The Rambler, Volume 93 Issue 1

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Student joins in Gaza Freedom March College Life, page 4

O.D. Bounds inducted into Hall of Fame Sports, page 6

Tailgate party continues, game moved Jonathan Resendez

jlresendez@mail.txwes.edu

Despite a last-minute schedule change, Wesleyan students and alumni still plan to bring the noise in support of the bastketball teams Jan. 23.

The Rammin’ Slammin’ Tailgate Party was originally schedule to create a strong

presence for a nationally televised basketball game versus Jarvis Christian College.

Gina Phillips, director of development and alumni relations, said the school was originally told the game would be televised nationally and broadcast over the Web. After winter break, the school was notified that the date had changed.

“Sometimes you don’t have a lot of control over that stuff,” she said.

Phillips said a large portion of the board of trustees and alumni board RSVP’ed and still plan to attend.

“We need a big crowd at games anyways,” she said.

“And we’re going to try and get some groups to come back.”

The Wesleyan game versus Huston-Tillotson college from Austin, TX, will air on College Fan Sports Network, a CBS affiliate, on Jan. 28 as the NAIA conference game of the week.

Kevin Millikan, athletic director, took the schedule change in stride but would have preferred the original air date.

Ad signs get attention Melissa Bates Mdbates@mail.txwes.edu Standing at 7 feet tall, new ad signs have heads turning campus-wide.

The eight kiosks feature campus and corporate advertisements. Four are on the mall, one at every corner, two near the parking lot for the administration building and two near the dorms. A ninth structure is in the administration parking lot and is a bus stop.

The kiosks were the idea of Pati Alexander, vice president of enrollment and student services. Last spring Alexander saw a disabled student waiting in the rain for a Mobility-Impaired Transportation Service (MITS) bus to pick them up.

Alexander wondered if there was a way to get a shelter on campus for students waiting on transportation in inclement weather.

The students may not be able to wait inside a building for fear of missing their ride, said John Gonzales, community outreach coordinator.

Gonzales set out to make Alexander’s idea a reality. He tried to get an old bus stop shelter from the Fort Worth Transportation Authority, but that didn’t pan, out so he did a Google search for bus stop shelters and came across the company MSS Media.

MSS Media provides bus shelters and kiosks free of charge to universities. Two sides of the kiosk will be used by the company for advertising purposes, and the third side is for use by the university. The plan started to form around mid-summer and gained more steam around September of last year.

The university earns 10 percent of all advertising revenue. The money will be put back into the marketing of Texas Wesleyan.

“I believe Ms. Alexander’s intent is for any money, it’s not going to be much, we know it’s not going to be much for this program, but that money to come back to this department to help this department market the university,” Gonzales said.

Gonzales said the university needs more marketing because he’s come across several people who do not know that Texas Wesley-

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“Part of the reason it would have been better is because we advertised it for that date,” he said in reference to flyers handed out for the tailgating.

“We’re still honored to be a part of it.”

Alumni relations is also collaborating with the admissions department to use the party as a way to appeal to prospective students.

H1N1 vaccine now on campus

Jonathan Resendez

jlresendez@mail.txwes.edu

Rebecca Moore | Rambler Staff Students express mixed feelings over the eight new advertisement signs on campus.

The H1N1, commonly known as swine flu, vaccine is now available for all students, faculty and staff through the health services department free of charge. Vaccines are avaiable by appointment.

Also, Tarrant County Public Health and the Wesleyan health services department are hosting a clinic from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Feb. 16 in the Louella Baker Pavillion.

“People can come and get free information and a vaccine if they want to,” said Paige Cook, coordinator of health services.

More than 1.5 million cases and 23,000 deaths as the result of of swine flu have been reported worldwide. As of January, 203 swine flu deaths were reported by the state.

The Texas Department of State Health Services ordered 7.24 million doses of the vaccine in December and expects to receive nearly 13 million doses by the end of the month.

“They’re going up all over now,” Cook said in reference to clinics offering the vaccine.

“There was a bigger shipment than people wanting vaccine.”

Free vaccines will also be available in the Polytechnic High School auditorium from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Jan. 22.

Contact Cook at 817-5314948.

Morton fitness center scheduled for November completion Jonathan Resendez

jlresendez@mail.txwes.edu

After months of expectations and nothing to show except for a large sign, construction has officially begun for the Jack and Jo Willa Morton Fitness Center.

General contracting firm Thos. S. Byrne finalized the plans and chose sub-contractors throughout mid-December for the 10,000-squarefootfacility. Bill Bliebdrey, senior vice president of finance and administration, said the building will cost about $3 million.

