October 17, 2012

Mad for Chad Mad Chad, a juggler throwing knives and chainsaws, entertained the crowd with his dangerous antics.

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Faculty Senate rejects proposed salary cutsFaculty Salary Enhancement Plan criticized by facultyBrittney cottinghameditor-in-chief

On Thursday, in a roll-call vote, the Faculty Senate unanimously rejected the Faculty Salary En-hancement Plan with 23 nega-tive votes and one abstention.

The Senate held a meeting open to the MSU community to address the Faculty Salary En-hancement Plan presented by University President Jesse Rogers and other senior administrators on Oct. 8.

Vice-chair Kathleen Roberts made the motion to endorse the Faculty Salary Enhancement Plan, which led to the panel dis-cussion.

Chair James Owen invited members of the audience to ad-dress their concerns to the Fac-ulty Senate.

According to the Senate min-utes, some faculty stated some summer faculty would not teach if the compensation package is not adequate.

Others said the math given in Rogers’ proposal on Monday did not add up.

“How can $500,000 be split among six colleges and cover a 4

percent raise,” one faculty mem-ber asked during the discussion.

The senators themselves did discuss the plan – some said the Faculty Salary Enhancement Plan was “a shell game with a lot of smokes and mirrors.”

Other commentary from the Senate on the Enhancement Plan included an overall lack of faith that the administrators can take the required steps to make the 4 percent pool.

At the meeting, many eligible faculty for the Voluntary Separa-tion Program said they felt unap-preciated and they were being pushed out.

The Senate then voted in favor

of the following position state-ment:

“While the Faculty Senate re-jects the Faculty Salary Enhance-ment Plan as written, the Faculty Senate acknowledges the finan-cial needs of the university and wishes to participate in devel-oping alternative plans to meet these needs.”

Rogers said he acknowledged the recommendation of the Fac-ulty Senate.

“I am pleased that the Faculty Senate clearly recognizes that we need a short-term and long-term financial plan,” he said. “I am pleased they want to work with us on developing it.”

With an open discussion with faculty members, many voiced their concern about the Enhance-ment Plan, especially involving capping of summer faculty pay.

With the $1.7 million deficit this year that must be fixed be-fore November, the senior admin-istrators proposed a professor pay cut for next summer in order to increase the nine-month faculty salary.

Many members of the Sen-ate and professors who spoke at Thursday’s Faculty Senate meet-ing were outraged by this sugges-tion.

“I told the faculty that the plan was a draft,” Rogers said. “In fact,

it was recommended by the Fac-ulty Senate Executive Committee and the deans that meet with the entire faculty to begin discussion of the draft plan.”

Rogers said the administration separately intend to visit each college as soon as they can sched-ule it and then they would work with the Faculty Senate to final-ize the plan.

“Of course we considered pos-sible backlash from the proposed capping of faculty summer sala-ries,” Rogers said. “However, I made it clear that we were doing

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Paint the town maroon

Campus gets connectedhannah hofmanneditor-in-chief

The campus wireless network has been shut down the week of Oct. 15–19 to make Internet available across campus.

Information Technology started phase one of the project on Mon-day, which focuses on upgrading the network core hardware. The hardware controls all the wireless access points around campus, ap-proximately 110 access points, according to Michael Dye, chief information officer.

During phase one 10 access points will be added to to cam-pus. Dye said he is hoping by the fall of 2013 the campus will be 100 percent covered, with 225

access points. “You come outside to the

courtyard by the fountain, and you go over to Clark Student Center and maybe you have to go over to the Wellness Center and you have a continuous signal all the way through and across that,” Dye said.

Dye said the hard part of this process was not having students log-in and out of the wireless In-ternet network, just because they changed campus locations.

“When you left one location and went over to south-campus for instance, you don’t have to put your username and password in again. It’s still going to remem-ber, ‘oh yeah, you’re on.’”

To achieve this goal, the proj-ect is still waiting for approval of additional funding for phase two of $250,000 by the Board of Re-gent, according to Dye.

Phase one is also upgrading the Network Access Control.

“This is to help prevent some-body from gaining access to that network that really shouldn’t have or doesn’t have authoriza-tion to be on that network,” said Dye.

To accommodate the lack of wireless signal, the computer lab in the student center is open an additional two hours.

Fraud controversy overshadowsHomecoming election outcome

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From the lip sync competition to celebrating the sixth birthday of Maverick T. Mustang, the 2012 Homecoming week showcased campus-wide school spirit. The Homecoming Torchlight parade brought students together from various student organizations from Gamma Phi Beta to the men’s soccer team to participate in the annual bonfire – scorching the t-shirts of rival universities.

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Seniors Lacy Talley and Zach Davis were crowned Homecom-ing Queen and King Saturday, but by Monday the win was tainted by controversy.

Since last week, there had been whispers about if students were using other Mustang ID-numbers to increase the amount of votes for certain candidates.

“Obviously it would be very concerning for a student giving out information, where people would have access to their M-number and password,” said Keith Lamb, vice president of stu-

dent affairs and enrollment man-agement.

But it is possible, he said.Renee DuBois, mass commu-

nication senior and Gamma Phi Beta alumna, started to raise awareness about the number swapping.

DuBois was on the ballot for Homecoming Queen.

“People were just talking to me about it, ‘Hey, have you heard, these people are getting M-numbers,’” she said. “Then I was concerned. I thought win-ning was a matter of fact that (Sigma Kappa) were cheating, because this was even before we

knew who won or not.”Lacy Talley, a Sigma Kappa,

won the election with a total of 254 votes, 104 more than her runner-up.

Talley refused to comment on the situation.

“Unfortunately I’m not al-lowed to do interviews per our national policy without a national representative,” she said.

Alyssa Parham, MSU Sigma Kappa president, also declined to give a statement.

The Sigma Kappa headquarters refused to give an official state-

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Campus Voice2 thewichitanWednesday — October 17, 2012 thewichitan.com — your campus / your news

Sarah LongoP-Ed Editor

I don’t think anyone was sur-prised when the Greeks domi-nated the Homecoming ballot this year, but Sigma Kappa took it took a whole new level when they swept every single category this homecoming.

Mean Girls said it best: “Raise your hand if you have ever felt victimized by…” Some are in-sinuating one queen nominee was doing just that.

I think we can all agree, homecoming got a little messy. A full-blown war among the homecoming court: threats, ballot stuffing, slander.

While everyone investigates

this pretty public battle, my question still remains: how can a regular person even compete with Greeks, let alone Greeks who are being investigated for cheating their way to the win?

This year, only 10 percent of the entire student body voted for the homecoming court. 10 percent, really? And a little in-teresting fact, 6 percent of the university belong to one Greek organization or another.

I would bet money, 99 per-cent of all those Greek stu-dents voted this year, if not all of them. I am challenging any Greek student to prove other-wise.

I don’t know how many stu-

dents actually went to the game Saturday, but Greeks were loud and proud for their nominees.

The non-Greek queen nomi-nee trailed the next closest per-son by more than a hundred votes.

