Sept. 11, 2013

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Eric Delacerda, senior in criminal justice, passes the pink line and runs to the orange line.

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Rachael Krygsman, senior in English, passes the pink line at the Color Run. The distinctive quality of the race is the runners get doused with color chalk every kilometer, encouraging them to push to the next color.

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Eric Delacerda, senior in criminal justice, and Dylan Sadata, junior in accounting, pass the blue line and head to the finish line.

HAPPIEST 5K ON THE PLANET Students join event as runners, volunteers

I’m pumped and ready to go.”

Criminal justice senior Eric Delacerda said he is a first time Color Runner as well. he Color Run, also known as the ‘Happiest 5k on the “I’m doing The Color Run because it’s the most fun race in Planet’, is a unique paint race that celebrates healthithe world,” Delacerda said. “I’ve never done this before but I ness, happiness and individuality. trained pretty hard, I did zumba and everything.”

“We call The Color Run the ‘Happiest 5K on the PlanEnglish senior Rachel Craigsmen said this is also her first et’ because our events bring together friends and family in Color Run. a unique, healthy and fun environment,” Travis Snyder, “I wanted to do The Color Run because, well, it sprays you founder of The Color Run, said. with color,” Cragsmen said. “Also, I did a mud run a while back This 5k run is not a race; there are no declared winners. and I figured this would be a bit cleaner.”

The distinctive quality of this race is that the runners get The runners aren’t the only ones having fun, as the race ofdoused with a color chalk every kilometer, encouraging fers several volunteer opportunities, allowing helpers to get in them to push to the next color. on the excitement too.

The Color Run is a for-profit organization that allows “I volunteered at The Color Run because my work [United anyone who’s involved to create long-lasting memories Supermarkets in Burkburnett] always volunteers for this kind with a day of fun while getting healthy. of stuff around our area,” Selena Mize, freshman in art, said. “It And the fun doesn’t end at the finish line. was my first time to volunteer for something like this and I got After crossing the finish line, runners are greeted at the to have a lot of fun with my coworkers.”

“Finish Festival,” which uses more colored powder to create While dealing with the intense heat, the runners, volunan explosion of color over all of the runners. Bounce houses, PHOTO BY HANWOOL LEE / WICHITAN blaring music, dancing and clouds of colored chalk every- Dylan Sadata, junior in accounting, teers and workers still found a way to have a blast.

“After cleaning up our station, we went back to the finish where are there to ensure the best 5k celebration possible. passes the blue line and races to line and all the runners were there, music was blaring and we According to The Color Run website, more than 60 per- the finish line. joined in,” Mize said. “The D.J. counted down ‘3...2...1’ and all cent of Color Runners are first-time 5k runners and the event is making headway on the growing national focus of improving health you saw was bright colors of chalk fly into the air and cover everyone that was underneath it. It was pretty fun.” and wellness.

According to The Color Run website, The Color Run has exploded since Students shared their excitement of their first experiences as both Color its debut event in January 2012. The event will grow from over 50 events and Runners and Color Run volunteers.

“I’m doing The Color Run because it’s the happiest 5k on the planet,” 600,000 participants in 2012, to over 100 events and over a million particiDylan Sadata, junior in accounting, said. “This will be my first Color Run and pants in 2013.

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iPhone 5S and 5C make debut in September

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esterday, during as the current iPhone 5, but has undera special media gone a serious speed upgrade thanks event at the com- to the A7 processing chip and the M7 pany headquarters in graphics chip.

Cupertino, California, This means the 5S is capable of up to Apple debuted the much 40 times faster processing speeds and 56 anticipated iPhone 5s times faster graphic speeds than the origCaden and 5c. inal iPhone, which debuted in 2007.

Burross The 5S To add to the host of is an upgraded version of upgrades the apple deits predecessor, boasting signers have introduced a new processor, while a new security feature. A Apple is introducing the finger print scanner, locat5C to fill a long-missing ed in the phone’s home niche as an affordable and button, has replaced the colorful alternative. traditional lock screen.