“The timeline right now – end date – is at the beginning of November,” said Nate Hernandez, superintendent of the project for Thos. S. Byrne.

Hernandez said they officially started Jan. 12 but couldn’t move dirt or do any-

thing with the floor slab until the utilities were finished.

Demolition of the parking lot and prepping the soil for the foundation are the beginning activities, he said, followed by installing the roof and exterior skin which will be made out of structural steel. Construction crews will lay brick to finalize the outside of the building before moving to the interior.

Hernandez’ said the construction has gone “smooth as can be.”

Ken Dunson, director of facilities operations, said the facility will feature standard fitness rooms along with a room for cardio and yoga classes, shower facilities and possibly a meeting room.

“It’s not just for athletes,” he said. “It’s for the general student population, and I think it’s something that’s been

needed for a long time.”

AAron Whaley, assistant dean of students for campus involvement, said the new facility will be a vast improvement over the current fitness center, which measures in at about 1,000 square feet.

“It’s going to put us on a scale with other universities and centers,” he said. “Everything is an improvement, and this addition to the Wesleyan community is something that was definitely needed.”

Whaley said the cardio area is slated to have five elliptical machines, five treadmills, two elliptical bikes and two stairsteppers, athough the plans aren’t final.

Student life is hoping to have more than 30 machines and stations for the weight area as opposed to the 10 that are currently available, Whaley wrote in an e-mail.

Rebecca Moore | Rambler Staff Construction temporarily closes two-thirds of student and faculty parking.

Although the costs for entry aren’t finalized, students will

have free access to the center, while faculty, staff and outsid-

ers will be charged a nominal fee, Bliebdrey said.

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Opinion

January 20 , 2010

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Ignorance erupts over Haiti’s earthquake Chuck Fain Opinion Editor

cmfain@mail.txwes.edu

Recently, a tragedy occurred in Haiti killing anywhere from 50,000 to 100,000 thousand people – and counting. The devastating 7.0 earthquake nearly leveled the capital, leaving the impoverished country, and its shaky government, in shambles.

As we watch the reports of the frantic survivors clawing and digging at the rubble in a desperate search for their loved ones, some of us stop and ask “why?”

Though, there are those few fine patriotic Christians who stop to ask, “why not?”

Enter Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh to give us some much-needed insight into this matter.

You may know Robertson as the mouthpiece for The 700 Club, a religious program involved in sex scandals, financial fraud and hate speech.

Robertson himself is involved in several shady business deals, believes that Christians should rule the world by divine right and has prayed to God for the death of Supreme Court justices on national television.

So, right away, you know we’re dealing with a real straight shooter.

Deciding to further embarrass Chris-

tians with asinine ramblings, Robertson went on his program Jan. 13 and said that the natural disaster was the result of a Haitian pact with the devil.

“And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, ‘We will serve you if you will get us free from the French.’ True story. And so, the devil said, ‘OK, it’s a deal,’” said Robertson, who was apparently present at the time to hear the prince of darkness casually seal the business deal.

Robertson’s summation of the Haitian people seems odd, however.

From this account, one would gather that the island is full of animal sacrificing, devil worshiping heathens.

Actually, according to countrystudies.us, the national religion for Haiti is Catholicism, and more than 80 percent of Haitians consider themselves practicing Catholics.

So, if Haiti is mostly Catholic, and Haiti is full of people serving Satan, then Catholics must, if not worship, at least “serve” Satan.

That would mean that Pat Robertson is also in league with Lucifer because he signed the “Evangelicals and Catholics Together” document in 1994, which is a bureaucratic effort to bind the two religions together.

Thank you, Pat, for trying to warn us about yourself. I think I’ll take a page from your own political strategy guide and pray to God for your death.

Then there’s Rush - the racist, misogynistic drug addict who, for some sadistic reason, still has a talk show.

Limbaugh somehow found time between

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Klan meetings and devouring his safarisized meals to weigh in on this terrible tragedy, telling his listeners not to donate to the Haiti relief fund and trying to turn this catastrophe into racist political ploy.

“This will play right into Obama’s hands,” Limbaugh said on his radio show. “He’s humanitarian, compassionate. They’ll use this to burnish their, shall we say, “credibility” with the black community -- in the both lightskinned and dark-skinned black community in this country. It’s made-to-order for them.

That’s why he couldn’t wait to get out there,

could not wait to get out there.”

He added later, when a caller asked him about donating, “We’ve already donated to Haiti. It’s called the U.S. income tax.”

