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OPINION
Stop glorifying murderers, it’s wrong
Alumnus of the Year
Valentine’s Day survival guide
The Finest Hours
Baseball and softball season preview
Human Trafficking Awareness Night
Today’s media has turned murderers into glorifiedceleberties.
Bill Hailey was named Alumnus of the Year.
Everything you need to know to make this Valentine’s Day special.
The Finest Hours, based on a true story, details the Coast Guard’s daring rescue of trapped oil workers.
Baseball and softball teams look to bounce back from disappointing seasons.
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Valentine’s Day survival guide
Che
esy
pick
-up lin
es
I am writing a term paper on the finer things in life and
I was wondering if I could interview you?
Are you a parking ticket? Because you have fine written all over you.
Can I have a kiss on the cheek? I want to be able to say a gorgeous girl kissed
me on Valentine’s Day.
Can I tie your shoe? Because I can’t have you
fall for anyone else.
I am Mr. Right. I heard you were looking
for me?
Hi, I have big feet.
I bought you 12 roses for Valentine’s Day - 11 real and 1 fake. I will love you until
all of them die and wilt away.
Do you happen to
have a map? I seem to have
gotten lost in your eyes.
I just noticed you noticing me
and I am just giving you
notice that I noticed
you.
Once you go cupid, the rest are just stupid.
My feet are getting cold . . . because you’ve knocked my socks off.
Let’s commit the perfect crime. I’ll steal your heart
and you’ll steal mine. Is your dad an art thief? Because you’re gorgeous.
If you were a library book I would check
you out.
Where do you
hide your wings?
Did the sun come up or
did you smile at me?
I’m not a photogra-pher but I can picture
us together.
Here I am. What are your other
two wishes?
Can I borrow your phone? I
want to call your mom and thank her.
No wonder the sky is grey. All of the blue is in your eyes.
Can I have your number? I lost mine.
Sweep your valentine off his or her feet
Texas Wesleyan warns students of the dangers of human traficking in DFW.
Symposium looks at the past
Alumnus receives highest honor
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The 2016 edition of the Faye C. Goostree Women’s Symposium is taking a look at Texas Wesleyan’s past.
Dr. Brenda Taylor Matthews, the Pate Professor of History and chair of the Social Science Department, and Dr. Elizabeth Alexander, the A.M. Pate Professor of Early Ameri-can History, will describe what the phrase “becoming Texas Wesleyan” means, Matthews said.
“This year Dr. Matthews and I will be showing slideshows and talking about the role women played at this college in the early 1900s,” Alexan-der said.
The symposium is 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. on Feb. 16 at Martin Hall and is free and open to the public. There is a luncheon at Lou’s Place afterward.
Matthews, Alexander and univer-sity archivist Louis Sherwood have written a book, The College on the Hill: Texas Wesleyan University, 125 Years of Tradition, 1890-2015. The book is expected to be available by Feb. 16 so it can be purchased at the symposium.
Wesleyan was originally Polytech-nic College and opened in 1890, Matthews said.
“The whole area around the col-lege became Polytechnic Heights,” she said.
Around 1910, the Methodist
GOOSTREE. page 3
Fifty years after he started teaching full-time at Texas Wesleyan, Dr. Bill Hailey was given one of the univer-sity’s highest honors.
Hailey, 81, was named Alumnus of the Year at the Alumni Medal Dinner in November 2015.
“I told the audience at the awards dinner that we were celebrating our 125th anniversary, and the scary thing is, I have been there half that time,” Hailey said. “Some very kind people said it’s about time. If you hang around long enough, they have to do something.”
Hailey was chosen because of his contributions to the university as a student, employee and alumnus, DeAwna Wood, director of alumni relations, wrote in an e-mail.
“His years of dedication and ser-vice merit the honor,” Wood wrote.
Hailey said he started at Wesleyan in 1953 as a student, graduated in 1957 with an undergraduate degree in social sciences and began working at the university the next year in the admissions office.
“My adult life has been Texas Wes-
leyan,” he said. “Between my junior and senior years I worked as an ad-missions counselor, as an outside salesman, recruiting students. My admissions job included a room on campus, and my first married apart-ment was on campus.”
Hailey ran the admissions office for three years. He was the only full-time employee there, and his assign-ment was to recruit enough resident students to fill two newly-built dor-mitories.
