 1hc waning moon. If 11 s~l1

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Sbfm: MSU siudeui,; arc going to 1,artics, 0 had lo be ~1: d~~ Swmu11ha Lynch, a senior English major, will/Spend her Hllllowt.'Cn in Dallas. She is going 10 !>CC her friend's barid pla)' at a party. MC'lissa Larmon. a fimlfl~ ma,or. said she will go wi1h her sister to Lawton •·10 meet up with one of her friends."

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coming fr(_)m all over and _some people :ire even mccung for lhc first 111nc.'' Mnny s1uc.Jcn1s will not get to visit . the

ing. wmching movies and gi\' ing Candy to trick-or-treaters.. He said he did not have anything in' panicular phmncd for

have to close l·nday mght -~ ~e will nol gc1 10 do many Halloween a~t1v1lJcs.. . ~re)l,.h m~ the,11~ maJor 1Je11 Kennedy satd she 1s not gomg 10 a. huumed ~O\ISC because they ure too expensive. She did not see why ~he should spend S5 10 walk around

H~~;eR~~ve,. a sophomore. said he would be trolveling ~ack home to see his younger brother play U1 • •football game. J?exter ~~n; a senior music educution f!l~Jor. _said ttc nlmost had forgoueo ihnt Fmlay 1s_ Hallowccn. He said. .. I' m not su~ what I will do. I will probably be 111 a foot1 clwon' t

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