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Parking tickets dominate appeals process

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Shauna Bankssbbanks@mail.txwes.edu

� ere is not a single student parking space as far as the eye can see. A visitor spot and at least 10 faculty spots are look-ing lonely though, and it is not long before the desperacy to get to class on time takes over and that visitor parking space is no longer unoccupied.

A� er class, a bright orange ticket decorates the wind-shield, pinned down by a � imsy wiper.

Last spring, the executive board of the Student Govern-ment Association executed a complete overhaul of the tick-et appeals process. Instead of the appeal being examined by a few faculty members, now when students submit an ap-peal form, they also have the option of going before a stu-dent hearing board.

Chris Windsor, assistant dean of students, oversees hearings for ticket appeals.Windsor said the majority of ticket appeals have been for parking violations, in which students are parked in faculty or visitor parking spaces, or no parking zones.

Any student wanting to ap-peal a ticket must do so within 10 days of receiving the ticket, by picking up an appeals form outside the SGA o� ces on the second � oor of O.C. Arm-strong Hall and then submit-ting it to Windsor.

Students can also submit ticket appeals online through the campus life link on the home page of www.txwes.edu, and then click on the campus security and parking link.

Windsor said once he re-ceives an appeal form, if the student has opted for the stu-dent hearing board, he sends the appeal to the SGA o� ces.

From there, SGA represen-tatives contact the student and set up a hearing date.

“When the hearing date comes, I present the violation to the hearing board,” Windsor said. “You can imagine me as the prosecutor—though I de� -nitely don’t get paid like one!”

Bradden Van Noy, president of SGA, said during the hear-ing, the student who submit-ted the appeal and Windsor each give an opening state-ment, and then witnesses are brought in if they exist for the particular case being heard.

Each side gives closing statements, and then the hearing board deliberates. � e hearing board then gives its decision on the appeal’s ap-proval or denial, and depend-ing on the violation being appealed, deliberates again to decide punishment.

Van Noy said since the ma-jority of appeals are parking violations, a denial of an ap-peal means that the student must simply pay the ticket, which is then immediately put in as a charge on the student’s account.

“In one case last year, we required students to do com-munity service because of some of the things involved,” Van Noy said.

Van Noy said there are two levels of punishment for de-nied appeals.

He said no one has reached level two yet, but reaching that level would result in a student being banned from participating in any universi-ty-sanctioned event.

Most denied appeals are considered level one, and the o� ender is required to pay the ticket, with some excep-tions in non-parking related violations.

“Just saying that you didn’t know is not an excuse,” Van Noy said. “When you’re driv-ing down the road and going 10 miles over the speed limit, just saying you didn’t know is not going to get you out of a speeding ticket.”

To avoid unnecessary park-ing sticker tickets, Van Noy said when students are driv-ing a di� erent car for a single day or two, they should obtain a visitors pass in the library.

During the � rst week of classes this semester, campus security o� cers gave students

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Illustration by Shauna Banks & Meisa Keivani Najafabadi | Rambler StaffThe majority of on-campus tickets appealed last semester were for parking violations. Students who appealed their tickets were given the choice of going before a student hearing board, made up of Student Government Association members, or a faculty hearing board. Any denied appeals result in the ticket being placed on the students RamLink university account for payment.

Hartman develops new movement theory for classroomEmma Fradetteekfradette@mail.txwes.edu

Dr. Michael Hartman, assistant professor of kinesiology and education, theorizes that staying active is not only good for a person’s health, but an even better stimulator for the brains of students in a classroom setting.

At 12:15 p.m. Sept.27, Hartman will host a spotlight lunch in the orientation room of the Eunice and James L. West Library, to speak about the cognitive bene� ts of teaching with movement.

Hartman said one part of the brain controls movement and another controls learning. If a student is in class and hears something, he or she may not learn it fully. If a student hears it and reads it, the information is retained more thoroughly.

Hartman also said if a student hears something, reads it, writes it and does it, the theory is that a student will have retained the information and understood it more thoroughly.

Also at the lunch, Hartman will describe how this method can help in the classroom.

In a classroom setting, there may not be an immediate need to get up and be active. Hart-man said research shows, however, that if a student goes and works out for 30-40 min-utes before a class, the blood � ow and oxy-gen levels stimulate the brain, and the student can pay attention and retain information at a more e� cient level.

Hartman said studies have shown that those who are more in shape and work out, are better students and perform better on standardized tests.

He said this idea is not to say students must have running and intense movement in their classrooms, but that keeping the brain stim-ulated with body movements can help the learning process.

� is teaching method came about when Hartman and a colleague of his, Dr. Karen Wallace, exercise and sports studies assistant professor, put together an idea for the Class-roomNEXT contest held last year.

� eir idea for the classroom was called in-terACTIVE. One idea Hartman had was to have stability balls instead of chairs.

� e stability balls would not allow stu-

dents to slump and require a small amount of movement.

