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The dead inherited downtown Wichita Falls on Oct. 27, as the third annual Wichita Falls Zom-bie Crawl and 5K took place near the Farmer’s Market Square.

The event was sponsored by a number of local businesses, many with booths set up to sell or pro-mote themselves, and the pro-ceeds benefited the Downtown Proud organization, as well as the American Red Cross.

“All of the profits from our merchandise, like the Zombie Crawl T-shirts, go straight to the American Red Cross,” Media Coordinator Teri Stalee said. “As well as a portion of the 5K regis-tration fee.”

Several students got involved with the planning and produc-tion of this event.

“I volunteered with Delta Sim-ga Pi registering people for the 5K,” Senior Accounting major Dustin Casey said. “This is the second year I’ve volunteered for this event, and it’s probably the most fun I’ve had at a volunteer event. You always see something new, exciting and interesting.”

The Halloween event began at 4:30 p.m. and included a num-ber of events that celebrated the holiday including a costume con-test, free concert from four area bands, a rib-eating contest and a flash mob put on by Dance, Etc.

One of the main attractions that MSU students got involved in was the art contest, sponsored by the Wichita Falls Downtown

Art Gallery.Students and residents of

Wichita Falls were encouraged to enter the contest by Oct. 15, with voting taking place on the Zombie Crawl’s official Facebook page until Oct. 26.

The theme of the contest was “creepy” to fit the Halloween holiday, but the event called for zombie-related material.

Computer Science majors Lauren Rios, a senior, and Zack Shanks, a sophomore, collaborat-ed on the best-in-show winning piece “Technology Zombies.”

“Everybody could do whatever media they wanted, except for sculptures,” Rios said. “So Zack and I put together a digital media piece using Photoshop and other programs.”

“We came up with the idea of how people walk around like zombies when they’re on their phones,” Shanks added. “We took a bunch of pictures of our friends, put different skin tones on them and we cropped them all and put them in background pictures and made it look dark.”

Rios and Shanks both attended the event last year and said they were looking forward to attend-ing and getting involved with this year’s event.

“I came out last year, and had a lot of fun,” Rios said. “I was so excited to take part in [the Zom-bie Crawl] this year. I’m here to support only, since I’m not a run-ner, but I made sure to wear my zombie killer shirt.”

High Expectations While the women’s basketball team wants to improve on their knowledge of the game, men’s basketball coach said the Mustangs are eyeing national gold.

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ZOMBIES pg. 3People dressed as zombies on Saturday during the Zombie crawl.Photo by Kerri Carter

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MaKayla Kinneystaff Writer

Learning to control several psy-chotic breaks and accepting the diagnosis of schizophrenia were two things well-known psycholo-gist and professor Frederick Frese experienced.

On Oct. 25, Frese spoke to fac-ulty and staff about his personal experience with mental illness.

“Just because we’re differ-ent doesn’t mean we’re deficit. Schizophrenia is a hyper ratio-nality at the sacrifice of com-mon sense. I’m not going to be

ashamed of having this condi-tion,” Frese said.

Frese was first diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 25. Since his diagnosis, he has been an ad-vocate for consumers and their families. He is a board member for the National Alliance of Men-tal Illness to provide a support group for the mentally ill and their families.

“Three percent of the popula-tion is subject to mental illness. We will no longer be ashamed of the mental illness in our fami-lies,” Frese said.

Three months before Frese was diagnosed with schizophre-nia, he scored an 810 on the Graduate Record Exam. Even with this lofty score, Frese said it was unlikely for the mentally ill to get a job in the mental health profession.

“The difference with mental health disabilities is it isn’t vis-ible,” Frese said. “One common misconception is that all schizo-phrenics hallucinate. Not all do, but delusions, you have to be careful with them. People with delusions don’t realize what

they’re experiencing is a delu-sion. To them, it’s reality.”

Frese signed a contract with the television show Perception. He has worked with Eric Mc-Cormack, the main character, throughout the production of the series.

“I just inked the contract last week for a show/series. It’s go-ing to be a lot like MASH. This is going to be set in Afghanistan and in a VA hospital where the chief officer has schizophrenia. I don’t get to sign movie contracts every day, so wish me luck,”

Frese said.Along with teaching and prac-

ticing psychology, Frese has writ-ten and published books. He said even though people with mental illness may struggle in some ar-eas, they excel better than the average in others. Frese said, like many other people with schizo-phrenia, his strength was found in writing.

“A lot of folks don’t realize that the mentally ill have some strengths better than average. The folks with these disorders get the signal they cannot be socially

accepted in the real world.”Frese is well-known for his hu-

mor and his ability to make his audiences laugh. His comical na-ture was present and accounted for in both places he spoke on campus.

“In some places, they call me a stand-up schizophrenic,” Frese said.

During the faculty and staff luncheon, Frese talked about na-tional d i s -ability

Frese finds success while battling with schizophrenia

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The route of the 5k took runners through smoke-filled areas like the one pictured above. Photo by Kerri Carter

Today is Halloween and many of you have already been cel-ebrating.

The one time of the year it is pefectly acceptable to slut-it-up and rock some totally outlandish outfit you would never wear oth-erwise.

I am a firm believer in hoein’ out on Halloween. It’s the best thing about it.

