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Fall enrollment ‘remains flat’ Other Texas school’s continue to show increases ETHAN METCALF NEWS EDITOR

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nrollment remained relatively steady as 205 more freshmen enrolled at Midwestern State University than last fall, resulting in a slight decrease in total enrollment, which dropped from 5,916 students in 2012 to 5,870 this fall.

Vice President for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management Keith Lamb said the official numbers are close to what administrators predicted for this year’s budget, which was drafted around the assumption that enrollment would total 5,900 students.

“We knew we needed an increase in the freshman class of around 230 to 250 students

ALEX VAN ALLEN, sophomore history major, said we need to spend more effort getting campus more well-known, even around Texas. “In Cedar Park, they don’t know where I go (to school).”

JESSICA NORMAN, junior art major, said there needs to be more activities on campus. “Lots of students only come up here for class.”

to remain even, so our budget target was 5,900 students,” Lamb said. “We are within 30 students of that goal, so we are half a percent away from budget.”

Lamb said he is happy with enrollment remaining flat after the university endured three years of steady decline in student population since 2010.

“We had two years of fairly large decreases and it was very, very hard, financially, to make budget. We were able to, but it was very difficult,” Lamb said. “This year we were able to make budget without increasing student tuition.”

Lamb said the average student should be concerned with enrollment because a drop

JOSE SANCHEZ, sophomore in social work, also suggested doing more with outreach, sending ambassadors to high schools and other college. Plus, he said, we need to continue “keeping tuition low an`d (providing) more award money….”

KASSANDRA ALONSO, sophomore in nursing, said people outside of the area have never heard of the school. “(We) need more publicity.”

usually results in an increased tuition rate because that is the single largest portion of a school’s funding.

“If enrollment continues to go down, revenue goes down and you have to do two things,” Lamb said. “You have to cut expenses and you have to increase revenue. Fortunately, we did not increase tuition this year, but that trend cannot go on forever with low enrollment. That’s one reason the average student should be interested in enrollment.”

University President Jesse Rogers said new initiatives to increase recruitment have been instituted to bring in more students to replace last year’s large number of graduates.

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“If (the) cafeteria had better food that would be awesome,” SHAELA KOBS, sophomore in nursing, said.

Student Government committee changes election procedure after alleged fraud last fall.

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adio and television personality Drew Pinsky, better known as Dr. Drew, will share his expertise in relationships and addictive behaviors during the first event of the Artist-Lecture Series in Akin Auditorium on Sept. 23.

Board-certified Pinsky earned his fame as a practicing physician by starring in the reality show Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew and his own talk show Dr. Drew on Call. He also stars on his nationally syndicated radio talk show Loveline.

“The committee feels that bringing Dr. Drew to MSU will build that bond between the community and the student body,” Rickey Santellana, chair of the Artist-Lecture Series committee, said.

The 12-members committee meets

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Day of Service this Saturday MIRAE DUNCAN REPORTER

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o get students involved while also giving them a better feel of the Wichita Falls area, the sixth annual Great Day of Service will take place on Sept. 28 at various locations around Wichita Falls.

“Participating in the Great Day of Service gives students an opportunity to participate in service projects in the Wichita Falls community and it connects students with individuals in the community and other fellow students,” Kevin Bazner, assistant director of student development and orientation at MSU, said.

Volunteer organizations such as Habitat for Humanity, Wichita Falls Area Food Bank, Camp Fire and Faith Mission will be

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Homecoming Changes FallsFest Returns pg. 4

“We could use a stronger sports program,” MARANDA RODRIGUEZ, freshman in kinesiology and member of the track team, said. “Start a baseball team. Everyone likes watching them.”

Dr. Drew to speak at Lecture Series

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Festival kicks off this Friday in family-friendly Lucy Park

Track Nationals

Jessica Prinner, senior in business finance, returns home with three gold medals. .

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PIETRO WEAVER, freshman in mechanical engineering, said he considered Texas Tech but he could get the same education less expensively at MSU.

CORRECTIONS In the Sept. 4 print edition, one of the photos accompanying this article incorrectly identified Tommy Todd. The information in the online version has been updated and corrected.

In the Sept. 11 print edition, Dylan Sapata’s name was spelled incorrectly. The Wichitan apologizes for the errors.

“(We) need a baseball program,” MORGAN CHOATE, senior in mechanical engineering, said. In addition, she said, “Ninety-five percent of students come to school and choose major based on what will make them money.”

