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Editor in ChiEf Police Chief Michael Hagy told students something they al-ready knew Tuesday night. MSU has a serious parking problem. Speaking to the Student Gov-ernment Association, Hagy called the situation at MSU the worst of his 28-year career on college campuses. “When students would come to me last year and say ‘Chief, I can’t find any parking,’ I would say I could show them where the parking was,” Hagy said. “I can’t do that this year.” The parking dilemma this year stems from the construction spurt on campus, Hagy said, ren-dering more spots unusable.

Hagy said that 338 parking places were lost when the Mer-cantile building near Midwest-ern Parkway was demolished to make room for the new residence hall. That building’s parking lot was never popular because of its distance from classrooms. Hagy estimated that about 80 of those 338 spots were used at one time. Thirty spaces were also eaten up for construction on the Fowler building. “We’ve probably lost about 120 usable spaces,” Hagy said. “The other 250 weren’t being used anyway.” Hagy said a shortage of park-ing places existed before this year. Although 6,000 students currently attend MSU, the school has only about 2,700 spaces. Of

that number, 533 are reserved for faculty and staff. That leaves 2,300 spaces, one space for every three students. The result? Tickets. Lots of them. So far this year, the police department has written approxi-mately 1,950 tickets, Hagy said. The department started issuing citations on Sept. 1. Since the majority of the tickets carry $10 fines, about $20,000 will be generated if all of the tickets are paid. “I don’t have a single of-ficer in my department who is just out there writing tickets on students because that’s what he wants to do,” Hagy said. “Park-ing enforcement is probably the least important thing we do as a

police officer, but we spend 80 percent of our time doing it.” Hagy said the job is time-con-suming because people continue to park in the wrong places. “This creates a self-perpetu-ating problem,” he said. When students park in faculty reserved spaces, faculty members then end up parking in student spots (if they can find them), and no resolution is reached. “Unless we can get people to park where they’re supposed to, we can’t address the problem,” Hagy said. He recommends that students arrive earlier for classes and park across the street at the Sikes

No quick fix in sight for parking problems

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Managing Editor Ronda Ivy, former art in-structor at Rider High School, has finally found a home. The Houston, Texas-native has lived in five U.S. states and three countries including Ja-pan and the Philippines. The wife of a military man, she hasn’t really had the chance to call anywhere home for very long. But she is finally making her mark on Wichita Falls, her home for the past 12 years. The Texas-native will hold the grand opening of Vincent’s Art Studio and Coffee Shop,

2003 9th St., on Oct. 8. She has big plans for the venue, she said. “This is someplace people can sit in big, comfortable

chairs and just relax,” Ivy said. Ivy earned her art degree from Baylor University in 1980. She moved to Wichita Falls with her late husband in 1996. She taught art and AP art

history at Rider High School for 11 years before opening Vincent’s. She was tired of teaching in the public school system, she said.

“I wanted to do something on my own and open a business,” Ivy said. Ivy has a little pre-vious experience in operating an art stu-dio. She owned and operated the Ronda Ivy Art Studio while

living in Indiana. “I want to get across the air and etiquette of art shows,”

Cup of CultureLocal art studio and coffee shop gives locals new place to relax

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When it comes to campus safety, students need to be vigilant, MSU Police Chief Michael Hagy told student government representatives Tuesday night. Students, he said, need to be on the look-out for “disgruntled” behav-ior among their peers. Hagy recommended that any threatening behavior be reported to the campus police department or the administra-tion. “Be our eyes and our ears on the c a m p u s , ” Hagy said. “We want to make sure everyone at the univer-sity is safe.” He said he doesn’t con-sider student alerts “tattletaling.” Instead, he views such reports as a safeguard. “A self-report by someone can go a lot further than wait-ing until after something has happened and having an in-vestigation,” Hagy said. According to Hagy, a pro-cess to deal with reports stretches beyond the police department. A report does not necessarily mean that action will be taken. “I don’t want anyone to think that the chief of police is going to take a report and drag someone into my of-fice,” he said. “I may not un-derstand all the parameters of what’s happening. People get

