Oct. 16, 2013

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Homecoming: Big finish Saturday Students spend week preparing for weekend’s final events Torchlight Parade tomorrow at 9 p.m.

DEFENDING CHAMPS

Justus Lindsey, senior in finance, Zach Moore, junior in economics and finance, David Grates, senior in finance, John Krawietz, senior in mechanical engineering, and Mark Nichols, junior in history, share ideas for making a cardboard boat for the race on Oct. 18. Sigma Alpha Epsilon member Lindsey said, “The boats have to be made of only cardboard and duct tape, so we are trying to make it sturdy enough to hold four people to paddle it across Sikes Lake in the boat race. We started it at the beginning of this week, and it will take a couple of hours every day between now and Friday to finish.” | Photo by Ahla Cho / Wichitan

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ontinuing a long tradition, the Torchlight Parade, which leads into the bonfire, is Oct. 17 at 9 p.m. behind Killingsworth Hall.

“That’s something I hope never dies,” Roland Hannah, junior in business management said. “[The] tradition carries a lot of weight, and without it Homecoming wouldn’t be the same.”

The Torchlight Parade has been around since the 1980’s and made its way to become a precursor to the bonfire in 1988.

This year, it will continue the tradition with incoming freshmen, returning students and transfers participating.

“I’ve never been so excited,” Fred Carter, junior in business information systems, said. “It sounds like fun and I’ve never heard of anything like this before.

It’s seems unique.”

The Torchlight Parade holds the highest student attendance every year. Those who attend receive a torch lit on fire and march to the Nocona Trail parking lot behind the football practice field.

“It’s the most exciting parade because [the students] all get to be fired up for the game,” Sue Witherspoon, administrative assistant for student development and orientation, said.

After the parade, the bonfire starts where students get to watch shirts from other schools get set on fire. This all leads into a pep rally where everyone can meet all of the teams and the three finalists of the Wild West Show Homecoming LipSync Competition. At last year’s parade, students stayed out at the bonfire even after the shirts were ashes.

“It’s a long tradition,” Witherspoon said.

UNDERDOGS Ricky Randall, junior in finance and Sam Croft, freshman in geoscience will paddle a canoe for the cardboard race Oct.18. Ricky Randall said, “It is 10 feet long and 2.5 feet wide, so two of us absolutely fit. We’re doing this because it is super fun and challenging, but our final goal is to win.” |Photo by Hanwool Lee / Wichitan

CUT AND TAPE Ricky Randall, junior

in finance, builds a cardboard boat for the race on Oct.18. Randall said, “Our final goal is to win against engineering department because they won last time. We have gone through 4 to 5 different design ideas.” | Photo

by Hanwool Lee / Wichitan

BIG HAIR Gamma Phi Beta and Tau Kap-

pa Epsilon perform together at the Lip Sync Competition. Michelle Dickey, freshman in economics, and Courtney Chorn, sophomore in nursing, whip their hair while performing with their teammates Trey Holt, sophomore in education and, Tommy Stewart, sophomore studying general business. | Photo by Bradley Wilson / Wichitan

SYNC FEST

Cameron Moore, senior in criminal justice, helps lead MSU Cheer through their performance on Oct. 14. The group will perform at the bonfire on Thursday.

“I had fun. It was great seeing different organizations get involved,” Moore said. | Photo by Bradley Wilson / Wichitan

Empty Bowls

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Students and Community members admire re charity art exhibit

Homecoming Week

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Cardboard boat race, tailgating, spirit events continue during ‘Wild West Show’

Perfect Score

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Women’s cross-country runners posts perfect score to claim MSU cross-country Carnival title

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am a part of the 800,000 people not receiving any substantial income right now. On the flip side, I will say events like this are the reason you should always save for a rainy day, because bills are due when bills are due. Unlike Jasmine the government, I don’t have Jones the authority to write “I Owe U” on my phone, cable or credit card bill, although it would be splendid.

I am writing this out of pure disgust at some of the ignorance I have seen online regarding the federal government shutdown and politics in general and how it has negatively impacted my life directly.

