October 12, 2011

American politics today is rife with polarization between conservatives and liberals, according to political analyst Mark Shields.

The contributor to the Washington Post, CNN and PBS spoke to the MSU community Tuesday night on the state of political discourse in the United States.

“There is more political polariza-tion than at any time since I have been in Washington,” said Shields, who has covered nine presidents in his 45-year journalistic career.

Two factors have contributed to this shift toward party politics.

One is congressional redistricting, which affects how the congressional lines are drawn, he pointed out in an ex-clusive interview with The Wichitan.

“The lines are drawn in a partisan

fashion,” Shields said. “So if it’s a Dem-ocratic state legislature and a Democrat-ic governor in the state, they’re going to draw the lines so that they benefit Dem-ocrats. And vice-versa. Republicans, of whom there are more in control, draw the lines in favor of Republicans.”

This way, candidates up for election don’t have to worry about doing well in the November general election, Shields said. Instead, they have to be concerned only about the primary elections.

“You have to worry that someone’s going to challenge you for not being sufficiently orthodox, sufficiently zeal-ous in your commitment to the cause, ” Shields said.

This discourages what Shields called “working across the aisle,” which he summed up as politicians finding so-lutions to problems regardless of their political affiliation. In the current politi-cal climate, a Democrat, for example, who supports a Republican’s idea, may draw criticism from his/her fellow party

members.“What we saw in 2010 is the Tea

Party challengers not only mounted challenges, but they were successful against Republican candidates for the Senate in Nevada, Colorado, Alaska, Delaware, Kentucky,” he said. “And the pattern was the same in each one of them. The person who was running had been too friendly to the other side. They worked across the aisle in a bipartisan fashion.”

The second factor contributing to the growing trend of political polarization is where the representatives live.

If Shields had his way, representa-tives would all live in Washington, D.C. They would also meet for three or four consecutive weeks, Monday through Friday. Currently representatives meet in the nation’s capitol on Tuesday and leave Thursday.

If repre-sentat ives all lived in

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Student loan default rates of MSU students hit 7.1 percent in 2009, brought on by borrowers’ struggles with unemployment in

the weak economy.The default rates for fiscal year

2009—the most recent data re-leased by the Department of Ed-ucation – show national student

loan default rates at a high of 8.8 percent. The last time rates were this high was in 1997.

Texas’ overall state average default rate topped 10.1 percent. Kathy Pennartz, MSU financial aid director, said the rates

will continue to rise because unemployment is the biggest fac-tor in loan defaults. She said student loans, on average, run from $23,000 to $27,000.

She said her office does its best to provide students with al-ternative repayment options. Students need to take advantage of the services offered by financial aid counselors to prevent an increase in MSU’s default rate and the consequences that come with defaulting, she said.

“Students who default do not realize the jeopardy they put schools in,” Pennartz said. “Their default affects the entire school and the financial aid program for everybody. Schools take de-faulting seriously.”

A statement by the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators said rates jumped 25 percent—from 7 percent in fiscal year 2008 to 8.8 percent in fiscal year 2009. The FY2009 Cohort Default Rate measures the percentage of students whose first loan repayments came due between Oct. 1, 2008 and Sept. 30, 2009 and who defaulted before Sept. 30, 2010. The CDR has been steadily creeping up from the historic low of 4.5 percent in 2003.

Pennartz said schools with default rates higher than 10 percent for three consecutive years are required to delay Base Financ-ing Rate loan disbursements for beginning freshmen and cannot disburse single-semester loans in one disbursement. Their finan-cial aid offices have to make multiple disbursements in the fall only. Schools with default rates of 25 percent or higher for three consecutive years lose their eligibility in the federal student aid programs.

“There are repercussions but there are options,” Pennartz said. “It’s our mission to help our students avoid delinquency and de-faults.” She said the financial aid office does a weekly review of its list of delinquents and calls them to offer assistance.

“When [students] get into situations that are financially strap-ping, they panic,” Pennartz said. “Most times students do want to pay but they are having problems. When students are experi-encing financial difficulty, they should contact a counselor at the financial aid office before defaults reach the danger level.”

Kathi Shilanski, financial aid counselor, said it takes 270 to 360 days to go from delinquent to default on a loan. During that time, a financial aid counselor can help delinquents work on an alternative repayment option to prevent potential default.

Borrowers who are eligible for the deferment option can get a temporary suspension of loan payments. During deferment, no interest is paid on a subsidized loan. For an unsubsidized loan, the bor-rower is responsible for the interest

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CHRIS COLLINS EDITOR IN CHIEF

October 12, 2011Wednesday www.thewichitan.com your campus/your news

Where’s the ?The lime (or the party, as Americans say) was at Sunwatcher Plaza Friday. Hundreds of students, faculty and staff gathered for Caribfest, an annual event full of food, fun and dancing.

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Political commentator Mark Shields visited MSU Tuesday to discuss the polarization of American politics.

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As children, we were taught to be kind to others, share our toys and, most importantly, say please and thank you.

At least most of us were taught these rules of common courtesy.

But as we grow older, it seems as though that bit of common decency that was so ingrained in

our brains begins to fade away.Why do I say that? Well, it’s

quite obvious.Every day I encounter the

same thing. It’s nothing big, but because it happens so often it really gets to me. I open a door for someone and they just pass by me as though I’m not even standing there. Like the door opened itself magically due to their godly presence.

Now, I’m not expecting peo-ple to stand there and kiss the ground that I walk on because I opened their door for them. I’m busy, too.

But whatever happened to the those fantastic “please” and “thank you’s” that we were taught at such a young age?

Just because we’re adults now doesn’t nullify the fact that say-ing “thank you” is important.

We all have busy lives, we all are running to our next class, but it doesn’t take any more

of someone’s time to mutter, “thank you.”

So why is it that these two simple words have slowly crept out of people’s vocabularies?

Is it because people don’t see it as a big deal?

That could be the reasoning.It could be because people

don’t think saying “thank you” will make a difference.

In reality, two simple words can make or break someone’s day.

If a person goes out of his or her busy day to hold open a door to make your hallway commute easier, can you not show that person your apprecia-tion by saying two words which require little effort?

Could it be that the people who don’t say “thank you” for small things don’t say it because they see themselves worthy of having doors opened for them?

Is it seen as something that

“should” be done so there is no need to thank people for doing it?

In reality even the simplicity of opening a door is not some-thing that should be expected.

How many times have your hands been full and the person in front of you just let the door close behind them?

It’s rude. It’s inconsiderate. It’s just plain annoying.

But then think about it. Did you thank the last person who held the door open for you?

It’s a vicious circle. It’s time to make a difference and bring back common courtesy.

Hold a door open for some-one.

Say thank if you someone opens a door for you.

A few words can mean a lot, and not saying anything will too.

Spread the kindness.

Herman Cain is making some waves“People who are criticizing me be-

cause I have not held public office, they are out of touch with the voters out there.”

Herman Cain, a Republican presi-dential candidate from Georgia, fired back at detractors during State of the Union on CNN Monday night.

The question is whether Cain re-ally is more in touch with the voters than other candidates.

Cain’s lack of experience in public office is less than impressive.

In fact he has never held an elected public office.

Cain ran briefly for the Republi-can presidential nomination in 2000, but quickly dropped out, stating that he was making a political statement rather than actually worrying about winning the nomination.

In 2004, Cain ran for U.S. Senate but fell short. He was in a political hiatus up until his announcement of running for president in 2012.

His candidacy up to this point has been controversial, not so much be-cause of his policies, more so be-cause of his attitude and public state-ments.

Cain has spoken in ways that seem as though he is attacking certain groups of people instead of trying to get them on the same page.

“Don’t blame Wall Street. Don’t blame the big banks,” Cain said. “If you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame yourself. It’s not a per-son’s fault because they succeeded. It is a person’s fault if they failed.”

He then went on to state that he be-lieves the Occupy Wall Street move-ment is pointless and that he doesn’t understand what “they’re looking for.”

Cain’s blunt tone is all but wel-coming to potential voters. Instead of positive messages, he criticizes the poor and demeans people who voted for Obama.

Despite Cain’s insensitive com-mentary, his poll numbers have been rising.

A month ago, Cain’s numbers were floating at about five percent.

On Monday, a survey was released showing Cain at 18 percent, just two percent below Mitt Romney.

What does this mean? It means that Cain is making waves in the GOP, but as is common in politics, his numbers will most likely fluc-tuate depending on his debates and statements.

If Cain wants his numbers to keep going up, he needs to stray away from negative commentary, such as say-ing Democratic African-Americans are “brainwashed” and claiming that only Republican African-Americans are “thinking for themselves.”

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KAJA BANAS-SALSMAN OP-ED EDITOR

Johnny Blevins

Letter to the editorTo the Editor:

Your editorial “Protesting the Right Cause” (5 Octo-ber 2011) made several misleading claims about the nature, scope, and purpose of the #OccupyWallStreet movement.

In the first place, the idea that the protesters have over-reacted to the police is beyond absurd.

If anyone is guilty of overreacting, it is the NYPD.

From the indiscriminate use of pepper spray against peaceful demonstrators to the unlawful kettling of 700 marchers on Brooklyn Bridge, the police have repeat-edly employed brutal and heavy-handed tactics with-out justification.

The protesters have every right to be outraged.

In the second place, it simply isn’t true that the move-ment lacks a coherent set of demands, as you yourself intimate at the beginning of the editorial.

At the highest level of generality, #OccupyWallStreet is opposed to the corrupt, immoral, rapacious corpo-ratocracy which has raped, robbed, and pillaged 99% of Americans for the benefit of the top 1%.

It demands an end to widespread unemployment and gross inequalities in income and wealth; it demands that our tax dollars be spent on public goods--educa-tion, environmental protection, and affordable health care for all--rather than on pointless and illegal wars, corporate welfare, and bank bailouts.

It demands systematic campaign finance reform to wrest our political system from corporate control.

Most importantly, #OccupyWallStreet is about dem-onstrating to the country and the world that power be-longs to the 99%--the ordinary people, the teachers and laborers and nurses against whom the wealthiest 1% have been waging class warfare for the past 30 years.

The point is to show what real democracy looks like, to make our voices heard, to “be the change we want to see in the world,” rather than waiting around for the ruling class and its political lapdogs in the Democrat and Republican parties to fix our problems for us.

Nathan JunAssistant Professor of Philosophy

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WednesdayImagine Graduation11 a.m. to 6 p.m. CSC Comanche.

FridayGraduate/Professional School Fair10 a.m. to 1 p.m. CSC ComancheGetting Into Graduate School Seminar1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Wichita I & IIGallery Recpetion: “Persolitikal” and “ART on CAMPUS”7 p.m. Museum and Arts Center

TuesdayMo’ Money, Mo’ Problems1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Shawnee The-ater.Fraternity Open House3:30 p.m. Fraternity Commons.Classic Film Series: Goodbye, My Fancy7 p.m. Museum of Art at MSUFaculty Forum Series: Dr. Dawn Slavens7 p.m. CSC ShawneeComedian: Paul Varghese8 p.m. CSC Comanche

accrued during deferment. Bor-rowers who are not eligible for deferment have the forbearance option, which is a temporary post-ponement or reduction of payments for a period of time because you are experiencing financial difficul-ty. The loan holder can grant 12-month forbearance intervals for up to three years. During forbearance, the loan continues to accrue inter-est while the borrower defaults.

Borrowers who default on their loans are faced with the possibility

of having penalties enforced by the Department of Education. These penalties include the garnishing of wages and income tax refunds, having state professional licenses revoked, having holds placed on the students’ transcripts, and stu-dents’ losing their eligibility to en-roll at any U.S. university.