Brittany White, senior exercise major, sup-ports Hartman’s ideas.

“Sometimes sitting in class just makes me tired, and I lose focus on what is going on,” White said. “I believe movement in the class-room would help. If I am staying active, but controlled, my level of focus will be main-tained.”

Exercise science major Courtney Turner agrees.

“I love when I move around in the class-room. I feel like I concentrate better,” Turner said. “A� er a workout, I seem to study the best.”

Before Hartman came to Wesleyan he was a part of the U.S. Weightli� ing Sports Science Committee.

He is an alumni at the University of Okla-homa and considers himself a big Sooners fan.

“� ese active ideas can be implemented into any classroom,” Hartman said. “When the heart rate is up and blood and oxygen are � owing to the brain, the brain is more stimulated.”

Meisa Keivani Najafabadi | Rambler StaffDr. Michael Hartman, assistant professor of kinesiol-ogy and education, developed a learning through movement theory, which he said could benefi t a classroom setting for today’s students.

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“We are not afraid to follow the truth ... wherever it may lead.”

— Thomas Jefferson

According to the Handbook of Texas Online, in 1993 the legislature passed a law stating that all schools should dis-play and pledge to the Texas flag.

Even early on, with the words that originated with David G. Burnet’s flag of 1836, I would say that pledging your allegiance to a state is senseless and irrelevant.

For one, the United States is about be-ing a united nation, key word—unity. With an allegiance to an individual state rather than the nation, I believe schools are siding with the words of their less-than-sufficient governor, Rick Perry.

Perry also believes that Texas, as he noted in a speech given to Hat-

ton Sumner scholars this past April, is the ideal state and one that others like California can only dream to be.

Without going off on a Perry tangent, I’d simply like to say that I love Texas and being a Texas born and raised cowgirl. However, as a Texan,

I can also say that I have a larger love for the ideals our country stands for. It is not people in Texas alone that came up with the basic ideals I hope to build a career off of—freedom of speech and freedom of press.

Children are similar to a blank canvas, eager for any artist to throw colors on them and format a picture. I feel that requiring them to recite the Texas pledge is like requiring them to pledge their honor to our state, not our nation—and it is the ideals of the nation that should be instilled in each student.

For my future children, I want them to understand the freedoms that are

presented to them because of the work of people all over the U.S., not just in Texas.

My second argument comes into play with changes made to the Texas pledge June 15, 2007. According to the Handbook of Texas Online, the line “One state under God” was added to the basic structure.

I am a Christian attending a Methodist school, who was actual-ly raised to be Catholic. One could argue these are all a part of Chris-tianity, but the methods of worship are all quite different.

American values allow you to choose and practice your religion freely whether that means practic-ing the worship of multiple gods or just one God. I stand strongly against any one religion being forced upon a people.

I do not feel that stating the belief of one God protecting our diverse nation stands to cover the immense beliefs and understandings of religion

here in the United States. I believe that if our children are

required to pledge their allegiance

to a flag, it needs to be a flag that stands for the basic freedoms of our country.

I’ll never forget the multicultural education class I took last fall. My professor had the most engaging stories to share about growing up as a Mexican American. One in partic-ular was about a teacher she encoun-tered when she was younger, who called Spanish a “dirty language” and scolded any children who used it in the classroom.

I remember being appalled, won-dering why such a sentiment would ever come from a teacher, who in modern society, is taught to promote tolerance and celebration of diversi-ty with his or her students.

As an education major myself, I am definitely supportive of pro-moting tolerance of all cultures that Americans encounter on a daily basis. Because after all, it is the di-versity in America that makes the United States what it is today. That diversity should be embraced—in-cluding cultural, religious and lan-

guage differences. The double-edged sword in

all politics related to Ameri-can culture and gaining legal U.S. citizenship is whether or not people should be required to learn English in order to be-come a citizen.

Personally, I believe in order to be a successful member of Ameri-can society today, some form of functional English is essential. How else does a person communicate with most of society if even the most basic phrases in English remain un-known?

So in essence, I believe in a sort of acculturation for people looking to become legal U.S. citizens—which means to take pride in their own cultures and native languages, but to also embrace English and the Amer-ican culture too.

This is a far cry from assimila-tion, which means to believe that a person should abandon their own culture and conform completely to the home country’s way of life and language. That is simply contrary to American values and the promotion of tolerance.

But regardless of what I personally believe, requiring potential citizens to know functional English is almost

de facto in accordance with the stipulations immigrants must meet to become a naturalized U.S. citizen.

According to visaus.com, in order to become a citizen, a person must have the ability to read, write, speak and under-stand simple words and phrases in English. They must also have knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals of U.S. his-tory and government.

Furthermore, they must be at-tached to, and can support, the principles of the U.S. constitu-tion and can swear allegiance to the United States.

There is also a literacy test giv-en to potential citizens, written only in English.