On Facebook there is an image going around of a man mooning President Barack Obama’s face on the television screen. While not liking the president is fine and dandy, and certainly your right as an American citizen, things like this are disrespectful. I would say the same thing if Bush was still in office.

More and more people are posting and creating things simply for shock value. You don’t like the President? You want him to kiss your behind? Okay - great! Now tell us why. Tell us what one man did to make you feel this way.

Articulate yourself in an eloquent manner.

This means avoid the persistent use of swear words just because you think it makes you

sound “tougher.”

Young people are apathetic to voting, although there was an increase in the historical 2008 election. However more often than not, young people don’t vote and “don’t care” because they don’t think voting impacts them.

The reason issues like Social Security take priority over some of our issues is because older people vote.

Voting for president is not the only way to make a difference either. Vote on the local level because that is how individuals get their ideologies best represented. If we voted and took the beautiful privilege of voting more seriously, our politicians wouldn’t be engaged in this terrible game of “chicken.”

It is a remarkable thing to be a part of a group, especially a political party that you are so infatuated with, but saying that the Republicans or Democrats are to blame isn’t the solution. Nor is saying to eliminate one party altogether. We need both parties. They truly are an example of democracy (or at least they should be). Both are strong and can stand alone, yet they sure work well together (most of the time).

What the American people need from politicians is simple: compromise. And it’s time politicians take note. Their inability to compromise is hitting too close to home.

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here’s a political war raging in Washington, D.C. In the arena, we have a mass of politicians blanketing the left half of the bleachCody Parish ers wearing all blue shirts, waving small towel-sized American flags at the hoards of red-clad politicians brimming from the right half of the stands also waving these American flags. Down on the arena floor, President Barack Obama and Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives John Boehner (R-Ohio) are sparring with verbal javelins and swords,

and I’m in purple watching from my spot on the sand in the corner wondering why there were no seats for someone like me – a moderate American citizen.

Our politicians have shamelessly led the country into a government shutdown – the first since 1995. As a consequence, more than 800,000 government employees are temporarily out of work with furloughed pay. The economy may lose billions of dollars over the course of the shutdown.

Blame is being thrown back and forth like kids in a rock fight, but I’ve yet to see a single politician take responsibility for the fiasco they’ve collectively created. Some friends

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of mine insist Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and the GOP are the culprits of the country’s political woes, but other friends proclaim the GOP as citizen protectors from the insidious Affordable Health Care for America Act. The shutdown is an issue of choosing sides and pointing fingers – the pressure to treat it as such is a red herring. It’s not one politician’s fault that our country is in this predicament – all of the politicians are to blame. It doesn’t matter if they’re Democrat, Republican, Libertarian.

All politicians serving in Congress failed to do their job.

But what troubles me more isn’t the incapability of the politicians

to compromise, but the callousness with which our politicians make their brash decisions in defiance of political collaboration. Politicians will use anything as a bargaining chip, including the health care law and American well-being. They didn’t care if the government shut down because, as some politicians have stupidly stated, “It doesn’t affect me.”

If our government is based on a business model, since we are a capitalist country, and the Republicans support small business, and the Democrats support big business, and it seems like our biggest issues these days are creating an approved budget and the looming debt ceil-

ing, both of which deal directly with money, then it’s logical to say that the government would also run like a business – meaning, if the workers, or Congressmen, don’t perform effectively, then they get fired.

Put another way, these Congressmen represent me, and I represent my employer when I work.

If I do an awful job, my employers decide they don’t want me tarnishing their image, and I’m cut. I don’t want these Congressmen representing me, but I can’t cut them from the team. The rules should apply to everyone, including the ones responsible for the shutdown, the ones who can’t do their jobs.

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Recycling bins available for clothing donations KAYLA SIMS REPORTER

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o increase recycling on campus, Student Government Association officials started the contract process of having clothing recycling bins placed on campus this past summer, according to SGA President Melody Coffey.

