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Vol. 94 • No. 6

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Tier 1 ranking attracts future RamsShauna Bankssbbanks@mail.txwes.edu

With undergraduate enrollment on the rise, faculty, staff and students at Texas Wesleyan University con-tinue to build a reputation—one that has now been recognized by the na-tional media outlet, U.S. News.

“This is real important to potential students and their parents because a national system recognized our pro-grams,” Frederick Slabach, president of the university, said. “I think it is

a growing recognition among our peer schools that Wesleyan has a great academic program.”

Tied with Stephen F. Austin State University, Texas A&M Interna-tional University and the University of Texas-Tyler, Wesleyan has been ranked 71 among regional university west schools by U.S. News.

“Students naturally are research-ing when they want to choose a school,” said William Bleibdrey, se-nior vice president for finance and administration. “The U.S. rankings

are very well known, and are one of those rankings that students go to determine if what we have to offer matches with what they want.”

Bleibdrey said the university will not be directly affected financially by this ranking, but that the recog-nition could make Texas Wesleyan even more appealing for potential students.

“The more students we have, the more revenue we have, and we can offer a greater variety for students on campus,” Bleibdrey said.

With most classes at less than 20 students, teachers are able to give in-dividual attention to students when needed in their classroom settings.

“We are very focused on giving every individual a very positive, very direct experience,” Bleibdrey said. “Our average class size is such that students will deal with a faculty member on a one-on-one basis.”

According to the university quick facts for spring 2011, available on the university’s website, 58 percent of the faculty on campus are tenured,

with 27 percent on the tenure track. Bleibrey also said that unlike

some large schools in and around Fort Worth, Wesleyan makes sure that only credentialed professors are teaching students of each classifica-tion.

“We have a terrific faculty that bring a lot of credentials with them to the classroom,” Bleibdrey said. “I think the credentialed faculty makes a big difference when it comes to the

Mentor luncheon sparks inspiration

On-campus housing receives modern touch Stephan Moritzsrmoritz@mail.txwes.edu

Texas Wesleyan University cur-rently has a three-year plan to im-prove the on-campus college expe-rience.

The plan includes laundry equip-ment and furniture upgrades in the West Village student apartments, Stella Russell Hall and Elizabeth Means Armstrong Hall.

“The plan is to get all of Stella and Elizabeth up to the same furniture standard we have in the newer West Village,” said Sharon Manson, direc-tor of residence life.

The plan was to include remov-

ing and replacing the used desks in Stella Hall, but the desks will stay.

“They’re ugly, they’re huge, you can’t move them,” Manson said, “But the students said, ‘no, we love them.’”

According to Manson, students use the oversized desks to split the room in two to create a sense of pri-vacy. Manson’s decision to keep the desks came from student feedback.

“I’m going to change my prefer-ences to match the students’ expec-tations,” Manson said.

The improvement plan will incor-porate ordering several new lizzy chairs, which are the recliners cur-rently found in Stella Hall’s game

rooms. These chairs and two new footstalls are set to be in every room by the fall 2011 semester.

“They’re very, very comfortable,” Manson said.

The laundry equipment will be upgraded. Manson has decided to bring in the contracting company Mac-Gray to maintain the washers and dryers.

“It will still be free,” Manson said. “All of the washers and dryers will be replaced.”

Manson also said Mac-Gray is experimenting with a text messag-ing service that will notify students when their laundry is finished.

Some dorm residents are en-

thusiastic about the new laundry technology.

“That’s perfect,” said Shaun Mur-phy, study abroad student in the school of business. “You could wait for hours for a washer to be free.”

Murphy said he is interested in the new furniture as well.

“The lizzy chairs are a lot more comfortable,” Murphy said, “It’d probably encourage studying in the room.”

Within the next three years, Wes-leyan is also planning to improve the streets and parking lots on campus.

“We restripe about a third of the campus every year,” Ken Dunson, director of facilities, said.

Dunson also said the parking lots will begin to encompass yellow signs with blue lettering to signify student parking and white signs with blue lettering to signify visitor parking.

Every summer, the facilities de-partment also repaints one building in the West Village apartments and one floor in each dorm building.

Dunson also said the air condi-tioning units in Stella and Elizabeth halls will receive upgrades.

Students with concerns regard-ing maintenance should submit a request with Facilities Operations under the information resources tab on the Wesleyan home page.

Melissa Batesmdbates@mail.txwes.edu

During free period Feb. 10 at Baker-Martin Pavilion students, faculty and staff involved in the mentorship program were given the chance to sit down to an talian meal with their mentors or mentees.

Blair Moore, coordinator of New Student Programs and director of the mentorship program, said the mentorship luncheon takes place every semester as a way for newly as-signed mentors and mentees to spend time together, as well as mentors and mentees from previous semesters to reconnect.

“We hope to create a relationship with the students and their mentors so they feel like they have a go-to person on campus— they have somebody they can go to if they have questions about things, needs, concerns,” Moore said. “Our main goal is for it to increase retention.”

Although Moore said mentorship luncheon attendance is between 60 and 75 people, on av-erage, they still need more mentors.

The ratio of mentees to mentors for fall is usually two or three mentees to one mentor, Moore said. She said the ratio decreases to one- to-one in spring.

“It’s not a huge time commitment,” Moore said. “It just depends on the needs of your mentee basically.”

Mentors do not have to be faculty or staff, she said.

“We want upperclassmen students as well or, at least, students who’ve been here one year,” Moore said.