This university is being ripped in a thousand different directions and the Greek com-munity is dealing with pos-sible repercussions for their questionable behavior, so with all that being said: could the common student finally have a fighting chance at the crown next year?

“I wish we could all get along like we used to in middle school... I wish I could bake a

cake filled with rainbows and smiles and everyone would eat and be happy...”

Get real, this popularity con-test is ridiculous! Middle school is correct. Does a regular stu-dent have a chance at home-coming royalty next year? After a year like this...yeah, probably not.

This behavior is embarrass-ing. School spirit should not just mean Greek spirit. Greek spirit should have high enough standards to fight fair.

Let’s all have a little more class, and keep in mind, it’s not just yourself that you represent, but also this university.

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theDid the election scandal ruin Homecoming?

My name is Joshua Robert Scribner (and I feel it important to include that, because I believe in standing behind your words), and I am a graduating senior this semester. I felt it important to send you this, because I know that it seems like the morale is so low around here and there’s been nothing but negative news all around.

I would like to first say that [with] your leadership, this uni-versity has my 100 percent sup-port. I think that you and your administration do a magnificent job at what you do.

I know that a vast majority of the decisions that you have to make as it pertains to MSU are not easy. It is however, re-ally easy to sit back and throw stones and use 20/20 hindsight to criticize.

We have students (only one of whom I have seen put a name to their words) that have done things from setting up a MWSU Problems Twitter page and again submitting anonymous com-ments (managing to be racist in the process also), all the way to emailing you, seemingly not showing you and your office the proper respect.

Protest, protest and more protest, but not offering any so-lutions and not accomplishing much, but making this univer-sity look like a bunch of sailors committing a mutiny against the captain.

This isn’t productive for any of the parties involved.

I am an American and appre-ciate the right to protest peace-fully, but it feels like this is point-

less complaining with no real solutions.

I am sending this letter not only to you, Dr. Rogers, but to the Wichitan as well, I am asking that they run this letter so that some other students may see it and lets all try to make some headway towards solutions to-gether.

I love this university. A house divided will fall and I feel that MSU is headed that way.

I feel as though one of the biggest issues troubling MSU is of course the decline in enroll-ment.

I think I know a solution to this.

I think one of the biggest is-sues is the disconnect that is felt by this university to the city of Wichita Falls.

I think that’s what makes the students feel so isolated that a vast majority don’t even stay in town on the weekends (even during football season!)

I think that’s what separates us from places like (and I’m throw-ing up in my mouth as I say this) WT or even Tarleton.

When you go to Canyon, you feel a sense of community with WT, everywhere you go on game day is maroon and everyone’s still in town.

You feel this in Stephenville (and if you haven’t been, I don’t blame you), everywhere is purple and supporting the Texans. But here, it feels as though the com-munity at large doesn’t support MSU as much as they could.

At games, it sometimes feels like a graveyard.

These things count for people

wanting to come here. As big as football is in Texas,

wanting to be a part of a special crowd culture makes people want to go.

This works at UT, A&M and even Tech, with both the latter two also being out in the middle of nowhere.

I think that if we could get a better relationship with the city, it would lead to more en-rollment, with a better sense of community.

That’s one of the things that originally made me pick MSU as my college of choice. I think that it’s something that’s been ig-nored in large part recently.

I believe that this would be a viable way to increase enroll-ment.

Secondly, we have access to the greatest resources of all – the students! If a problem is not get-ting people in the local schools to stay in town for college, who better to try and recruit for MSU than the students of MSU?

Why don’t we sponsor alum-ni days at Rider, Old High, and Hirchshi? Or even the surround-ing towns like Burk, Henrietta, Archer, and the like?

Send people that are here at MSU to talk to their former class-mates and get them to come?

Same of course goes for those of us here from the metroplex.

MSU would have a bigger presence there if we promoted it to those in our high schools. This would help us reel in some undecided students from the sur-rounding areas.

I’d be willing to do it for my school, and I don’t want to speak

for anyone else, but I’m sure there’d be some people willing to do it.

Spirit Days are good and all, but they don’t do much for us if we don’t promote them to the youth coming behind us.

The bottom line is that this letter isn’t meant to skewer any-body, it’s not meant to make any-one feel bad or get upset.

This letter is meant to offer so-lutions for everyone to help. This letter isn’t meant to make light of the situation or make fun of anyone.

It is a plea from a fellow stu-dent (especially one about to graduate) to make this university be the greatest it can be.

Rather than complaining about the administration and staff, why don’t we make some time to work with them, to make the university better?

It has been really easy up un-til to regurgitate that slogan that MSU is “my university,” because we haven’t had to do as much work to keep that creed alive.

Now that the going is getting tough, we need to do more to protect that solution.

For those that are here now, for those that have gone on, for those Mustangs that are yet to be. For all of our sakes.

I want this place to be as great as it can be, so my degree means the most it can. I love this place, and I know most students do too. Please.

Lets all work together to make this the best MSU it can be.

Sincerely yours,Joshua r. Scribner

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An overwhelming amount of support was shown this week during Homecoming.

Yet, the weekend did not end without a slew of controversy as many claimed the online ballots for Homecoming elections were tampered with.

Students are now coming for-ward stating they were aware of people asking for other students M-numbers to cast online votes.

The Wichitan has heard nu-merous stories from students, who wished to not go on the record, about seeing fellow stu-dents asking friends for their stu-dent ID numbers through text messages and even during class.

Are people that desperate for their organization, friends or even themselves to win that they would go against their core values?

We would like to be optimistic and think this situation would never happen at MSU, but that would be naive.

The Wichitan has evidence

that can be seen on page three that at least one student sent a mass text to their contacts ask-ing for student ID numbers to vote for Homecoming.

If this person didn’t actually end up going through with cast-ing the votes, the fact that a stu-dent would even think about cheating ruins what Homecom-ing is all about.

The entire nature of what Homecoming stands for has been compromised.

Students have taken this healthy competitive activity and turned it into something disgust-ing.

This year, tradition and the integrity of what it is to be homecoming royalty has been tainted.

It is sad when something di-vides students so personally.

Based on personal actions, this institution and the history it holds has been destroyed.

Furthermore, why would personal values even be risked to win, when the prize is some-thing so insignificant that no one will remember who won it 20

years down the line?Then we went a little deeper

and asked members of campus Greek organizations why win-ning Homecoming would be so important to someone that they would cheat?

The answer was simple.It can be used as a selling point

when it comes to recruitment.Saying to rushees that your

sorority or fraternity won Home-coming King or Queen the previ-ous year just might be that extra push they need to want to join a chapter.

Also, it is obvious that win-ning Homecoming gives major bragging rights.

With all of the drama and speculation about the cheating scandal, many students took to Twitter and Facebook to voice their opinions.

“The amount of disrespect I’ve seen between organizations on MSU’s campus this semester makes my stomach hurt,” one student wrote on Twitter.

Let the Facebook and Twitter wars begin.

Through the Wichitan twit-

ter account, we witnessed some back and forth between mem-bers of Greek organizations that can only be described as catty and unnecessary.

Are people aware that every-one can see what is shared via social media?

Everybody should think twice before hitting the send button.