The bins are in place to help students on campus donate their unused or unwanted clothing or shoes at their convenience without having to travel off campus.

“It’s a really good way for students who can’t or don’t drive to still be able to donate their old clothes or shoes without having to find a way to drive down the road to the Goodwill,” Ashley Beinavides, senior in marketing, said.

There is one bin for clothing outside of Killingsworth Hall beside the dumpsters, and there is a recycling bin for shoes in the Wellness Center.

But because there has been limited advertisement, many students still did not know of the on-campus availability to donate their clothing items.

“I had no idea that MSU had clothing recycle bins,” Beinavides said.

Beinavides said if SGA officials promote and advertise the bins better, more students would be involved.

Although plans of small advertising are in the works, no advertising has being done at the moment to help spread the word about the new bins.

Coffey said they are still thinking of effective ways to promote the new recycling bins to the students. Some ideas that were brought up were creating flyers and putting more bins around the campus, including Clark Student Center, which is where students are most likely to see the bins and participate in recycling.

The new recycling bins were donated to the Student Government Association by the World Wear Project, which pays the school $250 for the first year its bins are placed on campus.

“We didn’t pay anything for them,” Coffey, a senior in engineering, said.

The company also pays 15 cents per pound of clothing and 85 cents per pound of athletic shoes.

The money raised from the recycling will hopefully be turned into some sort of scholarship for students, Coffey said, which serves as extra motivation to get them to be more involved with the recycling.

“I have already donated a ton of shoes, and now knowing that we could get a scholarship, I am more motivated to continue to donate,” Courtney Chorn, sophomore in nursing, said.

Chorn also said if there were more bins on campus, it would help to get students motivated to recycle their old clothing and shoes.

She also said that these bins need to be in more populated areas around campus, like outside the library and outside every on campus housing facility, not just Killingsworth Hall.

“People who live in Sundance or Bridwell don’t want to walk with one or multiple bags of clothing all the way to Killingsworth Hall to be able to donate,” Chorn said.

According to SGA officials, if more students get involved with the clothing-recycling project, there is a chance that the campus will be able keep the bins currently in place and add bins to more locations around campus.

“Now that I know about it, I have bags of clothes that I will definitely donate,” Beinavides said.

Photo by Hanwool Lee / Wichitan Hollis Kauffman, graduate student in counseling, participates in Empty Bowls Ceramic Exhibit Reception at the Wichita Falls Museum of Arts. Empty Bowls is a community-wide program to help the local Food Bank raise as much money as possible for the growing hunger issue in Wichita Falls. Kauffman said, “Seeing our community come together for such a worthy cause, and it is really inspiring.”

Charity event uses artwork to raise money COURTNEY BETTS REPORTER

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ommunity members and students attended a reception held at the Wichita Falls Museum of Art for the 2013 Empty Bowls Ceramics Exhibit Oct. 10.

Empty Bowls is a community-wide program to help the local Food Bank raise money for the growing hunger issue in Wichita Falls.

“Empty Bowls is such a diverse event because not only does the Food Bank help, but several other people and businesses in the community make this experience possible,” Paula Perkins, co-chair of Empty Bowls, said.

This event is part of an international program that has raised millions of dollars for the battle against hunger and starvation.

Co-chairs of the local event, Paula Perkins and Leslie Schaffner, started Empty Bowls in Wichita Falls in 2012.

“We received a really good response this year at the reception,” Perkins said. “The attendance was fabulous and we definitely had a little bit more people than last year.”

Last year several different departments of the community including the Steering Committee, the Food Bank, various donors and artists, local restaurants and several volunteers helped Perkins and Schaffner raise $64,139.

This year’s gallery featured 22 artists.

However, 36 people helped with the entire process. These people helped throughout

the development of this event by providing materials, assisting with the firing process and providing staff for the reception and the luncheon.

Some 150 people attended the reception which showcased bowls created by different artists with various styles for the Empty Bowls program.

“All of the artists are fabulous,” Perkins said. “It is a neat experience because you spend so much time with them throughout the process that you are able to learn and recognize their styles.”