Thanks again to Rush and Pat for showing us that no matter how large the scale of human suffering and death, there’s always room to push your own self-serving agenda and to generally be an ass.

You’ve set the bar pretty high, gentlemen.

I just hope you get everything you deserve for accomplishing such a feat.

Be professional. Threats are not a joke. as, “all actions, statements, written or non-verbal messages conveying threats of physical or mental injury which are serious enough to unsettle the Jonathan Resendez child’s mind. It includes: expressions of intent to Editor-in-Chief inflict pain, injury, or punishment on the child.” jlresendez@mail.txwes.edu Looks like Jennings covered enough of the definition to get into some litigious problems.

As for the knife, which he said he “sometimes Physical threats aren’t something to take lightly. carried to cut tape, shoestrings and to open If a threat involves castrating a middle schoolboxes,” it only made a bad situation worse. aged child, it’s a crime.

The inappropriate brandishing of weapons Last week, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram seems to be a problem not only in Texas middle reported that Eugene Jennings, a Wedgwood school classrooms, but in NBA locker rooms as Middle School social studies teacher and coach well. Washington Wizards shooting guard Gilof 20 years, threatened to castrate a student bert Arenas was recently under investigation by who was misbehaving. Although Jennings told federal prosecutors and city police after pulling district officials he was only joking, the teacher guns on a teammate who joked about shooting did something that made his “joke” even more Arenas’ injured knee after an argument involving inexcusable: He showed the student the knife he a card game. intended on using.

Like Jennings, Arenas insisted that he was only Think about it. Who would have the gall to tell joking. NBA Commissioner David Stern wasn’t a male teenager, or male of any age for that matlaughing when he suspended Arenas “indefiniteter, that they were goly” because he was “not ing to castrate them? Both Arenas and Jennings have currently fit” to play Jennings isn’t a biolafter Arenas pretended ogy teacher or head to shoot his teammates lost their jobs due to “jokes. of the agricultural in a pre-game warm and livestock departup in Philadelphia. ment, so I doubt the castration he was referring This occurred after Arenas started digging the to was scientific in any way. As a matter of fact, hole he may not climb out of. Likewise, a teacher I’d bet he used a much more crude expression with 20 years of experience under his belt should than the word “castrate.” know better than to threaten a student with such If thinking of other ways to say “castrate” makes a vicious act, especially within earshot of others. you cringe, think of what castrating a human Both Arenas and Jennings’ have lost their jobs involves. Mostly used throughout history during due to their “jokes.” Arenas may still lose even times of war, involuntary castration was the ultimore than that, like his freedom. While Arenas mate way to demoralize and torture an opponent. sits out games and loses somewhere around Even if he and the student were close and the $150,000 a game, Jennings is appealing his terstudent knew he was joking, the fact that it ocmination to the Texas Education Agency. curred in an academic setting and others heard it If I were on that board, I wouldn’t let Jenstill means Jennings was way out of line. Accord- nings teach. I’d tell him, “That’s not a threat, it’s a ing to USLegal.com, threat of harm is defined promise.”

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Plans are in the works for the historic Dillow House to make a comeback after a decade in disrepair.

Wesleyan President Dr. Harold Jeffcoat said the university intends to renovate the dilapidated house, located near the intersection of Vaughn and Collard streets, for use by the community as a business incubation center.

Incubation centers serve to grow start-up businesses.

“It will be staffed by the university,” Jeffcoat said. “Hopefully we will be able to place students in our business school to do something in the order of paid internships in the business incubation center so they can have some hands-on experience and also work with members of the community.”

Jeffcoat said the incubation center will establish itself on the first floor, reserving the second story for offices of community development businesses he hopes will come to southeast Fort Worth. Site preparation is currently underway, he said, and modifications will be made to install an elevator.

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beautiful facility. It’s a throwback to the kind of architecture that was, if not prevalent, certainly was available to families at the turn of the century.”

Innovative Developers Inc., a commercial development and construction firm, will donate its services to help rebuild the Wesleyan landmark as part of celebrating more than 40 years in business.

“We are fortunate to be in a position to offer this gift,” said Glen Hahn, president of IDI, to the Fort Worth StarTelegram. “We are a small business, too, and applaud Wesleyan’s desire to use the property as a business center.”

The original Dillow House was constructed in 1912 by early settlers of the Polytechnic Community back before it was officially considered a part of Fort Worth.

“Upon its founding, the community’s growth was centered around Texas Wesleyan University,” said Louis Sherwood, university archivist and cataloguing librarian, in a 2008 Rambler article.