Then again, everyone should also think twice before suppos-edly participating in question-able activity that may or may not have involved cheating.

What’s done in the dark al-ways comes to light, as they say.

It will be interesting what kind of modifications we will see in the future.

The Student Government As-sociation should investigate the claims made by students and we hope they do this in a timely and honest manner.

Whether or not cheating went on during the election, without evidence the title of Homecom-ing King and Queen should stay with Zach Davis and Lacy Tal-ley.

Electronic cigarettes not tobacco products

I just had a comment about the ‘Up in Smoke’ article.

In the article, it states that the smoking ban on campus includes the use of electronic cigarettes. I’m trying to wrap my head around this as the ban is on to-bacco products.

An electronic cigarette is NOT a tobacco product.

It contains nicotine and either vegetable glycerin or propylene glycol or a mixture of both.

There have been studies done that say that the use of an e-cig-arette is much safer than smok-

ing tobacco and they have been supported by groups such as the American Association of Public Health Physicians as a possible way to save the lives of millions of smokers.

My husband, George, started using an e-cigarette almost 3 years ago and has not touched a cigarette since.

He was a smoker for 14 years prior.

Why ban the use of a device that is safe and has helped many people quit smoking?

All it does is produce vapor that is harmless to the user and those around them.

- Ashley tipton

Homecoming election system needs fixing

It seems like every year the homecoming elections are a fraud because students just go out and ask for other student's id numbers.

This year Lacy Talley won the homecoming queen and there are a lot of students who are up-set with the fact that she cheated

to win! What will be done to ensure

this won't happen again? When will an investigation take place?

I think this is not just a ques-tion of who won the election but rather the greater issue of student conduct and ethics actually being practiced.

What are we teaching all of the students who go to MSU if the administration chooses not to do anything with this?

- Andrew davis

And the Greeks win again. Who called it?

CoMiC BY JohnnY BLEVinS

Senior supports university president

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Ballard discussesoceanography and shipwreck discoveryShelby daviSStaff writer

Robert Ballard is best known for his discoveries of the R.M.S. Ti-tanic and the sites of the Bismark, Lusitania, Battle of Guadalcanal and the USS Yorktown. However, deep-sea explorer brought tales of extraordinary exploration to the table when he spoke during the Artist-Lecture Series on Oct. 9.

“I look at the world as a living creation,” Ballard said.

He gave the audience insight on why he chose to become

an oceanographer as well as on other issues that are important in understanding his success in this career.

The scientist emeritus at Woods Hole Oceanographic Insti-tution has conducted more than 120 deep-sea missions.

Ballard said ever since he vis-ited his first submarine, he has been obsessed with the ocean.

“I fell in love with the bottom of the ocean,” he said.

One of the world’s largest fea-tures, the ridge that lies deep in the ocean, was not discovered until after the United States sent a man to the moon, Ballard said. .

Only one-tenth of one percent of the ocean has been explored.

He said one feature that makes Earth different from other planets is the plates which lie under the ocean floor that are either moving to, away or against one another.

Ballard went on a mission and discovered deep in the bottom of the sea, where sunlight never reaches, there were still living creatures.

Around black smokers, un-der water geysers, lived 10-foot worms, a species that resembled a clam, and other living organ-isms.

After this discovery, the 70-year-old realized, because of his

daily commute from the top to the bottom of the ocean, he only spent about three hours under-water a day.

“It took me two-and-a-half hours to get to work and two-and-a-half hours to get home,” he said.

He started to design models for a computerized robot that could take the place of a human body having to be underwater.

He wanted to be able to make discoveries in the ocean while still being able to live a regular life.

Eventually, a robot was built that could stay under water 24/7.

The robot is dropped to the bottom of the ocean and is con-trolled and monitored around the clock by oceanographers.

This advancement led to the discovery of the Titanic and many of the discoveries that followed.

It also allows for some of the greatest minds to analyze infor-mation from virtually anywhere the moment a new discovery is made, he said.

“We do not know what we will find because our ocean land has not ever been explored,” he said.

The famed oceanographer is also passionate about the lack of teaching of oceanographic mate-

rials in the United States.“The United States spends

more money on childhood educa-tion than any other country, but we do not see the results.”

He said it is his goal to take children whose jaws drop when hearing about his discoveries and to turn them into scientists.

Ballard is part of the Jason Proj-ects and he helps to implement programs into schools and Boys and Girls Clubs that create a pyr-amid of learning so that students go from learning to becoming a part of a team that he hopes will fuel the future of oceanic discov-ery.

Titanic finder tells under the sea adventures

ADA supports and encourages students with disabilitiesMadiSON StaNfillStaff writer

The Association for Disability Advocacy is bringing attention to student disabilities.

Although the original organi-zation dissolved for a few years, the ADA was revamped in fall of 2011 and is ready to serve the needs of the university and its students.

“Last year I worked closely with several students to get it re-activated,” said Debra Hig-ginbotham, the ADA’s advisor. “Basically, the feel was we have so many students on campus with a disability (and/or close family members with disabili-ties) and this was a way to put a ‘face’ on the issue.”

Higginbotham, director of the disability support services, said she works to give all stu-dents equality and acceptance while trying to keep students informed of all disabilities.

One of the students that Hig-ginbotham worked with was Nicholas Laske, the president of

the ADA. Laske first became interested

in the group out of his own ex-periences with the learning dis-ability center on campus.

“The disability services on campus help me so much,” said Laske. “I jumped at the chance to help start this organization.”

Though the main goal of the ADA is to help raise awareness on campus, Laske said the sec-ondary goal is to provide a place for students to gather and sup-port each other and their friends that may have disabilities or that are interesting in learning more about different disabilities.

“The importance of promot-ing disability awareness to this campus is to help people under-stand that everybody is made differently,” said Laske.

Another key component of the ADA is to help fix mechani-cal problems that occur on the campus that affect disabled stu-dents.

One example of the problems that affect disabled students are automatic doors that do not fully operate, which causes dif-ficulty for some students.

The group also hopes to increase their membership

through various events, such as organizing fundraisers for lo-cal children who have physical, mental or learning disabilities.

Laske said ADA is not only reaching out to the community, but they are also reaching out to the campus.

“We are supposed to be put-ting on an event this month where students can simulate a disability and try to perform a task to show how hard some tasks are and the learning curve involved in overcoming them,” Timothy Fullagar, ADA treasur-er, said.

The ADA’s presence on cam-pus will help all students to fully grasp what it means to be disabled and how disabled stu-dents, though faced with chal-lenges that others may not have, are like any other person.

“We want to show people with disabilities that it’s not something to be ashamed of, but something to be embraced,” Laske said.

Disability awareness key goal for student org

this to move the funds into the base contract of the faculty. I thought this would be mitigat-ing.”

Some faculty members sug-gested at Thursday’s meeting that there should be a pay cut for fac-ulty, staff and administrators.

Rogers said he doesn’t like the idea of an across-the-board reduc-tion in salaries.

“The plan is to increase faculty salaries, which is a top priority,” he said. “We must balance the budget, but cutting faculty sala-ries would be a very poor way of accomplishing this.”