Attendees of the reception could purchase any of the bowls on display. A minimum of 50 percent of the proceeds went towards the Empty Bowls program.

“Not only does this event raise money for the Food Bank, but it also raises awareness to the community about the issue of hunger in Wichita Falls,” Perkins said.

This year, the co-chairs added a new aspect of the reception by providing a silent auction to raise even more proceeds for the program.

“The silent auction showcased some of the bowls thrown by the featured artists and it brought in almost 1,200 more,” Perkins said.

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Happy Birthday, Maverick Mascot turns 7 at noontime celebration today ALEISHA SOLORIO REPORTER

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averick T. Mustang, the school mascot, is celebrating his seventh birthday today. He became the mascot when the university was forced to change from being the “Indians” to the “mustangs” in 2006.

This change was made when the university left the list of 19 schools with mascots deemed “hostile and abusive” by the NCAA. There is a tryout process for students who want to become the mascot. Hopeful tryouts attend a cheerleading practice, put the suit on and do a skit with the cheerleaders.

“I have selected the mascot sometimes just by seeing a student at Spirit Days,” cheerleading sponsor Sue With-

erspoon said. “Seeing how he acts with a crowd, a personality that is outgoing and is friendly, we interview him and have him come to our tryouts.”

With Maverick as the mascot, the school has experienced many athletic successes including Lone Star Conference championships in several different sports.

“The main purpose of the mascot is to get the crowd involved,” Witherspoon said.

When Maverick became the mascot, a student committee was tasked with coming up with a suitable name.

“Several names were thrown out there,” cheerleading sponsor Sue Witherspoon said. “I believe there was Golden Thunder, Tornado, but Maverick was the favorite.”

Maverick is a mustang of few words (to maintain his anonymity), but he said he’s excited about his birthday party and all the activities of homecoming week.

“Everyone should come to my party to support me and the Mustangs, and to celebrate with me,” Maverick said.

Maverick says he enjoys Homecoming and, just like every week, he is hoping for a win.

“I just love the camaraderie of being the mascot,” Maverick said. “I feel like I’m part of a big family.”

Students and faculty can celebrate Maverick’s birthday at noon today in the Mesquite Dining Hall.

HOMECOMING

“I’m exited about it because it’s my first college homecoming. I’m excited to see how different it is from high school homecoming.”

CHELSEA DETEAU, freshman in sociology.

“I guess it’s a thing to do.

I’m not very school-spirited.

Objectively, it’s nice to look at the school and say, ‘Hey, there’s stuff to do!’”

MICHAEL GILBERT, junior in theater.

“I went to the Lip Sync Competition last night and it was really good. I’m looking forward to the bonfire, as usual. I really like the theme this year.” TARA-MISHA DICK, senior in finance.

“It’s pretty cool. I’d like to go to the events, but when you’re a mom, you just don’t have time for things like that.” MORGAN RHINE, senior in education.

“I don’t plan on going.

I didn’t even know Homecoming was this weekend.” JACYLIN MCDOWELL, junior in nursing.

HOMECOMING COURT Freshman Lady: Rebecca Stogner | Freshman Lord: Trey Twilligear | Sophomore Duchess: Shannon Miles | Sophomore Duke: Jesse Brown | Junior Princess: Tam Vuong | Junior Prince: Preston Franks | Senior Queen Nominees: Kayla Gray, Courtney Betts, Alexa Stout, Camisha McClellan | Senior King Nominees: Taylor Duval, Billy Brown | EVENTS WEDNESDAY, 11:30 a.m.

Maverick’s Birthday | 7 p.m. Artist-Lecture Series | THURSDAY, 4 p.m. Legacy Walk Induction | 6:30 p.m. Fuzzy Ray Classic Basketball Tip-Off Dinner and Auction | 9 p.m. Torchlight Parade | 9:15 p.m. Homecoming Bonfire | FRIDAY, 10:30 a.m. Golden Grads Alumni Brunch | 12:30 p.m. Fuzzy Ray Classic Golf Tournament | 5 p.m. Fish Fry 6 p.m. Cardboard Boat Race | 8 p.m. Friday Night Live | SATURDAY, 7:30 a.m.