So for all you slutty sailors, this shouldn’t affect you much.

What I do not agree with is the concept of trick-or-treating and the whole idea of candy to children.

I live a certain way. I rarely eat sweets, haven’t touched a soda in years. That is my choice. I know not everyone is going to live this way and would never demand people make the same choices I do. I’d hope I am more tolerant than that.

Obesity is a huge problem right now and yes, that pun was intended.

But it is so important in a time where childhood obesity is at an all-time high and health coverage has been such an important part of this election, how can we con-tinue to allow “food” that is so detrimental to people?

The argument is everything is fine in moderation, true. But that is never the case with Hallow-

een.Parents who

choose not to participate in this holiday are deemed the awkward and weird parents.

This season, I spent hours and hours on Pinterest. I re-

gret nothing, but they had some awesome alternatives to candy.

My favorite, clemintine or-anges with faces painted on the peel. They looked just like jack-o-lanters.

Simply adorable and I instantly became obsessed.

Problem with this? Parents are going to throw

away anything not sealed. I understand after the candy

tampering in past decades, but I would have loved to get some-thing like that.

I have a hard time going against everything I value and contribut-ing to a problem I hold so close to my heart.

And can you imagine if I did give out oranges?

They would end up on the side of my house.

I would prefer my house not be egged or attacked because my snack of choice wasn’t to the lik-

ing of some punk-ass kids. I’d rather not be bullied or

guilted into group think.I am not saying Halloween

should be outlawed or anything crazy like that, but I think modifi-cation is in order.

On a child level, don’t worry, I think adult Halloween is won-derful. But it is important we take necessary steps to make sure kids are making good choices.

It doesn’t set a good example to use unhealthy food as re-wards.

If you give them something that tastes so delicious yet so bad for you, why would they want to eat a healthier alternative?

Some people will disagree with how I feel about this. Let them have one day, they’ll say.

I promise I’m not trying to take the spirit of the holiday away.

Halloween is an amazing holi-day, dressing up and having a great time with friends and fam-ily and a little less focus on the sugary treats.

Lets keep it just that, but please please remember choices you are making for your kids will directly impact them in the future.

So go out tonight, have a good time and make smart choices.

Happy Halloween.

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With Election Day 6 days away, students, if they haven’t already voted early, should be narrowing down their choices for the presi-dential race.

Even though President Barack Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney disagree on almost every-thing, we want to encourage peo-ple to understand how important this election is.

For example, after the 2007 Vir-ginia Tech shooting, every student should be evaluating what Obama and Romney think about gun con-trol.

Romney is an advocate of con-cealed carry, but doesn’t want to create new laws for gun owner-ship. Instead, he wants the govern-ment to enforce the current laws – allowing those who have a gun in their home to continue to have one without going through additional screening.

Even though he is in opposition to concealed carry, with the excep-tion of retired police offices, Obama wants more stringent screening for

gun owners. He also wants to eliminate loop-

holes that allow the mentally ill and children to have access to armed weapons.

Hey, first-time voters with mini-mum wage jobs, did you know Romney doesn’t believe in raising the federal minimum wage?

Yet, you might not want to look to Obama for answers. In 2008, he said he wanted to raise the mini-mum wage from $7.25 to $9.50 per hour by 2011.

Like a lot of promises made by the president, this increase wasn’t done during his first term.

We know some students hear the word “health care” and think that issue only is only a concern for their parents and grandparents, but that is far from the case.

Why should you care?Even though college students

won’t feel many effects of Obama-care until 2014, this reform allows college graduates to stay on their parents’ health insurance until they are 26.

On the other hand, Romney wants to repeal all aspects of Obam-acare.

So freshmen, think about having to pay for health insurance plus stu-dent loans.

Talk about a nightmare. Yet, Romney has a plan for col-

lege graduates too, but it involves giving families an option to pur-chase private insurance that covers members up to any age.

Then comes the obvious con-cern for college students – student loans.

Romney has been slammed for his “just borrow money from your parents” view on assisting students with paying for college, but the for-mer governor wants to keep private lenders as an option for student loans instead of subsidizing all loans to the government.

During the campaign trail, Rom-ney has told students to just live within their means and it is the student’s responsibility to pay them back, not the government.

Obama has, what some would call, a more friendly approach with the Obama Student Loan Forgive-ness Program.

This program allows college grad-uates to refinance student loans and obtain “forgiveness” after 20 years

of payment. It decreases to 10 years for nurs-

es, members of the armed forces and teachers.

Students and young people often think their vote does not matter. We want to remind students their vote is a huge factor.

We want our readers to under-stand the importance of this elec-tion and how crucial it is for people to vote.

We cannot stress enough how important it is to get out there and vote this election and to get edu-cated about the candidates.

There are more than two people on the ballot – Jill Stein, green party candidate, and Gary Johnson, liber-tarian candidate, for example.

Regardless for whom you vote, it is important for young people to have a voice and contribute to the next stage of this country.

To find out where to vote in Wichita Falls, contact the Wichita County Courthouse or visit www.co.wichita.tx.us.