Chris Windsor, assistant dean of students, has been a mentor since October 2010 and said he sees the mentorship program as anoth-er avenue to get students involved on campus and for students, faculty and staff to connect with each other outside of a classroom or office setting.

Windsor said he attends the luncheon to spend quality time with his mentee.

“It’s another great opportunity to have real-life conversations with students,” Windsor said. “I do what I do because I want to see stu-dents succeed. I cherish the connections I have with the students; it’s the best part of this job.”

Junior finance major Mia Daniels has been a mentee since she came to Wesleyan in fall 2010. She said she really enjoys being in-volved in the program and is grateful to have someone she can turn to for help or advice.

“I really love it, and I really hope to one day be a mentor to someone else who’s new, like I was,” Daniels said. “Just be able to help them. Be a friend on-campus.”

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Members of the Greater Fort Worth Community Band perform for students, faculty and staff Feb. 20 in Martin Hall. The band played an ar-ray of songs, including the National Anthem by Francis Scott Key, Four Scottish Dances by Malcolm Arnold, Lux Aurumque by Eric Whitacre, The Girl I Left Behind Me arranged by Leroid Anderson, Pineapple Poll by Sir Arthur Sullivan and Little English Girl by D. Delle Cese.

Made up of 58 members and con-ducted by Henry Schraub and Don Hanna, the band travels to different schools around the Fort Worth area.

They will return to perform at Texas Wesleyan on April 10 and May 8 in Martin Hall. Admission is free to all students, staff and faculty.

Community band presents classics

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

— Thomas Jefferson

What do you think about texting while driving?

“I think texting while driving is very dangerous, because it causes wrecks.”

- Broderic Terry,food service

“I think texting while driving is as bad, if not worse than drunk driving.”

- Georgina Arzate, freshman,english

“ It’s not good at all because you can get easily distracted.”

- Marie Tachie, freshman, exercise science

“Texting while driving is bad, because it takes your focus off the road.”

- Evanay Lopez, freshman,chemistry

“I think texting and driving is bad because alot of teens die from it every year.”

- Komarne Hassel,freshman, sports medicine

“I text while I drive so I guess it’s okay as long as you’re safe with it.”

- Stephanie, junior,biology

Equal effort in classroom makes difference

Each semester as classes begin, like many returning students, I am eager to find out what my sections have in store for me and how they will benefit my goals and ambi-tions.

The professor usually begins class by reviewing the syllabus and informing the class of his ex-pectations for the semester.

Then, somewhere between the

course description, weight of each assignment and the im-portance of attending class, the phrase, “As long as I pass,” is uttered from the lips of a student. Suddenly, attention is focused exclusively on the pro-fessor.

Everyone is wondering if the word teamwork is going to be mentioned.

Those students that only have an interest in surviving make it difficult on the rest of the class, especially if there is group work involved.

Tension builds and just before the end of the introduction, the teacher announces that there will be a group assignment that will

be worth a substantial portion of your grade.

Students immediately begin choosing teammates and those who don’t have friends in the class find themselves in a group with an individual who doesn’t really care.

Deciding on furthering an edu-cation beyond the high school level is a decision you would think is made to improve one’s career possibilities.

Understanding how some-one would settle to simply pass a course is something that baffles me, especially since most jobs are looking for graduates with at least a 3.0 GPA.

Now, as group projects begin later in the semester, the individual who

doesn’t really care whether they re-ceive an A, B, C or D in the class ei-ther does absolutely nothing, or just goes through the motions.

An even worse scenario is cre-ated when the less motivated stu-dent begins contributing to the group only to avoid having to argue his case with the profes-sor, even though the other group members can attest to his or her lack of participation.

Still, the contributions made clearly lack both time and effort, and he will continue to argue oth-erwise.

This forces other members of the group to either pick up the loose ends or avoid the headache that comes with rejecting the

teammate’s contributions. Perhaps, these students don’t

understand that their lack of effort not only affects their learning, but has a direct impact on everyone in the class.

It deprives their peers of the opportunity to learn from their knowledge and experiences, which spoils the project.

I know that each one of us, as college students, is watching the job market, wondering what the outlook will be when we graduate.

So, everyone should be willing to contribute.

We can truly set ourselves apart from any other school if we sim-ply allow others to learn from our experiences.

Split ceremony spoils graduation for students

There’s a countdown under-way for my glory days, and the countdown reads 85 days. That’s right, 85 days until graduation and I couldn’t be more excited.

Since it’s just around the corner I’ve been hustling to get everything done—from applying for graduation, to finding a mentor who will robe me, to turning my infor-mation into the alumni office.

I can’t believe that very soon I will be calling myself an alumna of Texas Wesleyan University.

Graduation is the day that I have been looking forward to for a really long time. Homecoming, prom and high school graduation were just

miniscule stepping-stones to the path that I am now on and will complete in May.

Unfortunately, if things go as planned, I will be very disappointed.

I was not pleased to hear that our spring 2011 graduation would be split, with my de-partment graduating at 4:30 p.m.

Nobody is even out of work at the time. It’s upsetting to think that I may not be able to have my family and friends at my own graduation.

We’ll walk the stage and be rushed out to clear the way for the second round of gradu-ates. I’m sorry but I would like to be given the opportunity to bask in my success for a while with my classmates and fam-ily.

The other thing I am upset about is that I barely know anyone in my own depart-

ment. Maybe that is my fault, but I want to graduate with my peers and the people I have grown to know and love, not just the other students that have the same career path as me. I wish I could vouch for the rest of the graduating class of 2011, but it may be too early to tell.

This is upsetting and almost sucks the excitement out of the entire event. I hope ad-ministration will reconsider.