Before defaulting borrowers can be considered for further financial aid, they must make nine voluntary, on-time, consecutive payments on the loan.

Students can visit finaid.mwsu.edu for general loan repayment in-formation.

Shilanski said a lot of the de-faults could be avoided if students would visit the web site or a finan-cial aid counselor for advice about their repayment options. She said the financial aid office provides borrowers with loan repayment in-formation every time they receive a loan.

Default rates listed for other Texas institutions:

• Texas State University, 3.5 per-cent

• Texas Tech University, 4.9 per-cent

• West Texas A&M University, 6.5 percent

• Sam Houston State University, 6.8 percent

• University of North Texas, 7 percent

• Texas A&M University, 7.2 per-cent

• Tarleton State University, 7.5 percent

• Sul Ross State Univer-sity, 8.8 percent

• Lamar University, 9.5 percent

• Angelo State Univer-sity, 10.9 percent

• Vernon College, 11.2 percent

Above bar graph compares student loan default rates between Texas universities. The national student loan default rate average is 8.8 percent.Hannah Hofmann

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the same place, they would be nicer to one an-other and see each other as real people, Shields argued.

“If you’re a Repub-lican and I’m a Demo-crat, and your kids go to school with my kids, or they play in the same little league, I get to know you as a person,” he said. “Right now, they don’t know each other. It makes it easier for me to demonize you, to carica-turize you.”

He said there was a time when politicians knew one another better and practiced a higher level of civility.

“I’m not saying that’s the cure-all,” he said. “But I do think that would help enormously.”

Some politicians don’t try to reach across the aisle because they fear they won’t be reelected if they do.

“When that becomes an overwhelming obses-sion, that you’re terrified of being challenged in the primaries, all of a sudden you’re looking over your shoulder,” he said.

Shields said the big-gest trend he has seen during his career in jour-nalism is the explosion of information available to the general public. He

laments, however, the de-cline of the daily newspa-per.

“The daily newspaper, which I do out of con-viction and habit read every day, is something that forces me to become a citizen outside of my comfort zone,” Shields said. “It forces me to read about what’s going on in Greece, or that Texas went through this heat wave this summer, even though I’m thousands of miles away.”

He said he has also seen the polarization of broad-cast news is recent years. When he began working at CNN, not much compe-tition from other stations existed. Now it seems that each station caters to a particular viewer demo-graphic.

“If you’re a liberal viewer you go to MSNBC, if you’re a conservative you go to FOX,” Shields said. “It’s polarized. View-ers go not so much for in-formation as they do for ammunition. What’s Sean Hannity going to tell me? What’s my argument? Tell me, Rachel Maddow, what’s the three points I should make in rebut-ting? That to me is a major change. It does influence the public debate.”

“This election of 2012 is going to be very influ-

ential,” he said. “The rule of American elections is that when the economy’s bad, the economy is the only issue.”

He said the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s was bolstered by a boom-ing economy. The Gross National Product of the United States was dou-bling during this time.

“So if the economy is good, I am naturally more generous,” he said. “I’m more inclusive. I’m more willing to give a help-ing hand. Even though it meant the African-Amer-icans were going to get jobs they hadn’t had, I didn’t feel threatened that my sister, brother or child was going to suffer.”

The decade of 2001 to 2011, by contrast, has been straddled by eco-nomic shortcomings.

“That makes me more self-absorbed, more self-concerned, less generous,” Shields said. “The tragedy of our nation’s dealing with immigration is how our economy has acceler-ated our natural selfish-ness and hostility. We’ve got to figure out how we deal with this and come to a national consensus on it.”

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Adderall, a prescription drug for ADHD, has become one of the latest crazes for students trying to stay awake and study.

At MSU, some students are doing whatever they can to get their hands on these “study aids.” Whether it is asking for pills from friends or buying them from a dealer, more students are resort-ing to using illegal drugs to help them stay on track.

Using pills such as Adderall and Vy-vanse to study cannot be that bad for you, or can they?

According to Dr. Laura Spiller, psy-chology professor, abusing these drugs can bring on significant negative side effects.

Since the drugs are stimulants, they can disrupt appetite and alter behavior. Drugs such as Adderall and Vyvanse can also wreak havoc with sleep.

Eventually students will not achieve the same “high” they were aiming for, she said.

That is why these drugs are also la-beled as habit-forming, meaning even-tually, the student will have to take more and more to maintain the same effect.

Spiller said long-term abuse can lead to higher risk for substance abuse and mood and anxiety disorders.

Many students decide to take these drugs because they are too busy, thus leaving them tired and in need of a pick-me-up to stay awake.

“Students are motivated to abuse stimulants because they want to make good grades but have too many time commitments and are fatigued due to insufficient sleep,” Spiller said.

Undergraduate research samples show that about 17 percent of men and 11 percent of women have tried stimulant medica-tions without a prescrip-tion.

According to Spiller, research also shows that students who use stimu-lants to study do not do any better academically and report that the medi-cation was not very help-ful.

“I like the drive it gives me. I am hyper and more focused,” one MSU stu-dent said. He said the only negative side effects he faced were loss of ap-petite and sleep.

“On the street, these pills can cost anywhere from $2 to $4,” the stu-dent said, “depending on the milligram and brand.”

If prescribed with in-

surance, a 30-day supply of Vyvanse costs $10.

Dealers mark the pills up and are cur-rently making about $50 in profit.

Adderall and Vyvanse are the most common.

They come in a time-release capsule or in a regular tablet.

So what can you do to study in a more healthier and legal manner?

Students first need to look at how

many other commitments they have such as family and work before decid-ing how many hours to take, Spiller said.

This will keep them from over work-ing them-s e l v e s . Spiller also said stu-dents need to have six

to nine hours each week to devote to each class.

Learning to manage stress will also be a key factor in maintaining a great schedule to study, she said.


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Above graph shows the changes in alcohol and drug violations on campus property and residence housing over the three years, illustrated from left to right.

BRITTNEY COTTINGHAM MANAGING EDITOR

The Midwestern State University Po-lice Department has released its annual Clery Crime Statistics for 2010.

The Clery report requires institutions of higher education to prepare, publish and distribute a report of campus crime data annually.

The report shows an increase in bur-glaries on campus property and resi-dence housing.

Campus police recorded 26 burglar-ies compared to 12 the previous year.

“We had a group of hoodlums who were stealing from other students,” said Chief of Police Dan Williams. “We knew who was doing it but couldn’t prove it. No one had seen them (in ac-tion).”

Williams described these as crimes of opportunity rather than planned of-fenses.

According to the crime data, Mid-western also reported a decrease in al-cohol violations on campus property.

Last year, 47 referrals for alcohol violations were reported on campus property compared with 63 the previ-ous year.

In residence housing alcohol viola-tions dropped from 61 in 2009 to 47 in 2010.

Drug violations on campus property increased from 20 to 25 last year. In res-idence housing drug violations jumped from 16 to 20 violations.

Where criminal prosecution is sought, cases are regularly forward to the Wichita Country District Attorney’s Office or the Wichita Country Justice of the Peace Court, or the City of Wichita Falls Municipal Court for filing.

All criminal cases involving MSU students are also referred to the Office of Student Judicial Programs for review

and possible disciplinary sanctions that may be imposed for violations of the Student Code of Conduct.

“The Police Department works hard to ensure the protection of all faculty, staff, students and visitors,” the Clery report states. “We cannot, however, guarantee the absolute safety of any one individual. Personal safety must begin with individual.”

Providing a safe academic environ-ment is accomplished through the dedi-cation and apprehension of criminals, the utilization of community orientated policing and crime prevention based programs in an attempt to improve the

quality of life on campus and to re-duce the fear of crime, the Clery report states.

Last year, campus police, who pro-vide around the clock patrol and inves-tigative protection, also discovered sev-eral students illegally entering campus offices.

Williams said he encouraged faculty and students to lock their doors.

Currently the police department has 15 full-time employees and five part- time employees.

The MSU police department main-tains a daily crime log on its website at www.police.mwsu.edu/awareness.

Students consume Adderall as study aid

Campus police release 2010 crime data

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1) Go to www.mwsu.edu2) Follow the link “Online Voting” (this site can be found directly under https://eballot4.votenet.com/msu/login.cfm)3) The User ID will be your Mustangs Number and the password is your firstname.lastname.birthday (for example john.miller.0825)4) Find your favorite candidates and submit your vote. Voting will end on Friday.


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and the winner is

Anastasia Reed Mass Communication Senior

Terry Dotson Mass Communication Senior

Christopher CarterSociology Junior

Jasmine EllisMass Communication Senior

Goddard WilliamsSpanish Senior

Linda WatkinsFinance Senior

Curtis LesterGeology Senior

Clynt GeorgePhysics and Math Senior

Why are you running for homecom-ing?

Homecoming is a tradition I never expe-rienced in high school. I attended Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. Homecoming and football games were things I never experienced un-til I came to MSU. Winning homecoming queen would make up for all the homecom-ings I never had.

Why should students vote for you?

I believe I have made a positive impact at MSU. I have been involved in many organi-zations on campus, which allowed me to get to know many people and make friendships that will last a lifetime. I am kind, caring and I have a lot of MSU pride.

What is your favorite MSU memory?

My favorite MSU memory is... well I don’t exactly have just one. I remember the day I joined Sigma Alpha Epsilon and being able to meet new friends.

Where do you work and what are your hobbies?

I work at Market Street, the best upscale grocery store in Wichita Falls. I have plenty of hobbies; I like to hangout with friends, workout, sports, eating, bowling, dancing and traveling.


Students should vote for me for Homecom-ing King, because I am here for the student body and want to make a significant change with my duties of Homecoming King. If I were me I would choose me too.

What are your plans after MSU?

I plan on earning my M.A. in Business Administration and my Ph.D. with aspira-tions of one day becoming a vice president or president of a university.

Who is your favorite MSU professor and how has he/she influenced you?

Dr. Michael Mills - Although I haven’t been a student in one of his classes, I’ve worked for him in MSU housing. He has been my mentor and has taught me a lot about business and life.


Because I’m nice, and an active student, and I’d look the best in a crown!


I have had almost too many to count, but participating in things like Relay for Life and Caribfest.


Dr. Jim Sernoe - No one else has been as hard on me but genuinely believed in me. Because of him I’m finally on time to work.


Because I have been involved in MSU Student Development and Greek Life since my freshman year and I take a lot of pride in my school.


My favorite MSU memory was last home-coming game when I started the Mexican wave with my CSO family and it spread across almost the entire stadium. Coming from the Caribbean I am unfamiliar with con-cepts like tailgating and American football as a whole, but I really felt like I was able to find a middle ground during that game. Oh, the members of the CSO were also there blowing conch shells and rooting for the Mustangs. I almost felt like I was back home, watching a cricket match in Grenada.


Apart from being able to have the pride of wearing the homecoming king title, my un-born son is due on my birthday, Nov. 1, and nothing would make me more proud that to have him born a prince.


I have encountered several great profes-sors here at Midwestern, but there are a se-lect few that have greatly influenced me dur-ing my tenure here. They are Dr. Price and Dr. Stephens of the Geology department, as well as Dr. Hallford of the Chemistry depart-ment. All have influenced me greatly and I would like to personally thank them.


I feel like I am the most qualified candi-date and leading the student body would be an honor I wouldn’t soon forget.

What are your plans after MSU?

Like most, grad school. I’m hoping to con-tinue on towards my master’s degree in geo-chemistry at Southern Methodist University.