He left his job and started gradu-ate school at Texas Christian Univer-sity. In 1961, he took a job teaching fifth grade at Glencrest Elementary School in Fort Worth because he needed to be working.
At the time, his wife, Barbara Ivy Hailey, taught high school mathe-matics in Fort Worth and Arlington.
“We learned my wife was going to have a baby, so I had to get a job,” Hailey said. “She was a teacher and I went to school. In those days once you knew you were pregnant you had to resign.”
Hailey returned to Wesleyan, grad-uating in 1965 with a master’s in edu-cation. That year he was hired as a member of the education faculty.
“The first semester I had five class-es to teach and was expected to be working on my doctorate, so I was going to North Texas,” Hailey said.
“At the first faculty meeting, the dean of the college said he was going to
rowan Lehr [email protected]
MARTINEZ. page 3
Photo courtsey of DeAwna WoodBill Hailey was named Alumnus of the Year.
Photo by Chuck Greeson From left to right; Brenda Taylor Matthews, Louis Sherwood, Elizabeth Alex-ander.
New tennis coach aces first season MichaeL acosta
Angel Martinez has played soccer, football and tennis most of his life – but he didn’t think he would ever be-come a college tennis coach.
Martinez, who coached at Grape-vine High School for 16 years, was contemplating retirement before be-ing hired by Texas Wesleyan in 2014; the women’s tennis team returned to play after a 13-year absence last fall.
He was offered the job by Athlet-ic Director Steve Trachier, who he worked with at Grapevine.
“When he (Trachier) left, we be-came more than athletic director/coach,” Martinez said. “We became friends. We have a very similar phi-losophy, what we want out of our stu-dent athletes. When he took the job at Wesleyan, he said when we get a tennis program at Wesleyan I’d be on his list.”
Trachier said Martinez is as good as they come.
“He’s a kid magnet, and a man of integrity,” Trachier said. He’s good for kids. He cares about them, builds re-
lationships with them, their families, and he exemplifies everything we want in a coach.”
The irony is, tennis wasn’t even Martinez’s main sport when he was growing up as a self-described Army brat. He moved around living in Ger-many and El Paso, but he spent al-most all of his childhood in Madrid, Spain.
“I absolutely loved the culture in Spain,” Martinez said. “Definitely dif-ferent than it was here in America. There, a lot of people are very friend-ly.”
Martinez said moving from Spain to America was scary because grow-ing up on an Air Force base he lived a sheltered life, with his mom Nery working and his dad Angel working at the U.S. Embassy in Spain.
“I remember getting on a military standby flight, landed at McGuire Airforce Base and having to catch an-other flight to El Paso,” Martinez said.
Growing up, Martinez’s main sport was soccer. But he said, he really en-
Photo by Little JoeAngel Martinez just completed his first season at Wesleyan after coaching 16 years at Grapevine High School.
BILL HAILEY. page 3
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Thumbs up to new Speak Up app.
Thumbs up to the marriage proposal at Homecom-ing.
Thumbs up to new boot camp at Morton Fitness Center.
Thumbs up to men’s basketball team winning its Homecoming game.
Thumbs down to increase in parking tickets.
Thumbs down to food changes in Dora’s.
Thumbs down to slow Wi-Fi.
Thumbs down to fewer yoga classes at Morton Fit-ness Center.
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The media should quit glorifying murderers
Today’s media is packed with stories about murderers and serial killers, which has turned these criminals into celebrities rather than monsters.
People have the right to know about these people and the horrible crimes they have com-mitted, but is it necessary to make a full-length feature film, documentary or television series detailing their lives and crimes?
Although often entertaining and interesting, these films and programs shed light on people who do not deserve it, leaving the victims for-gotten and causing their families to relive the horrible tragedy of losing a loved one.
Take Jeffrey Dahmer, Billy the Kid, the Col-umbine killers, Ted Bundy and Gary Ridgway. They are all household names, yet few people remember the names of their victims.
And yes, studying Adolf Hitler and the Ho-locaust is important, and the victims should always be remembered and honored. But is it really necessary to keep republishing Mein Kampf and making movies about Hitler’s per-sonal life?
These people have been so glorified in the cinema that they have become well known and often talked about.
