Dr. Salim Azzouz discussed the use of alternative energy sources with students and facul-ty Wednesday evening in Clark Student Center. His talk focused on the effi-ciency of various energy medi-ums to produce electricity. Nu-clear power rang in as the most efficient, while coal was the most wasteful. Evaluating the effectiveness of energy sources becomes more important as population grows, he said. World population could reach nine billion by the year 2050. Asia and Africa are expected to grow particularly quickly.

“The demand for energy is go-ing to grow and grow,” Azzouz said. “That means there will be competition for energy. We can-not escape from that.” The average American house-hold uses 11,000 kilowatts per hour in a year. Today, the United States is faced with three energy challenges, Azzouz told audi-ence members. First, it needs to have a reli-able supply of energy. Second, it needs to cut down on emissions of greenhouse gas-es – the country has set a goal of cutting these emissions 20 per-cent by 2020, and 80 percent by 2050. Third, it needs to improve technology to maximize the ef-

Zach Skelton, president of the American Society of Me-chanical Engineering (ASME), describes himself as a problem solver.

In his eyes, engineers are problem solvers who not only think outside the box, but also designed the box itself.

This week, ASME and En-gineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) are contributing to Na-tional Engineering Week.

The purpose is to acknowl-edge the contributions to so-ciety that engineers make. It is also a time for engineers to emphasize the importance of learning math, science and technical skills.

The event includes three competitions: building a pop-

sicle/craft stick bridge, a paper airplane contest and a week-long scavenger hunt.

All MSU students are eli-gible to take part, and all en-trants have the chance to win various prizes.

ASME, with more than 50 student members, represents all student mechanical engineers. ESW is a special interest group of students, faculty and profes-sionals interested in building a

more sustainable world. According to the ESW

faculty advisor Dale McDon-ald, many of his students hold memberships in both student organizations and numbers have increased over the years due to participation in national contests.

Idir Azzouz, ASME faculty adviser, described this week’s

MSU enrollment rose by .58 percent to 6,091 students this semester, setting a new record for spring.

About 67 percent, or 4,080 students, are enrolled full-time, according to the university web-site.

There are 38 first-time fresh-man, 840 freshmen, 1,145 soph-omores, 1,341 juniors, 2,011 seniors, 76 post-baccalaureates and 640 graduate students.

Spring 2011 lagged behind Spring 2010 in first-time fresh-men, freshmen, sophomores and post-baccalaureates. But juniors, seniors and graduate students were on the rise, making up for losses in the other classifica-tions.

Seniors were up by 101 stu-dents, juniors by 58, graduate students by 5.

“Midwestern is where it wants to be,” said Barbara Merkle, di-rector of admissions.

She said she isn’t quite sure what caused the leap in enroll-ment, but she plans to find out. She plans on looking into en-rollees who have been previous-ly denied admission in previous semesters but are attending in the spring.

“There’s been a stronger in-terest in repeat applications,” Merkle said. “Inquiries are up. Applications are up. Now we just need them to show up,” she said.

MSU plans to raise its admis-sion requirements in the fall.

“I was initially apprehensive, because when we normally raise admission criteria we lose num-bers,” she said. “But I’m encour-aged by the number of students we’ve already admitted.”

Merkle said enrollment for the fall is already neck-and-neck with numbers for the previous fall.

The deadline for students to apply for Fall 2011 is in August.

“I’m excited about this class,” she said.

For the past eight years, state law has mandated that a portion of each resident undergraduate student’s designated tuition be set aside to fund need-based fi-nancial aid programs.

Dr. Jesse Rogers, along with other Texas state university presidents, is asking legislators to remove this restriction and al-low each university to utilize its tuition in a way that best fits the institution’s needs.

The set aside originated in 2003, when Texas legislators

voted to deregulate tuition at state universities, allowing them to set their own designated tu-

ition levels. At the time, all state universities had a designated tu-ition of $46 per credit hour.

To ease the burden of future tuition increases, the legisla-ture required that each school

put aside 15 percent of in-state students’ designated tuition in excess of $46 per credit hour to subsidize need-based financial aid, such as scholarships, grants and work-study programs.

Another 5 percent was ear-marked to fund the B-On-Time Loan program, which provides needy students with no-interest loans and forgives their debt if they graduate within four years with a grade point average of at least 3.0.

At MSU, students affected by the set aside currently pay $146.55 per semester credit hour in tuition – $50 in state-mandated tuition and $96.55 in

university designated tuition. Of that designated tuition,

$10.11 – roughly 10 cents of ev-ery dollar – goes to fund finan-cial aid programs.

At current tuition rates, a stu-dent taking 15 hours has $151.65 set aside. If tuition rates remain steady, by the time the same stu-dent completes a 120-hour de-gree, $1,213.20 of their total tu-ition would have been funneled into financial aid.

In June 2009, new legislation was enacted that requires uni-versities to inform students that a portion of their tuition will

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Students celebrate National Engineering Week with contests

Your heart is racing.Your palms are sweaty.You can’t catch your breath

and you can feel butterflies buzzing around in your stom-ach.

No, it’s not your first date. You have test anxiety.

Test anxiety is a widespread problem that affects many dif-ferent kinds of students, accord-ing to Vikki Chaviers, licensed professional counselor for the MSU counseling center.

She and other counseling center staff held a test anxiety workshop Monday in Dillard. Counselors discussed common problems with taking tests and

offered students some solu-tions.

“Some people have a melt-down right in the middle of class,” Chaviers said. “Some-times anxiety comes out in some sort of physiological way. It can be on our subconscious level.”

Since testing anxiety is some-times held in the subconscious, a student suffering from it may only feel the physical symp-toms. He or she may not realize the bigger problem causing the sweaty palms and racing heart, she said.

Dr. Pam Midgett, director of the counseling center, started the program by posing a ques-tion to the room packed with audience members.

“We have an image of our-selves as academic people. Is

that image that we are smart and we can do the work or is it that we struggle?”

She asked audience members to write down what they had heard about their academic skills when they were young. Midgett said the responses ranged from people feeling inadequate com-pared to a sibling to people be-ing told they were very smart. Audience members were then ask to reevaluate what they were told when they were young to see if those things were still true.

In the next section of the workshop, Chaviers offered time-management tools for students to use when they need to cover a lot of material in a hurry.

She said many students find

themselves in situations where they need to cram for a test and don’t have much time to do it.

“You need to spend 75 percent of your time just drilling your-self on the information over and over and over,” Chaviers said. “In other words, try to memo-rize as much of it as you can.”

The other 25 percent of cram time should be spent actually trying to gain some understand-ing of the material.

She said a good strategy for organizing study time is to break it up into 15- or 20-minute seg-ments, separated by 5 minutes of down time.