My favorite MSU experience was my first football game in 2009. Sure I have watched the sport many times via the television, but never was I afforded the opportunity to sit in the stands, fully captivated, as my school’s team defeated another. Can you say awe-some? Through my veins flowed excitement, anticipation and most importantly school pride. Go Mustangs!


Vote because you believe I’m a reflection of what you see your homecoming queen to be. Vote because I’m easy to talk to, light hearted, and just an average student here at MSU. Vote because you think Linda Watkins is worthy of being your 2011 homecoming queen!


My favorite memory has to be the Card-board Boat Race of 2008. I was surprised by the elaborate designs of some of the boats, given the limited resources which were used to construct them. It was also fun to see some of the not so seaworthy boats capsize in the cold and murky water.

Why are you running for homecom-ing?

It was an honor to be nominated by my peers and I believe that being a candidate for homecoming is also an excellent opportunity to partake in an MSU tradition.

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Midwestern State University is once again listed as one of the top ten employers in Wich-ita Falls, providing jobs to more than 1,000 people.

After Shepaprd Air Force Base, Wichita Falls ISD, Noth Texas State Hospital, United Regional Healthcare system and the City of Wichita Falls, Mid-western ranks sixth on the list of Wichita Falls’ largest employ-ers.

“It’s safe to say that Mid-western State University plays a major role in the stability of the regional economy,” MSU Eco-nomics Professor Dr. Yoshi Fu-kasawa said. “Some years ago, we have done a study to estimate the impact of the university to be about 12 percent of the area’s to-tal income.”

There are nearly 500 unfilled jobs in the Wichita Falls region today and many require skills in the medical, businesss and ac-counting, which are all offered at MSU.

“For our city to be successful

MSU must to be successful, and of course it is,” Tim Chase, pres-ident of the Chamber of Com-merce, said. “The two go hand-in-hand. Companies always ask about MSU when they are look-ing to invest in Wichita Falls.”

The unemployment rate for the city of Wichita Falls is 7.6 percent.

This is almost a full percent-age point below the state of Tex-as and a point and half below the nation.

As of August 2011, 5,520 citi-zens of Wichita Falls were un-employed.

When it comes to the overall city economy, Chase said he is aware that no one in town is sat-isfied with the city’s current eco-nomic situation.

“The local economy is im-proving, albeit slowly,” Chase said. “We must keep the pres-sure on to find more jobs. We are still a long way from being back where we were before the reces-sion hit.”

It pays to work at MSUThe university paid workers $29,979,809 in FY2012

Aldrich, Gayla Secretary $24,540Aleman, Carlos Exhibition Preparator $30,900Allen, Sammy Custodial Superintendent $43,308 Allison, Douglas Electrical Superintendent $47,772Allsup, Emilie Program Secretary $18,792. Amador, Amelia Custodian $17,892Arnold, Lori Licensed Professional Counselor $37,272 Arroyo-Fields, Jacequeline Assistant $16,068Ash, Richard Professor Emeritus $36,000Ashlock, Cindy. Executive Assistant to the President $56,736Aten, Christopher Police Officer $32,952 Austin, Adam Assistant Football Coach $34,008Bales, Donald Custodian $16,812Ballenger, Charlene Assistant to the Registrar $26,784Ballenger, Stephen PC Network Services Tech $29,208Barbosa, Gina Project BOW Secretary $21,000 Barham, Cherith Secretary II $19,248Barrett, Sheila Secretary I $18,792 Bazner, Kevin Coordinator of Greek Life $30,396 Beck, Kerri Student Assistant $28,500Beck, Marcy Codirector Simulation Center $64,056Bicoy, Elmer Postal Clerk $11,496Bills, Danny Museum Curator $35,700 Boggs, Kimberly Assistant Director $28,368Bohenkamp, Vinita Custodian $17,412 Boomer, Peggy Vinson Health Center Director $55,512Borton, Bradley Admissions Assistant Director $33,120 Boyle, Crystal Assistant Director $43,368Brasher, Frank Custodian $22,584Breen, Allison Reference Librarian $49,332Brennan, Peggy Assistant to the Vice President $38,040 Brezina, Jason Library Assistant $21,840Brown, Antoinette Secretary II $19,848 Brown, Marilyn Secretary II $19,848Brunson, Jeana Secretary II $25,728Burgoyne, William PC Network Lead Technician $39,612 Burney, Conny Custodial Foreperson $22,092Butler, Lisa Desktop Designer $25,452Cale, Kerrie Associate Director $44,160Calhoun, Dominique Coordinator of Multicultural Services $28,848 Canivel, Randy Assistant Director $31,740Carr, Linda Registrar Assistant I $19,272Carrasco, Lorine Custodian $18,720 Carter, Julie Cycling Director $46,452Case, Lori Senior Purchaser $30,324Causey, Jermaine Custodian $18,132Chandler, Melody Co-director $64,056 Chapa, Gloria Academic Coordinator $32,004Chavez, Adam Web Designer $34,572 Chaviers, Vikki Licensed Professional Counselor $37,344Childs, Melissa Registrar Assistant III $24,216Clark, David Central Plant Operator II $24,108Clark, Naoma Academic Success Center Director $53,988 Cleveland, George Mechanic II $38,280 Clifton, Treva Assistant to the Associate Vice President $38,508Cofer, Earl Custodian $16,812Collins, Douglas Electronics Technician $38,052Collins, Karen Financial Aid Assistant Director $33,000 Connolly, Sara Financial Aid Processor $23,400Contreras, Maria Custodian $17,892 Cook, Linda Secretary II $22,392Cooper, Ernest Custodian $22,608Cooper, Henry Custodian $17,412Cooper, Jason Grounds Foreperson $23,220Copeland, Sarah Administrative Assistant $24,108Coughran, Deborah Assistant, Dean of Students $32,340Cowley, Ladonna Administrative Assistant $24,588 Crosley, Cynthia Financial Aid Specialist $32,412Cross, Joe Police Sergeant $41,376Crow, Ray Database Administrator $69,204Cuffell, Don Groundskeeper $23,016 Darter, Clarence Certification Officer $37,188Davis, Lila Night Assistant Circulation $17,388 Davis, Lucy Graduate Secretary $20,328Davis, Vyvyan Administrative Assistant $26,868Dean, Cammie Assistant Director $39,144Decker, Terri Catalog Librarian $41,520DeLeon, Lupe Custodian $17,412Deming, Michael Carpenter II $28,884Desborough, Jeff Coordinator $36,792Dockum, Terrell Painting Foreperson $42,804 Dorson, Kristi Admissions Evaluator $19,752Doyle, Daniel Custodian $17,412Ducioame, Lynn Testing Center Director $50,328Dunn, Jennifer Accounting Assistant II $21,444 Dye, Michael Chief Information Officer $98,472Easterling, Clara Secretary II $19,248Edwards, Jason Central Plant Operator $20,880Edwards, Margaret Custodian $18,720Elder, Charles Men’s Soccer Head Coach $73,404Elgin, Cathi Purchaser $34,980 Elgin, Jody Database Administrator $70,404Elton, Sherry Communication Operator $20,892

Engbrok, Jane Coordinator of University Gifts $25,008Entrekin, Robert Custodian $16,812Erazo, Hugo Assistant to the Director of Admission for Special Populations $31,020Estrada, Stephanie Secretary II $26,532Estrada-Hamby, Lisa Director, Student Services $54,000Everson, Joan Medical Office Coordinator $22,728Feldman, Christina Assistant Director of Athletics $35,016Feldman, Scott Academic Counselor $33,600 Fernandez, Rebecca Associate Librarian $46,356Ficzner, Catherine Administrative Assistant $24,720Fisher, Bobby Electrical Foreperson $36,792 Fisher, Jesika Secretary $18,792Flores-Stafford, Venera Volleyball Head Coach $56,508Fonseca, Jose Caretaker, University Residences $22,140Fonseca, Norma Household Manager $25,188Forbess, Kim Painter II $24,828Foster, Reagan Counselor $36,276Fowler, Jamie Assistant Custodial Superintendent $29,844Fox, Victoria Custodial Foreperson $24,444Frank, Richard Assistant Director, Facilities Services $69,996Frazier, Deidre Coordinator $34,800Frazier, Felicia Secretary $19,248Fuller, John Groundskeeper $17,268Gamboa, Chris Groundskepper $22,956Garza, Mary Region IX $52,020Garza, Thomas Custodian $17,412Gaynor, Julie Director, Public Information $52,116Gilbow, Mark Police Officer $32,952Gillis, Mike Carpentry Foreperson $37,824Gipson, William Internship Coordinator $29,040 Glean, Roland Director, International Services $79,800Gonzales, Leslie Custodian $18,000Gonzalez, Michael Custodian $16,812Greenway, Susan Secretary II $21,420 Greenwood, Joey Dean of University Wellness $75,792Griffin, Cathy Secretary II $28,212Grimes, Courntey Human Resources Assistant $12,936 Griner, Perian University Cashier $41,280Guardalibene, Kathleen Secretary II $18,792Guerrero, Sonia Custodian $17,412Hadnot, Wanda Custodian $19,968Haggerty, Nelson Men’s Basketball Head Coach $75,000Haley, Evon Teller II $19,248 Hall, Jim PC/Network Services Manager $71,662Hall, Ronald A/C Refrigeration Mechanic $30,900Hambrook, Diana Sue Secretary II $20,592Hambrook, Marvin Maintenance Technician $31,416Hammack, Ida Secretary II $22,044Hamre, Corrine Secretary I $18,792Hardin, Dena Administrative Assistant $26,632Hardin, Frances Secretary II $27,732Harwell, Rachel Finanical Aid Counselor $27,900Helms, Sherrie International Outreach Special $35,568 Henderson, Chris Electronic Access Media Librarian $42,132Higginbotham, Debra Director $54,036Hill, Marcus Programmer Analyst II $63,084Hiller, Laura Library Assistant III $21,816Hinkle, Jo Ella Assistant Controller $51,672Hodges, Vicky Asst to the Associate VP $31,764Hons, Meagan Secretary II $19,248Hotchkiss, Janie Secretary I $18,192Ibarra, John Programmer Analyst II $60,132Inglish, Darla University Registar $77,016 Irby, Holly Department Secretary $23,184Jackson, Billy Custodian $24,732Jackson, Delores Assistant Director $47,472Jimenes, Albert Police Officer I $35,016Johnson, Breyana Processor $22,716Johnson, Freddie Custodian $23,328Johnson, Jesse Hardware Technician $30,084Johnson, Joslyn Killingsworth Hall Director $25,872 Johnson, Noel Head Women’s Basketball Coach $59,200Johnson, Sherrie Assistant to the Dean $31,500Jones, Thurman Police Officer $32,952 Jordan, Ronald Custodian $17,412Kafer, Colby Carpenter II $26,668Kastelic, Daniel Secretary $18,792Keber, Mary Secretary $19,848 Kennedy, Carroll Telecommunications Manager $43,008Kennedy, Shauna Assistant to the Director $37,080Kirkpatrick, Randy Programming Manager $74,196Kisinger, Mark Police Communication Operator $19,296Klyn, Christi Assessment Specialist $50,004Knox, Linda Assistant Registrar $44,700 Kotulek, Dennis Mechanic/Bus Driver $25,344Krebs, Sandra Payroll Assistant II $25,872Ladd, Glenn Police Officer III $35,016 Latham, Clara University Librarian $87,192Lehman-Felts, Juliana Cordinator $30,000 Leslie, Daniel Business Analyst $33,000Lewis, Angie Desktop Designer $32,916Linn, Clifton Head Tennis Coach $46,008Linton, Clarence Locksmith $34,608