I don’t think we are the right group to be used as guinea pigs.

If it’s more tickets that stu-dents want, I think the venue should be reconsidered or the issue should be addressed more clearly with students.

In my opinion, this gradu-ating class is the closest I have seen.

We are such a tight knit family; I believe that a fam-ily should walk together and graduate together as a school, as one—as Rams.

Terrence EdwardsAdvertising managertdedwards@mail.txwes.edu

Angie RuizStaff writerayruiz@mail.txwes.edu

Staying in touch while driving not worth risk

Texting while driving is one of the most dangerous things a per-son can do, but a large number of people of college age admit to do-ing it.

In a story recently published on a legal blog, I learned about a tragic example of what can happen to drivers who text behind the wheel.

Ashley Johnson, a 10th grader from North Carolina was driv-ing her BMW when she received a text message on her cell phone. Seconds later, her car crossed the center-line and hit a pick-up truck on the other side head on.

Several days later, Johnson was dead. She passed away due to in-ternal injuries she sustained in her car accident. Johnson was an ex-ceptional student working towards her associate’s degree already.

Texting and driving is something plenty of people fall victim to, my-self included.

I find myself texting while I am driving about half of the time I am in the car. When I think about it,

it worries me because I do not pay attention to the road, and sometimes even miss my turn because I am more concerned with what I am reading and writing.

I don’t know if what I have to say in those texts is that important, but I seem to do it

all the time along with many other people. According to handsfreeinfo.com, people who text while driving, are 23 times more likely to be in-volved in a deadly car accident than those who are not. Some even say that texting while driving is worse than drunk driving.

Although I text and drive, I think there should be harsher punish-ments for those caught texting and driving.

School zones statewide now re-strict phone use while driving through one, and San Antonio has now banned texting and driving completely; ticketing starting Jan. 14, 2011.

I think the Fort Worth commu-nity should do the same thing be-cause too many people are dying and causing accidents while they are looking at their phones.

Text messages are not important enough to endanger someone’s life. Along with texting and driving, I think new car models are enabling such distractions as well.

New car models with On-Star now have a Facebook status update option where the driver can push their On-Star button and request their Facebook status updates.

A driver who is worried about his Facebook is not concerned about what is in front of him.

Although constant updates in our lives can be important, safety

and the protection of human life is way more important.

Texting and driving is not worth losing your life, nor is it worth tak-ing someone else’s.

Emma FradetteOpinion editorekfradette@mail.txwes.edu

News

Melissa Batesmdbates@mail.txwes.edu

During free period Feb. 14 in the Bobby Bragan Fellowship Hall, stu-dents put a face to the opinions they expressed in the recent Quality En-hancement Plan online survey.

Eighteen students arrived to share Pizza Hut pizza and discuss ideas they have to improve student learning. This was one of many focus groups. Other groups were made up of faculty or staff.

Professor of English and chair of the QEP team, Elizabeth Battles, said the reason for these focus groups is to get further input from students, faculty and staff to choose a topic for the QEP.

“We have to get input from all the different constituencies to choose a topic because the topic has to be something the university agrees on,” Battles said. “In order to agree on something you all have to be involved in the choosing of it,”

She said ultimately the QEP team may not even pick a topic discussed by the focus groups, but it is best to have as much input as possible.

Battles said the Texas Wesleyan ac-crediting agency, the Commission on College of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, requires ev-ery college to give students, faculty and staff the opportunity to partici-pate in choosing the topic they use.

“As many people as possible need to have a voice,” Battles said.

She said the importance of hearing

from everybody in choosing the topic is to understand why people choose the answers they do when taking sur-veys.

“We want to be better,” Battles said. “We want to have a better prepared student.”

Associate Provost Helena Bussell said surveys do not always get the de-sired number of responders nor do the surveys provide an understanding of the reasoning behind the choice of answers.

“The focus groups help us to reach more students and create a diversity of students,” Bussell said. “We’re trying to see if there are certain common topics the majority of people talk about that they feel need improvement.”

Bussell said the QEP team is seek-ing a topic or issue that can be tackled realistically.

She said more variety of students needs to participate in surveys con-cerning improvements to student learning.

“The more we can get to par-ticipate, the better,” Bussell said. “We don’t want just freshmen or just traditional age students. We want transfer students, graduate students a variety of ages and aca-demic programs are represented as well.”

Michelle Rigual, director of the law library, professor of law and QEP team committee member, said surveys are not controllable because the responses cannot be expanded upon.

“You can’t really ask anything in-depth or probing,” she said. “Free response seems to not even be in complete English. It’s re-ally important to talk to people so you can hear the totality of what they’re thinking. Not short hand versions of it.”

Rigual said if responders be-

lieves the survey to be too long or uninteresting they may stop taking the survey causing the information to be useless. She also said people seem to provide more information when speaking to a human and not checking boxes.

“What I’ve learned since do-ing them is that people are much

more willing to share a lot of in-formation with you as an indi-vidual maybe because they prefer the personal interaction or maybe because there’s a sense of someone actually cares about the answer,” Rigual said. “Definitely people have provided a lot more informa-tion than they did on the survey.”

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and senior vice president, said Wesleyan’s size allows stu-dents to participate, become leaders, form friendships as well as develop character and other personal qualities that will help them succeed in the future.

One program only offered locally at Texas Christian Uni-versity and Texas Wesleyan, is the Air Force ROTC program.

“I came [to Wesleyan] be-cause I got a scholarship for ROTC,” Kelsi Holland, fresh-man political science major said.