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Across: 2.Scary attraction5. Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy6. Popular undead costume 12. Popular kids saying 13. Phi Sig presidents14. “Somebody in this camp ain’t what he appears to be” 15. #2 Top-rated candy choice16. No longer living

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Halloween sends the wrong message to children

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ZOMBIES from pg. 1Shanks, like many in attendance, took the time to dress up for the festivities – sporting zombie makeup and tattered, bloody clothes.

“It took me about an hour-and-a-half to get my costume ready,” he said. “A friend of mine did the

face makeup for me, but I tore up some old clothes and splattered the fake blood on them for the rest of the costume.”

“The costumes are definitely the best part of coming out to this event,” Rios said. “It’s cool to see how creative and imaginative

people get with dressing up.”The Zombie Crawl itself kicked

off at 6:15 p.m. Those in costume were lined up and allowed to walk down Eighth St. for a photo opportunity that made it look like Wichita Falls undead had taken over.

Once the sun went down, event coordinators began to get everyone gathered near the giant Wichita County Sheriff’s tank at the race start line for the night’s main attraction, the 5K run.

“The zombie crawl was free to the public, and it was a cool Halloween-themed family event that everyone could attend to hang out,” Stalee said. “The 5K is the main part of the evening, though, and it’s a fun run through downtown Wichita Falls with dif-ferent obstacles. It’s sort of like a haunted house, too.”

The race course was set up to resemble a post-apocalyptic world. It started on Eighth St. and Ohio Ave.

The race then proceeded downtown, crossing through back alleys, empty parking lots and garages and an abandoned warehouse.

At checkpoints, event volun-teers set up different obstacles, such as a smoke screen, and acted out short skits pertaining to the zombie apocalypse.

Runners chose to be survivors or zombies, with the survivors getting a 60-second head start. A zombie’s goal was to try to catch up to the survivors and attempt to take the orange flags they were given before the race to turn them into a zombie.

Several MSU students partici-pated in the race as both survi-vors and zombies.

“I showed up to run from some zombies and get ready for doomsday,” senior Taylor Mc-Lemore said. “My goal was just to survive, not win anything.”

“I definitely came to get my running shoes on and be a zom-bie,” graduate student Alicia Grif-fin said. “I’m obsessed with zom-

bies and I love doing the makeup. I was suffering from a cold, but I went out and tried to get as many survivors as I could. The best part was that I got to “kill” my mom, who ran as a survivor.”

According to Stalee, last year’s event had 371 running partici-pants.

This year, pre-registration alone totaled at more than 500 par-

ticipants, and many continued to register throughout the day until race time.

“We’re glad that everyone came out and supported [the Zombie Crawl & 5K],” Stalee said. “It’s a different event, but that’s what makes it awesome.”

People dressed as zombies walking past The Wichita Theatre. Photo by KERRI CARTER

The Zombie Crawl attracted all age groups.Photo by HANWOOL LEE

Christina Martinezstaff Writer

There are 5,916 students en-rolled in 45 undergraduate pro-grams this fall.

Most students obtain a degree to start a career after graduation, but some students do not know where to start.

The Career Management Cen-ter, located in room 108 of the Clark Student Center, provides students and alumni with infor-mation on how to search for a job before and after graduation.

Some 500 students during the fall semester and 700 students during the spring semester re-ceive one-on-one help from the Career Management Center.

Randi Roanhaus, employer re-lations coordinator, said she posts every job she has knowledge of on the center’s website.

The first thing students should do is think about what type of job they want to have after gradua-tion, she said.

“When you graduate, you should have an idea of when and what you want to do,” Roanhaus said. “It’s really hard to help a student or an alumni find a job if they don’t know what they want to do.”

Roanhaus said students are typically looking for entry-level positions, in their field of interest, that offer a good starting salary.

What defines a good starting salary can depend on the field of employment, location of the job, and experience within the field, Roanhaus said.

Dirk Welch, director of the Career Management Center and testing services, said salary is not the only thing students should look at when considering taking a job.

Welch said benefits offered by employers could be in the form of insurance, transportation, or a relocation salary.

“A lot of times students get caught up in the salary that they don’t think to look at the benefits packages offered,” Welch said. “There may be other things that could make a job a better deal even though the salary is lower.”

Roanhaus said after students get an idea of what field they

would like to enter and have an interview lined up, the next step in the process is to work on the student’s resume.

Kerri Eichorn, college coordi-nator, said the first thing she does to help a student find a job is to make sure they have a resume and cover letter.

“When a student comes into the Career Management Center, they typically spend 30 minutes to an hour with us reviewing

their resume,” Eichorn said.Reviewing resume is not the

only service that the Career Man-agement Center offers. Eichorn said mock interviews are also of-fered to every student and alum-ni.

“We try to do very tailored in-terviews because we know that students get very specific ques-tions and we want to try to help students understand what they are looking for and how to an-

swer the questions,” Eichorn said.

More than 73 percent of em-ployers take grade point average into consideration and more than 72 percent of employers take relevant work experience into consideration when hiring.

Most employers also consider internships, communication skills, volunteerism and extra-curricular activities, Welch said.

“There is a whole host of things employers are trying to learn through reading your re-sume, cover letter, and by in-terviewing to see what type of person you would be once you came on board,” Welch said.

Roanhaus said the career management center does not place students with jobs, but it does teach students to manage their time wisely and encour-ages them not to give up their search.

