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New food director appointed, Barnes promotedJonathan Resendezjlresendez@mail.txwes.edu

Wesleyan’s food service is under new direc-tion after director Joseph Barnes’ recent pro-motion to a larger school in Oklahoma.

Barnes will serve as Food Service Director at Langston University, a $1.2 million dollar budget with 1,200 students on the meal plan, he said.

Wesleyan has a little more than 300 stu-dents on its meal plan.

“I’m excited,” Barnes said. “A change has come.”

Barnes said after serving Wesleyan for five years, he looks forward to the challenges a bigger school offers.

“I guess my obstacles will be going into Burger King training and trying to get up to speed on Burger King,” he said.

Langston University recently unveiled a new student center similar to Wesleyan’s SUB which will house a Burger King.

Will Timmerman took the helm of Wes-

leyan’s food services Nov. 12. Having worked in food services for more than 45 years, Tim-merman said Wesleyan’s small size is appeal-ing.

“It’s got a nice comfortable feel,” he said. “It’s not metropolitan and overwhelmingly big that you can’t meet people.”

Timmerman also worked with Langston University after the university lost its food service director. He said Aramark, Wesleyan’s food service provider, thinks moving individ-uals to different institutions keeps them fresh.

“Sometimes in the food business if you stay in one spot too long you become stagnant,” he said.

Timmerman said he hopes to enact some sustainable programs as the new food service director. Timmerman and director of facili-ties Ken Dunson have talked about becoming partners to achieve this.

An example Timmerman gave for sustain-ability was using plastic to-go containers rather than the styrofoam ones currently in use.

Students support diversity, tolerance by signing doorMelissa Batesmdbates@mail.txwes.edu

About 200 Wesleyan students, faculty and staff showed their support for tolerance by walking through the Door of Tolerance Nov. 11.

The Texas Wesleyan Gay Straight Alliance sponsored a Door of Tolerance event from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Nov. 11 on the mall. Those who stepped through the Door of Tolerance were affirming they would not be intolerant of others no matter their gender, race, sexual orientation, religious affiliation or any other stereotypes.

People who chose to walk through the Door of Tolerance were also given the op-tion to sign the door and received a button with the words “Diversity Tolerance Under-standing Wesleyan” placed over the Wesley-an flame symbol.

They also received a certificate that gave an explanation of the Door of Tolerance.

The certificate stated that Wesleyan’s stu-dents, faculty and staff showed their soli-darity in standing against bullying, taunting and prejudice of anyone who may be per-ceived as different by others.

Sophomore psychology major Danni Dubois said he was thrilled the event took place.

“I think that this is wonderful, more peo-ple should be doing things like this,” she said. “It’s exciting.”

Senior business finance major Airielle Mitchell said walking through the Door of Tolerance helped open her eyes.

“I think the Door of Tolerance kind of made me realize that hate is bad and love is good,” she said. “We need less discrimina-tion in the nation and more peace.”

New community center offers help, needs tutorsRachel Peelrlpeel@mail.txwes.edu

While little hands diligently paint brown turkey faces onto foam cups, construction crews put the finishing touches on the new Polytechnic Community Center.

The people of Poly-technic Heights valued the old community cen-ter, but with only enough room for 80 children, the needs of the commu-nity were not being met. Construction of the new center began right be-fore summer, with official dedication taking place Nov. 12. The community center offers child care, food and clothes to three elementary schools, a middle school and Poly-technic High School.

Center Director Fran-ces Martinez said tutor-ing for 4- and 5-year-olds in reading and writing is in high demand.

“If we can start them young and help them then we wouldn’t have problems in the high school,” she said.

According to educa-

tion.com, the three sur-rounding elementary schools that feed into the Polytechnic Community Center barely passed the TAKS. In grades 3-5 on the math portion of the TAKS test only 49-84 per-cent passed and in read-ing 68-83 percent passed. Fifth graders were also tested in writing and only 71-78 percent passed.

Martinez said some schools have kids in first and second grade who don’t know how to write their names. With the growing population and the shortage of teachers, some schools are com-bining kindergarten and first grade into one class-room, she said.

“We are going to be starting a tutoring pro-gram here pretty soon on math and science,” Marti-nez said.