Rogers said there was a mis-conception that disturbed him. Despite the belief of some faculty members and the anonymous e-mail to faculty sent out last Wednesday, Rogers said he and other administrators were not confirmed prior to the meeting.

“Dr. Stewart and I would have been present if it had been made clear to us that we were to be there,” Rogers said. “A couple of Senators indicated to me that it might be best that we not attend so that the faculty would feel free

to speak openly.Rogers said he will begin to

work with the Faculty Senate af-ter meeting with each individual college to discuss the Faculty Sal-ary Enhancement Plan.

Dale McDonald, Faculty Sen-ate member, was the only one to not participate in the roll call.

During the meeting, McDon-ald said he wanted to meet with his colleagues before making a decision.

“I personally am very much in the information gathering stage in my role representing the College Science and Mathematics on the Faculty Senate,” McDonald said. “I am looking forward to the op-portunity to listen further to the thoughts and ideas of President Rogers, Provost Stewart and Vice President Fowle in the discussion with the faculty.”

Foreign language instructor Sarah Butler said faculty morale is low.

“Many feel helpless against the trends of education in our state,” Butler said. “It seems that fac-ulty and administration are often working at cross purposes.”

At the Faculty Senate meeting, Butler voiced her opinion on the university not fully focusing on academics.

“Having a voice on campus is important for everyone, includ-ing the faculty,” she said. “The Faculty Senate is an effective body for making that voice heard. It is the faculty’s responsibility to communicate with its representa-tives on the Senate about issues of concern.”

Rogers said he is pleased that the Faculty Senate stated their recognition of the need to bal-ance our current budget.

“We are going to propose that Dr. Stewart and Dr. Fowle and I worked with six faculty mem-bers from each college to redraft the proposal and propose more cuts.”

Rogers said he will then bring that redraft to the Senate.

“I want everyone to know that we have been refining the draft plan for our future discussions,” he said.

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ment regarding the incident or to show the policy Talley referred to.

Members of the Sigma Kappa sorority won every other catego-ry, from freshman princess to se-nior duchess. Voting participation ranged from 111 votes to 586 per category. Overall 616 students, 10.42 percent of students en-rolled, voted in the election.

“Not only is it crap that they cheated, but also it’s really fishy, how only Sigma Kappas won the ballot,“ DuBois, also MSU 2 Campus Watch producer, said.

DuBois said she talked to Mi-chael Mills, Student Government Association adviser, about the is-sue on Tuesday. Mills said if voter fraud was in fact committed, a formal protest would have had to be filed in accordance to the SGA bylaws.

Finding evidence proved to be difficult, Dubois said. She spent hours on her phone, talking to people across campus, to see if anyone had something she could show.

“One person had a text mes-sage, and she was like ‘Lacy Tal-ley is my really good friend and I don’t want to get my name in trouble for giving you the text message,’” DuBois said. She of-fered to submit the message anonymously, but the evidence was deleted shortly after the con-versation.

A text message was turned into Mills later that week, but the message did not reveal spe-

cific details.“It did not identify who they

were recruiting for and it didn’t even say ‘Hey I’m going to vote for the homecoming election.’ It just said ‘Hey, what’s your M-number?,’” Mills said.

However, the Wichitan ob-tained the questioned text mes-sage, sent Oct. 8 at 1:15 p.m., which states, “Can I have your M-numbers so I can vote for homecoming.”

After receiving that evidence, Mills said he contacted DuBois and asked her if she wanted to file a formal protest. She declined, he said. DuBois, however, said she had been under the impression it was already too late to file the protest.

The SGA bylaws state that a protest has to be made in writing by 5 p.m. on the next school day following the election. It is not clear if that means after the elec-tion closes or after the results are announced.

“Without a formal protest, that was pretty much the end of the discussion,” Mills said.

SGA President Anthony Gal-lina said he heard about rumors, but chose not to be involved since he was part of the elections and did not want to be accused of favoring anyone.

A different student, who wishes to remain anonymous, confirmed that text messages did exist and had been sent to students.

Another source, which also wishes to remain anonymous,

stated that women from the Sig-ma Kappa sorority were asking people in classes for M-numbers and saving them to their phones.

“If there is evidence of wrong-doing, an appeal should be filed with the Elections Board,” Lamb said.

The situation turned into a social battlefield via Facebook. DuBois posted a status about the alleged cheating right after the homecoming game. The status received more than 90 likes and several comments, both positive and negative.

Unrelated to this controversy, Mills said the voting system will be updated in the fall of 2013. Elections and student voting will take place behind the university portal system, more than likely through OrgSync, Mills said.

“The portal will involve more personal information about each student, so in turn, if someone asks for a students log-in informa-tion for the portal system, there is a significantly less chance that they will give that number out,” Gallina said.

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During this week it closes at 2 a.m. instead of midnight.

“There is not a good time to do any kind of updates,” Dye said, but he assured that the wireless

network should not be down again in the near future.

Students can find log-in in-structions and where the campus hot-spots are located on the infor-

mation system website.

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The image on the right shows the text message that was given to the Student Government Association last week. The person who received the message wishes to remain anonymous.

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Freshman connects with campus life through secret identityMakayla kinneySTaFF WRiTeR

Mascot life is not all about football games and pep rallies.

On Oct. 16, the university celebrated Maverick’s sixth birthday.

The man behind the horse getup takes his role as a sym-bol of the university very seri-ously.

“He’s always involved in something on campus,” said Lynzee Jordan, sophomore co-ed cheerleader. “He is really big on school spirit. He is so random, but he is hilarious.”

Jordan said Maverick is one of the best mascots she has ever worked with.

She said he is eager to be involved in campus activities and excited about participating at events he is not required to attend.

Sophomore co-ed cheer-leader Lauren Statham said she works with Maverick all the time.

She said he comes to cheer-leading practices even though he is not required.

She said when he first be-came the mascot, he decided he wanted to start tumbling with the cheerleaders.

“He goes places he doesn’t have to be,” Statham said. “He goes just to support. He’s very whole-hearted in everything he does. He’s very passionate about the team. He brings up

the spirits on the team.”Freshman all-girl cheer-

leader Cammil McClellan said she agrees Maverick is one of the best mascots she has ever seen.

McClellan said Maverick does everything he can to be the best mascot possible and he goes above and beyond to better himself.

“He lightens the mood in practice and is always happy,” McClellan said. “He wants to be the best mascot possible and do things no other mas-cot does. Any time the squad tumbled, he participated. I can definitely say everyone appreci-ate his positive attitude on the squad. He loves MSU and it shows.”

Maverick met with the Wich-itan at his birthday celebration to explain the pros and cons of being the university mascot.

What made you decide to be MSU’s mascot?

MM: I did not really have a choice in becoming the mas-cot. The cheerleaders con-vinced me to be Maverick the Mustang. At Spirit Days this summer, I danced on the stage. I went up there, busted it and that’s how it all went down. I am really goofy and out there. I always wanted to be the mas-cot throughout high school. It has always been in the back of my mind.

Why did you choose MSU?