The only people not required to take this literacy test are those with documented disabilities, people over 50 years old who have lived in the U.S. for 20 years or more as a permanent resident alien and people over 55 years old who have lived in the U.S. for more than 15 years as a permanent resident alien.

A test of general knowledge about U.S. history and government is also administered unless similar

exceptions apply. So in the end, it is not a theft

of non-American cultures that needs to be implemented, but a

pride in American culture itself and a want to learn more about this great country’s primary lan-guage and practices.

America; land of the free and home of the brave. It is the one place in the world where all can come together without fear of having to change who they are or what they believe in.

Since 1776, when we declared

ourselves a free nation, we have fought relentlessly to maintain that precious freedom that allows us to be who we choose to be.

America proudly accepts all new-coming citizens without prejudice or speci-fications. That is the beau-ty of it; anyone can become

a citizen of this great country. However, some people believe

there should be some rules, spe-cifically a policy requiring all citizens and potential citizens to know English in order to be

American. They desire an Ameri-ca in which all of its people speak the same language.

To demand that everyone learn English is to demand the people to give up their heritage.

If such a policy is executed, America will eventually become a monochromatic society and lose its meaning as a free country.

Our languages are an important part of who we are. No one has the right to take it away from us or impose another language, Eng-lish, upon us.

We are a free country; free to

speak our mind, free to practice our religion, free to keep our language.

We do not tolerate diversity. We celebrate it. America embraces the many cultures and languages of its people with open arms and an open mind. Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese-we love and accept all.

I take great pride in being both American and Mexican. Both coun-tries and languages, English and Spanish, hold a special place in my heart. It is true that I love America more because it is my birthplace and

only country I’ve ever lived in but that does not mean that I want to give up my Mexican heritage.

I shouldn’t have to give up my ori-gins and neither should anyone else.

In the words of Maya Angelou “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”

Let the people of America keep their native languages. Let them keep their heritage.

Let it clearly be known requir-ing everyone to know English will not create a better America, it will hinder it.

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Citizenship calls for primary languageShauna BanksEditor-in-chiefsbbanks@mail.txwes.edu

Eliana MijangosSports editoremmijangos@mail.txwes.edu

Thumbs up to the Blu Cru for showing their Wes-leyan pride at the volleyball game last Friday night. You guys showed up even the cheerleaders in level of Ram spirit.

Thumbs up to the Social Rams and their hosting of the We are Wesleyan Concert last Thursday. It was one of the highest attended events we’ve seen in a while, and the music definitely got us to shake it like it’s hot.

Thumbs down to the new Texas Wesleyan website. We see that those who created it are trying to cater to prospective students. It is basically un-navigatable for current students, who need to use it for people finder (now non-existant other than RamLink) and to easily get to other resources (near impossible).

Thumbs down to the freshmen and transfer students who did not attend the ‘Meet the Prez’ event last Thursday. He really is a cool guy.

Alejandra GarciaCampus feature editoragarcia@mail.txwes.edu

about.com| CourtesyAny person wanting to become a naturalized citizen of the United States must pass two tests- one on literacy and another on basic knowledge of U.S. history and government. These tests can be taken twice each if needed.

Being American should not require loss of culture

Encouragement of Texas pledge not necessary

panoramio.com | CourtesyStudents are now encouraged to pledge their allegiance to the Texas Flag each day in classrooms across the state, in addition to the U.S. pledge.

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a grace period for obtain-ing parking stickers from the Eunice and James G. West Li-brary.

But now, four and a half weeks into the semester, secu-rity o� cers are patrolling the campus and issuing tickets for violations.

Felisa Barnes, head of cam-pus security, said in any cases of illegal suspicions, there is a speci� c protocol security of-� cers follow.

“� e protocol is based on

the urgency or scale of the incident,” Barnes said. “If the incident requires urgent at-tention, security will contact the Fort Worth Police De-partment or dial 911,” Barnes said.

If the incident does not re-quire police assistance, a tick-et may be issued.

“I think it’s a great opportu-nity and learning experience for everyone,” Windsor said. “Now, responsibility may not be a fun lesson to learn.”

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Table tennis champion returns to teach at WesleyanMelissa Batesmdbates@mail.txwes.edu

Wesleyan alum and table tennis champion Dinko Kranjac has re-turned to his alma mater, now on the other side of the learning process in college.

Kranjac (27), began playing table tennis at age 6 when a Chinese table tennis coach came to his elementary school in Varazdin, Croatia to recruit players for the local table tennis club.

He graduated from Wesleyan in 2008 and went to Texas Christian University to pursue his master’s de-gree, which he received in May 2011.

Kranjac returned to Wesleyan as an adjunct psychology professor this fall to teach general psychology.

He said he is currently working toward his doctorate and is a labora-tory instructor at TCU, where he will graduate in May 2013.

