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Updates for March 8, 2010
No. 1-seed Rams fall in conference seminfinals
Posted from Texas Wesleyan University in sports on March 8th, 2010 at 10:38 pm
By: Jacqueline Wittman
The Texas Wesleyan men’s basketball team lost in the semifinals of the Red River Athletic Conference basketball tournament, 78-64 to Bacone College. “We knew Bacone was a good team and had been playing very well,” said Head Coach Terry W…
Chuck’s Cheap Thrills: Take a break from the standard spring break
Posted from Texas Wesleyan University in entertainment on March 8th, 2010 at 10:04 pm
By: Chuck Fain
When someone says “spring break,” it usually evokes visions of beaches with scantily clad beauties at Fort Lauderdale or some other tropic getaway. If you’re like me, however, you have neither the organizational foresight, nor the cash t…
Summer break in India
Posted from Texas Wesleyan University in news on March 8th, 2010 at 9:59 pm
By: Suhasini Yeeda
Wesleyan students and faculty get ready for cross-cultural journey
As the 2010 summer break approaches and students make their plans for the three month break, a group of Wesleyan students will use their break to participate in a study abroad trip to India. The trip is scheduled for July 1-14, with a total of three profe…
Spring Break: Break from monotony
Posted from Texas Wesleyan University in news in opinion on March 8th, 2010 at 9:54 pm
By: Rebecca Moore
According to “College News,” South Padre Island is soon to become one of the most popular places to spring break in the U.S. for college students. Port Aransas seems to be coming in a close second. When most college students are asked about th…
Smoking litter makes us all look bad
Posted from Texas Wesleyan University in opinion on March 8th, 2010 at 9:51 pm
By: Melissa Bates
Smokers leaving their trash on the ground is repugnant. I am a smoker, but I always try to find an ashtray or smoker’s cease-fire, and I have never thrown an empty cigarette pack on the ground. One day while walking across our beautiful campus, I pa…
Study abroad trip offers firsthand exposure
Posted from Texas Wesleyan University in news on March 8th, 2010 at 9:46 pm
By: Jonathan Resendez
Some students crack a textbook and learn Spanish. But others can learn Spanish and receive course credits by actually living in Mexico. Wesleyan’s International Programs department will travel to Cuernavaca, Acapulco and Mexico City, Mexico from Jul…
Formerly homeless students find niche
Posted from Texas Wesleyan University in news on March 8th, 2010 at 9:41 pm
By: Rene’ Edwards
Wesleyan’s student body is vast. It is made up of traditional, non-traditional, international and even previously homeless students. Two of these students are Melissa “Red” Bates, 29, and “Max”, 42, a current Wesleyan student…
Honor society collects books
Posted from Texas Wesleyan University in news on March 8th, 2010 at 9:20 pm
By: Melissa Bates
Mortar Board, the national senior college honor society at Texas Wesleyan, is hosting a book drive. Mortar Board’s national project is reading literacy. “If you look at the statistics, a child that hasn’t learned how to read by the time …
Tuition expected to jump 5 percent
Posted from Texas Wesleyan University in news on March 8th, 2010 at 9:12 pm
By: Jonathan Resendez
Wesleyan faces a tuition increase similar to other local public and private institutions. Wesleyan tuition will increase 5 percent in the fall, according to Vice President of Finance and Administration Bill Bleibdrey. Wesleyan’s increase estimate co…
Updates for March 5, 2010
Get in the mood for fresh fried seafood
Posted from Texas Wesleyan University in entertainment on March 5th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
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In the depths of frog country, on 612 N. University Drive, there is a little oyster bar serving delicious deep-fried seafood, gumbo and, of course, oysters. J & J’s Oyster Bar is an intimate little hideout that has a Joe’s Crab Shack-type …
You thought Taken was just a movie
Posted from Texas Wesleyan University in opinion on March 5th, 2010 at 12:41 pm
By: Rebecca Moore
Human trafficking: it’s a steadily growing illegal market and global issue. However, it seems that not many students on the Wesleyan campus know much about what human trafficking is. Human trafficking is many things, but first and foremost it is sla…
Nabassi makes difference
Posted from Texas Wesleyan University in sports on March 5th, 2010 at 11:59 am
By: Jacqueline Wittman
Theo Nabassi isn’t your average international student-athlete. Nabassi came to Texas Wesleyan University from the West African country Togo to earn a master’s degree in accounting and play soccer, and to help make a difference for those he lef…
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