Even O.J. Simpson, who was never convicted of murder, has a new television series devoted to his trial. Has anyone ever devoted nearly as much time and money to remembering his ex-wife Nicole and Ronald Goldman, the man who died with her?
Killers become an influence on society.They do not deserve this attention and
should not be remembered, nor talked about and “celebritized.” This kind of attention fu-els the egos of the killers still alive, and some probably enjoy the glorification. They seek the fame. The ones who have died are sometimes seen as martyrs by their followers.
Also, potential criminals get ideas from
these stories, and some become copycat killers.Look at the people who have shot up schools
and said they were inspired by the Columbine killers.
The First Amendment of the Constitution guarantees people the right to free speech, the right to express themselves freely through art,
writing and media even if what they express is violent or immoral.
But that still does not make it right. The people producing media about these murder-ers should take into consideration the possibil-ity that they are turning criminals into heroes. That they are inspiring potential killers. And
that they are influencing the minds of young people.
Every action has a reaction, and creating this kind of media pollutes our society, fueling conspiracy theories, creating new murderers and spotlighting evil human beings.
Racism in movie industry is inexcusable
EDITORIAL
Want to know the last five movies to win Best Picture at the Oscars?
Birdman, 12 Years a Slave, Argo, The Artist, and The King’s Speech.
Only one of them had a black leading actor. What about the Best Actor winners? Only
two black men, Jamie Foxx and Denzel Wash-ington, have won in the last 15 years.
In fact, only 32 of 2,900 people who have won an Academy Award have been black, ac-cording to huffingtonpost.com. This is unac-ceptable.
In a country that pledges equality for all, the lack of black people being honored at the Os-cars proves that discrimination is still imple-mented into the voting system, whether it’s intended or not.
This becomes even clearer when you look at the Academy itself, which is “93 percent white, 76 percent male, average age 63,” according to Darnell Hunt, director of UCLA’s Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies.
The result is that “people are voting for
things that resonate with their experiences, and unfortunately it’s too narrow a slice,” Hunt writes.
On Jan. 22, the Academy took an amazing leap and voted to increase the diversity within the board. That was a fantastic moment for both the film industry and the black commu-nity.
However, the fact remains, it’s 2016. Why did it take so long?
The answer is simple: Racism still exists to-day. Then again, we knew that. The topic has taken over mainstream American media and people are questioning the very ideology we subscribe to. America boasts equality, but in 2016, we still find the issue as intense as ever.
Only now are we starting to see cracks in our own Americana. Now those who are af-fected are finally getting a voice in the form of Jada Pinkett Smith and Spike Lee, both promi-nent film presences.
“But, How Is It Possible For The 2nd Con-secutive Year All 20 Contenders Under The Actor Category Are White? And Let’s Not Even Get Into The Other Branches. 40 White Actors In 2 Years And No Flava At All. We Can’t Act?!,” Lee wrote in an Instagram post.
Both Lee and Smith have issued a boycott of this year’s Academy Awards. This has led to backlash and praise for the boycott.
I believe this is something that will make matters worse. Why push the gap further?
Why separate the very institution you’re trying to unite? If you want to have something recog-nized, why would you take it away?
The Academy and its reforms stand as a metaphor for the time we find ourselves in
now. The fight that was won within the Acad-emy is only one battle in the war on racism. Changes are being made but the issue is still present in an ever-changing culture.
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Board of Education decided that it wanted a flagship school in Texas and Fort Worth had to battle with Dallas for the plan, Matthews said.
“Fort Worth was originally win-ning but Dallas edged out a win in the end, and the school that was created is now known as Southern Methodist University,” Matthews said.
Once SMU was established, Poly-
technic College became Texas Wom-an’s College in 1914 and became financially strapped due to funds be-ing used elsewhere, Alexander said.
“During that time, the school was very poor,” Alexander said. “Some students paid their tuition with pro-duce, even some of the faculty and staff along with the president of the university lived on campus.”
In 1934, Texas Woman’s College
became Texas Wesleyan College, and men could attend. TWC ended the decade in better financial shape, Alexander said.
“At one point the president of the university placed a big neon lighted sign on top of the administration building that said ‘Texas Wesleyan,’” Alexander said. “It was a sign to the Fort Worth community that Wesley-an was here to stay.”
Chuck Greeson, Wesleyan’s pho-tographer and videographer, took some of the pictures that are in the book.