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“It’s a Wichita Falls problem,” EDUARDO JUAREZ, junior in mechanical engineering, said. “The town and the community could support MSU more. Transportation to and from campus could be upgraded.”

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ma,” Rogers said. “Oklahoma’s done so much to keep students at home, they just don’t cross the Red River. We don’t have a 360-degree growing radius, we have a 180-degree radius.”

Lamb said a good opportunity for recruitment lies within that 180-degree radius in the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area.

“Where we thought we would make the most impact in stabilizing enrollment is in Dallas/Fort Worth,” Lamb said. “You have a very very large, rapidly growing metropolitan area just to our southeast, so there’s easy access. In fact, 39 percent of our freshman class is from DFW, which is very very large.”

Now that more emphasis has been put on recruitment, Rogers said he agrees that retention is the next aspect of enrollment that the administration will need to look at.

“I’m not happy with it, nobody is,” Rogers said. “We are putting in plans now, and I’m not exactly sure what they will be, but we’re going to do everything we can to increase our retention rate.”

Rogers said establishing a connection between students and the campus is one way to increase retention.

“We need to do something to get them connected to the university. If I lived in Forth Worth and came to Midwestern, I would come back if I made good friends, if I marched in the band, if I played in theater, if I played a sport, if I wrote for The Wichitan, if I had a connection to the school,” Rogers said. “We’ve got to do everything we can to achieve all those things. We need students here who make friends and feel connected to the university through some kind of program.”

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“We were not bringing in larger freshman classes to replace those high graduation rates,” Rogers said. “So we’ve got to change our recruiting methodology.”

Rogers said the competition between universities to recruit quality students is growing more fierce as shifts in demographics are taking place in Texas.

“Demographics are changing, the college growing rate is flat in Texas,” Rogers said, “so in order to get good students here that are prepared to go to college and can pass, all universities from A&M and Texas Tech to Midwestern State are recruiting qualified students as hard as we can. We have a lot of competition out there.”

Despite Rogers’ claim that enrollment in Texas has flattened, schools such as Texas Tech and West Texas A&M are touting record enrollment numbers.

According to a press release, West Texas A&M had its highest enrollment ever this fall.

“This year’s enrollment increase continues a trend of increasing our student body every year since 2006,” Dan Garcia, vice president for enrollment management at West Texas A&M, said.

Another press release from Texas Tech boasted record enrollment figures for the fourth consecutive fall semester.

“Once again, a record number of students are attending Texas Tech University for their education,” Lawrence Schovanec, interim president at Texas Tech, said.

A report from the Higher Education Coordinating Board projected enrollment in the Metroplex Region for universities to be increasing 3.39 percent while, in the same

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ROBYN RUSERT, senior marketing major, said the campus needs more entertainment, more recreation and more things to do.

“Keep tuition low and offer more financial aid and scholarships,” JESSICA PRINNER, senior in business finance, said.

“More funding for the different schools.”

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“Add more things like the wellness center and activities on campus,” MATT MOURNING, senior in engineering, said.

“Drop some programs and focus on the ones that are successful.”

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Workshop addresses test anxiety T

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Host of Celebrity Rehab, Drew Pinsky, better known as Dr. Drew, will be speaking on campus Thursday, Sept. 26.

DR DREW pg. 1 every spring to brainstorm ideas for the lineup of the Artist-Lecture Series. Anywhere from five to 50 names of artists, performers, musicians, speakers and celebrity personalities are brought to the table for discussion.

“We typically want to bring in one big name for the fall and one for the spring,” Santellana said. “The committee tries to include two speakers and two musicians each semester in the lineup.”

The Artist-Lecture Series is awarded a budget each semester by the Student Allocations Committee to schedule speakers and performers.

“We were allocated about $74,000 for this year,” Santellana said. “We were prepared to invest in a lot of money for Dr. Drew because he is well-known, and he will bring in a large attendance so we spent close to $30,000 of the budget to get him.”

Pinksy’s visit is expected to fill Akin Auditorium with about 400 people from the university and the community.

“This event is expected to have a large turnout because Dr. Drew has brand name recognition due to his popularity in media,” Matthew Park, vice president for student affairs and dean of students, said. “He also will be speaking about prevalent topics in addictive behaviors such as alcohol and drugs, specifically among celebrities, and relationship advice.”

The committee for the Artist-Lecture Series has not had a speaker discussing

SERVICE pg. 1 recruiting volunteers to help out in the community for the day.

Students can sign up to volunteer for an organization online on OrgSync or Saturday morning during registration.