MM: I grew up here with my family. I lived here until I was eight and then moved be-

cause I had a military family. What are some activi-

ties you enjoy outside of school?

MM: I’m a big music per-son. I can actually play six instruments including guitar, bass guitar, piano, drums, uku-lele, mandolin and trumpet. I started playing piano when I was younger, and I played for four years. I was in the band in middle school. The summer before my freshman year in high school, I taught myself to play guitar.

What is your favorite part of being Maverick the Mus-tang?

MM: I enjoy working with people and making them smile. I’ve always been good with kids. Being the mascot, you have to be good with kids. The best thing for me is playing with the kids and seeing them happy.

Is being Maverick the Mustang a hard secret to keep?

MM: It’s really hard being a secret. Sometimes people see me in cheerleading shirts go-ing to practice or just around campus and wonder why they haven’t seen me cheer. Once one person finds out, they get excited and want to tell every-one.

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Maverick the Mustang at Saturday’s Homecoming game.Photo by HanWOOl lee

Despite efforts, some students didn’t make it very far during the cardboard boat race.Photo by BekaH TiMM

Radiology club member preforms skit for students at the bonfire rally.Photo by MeGHan MyRaCle

Students light torches during for the parade that led to the bonfire on Thursday. Photo by kiRSTen CaSkey

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The women’s soccer team celebrates accomplishments during the bonfire rally Thursday night. Photo by niCOle BaRROn

Mad Chad excites MSU students with his daring talentCody Parishstaff Writer

As part of Homecoming Week festivities, the University Pro-gramming Board juggled their resources and brought in Mad Chad, the Chainsaw Juggler, to entertain students with his one-of-a-kind show on Oct. 10.

His hour-long routine consisted of innovative, and often danger-ous, juggling tricks with plenty of humor and crowd participation thrown in the mix.

Any and all items were fair game to juggle for Mad Chad, who progressed from tennis balls, to silicon breast implants (with a hilarious story about an ex-girlfriend and tax write-offs), to 100,000 volt stun guns.

At one point later in the show, Mad Chad let the audience choose any item they wanted for him to juggle.

The crowd voted enthusiasti-cally for a folding chair, which was juggled with a ten-pound steel shotput and a raw egg.

Another potentially dangerous trick included juggling knives and an apple while balancing on a unicycle.

Any time the crowd yelled, “Eat it!” Mad Chad would take a bite out of the apple while con-tinuing to juggle the three items.

Though he fell off the unicycle toward the end, Chad managed to finish the juggling successfully.

Despite the wide range of items used in the act, it was no surprise that students like sopho-more Mechanical Engineering major Eduardo Juarez came out mainly to watch Mad Chad toss around some chainsaws.

Starting with one chainsaw and two pink rubber balls, Mad Chad gradually added two more chainsaws while taking out the rubber balls until he juggled three running chainsaws.

To prove that the chainsaws

were unaltered and very dan-gerous, Chad took out pieces of wooden two-by-fours and cut chunks out of them with each chainsaw.

At the end of the show, Mad Chad first juggled a chainsaw and the two rubber pink balls blind-folded, and then performed the same trick without the blindfold while balancing on an upside-down skateboard that was on top of a rolling blue cylinder.

For Juarez, the coolest trick executed by Mad Chad was the juggling of the three running chainsaws.

“It was crazy!” Juarez said with satisfaction.

Mad Chad Taylor has been per-forming his act on stages around the country for more than 20 years.

He was born in Seattle, WA, and moved to Los Angeles when he was young.

His father was a cameraman and wanted to move to L.A. be-cause he knew more job opportu-nities lay in that area.

Subsequently, that environ-ment helped to build Chad’s fu-ture career as a live performer.

“I learned to juggle when I was 13 years old,” Chad said reminis-cently.

“I got a book for Christmas called Juggling for Idiots. There were three bean bags and an in-structional book on how to jug-gle.”

Chad said he had so much fun juggling that he entered a high school talent show and, from there, evolved into a performer.

After high school, Chad began performing street shows in Los Angeles and then moved his tal-ents to Venice Beach.

“In Venice Beach, you don’t have to audition. It was first come, first serve,” Chad said.

“You get a spot, and if you’re entertaining enough, then peo-ple will watch. It’s a very good thing.”

According to Mad Chad, the people of Venice Beach loved dangerous stunts.

Chad used knives and torches to please the crowds early on; however, the chainsaws that are now the staple of Mad Chad’s routine didn’t appear until the late 1990’s.

“For a beer commercial, of all things, they asked if I could jug-gle one chainsaw with two balls,” Chad explained.

“I learned the trick for the commercial, and I knew every-one in Venice Beach would want to see it, so I started performing the trick right away.”

Chad said that in the begin-ning, juggling the chainsaws was very scary.

He pointed out that chainsaws,

especially in the 1990’s, were heavy, loud, and hard to grip due to the strong vibrations running through their handles.

Chad started out using one chainsaw for the beer commer-cial and eventually got comfort-able enough to add two more.

Though he has had plenty of time to get comfortable juggling the chainsaws, Chad admits to getting extremely nervous during some of his performances.

“When I’ve been on television shows with super bright lights that blind you, I’d get nervous all over again.”

Currently, Chad performs 80 to 90 days of the year, mostly on college campuses.

He also does shows on cruise ships, comedy tours, corpo-rate parties and sports halftime

shows. The rest of his work is in the

L.A. area so he can spend time with his wife and two children.

“I’ve got a website called six-tysecondtv.com,” said Chad. “I go and try to film up-and-coming performers and get their permis-sion to put it on my website.”

He also shot a documentary called Buskers about street per-formers around the world, which has made its way onto Netflix.

Although Chad enjoys filming other street entertainers perform-ing for crowds, he prefers to be the one on stage entertaining.

“My favorite part about per-forming is that it’s so fun when you get on the stage,” said Chad. “It’s just you and the audience. It’s nothing but fun.”

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Local musician shares her talent at Sakura Sushi Barruth fitzgerald-BlaCkstaff Writer

The musical styling of Ayrian Boyd, 21, will keep listeners cap-tivated with her talents as a pia-nist and vocalist right in the heart of Wichita Falls.

Boyd showcases her talent in the evenings at Sakura Sushi Bar, located at 2617 Plaza Parkway, on Monday and Saturday at 6 p.m.

This relaxed environment fully welcomes her mellow sound that almost dances on the brink of perfection.

While enjoying a sushi dinner, one can enjoy Boyd’s soothing pianistic style and a voice that has a mouth-dropping range of sound while keeping in perfect pitch, having complete control of her voice.

In fact, if one didn’t realize there was a live artist snuggly tucked in the corner of the sushi bar, one might actually think a professionally-produced track is playing in the background—she’s that good.

Boyd has masterfully harnessed her voice to accommodate any type of musical genre without her volume level overpowering any light conversation the diners around her might be having.

Boyd began her journey into the music world by singing with her dad at their church at age four.

She was an instant sensation and has been singing in church ever since.