Samuel Selkirk Dillow established Polytechnic’s first grocery store in 1892, one year after the creation of Texas Wesleyan University (known as Polytechnic College at the time), and built his first house about a year later. According

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an exists or they confuse it for Texas Woman’s.

The signs that MSS Media currently has placed in their two slots are temporary.

“Those [the current signs] were placed by MSS Media as just fillers. They place those

whenever they install kiosks.

So after they install them MSS Media puts those up as just general information posters,” Gonzales said.

Gonzales said that the current signs will be replaced next week by a company that

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John Liontos | Rambler Staff Wesleyan is partnering with Innovative Developers Inc. to renovate the historic Dillow House. Inset: The back porch will be torn down to make room for an elevator.

to Quentin McGown, past president of the Wesleyan alumni association and Fort Worth historian, the Dillows were one of the more affluent families of the community, as well as the biggest-hearted.

“Mr. Dillow was known to loan his delivery mules and

horses to the volunteer fire department when they were needed,” he said.

Ironically, in 1911 Dillow’s first house burned down and he rebuilt what is now the Dillow House.

The Dillow House was donated to Wesleyan by Samuel’s

daughter, Audrey Dillow, in 1979.

The university renovated the building in 1982 and was sometimes used by the alumni association.

In the ‘90s, the house became a popular alumni headquarters but as other facilities

became available, the house’s popularity faded.

bought all of the available slots. The other slots will still belong to Texas Wesleyan and will be used for updates about campus activities, directional arrows to buildings and possibly campus maps at the beginning of each semester as new students learn their way around.

Gonzales said that MSS Media solicits the ads but TWU has “first right of refusal.”

“If it’s something that we feel as a university, that’s controversial or just something we don’t think is appropriate, we have the right to say, ‘No, thank you. We don’t want that advertised on our campus,’”

Gonzales said. Some students expressed displeasure with some of the current signs because of their content. “We will not put the ones about STD or rape back up after an ad has been taken down,” Gonzales said. When a company chooses to advertise with those kiosks their signs

will be in place for a predetermined time through contract.

If there is a break between ad contracts, fillers will be used.

Gonzales said that Alexander and Heath Scott, president of the Student Government Association, chose the current spot of the kiosks. Some students complained of the amount of kiosks visible from the mall, but the four kiosks that surround the mall were placed there so the directional arrows could be used.

“I like them. I think they’re pretty cool. I think it’s useful and helpful, especially with the map because a lot of people aren’t familiar with the campus,” said Thomas Vasquez, junior finance major.

Esther Kautai, sophomore accounting major, said, “They’re kind of helpful because the ones at the dorm have the basketball game schedules.”

One student wasn’t sure what to think the first time she saw the kiosks.

“I thought they were porta-potties,” said Chelsay Blake, freshman theater major. “I’d like to see information about the different organizations and about the campus itself, not stuff that’s going on in the college world but stuff that’s actually happening here on campus.”

Other students aren’t enthused with the amount of kiosks.

“I think they’re beneficial but I think that so many of them aren’t necessary. The advertisements are perfectly fine but they don’t have to take up the entire thing,” said Trent Sandles, freshman English major.

The kiosks will remain on campus for the duration of a 10-year contract with MSS Media. After that, Gonzales said they have the option to buy the kiosks, re-up with MSS Media or move to a different company.

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Marching for Freedom One student shares her story of struggle, victory in Cairo Conner Howell

mhowell@mail.txwes.edu

Traveling on her own for the first time, Wesleyan student Ruqayyah Chamseddine joined more than 1,300 other activists to experience the political and social chaos that has engulfed the region in and around the Gaza Strip as members of the first Gaza Freedom March Dec. 31.

Born in America to a Lebanese family, the junior political science major has actively followed the situation in the Gaza Strip.

“I don’t want to play rhetorical games or try to pretty this up,” she said “I want to document and speak on behalf of the people that are living there that have no right to speak for themselves.”

Blogging and posting videos on her Web site, politicaltheatrics.net, Chamseddine started expressing her views and beliefs on the issue when she was 14.

Chamseddine said she joined the march to put her words into action and bring attention to the blockade of the Gaza Strip and the people living within the walls.

“I wanted to see the people I had been writing about since I was 14,” she said The participants rallied at the Lotus, Sun and Ramses II hotels in Cairo, Egypt and prepared to make their way into Gaza.