“Originally, I envisioned myself be-ing a [table tennis] coach but being able to employ psychological research while instructing and training people

in table tennis,” Kranjac said.Kranjac said he then took a biologi-

cal psychology class taught by Dr. Jay Brown at Wesleyan and found the class to be intriguing so he changed his plans and decided to go to gradu-ate school for neuroscience at TCU.

“� at’s when I decided I wanted to be a professor and researcher at one of the higher education institutions,” Kranjac said.

Before coming to Wesleyan, Kran-jac said he played on the U-14, U-16 and U-18 Croatian National Table Tennis Team. U-14 stands for under 14 years of age.

“In Croatia, it’s really di� cult to do both athletics and education well on a high level because the way everything is set up, you don’t have the time to practice and train twice a day, so you basically fall behind,” Kranjac said.

At Wesleyan, he won second place in men’s championship singles in 2005 and second place in men’s doubles in 2006 and 2007.

“I love Texas Wesleyan,” Kranjac said. “I love the intimacy of the cam-

pus. I love how closely professors work with one another. I love how closely professors work with students.”

In April 2011, he was asked by Dr. Marcel Kerr, interim dean for the School of Arts and Sciences and asso-ciate professor of psychology, to speak to a psychology class about the gradu-ate school experience and how to pre-pare. A few months later he was asked by Dr. Marilyn Pugh, associate profes-sor of psychology, if he would like to be considered for an adjunct position.

“I’m really � attered and honored they o� ered me the position,” Kranjac said.

Kranjac said he hopes to stay in the states for some time because he met his wife, Ashley, when they were Wes-leyan undergraduates and they have been married since 2008.

Kranjac said he and Ashley became lacto-vegetarians two years ago.

“We wanted to try and live health-ier,” Kranjac said. “We decided it would be bene� cial for us to switch to a completely plant-based diet.”

Kranjac de� nes lacto-vegetarian as

a dietary practice where an individual eliminates the use of all animal food products but eats dairy.

Associate Professor of Psychology and Faculty Liaison for the Minor in International Studies, Dr. Jay Brown, said the psychology department looks forward to work-ing with Kranjac.

“I think he’ll be an enthusiastic professor who can really turn a student,” Brown said.

Associate professor of psychology and chair of the psychology depart-ment Dr. Lisa Hensley said Kranjac was an outstanding student in her introduction to counseling class which he took while attempt-ing to receive his bach-elor’s degree.

“He al-ways did very well in class,” Hens-ley said. “We weren’t at all surprised that he was accepted into the TCU graduate program.”

Hensley said she thinks Kranjac will not

have a problem teaching at Wesleyan and at TCU while still doing his own studies.

“He’ll be busy but graduate students usually are,” Hensley said. “I think he’s going to do a great job for us. I’ve got complete faith in him.”

Meisa Keivani Najafabadi | Rambler StaffFormer table tennis champion, Dinko Kranjac, has returned this fall to teach at Texas Wesleyan.

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Wesleyan SundaySeptember 25 at 10:30 a.m.

Texas Wesleyan Universityand

The Department of Musicpresent

The President’s Council Fall Kick-off and Music Scholarship

Benefi t Concert

September 30, 2011 Martin Hall

The Fort Worth Symphany Orchestra

For more information, visit http://www.txwes.edu/music/music/index.htm or call 817-531-4992

Polytechnic United Methodist Church

� eatre Wesleyan debuts LycanthropeJordan Twinejetwine@mail.txwes.edu

� e Texas Wesleyan the-atre department starts the fall season o� with Lycan-thrope, an original play written by Wesleyan alum Chuck Fain.

� e play follows a group of strangers that try to es-cape an unknown creature and � nd refuge in a shed at the county fairgrounds. � e performance is set for 7:30 p.m. Sept. 29-Oct 8 and at 2 p.m. Oct 9 at the � ad Smotherman theatre in the Law Sone Fine Arts building.

� e play was selected as the winning script for Play-market, a non-pro� t organi-zation that provides script advisory services and rep-resentation for playwrights, in New York City. Connie Whitt-Lambert, theatre professor, is directing Ly-canthrope and said she is excited to bring the script to full production.

“A� er its success in New York I wanted to direct it as a fully staged play,” Whitt-Lambert said. “We want to give Chuck the � rst chance to see his work on stage and allow our students the opportunity to be the � rst people to act, design, man-age and produce this new work.”

� e play is intended for a mature audience due to graphic imagery and pro-fanity.

Whitt-Lambert said the play will have a few surprises.

“� ey’re all trying to stay safe from the danger out-side,” Whitt-Lambert said. “Soon they discover that there’s danger inside as well.”

Ben Tatner, sophomore theatre major, is the cos-tume designer for Lycan-thrope. He said the show is entertaining and will be fun for the audience.

“It’s a great show,” Tatner said. “It’s emotional. It can really get under your skin.”

Joshua Dunk, freshman theatre major, plays Lycan-thrope in the play. He said the audience never sees his character but Lycanthrope is very important to the plot.