upset all the time. People get upset because there’s no park-ing. That doesn’t mean there’s going to be an investigation.” He said that the real con-cern begins when physical threats are made. “If what you tell me is alarming to me as the chief of police, I may pick up the phone and call the director of the counseling center and ask ‘would this be a concern to you?’” Hagy said. “That’s how we start developing

whether or not someone needs r e s o u r c e s . I’m not going to make that decision my-self.” Anoth-er course of action the uni-versity already has in place is the MSU Alert system

launched during the 2008 spring semester. Out of approximately 6,000 students, only 1,000 have signed up for the service. Stu-dents will be notified of possi-ble life-threatening situations by text messaging. Students must have a text-messaging plan on their cell phone to be eligible to sign up for the ser-vice. “As a progressive univer-sity, at least 50 percent of our students should be signed up for MSU Alert,” Hagy said. “The national average (for programs like MSU Alert) is about 13 or 14 percent, so we’re right about at the na-tional average.”

“It’s all about expressing yourself

through art”

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Crisis management still a top priority for campus police

Photo by Patrick JohnstonA car with two parking citations and and a notice from the MSU police department sits abandoned in the lot behind Sunwatcher Apartments. Parking on campus is a bigger is-sue this year than last, according to campus police.

“Be our eyes and ears on the campus.

We want to make sure everyone at the university is

safe”-Michael Hagy

Photo by Chris CollinsRonda Ivy, former art teacher at Rider High School, stands on the stage at Vincent’s Art Stu-dio and Coffee shop, which will open on Oct. 8.

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Chivalry is dead We live in a world populated by jerks. Would it be asking too much for someone of the male persuasion to open the door for a female student, especially when said female is pushing a dolly loaded down with bundles of The Wichitan through the rain and is quite obviously struggling to keep said newspapers from falling into a pud-dle? Apparently, in most cases, the answer is yes. It is far too much trouble for anyone (not just a man) to take ten seconds out of their life to hold open a door. In fact, some would rather laugh under their breath. This trend, in which all sense of common cour-tesy pulls a disappearing act, is all too common. No, a man shouldn’t lay his coat down in a mud puddle so a woman can walk across it and not get her dainty shoes wet. They shouldn’t get into duels to defend a lady’s honor. But opening a door once in a while? That would be nice. Not every person has the manners of an ogre. It’s just getting more and more difficult to find one who doesn’t. Take a chance. Go on, open up that door for your classmates on the way out of the building. Hold it for a few seconds instead of letting it slam shut in their faces. Instead of laughing at that freshman who dropped her books and notes all over the floor of the student center, help her pick them up. And ladies, you can be nice, too. If someone goes to the effort to hold a door for you, say thank you. Really, those two little words won’t kill you. We promise.

I’m usually not a very politi-cal person at all. Up until about a month ago, the only thing I cared about politically was that Hilary was out of the race. YESSSS!!!! But now that the election is com-ing up shortly, I’ve been hearing more and more about the candi-dates and their platforms, etc. One thing that has been sticking out in my mind is all the comments I’ve been hearing about Sarah Palin, John McCain’s running mate.

The things I’ve heard about her are at such extremes; people either think that it was a genius move by McCain or people talk trash, sur-prisingly not about the fact that she’s a woman. Since I was tired of hearing my friends talk about how horrible she is and her lack of experience (since they have SO much more experience at age 21 on running the country), I decided to research this woman myself and was pleasantly surprised with my findings.

Sarah Palin is pretty much amazing. She’s currently the gov-ernor of Alaska. Being McCain’s running mate makes her the first woman to run on the Republican presidential ticket and the first Alaskan to appear on any major-party presidential ticket.

She has been criticized for her lack of experience, which is ap-palling to me, considering that she’s been on the City Council, Mayor for multiple terms, Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Ethics Supervisor, and the first female and youngest Alaskan governor. I

realize that’s not the kind of expe-rience you obtain by being on the Senate, for example, but I think she’s made her city and state a much better place under her pow-er than many senators.

If you feel like bringing up the point that she’s a woman and therefore not good enough for this job, then just shut your mouth and grow up. P.S.: It’s the year 2008…in case you didn’t know. Sarah Palin is feisty and competitive. She has defeated men in elections on many occasions, even one who was a 3-year incumbent.