Both phones will come With this introduction, loaded with the new iOS7 the phone truly recognizoperating system anes the user and makes unnounced earlier this year. locking the phone a near The iOS7 marks the effortless process. first drastic departure Another 5S detail CADEN BURROSS from the original iOS, many people will be excitwhich debuted in 2007. It ed about, thanks to Instasports a new color scheme, gram and other fan-favorredesigned icons and an animated inter- ite photo apps, is the upgraded camera. face. The new os will be a pleasing and an With a 15 percent size increase to the intuitive change according to Apple. image sensor and an increase in aperture The 5C is essentially the same phone size, the camera now has a 33 percent as the current version of the iPhone 5, increase in overall light sensitivity. This only with five color options for the new means better, brighter images for the plastic backing. photographer.

The 5C will be available for pre-order Both phones are available for viewing beginning September 13. on www.apple.com.

The 5S fits the same aluminum form

“The 5S is capable of up to 40 times faster processing speeds than the original iPhone.”

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New portal giving headaches, not help

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fter a semester’s wait, we’ve been left wanting more from of our new and improved “portal.”

In last spring’s story, “Launch date confirmed for new, effective portal system,” Robert Clark, vice president Caden of administration and instituBurross tional effectiveness, said. “In the first and second year the cost is $29,500 and in the third through fifth year the cost is going to be $20,000.”

Though I applaud the effort and the thought behind the portal system, the cost has not yet proven worth it.

Touted as a one-stop shop for the student’s online login needs, the portal is not what it was originally sold to be.

Students across campus have been confused by the cumbersome and cluttered sys-

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The my.mwsu.edu website is really more of an aggregate of previous websites, with links to each.

I have to say, it is nice to have Desire2Learn, the newish system used by professors and students for class communication, and WebWorld, the online registration, financial aid, and employee site, in one place.

However, many times while logging in I have been given “timed out” error messages.

Talking with other students, a common error.

The idea was to make it as easy as possible for the students to access their information online, but the outcome has been the opposite.

I would much rather see the money invested in new equipment and hardware in the computer labs as opposed to one website that links to three other older websites.

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Students and faculty remember Sept. 11 LAUREN ROBERTS REPORTER

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Clair Lake, Sepcial Education, waits neaar Moffett Library for the free MSU shuttle . Lake lives in nearby Colony Park Apartments and said the shuttle “runs in twenty-minute incriments. So for me, that pretty convenient. You get to come home as many times as you wish.”

Number of commuters increases on campus MIRAE DUNCAN REPORTER

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his semester’s increased number of students residents housed at The Grove has caused commuter parking lots to fill up on campus and has been a hot-button issue among students.

“I would estimate that right now during the peak hours we might reach about 90 percent of our parking capacity,” Dan Williams, chief of police, said.

Students were informed of the Mustang Route, a shuttle service which does a loop around campus and the Grove, but many students have decided to commute instead.

“First of all, we notified them [of the Mustang Route] at Spirit Days,” Michael Mills, housing director, said.

While shuttle service runs every 10 minutes during the morning and every 20 minutes until 10 p.m., some student residents at The Grove feel the shuttle bus is inconvenient and they must adapt to the day-to-day inconsistencies of the shuttle schedule.

“I’m either half an hour early or 10 minutes late to my class,” Bailey Mandrell, freshman in nursing, said. “They say that there scheduled to leave every 10 minutes, but it all depends on the traffic and the amount of people who want on and off the bus.”

Students often choose to park in a reserved spot instead of a commuter parking space when they are pressed for time.

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n Sept. 11, 2001 students walked into classrooms with news that would define their generation.

Planes had struck the twin towers in New York City.

Freshmen entering college in 2013 were in elementary school when the attacks happened.

Nicole Humbert, pre-veterinary senior, was living in New Mexico at Cannon Air Force Base.

“When I got the phone call from my aunt, I was at home asleep. I turned on the news and it just showed what was going on and what happened with the first crash. Then I guess the second crash happened as I was watching it,” Humbert said.