Long, Kimberly Assistant to the Registrar $28,944Looney, Bruce Custodian $17,892Loveless, Cindy Postal Services Supervisor $44,796Lowry, Patricia Coordinator of Donor Data $45,672 Lunce, Barbara Assistant to the Registar $30,300Maloney, Kelly Police Officer III $35,5832Marshall, Pam Secretary II $19,848 Martinez, Andrew Supervisor $35,016Martinez, Pete Custodial Supervisor $25,428 Martinez, Valentina Assistant Director $39,600Maskill, Mary Museum Education Specialist $35,700Maxwell, Valarie Director, Budget & Management $95,652McCarthy, Sandra Assistant to the Dean $27,888McClendon, Mark Director $75,000McCleskey, Terri Assistant to Dean $32,064 McCrary, Jock AC/Regrigeration Mechanic II $34,032McCulloch, Ashley College Coordinator $28,500 Mcdowell, Johny Telecommunications Technician $27,228McGowan, Kathy Secretary II $19,248 McGrath, Susan Library Assistant II $22,788McGraw, Gary Assistant Football Coach $34,008 McIntier, Linda Admistrative Assistant $21,336Meachum, Michael Assistant Men’s Soccer Coach $33,000 Mendez, Elizabeth BSN Nurse Educator $54,648Mendoza, Bernadino Groundskepper $18,552Merkle, Barbara Director, Admissions $77,520Midgett, Pamela Counseling Center Director $58,968 Miller, Frances Custodian $22,656Miller, Gary Electrican II $29,196Miller, Jerry Custodian $18,720Miller, Jimmy Plubber II $34,284 Miller, Ronnie Police Officer II $32,952Milligan, Josette Custodian $18,120 Mills, Michael Director, Housing $55,620Moede, Michael Utility Mechanic $30,384 Moore, Lisa Technical Assistant $27,816Moore, Lois Library Assistant III $28,440Moore, Melissa Administrative Assistant $23,400Morgan, Mark Assistant Central Plant Superintendant $39,216Morris, James WebCT Technican $40,416 Motl, Linda Coordinator, Testing Center $25,752Mrugalski, Joseph Coordinator, Testing Center $28,020Mummert, Sheri Administrative Assistant $29,052Muniz, Armando Grounds Matenance Superintendent $45,324Murphy, Matthew Programmer Analyst I $45,660Nash, Wendy Custodian $18,132Natkin, Brian Assistant Football Coach $47,520Neal, Gary Custodian $18,120 Neely, Gilbert Dean of Students $73,512Nelson, Luther Odis Assistant Director, Small Business Develop-ment Center $52,692 Newton, Lyndsey Undergrduate Secretary II $19,848Nichols, Tracy Administrative Assistant $24,108Noe, Stephanie Secretary II $19,248Nolen, Connie Secretary II $19,848Ortiz, Terry Accounting Assistant II $22,09Park, Matthew Director, Student Development and Orientation $58,680Penartz, Kathleen Director, Financial Aid $76,212Peoples, Sammy Custodian $17,412Perry, Williams PC/Network Lead Technican $45,324Peterson, Laura Assistant Director, Unveristy Develoment $38,580Pettibon, Gidget International Immigration Specialist $31,944 Pinson, Lauren Administrative Assistant $23,400Ponder, Leslee Director, Alumni Relations $56,196 Portman, Kurt Excutive Associate Athletic Director $69,792Powers, William Assistant Athletic Director for Marketing $44,604Price, Sarah Teller II $19,248Primavera, Heather Assistant Women’s Soccer Coach $29,004 Quashnock, Kathryn Stockroom Manager $41,664Rainsberg, Kevin Maintenance Technican $30,240Ramsey, Tiffany Sectrary II $20,364Rawson, Natalie Assistant Volleyball Coach $30,000Ray, Jeff Head Men’s Golf Coach $83,472Ray, Ruth Ann Assistant to the President $38,040 Reay, Angie Assistant Director, Housing $30,648Reay, Chistropher Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach $35,004Reddick, Rebecca Admissions Evaluator $22,104 Reed, Trey Sports Information Director $42,516Renner, Richard Defensive Football Coordinator $51,504Rice, Kathy Payroll Supervisor $50,688Richards, Brenda Secrtary II $28,188Richards, Cynthia Custodian $21,492Riley, Patricia Assistant to the Dean $29,424 Roach, Hayley Accountant II $31,044Roanhaus, Randi Employer Relations Coordinator $28,500 Roberts, Jordan Central Plant Operator II $23,400Roberts, Neta Coordinator, Continuing Education $28,428 Roberts, Shawn Central Plant Operator II $26,328Robinson, Lindsay Academic Advisor $25,008 Rodriguez, Edward Duplicating Equipment Operator $24,216Rose, Linda Accountant II $31,980

Rudy, Catherine Academic Advisor $39,576Salazar, Judy Benefits Coordinator $36,720Salter, Janis Assistant to the Dean $28,560 Samuelson, Ryan Information Literacy Librarian $45,540Sandoval, Daniel Storekeeper $19,752Satterfield, Bricelle Registar Assistant III $22,716 Schields, William Assistant Director, Housing $30,192Schmader, Jana Marketing Coordinator $30,000 Scholl, Devah Assistant to the Dean $37,224Schulte, Deb Assistant to the Provost $40,992 Seabury, Camille Secretary I $18,192Segler, Russell Graduate Assistant Coach $38,004 Shankle, Dove Communications Operator $18,696Sharp, Lynn Maintenance Technician $23,982Shelley, Stephen Director, Purchasing $71,988Shelton, Steven Construction Inspector $53,628Skelton, Christy University Nurse - LVN $26,628Slaton, Nadine Custodian $16,812Smith, Agnes Custodian $17,412Smith, Ashley Assistant II, Moffett Library $21,180Smith, Camille Purchaser $31,272Smith, Dewan Groundskeeper $19,152Smith, Jeannie Medical Radiologic Techhnologist $32,964Smith, Jennifer Assistant Professor, Nursing $54,648 Snodgrass, Amanda Special Events Coordinator $33,480Solomon, Gleen Superintendent, Facilities Services $53,880 Sosebee, Lynn Programmer Analyst II $54,180Spencer, David Interal Auditor $71,748 Stalnaker, Danette Admissions Evaluator $23,604Steed, Adam Assistant to the Director $28,800Steflik, Robert Webmaster $49,260Stewart, Brenda Postal Clerk $28,296 Stovall, Chris Accountant III $39,168Strickland, Connie Payroll Assistant II $32,016Strickland, David Electronics Technician II $38,148 Stump, Beverly Assistant to Vice President $38,004Styles, Koby Head Women’s Cross Country Coach $28,848 Taack, April Assitant to the Registrar $28,776Talcott, Brian Painter II $24,600Taylor, Chastity Assistant to Dean $32,016Taylor, Roderick Assistant Football Coach $40,704Terry, Charlotte Teller II $28,452Tettleton, Donna Assistant to the Dean $45,000 Tezaguic, Evidalia Custodian $17,892Thames, Christopher PC Network Services Technician $30,084 Tigert, Brady Head Softball Coach $49,572Tisdale, Dana Secretary $12,144Trimble, Jeff Coordinator, Clark Student Center $46,548Trotter, Susan Telecommunications Assistant $25,656Tuck, Rebecca Secretary II $22,204Uline, Nigel Communication Operator $18,696Vaughn, Debra Assistant to the Vice President $40,224Vaughn, Paula Secretary II $19,248Vela, Rene Custodian $17,892Velasquez, Karin Assistant I $18,192Villadiego, Liza Processor/Counselor $22,716Vilalobos, Arturo Custodian $18,000Vilarreal, Debra Custodian $17,412 Vineyard, Leah Associate Director, Admissions $45,552Waddell, Barbara Secretary II $23,556Watson, Angela Admin Assistant $24,108Watson, Deborah Administrative Assistant $28,080Weakley, Dianne Director of Human Recources $73,128Webb, Dustin Assistant to the Director, Admissions $28,800 Webb, Sara Facilities Services Business Manager $47,352Welch, Dirk Director, Career Management Center $59,604Welch, Jolene Assistant to the Provost $40,992Weller, John Machinist/Technician $37,080Westbrook, Dottie Academic Counselor $33,600Wherry, Horace Custodian $17,412Wilder, Cassandara Coordinator, Graduate Student Recruitment $28,896Wilkins, Kenneth Defensive Line Coach $39,228Williams, Andrea Associate University Librarian $53,556Williams, Gregory Help Desk Analyst $36,144Williams, Dan Police Chief $90,000Williams, Kyle Assistant Director, Athletics $80,760Williamson, Traci Processor/Counselor $23,400Wilson, Jamie Associate Registar $49,056Windal, Bethany Academic Advisor $25,860Winslow, Daniel Collection Development $41,520Wissinger, Susan Admissions Evaluator $10,176Witherspoon, Sue Administrative Assistant $26,760Wolf, Shelby Human Resources Assistant II $26,388Wong, Chun Wai Newman Research Analyst $42,000Wood, Cindy BSN Nurse Educator $54,648,Wood, Dana Director, Upward Bound - TRiO $40,008Worley, Carole Admissions Evaluator 19,752Wright, Melissa Administrative Assistant $24,108Wright, Vanda Director, Small Business Development $59,976Wynn, Melonie Custodian $16,812Young, Stephen Grounds Foreperson $23,220 Zacha, Martin Groundskeeper $22,416

staff salaries

top earnersRogers, Jesse President $227,988White, Alisa Provost and Vice President $167,508Williamson, Keith University Physician $166,128Farrell, Howard Vice President $161,352Sandoval, Juan Vice President for Administration & Finance $157,656Clark, Robert Vice President $154,428Nemecek, Barbara Dean of Dil-lard College $138,353Hamilton, Patti Interim Dean

of College of Health Sciences & Human Services $134,542Carr, Charles Athletic Director $126,072Macha, Barry General Counsel $123,600Watson, Samuel Dean of Humanties and Social Sciences $122,133Fischli, Ron Dean of Fain Fine Arts $122,133Cate, Rodney Professor, Chemistry $122,133Sandoval, Juan Vice President for Adminis-tration and Finance $157,656

Capps, Matthew Dean of the College of Education $120,000Dubinsky, Alan Dillard Distinguished Professor of Marketing $110,000Owen, Jane Interim Dean, Graduate School $110,000Cate, Rodney Interim Dean of College of Science & Math-ematics $109,676Patton, Terry Robert Madera Professor $109,152Maskill, William Head Football Coach $107,700Lamb, Keith Associate Vice President $107,052

Barrow, Deborah Director of Board & Government Relations $106,392Morgan, Pamela Associate VP of Outreach and Engagement $104,532Ferguson, Gail Controller $102,192Diekhoff, George Chair of Psychology $100,916Patin, Roy Bridwell Professor of Finance $100,876Owen, Kyle Assiocate Vice President $100,008