“Looking for a job is a full time job in itself, so you have to exhaust your resources and we teach what to look for and to keep searching,” Roanhaus said.

The Career Management Center hosts events throughout the year.

Job fairs provide students the opportunity to network with employers and to see what ca-

reers are available. Graduate and professional

school fairs give students the chance to see what graduate pro-grams are offered and to see what it will take to get into graduate school. And Resumania Days allow students to have their re-sume critiqued.

“We want to be sure that the student is looking at the situation holistically,” Welch said. “We

encourage students to explore all avenues when they are inter-viewing and making a decision about what they want to do.”

The Career Management Cen-ter, in cooperation with the Dil-lard College of Business Admin-istration, hosted the fifth-annual business etiquette dinner in the Clark Student Center Comanche Suites on Oct. 25.

The event was open to all stu-dents and employer representa-tives were available to visit with students to practice networking.

“It will be an event where stu-dents can learn the finer points of dining with finesse because it’s very possible that a student would have to go through a meal during the interview process and we want to make them feel more comfortable by telling them what they should order, and how to eat,” Welch said.

James Howard, economist with the U.S. bureau of labor statistics, said the unemployment rate in Wichita Falls has dropped from 7.3 percent in Aug. 2011 to 6.6 percent in Aug. 2012.

“In a difficult job market it takes a little bit longer for people to find employment,” Welch said. “They may have to work harder at it and longer at it so it can challenge one’s willingness to stick with it but what we do is a little bit of cheerleading trying to maintain the optimism and mo-rale through the process.”

ruth fitzgerland-BlaCkstaff Writer

Laura Fidelie has dedicated the past six years empowering stu-dents with her knowledge as a criminal justice professor.

She also spends her time teach-ing abroad for the British Studies program.

With a mountain of accredi-tations, six publications in peer-reviewed journals, encyclopedia entries and book reviews, Fidelie decided to tackle a new project this February by filling the role of faculty sponsor for theAlpha Phi Sigma National Criminal Justice Honor Society.

According to Taylor Jackson, president of Alpha Phi Sigma, the honor society had been inactive since 2004.

Last spring, the five remaining members joined forces and made steps to reinstate the society with national headquarters.

“In the spring of 2012, we only had two members,” Jackson said. “With help, we managed to re-cruit three more. Five members basically had to work alone.”

Jackson said students wanted to distinguish themselves for all their hard work in the Criminal Justice department and went above and beyond to reach their goals of revamping the honor so-

ciety with some new blood and a new adviser.

In fact, Jackson said, most stu-dents do not even realize that Alpha Phi Sigma is or was ever active.

Other than a few flyers hang-ing in the Martin building, stu-dents have gone years without being informed of the honor so-ciety, making it nearly impossible for students in the criminal jus-tice field to seek out the society on their own.

Jackson and vice president of Alpha Phi Sigma, Luzmila More-no, along with Linda Aguilera sought out Fidelie based on their experiences with her both in the classroom and her prestige in the criminal justice field.

“As a group, we all decided that professor Fidelie would be the absolute best option,” More-no said. “I’ve known her since my first year at MSU, and she has always stood out to me above all other professors. I even studied with her abroad in London.”

Both Jackson and Moreno said they knew Fidelie was already an extremely busy individual.

In fact, Fidelie just completed a book manuscript, Criminal Law: Core Concepts, to be published next year.

Nevertheless, Moreno said

they were steadfast in their belief that Fidelie was the right person for the job.

“She is extremely smart and constantly working,” Jackson said. “Even with her busy sched-ule, she compiled a list of eligible members and took time out of her Sunday to attend our new members’ induction.”

Due to the work of the mem-bers of Alpha Phi Sigma, Fidelie is now an honorary member of Alpha Phi Sigma.

Before the students approached her with the adviser proposition, she had never been associated with Alpha Phi Sigma.

“She helped us without any ob-ligation to do so,” Moreno said.

According to Jackson and Moreno, to be eligible as a fac-ulty sponsor, one must be distin-guished and prestigious within the field of criminal justice.

Officers of the chapter must elect a faculty sponsor, and it was Jackson’s job to submit Fidelie’s resume and accreditations to na-tional headquarters.

Jackson’s request for those documents reaffirmed the chap-ter’s decision to elect Fidelie as faculty sponsor.

“She gave me a ‘short’ re-sume,” Jackson said with a chuckle. “And by short, I mean

she gave me a 10-page booklet of awards, publications and journal entries.”

Jackson said she believes that the success of the MSU chapter of Alpha Phi Sigma will be corre-lated with Fidelie’s involvement and interest in her students’ suc-cess, and she has never come up short in that department.

“She is so humble,” Moreno explained. “Woman-to-woman, she is very inspiring. She em-powers women and is incredibly encouraging. She is such a posi-tive role model to her female stu-dents.”

According to Fidelie, it was an honor just being asked to fill the position of faculty sponsor and she said yes immediately.

Getting to know and work with her students outside of class is one of the great privileges giv-en to university faculty members, she said.

Fidelie plans to return to Lon-don this summer as assistant di-rector.

Along with her new duties as faculty sponsor of Alpha Phi Sig-ma, the ten-student classes allow faculty and students to interact with each other and instructors much more than they would in a traditional class setting.