There were fears that the attackers were home-grown, but the name that came up as the mastermind was a Saudi terrorist, Osama Bin Laden, who was given asylum in Afghan-

istan after bombing American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

“In response [to Kenya and Tanzania] Bill Clinton launched cruise missiles at what they thought was an Al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan and a factory in Sudan,” Steve Garrison, chair of political science, said.

The Bush Administration was criticized for invading Iraq. Those in opposition believed that the reasoning for the war was because of oil or retaliation for Hussein's attempt on the life of Former President George H.W. Bush.

“We use the justification to at times intervene in other countries around the world and Iraq was one. It turns out they had already dismantled their nuclear weapons,” Garrison said.

It wouldn’t be until May 2, 2011 that Navy SEALs shot and killed Osama Bin Laden. The man responsible for 9/11 was found hiding in a compound in Pakistan.

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Williams said police officers have issued approximately 60 tickets on cars with inappropriate permits.

“I truly believe that most of the time when students park in an area not designated by their permit, it is due to the fact that they do not want to have to park and walk,” Williams said.

To accommodate the increase in the number of commuters, the number of parking spots, including adding two new lots, one near the police station and one near McCoy. “There may be issues with getting to park exactly where we desire, but I don’t think MSU has run out of parking spaces,” Mills said.

While there is enough parking on campus, the occasional student expresses frustration with how far of a distance parking is from their classes, especially when they don’t arrive on campus until minutes before class begins.

“I paid $50 to not even park near my dorm,” Sarah Schutza, freshman in athletic training and education, said.

Williams and Mills said once the students are moved into dorms and students transfer out next semester that parking will even out in both resident and commuter parking.

“As housing moves a student from The Grove back to on-campus housing, that student’s vehicle registration permit will be replaced with a resident permit,” Williams said

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MSU ranked No. 15 college for return on investment CAMISHA JOHNSON REPORTER

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Ryan Samuelson, Information Literacy Librarian, talks about how to use the media room in the second floor of the library. Melissa Witherspoon, sophomore in nursing, Victoria Idio, sophomore in nursing, Brittany Elliott, junior in nursing and Kristen Ellis, junior in nursing, take part in the walking tour of library September 5.

Academic workshop discusses time management techniques MIRAE DUNCAN REPORTER

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he Counseling Center held its Time Management workshop on Wednesday as part of a four-week series to enhance students' academic success.

“We have been doing outreach sessions for academic issues for a number of years in the counseling center,” Vikkie Chaviers, MSU licensed counselor, said. “And we tried to come up with a more efficient way of presenting those issues that students would be more inclined to attending those sessions.”

The Counseling Center wanted to give students an opportunity to gain advice and guidance to help them achieve individual academic goals by going over topics that they see often when students come in for help.

“The goal for academic sessions has always been to help people that never were fortunate enough to learn how to study," Chaviers said.

"And if we can get to it before hand it will allow them to have something to fall back on.”

Sessions were designed to inform students on things such as priorities, GPA, stress and career options while also giving tips and solutions to these common issues.

“We decided to break this down into what we call academic modules," Chaviers said.

"The four we picked were the things that each of us as individual counselors see the most of with our clients who are struggling - starting with time management.”

Along with advice on academic success for the students, Chaviers said counselors are also trying to bring awareness to the facility and the benefits they can offer students.

“Another goal for us is to become more

visible to the students and professors. There have been seniors who have said that the never knew we were here and that they could have benefited from coming.” Chaviers said.

The Counseling Center informed professors of these sessions encouraging them to tell their students to attend so that their students can gain new habits that will help them overall in their classes.

“I attended because my chemistry teacher said it would be extra credit, but since I’m here I do want to better my time management skills.” Kassandra Alonso, Nursing Sophomore.

“Time management issues is one problem for many students as they make the adjustment to the independence afforded with college life,” Rodney Cate, professor and director of chemistry, physics, and geosciences, said.

“I do not have the time to educate them in these life lessons and will try out new opportunities to help them succeed.”

With the first session ending with a full room, Chaviers is confident about future sessions and plans to make more changes to improve them.