“Rule of thumb – try to sit down and study for about 15 minutes or until you’re no lon-

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Tuition set aside impacts students, universityBreaking down the tuition set aside

MSU students are charged $96.55 per semester credit hour for university designated tuition. The state sets aside $10.11 per credit hour from each

in-state undergraduate student’s designated tuition to fund need-based financial aid programs. If a student takes 15 hours, $151.65 is set aside. At current tuition rates, a student completing a 120-hour degree program will have paid

$1,213.20 into financial assistance programs.In 2010-2011, MSU students received over $2.2 million in institutional need-

based financial aid. Of the approximately $1.25 million MSU set aside this year, over $950,000 went toward financial aid for needy students.

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Grammys are not about our tastesAh, the Grammys. The illustrious

occasion is yet another award cer-emony where millionaires are con-gratulated for doing their jobs and showered with even more prestige. Still, the night has its artistic ap-peals.

Music executive Steve Stoute wrote a full page letter criticizing the Grammys. He scolded them for not awarding Eminem Album of the Year (the award was taken home by Arcade Fire) or Song of the Year (which went to Lady An-tebellum).

One of Stoute’s main points was that these artists are very popular and reflect our culture better than the bands that beat them out.

Music resonates with people. El-vis and the Beatles were big because they filled a gap in people’s desires, emotions, and gave them legitimate grounds to ‘shake it.’ The Grammys

do more than simply reflect popu-lar opinion. Eminem should have beat out Steely Dan for album of the year in 2001 if sheer popularity was all that mattered.

If popular opinion is all that matters, we don’t really need award ceremonies, anyway. Artists would just be recognized and given tro-phies when their albums went platinum.

The Grammys (and other award shows like the Emmys, Oscars, and Tonys) serve as a way for experts in an industry and other artists to de-termine who was the best at their craft over the past year.

That doesn’t always happen. The Dark Knight, besides being incred-ibly profitable, was a fantastically well-done movie, and it didn’t even get a nomination for Best Picture in 2009.

Award ceremonies are designed

to recognize quality over popular-ity. Popularity can sometimes be a good indication of quality, but sometimes the masses can be stu-pid.

Stoute was also angry that Jus-tin Bieber did not win New Artist of the Year. However, most of us sighed with relief and were able to sleep soundly, knowing that there was some sanity left in the world.

Award shows shouldn’t always celebrate the artists with the big-gest fanbase. They exist to judge quality.

If popularity is all that matters, we should all be forced to celebrate the cast of Glee, which has accu-mulated the most top 100 singles of all time, as the greatest band ever. And no one wants to do that.

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To the Editor:

In response to Cameron Shaf-fer’s 16 February editorial:

I never once suggested, nor would I ever suggest, that Mos-ab Hassan Yousef should not be permitted to speak on cam-pus.

My point was only that Has-san Yousef is a bigot. While open and honest dialogue ob-viously trumps narrow-minded and dogmatic insistence on tol-erance for the sake of tolerance, the opposite is also true: as an institution of higher learning we gain nothing from offering

equal air-time to flat-earthers, Nazis, Klansmen, and Islamo-phobes like Hassan Yousef sim-ply for the sake of promoting diversity of opinion.

Some issues are serious and deserve to be discussed by seri-ous people even in the midst of passionate disagreement. Then there are those opinions which are so ludicrous and appalling that we discredit ourselves and our public institutions if we lend them so much as a modi-cum of credibility.

The sorts of opinions Mosab Hassan Yousef routinely pro-pounds are unworthy of serious

consideration and are morally reprehensible to boot.

Yes, he has a right to proclaim them--even at Midwestern State University, if we are fool-ish enough to provide him with an audience.

But as a university, our busi-ness is the cultivation of wis-dom, not foolishness. That was my point.

Sincerely,

Nathan JunAssistant Professor of Philosophy

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A Texas governor, Rick Perry, with potential presidential aspi-rations sits in Austin, working with a Republican legislature that has never been stronger.

The conservative government is in the process of passing a bill that would allow guns in Texas where there had previously been none.

Some objected in the past, say-ing that the wild culture of Texas would result in shootouts at ev-ery intersection and that Texans would try to be heroes with their guns and end up causing more violence.

Yet, in 1995, then Governor George W. Bush and the Texas legislature passed a bill allowing citizens 21 years and older to ob-tain concealed handgun licenses.

Within five years violent crimes and gun crimes have dropped drastically across Texas.

No crossroad duels have oc-curred, either.

Sixteen years later, legislators in Austin are debating whether or not guns should be allowed on college campuses.

A bill originally submitted by Garland Representative Joe Driver in 2009 would have al-lowed students with concealed hangun licenses to carry them around Texas universities.

The bill cleared the Senate, but failed to pass the House. Now, two years later, the Texas House is more conservative than ever with more than half of its members al-ready committed to cosponsoring the bill.

Perry has expressed support for it and most people expect to see it passed in the very near future.

There is one new clause that separates this version of the bill apart from its 2009 counterpart. This version currently gives each private university the right to opt-out if they consult with their students and faculties. Private universities are now much more likely to temper their opposition to the bill.

That still leaves Midwestern students in a position of having to deal with these changes.

Despite the heavily conserva-tive culture of Wichita Falls, there still remains a division among students over the bill.

Last April saw an empty hol-ster protest on campus from stu-dents demanding the right to car-

ry guns on campus. It was done in conjunction with a national protest that is held every spring. While there is one planned for this April, it is likely it will not be needed in Texas.

On the other side of the issue are those students who are totally opposed to guns being allowed on campus. A protest against the bill is planned for March 4th in the quad.

Many people who are opposed to the bill argue that it is dan-gerous for angry undergraduates to be armed. Professors will feel unsafe giving out bad grades (or students would feel unsafe from stressed-out professors), tak-ing tests next to someone who is packing heat would make the unarmed test-taker nervous, and that the college lifestyle of party-ing would lead to drunken shoo-touts.

The U.S. and Texas Constitu-tions (and recent Supreme Court rulings) make it clear that the right to personally posses a gun is one of the inalienable rights of a person. Carrying a gun is one way a person can secure his or her own life. Being able to pro-tect yourself is fundamental to a person’s liberty.

Relying on the campus police to protect us in case of an armed maniac (who would care less about gun laws) is dangerously irresponsible, even if the police force here is good.

It took the police during the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings three minutes to reach the crime scene and another five to break into the locked building.

A person being able to secure their own liberty is far more important than how comfort-

able a person who does not like guns feels. As Representative Jeff Wentworth put it “I don’t ever want to see repeated on a Texas college campus what happened at Virginia Tech, where some deranged, suicidal madman goes into a building and is able to pick off totally defenseless kids like sitting ducks.”

The critics of this law also seem to forget that the only people who would be allowed to carry guns on campus have to be 21 and already licensed by the state. We will not see crazy freshmen with-out firearm experience armed to the teeth.

Of course, the two states that allow guns on college campuses (Utah and Colorado) have never had an incident of a college cam-pus shooting and are perfectly safe.

Besides valuing liberty and se-curity as reasons to allow guns on campus, precedent on other cam-puses goes a long way in demon-strating the effectiveness of this potential law.

Murderers prefer unarmed vic-tims. And the students in Colo-rado and Utah are not unarmed, nor would they be victims.