In addition, Fidelie said she be-

lieves awareness should be raised about Alpha Phi Sigma because of the great work and achievements that each student member has ac-complished.

“These students are incred-ibly dedicated and have given so much, both to MSU and the larg-er community,” she said. “I am so proud of all that they do and the way they represent MSU and the Criminal Justice department.”

Fidelie also loves being able to give the students the tools they need to turn their fantastic ideas into reality, and thoroughly en-joys getting to know her students outside the classroom.

“My plans for Alpha Phi Sigma are to give the students whatever help and guidance they need to fulfill their goals,” she said. “The honor society belongs to the stu-dents, so their goals are my goals. They are definitely the heart and driving force of their honor soci-ety.”

With Fidelie as Alpha Phi Sig-ma’s faculty adviser, according to her doting students, that heart beats a little bit stronger.

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Professor devotes time to empower students

awareness month. Special Edu-cation Assistant professor Darrell Mohr attended the luncheon and encouraged his students to attend the afternoon speech. Mohr said Frese spoke of his early life and the process of his diagnosis with schizophrenia and kept the crowd rolling with genuine laughter.

“National disability awareness month is basically to raise aware-ness in the community and to

show appreciation to those with disabilities,” Mohr said.

“I thought it would be benefi-cial to my students to listen and ask questions from someone who has lived with schizophrenia. The luncheon was the highlight of my semester so far. It was a pleasure to be able to talk and have ques-tions answered so openly by Dr. Frese,” Mohr said.

Senior in special education and

one of Mohr’s students, Cassie Hermann, attended Frese’s af-ternoon session where students could interact and ask questions. Hermann said there is no sub-stitute for hearing and speaking with someone who has lived with a disability. She said it helped to relate the topics she and her classmates have learned in class to a real-life situation.

“I asked Dr. Frese what advice

he could give to teachers who have students with schizophre-nia. He told me that we should encourage them and allow them to do what they are good at. He told us studies have shown that people with psychosis disorders are more creative than others. He said the most important thing is to have knowledge of the dis-ability,” Hermann said.

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MISA, BSM celebrate holidays, cultureHannaH HoffmanEditor-in-CHiEf

In a combined effort to bring the Indian culture closer to Amer-ican students, the Baptist Student Ministry and the Midwestern Indian Students Association held the Culture Shock event on Oct. 27.

The event was during the time of the Indian festival Navratri, which lasts for nine nights, said Ajit Baridun, president of MISA.

To attract a larger crowd, BSM and MISA combined Navratri with Halloween, said Baridun.

One of the main attractions of the Navratri celebration is the tra-ditional Garba dance.

“It’s the Garba dance,” Bari-dun said. “It’s actually a religious

festival and we worship the god-dess Durga.”

In order to familiarize students with the dance, free Garba les-sons were offered during the week leading up to the event.

“[The Garba] is a group dance that most people have never experienced. It’s a great way to build community and just show each other affection,” said Ben Bryant, BSM intern.

“I was glad to see everyone dancing, like they were naturally born with the dance,” Baridun said.

The group sold 120 tickets, for $5 each, before the event and 20 additional tickets at the door, priced at $7.

The event was never meant to be a fundraiser, Ben Edfeldt, di-rector of BSM, said.

“I thought it was a great way

of being able to introduce the Indian culture to the American culture, because that is typically the students that come to what we do,” Edfeldt said.

MISA also promoted a tradi-tional Indian dinner to be a part of their Navratri celebration.

The food cost $8 a person and was picked up from the Tandoor Indian restaurant in Dallas the morning of the event.

“$300 were funded from BSM for part of the tickets and all of those expenses, the rest came from the MISA fund,” said Bari-dun.

MISA also raised funds by sell-ing Henna tattoos in the student center on Thursday and Friday.

Baridun said he was pleased with the amount of tattoos sold.

“On Friday we did at least 25 Henna tattoos in three hours,”

Baridun said.BSM is planning to help with

another Culture Shock, if other student organizations are willing to work together.

“We saw a lot of value in cel-ebrating the Indian culture,” Edfeldt said. “It is a beautiful culture and I know, for me at least personally, that you kind of get caught up in your own cul-ture and not really recognize just the beauty of other international communities on campus.”

MISA is planning the celebra-tion of Diwali, the festival of lights celebration, for Nov. 16.

“We combine different culture things together. Singing, dancing and make it a big event,” Baridun said.

Culture Shock offers a taste of India

Honor society opens annual art exhibitorlando florEs, Jr.a&E Editor

The Kappa Pi Honor Society put up its annual art exhibit on Oct. 26 in the Fain Fine Arts Building.

Kappa Pi president Samantha Nichols, a junior, said Kappa Pi is open to any art major and that this show is another chance for students involved to display their work.

Nichols said as part of the na-tional organization, Kappa Pi is re-quired to either do a community service project or work in a show at some time during the year.

“We normally choose to do a show to allow the members to show work they haven’t been able to show any other time,” she said. “It’s really nice to have this extra opportunity to get your name and your work out there.”

Nichols said the show is com-pletely student run, from the lighting fixtures, the hanging of

the exhibition and the selec-tion process of what will be viewed.

Students are allowed to ei-ther create pieces specifically for the exhibition, or show past works that they were not able to show.