“I will definitely take advantage of this advice and work to use it as much as possible, especially with my full class schedule,” Megan Healey, freshman in nursing, said.

All workshops will last for one hour and will be held in Sundance Court Third Floor Meeting Room each Wednesday in September.

“We are repeating them every month and in the spring semester we are going to start over again," Chaviers said. "Some topics may be different or the same.”

ffordable Colleges Online recently named MSU as one of the top colleges in the state of Texas with the best lifetime return investment.

Midwestern ranked number 15 among the likes of Texas Christian University (No. 17) and Sam Houston State University (No. 14).

The website analyzed over 400 different colleges in Texas and ranked 49 of them.

AC Online uses a range of factors to rank the colleges including tuition and fees and return of investment calculation.

“It’s interesting to think about. I think it’s important to consider the value of your university and how it will help you find a successful career," Jacob Starkey, senior in visual arts, said. "So, yeah, I think it’s awesome that MSU is ranked so high, and maybe we should tell more people.”

Rice University in Houston ranked number one with a return of investment of over $1 Million but with a cost of attendance being almost $40,000 per year.

At MSU, students can expect to pay closer

to $15,000 per year as one of the most affordable colleges in the nation.

"I feel like I went to MSU and got my degree immediately after college," Inez Pitts, R.N. and graduate in nursing, said. "I was able to get a job in a degree field that I like."

Administrators also feel the ranking by Affordable Colleges Online was a fair and accurate assessment.

Keith Lamb, vice president of student affairs and enrollment management, said, “[AC Online] got it right. We give a private educational experience at a public price and you can see that from the size of the institution to the student-faculty ratio and the quality learning environment that we have.”

Some graduates, however, feel the return on their college investment is a double-edged sword, if only temporarily.

"In the business sense no [I haven't gotten a return on my investment] because I haven't seen any monetary return in my field," Eric Lewis, graduate in history, said. "Academically, yes, because I am in graduate school at UNT right now."

Moffet walking tours help students research effectively ALEISHA SOLORIO REPORTER

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offett Library is hoping to boost student involvement by offering several tours and workshops during the fall semester. The tours are designed to help students learn how to navigate the library, making it easier for them to find what they need, especially during stressful times like midterms and finals.

In the past, the library has only offered 2 or 3 library tours per semester. Attendance was always low, sometimes with no one participating in the tour, and there was an obvious need for a change. This time, the library staff has decided to offer a range of dates and times available to students.

“In past years, we’ve had a one-shot approach,” Allison Breen, reference librarian, said. “We’re now doing some scheduling to try to increase attendance.”

Breen said the library is working to get the word out about the tours and workshops, sending e-mails to professors who then pass the word on to their students, sometimes offering extra credit for participation in the tours. The library staff will also be sending out a mass e-mail to all students with an MSU email address.

“If you’re writing your first big paper, and you didn’t do great on the first paper, maybe you got a C, and you’d like an A on this one, the first lectures will help you a lot,” Breen

said. “We’ll tell you how to pick a topic and evaluate sources.”

Ryan Samuelson, information literacy librarian, has already given two library tours this semester and will be giving a few more in the coming weeks.

“A lot of the time, students are unaware of the services we provide,” Samuelson said.

“Not everything is available online. There are still a lot of things students need. We are more than happy to have one-on-one instruction with people. We are more than glad to have people come in here and ask us questions.”

In addition to the tours, the library will offer a series of workshops from Oct. 2- Oct. 31.

The workshops will cover 3 important aspects of writing a paper: how to choose resources, avoiding plagiarism, and citing sources.

“Those 3 things are things that both professors and students have told us the underclassmen need to learn,” Samuelson said.

If students are unable to attend the tours or the workshops, they can make an appointment for a one-on-one tour or informational meeting.

While most students know where the library is located on campus, many are unaware of just how much the library has to offer them and how to use its resources. The library staff hopes to get more students in the door and help them use the resources their tuition is paying for.

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Provost proposes New Welcome Center faculty satisfaction survey in Hardin cost $125,000 he likes that the HERI is handled completely off-campus.

