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Branches Throughout the Metroplex ColonialSavings.com 817-390-2000 Interest rate subject to change without notice and is based on daily collected balance. Current interest is 1.50% for balances up to $25,000 (1.51% APY). No monthly service fee until age 25. After age 25, a monthly service fee of $10.00 will apply if ACH, or debit card requirements are not met. an exists or they confuse it for Texas Woman’s. e signs that MSS Media currently has placed in their two slots are temporary. “ose [the current signs] were placed by MSS Media as just fillers. ey place those whenever they install kiosks. So aſter they install them MSS Media puts those up as just general information posters,” Gonzales said. Gonzales said that the cur- rent signs will be replaced next week by a company that bought all of the available slots. e other slots will still belong to Texas Wesleyan and will be used for updates about campus activities, directional arrows to buildings and pos- sibly campus maps at the be- ginning of each semester as new students learn their way around. Gonzales said that MSS Me- dia solicits the ads but TWU has “first right of refusal.” “If it’s something that we feel as a university, that’s con- troversial 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 be- cause of their content. “We will not put the ones about STD or rape back up aſter an ad has been taken down,” Gonzales said. When a com- pany chooses to advertise with those kiosks their signs will be in place for a predeter- mined time through contract. If there is a break between ad contracts, fillers will be used. Gonzales said that Alexan- der and Heath Scott, president of the Student Government Association, chose the cur- rent 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 use- ful and helpful, especially with the map because a lot of people aren’t familiar with the campus,” said omas Vasquez, junior finance ma- jor. Esther Kautai, sopho- more accounting major, said, “ey’re kind of helpful be- cause 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 port- a-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 en- thused with the amount of kiosks. “I think they’re beneficial but I think that so many of them aren’t necessary. e ad- vertisements are perfectly fine but they don’t have to take up the entire thing,” said Trent Sandles, freshman English major. e kiosks will remain on campus for the duration of a 10-year contract with MSS Media. Aſter that, Gonzales said they have the option to buy the kiosks, re-up with MSS Media or move to a dif- ferent company. Historic building poised for return SIGNS continued from page 1 Jonathan Resendez [email protected] Plans are in the works for the historic Dillow House to make a comeback aſter a de- cade in disrepair. Wesleyan President Dr. Harold Jeffcoat said the uni- versity intends to renovate the dilapidated house, lo- cated 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 uni- versity,” Jeffcoat said. “Hope- fully 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 incuba- tion 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 un- derway, he said, and modifi- cations will be made to install an elevator. “We’re really looking for- ward to it,” Jeffcoat said. “It’s a beautiful facility. It’s a throw- back to the kind of architec- ture that was, if not prevalent, certainly was available to fam- ilies at the turn of the century.” Innovative Developers Inc., a commercial development and construction firm, will donate its services to help re- build the Wesleyan landmark as part of celebrating more than 40 years in business. “We are fortunate to be in a position to offer this giſt,” said Glen Hahn, president of IDI, to the Fort Worth Star- Telegram. “We are a small business, too, and applaud Wesleyan’s desire to use the property as a business center.” e original Dillow House was constructed in 1912 by early settlers of the Polytech- nic Community back before it was officially considered a part of Fort Worth. “Upon its founding, the community’s growth was cen- tered around Texas Wesleyan University,” said Louis Sher- wood, university archivist and cataloguing librarian, in a 2008 Rambler article. Samuel Selkirk Dillow es- tablished Polytechnic’s first grocery store in 1892, one year aſter the creation of Texas Wesleyan University (known as Polytechnic College at the time), and built his first house about a year later. According 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 Dil- low House. e Dillow House was do- nated to Wesleyan by Samuel’s daughter, Audrey Dillow, in 1979. e university renovated the building in 1982 and was sometimes used by the alum- ni association. In the ‘90s, the house be- came a popular alumni head- quarters but as other facilities became available, the house’s popularity faded. 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. More at therambler.org More at therambler.org
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CampusThe RambleR | www.therambler.org January 20, 2010 | 3
ACCOUNTCash In
Earn interest on any balance.Get cash back when you spend.
It’s time your money showed you some love.
Don’t let your money just sit there! Open a Colonial Savings Cash-In Account with as little as $25 and earn interest on any balance. Plus, there is no balance service fee until age 25 as long as you have a direct deposit, or 3 ACH debits, or use your Colonial Savings debit card for least 5 purchases each month.
There’s more great stuff. When you use your Colonial Savings debit card for online purchases at more than 200 retailers nationwide, you’ll get up to 20% in cold, hard cash deposited directly to your account. We’re talking Apple I-Tunes, American Eagle Outfitters, True Religion, Target, 1-800-Contacts, Betsey Johnson, The Container Store and many more.
You’ll love our Cash-In account, especially the way it loves you right back. Come by Colonial Savings today for complete details.
Branches Throughout the Metroplex
ColonialSavings.com817-390-2000
Interest rate subject to change without notice and is based on daily collected balance. Current interest is 1.50% for balances up to $25,000 (1.51% APY).
No monthly service fee until age 25. After age 25, a monthly service fee of $10.00 will apply if ACH, or debit card requirements are not met.
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 cur-rent signs will be replaced next week by a company that
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 pos-sibly campus maps at the be-ginning of each semester as new students learn their way around.
Gonzales said that MSS Me-dia solicits the ads but TWU has “first right of refusal.”
“If it’s something that we feel as a university, that’s con-troversial 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 be-cause 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 com-pany chooses to advertise with those kiosks their signs
will be in place for a predeter-mined time through contract. If there is a break between ad contracts, fillers will be used.
Gonzales said that Alexan-der and Heath Scott, president of the Student Government Association, chose the cur-rent 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 use-ful and helpful, especially with the map because a lot of people aren’t familiar with the campus,” said Thomas Vasquez, junior finance ma-jor.
Esther Kautai, sopho-more accounting major, said, “They’re kind of helpful be-cause 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 port-a-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 en-thused with the amount of kiosks.
“I think they’re beneficial but I think that so many of them aren’t necessary. The ad-vertisements 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 dif-ferent company.
Historic building poised for return
SIGNS continued from page 1
Jonathan [email protected]
Plans are in the works for the historic Dillow House to make a comeback after a de-cade in disrepair.
Wesleyan President Dr. Harold Jeffcoat said the uni-versity intends to renovate the dilapidated house, lo-cated 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 uni-versity,” Jeffcoat said. “Hope-fully 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 incuba-tion 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 un-derway, he said, and modifi-cations will be made to install an elevator.
“We’re really looking for-ward to it,” Jeffcoat said. “It’s a
beautiful facility. It’s a throw-back to the kind of architec-ture that was, if not prevalent, certainly was available to fam-ilies at the turn of the century.”
Innovative Developers Inc., a commercial development and construction firm, will donate its services to help re-build 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 Star-Telegram. “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 Polytech-nic Community back before it was officially considered a part of Fort Worth.
“Upon its founding, the community’s growth was cen-tered around Texas Wesleyan University,” said Louis Sher-wood, university archivist and cataloguing librarian, in a 2008 Rambler article.
Samuel Selkirk Dillow es-tablished 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
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 Dil-low House.
The Dillow House was do-nated to Wesleyan by Samuel’s
daughter, Audrey Dillow, in 1979.
The university renovated the building in 1982 and was sometimes used by the alum-ni association.
In the ‘90s, the house be-came a popular alumni head-quarters but as other facilities
became available, the house’s popularity faded.
John Liontos| Rambler StaffWesleyan 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.
More at therambler.org
More at therambler.org