But many marchers were forced to stay behind as the political climate in Egypt

Photo courtesy of Joel Saleem Bitar Foreign delegates and local Egyptians marched in demonstration of their beliefs against the border closure of Gaza. People from more than 42 different countries particpated in the 10-day event.

shifted back and forth in deciding to open the border into Gaza. Only 100 marchers were allowed into Gaza through the efforts of Suzanne Mubarak, President Hosni Mubarak’s wife.

When they knew they couldn’t get into Gaza, Chamseddine and the other 1,200 marchers initiated what she called “flash-point marches” in the streets in front of the Cairo Museum.

Chamseddine said the marchers would spread out in groups of four or five to avoid the attention of nearby police

officers and wait for a signal to converge in front of the museum.

Once the signal was given the marchers rushed to the road in front of the museum and blocked all traffic to a standstill.

After 10 minutes of civil protest, riot police began to show up at the scene and, in Chamseddine’s words, “went nuts.”

Police set up barricades and kicked at demonstrators as they attempted to disperse the crowd.

She said many of the pro-

testers adopted what she called a “Ghandi motif ” and tried to meet the riot polices’ aggression with nonviolent resistance by sitting on the ground in front of the barricades.

“But the police just pushed the barricades on top of us,” Chamseddine said “Four people ended up on top of me.”

Chamseddine watched as the riot police used indiscriminant force on the protesters.

“Whenever they attacked people they didn’t care if you were old or young,” Chamseddine said.

Chamseddine tried to protect two older women when she was slapped in the face and dragged by her hair across the street.

“It was a crazy experience, but it was really worth it,” Chamseddine said, “After we were attacked we’d pretty much sit outside and made speeches and were on all sorts of international media, and it got a lot of international attention.”

Over the remainder of the 10-day trip, the marchers in Cairo continued to show their support for the people in the

Gaza Strip while enduring harassment from Egyptian authorities like the Mukhabarat, Egyptian secret police.

Chamseddine filmed some police forces preventing protesters from getting in or out of their hotel at the Lotus through intimidation and physical force.

One officer approached her and asked why she was filming and told her she was not allowed to.

Fluent in Arabic, Chamseddine told him why she was filming and asked him why she wasn’t allowed.

“He told me I was shaming them,” Chamseddine said.

Most of the people prevented from entering the hotel were anti-Zionist Jews against the Israeli occupation in Gaza, who happened to be staying there. Chamseddine took her place among them and served as a translator between the Egyptian police and the people outside and convinced the police to let the people in to use the bathrooms.

However, she was forced to hide in the bathroom as one officer pursued her trying to get more information on her.

Chamseddine said the violence and aggression she experienced in Cairo made the seriousness of the situation in Gaza and the message she wishes to communicate all the more real. It also hasn’t discouraged her from making future plans to return.

“This is humanity versus inhumanity, and I want the world to see it for what it is.”

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Robyn Fisk talks with the first batch of new transfer students about career services.

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Arts & Entertainment

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Food for the soul

The fine arts season begins

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Rambler Review: Notable notes from this week This Week in History: •

Jan. 20, 1930 - first radio broadcast of Lone Ranger

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Jan. 21, 1903 - The Wizard of Oz premiers in NYC

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Jan. 23, 1983 - A-Team premiers on NBC

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Jan. 23, 1991 - Seinfeld premiers on NBC

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Jan. 24, 1935 - First canned beer, “Krueger Cream Ale”

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Jan. 24, 1962 - Jackie Robinson inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame

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Jan. 24, 1901 - First game of baseball played in American League

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Jan. 26, 1962 - The Twist banned from all Catholic schools

Birthdays: Photo courtesy of the music department Performers ring in the spring in the 2008 jazz concert..

Chuck Fain

cmfain@mail.txwes.edu

Spring is here, or it will be, and with the season’s fresh foliage comes a fresh season of fine arts events at Wesleyan.

Before Martin Hall opens its door at 7:30 p.m., Jan. 29 for the annual faculty voice recital, Dr. Brian English will direct A Tribute to Elvis with Kraig Parker performed by the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra 8 p.m., Jan. 23 at Bass Performance Hall.

“Kraig had been asked many times over the years if he would be interested in performing his regular concert program,” said English, who helped Parker with the arrangement of his music for an orchestra setting.

7:30 p.m., Feb. 5 at Wesleyan’s own Martin Hall the season of concerts on campus opens with the 14th Annual

President’s Honor’s Concert.

“The President’s Honors Concert is a major event, it is considered a great privilege to be selected to perform in it,” said performer senior music major Ashlie Averyt.

This annual event, hosted by University President Harold Jeffcoat, features the musical talents of select Wesleyan students.