Registration and check-in is from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. in Clark Student Center Atrium. At 9 a.m., volunteers depart to their assigned locations.

Fulton said students need to arrive in the atrium between 8 a.m. and 8:45 a.m., wearing an MSU shirt or a shirt from their organization if possible, to pick up their work-site addresses and information packets.

“I wanted to begin a program that allowed students to learn about our community, the people our volunteer organizations serve and to give back in some way – now and after degrees are earned,” Candice Fulton, assistant chemistry pro-

At the seminar, a handout of the PowerPoint presentation was given to all students he Counseling Center hosted nearly 50 that detailed the tools needed to manage each students during the Test Anxiety Work- step and to help the student conquer their pershop in Sundance Court on Sept. 18., sonal test anxiety.

“I liked the PowerPoint and the third topic of its four-part I liked that she printed out the workshop series. handouts for us,” Barron said.

Led by Reagan Foster, an According to Foster, after a LPC-intern, the workshop folecture, a student retains only cused on symptoms and causes 5 percent of the information of test anxiety such as lack of taught after 24 hours. preparation, fear of failure and “I can’t just listen to the propoor test history. fessor just talk without having During the workshop, stua visual," Margit Odoemene, dents learned ways to help them freshman in nursing, said. "Vibetter be prepared for tests in orsual things make my memory der to reduce their anxiety. better.”

Being better prepared inThis third installment of the volves reinforcing good study academic workshop series was habits and develop good test part of four given to students by taking skills, according to Fosthe Counseling Center which ter. included time management, At the same time, anxiety four steps to a 4.0, test anxiety can be reduced by maintaining MARGIT ODOEMENE and the fourth choosing a career a positive attitude and staying FRESHMAN IN NURSING and major. focused, as well as practicing Choosing a career and major workshop will relaxation techniques and staying physically be held on Sept. 25 from 2 p.m-3 p.m. healthy.

The four different workshops will be fea“I feel like I’ve dealt with test anxiety for a really long time now, and I’m just in a point in tured again in October and November on difmy life where I need some tips,” Nicole Barron, ferent days and at later times in the afternoon junior in management information systems, and evenings for the convenience of students. said.

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these types of topics in the past.

“There is a certain glamour associated with celebrities and the lives they lead,” Park said. “America’s fascination of entertainment is very high.”

Pinsky wrote The Mirror Effect in 2009 to discuss narcissism associated with celebrities and its effect on society. He is an interactive speaker when he discusses these issues in front of an audience.

“Dr. Drew will discuss topics according to questions brought up by the audience,” Park said. “He will most likely invite people from the crowd to the microphone and share his expertise.”

One of the topics Dr. Drew is an expert in is addictive behaviors. In the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, it was found that 22 percent of full-time college students from ages 18 to 22 used illicit drugs within the past month.

“I definitely believe this campus, like many others, has a problem with addictive behaviors such as alcoholism,” Pam Midgett, director of the counseling center, said.

The National Survey on Drug Use and Health also found that 40.1 percent of full-time college students from ages 18 to 22 were binge drinkers. This is equivalent to two out of every five students.

“College is a time when people are stepping into adulthood and figuring out how to cope with stress,” Midgett said.

“Some students find healthy solutions, however, many students experiment with other ways to cope with the stress such as drugs and alcohol.” fessor, said.

Fulton said the goal is to give students an experience they will remember throughout their college years.

“It is a very enlightening and rewarding experience,” Fulton said. “The volunteer organizations around the city are very grateful for the help.”

Returning students said they are eager for this year’s event and hope to get new students involved in the event.

“I’m excited to get back out into the community and help,” Kelsie Allen, sophomore in nursing, said.

New students are taking advantage of the online registration through OrgSync to have the advantage of picking the organization they prefer.

“I wanted to find out what I could do for the community as well as being active in school activity and signing up for this online was the easiest way,” Stacy Lopez, freshman in biology, said.

“This was really helpful for letting me know how to deal with my stress before a test, when I should study and how long I should study for.”

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Voting begins Friday for Homecoming king, queen KEANDRA DAVIS REPORTER

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omecoming nominees must meet new requirements this year in the election that opens Friday if they expect to take the crown due to alleged cheating that took place during last year’s elections.

“This is a test pilot year,” Phillip Mundine, senior in mass communication and by-law co-chair said.

Last year, nominees from Sigma Kappa were allegedly caught asking students for their M-numbers to vote in the election.