“I love the production,” Dunk said. “� e play itself is scary and I get to be some-body di� erent.”

Tickets are $8 for general admission, $6 for all Wes-leyan faculty and sta� , and $4 for all students with ID. Tickets will go on sale Sept. 27.

� e box o� ce will be open Tuesday thru Friday from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. and one hour prior to the show. For reservations call 817-531-4211.

Olivia Blanco | Rambler StaffEmily Newcomb, junior theatre major and Allen Dean, junior theatre major, rehearse for Lycanthrope. The play begins at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 29-Oct 8 and at 2 p.m. Oct 9 at the Thad Smotherman theatre in the Law Sone Fine Arts building. The show centers around a group of strangers who try to escape a mysterious creature by taking refuge in a shed at the county fairgrounds.

Social Rams stage We are Wesleyan show Jordan Twine jetwine@mail.txwes.edu

� e Social Rams set the stage for Texas Wesleyan tal-ent with the We are Wesleyan concert.

� e concert, held at 7 p.m. Sept. 15 in front of the Eunice and James L. West Library, was sponsored by the Social Rams organization and con-sisted of a series of musical performances by Wesleyan students and faculty.

Free food was provided courtesy of Golden Chick and Smokey’s BBQ. � e So-cial Rams members also pro-vided water and snow cones for those attending.

Brandon Flowers, senior

computer science major and Social Rams member, said the purpose of the concert was to unite the campus.

“We wanted to give the Wesleyan family something to do,” Flowers said.

All members of the Social Rams also encouraged at-tendees to bring canned food to the event.

“We’re just donating to the local food bank,” Flowers said. “We’re not only good talent wise, but, we’re good moral wise as well.”

Brenton Flowers, senior criminal justice major and Social Rams member, said social interaction helped make the concert a success.

“Word of mouth helped.

People don’t really pay at-tention to � iers,” Brenton said. “Social networks have become so strong now. Peo-ple saw it [We are Wesleyan concert advertisements] and they responded to it.”

Brenton also said he want-ed to spotlight hidden talent on campus.

“All we do is see each other in class or we might hang out with each other on the week-end but we don’t really know each other’s talents,” Brenton said. “� e purpose of this is to showcase those student’s talents.”

Trent Sandles, junior busi-ness management major and Social Rams member, said he is proud of the event turnout.

“It was a success last year. We did it this year [and] it was an even bigger success,” Sandles said. “I think hav-ing Pro Joe M.C. for it was a great idea.”

Joe Brown, Dean of Freshmen at Wesleyan, hosted the We are Wesleyan concert.

Sandles also said the con-cert informed students what Social Rams is all about.

“I think it really opens opportunities to let the students know there is an organization that can do something for them,” Sandles said. “If a student wants to do something, let us know and I guarantee we can make it happen.”

Casa Mañana has student night for MockingbirdJordan Twine jetwine@mail.txwes.edu

Fort Worth’s Casa Maña-na is having a student pre-view night for their latest

production, To Kill a Mock-ingbird.

The show is at 7 p.m. Fri-day Sept. 23 at 3101 West Lancaster Ave.

Tickets for Casa Mañana

usually start at $40, but stu-dents who bring a valid ID can purchase tickets for $10 and receive a ‘buy one get one’ voucher for Chipotle.

Those who attend Sept. 23 will also get to speak with the cast and director following the show.

Darcy Koch, public re-lations and marketing manager at Casa Mañana, said To Kill a Mockingbirdspeaks to people regardless of age.

“We felt like this was a play that really resonated with a lot of people all over

the spectrum,” Koch said. “It had a powerful message that we wanted to bring to the stage.”

Casa Mañana gives stu-dent preview nights for all Broadway shows.

Koch said it gives stu-dents an opportunity to see Broadway caliber shows for a fraction of the price.

“If they’re [students] in-terested in theater and act-ing, it’s really a great op-portunity for them to learn about the field,” Koch said.

Koch said that Casa Ma-ñana encourages students to

come out to the shows. Stu-dents that are not able to make the student preview night are still given a discount.

“We also offer a student rush ticket for all the other performances,” Koch said. “They can come any other night for $20.”

Student preview night is general admission and tick-ets are on sale now. Koch said that seats fill up quick.

“You want to get your tickets soon,” Koch said. “Doors open up at 6 so I would get here early.”

Rachel Benham, junior theatre major, said she is a fan of To Kill a Mockingbirdand looks forward to the student preview night.

“I’m really excited about To Kill a Mockingbird com-

ing to Casa Mañana. I loved the book and I saw the movie in high school so I’m really excited to go,” Ben-ham said. “$10 isn’t bad for a live production and you get free Chipotle.”

Mindy Pospichal, senior business marketing major, said she is excited about the play.

“I love Casa Mañana,” Pos-pichal said. “It’s great for the community for now and for later, and has great plays to see.”