The administration of Mid-western needs to start looking at this not as something that might happen, but as something that will happen. MSU needs to being figuring out a way to pragmati-cally allow this shift to occur, par-ticularly in terms of weapon stor-age; the law allows universities to regulate how guns are stored in dorms.

Students, even if they have no interest in carrying a gun would benefit by becoming familiar with guns. That is a service the re-cently founded MSU Gun Club provides.

The MSU Gun Club, founded in part to teach students how to responsibly handle firearms, is making a point of familiarizing students with guns to help allevi-ate those worries.

In 1995 there were a lot of worries about violent crime sky-rocketing throughout Texas as a result of the new concealed carry law. It did not happen and crime went down.

Worries about gun violence erupting throughout Texas uni-versities will be demonstrated to be just as unfounded.

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In honor of National Eating Dis-orders Awareness Week, the Counsel-ing Center has taken an intense look at America’s obsession with beauty.

It’s not all pretty.Monday night, the Counsel-

ing Center screened a documentary, America The Beautiful, where director Daryl Roberts examined this coun-try’s fascination with physical perfec-tion.

Counseling center director, Dr. Pam Midgett acknowledges while many MSU students do not have dis-ordered eating behaviors, all students need to know about healthy eating and dieting.

“Most people want to look as healthy as they can but some might take that desire too far,” Midgett said. “We want to help our students have a realistic self-perception, positive attainable expectations along with healthy self-esteem”

The twenty-five students in atten-dance witnessed interviews with for-mer models, magazine editors, enter-tainment correspondences and young

people who discussed physical ap-pearance. Some left students like se-nior Mary Rush extremely disturbed.

“There was a point in the film where an magazine editor said that their publication doesn’t put ugly people on the cover of their magazines because it wouldn’t sale,” Rush said. “Listen-ing to the way she said ‘ugly people’ made my stomach flip. I understand it’s a business but the reality of it says a lot about our country.”

Midgett described a shocking mo-ment in the film where the mother of a 12 year old girl who desperately wanted her daughter to be a model seemed to be projecting her own per-sonal desires on her daughter.

Freshmen Jasmine Grybowski

spent her childhood traveling around the country participating in pageants. Now, she can reflect on how that en-vironment shaped her negative view on her body.

“I had to be the skinniest,” Gry-bowski said. “I had to be the prettiest. I had to have the whitest teeth. I had to be the tannest. It was an obsession that my mother engraved in me that I am still dealing with. I definitely believe America, in particular, has an obsession with perfection and it needs to be addressed more often.

Another element of the film Midg-ett hopes hit a nerve with students is how men notice what the media says about male bodies and what makes a man attractive. The film says women

tend to discuss this topic more but men are also impacted.

“As a result of see-ing the film I hope that students will see that we have to be careful with the messages that the media sends to us about beauty and fitness,” Midgett said. “While it is normal to want to be physically attractive, one also wants to develop relationships, a keen mind, a spiritual life and a connectedness to the community.

The counseling center will host a week of pro-grams the week before Spring Break designed to help students make healthy and legal choices about drugs and alcohol. Also, in April the center will host an event to raise awareness of depression and suicide in college students. All dates are tentative.

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campus briefsn Today:

Soul Food dinner. Mesquite Dining Hall at 5 p.M.

national engineering Week ac-tivitieS until thurSday

n THURSday:Spaghetti dinner. sikes lake Center at 5 p.M.

principalS panel: Clark stu-Dent Center at 6 p.M.

n FRIday:external Funding WorkShop: DillarD 101 & 189. 1:15 p.M. - 5 p.M.

n MoNday:reSumania dayS: Clark stuDent Center at 1 p.M.

n TUESday:reSumania dayS: Clark stuDent Center at 1 p.M

Faculty Forum SerieS: cSc ShaWnee theatre at 7 p.m.

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Cram the Coliseum MSU Basketball plays its final home

game of the 2010-11 season!

Wednesday, February 23 Women vs. Angelo State at 6:00 PM

Men vs. Angelo State at 8:00 PM D.L. Ligon Coliseum

Win a chance to shoot for a brand new Chevrolet Camaro!

2010‐2011 Outstanding  Student Award Nominations Due Friday, February 25 at 5:00 PM in the Dean of Students Office (CSC 104)

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events as a recruiting tool for undecided majors. He also said that it would be a more efficient recruiting took if students from local high schools participates in the events as well.

“The main obstacle is the lack of an adequate budget to cover the cost of expanding the event to other schools,” Azzouz said.

“For this to happen, the officers must devote a great deal of ef-forts to college money.”

The next part of this week’s activities will see discussion on the state of the engineering job market.

The market is currently down for a few disciplines, such as manufacturing engineering, Az-

zouz said. Conversely, the mar-kets for mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and com-puter engineering are still look-ing promising.

“Currently, the U.S. is suf-fering from a huge shortage of engineers,” Azzouz said. “In my opinion, this is the best period of time to choose engineering as a

major. Mechanical engineering is almost a sure way of securing a job upon graduation.”

Dr. Sheldon Wang, McCoy School of Engineering chair, predicted that in two to five years the shortage will grow to 200,000 engineers.

The week will end with a ban-quet, where engineering majors

can interact with people in the industry and build a network of contacts. Azzouz said this is very important for students searching for jobs in the field.

“Mechanical engineering is by far the most versatile field of engineering,” Shelton said. “I’ve always heard even non-engi-neering companies will hire you

because of the way we have been trained to think.”

National Engineering Week continues this weekend with a popsicle and craft stick bridge contest in room 125 at 5 p.m. Also, the weeklong scavenger hunts continues through Thurs-day.

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used to provide financial assis-tance for other students. The notice must accompany the stu-dent’s tuition bill or receipt, ei-ther in print or e-mail form.

Rogers estimates that re-

moving restrictions on the 20 percent set aside would free up approximately $1.25 million in designated tuition revenue per year at MSU.

Of that amount, Rogers said

MSU currently pays approxi-mately $300,000 every year into the B-On-Time Program.

“We have right around 50 students who take advantage of that program,” he said. “We send the state a significant amount more money than we receive back for those 50 students.”

The MSU financial aid de-partment uses the remaining funds – $950,000 for the 2010 fiscal year – for various need-based aid programs.

Rogers emphasized that doing away with the set aside would not eliminate MSU’s fi-nancial aid programs.

Instead, Rogers wants to add academic restrictions to ensure that students who benefit are prepared for collegiate-level work. He said that too many financial aid recipients fail to graduate.

Under current legislation, the set aside funds first-come, first-served need-based aid programs. Needy students are eligible for financial assistance even if they are accepted to the university under conditional admission.

“I have come to believe that we need to put academic re-strictions on even need-based financial aid,” Rogers said. “I

know this is very controversial. I have difficulties with it my-self. But if we (provide funding) for students who have proven a reasonable ability for collegiate work, it would be money well spent.”

Existing legislation doesn’t allow for such restrictions.

Rogers said there is a po-litical side to the argument, as well. Legislators have heard complaints from students who don’t believe that 20 percent of their tuition should be used to subsidize another student’s ed-ucation. Some of the set aside’s opponents are students who are ineligible for need-based aid, but must take out loans to cover their own college expenses.