“We try to guarantee at least one piece from each stu-dent in Kappa Pi to be exhib-ited,” Nichols said. “We usu-ally average two pieces per member, though.”

A variety of media is cre-ated by the students and displayed, including copper enamel and steel sculptures, paintings, drawings, prints and photography.

Nichols showed two of her own pieces of work in the ex-hibition.

“I had “Innominate Butter-fly”, a bronze casting of a but-terfly made out of hipbones, and “The St. Patrick’s Cuff”, an enameled bracelet,” Nich-ols said.

Junior Sydney Kuehler also had a work shown in the exhibit.

“I had a copper and nickel-silver top hat that the lid was hinged and had a rabbit pendant inside of it,” she said. “It took me about four weeks to make. It was a project I did last fall, but wasn’t

able to show.” Kuehler likes showing in the

Kappa Pi exhibit compared to other gallery showings in the art department because of the re-laxed nature of the show.

“I really like showing in the Kappa Pi show because the other options to show while you’re a student at MSU are the judged competitions and senior exhibi-tions,” Kuehler said.

Kuehler said the purpose of the show is to simply view other stu-dent’s works.

“Nobody is trying to win any-thing,” Kuehler said. “It’s just a friendly way for people to see your artwork, and for us to sup-port each other and our work.”

Aside from the chance to ex-hibit work, the students were not able to show at other exhibits, both Nichols and Kuehler said. Kappa Pi also gives its members the advantage of participating

in activities that normal classes don’t allow.

“I had a lot of fun hanging the show,” Kuehler said. “It’s a neat experience for students to learn how to hang and organize a show.”

Kappa Phi does not get many opportunities to do that, Kuehler said.

“We’re really proud of the ex-hibit, and we think we put on a good show this year.”

The exhibit will be up until Nov. 23.

Pieces of art created by Kappa Pi members displayed in the C-wing foyer of the Fain Fine Arts building.Photo by mEGHan mYraClE

Student-run exhibit showcases talent

Sudents got a dance lesson at Culture Shock.Photo by KErri CartEr

The Tandoor Indian food was served buffet-style.Photo by KErri CartEr

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After a 64-63 loss last season in the NCAA Division II Elite Eight quarterfinals to eventual champions Western Washington, the Mustangs are prepared to go even further this season.

“We hope to win a national championship this year,” said Nelson Haggerty, head men’s bas-ketball coach. “We want to be able to get to a point where we can compete to win.”

Haggerty said the team is pre-pared to win.

Although there aren’t any re-turning starters from last season, the other returning players and recruits offer a lot of experience to the team.

“We have a couple freshmen, a few sophomores and a really heavy junior class,” said Hag-gerty. “Despite only having four seniors, we have a lot of experi-ence in that junior class.”

The team has five returning players, including three seniors, and nine newcomers.

A handful of the recruits are ei-ther from a junior college or have played Division I Basketball.

“We have a good group,” said Haggerty. “We are pretty bal-anced.”

With a reasonable percentage of new players, the coaching staff is spending a lot of time getting the team familiar with the Mus-tangs’ style of play.

With new players coming from different programs, there’s a tran-sition that takes place, Haggerty said.

“Everyone has to understand our style of play, things we be-

lieve are important on the floor, getting to know me on and off the floor and me getting to know the players and finding different ways to motivate and help them in the process,” he said.

According to Haggerty, the current team is characterized by athleticism, strict defense and im-pressive scoring ability.

Compared to previous MSU teams, the Mustangs are more skilled around the basket at the forward position.

Newcomers Corbin Thomas and Eddie D’Haiti are expected to play a big role at this position.

Haggerty cited Thomas’ strong, athletic and tough play around the basket and his ability to score underneath, as well as D’Haiti’s size (6’8”), skilled shooting and rebounding ability as assets to the team.

Adding more depth to the Mustangs is returning sophomore Matt Gallagher.

The 6’8” forward has had good playing experience and is ready to step in and play.

Haggerty said he likes where the team’s guards are at this sea-son.

“Each team is different,” he said. “Even when you have guys come back, each year is always

different and you’re never quite the same team that you were, and that’s the challenge with this team.”

Returning players Kevin Gray-er and Derrell Gibbs anticipate a great season as guards.

Grayer played really well last season and is expected to build on the momentum he built last season.

“Grayer had a very good post season for us,” said Haggerty. “He was all-tournament team in the regional tournament.”

Although Gibbs played as a freshman last season, he displayed great potential, thus more is ex-pected from him this season.

“Gibbs played minutes for us as a freshman,” said Haggerty. “He’s had a real good preseason and we’re looking for him to step up his role for us.”

The Mustangs will begin their season ranked 22 in the nation, and second in the Lone Star Con-ference.

“It is good to get some acco-lades nationally,” Haggerty said. “Especially without having any starters back.”

To be ranked so high in the league and in the country says a lot about the respect the Mus-tangs have as a basketball pro-

gram, Haggerty said.“I think even without the rank-

ings, we’d have a target on our back because we’ve always done so well in the past few years,” he said.

Despite the high ranking in the Mustangs’ conference, Hag-gerty said he is expecting a battle throughout the season to stay highly esteemed.