She first entered politics be-cause she was concerned that revenue from sales taxes was not being spent wisely and wanted to do something about it. And that wasn’t just some cheesy move to appear like she cares about some-thing. If she didn’t care about the issue, she wouldn’t have lowered her own salary from $68,000 to $64,000 when she was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska. True story. She’s real in what she says and does, which is one of many rea-sons why she is favored by the voters.

She is also concerned with mak-ing sure the citizens in the town and state are happy or fixing what they are unhappy about. During her first term as mayor, she had names of Wasilla residents in a jar and would randomly call one of the names to ask “How’s the city doing?”

She’s highly intelligent in all of her political moves. She talked with her department before they were allowed to talk to the press to make sure they knew about her

administration’s policies before they said something stupid to the media. If only everyone could be knowledgeable and think before they spoke. She also stands up for herself and is not afraid to dismiss the people who do not support her. She has fired people on her staff, ranging from a city librarian to a police chief for opposing her po-litical viewpoints. As a politician, it would have been stupid of her to keep those people on her staff if they aren’t going to support her.

She is also not afraid to call people out if they are doing the wrong thing, politically or mor-ally. She has filed a complaint on Randy Ruedrich, the Oil and Gas Conservation Commissioner for working for the party on public time and also on Gregg Renkes, a former attorney general, for a “financial conflict of interest.” If being brought to court didn’t catch them off guard, I bet having to pay a record $12,000 fine did. BOO-YAH!!!

Sarah Palin fights for lowered taxes and irresponsible govern-ment spending. She also supports abortion and gun rights, even though she is an avid Christian. I think this demonstrates how effective she is in bringing her morals to work and getting rid of unmoral people, but also realiz-ing that when it comes to making laws, not every citizen is going to share her same beliefs.

Some of her accomplishments include cutting property taxes by 75% and eliminating personal property and business inventory taxes. She has initiated the im-provement of roads, sewers and

bike paths, funding to the Police Department and has built a Mu-nicipal Sports Center for her com-munity. She has also traveled as far as the Kuwait-Iraq border and Germany to visit with wounded soldiers.

McCain did indeed make a ge-nius move when he chose Sarah Palin for the Republican Vice President. If the reasons above weren’t proof enough, here are a few other random facts that make her unique, relatable, and appeal-ing to so many different kinds of people. She appeals to men in that she has frequently gone hunt-ing, moose hunting that is. How cool and random is that? She’s also an avid long-distance runner, amazing high school basketball champion, and was formerly a sports reporter.

She also appeals to the women out there who are quickly be-coming an entirely new “vot-ing market.” She is definitely a family woman; she even backed out of running for the Senate be-cause she would have no time to be the “team mom” for her son. She was also a beauty pageant winner—I’m sorry, scholarship recipient, that is—where she also was named “Miss Congeniality.” Beauty, brains, and personality too?! What’s wrong with that?

Not all of the voting demo-graphic is made up of highly in-telligent, politic-loving nerds. They are sometimes just normal, average people like us who want someone rather normal to look up to. All I have to say is “you go, girl!”

Palin is just the woman for the job

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Lake Center or at the Wichita Falls Museum of Art. Shuttles will be provided to transport students to and from campus. For now, Hagy recommends that students take advantage of the shuttle service that will be offered from the museum and Sikes Lake, and to consider car-pooling. Offering more afternoon classes could also help alleviate the congestion, he said. “Right now at MSU at night, there isn’t a parking issue,” Hagy said. “At 1:30 in the after-noon, Monday through Friday,

there’s no parking issue. The parking issue occurs from 9 in the morning until 1 in the after-noon.” Currently, the majority of classes at the university are of-fered between those hours. “I’ve been an advocate since I came here in 1999 that if we offered more classes in the af-ternoon, more students would be here in the afternoon (instead of in the morning),” Hagy said Long-term solutions are in the works, Hagy said. The uni-versity is looking at bringing a consultant to campus to find

ways to maximize parking fa-cilities and find places to create new spaces. Additional parking will be created when current construc-tion projects are completed, Hagy said. Other buildings can be torn down to create more flat-level parking. The new residence hall will have almost one-to-one park-ing, he noted. “I hear every time we address this, someone raises their hand and says ‘we need a parking ga-rage,’ I ask, ‘Where would you like to put it?’” Hagy said.