The Seasons Music Festival: Chamber Choir Invitational Festival begins 7 a.m. and running to 8 p.m. March 6, and the Combined Jazz Band & Wind Ensemble Concert 7:30 p.m., March 11 at Martin Hall.

Pianos play in pairs at Wesleyan beginning 7:30 p.m. on March 23 with the Koebbe-Dunn Duo-Piano Recital, then at 7:30 p.m. on March 25 Martin Hall hosts the 7th Annual Fisher-McDonald Duo-Piano Recital, and the piano wars wraps up

with the Texas Wesleyan University Youth Duo-Piano Competition.

Department Chair Dr. John Fisher said of the spring season, “We have a lot more [events], of course, and some of them are faculty performers.” Visit www.txwes.edu/music for more details.

In the theater, the Scottish play, or Macbeth to those of us without superstition, opens Feb. 18 and runs until Feb. 28 – check www.txwes. edu/theatrearts for full show time details.

Director Chris Hatcher, senior theater major, said, “I look forward to working on this really exciting project. We are working to produce a show that’s accessible and entertaining for a wide array of audiences.”

Macbeth is widely known as Shakespeare’s bloodiest play – and Hatcher plans to preserve the play’s gratuitously gruesome gore. Though

the language will stay intact, the play will be in a more modern setting, depicting a war-torn world of hubris, betrayal and insanity.

Shifting gears a bit, from April 22 – 25 Theatre Wesleyan will put on its 56th annual musical, Working. This look into American working class life is based on a novel by Studs Terkel. Terkel compiled interviews with a broad range of Americans to effectively put his finger on the pulse of the working class.

Directors Debbie Brown (’78) and Mike Skipper (’78), Tony award winning producer for the Broadway musical In the Heights, will be on hand to lend the production some big city savvy.

The pianos are tuned, the bows are rosined and the stage is set. All Wesleyan fine arts need this spring is for you to enjoy them.

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Jan. 20, 1896 - George Burns

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Jan. 20, 1966 - Rainn Wilson

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Jan. 21, 1925 - Benny Hill

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Jan. 22, 1959 - Linda Blair

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Jan. 24, 1949 - John Belushi

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Jan. 25, 1882 - Virginia Woolf

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Jan, 25, 1981 - Alicia Keys

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Jan. 20, 1993 - Audrey Hepburn

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Jan. 21, 1950 - George Orwell

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Chuck’s cheap thrills: money for texts

Chuck Fain

cmfain@mail.txwes.edu

For this edition of Chuck’s Cheap Thrills, the tireless Cheap Thrills team has compiled a listing of Web sites offering textbooks at discount prices. Then, through extensive Google searching, the team compared the bookstore price of the textbook Norton Book of Composition Studies, required at Wesleyan for English 4342, as an example. The Web sites offer different deals on different books, so we advise you to shop around.

To start, get a copy of your schedule. Next, visit the university bookstore’s Web site, accessed from the Wesleyan home page under the “Student Services” link. Click the “Textbooks and Course Materials”

link and pick your classes from the drop box. A picture of your book’s cover (if available) will appear, along with the author’s name, publication information and price for a new or used copy.

The only pertinent information the Web site doesn’t include is the ISBN number, which is the preferred method of searching for textbooks. The Cheap Thrills team was able to find our book by searching the title, though some book titles, such as “College Algebra,” are more difficult to find in this manner. Once you have your list of books, you’re ready to browse these sites and start saving money.

Textbooks.com This site is well designed and easy to navigate. What makes this site particularly appealing is its “guaranteed cash back” offer they have on

selected textbooks. What this means is if you sell your book back to textbooks.com (in a reasonable condition), you are guaranteed to get back half of the book’s new price – even if you bought it used. Orders more than $25 get free shipping and arrive in two to seven business days.

Bookstore price: New - $53.50, Used - $40.25 textbook.com price: New - $22.90 after buy back, Used – $11.45 after buy back Amazon.com I know that you know Amazon has books, but you may not be aware that they also stock a large number of textbooks. Many of its textbooks also include “super saver shipping,” which is free shipping arriving in five to nine business days. Other shipping options are available for ad-

ditional fees.

Bookstore price: New - $53.50, Used – $40.25 amazon.com price: New – $45.80, Used – $34.13 Half.com Half.com is an eBay company and functions like the popular auction site. There is no bidding option, however, the books are only available to buy. Prices vary wildly and are subject to change depending on who’s posting. Shipping will also cost you, something to the tune of $3.99 per item for hardcover books and $3.49 for paperback. Delivery takes up to two to nine days; faster delivery services are available for a larger rate.