“There are 10 really good bas-ketball teams in this league,” he said. “Every road game in our league will be a challenge, and to come out with a win is a tremen-dous accomplishment.”

Tarleton State is the only school ranked above the Mustangs at No. 1, while Eastern New Mex-ico bottoms out the conference at No. 10, but Haggerty believes there’s very little difference be-tween these rankings.

“It’s funny, because Eastern

New Mexico is ranked last, and they’re a really good basketball team and they’re always well coached,” he said.

“It says a lot about the strength of the Lone Star Conference.”

The Mustangs will officially kick-off their season tomorrow when they face Southwestern As-semblies of God (Texas) at D.L. Ligon Coliseum.

Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. “Last year we were ranked

second in attendance in the Lone Star Conference, and it’s one of the reasons we’ve been so suc-cessful,” explained Nelson. “We draw people out really well and have a lot of support here and even on the road. We look for-ward to seeing a lot of people come out and help us start the season on the right foot.”

Women’s basketball coach seeks growth in Lady Mustangs damian atamenwanspOrts editOr

The women’s basketball team is expecting to have an improved season after being knocked out by Incarnate Word in the Lone Star Conference postseason tour-nament quarterfinals last season.

”[Against Incarnate Word] we were able to make a comeback but, we still lost,” said Noel John-son, women’s basketball coach. “We felt that we should have won that game. We’re going to have a little bit of a spark this sea-son from that.”

The Lady Mustangs goals for this season are not only to clinch the conference and the regional title, but also win the national

championship as well. “We need to improve on our

basketball knowledge since we’re playing against the game,” said Johnson. “We also need to im-prove on our physical condition in order to stay healthy and inju-ry-free.”

MSU is without four starters who made a great impact last sea-son, but Johnson sees impending quality in a handful of the return-ing players.

“Everything is coming together quickly due to the athleticism we now have,” she said. “I feel like

the offense will come quickly to these girls, but defense is what’s going to create that offensive force.”

The Lady Mustangs look to change their style of play and adapt to the athleticism they now possess.

“We’re going to play fast,” Johnson said. “We look to run a pretty high-powered offense this season, and we’re going to be looking to take it to the hole for more layups. Defensively, we’re going to press hard and really look to be aggressive with jump passes. We’ll also look to run a trap out of our press.”

Johnson said she believes the group of girls on this team are just right for this style of play and has noted several key players to the formula.

“We have some promising new players as well as promising returners like Kirsti Degelia, who was all conference honorable mention,” said Johnson. “I’m ex-pecting big things from her, not only from a scoring standpoint but also from a leadership stand-point.”

Several other key players will aid Degelia.

Diana Jones is expected to run point guard as well as set the tempo as a scorer and a defensive stopper.

Shambreka Jones’ athleticism and absolute power is also essen-tial to the Lady Mustangs play.

Shatoia Gober portrays scor-ing and rebounding qualities thus she is distinguished as an offen-sive threat.

Johnson sees Andrea Carter as a scorer and a power in the post while Ashley Rush is depicted as a great leader and an incredible point guard who scores really well.

“We’re going to have an ath-letic first five for sure,” said John-son. “I am looking for some big things from those kids.”

This well-coached team knows that the path to victory will not be an easy, especially in the crowded Lone Star Conference.

Competition will be stiff for the Lady Mustangs, especially amongst their rival teams.

“There’s always a heated bat-tle between Tarleton State, West Texas, Abilene Christian,” John-son commented.

“We know we’re going to go to a hostile environment every-where we go.

You have to bring your A-game on the road for sure.”

After tough preseason training sessions, the Lady Mustangs are ready to square-off with these ri-vals on their road to their poten-tial national championship.

The Lady Mustangs will kick-off their season this Sunday at Texas Tech in Lubbock.

Tip-off is set for 2 p.m.The next game for the Lady

Mustangs will be Nov. 9, when they return to D.L. Ligon Coli-seum to take on McMurray.

Tip-off for that game will be at 7 p.m.

Basketball teams ready for season

Kirsti Degelia dribbles past a teammate at practice.photo by damian atamenwan

Connor Geiser dribbles past Chris Buttermore at a practice session. photo by meGHan mYraCle

Monzaigo Williams goes for a layup. photo by meGHan mYraCle

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DAMIAN ATAMENWAN

SPORTS EDITOR With a successful run so far

this season, the women’s golf team’s performance in its most recent tournament was expect-ed.

MSU is currently ranked No. 4 in the West Region and No. 7 nationally.

This is the highest the Lady Mustangs have been ranked since the program started four years ago.

After placing second in the Lady Buff Stampede, the An-gelo State Concho River Classic and the DBU Classic, the Lady Mustangs were able to win the Oklahoma Intercollegiate Tour-nament.

“Winning the Oklahoma Col-legiate was a great way to finish

the fall semester,” said Jeff Ray, head golf coach. “With three sec-

ond place finishes and the win in Oklahoma, we have put our-selves in a great position in the West Region.”

MSU, who shot a total of 623 in the Lady Buff Stampede, made a drastic improvement in the Oklahoma Intercollegiate Tour-nament with a total of 586.

Tarleton State was a few strokes behind Midwestern State in the competition. Both teams shot a total of 295 on the first day while the Lady Mustangs were able to edge out the TexAnns by 5 points on the second day.