“Surveys can be used to demonstrate pretrovost Betty Stewart proposed a new faculty survey at the Faculty Senate ty much whatever you want, and there’s pomeeting on Aug. 22. Stewart asked the tential to discredit the findings of a survey Faculty Senate to endorse the use of the High- based on the source of that survey,” Carlston er Education Research Institute as an efficient said.

Carlston said the HERI not only provides means for the provost “to make data-driven decisions, to identify academic concerns on a service as a third-party measurement of faccampus and to provide a foundation for the ulty satisfaction, but also aids in UCLA’s own establishment of a mutually agreed upon aca- research of the national academic landscape.

“There are a lot of demographic questions demic agenda,” Stewart explained during the about the faculty, some of which are very senate meeting. personal,” Carlston said. “Questions Tomorrow, the faculty senators about political leanings and things will decide if they endorse the UCalong those lines that I can’t imagine LA-administered survey, and if they will be useful locally, but it will be usedo, the provost will cover the cost, ful to [UCLA] nationally.” which Stewart has estimated will be Carlston said he is aware of the between $2,000 and $3,000 dependconcerns raised by some faculty meming on the number of participants. bers about the more personal “As the new provost, I want questions listed on the HERI, to get to know the faculty,” which asks participants to inStewart said. “Obviously I can’t dicate the importance of “ingo out and meet 300 faculty tegrating spirituality into my members, so a survey would be life” or “how would you charan easier way to gather inforacterize your political views?” mation about my faculty.”

“I would skip any demoStewart said universities graphic question that you are across the country have particuncomfortable with,” Carlston ipated in the HERI ever since it said. “My political persuasions was established in 1984. have no effect on the number “Because it has been in exof research publications I have istence for so long, it has been or the amount of time that I standardized and normed so BETTY STEWART spend doing student developthat when our faculty at MidPROVOST ment.” western complete the survey, Despite these concerns, Carlston said he if it’s approved, that will allow me to gather data about which things are valuable to is hopeful that the HERI will have a positive them,” Stewart said. “I can also compare it to affect on the faculty, and in turn, the students as well. faculty at similar institutions.”

Stewart said the survey would allow her to Stewart said this would allow her to see where our faculty stands compared to simi- prioritize the most pressing issues to the faculty, improving their welfare and the welfare larly sized liberal arts universities.

“If I see that we are above norm in some of the university as a whole.

“Faculty are vital to the educational expeareas or below norm in other areas, that gives me a point to start addressing issues with the rience,” Stewart said. “If we can address issues faculty,” Stewart said. “If I’m going to do a that show up in the faculty then it is going good job fostering a healthy faculty, I need to to trickle down to the students because we’re know where the issues are and this allows me going to have a healthier faculty so they will be able to work better with the students, I to get to those issues faster.”

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“If I’m going to do a good job fostering a healthy faculty, I need to know where the issues are.”

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ust as MSU opened its doors the first week of class for the fall semester, the Student Affairs and Enrollment Management opened a new Welcome Center to attract potential students to the university.

“We wanted something more accommodating and intimate to make students feel welcomed,” Administrative Assistant of Admissions Angela Kruse said.

The new center located in Hardin South past the financial aid office has two flatscreen TVs to display information and a custom-made wall mount of the MSU Mustangs.

It is the first impression potential MSU students make of the university and it is the new starting point for campus tours.

“The Board of Regents approved the proposal in February and the budget for the facility was $125,000,” Vice President of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management Keith Lamb said.

“Many years ago the Redwine family gave a significant amount of money to the university, and we used part of those funds for the new Welcome Center,” Lamb said.

“Several other schools that are the same size as MSU have welcoming centers, and the facility provides a better environment

for prospective students and parents to feel welcomed,” Assistant Director of Admissions Valerie Martinez said.

Martinez was given the role of designing and decorating the Welcome Center.

Although the center has already opened its doors, the Department of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management plans to add more features.

“We will be decorating the bare walls by mounting artwork that represents the university and photos of the campus,” Martinez said. “We plan to eventually provide personalized messages for visiting students on the TV screens.”