Wesleyan also offers a va-

riety of sports for athletes on campus to become a part of—some offering partial and full scholarships.

“I was recruited from Southwest Christian for track,” Deserae Davis, sopho-more exercise science major said.

Focusing on more than just academics, faculty and staff at Wesleyan have been trying to

make Wesleyan a more enjoy-able full college experience for on-campus and commuter students both.

“I think that’s really what our mission is all about—making sure we prepare our students appropriately, intel-lectually through their class-room experience, but also so-cially and community wise,” Bleibdrey said.

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QEP team still on hunt for topic

Meisa Keivani Najafabadi | Rambler Staff(from left) Junior Dominique Chambers, senior Donna Becker and junior Melinda Garner share Pizza Hut pizza at one of many Quality Enhancement Plan focus group sessions. Students at the session were able to voice and expand upon the suggestions they’d expressed in a survey given online earlier in the semester.

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We all have that guilty pleasure show (or two…or ten) that we hate to admit we actually sit down and waste valuable time watching.

But hey—everyone needs those getaway shows. They can’t all be as complex as LOST, as deep as Dexter, or as intriguing as Big Love.

For me, pretty much all shows on MTV take the cake for mindless, yet oddly entertaining, television viewing.

Now three episodes into its second season, My Life as Liz has sucked me back into the college life of the red-headed Liz Lee—who has just start-ed her journey toward an art degree at Pratt Institute in New York, a long way away from her Burleson, Texas home.

The show currently airs at 8 p.m. Tuesdays on MTV.

Oddly, it was originally intended to be a second season for The Paper, a series that originally premiered on MTV in 2008 and centered on a high school newspaper staff.

But, halfway through production for the second season, the producers liked Liz so much, that they turned the focus to her and renamed the show.

In the current season, Liz is seen wandering around New York City aimlessly quite often. Like most re-ality shows, the viewer has to won-der just how much of it is actually happening, and what’s too much of a coincidence to be real.

In the second season premiere, while Liz is digging through a dump-ster for a “found art” class project, the random (and attractive) Louis appears out of the woodworks, im-mediately striking up a conversation

with Liz, who is still elbow deep in garbage.

Moments later, Liz and the view-ers find out that Louis is a musician. And even though she has a semi-boyfriend 2,000 miles away in Tex-as, Liz doesn’t hesitate to accept his invitation to get coffee.

Who knew hanging out in a dump-ster was a good way to meet guys?

Even though I am completely taken with the show, the biggest trip-up for me has been the forced awkwardness of Liz.

From the editing, it would seem like producers want viewers to be-lieve she’s the nerdy, ugly duckling

from her former high school. In the first season, she even has a

nerd heard to tag along with for social gatherings.

Yet, Liz herself is not really that un-fortunate looking, and almost pulls off a strange, yet interesting retro look.

My guess is that the rest of this sec-ond season will concentrate on her inner conflict with being attracted to Louis, who must not live far con-sidering they conveniently run into each other quite often—and her re-lationship with Bryson, the ‘NSYNC wannabe boyfriend back in Texas.

Too bad she hasn’t realized Bryson has the personality of cardboard yet.

The decision between the two really is quite easy. Really.

But hey, who doesn’t love a good love triangle? Although, I feel like I’ve been ripped off Pretty In Pink style, in which the cooler, richer guy gets the girl instead of the Ducky-esque best friend who’s al-ways there for her.

Back home, Liz has yet to realize her best friend, Sully, is head over heels in love with her.

Again, conveniently, MTV makes sure to point out that the round, cuddly, sweet Sully will never be a viable romantic option for Liz.

On the current season, the poor

guy has been reduced to running af-ter Bryson in Houston, to convince him to travel the long distance to visit a sad sounding Liz.

His only other scenes include a nauseating amount of Star Wars ref-erences, and an awkward array of Pokemon t-shirts. Apparently Pika-chu is still in fashion.

Overall, this show is one of the best MTV has, which may not be saying too much for some people.

But hey, at least we got one where every other scene is not a drunken couple wandering off to the “smush room,” or a 16-year -old with a baby, no money and a loser baby’s daddy.

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Los Pastores serves up traditional mealsStephanie Mejiasmejia@mail.txwes.edu

East Rosedale Street in Fort Worth’s Polytechnic Heights area has seen its share of businesses through-out the years.

Driving down East Rose-dale Street reveals older shops, such as Burge’s Hard-ware that has been in busi-ness since the early 1900s.

However, East Rosedale is also home to a newer wave of businesses.

One such business is Los Pastores Mexican Restau-rant. Los Pastores has been in business in the Poly area for 14 years.

The restaurant began with a taco stand in the ’90s and was the vision and creation of Rosario Villalpando.

Los Pastores is mostly a family-run business and will eventually fall in the hands of Nellie Villalpando,

daughter of Rosario Villal-pando.

“My dad had a taco stand for about five years before opening the restaurant,” Villalpando said.

Before becoming a res-taurant, the building was a house and was half the size it is now.

“When my dad first start-ed he didn’t know anything about business,” Villalpando said. “But eventually the whole family got involved.”

Villalpando, who works as a cashier and waitress at the restaurant, has been spending time at her father’s restaurant since she was 12 years old.

“I used to come here on the weekends and I hated it,” Villalpando said. “But now I’m glad to be learning the family business.”

Los Pastores offers a va-riety of egg-based breakfast items including Mexican-

style eggs and eggs and ham or sausage for $5.99 or less.

The restaurant also serves seafood, such as shrimp to-stadas, shrimp cocktail and breaded catfish fillets for prices ranging from $3.99 to $10.99.