She didn’t actually start play-ing piano until she was 9 years old. She was encouraged by her parents, in that it would be ex-tremely beneficial should she de-

cide to pursue a music career.“At first, I really hated it,”

Boyd said, “But when I was 15, my dad began pastoring at a church and we had no musicians for worship service, so I started playing church music. That was probably when playing really took hold of me and I began to enjoy it.”

According to Boyd, she only knew about three songs in her early days as a pianist in her fa-ther’s church, so they would just play those three songs until she learned more.

She admits the process was frustrating, but at some point everything just clicked and she loved it.

When she entered McNiel Ju-nior High, she hesitantly joined choir. Boyd thought they would only cover extremely stuffy music, and she was more accustomed to gospel music at that time.

“I have to say that it changed my life,” Boyd said. “I bonded so much with classical music that it’s what I based my future on.”

Boyd went on to make the All-State Women’s Choir two years in a row (2008-2009) at Rider High School.

She really wanted some schol-arship money for college and was an average student, academically, so she threw herself into practic-ing her music at school.

“It was really stressful, but I was so proud of myself when I made it,” she said. “It helped me to get a music scholarship at MSU.”

Her parents supported her ev-ery step of the way. Her mom would attend auditions with snacks and provided special teas for her throat if she wasn’t feel-ing well.

According to Boyd, both of her parents never missed any of her concerts, and maintain that

level of support to this day.Not surprisingly, Boyd’s talent

runs in the family. Her father, Doug Boyd, is an

excellent vocalist and bassist and currently plays bass in the popu-lar local band, James Cook and the Audacity.

Boyd’s 16-year-old little broth-er, Daniel, is also a musician.

He began playing drums at 10- years-old and then he learned how to play both the acoustic and electric guitar.

Daniel plays along with his sis-ter on Mondays and Saturdays at Sakura Sushi Bar.

According to Boyd, she really enjoys that, because adding a lit-tle guitar or percussion can bring in a whole new element that allows for more contemporary styles that the piano alone cannot accommodate.

“He covers some solo stuff like Bob Marley and Jason Mraz,” she said. “He’s just an awesome mu-sician.”

Boyd draws her musical inspi-ration from a whirlwind of styles ranging from gospel to indie. Vo-cally, she patterns herself after Sara Bareilles.

“She is so smooth,” Boyd said. “While she can really sing from her gut, she also gets pretty mel-low. I like how versatile she is.”

Surprisingly, Boyd’s true pas-sion for music lies in teaching.

A music education major, Boyd hopes to find a teaching job as soon as she graduates in May.

“The music industry is so fick-le,” she said. “I just don’t see my-self as someone who gets famous. I’d rather teach music more than anything.”

Boyd further explained that she really isn’t very interested in performing as a means for a ca-reer.

“I perform at Sakura because it’s light entertainment and I’m

not all up in the spotlight,” she said.

“My favorite place to sing is at church. Secular music can be fun, but to me, it just doesn’t have the depth and meaning that gospel music has.”

However, if she could dabble in a different genre of music, she would try her hand at more “bluesy,” Janis Joplin-styled mu-sic, she said.

Boyd said she can play the blues a bit since she grew up sing-ing gospel music, but she would really enjoy letting-loose with a more grainy style like Joplin’s.

Boyd further explained she has written her own music and lyr-ics for gospel music and has even been able to perform her original work at church.

Those songs are extremely per-sonal to her, and since they are so close to her heart, are even more fulfilling to get to perform in front of the congregation.

“The songs I play at Sakura are usually all covers of artists that I really like,” she said.

“I’ve done Sara Bareilles, In-grid Michealson, Prescilla Ahn, Bon Iver, Coldplay and Wild-child. Most of it is pretty mellow, but they all throw some fun stuff in their music.”

She also covers a few oldies, such as ‘Dock of the Bay’, ‘Geor-gia’ and ‘The Way You Look To-night’ because she said people tend to know them by heart.

“People know and love these songs…and they tip for them!” she said.

When asked about her prefer-ence in music that she listens to, Boyd said that she loves Texas, but just can’t seem to get into the country music route.

Her roommate loves it, she said, so she is surrounded by it all the time, but not by choice.

“It all sounds the same to me,”

she said. “I appreciate the talent, but I’d rather not have to endure the sound.”

While Boyd has a special mu-sical talent by nature, she has worked her entire life to achieve being one of the most impressive acts in Wichita Falls.

In addition to her musical tal-ents, Boyd divulged to the Wichi-tan a secret talent that the gen-

eral public might not know about her.

“I make really awesome ve-lociraptor noises,” she said with a grin. “I can also make extremely convincing goat noises, but they aren’t half as cool.”

Diamond-in-the-rough

Mad Chad is seen performing his signature trick.Photo by shaNiCe gloVer

Ayrian and Daniel Boyd playing for the crowd at Sakura Sushi Bar.Photo by MeghaN MyraCle

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Ben & Kate FOX - Tuesdays @ 7:30 p.m.Why? Why? Why must this show be such a disap-pointment? It had such a promising pilot episode. It was funny and refreshing. Now, as the season goes on and the hype over the show decreases, it leaves fans wondering if it will get better. This brother–sister comedy had so much potential, but the laughs and charm of the show just isn’t transferring. It does have the ideal time slot of FOX’s comedy Tuesday with Raising Hope, The Mindy Project and the show that shouldn’t be on air, New Girl. Here’s to hoping this

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Emily Owens, M.D. CW - Tuesdays @ 8 p.m.The CW is on life support and has been for a couple years. The demographics, and most impor-tantly the ratings, just aren’t there anymore. The network is surviving solely because of the intense love of Gossip Girl, which is on its series finale, and Vampire Diaries. This show stars an un-known Mamie Gummer who plays Emily, a first-year medical intern who is trying to find her way in a medical hospital that the show portrays to be

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are the worst this year with comedy after comedy being an epic fail.

ABC better give thanks to its golden ticket Modern Fam-ily because if it wasn’t on the lineup, the fall comedy shows on the network would be em-barrassing.

Watch the following shows at your own risk. Prepare for bad 90s humor, awkward audience laughing tracks and acting that makes Kristen Stewart look like Meryl Streep.

666 Park Avenue ABC - Sundays @ 9 p.m.If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again? Well, if this show was supposed to be ABC’s answer to “American Horror Story,” then they should go back to the draw-ing board. It is sad that after the success of Ugly Betty, Vanessa Williams has attached herself to this train wreck. Despite the “666” title, this show is not scary. It is a far cry from The Walking Dead or even The Twilight Zone.

Partners CBS - Mondays @ 7:30 p.m.Another Ugly Betty star fell victim of being linked to a horrible show. Michael Urie plays a Jack-like char-acter from Will & Grace fame, who is best friends and business “partners” with a heterosexual male. The dry gay-straight humor begins! Partners is not like The New Normal. This show would have maybe been funny in the 90s, but in 2012 the jokes are ridiculous and the chemistry between the cast is lacking.