Individually, Brenna Moore tied for second overall after shooting a 70 and a 72 for a total of 142. Ray was impressed with Moore’s clinical display at the tournament.

“Brenna had a great tourna-ment in Oklahoma with a two day total of -2 which placed her

second in a field of 75,” said Ray. “Coming off first team all confer-ence and Freshman of the year last year has given her a lot of confidence. Anytime she tees it up, she has a chance to win.”

Tarleton’s Jacqueline Lau topped the list with a 72 and a 69 for a 141 total.

Kendra Whittley placed sixth with shots of 72 and 74.

“Kendra has played great in three of the tournaments,” said Ray. “She struggled in Dallas, but she has had a great semester. Her stroke average is 75.88.”

Lindsay Burkhart tied for tenth with a pair of 75. Ray sees Lind-say as a very competitive and determined player on the golf course.

“Lindsay has been a very good player since her freshman year. However, this fall she has played exceptionally well,” Ray said.

“Her stroke average for the fall is also 75.88, which is the lowest average of any semester since she has been here.”

Other Midwestern State com-petitors include Taylor Klutts, who tied for 16th after shooting a 79 and a 72, Kynze Mann who shot a pair of 77 to tie for 26th with Lauren Romines, who shot a 76 and a 78. Brittany Smith was able to shot a 78 and a 79 as she tied for 37th.

“All the girls are contributing in every tournament,” Ray said. “That is what you have to do to consistently place in the tourna-ments. Most fields will consist of 13 to 18 teams, so finishing 1st or 2nd is a great achievement.”

The Lady Mustangs’ next tour-nament is the Las Vegas Desert Classic from March 3-4.

Tennis team views early exit as beneficial learning experienceDAMIAN ATAMENWANSPORTS EDITOR

Although the men’s tennis team did not perform as well as they expected last weekend, a handful of players took positives from the Tyler Invitational.

The tournament was delayed due to rain. However, the of-ficials were able to reorganize the schedule to allow as many matches as possible.

Head Tennis coach Scott Linn sees the tournament as a great competition and a learning op-

portunity. He also stresses the importance

of competing in tournaments for the team’s overall development.

“Playing matches is very impor-tant,” Linn said. “You can’t com-pare what you learn in a game to what you learn at practice.”

In spite of his performance, Tomas Grejtak claimed every tournament is a learning experi-ence and the fall tournaments are pivotal to the spring season.

“The level of the tournament was pretty good. There were very good players in all flights,” added Grejtak. “I learned that if I want to beat better players, I need to better define my game and make it simple.”

Other tennis players had simi-lar feelings about the tourna-ment.

Jarrod Liston, who reached the quarterfinals in the Collin County Tournament two weeks ago, felt both tournaments were different in terms of intensity.

Liston said he believes the team would be well-prepared for the spring as long as they put what they learned at the tourna-ments in practice.

“It was a big learning experi-ence for me personally and the group as a whole,” Liston said. “We all learned things that we need to improve if we want to be successful in the future.”

Agreeing with Liston, Kacper

Boborykin said his teammates were able to display more energy and focus in Collin County.

Although Boborykin under-stood their hard work did not pay off last weekend, he said the team is prepared to tackle the spring season.

“Even if I didn't play good I think we were really prepared and we worked very hard,” said Boborykin. “It's just disappoint-ing that the hard work didn't pay off this weekend, but I'm sure that it will pay off in the nearest future.”

Boborykin was able to make it to the finals in the consolation draw and the quarterfinals with Gejtak in the doubles.

Nevertheless, he said he felt he could have done better.

“It was a disappointing tour-nament for me and for my team-mates,” said Boborykin. “But we have to move on and try to get better.”

Similarly, Luke Joyce, who lost 3-6 6-4 10-8, saw last weekend as learning avenue.

The senior is certain that the Tyler Invitational underlined the team’s weaknesses, as well as the areas that need improvement.

“Although we didn’t have the results we wanted, this tourna-ment has certainly helped us as a team figure out what we need to get better at,” Joyce said. “It has highlighted some areas that we

now have two or three months to work on until we play our first dual match in the spring.”

After participating in their last tournaments, the Mustangs will take a break till their season kicks off in the spring.

“The whole team has had a far better fall season than last year, which is a huge positive and we need to focus on that,” Joyce said. “We have had guys make solid runs in tournaments over the fall and won championships, so this fall has been a good one. We now have our work cut-out for us to make a run in the spring and get to the postseason.”

Learn as You Play

MSU wins Oklahoma Collegiate

Lauren Romines.Photo by DAMIAN ATAMENWAN

Sports Around Campus

The Men’s Soccer team settled for a 1-1 draw at Incarnate Word Friday after giving away the lead late in the second half.

A 2-0 defeat at Abilene Christian University Fri-day left Women’s Soccer upset.

After defeating Eastern New Mexico 51-28, the Foot-ball team trotted with its seventh straight victory.

The MSU Rugby team lost 24-17 at home to the Uni-versity of Texas at Dallas.

Texas A&M Commerce hosted and defeated the Volleyball team 3-0.

Jarrod Liston.

Kyle Davidson.

Kacper Boborykin

Luke Joyce

Tomas Grejtak

Photos by DAMIAN ATAMENWAN