“I took hundreds of photos for the book,” Greeson said. “As the photog-rapher for the university, it is my job to document all the photos I take.”
Greeson said everyone involved in the book was “very gracious and had great comments about the photos
I took. I worked on the project for over a year, so it is good to finally see it in fruition.”
The Faye C. Goostree Women’s Symposium is 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. on Feb. 16 at Martin Hall and will be followed by a luncheon at Lou’s Place. The luncheon is $18 for the general public, $15 for faculty and staff and $10 for students; registra-tion is available at txwes.edu.
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MARTINEZcontinued from page 1
pay me $300 to teach a freshman orientation class.”
Hailey studied educational psy-chology and received his doctorate degree in 1968. He became Wesley-an’s dean of education in 1972.
Hailey became provost in 1979 af-ter being chair of the faculty council for several years. He was provost for 11 years, and was interim president for nine months in 1989 and 1990.
“I remember that we joked that the main thing I did was to sign the con-
tract to tear down Ann Waggoner Hall,” Hailey said.
In 1995 he stepped down as pro-vost, but stayed on as a part-time professor for 14 years.
Barbara Hailey died of cancer in 1999. Hailey met his current wife, Linda Lee Hailey, a former director of alumni relations at TCU, in 2005.
They were married in April 2010.Gina Phillips, director of develop-
ment, said the letters Hailey sends to alumni asking for donations to the
university earn the most money.“He is active on the alumni board,
he is a Ram for life,” Phillips said. Hailey continues to speak highly
of Wesleyan and higher education in general.
“Texas Wesleyan is still a place where kids like me can find them-selves and gain and create a better life,” Hailey said.
BILL HAILEYcontinued from page 1
joyed playing tennis more. He didn’t actually get started playing tennis until his sophomore year in high school.
“There was a girl who I really wanted to go out with,” Martinez said. “So I asked my mom what I should do, and she said find out her interests. Well, her interest was ten-nis, so I taught myself how to play tennis and asked her to play. We dat-ed for a year. She’s gone, but tennis is still here.”
Martinez went on to play soccer at the University of Texas at Arlington, because he was a better soccer player than he was a tennis player. He still played intramural tennis because he loved the sport.
He didn’t play soccer for very long because “at the time soccer wasn’t big in the United States,” he said. But he played tennis all through college, and began coaching the sport be-cause he loves it.
“I loved everything about tennis,” Martinez said. “I actually played football in high school and wanted
to play in college even if it was a small school. My coach did nothing for me. So I told myself that if I ever got the opportunity to coach in high school that I would do everything in my power to help the kids get where they wanted to be.”
Martinez began coaching at the high school level in 1984 at Cedar Hill High School. He was there for 15 years and started coaching at Grapevine High School in 2003.
Martinez was named the Wilson/Texas Tennis Coaches Association 5A Coach of the Year and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Coach of the Year for the 2002/2003 season. He’s won United States Professional Ten-nis Association Texas High School Coach of the Year award three times and won United States Tennis As-sociation Starfish National Coach of the Year award in 2009.
Transitioning from high school to
college has been a learning experi-ence, Martinez said.
“I had a situation and I had han-dled it like I would a high school team,” he said, “and the kids got to-gether and said, ‘Coach, really?’ And they were right, I had to back up, kind of eat crow and back up and they were right. It made our bond stronger.”
Freshman tennis player Maggie Brasher loves the way Martinez is with the players.
“He’s really good, really approach-able; if you need something he will do everything he can to help you,” Brasher said.
Senior Alexa Mentesana said Mar-tinez really cares about his players.
“And that’s something different,” she said. “It’s like family – he’s almost like a dad.”
Martinez grades the fall season an A+.
“I love the way the team came together,” he said. “They’re a really tight-knit group of girls.”
Wesleyan posted a successful fall 2015 campaign, winning 57 sin-gles matches, 31 doubles matches and winning one dual competition match, according to ramsports.net.
“If you had told me, going into the fall season, that you’re going to win a championship in every single tournament that you go in except for one and defeat some Division I and Division II schools in those matches, I would’ve said no way,” Martinez said.
Martinez said there’s one thing he has learned throughout his coaching experience
“I’ve learned I don’t know every-thing,” he said. “There’s always places to learn. I learn from other coaches, I learn from drills, and I always learn from my players.”