As if that was not enough, Los Pastores also offers a selection of tacos, tortas, burritos and gorditas. Each can be ordered in differ-ent meats, including beef, chicken or pork and range in price from $1.35 to $5.55.

Blanca Navarette, a cook and baker, has been work-ing at Los Pastores for 12 years and has noticed that customers mostly come in looking for fajitas or tacos.

“Every once in a while people come in asking for queso or nachos and we don’t have that because it’s more Tex-Mex,” Villalpando said. “We serve authentic Mexican food.”

The restaurant then ex-panded to include a bakery and meat shop by the same name. All three businesses are next to each other on East Rosedale Street.

Although the bakery opens at 5 a.m. the bakers start their work at 3 a.m. in order

to put out fresh, made from scratch bread every day.

The bakery offers a vari-ety of traditional Mexican breads and pastries, includ-ing donuts and churros.

The bakery also offers a variety of already-made or specialty-ordered cakes, in-cluding the traditional fla-vors of chocolate, strawberry and vanilla, and the more diverse flavors of neopolitan and mocha.

Mary Alvarez, an em-ployee at Los Pastores for six years, said the bakery is busy year-round, but the busiest time is during holi-days such as Thanksgiving and Mother’s Day.

“Our specialty is the three milk cake,” Alvarez said. “It is made from a family recipe.”

The meat shop, which has now been in business for three years, was the most recent of the Los Pastores businesses to open.

“We’re expanding. Maybe we’ll be the whole block eventually,” Villalpando said.

Los Pastores Mexican res-taurant is located at 3806 E. Rosedale St. The bakery is located next door at 3812 E. Rosedale St. and the meat shop is at 3822 E. Rosedale St.

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Alyssum Power | Rambler StaffLos Pastores’ bakery, located at 3812 E. Rosedale St. offers customers a variety of Mexican breads and pastries, including donuts and churros. José González (top) prepares a cake.

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One of the most important responsibilities a dog owner faces is the selection of which dog food to buy. There are several brands to select from which come at a wide range of prices. Selecting the right dog food can be a difficult decision for an uninformed con-sumer to make.

While higher-quality food comes at a higher price, the benefits far exceed the in-convenience of spending a few more bucks.

“You’ll notice the difference in their coat, and there will be less feces to pick up,” said Lindsey Nuncio, kennel technician for Fort

Worth Animal Care and Control.Using a higher-quality food will keep your

dog healthy and cut down on vet bills. Your dog will live a longer, healthier life if kept on proper nutrition.

“Overall, proper nutrition is part of being a responsible dog owner,” Nuncio said.

Some of the better dog foods include brands such as Blue Buffalo Co., Nature’s Recipe and Royal Canin. One employee at a local Petsmart claims the best brand in the store is the Blue Buffalo Co.

“Blue Buffalo is best because of the ingre-dients,” said Ray Ybarra, a Petsmart associ-ate. “The worse foods contain filler [ingredi-ents] and beef by-products.”

Filler ingredients like corn or wheat have little or no nutritional value but are included strictly to add volume to the meal.

One thing to remember is ingredients are always listed on the bag in the order of most prevalent to least. In other words, the first

three ingredients are the most important. The first one should always be the source of protein, usually chicken or fish. If it is corn, you’re wasting your money on food that will only pass.

The more food that passes through rather than being absorbed by the body, the more feces ends up in your backyard.

Another ingredient that separates the good food from the bad is wheat. Most of the high-quality foods will avoid using wheat and use rice or barley instead.

A lot of dogs are allergic to wheat, and us-ing the wrong food could mean a trip to the vet for a variety of reasons.

Dogs usually have skin and coat issues or may avoid eating the food altogether. If your dog scratches a lot, but doesn’t have fleas, see if the food contains wheat and switch brands if it does.

If you do decide to switch to a higher-quality brand, remember this could cause

nausea and vomiting if not done properly.It is usually recommended to mix the old

food with the new food for about a week. Use a mixture of 75 percent old food to 25 percent new food for the first two days, 50-50 the next two, then 25 percent old to 75 percent new the last two days. This method allows the dog’s stomach to adapt to the change easily.

The old adage certainly says it best, “You get what you pay for.” But that does not mean the most expensive food is what’s best for your dog. There are some good brands that balance value with cost. For example, Pro Plan, which usually sells for about half the cost of Blue Buf-falo, uses chicken or salmon as a primary in-gredient and contains no corn.

The most important thing to remember is to read the ingredients on the bag, and know what you’re feeding your dog.

This is the fourth story in a series.

Rachel Peel | Rambler StaffEight-year-old Hunter plays cards with his father Edgar at the Salvation Army shelter at 1355 E. Lancaster Ave. in Fort Worth. The SA provides many programs for its clients to take part in includ-ing counseling services, bill paying assistance and anger management classes.

Salvation Army lacks volunteers, itemsRachel Peelrlpeel@mail.txwes.edu

Winter weather has left the local Salvation Army in Polytechnic Heights out of resources to meet client demands.

The local Salvation Army, located at 1855 E. Lan-caster Ave., is in need of volunteers, plus size cloth-ing, socks, underwear and gloves.

“Most clients stay in other locations, when its warmer outside, so we open up in inclement weather for those who camp or sleep under bridges or in their cars. We open up overflow space, so they can have a warm place to sleep,” said Deborah Bullock, program manager at the Mabee Center.

The Salvation Army pro-

vides three warm meals a day and hot beverages for the homeless. If the temper-ature is below 45 degrees, the shelter opens its gym to allow clients to take refuge from the cold.