To purchase tickets for student preview night of To Kill a Mockingbird call 817-332-2272 or visit the box office at Casa Mañana between 10 a.m and 4 p.m. Monday-Friday.

Olivia Blanco | Rambler StaffSophomore bio chemistry major, Abraham Ademola perfroms while coordinator of student activities Michael Chaney sets up.

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Prospective students visit Wesleyan campusAlejandra Garciaagarcia@mail.txwes.edu

On Friday Sept. 16, admis-sions sta� at Wesleyan hosted the � rst Texas Wesleyan Sneak Preview of the semester.

� is was a chance for pro-spective students to visit and learn more about the campus.

From 9:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., prospective students at-tended a class, spoke with two professors, toured the campus, spoke with � nancial aid sta� and dined at Dora Roberts Residential Restaurant.

Ti� any Smith, admissions coordinator, headed up the sneak preview.

Smith said she has been working on making it a suc-cess since prospective students sign up for it will really bene� t from it.

Smith also said she wanted the prospective students to see

all of Wesleyan’s attributes.“[� e Sneak Preview will]

give them a full view of Wes-leyan,” Smith said.

She said there were two pro-spective students who signed up for the sneak preview last Friday. One of them was from Austin and the other from Bedford.

Smith said she wanted to accommodate them as best she could. Instead of follow-ing an itinerary, she asked students what their interests were and planned the rest of the day accordingly.

She said one student was in-terested in kinesiology and the other in education, but both were interested in music.

Once she discovered their interests, she had them meet with Dr. Pamela Rast, chair of the kinesiology department and associate professor, and Dr. Carlos Martinez, dean of

the school of education.She said she also showed

them around the residence halls.

� e prospective students saw a showcase room in Stella Russell Hall for a tradi-tional college residence hall room and a showcase room in West Village Student Apartments for a nontradi-tional college residence hall room.

Smith said once they were � nished with the visit, stu-dents received a giveaway bag containing a baseball cap, mug, T-shirt and her business card.

“At the end of the day, I do a wrap-up session and see if they have any questions,” Smith said.

Melissa Marsh (19), was one of the prospective students.

Marsh said she found the sneak peak helpful and recom-

mends it to any other stu-dent applying to college.

“It de� nitely gave a lot of answers to questions that I had,” Marsh said.

Marsh said what she liked the most was meeting pro-fessors in a personal set-ting rather than a formal one.

“You get to interact with p r o f e s s o r s more, instead of [them] just answering ques-tions,” Marsh said.

Evelyn Del Rio, freshmen business administration ma-

jor, said she thinks it is impor-tant for students to visit college campuses before making a de-cision on where to attend.

“It’s important because you know what is available to you and you know where to go,” Del Rio said.

Students get chance to speak up

Alejandra Garcia | Rambler StaffProspective students, along with their family and an admissions counselor dined at Dora Roberts Residential Restaurant at the Wesleyan Sneak Preview.

Rachel Peel | Rambler StaffPresident Frederick Slabach met with students Sept. 15 in Martin Hall. This was an opportunity for students to ask any questions they had and meet the president in a personal setting.

Alejandra Garcia | Rambler StaffStudents brought up concerns about the absence policy, tuition, no skateboarding policy, Dora’s hours of operation, online upper level courses and the Polytechnic community.

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Texas Wesleyan is now working side-by-side with Project UNITE, a sub-group of Tarrant.NET, to host and participate in various events in the Polytechnic Heights com-munity.

Tarrant.NET is a non-pro� t organization founded by Je� Sanders in 2001.

It is a network of churches around Tarrant County, pri-marily in the Fort Worth area that work together for the community.

John Gonzales, community outreach coordinator for Wes-leyan, said Project UNITE is a great organization and com-munity partner.

“It’s a great project, and very much needed in the commu-nity,” Gonzales said.

He said the Wesleyan sta� ’s primary involvement was to provide the space that was needed to make the events pos-sible.

“� at’s an event that we [Texas Wesleyan] will always be a part with however pos-sible,” Gonzales said. “However we can help parents and kids succeed.”

Wesleyan community host-ed Project UNITE’s Back-to-School Extravaganza events of

2007, 2008 and 2009. Because of the extreme heat in 2011, the Wesleyan partners were un-able to host the event, but went along with the Ram mascots to this year’s event at Brighter Outlook Inc. Community Center.

Philip Blocklinger, senior, exercise science major and mascot, said he enjoyed the event.

“It was awesome,” Block-linger said. “I like giving back to the community.”

Blocklinger said while par-ticipating in the event and getting the Wesleyan name out there, meeting Fort Worth mayor Betsy Price was the best experience of them all.

“I thought it was pretty amazing,” Blocklinger said. “I got to meet the mayor and I felt famous.”

Blocklinger said he would go back to the event again next year, but what really opened his eyes was seeing the chil-dren of the community.

“Seeing the kids out there, they weren’t too sure about us, but then they warmed up,” Blocklinger said.