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Martita Robinson, graduate student in counseling, explains a process for anxiety screenings to Joe Hankins, freshman in business management.

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University President Jesse Rogers meets with representatives from the Changzhou Institute of Technology on Oct.15. Will Pan, graduate student in psychology, participated in the meeting as a translator.

Anxiety issues addressed Changzhou Institute visits campus ALEISHA SOLORIO REPORTER

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he Counseling Center hosted an event to promote awareness for Anxiety Awareness Day in the Clark Student Center atrium on Oct. 10.

“Midterms are coming up so this was the perfect time to keep people calm before all the tests come out,” Robinson said.

The event featured helpful pamphlets, anxiety level screening and tips for minimizing all of the stressors of college life.

“The students, for sure, go through lots of anxiety at test time and even not during test time,” Martita Robinson, a graduate student in counseling, said. “So it’s just a

good way to let the word out that counseling is free here and they can utilize it anytime.”

About 60 people took advantage of the event.

Through Nov. 21, the Counseling Center will offer a relaxation session every Thursday from 3:30-4:30 p.m. and a creative expression class, which uses art as a way to relieve the anxieties common for college students.

Students who are stressed with school, family, work, or any other problems are encouraged to take advantage of any of the services provided by the Counseling Center.

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By setting up partnerships like the one epresentatives from the Changzhou Institute of Technology visited Midwe- with the Changzhou Institute, students are setern on Oct. 15 to formally acknowl- able to interact and better understand the edge the new partnership between the two different cultures they will eventually collaborate with. universities.

Accompanied by a transla“We are pleased to play host tor, both Midwestern and CIT to the representatives from the representatives exchanged Changzhou Institute,” Randy thoughts on the newly-formed Glean, director of internationalliance in terms of future sucal services, said in a press recess. lease. “This visit will allow us As of now, one student to not only share our campus from the Changzhou Institute environment but also to share is attending MSU, providing our international goals.” proof that a promising future The Changzhou Institute, is within reach for students located in Southern China, from both schools who exis a technical university with change universities. four campuses and 15 schools “This partnership is a of study with approximately very good idea because both 10,000 students. schools have great technical In the fall of 2012, the uniprograms,” Will Pan, a gradversity signed an agreement RANDY GLEAN uate student in psychology allowing engineering students to attend two years of study at DIRECTOR OF INTERNATIONAL and translator for the meeting, SERVICES said. “Tons of Chinese stuCIT in China and two years dents are wanting to study in here at Midwestern.

According to Keith Lamb, vice president America and this is the perfect way for that of student affairs and enrollment manage- to happen.” ment, the biggest reason for the partnership is to increase the university’s exposure to foreign students.

Each year, graduating seniors are taken diAUSTIN QUINTERO REPORTER

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“This visit will allow us to not only share our campus environment but also to share our international goals.”

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Kell House Museum provides local history, haunted tours THE FOURTH OF A SERIES

Wichita Falls history and it is something we as an organization are proud to keep it in uilt in 1909, Kell House Museum has good shape,” Nadine Mckown, assistant to been around for more than 100 years the director of the Heritage Society, said.

The museum is going through a renovaand provides students and the community with an example of the area’s historically tion to help restore it back to close to its original form. and architecturally noteworthy buildings.

The Heritage Society broke “I didn’t know what the down rennovations into three Kell House was when I went, different phases. In 2011, the but after my family took a first phase aimed to stabilize tour of it, I found out a little the foundation, the second bit about Wichita Falls hisis working on the outside aptory,” Zimmeri Beatty, freshpearance of the house and the man in biology, said. “I have third will be work that needs lived here all my life and had to be done on the inside. never heard of this place be“We believe that this renfore, and to my surprise I realovation will take anywhere ly enjoyed it.”

CODY SAMPLES from three to five years — But the Halloween season REPORTER probably closer to five years,” may give students a chance to Mckown said. “Each phase visit the downtown mansion.