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For The WichiTan The 30th birthday of The La-mar D. Fain College of Fine Arts will be celebrated this year by the addition of a donor wall in the college’s atrium. 30 years ago, Midwestern State’s College of Fine Arts opened its doors to students pursuing degrees in various art forms. Today, the college houses four different departments in-cluding mass communication, art, music, and theater and offers nine different degrees. With its top faculty and staff, Fain is an outlet for “right brained” think-ers to get their creative juices flowing. If you study one of these four disciplines, then Fain is more than likely where you spend your school days. What many students don’t realize, is that much of the money spent to fund the various art programs in Fain comes from private dona-tions. After all, The Lamar D. Fain College of Fine Arts got its name because of a generous two million dollar donation from The Fain Foundation in the early 90’s. “Donations are not included in the individual budget of each

college. However much money is donated is an extra benefit that each department decides how to disperse,” Kristal Amador, Di-rector of Annual Fund, said. At a small university like Mid-western State, coming up with extra cash is difficult, especially since our state funding has been cut from over 70% to 30%, and private donations help keep the college afloat. Recently, The Harvey Foun-dation created an endowment fund for Midwestern State’s art department, and The Juanita Harvey Art Gallery was born. “The endowment has already ac-cumulated more than $800,000, and it’s still growing. The money it generates will go to provide the art department with things rang-ing from scholarships to school supplies,” Amador said. It’s donors like this, donors who donate large sums, to those who donate small sums, that provide Fain and its student with new opportunities, better equip-ment, and a more cultured learn-ing environment. It was to accredit Fain’s gener-ous donors that the college made the decision to construct a donor wall in their honor. “The wall will cost around

$10,000, but the money donated will help in the advancement of the college as a whole, and the wall will pay for itself,” Amador said. $10,000 may seem like a lot of money to a broke college stu-dent, but when you consider the massive amount of money that the wall will represent, $10,000 is miniscule. “Dr. Farrell’s office is footing most of the bill for the wall,” Dr. Ron Fischli, Dean of Fine Arts, said. Dr. Farrell is the Vice Presi-dent of University Advancement and Student Affairs, and it is through his office’s doings that the wall is being constructed. The wall will be located near Fain’s main entrance so that friends and family of Midwest-ern can admire it and hopefully want to donate. “We chose to place the wall by the main entrance because donors like recognition. We are installing new lighting and by placing it where people frequent, we hope it will give an incentive to donate,” Dr. Fischli said. When people donate, they can either specify which department receives their money, or they can give a general donation with no

specific department in mind.

One can expect the wall to be divided into five, possibly six sections. They include Friends of Mass Communication, Friends of Theater, Friends of Music, Friends of Art, a section for those who donate undesig-nated money, and maybe a sepa-rate section for certain large sum donors like the Harveys and the Fains. Although all donations are ac-cepted and greatly appreciated, if you want your name on the wall, the minimum amount you can donate is $250. It may seem a little steep, but it’s really not a lot of money considering that your name will forever be a part of Fain’s history. The wall starts now. No past donors, with the possible exclu-sion of the large sum donors, will be on the wall. Once the kickoff begins, every donation from that point forward, of $250 or more, will be engraved on the wall. If you are interested in be-coming a part of the donor wall, contact Midwestern State Uni-versity Annual Fund at 940-397-4539 for further details.

Donor wall being constructed to honor those who give to MSU

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by Tim barker

McT High-powered, ultra-violent games like Grand Theft Auto get all the attention. But for video-game playing teens, including a growing number of girls, it’s about more than explosions and car chases. They use video games to stay in touch with friends. They play a wide range of titles featuring puzzles, music, sports and role playing. And the right games may even encourage teens to be more involved in their communi-ties, according to a study released Tuesday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. “Gaming isn’t taking kids out of the social mix. It is a part of their social lives,” said Amanda Lenhart, senior research special-ist with Pew. Teens liking video games is not surprising _ though the fact that 97 percent of them said they played one kind or another did surprise the survey takers. And while shoot-’em-up games like Call of Duty and Halo are popular, there’s a lot of diver-sity in gaming.