Graduate Renee DuBois exposed text messages that were sent to students asking them for their numbers, resulting in the exposure of the alleged vote rigging.

However, there was uproar on campus as to whether or not the reporting of the situation was true.

“There was no proof,” Melody Coffey, Student Government Association president said.

As a precaution to any future cheating, Student Senate bill No.20130 has now taken effect. The bill, which was created by Mundine and Rebecca Stogner of the Student Senate By-Laws Committee, states that it will take more than just a popular vote to win.

Last year’s homecoming queen and member of Sigma Kappa, Lacy Talley, and Renee DuBois declined to comment on the changes made to this year's election.

However, one member of Sigma Kappa said she feels the new bill will have little to no effect on the election process.

"It's a popularity contest," Margaret Kruder, senior in mass communication and member of Sigma Kappa, said. "There's no way around it. People were upset because they didn't win.

That's why they changed it. They changed the rules because people's feelings got hurt."

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Seniors Zach Davis and Lacy Talley were crowned Homecoming king and queen last year after election controversy.

In the bill, sophomore and junior class nominees must have a GPA of 2.25, while seniors must have a 2.5 GPA. The bill also created a point system with different categories. For a candidate to win, excluding the king and queen, he or she must prove community service hours, submit at least two recommendation letters, and win popular vote. Each category will give the candidate a certain amount of points depending on how well they do in each.

“We’re trying to have well-rounded winners,” Coffey said.

The candidate with the most community service hours logged obtains 10 points, while the one with the third highest receives five points. Recommendation letters will be scored based on the content written about the candidate. Letters can give a runner anywhere from zero to 10 points. Voting will

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now only give nominees points based on the percentage of points they receive.

“This will cut down on a lot of fraud activity,” Mundine said.

The Homecoming king and queen will have an additional category. They must prove their membership to organizations, which includes demonstrating leadership skills on and off campus. The person with the most involvement will earn 10 points and last place will receive zero.

To ensure a lower rate of cheating, the homecoming committee will tally up all the points from each category before voting begins. Coffey said this would prevent favoritism among the committee to particular nominees.

Some candidates think the new policies require too much of the students, while others think it creates a fair winner.

“I believe the new system of voting will produce a well-rounded winner due to the categories," Courtney Betts, senior in mass communication and homecoming queen nominee, said. "However, I also didn’t find anything wrong with the way it has been done in the past because ultimately homecoming is a popularity contest and I don’t see the problem with students voting for candidates they like.”

Students may only vote one time, and can now vote for all classes. Another change to this year’s homecoming election is the length of the process. Mundine said nothing could be done last year because the lack of time that the committee had to review.

“Had we caught it in time, we would have been able to investigate,” he said.

This year it will take five weeks for anyone to be crowned to allow time for students who question the election.

“I’m hoping this goes a lot smoother, and it already seems like it has been,” Coffey said.

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FallsFest bigger, better than ever THE SECOND OF A SERIES

and special guest, Crosswind. On Saturday, the Marshall Tucker Band will be playing with allsFest, a yearly outdoor festival in Twicebroken and special guest, Estilo Tejano.

“The number of people expected to attend Wichita Falls, will be held at Lucy Park Sept. 28-29 for its 28th year. Unfortu- this two-day event can never really be pinnately last year’s event was rained out, but pointed,” Sweatt said, “It usually ranges as to how many people show up, weather has an this year is expected to be bigger than ever.

“Last year FallsFest got rained out so we’re effect.”

FallsFest is always looking for volunteers, amplifying this year’s FallsFest to be bigger Sweatt said, and MSU stuand better to make up for lost dents, groups and organizatime,” Merrill Sweatt, repretions often volunteer at the sentative of M. Lynne Designs event as there are many things and co-publicity chairwomto do around the park. an, said.

“Usually we get organizaEndeavors to make the festions from the university that tival one of the best yet began want to volunteer at the festiwhen the 73-member steering val. Where and how they volcommittee undertook their unteer varies on the different respective challenges in early areas around that park that 2012. Their dedication, along ASHLEY GIBBS we’re needing help with,” Swewith over 1,700 communiREPORTER att said. ty volunteers providing over Sweatt said she hopes the 12,000 hours of service, will again bring another successful FallsFest. Lo- community will take advantage of the oncecal businesses also play a fundamental role in-a-year event.

“Everyone should definitely come out and through their generous sponsorships.

The outdoor festival will have fun and en- have a good time," she said. "It’s going to be a blast!” tertainment for all ages.