Nashville ABC - Wednesdays @ 9 p.m.Dear ABC, thank you for creating a TV version of “Country Strong.” – said no one. Not only has Hayden Panettiere not been relevant for anything other than her good looks since Remember the Titans (sorry, but who remembers Heroes?), but this Reba McEntire-type singer versus a Taylor Swift-type singer didn’t work for Gwyneth Paltrow and it’s not working in this show. Get it off my TV screen STAT!

Waxing poeticStudents share poetry at local taco shoperin Wrinkle

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On Thursday, MSU students, faculty and alumni gathered at Fuzzy’s Taco Shop for the semes-terly event Poetry Slam by the MSU writing center.

Dawn Bond, a teacher assis-tant in the English Department, opened up the night with an open mic for anyone willing to share their poems.

“Whoever wants to read their poems can,” Bond said. “We set up a calm and relaxed environ-ment.”

Although a few students came to the poetry slam just because some teachers offered extra cred-it, many more came for the en-

joyment of reading and listening to the great poems. The Fuzzy’s party room was standing room only.

One sophomore student, Jona-than Lyne, read his poem titled “My Ideal Girl” so he could get extra credit for his class. His poem was all about a famous rap-per. “I just don’t want to marry Nikki Minaj.”

Lyne said the poem took him about 45 minutes to write, so he had been writing poetry for about 45 minutes.

MSU graduate Charis Thomas also shared her poem, “Impris-oned,” which was about a bad break up she experienced.

“Poetry is my thing. I like it and when I heard about it I just had to come,” Thomas said. “I have been writing a really long

time but I really started taking it seriously when I was about 15.”

If you’re interested in writing poetry, the Writing Lab has 12 tutors with Kristen Garrison serv-ing as the advisor. The Writing Center helps students with prob-lems they have, English graduate student Rosalie Saenz said.

English graduate student Sar-ah Leeth said the writing center helps students find patterns of problems to help them become better writers instead of just fix-ing papers.

The Writing Center plans to put on more functions including NaNoWRIMO November 1st for National Writing Month.

The Writing Center is also open to help all MSU students in Bea Wood 224 Monday-Thursday 9 a.m.- 4 p.m.

Junior criminal justice and english major Matthew Morales delivers his poem.Photo by nicole barron

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DAMIAN ATAMENWANSPORTS EDITOR

The Midwestern State wom-en’s soccer team was unhappy Friday evening after losing 2-1 to Incarnate Word in extra time.

MSU took the lead in the 55th minute when Ashley Cottrell con-verted Payton Fookes’ free kick for her fifth goal of the season.

However, the Lady Mustangs’

joy was taken away a few sec-onds later when the Cardinals’ Sarah Johnson struck an 18-yard shot towards the goal.

With nothing to separate both teams at the end of 90 minutes, the game continued in extra time.

Amber Guenther scored the golden goal and her seventh of the season barely 10 minutes into

overtime.Nevertheless, the Lady Mus-

tangs were able to recover Sun-day afternoon with a 1-0 victory over Angelo State University.

“It was a great win based on the fact we had a heart breaker on Friday,” said Jeff Trimble, head women’s soccer coach.

Emily Saville slid in her first goal of the season in the 32nd minute and was grateful to Katy Catney’s assist.

The Lady Mustangs will host Texas Woman’s University this Friday at 7 p.m. and Texas A&M Commerce this Sunday at 1 p.m.

“I like how we are playing. We have to watch Texas Woman’s speed and be physical with Texas A&M Commerce,” Trimble said. “I love our speed at outside mid-field and that should really help us. We have already improved but just need to finish.”

DAMIAN ATAMENWANSPORTS EDITOR

With about 85 weeks left to the 2014 FIFA World Cup, virtu-ally every football (soccer) league took an international break this past week as players focused on representing their countries in the qualifying round.

Spain, Germany and England found the back of the net mul-tiple times as each team took a step closer to Brazil 2014. After respective 4-0, 6-1 and 5-0 victo-ries over Belarus, The Republic of Ireland and San Marino, there is no doubt that these European gi-ants mean business.

It has been a little more than two years since Spain won its first World Cup after an extraordinary display in South Africa. This con-tinually growing team surprises and entertains some football fans with an impeccable style of play as illustrated in its previous fix-ture.

Jordi Alba scored in the 12th minute after a fine pass from Pe-dro Rodriguez and an impressive footwork from the former. Rodri-guez was able to double the lead eight minutes later with a cheeky

lob over Belarus’ shot stopper Sergei Veremko.

Rodriguez scored his second in the 69th minute with yet an-other lob over Veremko before completing his hat trick three minutes later.

Meanwhile, Germany was en-joying its luck with half a dozen goals against the Irish. Marco Reus scored the first two goals within eight minutes to under-line the German’s dominance in that fixture.

The Die Mannschafts contin-ued their scoring galore with Mesut Özil’s penalty kick making it 3-0 and Miroslav Klose’s beau-tiful goal doubling the halftime score line.

Toni Kroos summed up the annihilation of the Irish defense with a volley for the fifth goal and a 20-yarder for the sixth. Ireland’s consolatory goal was scored by Andy Keogh in the 92nd minute.

England was able to get past San Marino easily, courtesy of Manchester United and Arsenal forwards.

Wayne Rooney scored from the spot in the 35th minute while Danny Welbeck flicked in the sec-ond goal two minutes later.

Rooney continued his fine form and was able to curl in his second from the 18-yard line in the 70th minute. Welbeck followed suite again, two minutes later, with an assist from his Manchester Unit-ed teammate Thomas Cleverly.

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain sat-isfied the fans’ expectations with a fine chip over the goalkeeper thanks to Cleverly’s assist.

Stay in touch with the World Cup qualifiers on Sky Sport, Fox Soccer and BBC.

Emily Saville strikes the ball past ASU goalkeeper Danielle Edwards Sunday afternoon.Photo by KERRI CARTER

FIFA World Cup qualifiers update

MSU defeats Angelo State University

Lady Mustangs face tough losses at Homecoming games

Michelle Blount tips the ball over the net.Photo by MEGHAN MYRACLE

ORLANDO FLORES JR.A&E EDITOR

The Lady Mustangs had a tough time hosting two teams over Homecoming weekend when they faced off with Angelo State on Oct. 12 and Tarleton State on Oct. 13.

The volleyball team was blanked in both matches, drop-ping Angelo State 25-23, 25-21, 25-21 and Tarleton State 25-18, 25-15, 25-24.

Friday’s match with Angelo State started out well for the Lady Mustangs.

Both teams were able to trade points with each other at six points a piece in the first set, until a service ace from Alex Woolsey sparked a 7-3 run for the Lady Rams to give them a 13-9 lead.

The Lady Mustangs tried fight-ing their way back into the set, but the Lady Rams stayed one step ahead of them.

Angelo State was in clear con-trol in the second set, starting

with a 7-4 lead, as the Lady Mus-tangs tried to claw their way back into the match.

After a 24-17 set point for An-gelo State, the Lady Mustangs’ last attempt to get back in the set was sparked by a an attack error from ASU’s Shelbi Goode.

Brandi Flores and Shelbi Stew-art came up with one kill each, and another error from Goode brought the Mustangs within three points.

A service error on the follow-ing play, however, allowed An-gelo State to secure the set win.