Photo by: Rowan LehrBill Hailey was named Alumnus of the Year.
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Valentine’s Day survival guide
Che
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Things to do for couples1. Hearts in the Park - Dance the night away at Klyde Warren Park in Dallas.
2. Keith & Margo’s St. Valentine’s Massacre - Solve a murder mystery with your valentine at this fun interactive event at Keith and Margo’s Murder Mystery in Dallas.
3. Backdoor Comedy Valentine’s Day Celebration Share a laugh together at the Backdoor Comedy Club in Dallas.
4. Love is Blind haunted house tour - Take a tour of the Dark Hour Haunted House and witness a horrifying love story in Dallas.
5. Geocaching outdoor scavenger hunt - Go on a real-life treasure hunt all over Fort Worth. For more information visit geocaching.com.
6. Picnic at Trinity Park - Have a romatic dinner outside.
7. Indoor Skydiving - Have a thrilling Valentine’s Day at Ifly Dallas.
8. Go to dinner - Take your date out to eat. 9. Watch an outdoor movie at Coyote Drive In - Enjoy a movie outside in Fort Worth.
Do-it-yourself gifts under $15
1. Sharpie mugs - Make your Valentine a personalized coffee cup with a special message to read every day. For more information: diycozyhome.com
2. Jar of love - Fill a Mason jar full of reasons why you love your valentine. For more information: sunburstgifts.org
3. Paper heart chandelier with pictures - Create a hanging chandelier with
personalized photos of you and your valentine.
1. 50 Shades of Red: Valentine’s Day Soirée - Enjoy dinner, drinks and mingling in your favorite red etire at the House of Blues in Dallas.
2. Be My Valentine Bash! - Try making a connection at this speed dating event in Dallas. Ladies get free make-up touches by professionals.
3. Queen of Hearts: Champagne Brunch - Enjoy a deli-cious breakfast, live music and free mimosas on an outdoor heated patio in Dallas.
4. Valentine’s Day Massacre- Get scared at Moxley Manor Haunted House in Bedford.
5. Throw all the money you’re saving in the air - Make it rain! Save your money and have a lazy Sunday at home.
6. Have a girls’ day at the spa.
7. Have a guys’ day watching sports.
8. Go out drinking at Barcadia - Enjoy drinks and arcade games with friends in Fort Worth.
Things to do for singles
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Valentine’s Day survival guide C
hees
y pi
ck-u
p lines
I am writing a term paper on the finer things in life and
I was wondering if I could interview you?
Are you a parking ticket? Because you have fine written all over you.
Can I have a kiss on the cheek? I want to be able to say a gorgeous girl kissed
me on Valentine’s Day.
Can I tie your shoe? Because I can’t have you
fall for anyone else.
I am Mr. Right. I heard you were looking
for me?
Hi, I have big feet.
I bought you 12 roses for Valentine’s Day - 11 real and 1 fake. I will love you until
all of them die and wilt away.
Do you happen to
have a map? I seem to have
gotten lost in your eyes.
I just noticed you noticing me
and I am just giving you
notice that I noticed
you.
Once you go cupid, the rest are just stupid.
My feet are getting cold . . . because you’ve knocked my socks off.
Let’s commit the perfect crime. I’ll steal your heart
and you’ll steal mine. Is your dad an art thief? Because you’re gorgeous.
If you were a library book I would check
you out.
Where do you
hide your wings?
Did the sun come up or
did you smile at me?
I’m not a photogra-pher but I can picture
us together.
Here I am. What are your other
two wishes?
Can I borrow your phone? I
want to call your mom and thank her.
No wonder the sky is grey. All of the blue is in your eyes.
Can I have your number? I lost mine.