Sultan Cole, pastor of Re-vealed Word Ministries and director of Project UNITE, said what Tarrant.NET does is encourage the church to get engaged in the community.

Cole said some of the past events have been the Back-to-School Extravaganza this past August and the 2006 Hopefest.

Project UNITE’s next proj-ect is Faith in Action on Oct. 15 - 16 and Oct. 22 - 23 at 3000

Vaughn Street in Fort Worth, according to www.tarrantnet.org.

� ey will host an Extreme Makeover type event in which they take a senior citizen’s home that is extremely run-

down in the Polytechnic area and � x it up for her

Cole said they are talking about cleaning up the trash, making some repairs and basi-cally taking the house and � x-ing it up.

“We’d love to get Texas Wes-leyan to partner with Tarrant.NET and Revealed World Ministries and a couple of oth-er churches,” Cole said. “It’s not about ‘just’ going to church; it’s about being the church.”

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Friday, Sept. 307:30 p.m.

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Ram soccer takes tough losses on roadEliana Mijangosemmijangos@mail.txwes.edu

Ram soccer suffered a 3-0 loss when they traveled to Okla-homa to take on the University of Science and Arts Sept. 16. USAO came out strong with a shot on goal in the first 30 seconds of play. In the 13th minute, the Drov-ers   scored a goal, bringing the game to 1-0

“USAO capitalized early in the game during our first road test,” Christopher So-leto, senior defense, said.Shortly after, in the 39th minute, the Drovers brought the score to 2-0, finishing up the half. The second half was no different as USAO scored their third goal just five minutes into the half.“We played a great team who simply out played us on that given day,” Soleto said.The Rams finished the game out-shot by the Drovers 23-13 and 6-3 on corner kicks.

T.J. Romaguero, sophomore midfielder, had four shots on

goal, leading the Rams. Ivan Ko-vacevic, sophomore midfield-er   had three shots in the loss. On Sept. 18, Ram soccer traveled to Houston to take on the Univer-sity of Houston Victoria.

The men suffered a 2-0 loss in a game that proved to be very close statistically.

UHV took the lead with 11-10 shots on goal while both teams had three corner kicks.

Dejan Milosevic, junior goal keeper, was short just one save to UHV’s five.

These two road games set the Rams up for a 3-3 record overall for preseason play, with one tie.

“We played a hard, physical game, but it wasn’t our best,” Ri-cardo Aguilera, senior forward, said. “We can definitely play bet-ter and we will next game.”

The Rams will hit the field again on Sept. 22 when they travel to Oklahoma to take on Bacone Col-lege for the Red River Athletic Conference season opener.

Soleto said he hopes they will go all the way and get a ring this year.

Meisa Keivani Najafabadi | Rambler StaffT.J. Romaguero, sophomore midfi elder, pushes past Central Christian College Tigers in a victory for their hometown heroes Sept. 10 at Martin Field. The Rams are currently 3-3 after taking a loss to the University of Houston Vicoria Sept. 18 in Oklahoma.

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Hector Mukweyi, 2011 Wesleyan graduate and part of a three-year Red River Ath-letic Conference champion-ship basketball team, decided to give back to the commu-nity the way the community gave back to him.

Mukweyi played for the Ram basketball team from 2007-2010 as a forward, and said he became part of a fam-ily with the team. He said he o� en mixed with the wrong crowd and made some bad decisions, but his dreams of basketball kept him in line.

“I had my ups and downs,

but Wesleyan made me a bet-ter person,” Mukweyi said.

Head men’s basketball coach Terry Waldrop said Mukweyi came to the pro-gram as a two-year transfer student.

Mukweyi started at McLen-nan Community College in Waco, and transferred to Southern Arkansas Universi-ty, where he again red shirted and sat out a year because of ineligibility due to low grades.

“Coming out of high school, I wasn’t the most highly re-cruited player,” Mukweyi said. “Coaches were looking right past me.”

Waldrop said when Muk-weyi originally came to Wes-

leyan he was a naturally bright student who had simply never been pushed to achieve any of his goals or had any idea what academic success looked like.

“Waldrop was a coach that made me a better person not just on the court, but o� the court too,” Mukweyi said.

Mukweyi is now a coach for the boys basketball B-team at William James Middle School in the Polytechnic Heights area, as well as the gen-eral manager of � nance for Americredit.

He said people at Wesley-an and his basketball family taught him there is more to basketball than a game. It is about using it as a tool and

having an education behind it.

“Basketball got me out of a lot of trouble, but life’s not about basketball,” Mukweyi said. “It’s about being a part of something, a family.”

Waldrop said he is both honored and proud to have had a student athlete like this in the basketball program.

“� e school and so many people could have just dis-missed Hector and thought he would never graduate, but in the end he was successful,” Waldrop said. “No one ever knows what is in the human spirit.”

Mukweyi said he is now pursuing his teaching cer-

ti� cate and enjoys working at William James because it gives him a chance to teach children the things he knows.