Bookstore price: New - $53.50, Used – $40.25 Half.com price: (current prices, subject to change) New –$43.08,

Used - $30.00 Chegg.com Chegg.com is an innovative Web site with an innovative idea. Instead of spending all that money on a textbook that you’ll most likely never use again (unless you fail the class), why don’t you rent your books? That’s right, Chegg.com offers students the substantially cheaper option of renting textbooks for a semester, a quarter or for 60 days. At the end of your rental period, just send the book back, free of shipping charges. They offer free flat rate shipping that arrives within seven – 10 days, as well as other shipping options. Also, Chegg. com plants a tree for every book that you buy or sell through them.

Bookstore price: New - $53.50, Used – $40.25 Chegg.com rental price: $29.49

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Bounds receives national honor Rams keep streak

Joakim Soederbaum

jjsoederbaum@mail.txwes.edu

Former Texas Wesleyan coach O.D. Bounds became the first NAIA coach ever to be inducted into the Golf Coaches Association of America Hall of Fame on Dec. 7, 2009.

Bounds served as golf coach and accounting professor at Wesleyan between 1946 and 1985 and led the university to three national titles (1964, 1969 and 1975).

He also secured seven runner-up and five third-place finishes. After becoming the first coach inducted to the NAIA Golf Hall of Fame in 1972, he earned the NAIA Coach of the Year in 1975 and was the first person inducted into Texas Wesleyan Athletic Hall of Fame in 1976.

“To me, O.D. was a great source of information,” athletic director Kevin Millikan said. “He embodies everything with Texas Wesleyan, not just athletics. He is an icon with great integrity, and it was a blessing to me as a young coach to have such a mentor.”

Bounds involvement reached beyond teaching accounting and coaching golf.

and pick up his mail on an almost daily basis.

“He used to stop by and talk while he was finishing his Dr Pepper,” Millikan said.

Bounds’ wife, Maurice, used to make a box of brownies for the golf team to take on their trips.

“O.D. and Maurice met up with the golf team before church on Sunday morning to make sure they had brownies Courtesy of athletic to take on their trip,” Millikan department said.

O.D. Bounds The brownie tradition lives on today, along with the legHe was an active church acy of O.D. Bounds. Every member and was often seen year Wesleyan hosts the O.D. helping out in the community. Bounds Golf Classic. Current “He taught me to do every- Wesleyan golf coach Bobby thing to the best of my ability,” Cornett’s wife, Denny, makes said Bounds’ grand-daughter, brownies for the event, and sophomore Athletic Training every player eats one before major Grace Savage. “He be- playing in honor of O.D. and lieved in putting 100 percent Maurice Bounds. of yourself into everything The O.D. Bounds Golf Clasyou do. If you are with family, sic also functions as the yearly you give them 100 percent, if family reunion for Bounds’ you are at school, you give it children and grandchildren.

100 percent, and if you are on “My grandpa was everythe playing field, you give it thing to me,” Savage said. “He 100 percent.” taught me so much growing O.D. did not lose contact up. He taught me how to do with the university after his math in my head by playing retirement in 1985. Living a dominoes. He taught me to few blocks away, he used to always treat everyone with walk two laps around campus kindness and respect and

to always look on the bright side.”

O.D. Bounds influenced individuals both locally and nationally. The national champion receives the O.D. Bounds Medalist Trophy, the Wesleyan golf team’s endowment fund carries his name and offers almost $200,000, and every year in the spring the O.D. and Maurice Bounds Scholar/Athlete Award is given to the male and female Wesleyan student athlete with the highest GPA. “I decided to attend Wesleyan because of his influence on me,” Savage said. “I knew that he loved this school and its athletic program very much, and I really wanted to be a part of it, but I didn’t comprehend the extent of all he had done until after being here for a while.”

A father figure not only for his two sons, one daughter and grandchildren, O.D. Bounds was a great role model for the Wesleyan community.

“I have had several faculty on campus tell me what a great teacher and mentor my grandpa was to them,” Savage said. “All I can say in reply is: ‘I know, he was for me too.’”

but the Lady Lions continued to control the match and capitalize on attacks.

The Lady Rams continued to struggle scoring only 14 points in 6 minutes. The Lady Lions went on a 9-0 streak before the Lady Rams answered back.

Eliana Mijangos responded with a fast break, making a 3-point shot with just 1:20 remaining in the half. After a turnover by the Lady Lions, Mijangos scored another 3-point shot with 34 seconds left on the clock. The Lady Rams trailed the Lady Lions 27-21 at the half.

scored in double figures. SAGU’s Michele Michener dominated the boards on both ends with 11 rebounds.