They also provide spiritu-al needs as well as counsel-ing programs for drug and alcohol dependency.

“We all work together, just making sure the clients have somewhere safe to be,” Bullock said.

While reaching out to counseling and spiritual needs, the center also pro-vides clothes, shelter and food for its clients.

“Some of our greatest needs are gloves, socks, un-derwear, just those simple things,” Bullock said. “We can always use blankets, sheets and towels too.”

The Salvation Army also needs volunteers who have special skills in kitchen help, mentors, janitorial services and landscaping.

“People don’t realize that one of the main things that our community needs is a smiling face, just to let someone know that some-one is there for them and they care,” Bullock said.

The Salvation Army also provides case management to get clients into long-term programs, anger manage-ment, women’s support groups and many other pro-grams as well.

“Anybody that can sing or has music skills, that would like to help out with the church, we could use that too,” said Major Elizabeth Anderson, chaplain for the local Salvation Army.

Long-term benefits of proper pet nutrition outweigh costs

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Advocates assist in student retentionMelissa Batesmdbates@mail.txwes.edu

The Advocates are a set of professors who aim to make Wesleyan more than a place where students learn.

Assistant Religion Pro-fessor and Advocate Mark Hanshaw said, “The people that wind up being involved in Learning Communities and The Advocates Pro-gram, they are individuals who really just have a very strong interest in the suc-cess and well-being and, ultimately, increasing the strengths of new students on campus.”

Hanshaw said each stu-dent has to take the College Student Inventory assess-ment test when assigned to an Advocate.

The CSI test is used to as-sess each student’s strengths and weaknesses and com-pare those scores to stu-dents’ all over the country.

“That really is our pur-pose, to help each and every freshman student become the very best student that he or she can be,” Hanshaw said.

The Advocates Program spent three years in a devel-opment phase but didn’t get started until fall 2009 when it had a trial run, Hanshaw said. Fall 2010 was the first time it was fully implement-ed.

There are other programs at other schools that may share similarities with the program but Advocates is unique to Wesleyan.

Visiting Religion Profes-sor and Advocate Gladys Childs said, “We want to see them succeed, although success does not mean they have to have straight As.”

Childs said she believes the Advocates helps to make a student’s stay at Wesleyan purposeful and meaningful.

Childs said students may be uncomfortable ap-proaching a professor they are in a class with when they have a problem.

The student may feel more comfortable approaching an Advocate because the stu-dent is not being graded by the Advocate, Childs said.

Assistant Criminal Jus-tice Professor and Advocate Greg Gullion said, “We play a very valuable part here at Wesleyan in helping incom-ing freshmen, because it’s all about retention. We can get them, but keeping them here and retaining those students is what’s important.”

The university received a Title III grant award of $2 million from the U.S. De-partment of Education in 2007.

Director of grants and re-search Deborah Roark said, “We had a full blown plan of how we would spend it to help increase retention and graduation rates and aca-demic scores and that kind of thing.”

The Advocates and Learn-ing Communities are part of one of the four areas Wes-leyan has deemed as major focus areas—the other three being advising strategies,

state-of-the-art technology and a Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.

Roark said having a learn-ing coach or advocate helps to strengthen retention measures at universities.

“That’s what Wesleyan is all about—helping students and personal attention,” Roark said.

Roark said last fall the Advocates Program gained a new freshman advocate, Childs, as well as a trans-fer student advocate, Lisa Hensley, assistant psychol-ogy professor.

“The transfer population is typically different than the freshman population,” Roark said.

Normally, transfer stu-dents already have their as-sociate’s degree and already know what is required to be successful in college, Roark said. Transfer students may not need as much attention and help as freshmen.

Carol Johnson-Gerendas, visiting assistant professor of communication and Ad-vocate said she thinks the expansion of Advocates to transfer students would be helpful.

“It might be nice for them to have an advocate who’s outside of their major that they can go to and share any issues they may be experi-encing,” she said. “I think we can’t support our stu-dents enough.”

For more information on the Advocates Program, vis-it www.txwes.edu/advising/Advocates.htm.

Erica Estrada | Rambler Staff

Alyssum Poweraapower@mail.txwes.edu

South Fort Worth’s histori-cal Fairmont district houses some of the oldest homes in the city.

Among all the houses are buildings full of Fort Worth history—one of which is not far from Ram territory at 1801 College Ave.

Ralph Watterson, owner of Old Home Supply, has not only been selling antiques but restoring them since 1985.

Watterson started as a con-tractor who specialized in his-toric restoration. At the time, most of the contractors in the Dallas Fort Worth area did not specialize in restoring old homes.

Watterson quickly found himself collecting light fix-tures, hardware and doors for his own business. Before he knew it, Watterson had garag-es and storage buildings full of antiques.

As time went on, Watterson collected enough to start his own business. After leaving the contracting business, Wat-terson said he found himself fascinated with the antique business.

“Antiques are important be-cause they are part of our his-tory and our heritage,” Wat-terson said.

Old Home Supply con-sists of three buildings. Each

building contains differ-ent types of antiques. The main building was built in 1927 and was once a grocery store.

Now customers will find chandeliers, sinks, tubs, light-ing and other home decor.

The second building was once a drug store, but now houses doors, mantles and household hardware.

The third building, once a bakery, is now home to gar-den items, such as fountains, benches, birdbaths, pots, Mexican imports and Indian imports.

Old Home Supply tries to go beyond the average an-tique shop by salvaging and recycling architectural items. Most of the lighting fixtures have been rewired, the finish-es replaced and then cleaned.