The top three genres named by survey participants were of the nonviolent flavor: racing, puzzles and sports. Action games, includ-ing the controversial Grand Theft Auto series, came in at number four. To some degree, this reflects the impact of gamers like Stacy Ross, 17, of Columbia, Ill., who shies away from rougher games in favor of titles like Super Mario Brothers. “I’m not really into sword fighting and killing things,” Ross said. There was a time not too long ago when video game discus-sions centered around male gam-ers in their teens and early 20s, and their preference for action and adventure. But the ranks of gamers have been swelled by fe-males, who often go for puzzles and simulations. The survey found that 94 per-cent of girls play video games, on computers, portable players, gaming consoles or cell phones. Males still play more often, with nearly twice as many boys as girls considering themselves dai-ly gamers. The Pew study, “Teens, Video Games, and Civics,” is based on a national telephone survey of 1,102 teens, ages 12 to 17, and their parents, conducted from No-vember 2007 to February 2008. While there is no historical data with which to compare the Pew numbers, some experts see the high percentage of female players as a sign that gaming has evolved into a widely accepted form of entertainment.

Gary Rudman, a California-based teen market researcher, credits the 2006 launch of Nin-tendo’s Wii with making games more accessible. “It’s opened up a world of gaming to non-gamers,” said Rudman, who tells the story of a frustrated teen, unable to play his Wii because his grandmother won’t stop playing. “The Wii sort of main-streamed it. You don’t have to have any particular video game skills.” Another piece of that evolution is the way an increasing number of game systems allow users to play with others. In today’s world, where par-ents tend to keep kids on a short-er leash, it makes sense that kids use technology to connect with one another, said Larry Rosen, a psychology professor at Califor-nia State University and author of “Me, MySpace and I: Parenting the Net Generation.” “Parents are happier when their kids are at home so they don’t have to worry so much,” Rosen said. “We’re looking at a genera-tion of kids who are growing up groping for ways to socialize.” There is an entire subset of gaming, generally referred to as massive multi-player online games, built around the idea of socialization. Players are often forced to work together to ac-complish specific feats, putting them in position to form quick, if not terribly deep, friendships. “It’s superficial, but in a good way,” said Bonnie Nardi, a pro-fessor of computer science at the University of California, Irvine,

who has done extensive research on the popular World of Warcraft. “People feel engaged and con-nected.” There is another aspect of game play that’s harder to quantify. Re-searchers wanted to know wheth-er active teen players were more or less inclined to be involved in civic activities _ things like vot-ing, raising money for charity or volunteering. The survey shows no real difference between active and less active players. “If people are concerned that their kids might be anti-civic or anti-social, we didn’t see that in this data,” said Joseph Kahne, dean of the school of education at Mills College and one of the study’s researchers. But the study did find that teens who take part in social activities related to their games said they are more likely to vote in elec-tions, keep up with current events and raise money for charity. It’s unclear, however, whether game-related social activities en-courage teens to be more civic-minded, or whether civic-minded teens are more likely to take part in game-related social activities. Still, the results do illustrate a factor of game play often dis-regarded or ignored by parents. There are many video games that offer a measure of educa-tional opportunities. There are also those in which players deal with moral and ethical decisions, learn to work with large groups of players, and get to make deci-sions about how virtual cities and worlds should be run.

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“(A reminder) of the fierce war-paint of the warrior’s pony as both the horse

and rider rode into battle.”

“Speaks of the

dynamic stricking ability of a

war party. Yet, at the same time,

the white out-line around the

lightning bolt holds the prom-

ise of a future peace where we

live in tranquility and harmony.”

“Stands for the repeated

cycle of life that ebbs and flows through-out the passage of time.”

“Represents the precious water that is so important to our region: and the white globes above, denote the many moons that we have lived here.”

“Stands for shel-ter, the shelter that our communi-ty provides for the collective popu-lace and for each individual citizen.”

“Represents all of the goodness

of life that shines over us.”

“The many vivid colors that blend into one an-other form a universal spec-trum. The univer-sal spectrum of a rainbow where each color retains its indi-vidual hue yet con-tributed to the beauty and harmony of the whole; it is a symbol of our community’s unity in diversity.”