BRITTNEY COTTINGHAM MANAGING EDITOR

It pays to work at MSUThe university paid workers $29,979,809 in FY2012

Andersen, Patricia Associate Professor, Counseling, Kinesiology & Special Education $57,976Anderson, Mary Assistant Professor, Nursing $25,770Archambo, Larry Professor, Music $68,406Arnoult, Sharon Associate Professor, History $59,334Azouz, Idir Associate Professor, Engineering $93,342Azzouz, Salim Assistant Professor, Engineering $75,714Beechler, Judith Assistant Professor, Counseling, Kinesiology & Special Education $51,932Behrens, Phyllis Assistant Professor, Health and Public Administration $52,542Belcher, Sandra Assistant Professor, Mathematics $46,158Bernard, Guy Assistant Professor, Mathematics $57,150Bisbee, Carol Chair, Social Work $58,808Black, Alan Assistant Professor, Music $57,176Blacklock, Phillip Assistant Professor, Education and Reading $51,710Bowles, Better C. Assistant Professor, Nursing $70,600Brink, Jan Associate Professor, Engineering $77,868Bultena, Charles Associate Professor, Management and Marketing $82,194Burger, Martha Associate Professor, Educational Leadership & Technology $63,030Bulter, Sarah Instructor of Spanish, Foreign Lan-gauges $38,000Button, Susan Instructor, English $32,00Callahan, Thomas Instructor, Criminal Justice $41,232Carlston, David L. Assistant Professor, Psychology 57,186Carpenter, Stewart Professor, Computer Science $90,014Carroll, Leslie (Tatum) Instructor, Athletic Training & Exercise Physiology $38,118Cate, Rodney Professor, Chemistry $122,133Close, Daria Assistant Professor, Nursing $50,836 Coe, Mary Ann Professor, Educational Leadership & Technology $74,560Collins, Carol Assistant Professor, Nursing $59,772Collins, Michael Professor Emeritus, History $48,340Comello, Robert Associate Professor, Radiologic Sci-ences $53,322Cook, William Chair, Biology $85,876Crews, Norval D. Assistant Professor, Music $53,838Crump, Martha Assistant Professor, Dental Hygiene $53,580Curran, Barbara Assistant Professor, Dental Hygiene $51,504Curry, D. Leann Instructor, Education and Reading $38,300 Davis, Fredric Associate Professor, Dental Hygiene $58,030DeBois, Barbara J Chair, Dental Hygiene $61,812Diehm, Gary Head Athletic Trainer, Athletic Training & Exercise Physiology $42,236Diekhoff, George Chair, Psychology $100,916Distel, Mary Jo Assistant Professor, Nursing $55,472Dodge, Rebecca Associate Professor, Geosciences $61,336Donovan, Timothy Professor, Computer Science $77,258Dubinsky, Alan Dillard Distinguished Professor of Marketing $110,000 Duff, Jeremy Assistant Professor, Political Science $49,740Dunn, Jacqueline Assistant Professor, Physics $56,234 Estrada, Anita Chair, Education and Reading $72,154Fashimpar, Gary Professor, Social Work $68,820Farris, Mark Director, Honors Program $88,539Fidelie, Laura Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice $49,946Fields, Peter Associate Professor, English $54,686Fleming, Richard Chair, Physics $72,828Forrester, Robert Assistant Professor, Management and Marketing $70,000 Fosnaugh, Linda Associate Professor, Mathematics $65,214Fritzsch, Ralph Chair, Accounting/MIS $99,518Fuertes-Manjon, Roberto Professor of Spanish, For-eign Languages $70,360Fukasawa, Yoshi Chair, Economics $93,820Fulton, Candice Assistant Professor, Chemistry $45,830Gaharan, Catherine Associate Professor, Accounting/MIS $99,988

Garcia, Adalberto Chair, Foreign Languages $65,830Garrison, Kristen Writing Program Administrator, English $49,000Gelves, Juan Assistant Professor, Economics $65,288Genung, Vanessa PMH-NP Coordinator, Nursing $72,120 Gibson, Martha Assistant Professor, Nursing $60,580Giddings, Greg Assistant Professor, English $49,000 Goldberg, Gary M Interim Chair, Juanita and Ralph Harvey School of Visual Arts $71,320Gorham, James Assistant Professor, Mass Communi-cation $54,000 Grant, Sandra Instructor, Mass Communication $34,986Green, Rebecca Instructor, English $38,240Greshman, Jennifer Assistant Professor, Respiratory Care $51,542Griffin, Terry Assistant Professor, Computer Science $47,604Guthrie, Paul Associate Professor, Psychology $59,814Hallford, Randal Chair, Chemistry $63,180 Halverson, Ranette Chair, Computer Science $94,898Hammer, Margaret Assistant Professor, Education and Reading $54,424 Hansen, Christopher Associate Professor, Chemistry $59,046Harlow, Kirk C. Associate Professor, Health and Public Administration $65,552Harmel, Robert Professor, Economics $85,066Harvey, Susan Assistant Professor, Music $46,904 Helton, Patrick R. Assistant Professor, Respiratory Care $54,618Hendrickson, Kenneth Regents Professor and Hardin Distinguished Professor of American History, Emeri-tus $85,000 Henschel, Don Stage Design, Theatre $73,892Henschel, Sally Assistant Professor, English $45,210Henson, Susan E Assistant Professor, English $48,746Hewitt, Harry Chair, History $86,430 Hilton, Steve Assistant Professor, Juanita and Ralph Harvey School of Visual Arts $49,156Hiraide, Suguru Associate Professor, Juanita and Ralph Harvey School of Visual Arts $52,892Hoffman, Thomas Associate Professor, English $71,216Hoggard, James M Perkins-Protho Distinguished, English $92,620 Hollabaugh, Linda Associate Professor of Spanish, Foreign Languages $62,324Hood, Jeffrey Assistant Professor, Mathematics $57,150Horner, Norman Professor Emeritus, Biology $51,232Howard, Regina Assistant Professor, Nursing $52,000Huanga, SuHua Assistant Professor, Education $50,348Jansen, Lauren Assistant Professor, Nursing $57,392Javed, Asma CLSC Coordinator, Biology $20,024Jefferson, Laura Chair, Theater $66,352 Johnson III, Robert Graduate Coordinator, English $73,580Johnson, Tina V. Assistant Professor, Computer Sci-ence $50,000Johnston, Charles Associate Professor, Management Information Systems $86,214Johnston, James Director of Interdisciplinary Educa-tion, Health Sciences and Human Services $59,810Jones, Marina Lynn Instructor, Mathematics $35,504Jun, Nathan Coordinator, Philosophy $46,124Justus, Timothy Chair, Music $70,000 Key, SusAnn Coordinator for Supplemental Instruc-tion, Academic Success Center $47,016Killion, Jeffrey Graduate Coordinator, Radiologic Sciences $61,294 Kindig, Everett Professor, History $74,758King, James (Dirk) Associate Professor, History $71,326Kitchen, Michaelle Chair, Counseling, Kinesiology and Special Education $68,664Knox, Michelle L Associate Professor, Mathematics $57,150Kurszewski, Tammy Associate Professor, Respiratory Care $54,618LaBeff, Emily Professor, Sociology $86,820 Lancaster, Mildred Gore West Foundation Distin-guished Professor, Counseling, Kinesiology & Spe-cial Education $76,162Land, Michael Professor, Educational Leadership &Technology $80,546 Leach, Jane Assistant Professor, Nursing $55,452

Lei, Adam Y.C Associate Professor, Finance Econom-ics Legal Studies $93,138Lewandowski, Elizabeth Professor, Theater $68,190Lewis, Gary R Associate Professor, Music $56,084Lewis, Mitzi Assistant Professor, Mass Communica-tion $49,608Li, Qian Assistant Professor, Finance Economics Legal Students $88,644 Lilienthal, Linda Assistant Professor, Education and Reading $51,780Lindemann, Dirk Associate Professor, History $66,382Lindt, Suzanne Assistant Professor, Education and Reading $49,050Lockhart, Robin Assistant Professor, Nursing $65,558Lodge, Kirsten Assistant Professor, English $49,000Lyons, William Instructor, Athletic Training & Exer-cise Physiology $42,000Martin, J. David Professor Emeritus, Applied Arts and Sciences $32,622Martin, Laura Assistant Professor, Management and Marketing $86,632 Martinez, John Professor, Economics $86,004Masuoka, James Assistant Professor, Biology $54,656Maxwell, Donald Professor, Music $76,592May, Marsha Assistant Professor, Mathematics $59,596McClintock, Stuart Professor of French, Foreign Languages $63,518McDonald, Terry Assistant Professor, Mathematics $52,996McNeely, Thomas Instructor, Intensive English Lan-guage Institute $35,059 Medford, Annette Chair, Respiratory Care $58,846Mercer, Kimberly Assistant Professor, Nursing $58,504 Miller, Stacia Instructor, Counseling, Kinesiology & Special Education $32,004Mills, Dana R. Assistant Professor, Biology $53,654Minden, Elizabeth Instructor, Mass Communication $47,608Mitchell, Patrick Professor, Mathematics $71,750Mohr, Darrell Assistant Professor, Counselling, Kine-siology & Special Education $45,000Montoya, Claudia Associate Professor, Foreign Lan-guages $56,036Moran, Nathan Chair, Criminal Justice $59,958Morrison, Gary D Associate Professor, Radiologic Sciences $57,994Morrow, Ruth Associate Professor $70,076Moss, Pam Instructor, Academic Success Center $35,648Narayanan, Sugumaran Assistant Professor, Political Science $49,740Nimetz, Amanda Instructor, Academic Success Cen-ter $45,572Nunneley, Annie Professor, Nursing $52,000Owen, James R. Assistant Professor, Economics $68,020Packard, Josh Assistant Professor, Sociology $49,224Passos, Nelson Professor, Computer Science $89,134 Patteron, Mike Professor, Management and Market-ing $94,620Penrose, Leslie Coordinator, Intensive English Lan-guage Institute $41,236 Phifer, J Sheree Associate Professor, Radiologic Sci-ences $56,880Polvado, Karen Chair, Nursing $81,067Preda, Michael Professor, Political Science $86,750Price, Jonathan Assistant Professor, Geosciences $57,024Prieto, Linda Assistant Professor, Education and Reading $55,088Prose, Catherine Assistant Professor, Juanita and Ralph Harvey School of Visual Arts $52,588Pruitt, Randy Assistant Professor, Mass Communica-tion $52,618Ramser, Charles Professor, Management and Market-ing $92,560Rankin, David Chair, English $86,536Raulston, Tommy Instructor, Accounting/MIS $77,552Redmon, Robert Associate Professor, Education and Reading $58,758Richardson, Connie Assistant Professor, Mathematics $40,580Rincon-Zachary, Magaly Professor, Biology $79,790Roberts, Kathleen Assistant Professor, Nursing $61,442Roberts, Roe Associate Professor, Health and Public Administration $66,300