“I want the state to turn us loose to devise our own financial aid and other programs,” Rogers said. “I want them to leave it to the university’s faculty, adminis-tration and students to discuss how we want to handle an extra $1.25 million.”

Since 2010, MSU has had

state appropriations slashed by 7.5 percent, and legislators have already asked universities to brace for another 10 to 15 per-cent reduction.

According to Rogers, each 5 percent cut in state appro-priations amounts to about $1.5 million.

Freeing up $1.25 million per year could give Midwestern the flexibility it needs to weather the budget crisis.

If the set aside is abandoned, Rogers said that “perhaps half of this money could go back into student financial aid, but it would go in with restrictions on academic qualifications.”

He suggested that the other half could be put back into des-ignated tuition, which is used to pay faculty, fund academic pro-grams, and enhance students’ educational experience.

“If we’re going to have less money (due to budget reduc-tions), it is critical that we use that money wisely to get more college graduates,” Rogers said.

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ficiency of storing and supplying energy.The United States currently consumes approximately

3.6 trillion liters of oil per year, a quarter of the world supply.

“The oil we consume is basically consumed in trans-portation,” Azzouz said.

Approximately 70 percent of U.S. oil is used in trans-portation. Industrial factories consume another 23 per-cent, leaving 7 percent for residential and 1 percent for producing electricity.

About 63 percent of U.S. oil is imported. “We don’t even have enough oil here to power our

cars,” he said. “The U.S. imports a large portion of its crude oil.”

Plus, the demand for crude oil is rising, especially in China and India.

“We are wasting energy and we are wasting money,” he said. “That’s why some people, specifically environ-mental people, are saying, ‘Let’s have electric cars.’”

Approximately half of U.S. electricity is produced by burning coal. Natural gas produces about 23 percent, nuclear power 20 percent. The use of hydroelectric pow-er to churn out electricity is on the rise, but it’s still only responsible for 6 percent of production.

Most of Azzouz’s lecture was spent discussing pros and cons of using various forms of energy to produce electricity. One analogy he carried through the talk was how much energy it would take from various mediums to power a 60-watt light bulb for one year. Here’s what he came up with: n Coal – 450 lbs n Natural gas – 293 lbs n Nuclear – 70 mg n Hydroelectric – 2,143 tons of water dropped from 100 meters Coal is cheap and can produce a lot of energy – it’s

not very efficient but it is plentiful. “We have enough supplies to last us for 250 or 300

more years,” he said.Azzouz mentioned two cons of using coal to produce

electricity: fly ash and the toxic clouds power plants spit into the atmosphere, in some cases causing acid rain. Fly ash, the remnant of burned coal, can contain arsenic, mercury and uranium.

“It’s going to contaminate the air and the community around the power plants,” he said. “And if you dissolve it in ponds, there’s a possibility you could contaminate ground water.”

Natural gas, or underground gas consisting primarily of methane, is a big player today in powering homes, Azzouz said.

“Natural gas is really used heavily to produce electric-ity. Plus, it is very abundant in the oceans.”

He said the earth currently holds about 250 years worth of natural gas.

Biogas, a gas produced by the breakdown of organic matter, is another solution for the world’s energy con-cerns. Azzouz said he is working with other MSU pro-fessors to identify bacteria that would assist in food de-composition and energy production.

“We hope one day we can use the waste from the cafeteria to produce electricity and run the power plant here,” he said. “It’s a viable solution for an institution like ours.”

Another source of electricity production is nuclear power.

Currently 103 nuclear reactions operate in the coun-try. About 437 exist worldwide. Fifty-five plants are be-ing constructed and almost half of them are in China. Only two are being constructed in the U.S. One is in Georgia, one is in North Carolina.

“If we look at the energy contained, it’s huge,” Az-

zouz said. “Only 70 milligrams of nuclear power can run a light bulb for a year, and that’s a very, very big concentration of energy. It makes using nuclear material attractive.”

Nuclear power is relatively cheap and clean, produc-ing very little carbon dioxide when burned, a leading contributor of greenhouse gases. One problem with us-ing nuclear power, however, is that the energy source is non-renewable. Another is that it produces nuclear waste that has to be stored away from people.

“No one wants those toxic wastes in their backyard,” Azzouz said. “There’s controversy about this.”

Hydroelectric power is a viable solution for producing electricity. Thomas Edison created the first hydroelectric power plant on the Fox River in New York in 1882. To date, about 80,000 dams have been constructed in the U.S. Only a fraction of them, 2,400, are used in cultivat-ing electricity.

Dams that wall up lakes and rivers up, impeding their natural flow, can have negative effects on the environ-ment, he said. A better design is one that works with the natural flow of a river to produce power.

Hydroelectric plants are very efficient, but aren’t ca-pable of producing much power through water pres-sure.

Also, fish sometimes are chopped up in turbine blades when water is brought into the structures. Dams can be especially detrimental to fauna when hydroelectric plants sucking up lots of water change water pressure and oxygen levels in lakes. Commonly fish die because of changes in pressure and temperature of their habitats due to dams.

“When you release the water, it may really kill fish,” he said.

Azzouz also discussed using geothermal, wind, solar and tidal power to produce electricity.

ger focused,” she said.Students should come back to

the material and see how much they remember after taking a five-minute break.

“If you can remember quite a bit of it, move on. Then study another 15 minutes, take a break, and see how much you remember,” she said. “This is a much more effective way to study. It’s one of the ways people keep their test anxiety down.”

Chaviers said this technique has been very useful to students who come to her office with problems of test anxiety. When she asked the audience if they had ever studied like that, no one raised a hand.

Lori Arnold, a licensed profes-sional counselor at the counseling center, said she liked this approach when she was still in school.

“This way of studying is pretty good,” she said. “I would set up little rewards for myself, like I’ll study for 15 – 20 minutes and then I’ll let myself check my email or I’ll get up and get a drink.”

Chaviers and Arnold gave a few more study tips:n Take a brisk walk to class

before the testn Eat protein, not sweetsn Don’t switch up your daily

routine too muchn Study in a classroom sce-

narion Study in groupsn Study in different placesn Cover material from first to

last, then last to first, then start in the middlen Jot down everything you re-

member right before the test startsn Make up mnemonicsn Teach othersn Review material for a few

minutes before each class meetingn Show up to class earlyn Be calm, collected and con-

fidentArnold said some students freak

out when they are faced with a question they don’t know they an-swer to on a test. One thing leads to another and soon their anxiety is overwhelming.

“There’s one question you don’t know, and instead of thinking, ‘Oh, there’s a question I don’t know, but I know a lot of the other stuff,’ it’s, ‘Oh, crap. I don’t know it. I’m not going to know anything else. I’m probably going to fail the test, which means I’m going to fail the semester and I’m not go-ing to graduate. I won’t be able to be a nurse anymore and I’m going to have to move back home from Wichita Falls with my parents and I have to break up with my boy-friend because they don’t know we’re together…”

“Just from looking at question one your life is ruined!” Chaviers said.