Photo and Illustration by Patrick Johnston“Peaceful Warrior,” painted by Miguel C. Lechuga, is one of the 48 painted ponies that was a part of The Mane Event, the project of the Wichita Falls Leadership Class of 2007. The mustang is currently on display outside the Daniel Building, but the university has not determined a permanent loca-tion. Each pony cost $10,000, which included a $2,000 supply fund for each artist. MSU received a private donation to pay for the sponsorship of “Peaceful Warrior.” All money raised will be donated to Patsy’s House,

Downtown Proud, and Faith Mission. Comments about the symbolism are the artist’s own interpretations.

MSU welcomes its newest mustang to herd

Ivy said. “It’s all about express-ing yourself through art.” The Houston-native named her new venue after her favor-ite artist, Vincent Van Gogh. Photographer Dorothea Lange is another of her favorites. Ivy is currently teaching four art classes at Vincent’s: a two- to four-year-old class, a craft class and two adult classes. She also hopes to start teaching people from retirement homes and the mentally challenged as well, she said. “I want to reach out to those people,” Ivy said.

The coffee bar, a labyrinthine gathering of armchairs and worn tables, has been founded with a peaceful air, Ivy said. “It’s very peaceful and se-rene here. It’s a very homey atmosphere,” Ivy said. The venue has already hosted four open mic nights, where lo-cal musicians take turns play-ing sets of two or three songs. About 75 or 80 people usu-ally attend on these nights, Ivy said. David Thompson, a local musician, is in charge of music at Vincent’s. He plans to hold

open mic nights or Fridays and hire live bands to play on Sat-urdays. There may be a cover fee on these nights, Ivy said. The open mic nights have been a wonderful experience, Ivy said. “The musicians will not leave,” she said. “They stay forever.” Most of the current music at Vincent’s is acoustic/ folk-art, Ivy said. She won’t allow loud, dissonant music to be played in the venue because it might dis-turb the peaceful atmosphere, she said. “Peace and serenity are very

important in my life right now,” Ivy said. Ivy correlates stress and technology, she said. Table lamps, instead of fluorescent lighting, brighten the venue. No large TV screen has been plastered to the wall. A very modest PA system services the whole building, no small task for a venue that hosts live music twice a week and can accommodate more than 100 people. “When you complicate things, you add stress. I want people to be able to come in

here and leave stress at the door,” Ivy said. “We’re going back to the basics.” One of the only technolo-gies Ivy will implement for the venue is wireless Internet. Vincent’s should already be a wireless hotspot when it opens, Ivy said. Vincent’s will be a smoke-free, alcohol-free environment for all ages, though the venue will be catering more to the college-aged. “It’s the young people I’m targeting, though everybody’s welcome,” Ivy said. “There are

not many places in town where young people who don’t want to drink can go.” Ivy hopes Vincent’s will help young people communicate, she said. “I want people to talk and communicate,” she said “Ev-erybody’s going 90 miles an hour today.” Ivy has three children, Stephanie, 26; John, 21; and Michael, 17. John is serving in the Navy. Michael is a student at Rider High School.

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McT Pity that old cell phone lan-guishing in a drawer. It’s miss-ing out on a fascinating after-life. Most discarded phones in the U.S. are simply forgotten amid household clutter. A smaller number of handsets make it to a collection center for recycling or a reselling facility. For those phones, their fates can vary from being sold to consumers in developing countries to be-ing melted down for metals like gold and copper. But getting more consumers to think about their old phones the way they look at an empty soft drink can, as a product to be recycled, isn’t so easy. According to industry esti-mates, nearly 200 million cell phones will be sold in the U.S. this year. A large number of these buyers are already wireless sub-scribers with handsets, so more than 100 million phones will be retired. If improperly dumped

in a landfill, they can release toxic materials from their bat-teries, small fluorescent lights and other parts. These handsets also repre-sent a lost opportunity, because discarded phones often are still functional, and parts of non-working ones are reusable. Per-suading consumers to recycle their phones is part of a larger “e-waste” problem that envi-ronmental activists, govern-ments and companies are trying to address as they grapple with a tide of unwanted consumer electronics. The Environmental Protec-tion Agency estimates the U.S. cell phone recycling rate at 10 percent, a figure that’s been flat for the last couple of years. In contrast, 2006 data show that American households recycled 51.6 percent of their paper and 45.1 percent of their aluminum cans. Despite industry-sponsored collection programs, “most con-sumers still do not know where or how they can recycle their