Sanders, Victoria Assistant Professor, Radiologic Sci-ences $51,504Scales, Jon B. Assistant Professor, Biology $59,588Schmitter, Joel Associate Professor, Mathematics $62,350Schultz, Edward K. Assistant Professor, Education and Reading $54,708Schuppener, James Professor, Music $65,814Sernoe, James Chair, Mass Communication $64,912Shao, Chris Y Chair, Marketing $87,560Shawver, Sandra Instructor, Counseling, Kinesiology & Special Education $43,350Shipley, Michael Associate Professor, Biology $61,776Simpson, Richard P Assistant Professor, Computer Science $69,782 Slavens, Dawn Interim Chair, Mathematics $71,580Smith, Billy Don Assistant Professor, Nursing $40,232Smith, Brandon Assistant Professor, Theater $42,032Spiller, Laura C. Assistant Professor, Psychology $54,290 Stambaugh, Jeff Assistant Professor, Management and Marketing $90,250Stangl, Frederick Professor, Biology $76,772Steele-English, Nancy Associate Professor, Juanita and Ralph Harvey School of Visual Arts $58,752Stephens, Pamela Chair, Geosciences $68,854 Stewart, Diane Assistant Professor, Nursing $51,950Stewart, Janie L. Assistant Professor, Nursing $40,232 Stewart, Tiffany Assistant Professor, Counseling, Kinesiology & Special Education $50,012Stiles, Beverly Chair, Sociology $69,502 Stramski, Robert Assistant Professor, Nursing $58,734Stringfellow, Catherine Professor, Computer Science $81,312 Terry, Gina Assistant Professor, English $49,000Thomas, Bob Assistant Professor, Accounting/MIS $98,960 Tilker, Kristopher Advisor, Pre-Law $83,480Trombley, John Instructor, Chemistry $38,000 Tucker, David Professor, Mathematics $79,536Vandehey, Michael Associate Professor, Psychology $65,552Veale, Beth Associate Professor, Radiologic Sciences $62,994Veazey, Linda Assistant Professor, Political Science $49,500Velasquez, Benito Chair, Athletic Training & Exer-cise Physiology $73,000 Villarreal, Ray Assistant Clinical Coordinator, Radio-logic Science $27,772Vogtsberger, Roy C. Associate Professor, Biology $61,566 Vowell, John Instructor, Management Information Systems $50,000Walker, Debra Assistant Professor, Nursing $72,120Wang, X. Sheldon Chair, Engineering $96,904Watts, Lynette Assistant Professor, Radiologic Sci-ences $52,722Wiedemann, Friederike Professor, Foreign Languages $48,118Wilbanks, Jammie Assistant Professor, Radiologic Sciences $47,684 Williams, Larry Professor, Sociology $85,838Williamson, Ann Marie Assistant Professor, Nursing $56,102Wilson, Phillip Assistant Professor, Marketing $89,950Winchester, Jason Assistant Professor, Athletic Train-ing & Exercise Physiology $52,000Wines, Mary Dyslexia Therapist, Counseling, Kinesi-ology & Special Education $47,250Wood, Julie Assistant Professor, Counseling, Kinesi-ology & Special Education $54,136Wright, Donna Assistant Professor, Counseling, Kine-siology & Special Education $87,250Wyatt, Frank B. Associate Professor, Exercise Physi-ology $75,934 Yaroz-Ash, Elizabeth Professor, Juanita and Ralph Harvey School of Visual Arts $70,186Yucus, Jennifer Assistant Professor, Juanita and Ralph Harvey School of Visual Arts $46,008Zhang, Grace Assistant Professor, Management Information Systems $81,126Zhang, Jie Assistant Professor, Economics $65,288Zhang, Yongjing (Eugene) Assistant Professor, Eco-nomics $88,539

average salary for MSU staff = $37,518

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653 faculty and staff employees (excluding student workers)

$980 thousand paid to coaches in athletic depart-ment.

7 female employees make more than $100,000.

2008 was the last year employees received raises.

12 percent of the Wichita Falls area’s total income comes from MSU

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Country in the Falls

Wichita Falls will be playing host this year for big country artist.

Nightlife scenes will showcase some of the hottest country stars to bring the spotlight to Falls town.

Here are a few of the upcoming show.

Denim & DiamondsPat Green Oct. 13Green is a Texas native who’s rock-

ing the country scene. After performing with major artist

like Willie Nelson, he will conquer the stage by himself this fall.

He will be performing his hits from the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts and much more.

Aaron Watson Oct. 20Watson will continue his tour here in

Wichita this October. This Texas native will play his hits including music from his latest album “The Road @ the Ro-deo.”

Rich O’Toole Oct. 27 Although O’Toole is not well known,

he will continue his southern tour in the Falls at the end of October. He will sway the ladies with his melodic voice to his most famous song “The Cricket Song” and his new single “Kiss of a Liar.”

Brantley Gilbert Dec. 9Brantley is an American country

music musician. He will be perform-ing his greatest hits like “Halfway to Heaven.”

The Iron Horse PubAli Holder Oct. 15Hometown sweetheart Ali Holder

will showcase her amazing vocals on the Iron Horse Pub stage this weekend.

Brandon Rhyder Nov. 4Although Rhyder is performing

mainly at Billy Bob’s across the state, he will detour to perform in the Falls Town. For the past six years Rhyder has been making music for all ages to en-joy. He will bring his country twang to Wichita Falls at the beginning of Novem-ber.

Somebody’s Darling Nov. 23

This quartet in-

cludes a guitarist, percussionist, bass player and a lead singer.

Originating from Dallas, the four piece country group will showcase their western flare towards the end of the year at Iron Horse Pub.

MPEC Lady Antebellum Dec. 3

Grammy winning group Lady Ante-bellum will power up the stage at the MPEC this December.

Ticket prices: are $49.00 or general admission on the floor and reserved lower level seating.

They are $39.00 - for reserved upper level seats. To purchase tickets, call the Kay Yeager Coliseum Box Office 940-716-5555.

Similar to artists like Raphael Saadiq and the late Amy Winehouse, Mayer Hawthorn

and his band “The Coun-ty” are at-tracted to the nostal-gic sound

and sultry soul of yesteryear; particularly the 60’s.

These artists infatuation lies in the decade in which Motown Records was spawned only a few miles from where Andrew Mayer Cohen grew up in Michigan and became popularly known as the voice of 60’s youth.

In interviews Mayer has admitted that his inspiration from Motown artists and Detroit legends such as Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and the late J. Dilla shape his sound.

In his Sophomore effort “How Do You Do” Hawthorne shows to have improved in fusing his revered creators style’s with his own, “A lot of my other influences are coming out on this record,” Hawthorne told Billboard Maga-zine “There are a lot of other genres that are blending in now. It’s just turning into me.”

Hawthorne offers an alternative to his co-existing musicians, singing the blues and soul more likely to be heard on the radio after sped up and sampled then in their raw form.

Whether his goal is to pay homage to Mo-town’s Golden Era or to bridge classic soul with modern elements and usher his own unique sound into the mainstream, the music is authentic and as usual the message is love.

“How Do You Do” is riddled with tales of romantic endeavors both simple and complex, sweet and foul.

As Can’t Stop shows, Mayer’s incorpora-tion of 2011 elements aren’t mash-ups.

Instead he injects them subtly, for instance commenting on his awry love’s “sh*tty fu**king attitude” on the otherwise complete-ly classically structured The Walk or laying synths into the up tempo Finally Falling.

Snoop Dogg even joins Hawthorne in a duet, singing a half serious verse on the string heavy “Can’t Stop.”

Crucially, in “How Do You Do” Haw-thorne isn’t copying Curtis Mayfield and The Beatles, he’s building his own sound on top of their foundations and with these methods crafted a timeless work that will most likely outlast that of his contemporary peers.

Notable Tracks: Get To Know You, Can’t Stop, Finally Falling, Stick Around, You’re Not Ready

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Finally, the Oprah Winfrey Net-work has something like a twinkle in its eye.

“The Rosie Show,” which pre-miered live from Harpo Studios in Chicago on Monday afternoon, has been touted as Rosie O’Donnell’s much-anticipated return to television, which may be overstating the case slightly.

In the 10 years since her syndi-cated daytime talk show “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” ended, the former stand-up comic and sometime film star seemed to be going out of her way to shake off the “Queen of Nice” mantle she had crocheted for herself while sweet-talking celebrities for six seasons.

In 2006, she got cranky and righ-teous, locking horns with Elisabeth Hasselbeck on “The View” before walking off in a huff.

She produced and starred in a Lifetime movie, launched a vari-ety show so terrible it ended after a single episode, and wrote a memoir

about how awful it was to be on “The View.”

None of which guaranteed, or even hinted, that O’Donnell would be the one to haul up OWN’s disappointing ratings.

Which “The Rosie Show” might just do. It had a not bad, pretty good, kinda funny, sort of smart debut.

Not the sort of thing that would rock

a major network back on its heels with joy, but it certainly provided an oasis of humor and sunshine amid OWN’s end-less replaying of the self-congratulatory final episodes of “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”

It was “nice Rosie” who showed up, in Diane von Furstenberg “schmata,” as she said, and Prada boots, with the best haircut she’s had in ... well, ever, and the easy, zingy showmanship that has

kept her afloat in fans even during the rocky years.

Wisely, she opened with a lit-tle stand-up, and sure there were Spanx jokes — the woman just cannot get over Spanx, which is, of course a very funny word and something to

which many OWN viewers can relate — but it was lovely to see her back be-hind the microphone doing Penny Mar-shall impersonations and poking fun at herself for “the chubby person’s shirt pull.”

There were questions from the au-dience — “just like Carol Burnett but not really because she’s a genius, and I’m just me” — which unfortunately included fellow “Oprah” acolyte Suze Orman (who seems to have it in her contract that she will show up on every OWN show or else.)

Orman’s question led to a mildly hilarious song about how O’Donnell came to Chicago set to the tune of “The Night Chicago Died” (which, for TV critics of a certain age, alone made the show worth watching) and accompa-nied by a group of chorus boys who were soon shirtless, allowing Rosie to sing that “it’s true I’m gay, but I’m not dead.”

The rest of the show was devot-ed to official first guest and new O’Donnell “crush” Russell Brand.

His admirable ability to act like a semi-strung out dingbat while talk-ing most sensibly and articulately about topics as diverse as the play-ing out of the commercialistic age, the emptiness of celebrity culture and the benefits of being a three-time winner of the Shagger of the Year Award.

He also brought with him a pre-taped mini-tour of Friendly House, a recovery center for women, which allowed him to publicly advocate for recovery and praise its admira-ble director, Peggy Albrecht, but in a way that made a nice point about recovery without getting too maud-lin — “This is the first time you’ve appeared on television fully clothed, isn’t it Peggy?”

Which was a good thing, a tre-mendous thing.

This is because more maudlin is not what OWN, with its endless ro-tation of heart-wrenching/breaking/string-tugging reality shows, needs.

Yes, O’Donnell and Brand were talking about addiction.A Winfrey-approved topic, but in

such a lively way that people might ac-tually listen.

“When I was a drug addict, actively,” said Brand, cutting mercifully to the chase, “I was very annoying.”

Things ended in a very Rosie way, with a game show called “The Ro Show,” during which Carol the recep-tionist began losing badly to the Stan-ford-educated doctor so O’Donnell started cheating.

This gave the whole thing a nice Password-at-home feel.

Sure, the set is absurdly purple and the Woman For Which the Network is Named showed up at the end.

But it was such good, clean fun that for a moment one was allowed to forget that next period it was back to the life-lesson-learning grind, with “Oprah’s Masterclass.”

Remake “Footloose”? Sure, why not?

And why not remake “Pretty in Pink,” “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” and other beloved 1980s teen movies while we’re at it?

No one has felt that question more acutely than Craig Zadan, a producer of both the 1984 original starring Kevin Bacon and Lori Singer and the remake, opening Friday, starring newcomer Kenny Wormald and “Dancing With the Stars” pro Julianne Hough.

The original — about a big-city teen who rallies his classmates to change an anti-dancing law championed by a min-ister (John Lithgow then, Dennis Quaid now) — met with mixed reviews.

But it became one of the decade’s signature movies, spawning a trio of hit songs, “Let’s Hear It for the Boy,” “Holding Out for a Hero” and the title track.

“When Paramount started talking to us about it, I thought, ‘Why should we do this?’ because I had done it already,” Zadan says.

The studio, which had lined up “High School Musical”-trilogy director Kenny Ortega and star Zac Efron, proceeded to develop a screenplay without him.

Then, since Zadan and his produc-ing partner, Neil Meron, had produced Efron’s movie “Hairspray,” the star “called us and said, ‘I really want you to produce this.’ So we reconsidered.