The third set saw the Lady Mustangs hold their first substan-tial two-point lead and they were able to keep it up until a 6-0 run late in the set allowed Angelo State to pull ahead and seal the victory.

The Lady Mustangs’ standout performers for the match were Stewart (12 kills, 1 ace, 1 block), Caitlin Wallace (11 kills, 1 ace, 1 block), Kristan Aduddell (20 as-

sists, 11 digs) and Casey Fletcher (13 digs).

The second day of play did not go as well for the Lady Mus-tangs.

The first two sets of the Tarle-ton State game were littered with errors from the Lady Mustangs that allowed the TexAnns to take commanding set wins over MSU, beating the Lady Mustangs by margins of seven and 10 points.

The final set, Tarleton again came out and took a command-ing 11-6 lead, but a series of at-tack errors allowed the Lady Mustangs to go on an 8-1 run and take a 14-12 lead over Tarleton State.

As soon as the run started, however, Tarleton State bounced back with 6-0 run of their own with four of the points coming off of MSU errors.

The remainder of the set went back and forth. The Lady Mus-tangs were inches away from a set victory at 24-23, but Tarleton

was able to make the full come-back with a 26-24 victory.

Wallace again led the Lady Mustangs in kills with nine, while Aduddell also led in assists with 17. Casey Fletcher aided the Lady Mustangs effort with 18 digs.

The Lady Mustangs now stand at 4-17 on the season with a 2-9 record in Lone Star Conference play.

MSU will continue conference play on the road this weekend, taking on Texas A&M – Kingsville on Friday and Incarnate Word on Saturday.

The following week, the Lady Mustangs will continue their away trip with stops at Texas Woman’s University (Oct. 26) and Texas A&M – Commerce (Oct. 27) before making a final home stand from Nov. 2 through 10 to wrap up the season before the LSC Postseason Tournament.

DAMIAN ATAMENWANSPORTS EDITOR

Thanks to a combination of team determination and home advan-tage, the Midwestern State soccer team showed off an exquisite dis-play by defeating the University of Houston-Victoria 4-1 Friday.

“Everybody came here and played their hardest,” said Head Men’s Soccer Coach Doug Elder. “Houston-Victoria did really well and didn’t quit till the end but we were able to finish our chances.”

Len Smith marked his seventh goal of the season in the opening minutes of the game. The Mus-tangs held on to the early lead for 11 minutes before UHV’s Al-lan Bell’s superb finishing made it level in the 15th minute.

Nonetheless, Ben Clarvis helped the Mustangs regain the lead by heading in Andrew Power’s 22nd minute corner kick. VcMor Eligwe extended the lead in the 38th min-ute with an intelligent back heel after Power had set him up with a cross.

“We had five shots on goal in the first half which resulted in three goals,” Elder said. “You can’t beat that.”

David Freeland was tackled illegally in-box in the 77th min-ute thus the referee pointed to

the spot. Aaron Douthit sent the goalkeeper the wrong way for the Mustangs fourth goal of the night.

“It’s good that we went 3-1 up and held on to the lead,” Elder said. “We’ve given up some leads in the past.”

Even though the Mustangs humiliated the Jaguars, Assistant Men’s Soccer Coach Michael Wood felt the team could have done a little better.

“It’s good to get back to winning ways after last weekend’s disap-pointment,” said Michael Wood, assistant soccer coach. “But we didn’t play up to our potential. We have a lot to work on, and a tough few weeks of soccer left.”

After a successful home game, the Mustangs traveled to Arkan-sas where they defeated Ouachita Baptist 3-1.

Eligwe, Smith and Douthit

scored one goal a piece to mark their second in two games.

Fernando Garza’s pass made Eligwe’s goal possible while Clarvis assisted Smith. Douthit’s took advantage of a rebound off a Ouachita Baptist player to score the 89th-minute winner.

Elder’s team will visit Eastern New Mexico Friday and West Tex-as A&M on Sunday.

Ben Clarvis scored the second goal against the Jaguars Friday.Photo by BEKAH TIMM

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Homecoming KingsMustangs rumble with Angelo State at HomecomingMARK STEPHENSSTAff WRITER

The No. 11 Midwestern State Mustangs' defensive line fourth-quarter stand allowed a last-minute 35-28 victory over the Angelo State Rams Saturday at Homecoming.

After penalties and intercep-tions plagued the Mustangs' offense to the tune of a 28-21 Rams' lead at the start of the fourth, Brandon Kelsey set up a drive that resulted in a 10-yard Kelsey run to tie the game up at 28-28.

The following defensive stand forced an Angelo State three-and-out that resulted in a punt from the Rams' 40 yard line.

Blowing up the play, the Mus-

tangs special teams were able to push an Angelo State blocker into the way of a punt, causing it to go the wrong way and allowing the Mustangs to recover it on the Ram's 10 yard line.

The following play, Keidrick Jackson blasted through the Rams' defense and into the end zone to allow the Mustangs to come away with the victory.

The Mustangs recorded their fifth straight win for this season putting them at 5-1 for the year and 4-1 in Lone Star Conference play.

The Mustangs focused on the running game as they ran for 283 yards on 45 carries for 4 touch-downs. Kelsey led the way with 156 yards and two touchdowns, while Jackson added another 90 yards and two touchdowns.

The Mustangs were able to pull it out at the end, but the win did not come easy. The two teams went back and forth throughout

the entire game. In fact, this may have been

one of the toughest defenses the Mustangs faced this season.

ASU struck first with a field goal from Jarred Martin in the first quarter, but MSU was able to get a 19-yard touchdown run by Kelsey at the end of the first quarter to take the lead.

The Rams answered back in the second quarter with a 66-yard pass to CJ Akins from Blake Hamblin to retake the lead, and added another Martin field goal later in the quarter to have a 13-7 lead over the Mustangs.

However, the Mustangs were able to get a 1-yard touchdown run out Jackson to take the lead 14-13 into the half.

The Mustangs did not waste any time in the second half by scoring on a 21-yard touchdown pass from Kelsey to a diving Jared Freeman on their first drive.

Penalities and offensive mis-

haps by the Mustangs’ allowed the Rams to take advantage and scoring a 2-yard touchdown pass early in the third quarter.

That touchdown was followed by a 41-yard touchdown pass to Dakarai Pecikonis.

Time expired in the quarter to give the Rams the 28-21 lead they held before Kelsey's score and the botched punt.

This was the first time the Mus-tangs had trailed in the fourth quarter since the game against Tarleton State – their only loss of the season.

The Mustangs’ defense then held tough as they kept the Rams from scoring in the final minute of the game, despite getting down to the MSU 32-yard line.

The Mustangs look to contin-ue winning as they face Abilene Christian University in Abilene at 2 p.m. on Oct. 20.

David Freeland dribbles past a defender.Photo by BEKAH TIMM

Mustangs thrash Houston-Victoria JaguarsQuarterback Brandon Kelsey scores a touchdown against Angelo State University.Photo by MEGHAN MYRACLE

Place kicker Greg SaladinoPhoto by MEGHAN MYRACLE