cell phone,” said EPA spokes-woman Latisha Petteway. “Most people hang on to their old cell phones thinking they may use them again. ... (But) the result is that many people end up with an unused cell phone that could be recycled sitting in a drawer.” In the U.S., consumers tend to replace their handsets every 18 months or two years, partly because the industry offers up-grade incentives and also be-cause cell phones have become fashion accessories that can quickly lose their cachet. The reality is that with a little refur-bishing, many phones can last another few years beyond their initial use. “The more important issue with e-waste is resource conser-vation,” said Jennifer Bemis-derfer, a spokeswoman for the Consumer Electronics Associa-tion. “Electronics contain a lot of reusable, valuable raw mate-rials that are a benefit to every-one.” ReCellular Inc., a Michigan-based reseller and recycler of

mobile phones, expects to pro-cess more than 6 million hand-sets this year, said Vice Presi-dent Mike Newman. That’s double the 2007 amount, “but it’s nowhere near where it could be.” ReCellular sends just under half of the handsets it receives to be recycled for materials. The others are resold in their current condition or passed on to refurbishing companies. Discarded U.S. phones are often sold in overseas markets where consumers might not be able to afford a new handset. Colorado-based Collective-Good auctions about 55 percent of the 8,000 to 10,000 phones it receives every month to re-furbishers and resellers, some of which sell the used handsets abroad. The chain of players is long and murky, and CollectiveGood President Seth Heine acknowl-edges that it’s a “challenge for us to find out where the phones go.” Those in the e-recycling

business say some phones are diverted to smaller, overseas scrap operations with unsafe labor conditions and improper disposal practices. ReCellular gets “calls from people every day who want to buy our scrap,” Newman said, adding that high prices for such commodities as gold have prompted increased interest in electronic waste. “You can bet it’s someone who wants to send it over to China. But we’re in the business of re-use first.” CollectiveGood sends its end-of-life handsets to Umicore, a Belgian company that reclaims metals from electronics. ReCel-lular ships its obsolete phones to Sims Recycling Solutions, an Australian conglomerate with facilities in West Chicago and Franklin Park, Ill. The Illinois Sims plants pro-cess about 200,000 pounds of cell phones every year. At West Chicago, smaller electronics such as cell phones and com-puter monitors are fed through a shredder that reduces the devic-

es into tangles of copper wire and paint-chip-size pieces of aluminum and steel. The metals are later blended into alloys and sold. Bulkier items go through a much larger shredder that chomps up electronics in three stages, resulting in the same co-lossal piles of metal bits. Hale said awareness of elec-tronic recycling needs to be higher. CollectiveGood lets people who donate phones choose a charity to receive proceeds from the recycled handset. There are other programs, such as Verizon Wireless’ HopeLine initiative, that use proceeds from the sale of refurbished handsets to pro-vide phones and minutes to vic-tims of domestic violence. Heine of CollectiveGood also runs a program that pays consumers for their old phones. “Our mission is to protect the environment,” he said. “You can recycle your phones for love or for money, and we have a little mousetrap for each of them.”

Old cell phones find new life through recycling

The best movies by the Coen brothers are deadpan essays in dark comedy, with intricate plots and memorable character performances. Those traits ap-ply to their worst films as well, devilishly dry character studies that can seem like an inside joke between two closer-than-close siblings.

“Burn After Reading” is mid-range Coens, not as dopey as “Big Lebowski,” not as dry as “Fargo.” They’ve left behind the lyrical, literary and epic qualities of “No Country for Old Men” for an old school Coen-style farce, a comedy peopled with idiots and spattered with bloodstains, a film with profanely witty dialogue and so much plot you almost need to take notes in the dark.

It begins with the demotion and subsequent “I QUIT!” from Osborne, a CIA analyst. One of the great pleasures of the movie is watching John Malkovich, as that analyst, run through his repertoire of ways to say the “F word” as he melts down in scene

after scene. For instance, a CIA boss says he drinks too much.

“(Bleep) YOU, Peck. You’re a Mormon. To you, we all drink too much!”