Arnold said tests are much more manageable when you look at them from this perspective: “This is just one test in one class in my college career.”

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When you think there is nothing else strange, creative or absolutely nuts that Thom Yorke and Radiohead could do, they always find a way to surprise you. While everyone was mak-ing the last minute rush to the grocery store Feb. 14 to buy gifts, Radiohead had a big announce-ment to make – it was releasing its follow-up to In Rainbows the coming Saturday, Feb. 19. The King of Limbs was announced al-most exactly like its predecessor was four years before, very briefly with very little warning and al-most no evidence to prove that an album was being recorded.

Unlike In Rainbows, though,

you could not set your own price; rather, Radiohead have once again shaken up the mu-sic industry by delivering the “world’s first news paper album,” as they’ve put it. The physical album, which contains over 625 pieces of companion artwork, a CD, two 10” vinyl albums and plenty of other ridiculous col-lectibles will not be available until late March, while a digital copy of the album was available Saturday as promised and had begun to stream on KCRW’s website Friday afternoon along with a strange video for the sin-gle “Lotus Flower” which fea-tured Thom Yorke dancing alone in an empty room in black-and-white.

The album clocks in at a little

over 30 minutes (side note: ru-mors have already begun that this is simply part one of a two-part album), and although it feels more like an EP quickly thrown together at first, after a few listens it’s very apparent the spastic feel of the album is intended. Much like the transi-tion from 1997’s OK Computer to 2000’s Kid A, Radiohead has switched gears from 2007’s In Rainbows traditional instru-ment compositions to an album with a dark and menacing elec-tronic feel. This with the quick-ness and rapid delivery of each track gives The King of Limbs the same atmosphere of Kid A, one filled with ordered chaos and an anxious feeling of not knowing what’s going on. However, where

Kid A was a new direction for the band it also allowed them to branch out and try new things, getting better with each album.

Now eleven years later, the band has taken this similar for-mula and their veteran skill to produce some of the most natu-ral and flowing tracks of their career. A prime example is the single “Lotus Flower.” Driven by a monstrous synth and bass line, Yorke’s voice has never sounded better as he gracefully glides across the track while mak-ing his unearthly falsetto sound strangely human.

Other standout tracks include the album opener “Bloom” and its chopped up piano line simi-lar to Yorke’s “The Eraser” from his solo album of the same name.

“Morning Mr. Magpie” has been around the Internet for a few years now in the form of a live acoustic per-formance when the band was trying out new mate-rial, but appears here as a relentlessly fast-paced elec-tronic song of revenge.

Overall, The King of Limbs does not fail to dis-appoint. With another new way of marketing their music, Radiohead contin-ues to push the boundaries of not just their music, but also how they get it out to the public and making it something worth having (deluxe packaging, special ordering, etc). While The King of Limbs is no OK Computer or Kid A, it is an important en-

try into the Radiohead canon. For the first time, it seems there is a band truly doing their mu-sic their way and still able to be commercially successful.

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‘Unknown’ wins box-office shootout Bruce Willis might want to

watch his back.After Liam Neeson’s latest

film, “Unknown,” far exceeded pre-release expectations at the box office over Presidents Day weekend, the 58-year-old Irish actor is emerging as Hollywood’s latest unlikely action hero.

“Unknown,” in which Neeson plays a man trying to reclaim his stolen identity, brought in $25.6 million in ticket sales over the four-day holiday weekend, ac-cording to an estimate from dis-tributor Warner Bros. Moviego-ers established with the success of Neeson’s 2008 hit film “Taken” that they enjoy watching the ac-tor beat up European bad guys.

“I Am Number Four,” an adap-tation of a popular young-adult novel, had been poised to be No. 1 upon its opening in theaters but instead came in with a soft $22.6 million in ticket sales. The weekend’s other new release, the Martin Lawrence comedy sequel “Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son,” trailed behind and grossed a modest $19 million.

Dan Fellman, president of do-mestic distribution for Warner Bros, said “Unknown’s” surpris-ingly strong performance was proof of Neeson’s newfound box-office clout.

“He just seems to be getting stronger and stronger at the box office, and this certainly shows that like he did with ‘Taken,’ in the right vehicle, he’s certainly a major movie star and can open up a film,” Fellman said.

Warner Bros. is hoping the film follows in the footsteps of “Taken,” which opened to a similar $24.7 million over a Su-per Bowl weekend and ended up with an impressive $145 million domestically. And considering that “Unknown” cost producer Joel Silver’s Dark Castle Enter-tainment a little more than $30 million to make, it’s already off to a healthy start. The strong opening is welcome relief for Dark Castle, which is coming off several flops, including last year’s “The Losers” and 2009’s “Whi-teout.” “Unknown” is now the company’s best opening since it started financing its own movies in 2008.

Heading into the weekend, “I Am Number Four” had stirred up lots of buzz not only because of its fresh-faced young British star Alex Pettyfer, but also be-cause it was the first release from DreamWorks since the Steven Spielberg- and Stacey Snider-led studio separated from Para-mount Pictures, signed a dis-tribution agreement with Walt Disney Pictures and raised new financing. The film cost Dream-Works about $59 million to pro-

duce, according to a person close to the production, although a person close to Disney said the budget was actually closer to $50 million.

“It wasn’t as skewed young as I would have thought,” said Chuck Viane, president of dis-tribution for Walt Disney Stu-dios, who said that half of the film’s audience was more than 35 years old. “We always play to win. The number’s nice, but I still will have preferred to be number one.”

“Big Mommas,” the third movie in the series featur-ing Lawrence impersonating a middle-age mother, fell well behind the openings of 2006’s “Big Momma’s House 2” and 2000’s “Big Momma’s House,” which debuted to $27.7 million and $25.7 million, respectively, on three-day weekends. Still, the critically lambasted film only cost New Regency Productions $32 million to make, slightly less than the budgets of the two previous films, which were both more than $35 million.

Bert Livingston, Fox’s senior vice president of domestic distri-bution, said he had expected the film would gross more on Sun-day, but was hurt by competition from the NBA All-Star game airing on television.

One film that excelled on Presidents Day weekend, how-ever, was “Gnomeo & Juliet.” In

its second week of release, the 3-D animated film grossed $24.8 million. From Friday to Sunday, the film was only down 23.5 percent from last weekend, benefiting from the lack of new movies competing for families with young chil-dren.

Sony Pictures’ “Just Go With It,” the romantic com-edy that was No. 1 over Val-entine’s Day weekend, also maintained a good hold over the holiday weekend. The film starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston dropped only 40 percent on a three-day ba-sis and collected $21.7 million through Monday.

Pint-sized pop star Justin Bieber again defied box-office projections, as his 3-D concert documentary “Never Say Never” dropped only 55 percent on its second weekend and took in $16.2 million over the four days. That’s a significantly smaller drop than similar music films have experienced. 2008’s “Han-nah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds” dropped 67 percent in its second weekend.