The overall leading scorer was Mijangos with 15 points for the Lady Rams. Andria Mitchell finished with nine points and posted eight rebounds in the game.

After beating the Lady Warriors of Bacone College Jan. 11, the Lady Rams moved to 4-0 in conference play.

The Lady Rams will take on the Lady Bulldogs Jarvis Christian College at 5:30 on Jan.23.

Women’s basketball unable to defeat SAGU

Jacqueline Wittman

jrwittman@mail.txwes.edu

The Texas Wesleyan women’s basketball team (8-5, 4-1 RRAC) lost to Southwestern Assemblies of God University (10-3, 3-1 RRAC) Jan. 14, 6144. The Lady Lions stopped the Lady Rams’ six-game winning streak and 4-0 record in conference play.

The Lady Lions grabbed the early lead with a duo of 3-pointers from point guards Stephanie Hawkins and Heather Jefferson. Five minutes into play, SAGU led 10-4.

The Lady Rams fought back,

In the first half, the Lady Lions shot 29.6 percent to the Lady Rams’ 30.8 percent.

SAGU capitalized at the free throw line, shooting 80 percent from the line, while the Lady Rams shot 37.5 percent.

In the second half, Stephanie Hawkins scored the first points for SAGU with a layup. Two minutes in, the gap increased to 10 and the Lady Lions continued their drive, shooting 56.5 percent from the field to the Lady Rams’ 25 percent.

Hawkins was the leading scorer for SAGU with 13 points. Two other Lady Lions

alive, defeat SAGU Jacqueline Wittman

jrwittman@mail.txwes.edu

The 17th ranked Texas Wesleyan University men’s basketball team (12-4, 5-0 RRAC) continued its winning streak after defeating Southwestern Assemblies of God University 83-72 Jan. 14 in the Sid Richardson Center.

The Rams kept two winning streaks alive and running. The team has won every regular season conference game since Jan. 10, 2009. The streak includes 20 straight wins for the Rams. The Rams also held onto a home-court winning streak, now at 29 games.

The Rams came out strong in the first quarter without committing a turnover until 13 minutes into the game. An assist from Brian Wanamaker to Hector Mukweyi got the Rams going in the first quarter with a slam-dunk in the first minute. Mukweyi went on to complete four alley-oops in the first half. The SAGU Lions got on board near the 16th minute mark when Matt Allbritton completed a 3-pointer.

The Rams led 32-16 with four minutes left in the first half. Sheldon Brown narrowed the point gap for the Lions with a 3-pointer with less than two minutes remaining.

The Rams kept the momentum alive and finished the first half 40-26.

A 3-pointer by Ronald Horn

with six minutes remaining narrowed the gap as SAGU trailed 76-70.

Jamel White answered with a 3-pointer to push the Rams back into a comfortable lead.

The Rams held the Lions from any chance at victory with their strong defense, ranked No. 1 in the NAIA allowing opponents to shoot only 36.6 percent from the field. The Rams held SAGU to 37.7 percent from the field.

Coach Terry Waldrop reached his 200th win as the Rams took a 69-59 win against Texas College on Jan. 7, making the win over SAGU his 203rd.

The Rams shot 45 percent from the line while SAGU shot 30 percent.

White was the leading scorer with 24 points and 6 rebounds. Mukweyi also kept the Lions quiet with a doubledouble, scoring 19 points and 11 rebounds. Wanamaker, ranked third in the NAIA in assists per game, provided 10 points and five assists. Jeremy Smith and Terrell Henry finished with 11 points each.

James Ford was the leader of the Lions with 18 points.

Teammate Ronald Horne provided 17 points and seven assists.

The Rams continue conference play as they take on the Jarvis Christian College at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 23.

Wesleyan Week-inSports • The Lady Rams Volleyball team’s defensive specialist Lauren Hinojos was awarded with with NAIA Scholar-Athlete honors for her performance on and off the field.

• The Lady Rams Soccer team’s senior defender Danielle Parks and junior midfielder Jacqueline Wittman became only the second and third player in women’s soccer to receive the NAIA Scholar-Athlete honor at Texas Wesleyan.

• The Rams Soccer team’s senior forward Theo Nabassi and junior goalkeeper Joakim Soederbaum also earned NAIA ScholarAthlete honors for 2009.

Rebecca Moore | Rambler Staff TWU’s Hector Mukweyi against SAGU.

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