He also said he can relate to them on di� erent levels, knowing he has been through some of the same things.

“I don’t want them to go through the same things as me,” Mukweyi said. “I want to be a mentor.”

Waldrop said Mukweyi’s success both on and o� the court is a direct re� ection of the di� erence our school, coaches and instructors can make in the lives of students.

“� is is one of the best suc-cess stories I have had in my 12 years at Texas Wesleyan

and it makes me very proud of Hector,” Waldrop said.

Waldrop is not the only one that shares this pride in Muk-weyi.

“I played with Hec [Muk-weyi] for two years,” Ryan Glanzer, senior forward, said. “He is a great player, but more importantly, a great team-mate.”

Mukweyi received his un-dergraduate degree in liberal arts in May 2011 and said he hopes to inspire the youth the same way Waldrop and Wes-leyan inspired him to be a bet-ter person through his sport.

“I was helped by some-body,” Mukweyi said. “I want to do the same thing.”

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Lady Rams take 2-2 record in Wesleyan Hughes ClassicEmma Fradetteekfradette@mail.txwes.edu

The Texas Wesleyan vol-leyball team played in the 5th Annual Wesleyan-Hughes Classic Sept. 16 and Sept. 17.

The Lady Rams split the weekend 2-2. They started their weekend playing against St. Thomas University Lady Celts out of Houston.

The Lady Rams and Lady Celts went back and forth the whole match with the Lady Rams coming up on top five sets. Each set was only won by two points. The final scores for the five matches were 25-23, 32-34, 25-27, 26-24, and 13-15. In the second set of the match, sophomore middle blocker Katherine Rosen-busch changed the intensity with two kills that gave Wes-leyan the win.

In the fifth set, freshman middle blocker Meghan Finley had a kill followed by a Lady Celt error. The Lady Rams won the last set with a score of 15-13. Junior mathematics major Ra-ven Smith attended the match. “The game was so in-tense,” Smith said. “Every-one in the gym was cheer-

ing, including myself. I lost my voice I was so loud.” The second match of the night was against Plainview’s Way-land Baptist Lady Pioneers. Although the Lady Rams put up a fight, they lost the match in five sets. The scores for the five sets were 25-21, 22-25, 26-28, 25-21 and 15-11. In the first set, the Lady Rams started down 7-2. They didn’t give up and worked back up to tie the set at 8-8.

However, the Lady Rams couldn’t capitalize on the Lady Pioneers’ er-rors and lost 25-21. Wes-leyan picked the momentum back up winning the next two sets 25-22 and 28-26. The next two sets were again close but the Lady Pioneers came up on top with set wins of 25-21 and 15-11. Senior defensive specialist Marissa Rangel had 26 digs and Fin-ley had 13 kills for the game. The Lady Rams picked up again on Saturday playing against Lubbock Christian Lady Chaps first.

The first two sets went to the Lady Chaps with the first set 26-24 and the second set 25-19. That did not stop them from fighting back. In the third set with a kill from Rangel, the score was 16-15.

However, Wesleyan took the loss of the game to the Lady Chaps in a 0-3 match. The last games of the tour-nament for the Lady Rams was against Huston-Tillotson Univeristy.  

The Lady Rams won this match in three sets 25-11, 25-9 and 25-14 with sopho-more setter Angelica Ar-royo having 26 assists. Both days for the Lady Rams were splits, win-ning one and losing one. Stephanie Dominguez, soph-omore setter, said previous practices have prepared the Lady Rams for this weekend. “We worked a lot on differ-ent line ups due to injuries, so I think that alone had helped this past weekend,”   Domin-quez said. “Everyone was ready to play positions that they were not used to. We all stepped up to the plate because we have no other choice.” Rangel said she also felt prac-tices are the key to success. “We have had so many ob-stacles to go through that we need to stick together,” Rangel said. “A saying we have is we are ‘11 Strong’.” Anyone can catch the Lady Rams at home again on Oct. 3 at 7 p.m. against Oklahoma City University.

Photos by Olivia Blanco | Rambler StaffTop: The Lady Rams huddle before playing the Lady Celts to fire up team spirit. Bottom:Meghan Finley, freshman middle blocker, sets up Bailey Bunting, sophomore middle blocker, for a kill. The Lady Rams went 2-2 this weekend in their first home games of the sea-son. This tournament set up Lady Ram volleyball for a 6-9 overall record.

Game Time/Place

9/24 Baseball Scrimmage 1p.m./ La Grave

9/24 Women’s Soccer vs. Texas College

1p.m./ Tyler,Texas

9/24 Men’s Soccer vs. Texas College

3p.m./ Tyler,Texas

9/29 Women’s Soccer vs. Our Lady of Lake 5:30p.m./Home

9/29 Men’s Soccer vs. Our Lady of Lake 7:30p.m./Home

9/30 Lady Ram Volleyball vs. St. Thomas 7p.m./Home

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