And then Zac left (in March 2009) because he came to the realization he didn’t want to do any more movie mu-sicals for a while.”

Successor Chace Crawford backed out in April 2010 when the film’s start date got delayed, reportedly cutting into his “Gossip Girl” shooting schedule.

Ortega had departed six months ear-lier over what Variety called creative

differences and budget.“At that point, the whole thing was

falling apart,” Zadan remembers, “and we thought, ‘Oh, maybe it’s not meant to be.

And that’s when Craig Brewer came along with his pitch.”

That pitch, by the writer-director of “Hustle&Flow” and “Black Snake Moan,” was anchored in depicting the car crash — only talked about in the original — that killed five teens return-ing from a beer-fueled dance that led to the ban.

“Like a lot of people,” Brewer says, “I struggled with why the movie should be remade, and I actually resisted doing the remake for a while.”

The original, after all, had been a rev-elation to his 13-year-old self, he says.

Since his Army-dad family moved frequently, “I was always drawn to the fact that Ren (McCormack, Bacon’s character) had to make things work for him where he was.

He was a new kind of hero for me.” Why tamper with that?

“I got this vision,” Brewer explains, “of dancing feet on a muddy floor with a keg” — which became the new film’s opening, echoing the dancing feet in some clean, gray limbo in the original.

“I’ve been to many parties like that, and (as in the original) there’s that Ken-ny Loggins (title) song giving audienc-es a party — and then it would all crash down when that accident happens.

It would really put into context that a town can suffer horribly, and then there’s this kind of American reaction where a tragedy happens and everybody overreacts and makes a lot of laws that in the long run cause more harm than good.

Once I started thinking in those terms, I thought I could update the simple ‘80s pop story.”

Brewer went back to the original Dean Pitchford screenplay.

“I don’t think it’s the right idea to

completely reinvent ‘Footloose,’” he reasons.

“We can update a couple of things to make it more relevant, but it’s got to be the same spirit. (Zadan) understood I was paying homage to the original while adding my own flavor to it.”

So, will the iPod-era remake com-pare well with the Walkman original?

Who knows, but however it’s re-ceived, let’s hear it for the Brewer — let’s give the boy a hand. It takes guts to update an old favorite. Says star Wormald, “I hadn’t seen ‘Black Snake Moan’ until I was going to au-dition for him — I’d only known that people either loved it or thought it was from left field.

I saw it and said, ‘This guy is mak-ing “Footloose”? This is gonna be the wildest “Footloose” there could be!’”

This isn’t the first time “Footloose” has been remade: A Broadway musi-cal played for nearly two years at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, running 18 previews and 709 performances from Oct. 5, 1998, to July 2, 2000.

With Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, John Lithgow and Sarah Jessica Parker among the stars of the original “Footloose,” was there any thought given to having one or more return for a cameo?

“We decided if we had anyone from the original movie, it was going to be Kevin,” says producer Craig Zadan. “Initially he thought, ‘Hey, it might be cool,’ but he decided that he’d rather not.”

What part would he have played? “There was an earlier draft of mine that had the character of Ren’s dead-beat dad,” says writer-director Craig Brewer. “I thought, if Kevin wanted to do a cameo, this is what I could see him playing.

But Kevin wasn’t interested in it, and I cut it out of the script before shooting.”


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The list of industry, culture and entertainment shifts spurred by Steve Jobs and Apple is long and impressive.

He changed the music industry, the terrestrial radio industry, killed the record/CD megastores, changed the way billions of people acquire, share and enjoy information includ-ing music, and changed global cul-ture, making the world just a little bit smaller.

Jobs, who died of pancreatic can-cer Wednesday at age 56, is already being canonized as one of the ma-jor figures of the 20th and early 21st century.

“Steve Jobs’ impact on the music industry has been huge, especially for someone who wasn’t in the mu-sic business to start out with, and there are still some people in radio who haven’t quite accepted that things are very different now then they were five or 10 years ago,” said Liz Mozzocco, music director for WAPS-FM in Akron.

“Steve Jobs was huge in terms of bringing digital music to the public and giving them a direct route to purchasing music, and if you look at how many people were downloading music illegally, it’s pretty incredible that he was able to have success with the iTunes store.”

The digital music revolution (at least the profitable legal revolution) can be traced back to Jobs, whose ability to discern what the masses want before they knew they wanted it, and to then sell it to them in mass quantities with a flair for the theatrical, is only one aspect that made him a con-temporary genius.

Back in 2001, music piracy was be-coming a huge problem for the already flailing record industry.

Between CD-ripping programs, Napster and its variants and other on-line semi-secret portals, even users who wouldn’t know a torrent from a torte were discovering ways to down-load music for free.

The major record labels, who were still enjoying the popularity of com-pact discs, responded in typical fashion when one’s cash cow is being milked for free — they threatened and pleaded with users, sued students and house-wives and wasted millions of dollars on faulty security programs for com-mercial CDs that made them almost useless to consumers.

Jobs saw the writing and the dollar

signs on the wall. As he had done in the past with

home computers, he took something that already existed — there were sev-eral MP3 players already on the market — and he turned Apple’s version into the new standard.

“You can’t just ask customers what they want then try to give that to them,” Jobs once said.

“By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.”

In 2001, Jobs and Apple introduced the first generation iPod.

Compared to the clunky MP3 and portable CD players on the market that didn’t fit smoothly in one’s pocket or purse, the iPod had a clean, attractive and unique design with simple con-trols.

And with the help of Apple’s consid-erable marketing push, it quickly be-came the “Kleenex” of MP3 players.

The brand’s name became synony-

mous with the product, as did the sight of folks grooving with the iPod’s sig-nature white earbuds.

More importantly (and much more profitably), in 2003, after explaining to the major labels what much of the world already knew — that download-ing was the future so they’d better join the revolution — Jobs introduced iTunes, a completely legal online mu-sic-buying storefront.

iTunes quickly became the norm with its flat 99-cent-per-song fee, giv-ing consumers the ability to cherry-pick the tunes they wanted and the feeling of control while Apple essentially took the means of distribution away from the big majors.

Soon once-powerful mega chains such as Tower Records and Virgin were shuttering their doors and leaving music geeks to find local independent record stores that were able to carve out niche customer bases.

“I’m all for progress,” said Scott Shepard, owner of Time Traveler re-cords, a 30-plus-year staple in Cuya-hoga Falls, Ohio. “Unfortunately on my end of it, it wasn’t a positive thing for me.

“Stuff like the iPod, iTunes and burn-ing stuff is basically what put an end to this kind of shop,” he said. “The ‘90s were incredible and the first couple of years of the 2000s were great, but around 2002-2003, it started declining and continues to decline.”

Shepard, who called Jobs a great in-novator, said he noticed when the big chain stores began dying and hoped it would boost his business.

However, in recent years, he said it’s his niche clientele of collectors who are still buying deluxe reissues of albums on CDs and vinyl enthusiasts who are mainly keeping him afloat.

“Those are the customers that keep us going, but anybody who comes in

here under 30 is looking for vinyl,” he said.

The impact of the iPods and iTunes on global music culture is equal to and arguably greater than the invention of the phonograph, the portable radio and any previous musical format from reel-to-reel and eight-tracks to the now nearly obsolete compact disc.

iTunes revived the single, which most of the major labels had aban-doned.

Many established artists were skep-tical of the iTunes model. U2, the Beat-les, Metallica, Madonna, AC/DC and others raised in the album era resisted it for years, but nearly all eventually came around.

However, AC/DC and Garth Brooks apparently still are not interested, and earlier this year, Jon Bon Jovi directly blamed Jobs for killing the music in-dustry.

As iPods’ hard drives grew expo-nentially from holding 1,000 songs to upward of 30,000 songs and the iTunes library continued to grow, a genera-tion of consumers have been suitably trained to purchase music legally with Apple. iTunes surpassed 10 billion downloads in February 2010.

The iPod, iTunes and now iPhone triumvirate has also had a huge impact on terrestrial radio.

Mozzocco of WAPS said that the ad-vent of the iPod shuffle and personal playlists have also affected the way that radio programmers do their jobs.

“I think that the one thing that hap-pened because of that is a lot of radio programmers had to acknowledge the fact that people’s musical tastes are a lot more varied than they realized be-fore,” she said.

“I think people were always inter-ested in all different kinds of music, but when you have the iPod shuffle making it so easy to change genres and put different tracks next to each other, it does change the way people listen to music.”

Mozzocco, who has been in terres-trial radio for a decade, said that much of the industry has been slow to accept that commercial radio is no longer the primary way that listeners discover new music and that programmers who still rely on being fed new music by la-bels and charts or by spying on their competitors’ playlists are immediately behind the curve.

“If I see a band at a show with a huge fan base and their music makes sense for us, we’re going to play it and I don’t necessarily have to wait (to see) who else has jumped on board with this because people have access to it in other ways,” she said.

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Lady Mustangs outclass WTAMU 5-0

Midwestern State women’s soccer put down the Lady Buffs of West Texas A&M 5-0 to im-prove to 6-3-2 on the season Fri-day night.

The Mustangs were success-ful the previous weekend with back-to-back home victories.

WTAMU Becky McMullen attempted the first shot of the game followed by a fine save by Goalkeeper Mallory Whitworth.

Junior Midfielder Alyssa Coo-per was also denied by WTAMU Goalkeeper Yvette Bedoy in the fifth minute.

But less than two minutes lat-er, Bedoy could not stretch high enough to prevent Cooper’s ball that headed towards the back of the net.

The latter caught the goal-keeper off her line and attempted a lob which went in beautifully.

Cooper tucked in the opener with a textbook scoring tech-

nique indeed.MSU wanted more goals and

Junior Defender Megan Barnhart was the right candidate to double the lead in the 14th minute.

Barnhart dribbled past three defenders then slid home her first goal of the season to the lower right corner.

The Mustangs scared WTA-MU when Junior Midfielder Maddie Fraser flung a shot to the hands of Bedoy, who had barely recovered from the second goal.

It took a while but the third goal arrived in the nick of half-time. Freshman Midfielder Katy Catney chronicled her first and second college goals, which helped the Mustangs in a long way.

Catney’s got on the score-board right before the halftime whistle with help from the 41st minute corner kick.

Whitworth had the last action of the half with a brilliant save to block a shot from WTAMU Becky Peth.

Catney didn’t score her sec-ond goal until the 69th minute.

Goalkeeper Jamie Hall denied Sophomore Forward Mickey Brown but Catney was at the right spot to tuck in the re-bound.

The freshman forward was thrilled with her Friday night double. “ It feels like a dream! This entire experience is,” Cat-ney said. “I was just privileged to contribute to the game.”

MSU Caroline Kemp had a near-goal attempt seven minutes later but the ball sailed high. Then in the 82nd, Catney returned the favor by assisting Brown for the game winner with a through ball.

MSU Haley Crandall and Em-ily Saville also tested the goalie within the last few minutes.

With seconds left on the clock, Kemp tried another shot but Hall made sure it stayed out.

MSU had lost 2-1 at West Texas A&M thus winning 5-0 was a huge improvement.

The Mustangs are set to play road games at Angelo State Uni-versity on Friday and Incarnate Word on Sunday.

Junior Defender Megan Barnhart scored the second goal in the Mustangs encounter with WTAMU. Damian Atamenwan

DAMIAN ATAMENWAN SPORTS EDITOR

As Oklahoma Quarterback Landry Jones watched his defensive team-mates rip apart the Texas offensive line, he couldn’t help but give thanks for his own blockers.