Still, it seems that not as many moviegoers overseas have been stricken with Bieber fever. The movie opened to a soft $1.3 mil-lion in Britain and Ireland — a solid number when compared with the paltry $5.4 million the Cyrus film ended up with

abroad.The four-day holiday tallies

fell far short

of last year’s grosses, marking the 15th con-secutive weekend that box office has been lower than in the previ-ous year. Although both the Val-entine’s Day and Presidents Day

holidays fell on the same week-end in 2010, box office was down 29.6 percent from last February,

when the romantic com-

edy “Valentine’s Day” sold an excellent $63.1 million worth of tickets.

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New York Indie-poppers finally release their debut of quirky yet catchy songs that will be hard to get out of your head.The Verdict: 3/4 - Deserves a Lis-ten

Patrick Stump Truant Wave EP

Former Fall Out Boy singer proves his vocals are still in good shape, but choose a strange ar-rangement of backing instrumentals for his EP.The Verdict: 2/4 - Questionable

Toro y Mol Underneath the Pine

Chazwick Bundick puts a new spin on the chill-wave sound he helped create last summer for a sound that’s more Ariel Pink that Washed Out.The Verdict: 2.5/4 - Only for Die Hard Fans

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One of my favorite parts of season changes is the competi-tion between makeup brands. Every decent company has some sort of promotion going on in order to attract more business for the upcoming season.

Springtime is one of their biggest times for fresh new pal-ettes and kits. They are truly great to buy for people who like to purchase a few items and be done with it, especially if it con-tains items that you would al-ready be purchasing separately. But which ones are worth your money? They tend to be pretty steep on the price hill, and I personally don’t want to spend my cash on makeup that’s not even a good value.

So for all of you that have that same mindset, here’s a list of spring palettes and kits that are worth your money.

Bare Minerals Siren of the Sea Kit ($29.50 at ulta.com – online only) is a beautiful seven-piece kit that gives you a glowing mermaid look. A tan and white makeup clutch contains shim-mering champagne, green, and coral colors and a soft face and shadow brush.

Lancome Color Design Sensa-tional Effects Eye Shadow Quad – Pretty Pretty ($42 at Dil-lard’s) is an amazing ensemble of pinks and purples. The new-ly improved eye shadows are made up of metallic and matte finishes.

Laura Mercier Silk Road Eye and Cheek Palette ($48 at laura-mercier.com or sephora.com) is

a stunning palette with glitter-ing shades of gold, purple, and coral. The eye shadows blend perfectly together for a perfect spring eye look, and the blushes are great alone or mixed to-gether.

Lorac Multidimensional Beau-ty Collection ($35 exclusively at Ulta) has a collection of three light-reflecting gold, bronze, and teal shadows and an Ulta-exclusive “Glam” lipgloss held inside of a gorgeous multidi-mensional bag that is perfect for an evening out on the town.

Nars Forever Yours Eye, Lip & Illuminator Set ($49 exclusively at sephora.com) is a limited-edition kit containing a full-size illuminator, full-size soft touch shadow pencil and mini lipgloss. This is a fantastic set for a quick, radiant appearance.

Too Faced Eye Classic Beauty Shadow Collection - Romantic Eye ($35 at Ulta or sephora.com) is made up of nine femi-nine shades that are perfect for a date or wedding. The palette has step-by-step instructions for various looks you can cre-

ate.Urban Decay Naked Palette

($48 at Ulta or sephora.com) features twelve amazing shad-ows in practically every nude shade you would ever need, and includes an eye shadow brush and travel-size primer potion.

Urban Decay 24/7 Gilde-On Eye Pencils 15 Year Anniversary Collection ($92 at Ulta or sepho-ra.com) contains fifteen beauti-ful eyeliners, including six new shades, and a pencil sharpener. All Urban Decay eyeliners are award winning, waterproof lin-ers that go on smoothly and stay on all day.

Urban Decay 24/7 Jackpot ($39 at Ulta) is a smaller collec-tion of eyeliners, including nine travel-size colors and a full-size black in “Zero”.

There is a great selection of palettes and kits out there, and these options are truly spectacu-lar. They all are beautiful collec-tions that will help you achieve your new spring makeup style.

What beauty tips would you like to hear about? E-mail ideas to wichitan@mwsu.edu

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New on DVD: DVD released: Feb. 22, 2011Genres: ComedyStarring: Robert Downey Jr., Zach GalifianakisRating: R for languuage, drug use and sexual contentRunning Time: 1 hour 35 minutes

From the director of “Old School” and “The Hangover,” funny man Zach Galifianakis stars for the first time with Robert Downey Jr. in this anti-buddy comedy.

Peter Highman (Downey) is rushing to catch a flight home from Atlanta to be with his wife as she prepares to give birth to their first child.

Through unfortunate events, he meets struggling actor Ethan Tremlay (Galifianakis) and the duo embarks on a cross-country road journey to Los Angeles, hopefully arriving in time for the birth of Peter’s first child.

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‘Due Date’Will James Franco pull a poem

out of his tux, or read an excerpt from one of his short stories?

Will Anne Hathaway break into song?

Will the two of them, virgin cohosts of the 83d Academy Awards, dazzle the Kodak The-atre crowd Sunday night – and more important, dazzle the millions of viewers around the globe?

Or will the untested duo drown in a pool of commingled flop sweat?

Franco, 32, and Hathaway, 28, are joining a small club of men and women who have hosted the Academy Awards ceremony since its inception in 1929, when the first Oscar ceremony – un-televised, obviously, but also un-radioized – took place at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.

Douglas Fairbanks and Wil-liam C. deMille worked the room that night. Lionel Barry-more, Will Rogers and director Frank Capra were among those who took turns in those early years.

And in 1940, the ski-nosed comic actor Bob Hope hosted for the first time (“Gone With the Wind” won best picture).

Hope, of course, went on to front 17 more Oscarfests, end-ing his marathon run in 1978 (“Annie Hall” took home the best picture prize). His signature shtick was to bemoan the acad-emy’s complete lack of recogni-tion when it came to his own screen performances.

“Welcome to the Academy Awards, or as it’s known at my house, Passover!” Hope quipped at the opening of the 1969 show.

“Hosting the Oscars is a very difficult job, because everybody sees you,” says Gil Cates, who produced a record 14 Academy Award telecasts – and hand-picked Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg, David Letterman, Steve Martin, Chris Rock and Jon Stewart to preside over those Hollywood lovefests. “It’s not like making a lousy movie, where it just dies.

Not only do your colleagues see you, but the agents, the el-evator man in your building, the guy who parks your car – every-one sees you.

“If you’re the host, you can’t escape that scrutiny, and you need a really strong constitution to do it.”

And because of that, Cates says, he has found that standup comedians folks who have spent years in the field, dodging rotten fruit, overcoming assorted hu-miliations, thinking fast on their feet – are the breed best suited. “They are used to the unexpect-ed, they’re used to carrying the

weight of a show on their shoul-ders, and they really know how to play a room. ... They feel com-fortable in that job.”