Will Mulberry, senior history major is currently a volunteer and will begin tutoring at the communi-ty center in the next few weeks. Mulberry began volunteering two to three days a week in August.

“They have such a good

time there that we basi-cally have to push them out the door and say you have to go home,” Mul-berry said.

Mulberry volunteered for the Boys and Girls Club when he attended Louisiana State Univer-sity. He said it gives him an experience with kids, since he will probably go into education after he graduates in May.

“I’m changing more than the kids are chang-ing it seems like,” Mul-berry said.

Mulberry gets up around eight in the morning and then drives to Wesleyan to his first class. He’s in class from 9:25 a.m. to 12:05 p.m. and then studies until he has to arrive at the Poly center by 3 p.m. Once he gets there he then checks in with his supervisor, Raul Rodriguez. They both climb into the bus and begin bus runs. First they go to Polytechnic High School, where Mul-berry said he’s witnessed some interesting things.

For example, Mulberry said about three weeks

ago he witnessed two pregnant girls fighting when they pulled up to pick up the students at Poly High.

“The girls were full blown six or seven months pregnant, in a bigger fight than I have ever been in,” Mulberry said.

After they pick up at the high school they circle back around to the community center and

unload the first group of kids, Mulberry is left in charge while Rodriguez leaves to pick up the stu-dents at William James Middle School. Once all the children arrive, they begin the rest of the after-noon working on school work until dinner.

“I’m astonished that there is not some kind of mandatory hours for

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Photos by Rachel Peel | Rambler Staff(Left) Five-year-old Amiee Took paints in the Polytechnic Community Center. (Below) Will Mulberry waits on the bus transporting the children to the center.

“I’m astonished that there is not some kind of mandatory hours for education students to be over there teaching kids.”

Will Mulberrysenior history major

Committee looks at making Wesleyan ‘greener’Shauna Bankssbbanks@mail.txwes.edu

Drip-drop. Drip-drop. The sounds of leaky faucets in old bathroom sinks across each of the Texas Wesleyan campuses and Texas Wesleyan School of Law may soon cease.

The Blue Plus Gold Equals Green committee is making plans to cut water consumption costs for the university, as well as ad-dress energy, recycling and trans-portation issues.

After the latest meeting held Nov. 16, the 11-person commit-tee, created by a group of faculty members last spring, is continu-ing its efforts with multiple plans to improve university operations and sustainability.

“It’s incredibly productive. This

year it’s been perfect,” said Bruce Benz, professor of biology and department chair. “With those people, we basically set ourselves up to attack all and anything to do with university sustainability, in the sense of operations. By that we mean energy use, water use, trans-portation and anything to do with resources that are consumed on all of the campuses.”

A member of the committee himself, Benz said the committee has considered water use exten-sively since it has been a concern for a while.

“Our water use concern was about seeing how much water is used and where it’s used on cam-pus,” Benz said. “We’re trying to get an estimate of which buildings are the biggest consumers, and why that is.”

Benz said that in that sense, what the committee is doing is actually establishing a monitoring program, which is the first step to remedying any wasted consump-tion.

Last week, the committee had Water Management Inc. come in to go through all buildings on the main campus and make sug-gestions for what things the com-mittee might consider repairing, upgrading or modifying to make water use more efficient.

Some sources of water waste found included leaky faucets in older buildings on campus and flushing mechanisms on toilets that are currently using five times the standard amount of water needed.

Water Management Inc. sug-gested the committee consider

installing high efficiency toilets to begin cutting back on water use.

“These are recommendations, and obviously recommendations we will act on, but it will be those plus evaluation of which building uses the most water and identify-ing why that use is so great,” Benz said.

Concerning energy, the com-mittee is looking at its usage in each building on all three cam-

puses.“What we have to do is look at

why energy use is at the level it is at each of these places on campus by trying to determine whether or not square footage and classroom and or student use of the facility makes the best prediction about energy use on campus,” Benz said.

Still in the beginning stages,

“We want to make it as good or better than any of the other campuses in the metroplex, because we know that we can save some money and can have a better impact.”

Bruce BenzBlue Plus Gold Equals Green Committee Chair

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