While Texas QBs David Ash and Case McCoy spent a large portion of Saturday’s Red River Rivalry looking up at the sky, Jones has hardly hit the ground all season.

The No. 3 Sooners (5-0, 2-0) domi-nated Saturday’s Red River Rivalry, beating No. 11 Texas (4-1, 1-1) 55-17. And the dominance all started up front for Oklahoma, on both sides of the ball.

“It’s tough having days like that, (when you are getting chased around),” said Jones, who was sacked by Texas just once for a 4-yard loss. “Our de-fense did a great job, and our offensive line did a great job giving me time so I could look at the defense and throw it around. (My offensive line) did a great job of keeping their eyes up, seeing the blitzes and protecting all night.”

Jones, who had been sacked only once all season entering the game, had good reason to sympathize with the Texas quarterback duo.

The Sooners defense sacked the Longhorns eight times for a loss of 84 yards and forced five fumbles, recov-

ering three.“We were on fire this game,” Okla-

homa Defensive Lineman Frank Alex-ander said. “I wanted to go out there and prove something.”

The Sooners proved far too strong for Texas.

Alexander, a senior playing in his final Red River Rivalry, recorded four sacks for a loss of 30 yards.

He forced one fumble and recovered another for the Sooners, who scored 21 points with their defense.

Led by Alexander, who had four tackles for loss, and Ronnell Lewis, Oklahoma surrendered just 36 net rushing yards for 0.9 yards a carry to a Texas squad that entered averaging 206 yards a game.

“Defensively we adjusted with them and tackled well,” Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said. “Did a good job of being strong and taking away the run game. Got pressure. Got turnovers.”

Lewis had two sacks and another tackle for loss. Jaydan Bird, Tony Jef-ferson and Casey Walker had one sack apiece.

“We were a lot more physical, got to the quarterback and executed our de-fense,” Lewis said. “We got after them in the first quarter. We felt we were more physical and wanted it more.”

Heisman lookTexas coach Mack Brown has faced

some good Oklahoma QBs in his 14 years leading the Longhorns into the Cotton Bowl.

He watched Heisman winners Jason White and Sam Bradford dismantle the Texas defense. But after Saturday’s loss, Brown considers Landry Jones one of the best he has faced.

“He was as good as anybody in the country today,” Brown said. “He did a tremendous job.”

Jones, who threw for 305 yards and three TDs in the first half, didn’t need to pass as often in the second half. He finished with 367 yards, completing 31 of 50 passes.

“It’s nice to have someone like (Brown) praise you and give you cred-it,” Jones said. “It’s honoring.”

Jones spread the ball around, hit-ting All-American Ryan Broyles nine times for 122 yards and one TD.

Kenny Stills caught five passes for 51 yards and two TDs, and Jaz Reyn-olds caught six passes for 92 yards.

Oklahoma defeated Texas by the fifth largest margin in the history of the rivalry.

A 65-13 Sooners win in 2003 was still more dominant in terms of the fi-nal, but Saturday’s win set many other records.

The Sooners defense had 113 yards in tackles for loss and 84 yards in sacks, both school records.

Texas finished the game with a net 259 yards of offense, just three more yards than Oklahoma’s total in sacks, tackles-for-loss and fumble/intercep-tion returns.

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Sooners put down Longhorns in Cotton Bowl

The undefeated Midwestern State Mustangs weathered a storm and created thunder of their own at Memorial Stadium on Saturday night.

The Mustangs continued their strong running attack that has become their standard for the year. Three different running backs and the quarterback found the end zone Saturday night, collecting a to-tal of 308 total rushing yards.

Quarterback Brandon Kelsey continued to get it done, throwing for 142 yards and a score and rush-ing for 56 yards and a touchdown.

While the passing offense has been potent all season, it continues to be the running game that comes through for the Mustangs. Saturday’s win marks the fifth straight game that the Mustangs have rushed for over 290 yards.

While the numbers were great for MSU, the game didn’t start off looking promising for the Mustangs.All the rain and weather aside, Tarleton state jumped to a quick 13-7 lead at the end of the first quarter after a few stumbles by the Mustangs. A mishandled punt and poorly executed coverage led the Texans to score quickly and early.

But, that’s the only noise the Texans would make for the rest of the game.In between those two scores, Running Back Keidrick Jackson scored his first of two rushing touchdowns.

Two minutes into the second quarter, Jackson

put up his second rushing score from two yards out to give the Mustangs their second lead of the game.Ten minutes later, Tarleton was called for a hold in their end zone, awarding a safety to the Mustangs to put the good guys up 16-13.

On the ensuing drive for the Mustangs, Brandon Kelsey ran it in from 33 yards out to put the Mus-tangs ahead 23-13 at the half.

Five minutes into the second half, Kelsey marked his only passing touchdown to receiver David Little for a 27 yard score.

Three minutes after, Lester Bush scored from a yard out to put the Mustangs ahead 37-13 heading into the final quarter of the game.

For the final flash of brilliance that was the storm of the Mustangs game on Saturday, Running Back Jimmy Pipkin made the Texan’s defense look fool-ish by scoring on an 83 yard run with 11 minutes left in the game. That score would hold, and the Mustangs marched on to their fifth straight win, 44-13.

Lester Bush finished the day with 43 yards on 11 carries and a score. Pipkin recorded 155 yards on 14 carries and a score. Keidrick Jackson put up 55 yards on 15 carries and a touchdown.

David Little led the receiving core with 7 catch-es for 65 yards and a score. Edgard Thellar had a 20 yard reception, Kelvin Swanson had three catches for 36 yards. The Mustangs defense pres-sured the quarterback and forced an interception. The Mustangs recorded eleven tackles for losses.

The Mustangs travel to take on Angelo State this Saturday.

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The No. 7 men’s soccer team dropped to 7-3 on season after consecutive losses against Eastern New Mexico and West Texas A&M University.

The Mustangs played Eastern New Mexico first on Friday afternoon at the ENMU soccer fields. It was the Grey-hound’s first win over MSU in school history.

ENMU had more goal opportuni-ties at the start but Goalkeeper Michael Wood felt it was too early to concede.

However, most of the Greyhound’s shots were directed out of target.

Midfielder Dean Lovegrove had the first attempt for MSU but the crowd

watched the ball go high.After 28 minutes of goal less struggle,

ENMU made a difference with a header from Michael Stewart. The defender’s effort to score was wasted until Isaiah Turnam assisted him for the opener.

Then seven minutes after Stewart’s header, Junior Midfielder Fernando Garza presented MSU with an equal-izer.

Garza retrieved a cleared ball then placed a shot to tally his second of the season.

ENMU tried to get the lead back be-fore halftime but Wood was there to make a spectacular save that prevented Dreaux Plair’s header.

The second half kicked off with not as much action in the first half. Stew-art’s attempt went wide while Goal-

keeper Matt Malak denied MSU Chris Dwyer.

Then in the 59th minute, ENMU Ro-drigo Pontes sent a pass to Abayneh Crosby to regain the lead.

The latter was one-on-one with the goalkeeper and made no mistake.

The Mustangs did not let up but played even harder after Crosby had se-cured the lead.

Dwyer kept testing the keeper, hit-ting the woodwork twice in ten min-utes. Zach Funk also placed a shot that was blocked as the Greyhounds played strictly to defend their lead.

The Mustangs played good offen-sively but ended up with a 2-1 defeat.

MSU then traveled to West Texas A&M for its second road game of the weekend.

Although MSU David Freeland and B.A. Catney put pressure on WTAMU first, the Buffs opened the scoring on Sunday afternoon.

WTAMU Colin Bjostad, who was unassisted, scored his first goal of the season in the 19th minute.

In an attempt to notch an equalizer, Senior Midfielder Sam Broadbent took a 31st minute shot but WTAMU Goal-keeper Sebastian Furness dealt with ef-fort comfortably.

Wood, on the other hand, denied WTAMU Wayne Burton from doubling the already disappointing lead.

The senior shot stopper also marked another important save on Rodrigo Morino’s attempt in the second period.

But Morino was determined to tuck one in anyways as he scored his fifth

goal of the season in the 65th minute.With a 2-0 disadvantage, MSU was

unwavering and played hard for a comeback.

The 76th minute came and so did Freeland’s goal that put the Mustangs back in the contest.

Freeland’s second goal of the season must have set up the momentum for MSU to get an equalizer.

Less than four minutes after, Dwyer made the comeback with a shot to the top right corner.

The Mustangs barely had time to celebrate the goal when WTAMU Lu-kas Garcia scored the winner to end the game at 3-2.

The Mustangs will host Northwest-ern State at the soccer fields this Friday at 7 p.m.

The MSU volleyball team had an off and on relationship with victory over the weekend.

First, the Mustangs took a dominating position over Abilene Christian University on Thursday night on the home court of D. L. Ligon Coliseum.

With the win, MSU also claimed its season’s best win-ning streak, marking it up to a total of six match victories.

“We did phenomenal. I was real proud of the girls and how they adjusted to the new line-up,” MSU coach Venera Flores-Stafford said.

The Lone Star Conference win, 26-24, 25-17, 25-15, was a proud moment for the Mus-tangs.

Shelbi Stewart and Miran-da Byrd had shining moments throughout the night when they combined for 23 kills and only committed five errors, leaving the team with a hard .258 team attack percentage.

ACU came close to a match point at one time in the first set, bringing the match to 24-22, but with consecutive kills by Stewart and Brandi Flores then a great put away by Byrd, the Mustangs gave it a hell no and laid them down, 26-24.

Kristian Aduddell helped in offense by having two hitting percentages of .325 and .303 in the final two sets, respectively, leaving her with 22 total assists.

Kimberly Jeffrey notched in 14 total assists, while Kiara Jordan made no surprise to the crowd with a game high of 25 digs.

Flores and Aduddell both had 11 digs and Hillary White finished with 10 to go with her eight kills.

The following Saturday af-ternoon, MSU remained at D.L. Ligon to take on no. 18 Angelo State.

Unfortunately, the Mustangs lost to the Rambelles, 25-22, 25-18, 22-25, 25-22, putting an end to the Mustangs winning streak.

A contributing factor to the loss might have been MSU play-ing without two of their starters,

Caitlin Wallace and Kimberly Jeffrey.

“I think that was a more dif-ficult transition for the team,” Flores-Stafford said. “We were just quite discombobulated for the first two sets.”

Jordan’s 30 digs allowed MSU to push the Rambelles into 27 attack errors and a .165 team attack percentage.

White claimed a team high of 12 kills, while also contributing 15 digs, adding up to her sixth

double-double of the season.Both teams were neck-in-neck

during the fourth set, 18-18, but ASU climbed back to the top with a 25-18 score, ending the set.

Byrd ended the game with

a total of 11 kills while Flores claimed a double-double with 10 kills and 11 digs.

Aduddell made her season high of 44 assists.

“Overall I thought they did a very good job making the adjust-

ments and keeping each other uplifted,” Flores Stafford added.

Next, MSU goes on the road, facing two important LSC match-es, Texas A&M-Commerce on Thursday, then Texas Woman’s University on Saturday.

Volleyball beats ACU then falls to ASU

FreshmanSetterKristianAduddellsetsSeniorOutsideHitterMirandaByrdforakillinSaturday’sencounteragainsttheRambellesofAngeloStateUniversity.Hannah Hofmann

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Men’s soccer experience tough losses

Athlete SpotlightJimmy Pipkin - FootballAccounted for 155 yards as well as an 83 yard touch-down against the Tarleton State University.

Katy Catney - SoccerScored two goals in the Mustangs’ 5-0 victory over West Texas A&M University.

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