HOURS: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 10 will cost around $1 million to The Kell House will hold a a.m.-3 p.m. and Saturday and complete, with the first phase Haunted Tour from 6 p.m. - 10 done and costing $1.2 million Sunday from 2-4 p.m. p.m. Oct. 27 with a free trickto complete.” or-treat on the front porch.

Prices: $5 per person and not The Heritage Society canA member of the Kell famrecommended for children not just use its own money to ily owned the museum until under 10 years of age. complete the renovation, so 1980 when the Wichita CounMORE INFORMATION: officials ask local businesses to ty Heritage Society purchased (940) 723-2712 help contribute money. and maintained it. The house “Tours are free but we do accept donations is 5,833 square feet, not including the attic and basement, and has 14 rooms. It has seven to help with the different phases and to help maintain everyday maintenance,” Mckown fireplaces, five downstairs and two upstairs.

“The Kell House is an important part of said.

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The Kell House Museum features distinctive architecture designed by the local firm of Jones and Orlopp, original family furnishings, textiles, decorative arts and historic costumes. Guided tours of this local landmark provide a fascinating history of this area’s early settlement and of the Kell family.

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Ashley Flores, senior in sociology, Emma Ramirez, junior in athletic training and Gabby Ruiz, junior in nursing, pass midpoint of the Cross Country Carnival on Oct. 12.

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he cross-country team enjoyed a perfect finish last Saturday at the MSU Cross Country Carnival at the former Hawk Ridge Golf Course. MSU’s runners scored a perfect 15 as the first seven runners to cross the finish line were MSU students, earning them the team title.

Ashley Flores, senior in sociology, and Gabby Ruiz, junior in nursing, finished the 6 kilometer race first, crossing the finish line hand-in-hand.

“It’s good to have someone there, even in a race, it’s good to have those teammates there to pull you up,” Flores said.

Flores said the team benefitted from the home field advantage.

“It’s always good to run at home and to

have a home crowd with you. It’s good to have a good pack with your team; your family’s here to support you,” Flores said. “I’ve run this course a bunch of times so we know this course like the back of our hands. You feel more comfortable in your home environment.”

Flores said the team’s strong finish will boost their confidence going into the Lone Star Conference Championships in Portales, N.M. on Oct. 26.

“It’s just another step towards conference.

Another little confidence boost,” Flores said.

“When you feel good about this race, the next race is going to feel even better.”

The first runner from another school to cross the finish line was Central Oklahoma’s Katie Kerns.

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Griff Stratord, senior in biochemistry, defends a West Texas A&M offensive player in Oct. 15 at the MSU soccer field. MSU won 2-1. The next game is against St. Edwards University on Oct. 19.

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Greg Saladino, senior in management, runs out on the field for an extra point in the second quarter of the game on Oct. 12. MSU beat McMurry university 66-20 with 476 rushing yards. The next game is the Homecoming game on Saturday, Oct. 19, at 8 p.m. against No. 8 West Alabama.

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‘Nosferatu’ offers classic scares

Dyslexia professor earns scholarship award ALEISHA SOLORIO REPORTER

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ZANDRA LEE REPORTER

“Nosferatu” by F.W. Murnau is the first silent German vampire film based on the original horror movie "Dracula" by Bram Stoker.

The movie was made in 1922 but was not released until 1929 because Bram Stoker’s widow sued over the adaptation in the film from “Count Dracula” to “Count Orlok.” The court ruled that all copies of the film be destroyed, but one copy survived and was released in 1929.

"This movie is the first fully-restored copy from 2009 and the soundtrack is the only one in existence that was originally thought to be lost by the creators," John Dement, associate professor of theater, said. "This is the perfect film for Halloween."

The film was shown last night at 7 p.m. at the Wichita Falls Museum of Art. In the film, Count Orlok has interest in a new home for himself and comes across real estate agent, Thomas Hutter, and his wife Ellen. After seeing Ellen, Count Orlok expresses an interest in her and decides he wants to marry Ellen.