General admission prices are $6 when pur“There will be tons of food and games, rock climbing, a big swing, power jump, pony chased in advance and $8 at the gate before rides, bands and entertainment,” Sweatt said. 5 p.m. Tickets are $10 when purchased after Live bands will perform Friday and Satur- 5 p.m. FallsFest begins Friday from 5 p.m. to day nights. On Friday, the Casey Donahew 11 p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.

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Machaela Welch, junior in social work and member of Social Workers Acting Together, describes her organization. Welch said, “Our organization, S.W.A.T., is open to all students majoring in social work. This is a service organization.”

Organizations seek new recruits Students respond well to Engagement Week

Darien Roach, the secretary for Spreading the Profession of Athletic Training, said this he Student Development and Orienta- is the first time for SPAT to be involved in protion Office hosted “Engagement Week” motions like Engagement Week, and he does from Sept. 16-21, the fourth week of the see the benefits.

“What we are trying to get from this fair fall semester. is to get our name out to the The aim was to get new and student body and let people returning students involved in know about SPAT,” Roach the variety of student organisaid. zations offered on campus.

Many student organizaThe week kicked off with tions have already had meettwo organization fairs located ings prior to the week’s events. in the Comanche Suites of the Roach said they already have Clark Student Center.

30 new members, but hoped Spanish Club member Sadito gain between 10-15 more. ka Barley said she sees the benSome officers decided to efits of attracting students who keep it simple in their apare not in organizations as well DARIEN ROACH proaches during engagement as students who are already inSPAT SECRETARY week. volved on campus.

“We’re just trying to in"Everybody is in one spot,” Barley said. “So we kind of get more people form people about it,” Katee Erwin, senator from everywhere just walking by looking at of Social Workers Acting Together, said.

In addition to the student organizations our booth – rather than just sitting in the student center and nobody is paying attention fairs, the Student Development Office also to us or anything like that. But here it’s like hosted a leadership conference on Sept. 19, everybody knows what this is for, like you which housed 92 students. Students were know different organizations trying to show- encouraged to download the guidebook app which will send them updates of events becase what they do.”

More than 50 student organizations ing held on campus throughout the academic year. signed up for the fair.

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“What we are trying to get from this fair is to get our name out to the student body.”

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Cyclists bring home medals at Nationals PHOTO BY CADEN BURROSS / WICHITAN

Medeleine Steele, sophomore in fine arts, looks over the track as medics tend to her rival. Steele suffered minor injuries, only moments earlier, in the same crash that left UW Seattle’s Nancy Williams unconscious.

“I walked away from the crash with a cut on my nose from my glasses, some pretty impressive road rash and a few dramatic bruises,” Steel said. “My helmet saved me from any serious head injury, cracking in the impact.” Steele took seventh place in the Women’s Sprint event, earlier in the day.

PHOTO BY CADEN BURROSS / WICHITAN

After attacking off the front of the field, with 30 laps to go in the Points Race, Jessica Prinner, Senior in Business Finance, handily won her second national championship of the day. “I think that was my favorite victory of the weekend, because it was totally unexpected,” Prinner said. “I looked back and they were totally gone, nobody was there.”

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Though his fitness, nutrition and training were all lined up for nationals, Cory Scott, graduate student in exercise physiology, said “There were fewer participants this year compared to last, the competition was a higher level, allowing for newcomers to gain a wealth of experience and the veterans to race fast.” Scott placed 14th in the 4k Individual Pursuit.

Eight members of the cycling team, Jessica Prinner, Angela Streadwick, Madeleine Steele, Ashley Weaver, Sean Brown, Erick Goytia, Cory Scott and Cameron Lowery, placed fifth at Collegiate Track Nationals in Colorado Springs, Colo., Sept. 21.

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Volleyball on four-game losing streak PHOTO BY LAUREN ROBERTS / WICHITAN

PHOTO BY LAUREN ROBERTS / WICHITAN

Emily Saville, senior in pre-physical therapy, uses her head to keep the ball in front of her in the game against East Central University Sept. 20. MSU defeated ECU 3-2. The women’s soccer team will battle Angelo State Sept. 26 at 7 p.m.

Sarah Garfield, freshman in education and business, and Caitlin Wallace, senior in exercise physiology, attempt to block the ball against Eastern New Mexico University in D.L. Ligon coliseum Tuesday. NMU won 3-0. The next game will be at home versus Texas Woman’s University in D.L. Ligon Coliseum Sept. 27 at 7 p.m.

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