To keep customers com-ing back, Watterson keeps the place stocked with new and different items.

Watterson makes frequent trips to Laredo and San Miguel.

A good portion of the an-tiques comes from old houses in Fort Worth too.

“At Old Home Supply we of-fer an old feel to a new home,” said Caryl Catalde, employee at Old Home Supply.

Old Home Supply works hand in hand with many photographers, allowing them to freely take pictures of the antiques.

Old Home Supply also works with local colleges, mostly art departments look-ing for doors and other an-tique items to paint and re-store.

Discounted rates are usually given to these departments.

Old Home Supply is open 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sundays. It has continued to maintain its role in the community.

“It’s not uncommon to see some of the locals come in for coffee regularly,” Catalde said. “We have a good relationship with the neighborhood.”

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Get ready to make the trip to Waxahachie for the RRAC Basketball

Tournament!

March 3-5

PhysAssit Recruiters will be on campus They are hiring for business, biology, pre-med and exercise science majors

March 1 10:30 - 1:15pm Library

Over 150 jobs are now posted on Career Link

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Job recruiters on campus year roundTexas Wesleyan Career Services

Phone:817.531.6512Fax: 817.531.4980

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“Izzy”Age: 1 year

Primary Breed: American BunnyIzzy is already spayed and requires a cage, bed-

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contact:Humane Society of North Texas

1840 E. Lancaster Ave. Fort Worth, TX

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“Lacey”Age: 2 years

Primary Breed: Border CollieLacey requires training and a loving home.

She would fit in an active home with plenty of exercise and a consistent owner.

For more information on adopting Lacey, contact:

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Fellow students,

This past week the Student Government met to conduct some very important business on your behalf. First, we participated in a QEP focus group.

It was important that your government participate in this focus group and offer their opinions, on your behalf. Thank you Dr. Battles for coming by.

Next, the Student Government approved three new student organizations; a music fra-ternity, a local social sorority and a club for our veterans.

All three of these organizations represent very important groups here on campus. I wish them the very best. Lastly, the Student Government passed a proposal, in the amount of $7,000, to be the principal sponsor of University College Day 2011. I hope it will be an experience to remember.

If you ever need anything visit our offices down “organization row” on the second floor of O.C . Armstrong Hall. In the mean time, I will see you around!

Heath A. Scott89th President

Campus update with SGA

Antique shop offers variety for students

Photos by Alyssum Power | Rambler StaffThe Old Home Supply in south Fort Worth offers a variety of antiques for collectors. Owner Ralph Watterson said they work very closely with local schools and also allow students to come in and take photos of different artifacts for class assignments and projects.

Ram fans show support

Rachel Peel | Rambler StaffThe Ram baseball team shows their support for the men’s basketball team in their game against the Louisiana State University Shreveport Pilots Feb. 14. The Rams pulled out a 77-66 win against the Pilots, sealing the no. 1 position in the Red River Athletic Conference.

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Softball in full swing Emma Fradetteekfradette@mail.txwes.edu

The Texas Wesleyan softball team played Feb. 18-19 at the Cowtown Classic where they went 2 of 3 for their first home games of the season.

The action started with the Lady Rams play-ing Sterling College at 9 a.m. Friday and nab-bing a big win with a score of 14-4. The Lady Warriors scored two runs early in the top of the first, but the Lady Rams did not back down. Christina Kelley, junior first base, had a base hit followed by freshman Lindsay Cline, first and third base, who had a hit to center field giving the Lady Rams a run.

In the same inning, senior catcher Haley But-ler drove a hit into left field putting the team up 3-2.

By the bottom of the third, the Lady Rams ran the score to seven with a two base home-run from junior outfielder Marissa Rangel. Along with Rangel, Kelley, Butler and Cline also con-tributed homers in the bottom of the fourth that bought the Lady Rams a 10 run win.

The Lady Rams took on Baker University that same day. Head women’s softball coach Shannon Gower said her team played excellent defense throughout the whole game with great catches by junior outfielder Makelle Akin. Rangel also had a timely center field catch in the bottom of the fourth.

Despite the great defensive efforts by the Lady Rams, in the sixth inning, the Lady Warriors scored a run off a single hit making the score 1-0. Rangel made a crucial catch in center field off a pop fly that held a runner to second base followed by Akin’s catch from right field, but Baker took the 3-0 win.

The Lady Rams advanced early against Evan-gel in game three for the day. Rangel hit a single making it to second base when Moreno fol-lowed with a bunt. With an overthrow error from Evangel, Rangel stole home making the score 1-0.

However, Evangel refused to go down eas-ily with a two base homer in the bottom of the first closing the lead to 2-1. Despite a run from Moreno, score now 4-2, the Lady Rams never recovered the win losing 6-2.

“I watched all the games on Friday and really enjoyed watching the team,” senior mass com-munication major Shayla Moore said. “They cheered for each other and never gave up. The Lady Rams showed tremendous Wesleyan pride.”

The Wesleyan softball team picked it up again Feb. 19 as they beat Graceland University. The Yellowjackets scored early, but the Lady Rams

retaliated in the second inning with a double from Akin and a single run by Rangel.

At the bottom of the third, Hopie Perez, ju-nior short stop, hit a two-base run that gave the Lady Rams a 3-2 lead. They continued their lead throughout the game with hits from Akin, Kel-ley and Rangel and took the win with 10-4.

The last game the Lady Rams participated in during the Cowtown Classic was again against Evangel. The Lady Crusaders, in the first inning, scored three runs against the Lady Rams, and in the second inning, added another run to make it 4-0. Ashley Seibel, freshman second basemen, hit a run in the sixth inning.