With enrollment numbers remaining flat, it is vital for MSU to stay relevant and innovative like other universities.

“Our ultimate goal is to increase enrollment each year,” Lamb said. “We are aggressively direct marketing the high school students from Lubbock, Dallas, Austin and other close cities.”

First impressions are important when making an initial connection with prospective students. Previously, visitors would meet in the outdated hallway of Hardin in front of the admission’s office. “It was not very welcoming,” Lamb said.

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Soccer loses season opener MIRAE DUNCAN REPORTER

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he soccer team lost 3-1 to the Fort Lewis College Skyhawks in the season opener Friday, Sept. 6, at the MSU Soccer Field.

“We gave up four shots and they scored three,” Doug Elder, head soccer coach, said.

“Also the ejection hurt too. We had to play with 10 men for about 35 minutes.”

In the second half, B.A Catney made the team’s only goal. Soon after, Dan Johns went for the, and collided with, Fort Lewis goalie Ryan Schaul, causing Johns to receive a red card and sit out with no replacement.

“Once we got the red card, it was a numbers game from there,” Kyle Baccus, a redshirt freshman midfielder, said.

Seth Lyons, junior in marketing, said, “[The game] was pretty crappy. We have to pressure the ball more.”

After the game, Elder spoke to the team about stepping up and getting them to realize where they could improve.

“Be the man. Be the one who wants to score the goal. If I don’t get the goal then I sprint back and start again,” Elder said. “Some of you guys are hiding out wide and just serving it in.”

Along with criticism, Elder provided com-

Who: Mustangs vs. Tarleton What: Season-opener football game When: Saturday, Sept. 14 at 4 pm Where: AT&T Stadium in Arlington Tickets: $10. Students who ride the student bus will have to pay $5 in addition to the ticket price for the round-trip transportation.

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Forward Darin Kruzich, junior in radiology, drops his head down against the net while his teammates look on.

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pliments telling them to “take this fire” and practice to do better in the season.

“We are going to get better as long as we don’t go home and blow the game off,” Elder said.

Shavodrick Beaver, senior in criminal justice, goes through a passing drill while at practice Tuesday.

Mustangs sweep Hampton Inn-vitational ASHLEY GIBBS REPORTER

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he volleyball team started its season with a first 4-0 sweep since 2008 in the MSU/Hampton Inn-vitational on Sept.

6-7 at D.L. Ligon Coliseum.

“I think we did well, it was our first weekend out,” head coach Venera Flores-Stafford said. “We still have stuff the we need to work on, but over all a good showing.”

In the round-robin tournament, officials determined the winner based on overall record, head-to-head result, sets won and points allowed. In a battle of four games, MSU came out on top with a 4-0 record and the winner’s title for the MSU/Hampton Inn-vitational.

Players shared their excitement about the

winning sweep in the tournament and anticipation for the season.

“This weekend felt great, we played really well together,” Caitlin Wallace, senior in exercise physiology, said, “I am ready for the season to start it’s revenge time.”

Sarah Rosinke, freshman in pre-med, said, “There is so much great chemistry going onto the court. I am definitely ready for the season to start.”

Flores-Stafford said the players’ performance last weekend alluded to the start of the season.

“This was our first time with some different competition,” she said. “We need more consistency in certain areas. Every game I believe we will get better.”

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EIGHT TEAMS IN THE TOURNAMENT: Eastern New Mexico, Emporia State, McMurry, MSU, New Mexico Highlands, Northwestern Oklahoma, Southwestern Oklahoma and Southern Nazarene.

SEPT. 6 • MSU beat McMurry 25-23, 25-17, 25-12 and 25-22 • MSU beat Northwestern Oklahoma 25-14, 25-19 and 25-22 SEPT. 7 • MSU beat Southwestern Oklahoma 30-28, 25-16, and 25-19 • MSU beat Southern Nazarene at 25-18, 2514 and 25-17, guaranteeing the Mustangs the meat championship.

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Sarah Rosinke, a freshman in pre-medicine, goes up for a serve Sept. 7.

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