Sweep your valentine off his or her feet
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Every year a group of Texas Wesleyan professors get together and go to the Dallas Comic Con. Dr. Eddy Lynton, an assistant professor of criminal justice and sociology, and Dr. Cary Adkinson, an assistant professor of criminal justice, are two Wesleyan professors that are
definitely going to the Dallas edition of the wildly popular Comic-Con International, which is held each year in San Diego. This month’s event, called Fan Days, is be-ing held at the Irving Convention Center on Feb. 13 and 14. It is one of two comic conven-tions being held annually in the Dallas area; the other is larger and held each summer. Both events, like the San Diego convention, focus on gaming, science fiction and comics. “We try and make it an unofficial thing,”
Adkinson said of his attendance at the Dallas edition. “Last time Dr. Lynton and I went we just walked around and got to know each oth-er. This started my first year here. We would like to make it a yearly event for faculty and even students.” 2015 marks the 15th anniversary of the Dallas event. This month’s convention in-cludes Austin St. John, one of the original Power Rangers, Dukes of Hazard star Cath-erine Bach and the Stephen Amell of Arrow, according to dallascomiccon.com. Jacob Clay Galey, a master’s degree stu-dent at the University of Texas at Arlington, says that Comic Con gives people with similar interests a chance to meet. “My favorite part of Comic Con is the unique expression from the attendees about their passion for their respective fandoms.” In 2015, Galey dressed (or “cosplayed”) as Marvel Comics character Mad Cap. “I don’t remember exactly how much time or money I put into my Mad Cap costume,” he said. “I know it cost more than $100 to make and roughly two and a half weeks to put to-gether. I always like posing in costume for pictures, especially with younger kids who are experiencing Comic Com for the first time.” Comic-Con International, held annu-ally in San Diego, started in 1970 when comic, movie and sci-fi fans Shel Dorf, Ken Krueger and Richard Alf held the first comic book con-vention in southern California, according to comic-con.org. The event is the “largest comics and pop
culture even tin the United States, attracting thousands of celebrities and fans of comic books, movie memorabilia and all things re-lated to pop culture,” according to sandiego.org. Major films are previewed, and actors and directors often show up to participate in panel discussions about them. The event is a signature part of San Di-ego’s social life and brings in a huge amount of money from attendees. A 2015 poll by the San Diego Union-Tri-bune found that the event is more important to San Diego residents than the city’s National Football League team, the Chargers, accord-ing to forbes.com. Jeremy Shelton, a Wesleyan senior history major, is, like Lynton and Adkinson, planning to go to this month’s event. “I have been going to Comic con since I was in middle school,” Shelton wrote in an email. “I started attending mostly so I could get more comics and see the comic artists and the writers. I got to meet Stan Lee last year. That was one of the most significant events of my life.” Dallas Comic Con: Fan Days will be held Feb. 13 and 14 at the Irving Convention Center. A single-day Saturday pass is $40 in ad-vance and $45 at the door, and a single-day Sunday pass is $30 in advance and $35 at the door. A two-day gold pass is $129. All advance passes are available at dallas-comiccon.com.
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Common Meal Free lunch & discussionEvery Tuesday @ 12:15
PUMC 312
University chapel Free lunch & live worship Every Thursday @ 12:15
PUMC 117
Keep up with programs and events by liking the Texas Wesleyan Religious Life Facebook page.
Join the Texas Wesleyan Department of Music as we
celebrate 70 years with the Fort Worth alumna chapter at the
Sigma Alpha Iota American Music Competition at 3:00 pm, located
at First Presbyterian Church of Fort Worth (1000 Penn St.).
FoWM Chamber Series: Imperial Brass
7:30 p.m.
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The Finest Hours tells a memorable story
The Finest Hours is a really good movie that is based on a true story. The movie (117 minutes, rated PG-13) is set in Massachusetts in the 1950s and starts out with Bernie Webber (played by Chris Pine) being set up on a blind date with a young woman named Miriam (Holliday Grainger). Fast forward a couple of months and Ber-nie and Miriam are engaged, but before they get to move forward with the wedding, Web-ber must first ask the permission of his new captain, Daniel Cluff (Eric Bana). The movie shifts gears a little bit, switch-ing to the scene aboard an oil tanker named the Pendleton. One of the fiercest storms to ever hit the East Coast rips the ship in half, dumping tons of oil all the way to Nantucket, leaving the crew fighting to stay alive in hopes of being rescued as they take orders from the chief engineer Ray Sybert (Casey Affleck) Back on land, Cluff ’s inexperience shows when he sends a four-man crew, led by Web-ber, out to sea in a hair-raising attempt to bring the trapped crew members aboard the oil tanker home. The rest of the film shows Webber and his crew struggling to get to the ship and save
the men, while Miriam is back at the base beg-ging Cluff to bring Webber and his crew back home. Some of the movie’s dialogue was hard to understand, but it didn’t really matter, since a good chunk of the movie was more technical stuff and action as the crew aboard the Pend-leton had to do a lot of strategic things in order to keep the ship from sinking. The movie was so interesting to me be-cause Bernie had to really think quickly after losing his compass in the hurricane-like con-ditions, and he really had to think after seeing how many survivors were aboard the Pendle-ton and not knowing if in fact the boat that he was on would hold the survivors. The film is packed with emotion, enter-tainment and even some well-timed comic re-lief between the characters. My only negative remark is that it didn’t really do a good job of character development and helping the audi-ence understand the background of some of the characters. The film brought in $10,288,932 on its opening weekend, good enough for fourth at the domestic box office, according to boxoffic-emojo.com The movie can be seen in 2D and 3D, but if you’re looking for great 3D features, save your money and go see it in 2D. The Finest Hours is a very good movie overall. I loved the story and if you love true stories, go see it.