The Lady Rams fought hard in the seventh in-ning with a double from Rangel and a homerun from Moreno, bringing them to within one run at 5-4.

The Lady Rams never took the lead and lost to Evangel a second time.

“Throughout the whole weekend, we played with great team chemistry and played together,” Rangel said.

“The main thing we need to work on is con-sistency,” Gower said. “We need to be consistent in all areas. Some games we are dominant on of-fense and aren’t in defense.”

The Lady Rams next game will be Feb. 25-26 as they travel to Chickasha, Okla. to take on Avi-la University and Lubbock Christian University.

Men’s basketball takes no. 1 in conferenceEliana Mijangosemmijangos@mail.txwes.edu

The Rams beat Louisiana State University Shreveport in overtime to break a tie for the no. 1 spot in the Red River Athletic Conference Feb. 14 in the Sid Richardson Center.

The Rams came out strong with a 9-0 run, frustrating the Pilots early with a tough man-to-man defense causing three Pilots turnovers.

At the 13-minute mark, Bryce Hill, junior guard, went on a five-point run sparked by a 3-pointer. This gave the Rams a 10-point lead that they maintained going into halftime 24-14.

LSU Shreveport, ranked no. 4 in the nation, turned it on in the sec-ond half determined to hold their no. 1 spot in conference.

The Pilots closed the lead to 49-47 at 8:45 as the Rams allowed for sec-ond chance shots, failing to crash the boards.

Brian Wanamaker, senior guard, got fouled on a break-away and hit one of his two free throws to spark a 3-point run.

This play was followed by a re-bound and assist by Hill to Jeremy Mayfield, senior post, for a slam dunk. Shreveport answered with a 3-pointer to tie the score at 55 with 4:50 left in the game.

With 1:03 left in the game, the Rams were down 60-59. Wanamak-er hit an NBA 3-point shot to give the Rams a 2-point lead.

Shreveport’s post got a shot at the basket that Ty Gough, senior post, rejected but couldn’t rebound, and Shreveport tied up the game to go into overtime play 62-62.

Overtime was a slow start for both teams as Wanamaker started a run for the Rams with a 3-pointer at 3:20, putting Wesleyan up 65-62.

Gough hit a free-throw after tak-ing a hard foul and Jonathan Blake, senior guard, contributed a 3-point-er at 1:30 as the shot clock ran down to 5 seconds.

In the end, the Rams, no. 6 in the nation, silenced the Pilots 77-66 sealing Texas Wesleyan’s place in the Red River Athletic Conference as no. 1.

“It feels good to be number one,” Wanamaker said. “We know, how-ever, that every team is going to give us their best shot knowing they can ruin our chance at becoming con-ference champs, so we have to stay focused.”

Wanamaker set a new school re-cord for single game percentage mark as he shot 16-16 from the line and finished with 27-points, leading all scorers. The previous record was set by Jason Nealson in the 1998-99

season in which he went 11-11 from free-throw line.

“We have been working hard all year and it’s finally paying off,” May-field said.

He finished with a double-double, 16-points and 11 rebounds.

“I think the senior leadership and play of our normal rotation guys like Wanamaker, Mayfield, Smith, Blake, and Gough was instrumental in staying composed and executing in that type of game,” head men’s basketball coach Terry Waldrop said.

Hill finished with 12 points while Blake raked in 10, only to be fol-lowed by Jeremy Smith, senior point guard’s, 6 points and 11 assists.

Brian McDaniel | Rambler StaffAshley Tarrant, senior right-hand pitcher, was honored with the Daktronics-NAIA softball scholar-athletes award for maintaining a GPA of 3.5 or higher and achieving excellence on the field. At the Cowtown Classic, Tarrant had seven strike outs against Evangel Feb. 18 at Sycamore Park

Meisa Keivani Najafabadi | Rambler StaffTaylor Jockers, junior outfielder, takes off to first base after a solid single-base hit against University of Texas at Brownsville Feb. 19 at La Grave Field. The Rams took a 2-0 win in game one of the double-header and 5-2 win in game two.

Texas Wesleyan 0 (4-4,2-2 RRAC) Player ab rr h rbi

Jockers, Taylor cf 3 0 1 0

Epperson, Eric rf 3 0 0 0

Lassiter, Joseph 2b 3 0 0 0

Tabone, Charles c 3 0 2 0

McFadden, Garrett pr 0 0 0 0

Niedwiecki, Stephen dh 3 0 0 0

Padron, Justin 1b 2 0 0 0

Soberanes, Christian ss 2 0 0 0

Arocha, Chris 3b 2 0 1 0

Winter, Vincent lf 2 0 1 0

Vaughn, Derek p 0 0 0 0

Totals 23 0 5 0

Player ab rr h rbi

Camorlinga, Jorge cf 3 0 0 0

Fernandez, Joel 3b 3 0 0 0

Warner, Matt lf 3 0 0 0

Ginn, Matt 1b 3 1 0 0

Fanaselle, Felix ss 2 0 1 0

Maldonado, Peter rf 2 1 1 1

Henggeler, Gus c 2 0 1 0

Regehr, Brad pr 0 0 0 0

Puente, Gilberto dh 3 0 1 0

Loftis, Nick 2b 2 0 0 0

Miller, Adam ph 1 0 1 0

Gidora, Danny p 0 0 0 0

Totals 24 2 5 1

UT-Brownsville 2 (9-1,4-0 RRAC)

Rams baseball takes double-header