Johnny Carson, who hosted five times in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, demonstrated particu-lar cool.

“His timing was so impec-cable, and he was a Hollywood insider, and yet he was a man of the people, too,” says Mary Mur-phy, a senior lecturer at Univer-sity of Southern California’s An-nenberg School of Journalism.

Billy Crystal, an eight-timer, had his share of inspired mo-ments, in addition to introduc-ing, and inserting himself into, the best-picture parody clips.

But there have been hosts who have died out there, too. Jerry Lewis, cohosting the 31st Oscars in 1959, found himself in the unexpected position of hav-ing too much time on his hands. Thanks to overzealous schedul-ing by producer Jerry Wald, the show came up almost 20 min-utes short.

The rubber-faced comic start-ed ad-libbing, pulling celebs out of the seats, taking a baton to the orchestra, and even tooting on a trumpet.

The network eventually gave the comedian the proverbial heave-ho, finishing the evening with a rerun of a sports show.

And it helps to be an industry

insider, she says. Neither Letter-man nor Stewart went down especially well with the betuxed and begowned A-listers when the New York-based (and New York-acerbic) talk-show guys made their respective bows on the Oscar stage.

“Some of the edgier hosts, like Jon Stewart or David Letter-man, did not get well-received by people in the room,” says Matt McDaniel, managing editor of Yahoo Movies. “Even though I personally, as a viewer, really enjoyed both of them, it seemed like they were playing to hostile crowds sometimes, because they didn’t seem deferential.”

That shouldn’t be a problem for Franco – nominated, by the way, for best actor for his role in “127 Hours” – or for Hathaway.

After all, they’re working ac-tors, and they’d like to work again. Dissing the big-time pro-ducers and directors in the audi-ence isn’t going to help.

But then again, they might be able to get away with stuff that Letterman and Stewart could not.

“By having actors – movie stars, really – in the roles of host, the crowd might be a little more forgiving,” says McDaniel. “Be-cause, if they poke fun at the Oscars, they are insiders. They’re part of the community.”

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For the second time this weekend, junior Lindsey Hol-comb came through in the clutch to lift Midwestern State to victory with a 5-4 decision over Southeastern Oklahoma State in Lone Star Conference play Saturday afternoon at the SOSU Tennis Courts.

Meanwhile, the men steam rolled the Savage Storm in straight sets all the way through the order to move to 3-0.

Holcomb, who battled to a split set win in Friday’s season opener against Arkansas-Fort Smith, dominated Southeast-ern’s Andrea Georgescu 6-1, 6-0 for the clincher as the Mustangs improved to 2-1 on the season.

But MSU, which is playing with just five players and giv-ing up a default at a singles and doubles’ position, over-came more adversity as Savage

Storm claimed a No. 2 doubles win and then owned a 4-1 lead when the first singles’ match came off of the courts.

The Mustangs then claimed straight-set victories at Nos. 1-3 singles as Rozike Janzen van Rensburg beat Cassandra-Leigh Kleber 6-3, 6-0, Leah Roberts dumped Marie Liwus-lili 6-2, 6-2 and Abbie Lewis breezed past Mayra Leal 6-3, 6-1 before Holcomb notched the clincher.

Meanwhile, the men were unchallenged with only Vjeko-slav Stipanic and Jarod Liston surviving mild challenges at the Nos. 1 and 3 positions, re-spectively.

Stipanic answered SOSU’s Alejandro Argumedo’s chal-lenge 6-4, 6-3 at No. 1 while Liston closed out Felipe Pi-menta 7-5, 6-3 at No. 3

The MSU men’s and women’s tennis teams play host to East Central in the Mustangs’ home opener Thursday afternoon at the MSU Tennis Center. First serve is slated for 2 p.m.

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MSU made it to the semi-finals after a Sunday afternoon victory at the University of North Texas.

UNT kicked off to MSU to start the game

The Mustangs played offen-sively, scoring seven tries as well as defensively by shutting out their opponents in the first half.

Fly-half Aaron Alvarez grabbed an eighth minute try as well as the extra points for the start of what would be an enter-taining first half.

MSU scored several more tries

and went into the break with a 38-0 advantage.

Winger Damian Atamenwan and Alvarez both had two tries while Tyler Schmidt and Bo Williams had single touchdowns for the first half.

Coming back from the break, MSU dominated possession and scrumhalf Zach Henson extend-ed the lead after an 11-yard run.

North Texas’ eighth man was finally able enough to register a try for his team after sighting a breach in MSU’s defense.

Still the visitors were up 43-7.The Mustangs kept up the

momentum by converting a handful scoring opportunities.

Soopy Musarurwa marked his fifth try of the semester right after Henson set him up from a penalty.

Atamenwan completed his hat-trick after retrieving his pop-kick and touching it down for MSU’s ninth of the after-noon.

Simba Madzima then round-ed up the scoring bonanza for MSU with 10 minutes left.

The Eagles were able to mus-ter a consolation try just mo-ments before the final whistle.

MSU won the game 60-12, granting the team a ticket to the semifinals against the University of Houston.

No. 12 Midwestern State showed its dominant form both at the plate and in the circle, rolling to wins over Missouri Southern and Drury (Mo.) Sunday afternoon at Mustangs Park.

The Mustangs battered Mis-souri Southern 13-0 in five in-

nings before senior pitcher Kristina Gutierrez 1-hit Drury in a 5-0 victory as MSU ex-tended its most recent winning streak to six games to improve to 15-1 on the season.

Gutierrez didn’t allow a hit until Drury’s Brittany Smith lined a single to left field with one out in the top of the sev-enth as she came within two outs of recorded her second straight no-hitter.

The right-hander from Pear-land matched a season-high with 14 strikeouts and didn’t walk a batter while improving to 7-0 on the season.

The Mustangs left the bases loaded in each of the first two innings in the finale against Drury starter Caitlin Krebs, who delivered a solid outing allowing five runs on seven hits in six innings to fall to 0-3.

MSU finally took control

in the fourth as Amanda Po-tysman drew a one-out walk before she was lifted for pinch runner Megan Chartier, who was immediately sacrificed to second base.

Elena Bennett then extend-ed to her hitting streak to 13 games with an infield single to move Chartier to third.

The duo then combined on a perfectly executed delayed double steal for the first run of

the game. After Nick Duff drew a walk

and stole second, sophomore outfielder Courtney Bingham drilled a two-run single to right field to push the advan-tage to 3-0.

The Mustangs would add two runs in the sixth on RBI singles by Duff and McKenzie Sickler.

MSU didn’t take as long to get the offense started in the

opener as Bingham and Potys-man each blasted two-run shots in the first two innings before the Mustangs erupted for nine more runs in the third which included a two-run double by Bingham and 2-run and 3-run homers by Mallory Mooney to highlight the frame.

Tanner allowed three hits and struck out seven to improve to 8-1 on the campaign.

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The Mustangs pulled through for their third straight win last Wednesday night at D.L. Ligon Coliseum.

They battled and defeated A&M-Kingsville, 77-61.

The victory marked the 41st straight win at Ligon.