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Photo by Kelly Hitt2015 Comic Con attendees dress up as Winter Soldier, Captain America and Cross Bones.
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Photo courtesy of IMDB.comBernie Webber (Chris Pine) and Miriam (Holliday Grainger) are engaged in Craig Gillespie’s film The Finest Hours, which tells the true story of a Coast Guard rescue in the 1950s.
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This season the softball and baseball teams plan on improving on their play in 2015. Head softball coach Shannon Gower wanted her team to work on chemistry and to be a lot more efficient during the off season, she said. “We added two new coaches, Amber Marlett and Felix Esparza, and they will help with managing practices so we will be more efficient during practices,” Gower said. During the off season two key aspects of the game the team worked on were endurance and working hard in the weight room, Gower said. The Lady Rams’ roster this season is al-most split down the middle between upper-classmen and lowerclassmen, Gower said. “We only lost four players from last sea-son’s team, and we are gaining 10 new play-ers from transfers and freshman, so I want the
girls to always think to win and embed yearly goals every day,” Gower said. The Lady Rams, who were 17-28 last sea-son, are ranked fifth in the Sooner Athletic Conference this season and on Feb. 2 won their first game of the season, beating Howard Payne University 6-2. The team’s next home game is Feb. 12 at Gateway Park in Fort Worth. Sophomore athletic training major and first baseman Kayla Prachyl said she set per-sonal goals of hitting above .350 and having a 3.5 grade point average at the end of the se-mester. “This year we had a one-word policy about how we approach the season and my word was ‘purpose,’” Prachyl said. Junior criminal justice major and center fielder Dani West, like Prachyl, has set high goals for herself by attempting to strike out less than 10 times throughout the season and hit .350, she said. “My word of choice for the season was
‘dare.’” West said. “I want to dare myself to do better every day, and to hustle for everything to become better.” Head baseball coach Mike Jeffocat said he wants his team to improve on the mistakes they made last year. The team was 20-28 last season and is ranked fourth in the SAC Pre-season Poll. The Rams’ next home game is a doubleheader against Avila University on Feb. 13 at Fort Worth’s Sycamore Park. “The team as a whole needs to execute situations a little better than we did last season if we want to improve,” Jeffcoat said. The team has been rebuilding for two years after winning 40 games three seasons ago, and still needs a little more of an offensive and pitching presence, he said. “Last season we would play well during the weekend games but struggle during the middle of the week because we lacked depth at pitching,” Jeffcoat said. This season the Rams have a good mix-ture of returning players and new players, and
added depth at a lot of positions, he said. “Our goal for the season is to win 40 games, win the conference, then win the re-gional tournament to get to the NAIA World Series,” Jeffcoat said. Senior business management major and third baseman Jake Davis looks to improve on his great junior season with more determina-tion this season, he said. Davis played in every game last season and hit .326 with two home runs and 20 RBIs, according to ramsports.net. “I hit well but I feel I need to improve my fielding a bit and commit less errors to help the team win,” Davis said. Junior exercise science major and pitcher Avery Sullivan just wants to help the team win, he said. “As a pitcher I could really care less about personal goals,” he said. “Every pitcher wants to have a 0.00 earned run average, but if I can just do what the coaches want me to do on the mound it will help the team.”
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Photo by Jared RabyeThe Lady Rams finish a recent intersquad scrimmage in Fort Worth. The team finished with a 17-28 record in 2015 and is currently ranked fifth in the Sooner Athletic Conference.
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