“A great scene of the movie is when Count Orlok is going up the stairs to Ellen’s room,” Teresa Greathouse, freshman in business, said.

Thomas Hutter must then gather his courage and stand up to Count Orlok to stop him from going after Ellen.

"I like the way Bram Stoker created Count Orlok. He is a cursed creature, not a sexy vampire there for romance," Dement said before the film. "I want the audience to enjoy the movie and to have a great experience with the terror of an old, classic film."

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The University Programming Board presented Ryan Reiss’s comedian show Oct.15 at CSC Comanche. More than 100 students attended the show. Hailey Hartman, freshman in radiology, said, “Seeing Ryan Reiss was great. I definitely needed a laugh and wasn’t disappointed and loved the show.”

Comedian Ryan Reiss gets the laughs BRENT DEEB REPORTER

Continuously interacting with the audience, comedian Ryan Reiss had one goal in mind as part of the university programming board’s homecoming-week opener on Oct. 15- he wanted to make people laugh.

“At times he came off as a racist, egomaniacal, sexist, anti-Semetic, Nazi Mormon,” Brighton Changa, senior in pre-dentistry, said. “But overall he gave an above-average performance. He really hit the ground running and managed to get at least a couple of laughs from every person in the room.”

The 29-year-old was met with immediate laughter from the audience, as everyone settled into their seats.

Reiss used his quick wit and unique way of engaging the audience to capture the attention of every seat in the house.

“Big surprise, I’ve never been here before,” Reiss said in his opening monologue.

The audience, which consisted of 126 students and staff, had a wide array of members that included many races and upbringings. Reiss met this diverse and somewhat conservative crowd with raunchy and sometimes obscene acts that covered everything from drugs and religion to basic race and gender stereotypes.

“I really enjoyed it,” Reiss said. “They were a great comedy-audience.”

Reiss began his career as a comedian while attending

college at New York University. He has been seen on television shows including the M & J Morning Show, Huckabee, CenterStage and FOX and Friends. In addition to his television appearances, Reiss has written and co-produced for MTV. He also served as a staff comedy writer for Spike TV. “I’ve always wanted to be a comedian,” Reiss said in his closing comments to the audience. “If you guys want to give something a shot, then do it.

There’s no better time in life to screw up then while you’re in college.”

yslexia therapist Mary Wines received a scholarship from the Educators Publishing Service to attend the International Dyslexia Association conference in New Orleans, Nov. 8.

“It is a nice accolade, to be recognized for all the time I put into the state boards and the five courses here at MSU,” Wines said. “Someone submitted the information about me to be considered for this award and here we are.”

The Robert G. and Eleanor T. Hall Memorial Fund Scholarship, which is not monetary but more of an accolade, is granted by the Educators Publishing Service and will cover the cost of Wines’ IDA membership, travel and hotel expenses for the trip.

“We hear about brain-based research from people from all over the world,” Wines said. “I attend different committees where we plan for the upcoming legislative issues that come up specifically in Texas.”

For the past five years, Wines developed five dyslexia courses and helped to train teachers to become certified academic language thera-

pists.

Wines earned her master’s degree in special education from MSU in 2006 and her CALT and qualified instructor licenses from Texas Scottish Rite Hospital in Dallas. Wines said she became interested in this field because dyslexia has a tie to her family.

“My son, who is now 31, wasn’t diagnosed until junior high,” Wines said. “He is why I got into this. It’s my passion. And when you’re passionate about something, you put a lot of time and energy into it, and sometimes you have a good result like this award. But the real reward is that more kids with dyslexia will receive the explicit, direct, sequential and multisensory instruction needed for them to learn to read.”

Wines serves on the Senate Bill 866 State Technology Committee in the dyslexia field, which was charged with developing a plan for configuring a way to incorporate technology into the classroom to help students with dyslexia.

“It’s important to know that having dyslexia doesn’t have anything to do with intellect,” Wines said. “You can be highly intelligent and have dyslexia.”

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