MSU took off with the lead halfway into the first half when senior guard Adrian Van Buren landed a three-pointer to give MSU an 11-point lead.

The Mustangs would lead by as much as 21 points during the game. The cherry on top was a free throw landed by junior for-ward Keonte Logan with 11:19 left to play. MSU was led by se-nior guard Chris Hagan.

The Houston native notched in a total of 26 points for the Mustangs, including five assists

in his 32 minutes of play.Junior forward David Terrell

put in 12 points, including a per-fect 5-for-5 on the field.

Terrell also put in five re-bounds.

Junior guard Michael Loyd and junior forward Darrick Thomas both pitched in nine and seven points, respectively.

The following Saturday night, the Mustangs fell to No. 23 West Texas A&M at the First United Bank Center in Canyon.

By the time the ball stopped bouncing and the buzzer whined, the scoreboard gave a disap-pointing report: 68-56.

“It was a tough environment,” assistant coach Nelson Haggerty said. “They always play really well over there.”

The Mustangs were 8-of-19 from the free throw line, which helped to dig the team’s grave during the loss.

Going into halftime, the Buffs were one up on MSU with 27-26 on the scoreboard, and then stretched their lead by 15 points thanks to a dunk done by WTAMU’s Courtney Carr at 6:59 left to play.

The Mustangs brought the game as close as six points late in the second half when Loyd slammed in one of his four three-pointers, and Hagan swooshed in a free throw with 1:52 on the clock.

Hagan finished with a game high of 20 points, including two assists and a single steal.

Loyd pitched in 16 points along with his single assist and steal.

Van Buren brought forth eight points and a double dose of steals. In his 14 minutes of game time, senior forward Charlie Lo-gan forked six points, snagged three rebounds, dished a single assist and scored one steal.

Monday night, the Mustangs went on to face Tarleton State in a heated battle that resulted in a loss for MSU, 49-47.

Losing this heated match pushed MSU’s record to an

overall 19-7 and 7-5 in Lone Star Conference South Division play.

“They had a couple guys that made some big plays for them,” Haggerty said. “It was a tough defensive battle.”

The Mustangs home-winning streak was also halted at 41 games.

It was the first loss that had been inflicted on the Mustags team since it was defeated at home in the 2008-2009 season by Dallas Baptist.

At intermission, TSU was ahead by a single point as Hagan put up a jump shot right at the buzzer, bringing the score to 26-25.

At one point during the sec-ond half, MSU was ahead by by eight points when Thomas went for a tip-in with 13:58 remain-ing.

But the Mustangs were dead-

locked with the Texans with just over a minute remaining in the match.

TSU’s Corin Henry broke the tie by landing a slick jumpshot with just 19 seconds left.

The Mustangs were never able to recover from the last-minute strike. Loyd led the corral with a game-high of 20 points, three rebounds, and two assists.

Terrell put forth nine points along with his six rebounds, while Hagan poured in six points.

“These last two games we’ve played two of the toughest teams, probably in the country,” Haggerty said. “As far as tough- and defensive-minded teams.”

Next, the Mustangs finish their regular season against An-gelo State today at 8 p.m. at D.L. Ligon Coliseum, then on the road against Abilene Christian. Tipoff for the match is set for 4 p.m.

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Andre GonzalezSportS Editor

The Javelinas of Texas A&M-Kingsville were no match up for the Midwestern State University Lady Mustangs last Wednesday night at D.L. Ligon Coliseum.

MSU came out on top of TAMUK, 63-52.

In the first half, the Lady Mustangs slightly trailed behind TAMUK, but they took the lead after junior forward Savannah Carver slammed in a three-pointer with 6:13 to go.

MSU strongly held onto the lead as senior forward Nolisha Markham put forth the team high with 15 points and seven rebounds.

Senior guard Katiya Jackson

pitched in 12 total points, along with 10 rebounds, three assists, and two steals.

Carver finished overall with 11 points, five rebounds, and a game high of four steals.

During her 31 minutes of game play, junior forward Cierra Thompson stomped in 10 points, six rebounds, and a single assist.

As the weekend progressed, MSU went on the road to face West Texas A&M.

The Lady Buffs rolled over MSU, 75-59.

“We didn’t play our best ball game. Especially on the road, you got to play good on the road,” head coach Noel Johnson said.

The lost battle was caused by the Lady Mustangs’ 22 total turnovers.

“We turned the ball over and created some opportunities for West Texas to take the lead and keep it,” Johnson said.

WTAMU was up by as much as 16 points in the first half, then advanced that lead to 19 in the second half.

With 17:42 left to play, the Lady Mustangs trailed by 10 points, the deficit lessened a bit by a jump shot put in by Markham. It was not, however, enough to put Midwestern in a winning position.

“West Texas is very disciplined and a ball-smart team,” assistant coach Chris Reay said. “They ex-ecute all their offenses and are very well coached.”

Junior forward Jazman Patter-son set the team high with nine

points and five rebounds.Carver and Markham pitched

in eight points each.Monday night’s game against

No. 19 Tarleton determined whether the Lady Mustangs would go onto the Lone Star Conference Championships in Bartlesville, Okla.

They did not advance.MSU kept up with the Tex-

Anns in a neck and neck contest, but it would be TSU that came out on top, beating the Lady Mustangs 67-59.

“We didn’t want them to over-look us, that’s for sure,” Johnson said. “They’re the South Division champions this year, I felt that they were overlooking us a little bit, and we wanted to make sure they knew we were for real.”

The Lady Mustangs were ahead by four points at halftime, 32-28, after Jackson rimmed in a jump shot with 43 seconds re-maining in the first half.

Junior forward Karissa Lang brought the Lady Mustangs to trail by three points with a free throw with 16:46 left on the clock.

The California native tallied a career high of 13 points, includ-ing two three-pointers. Lang also pitched in four rebounds and four assists in her 31 min-utes of game play.

“I think it’s the best basketball we’ve played all year,” Johnson said.

Markham pushed for 14 points and four rebounds to go with her double dose of assists.

Thompson also shined when she poured 10 of her 12 points all in the first half.

Jackson finished with six points as well as six rebounds.

The loss marked the 12th straight win TSU has had over the Lady Mustangs.

Currently, the Lady Mustangs have the best record since 2004, -15 and 5-7 in LSC South.

“We want to break 2003’s re-cord as well, so we’re going to do whatever we can to do that,” Johnson said.

Next, MSU will finish their regular season this week. First, they take on Angelo State on the home curt tonight at 6 p.m. then on the road against Abilene Christian Saturday afternoon. Tipoff is set for 2 p.m.

Andre GonzalezSportS Editor

Mustangs pull one victory, get trampled twice

Above: Monday night’s game against Tarleton State University brought close to 4000 people in attendance. Both teams strived to come out on top, but Tarleton brought out the victory over the Mustangs, 49-47. Right: Senior guard Chris Hagan dribbles past a Texan defender. Hagan ranked in a total of six points in his 34 minutes of game time. (Photos by Hannah Hofmann and Andre Gonzalez)

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