Osborne vows to write his memoirs, which promise to be, well, something.

A computer disc of those CIA memories turns up at the George-town Hard Bodies gym, where personal trainer Chad (Brad Pitt) wonders how to cash in on the find. A second great pleasure here is watching Pitt play the prettiest dim bulb on the chande-lier, a guy sure there’s money in something he can only describe as “sensitive (stuff)!”

His co-worker Linda (Frances McDormand) is desperate for plastic surgery that her shallow job and shallower worldview tell her she needs. She’s lonely. If only she didn’t see the gym manager (Richard Jenkins) who

pines for her as a loser. If only she didn’t see Chad’s find as the financial solution to her surgical needs. If only she didn’t prowl the Internet, looking for Mr. Right but settling for one-night stands with every twitchy nar-cissist who comes along.

George Clooney, as his most narcissistically twitchy, is Harry, a married federal marshal who sleeps around and enjoys the fa-vors of Ossie’s icy pediatrician wife (Tilda Swinton) among others. He’s gotten through this life with a million-dollar smile, and finishes each coital interlude with a vain “I think I have time for a run!”

“Burn After Reading” is a paranoid vision of upper-middle class Washington, with every-body spying on everybody else. And since everybody is CIA or federal marshal or what have you, nobody can be sure that the

car tailing him or her isn’t The Agency or a cop or a private eye or a process server.

The film has an antic energy that waxes and wanes, and it seems to get winded just as the blood starts to spill. It doesn’t reach a climax, just a “Well, that’s all the time in Clooney’s/Pitt’s/Swinton’s/McDormand’s/Malkovich’s schedule we can afford” finale. David Rasche and J.K. Simmons play befud-dled CIA section chiefs who try to piece it all together for them-selves and for us, with limited success.

But with a wealth of lip-smacking character turns and a plot that keeps us off our guard, “Burn After Reading” takes its entertaining place among the better lesser Coen brothers films, even if it doesn’t burn it-self into our memory.

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“Beverly Hills, 90210” wasn’t something the current col-lege student watched and is a little past our time, but the new “90210” has taken the old plots and story lines and turned them into a modern day hit.

The new “90210” premiered September 2, 2008 on the CW, and airs every Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. This contemporary spin-off of the original drama fol-lows the life of Annie Wilson (Shenae Grimes, “Degrassi: The Next Generation”) and her brother Dixon (Tristan Wilds, “The Wire”), who have moved with their family from Kansas. The family includes dad Harry, (Rob Estes, “Melrose Place”) and mom, Debbie, (Lori Lough-lin, “Summerland”) who make the long journey to Beverly Hills to watch over the father’s feisty mom, Tabitha (Jessica Walker, “Arrested Development”), who suffers from an alcohol addic-tion.

The two teenagers deal with the awkwardness of being the new kids and also handle the fact that the principal is their father. Annie is a sweet girl with a pas-sion for theater and her brother

Dixon has brains and a nice bod as a star athlete. But note, Dixon is a foster child taken in by the Wilson family.

With a rather good looking cast, this new “90210” has come far since the original. No high school TV show is complete without the spoiled, rich girl played by AnnaLyne McCord from “Nip/Tuck”, the popular jock (Dustin Milligan, “Run-away”), the aspiring journalist at the high school (Michael Steger, “The Winner”), and lastly the rebel who produces and stars in a

You-Tube type of video-series (Jessica Stroup, “Prom Night”).

As for the faculty at West Beverly Hills High School, it in-cludes a smart and funny teacher played by Ryan Eggold from “Dirt” and a gorgeous guid-ance counselor played by Jennie Garth from the original “Beverly Hills, 90210”.

Also making a cameo from the original series, Tori Spelling stars as Garth’s former class-mate who owns a local clothing boutique.

The original “Beverly Hills,

90210” aired from October 1990 to May 2000. The show followed the lives of a group of teenagers living in the upscale, star-stud-ded community of Beverly Hills and attending the fictitious West Beverly Hills High School and, subsequently, the fictitious Cali-fornia University. It followed the lives of a family, with twin teen-agers, who moved from Minne-sota to California and deals with friendships, romantic relation-ships between a group of close-knit teenagers, and some topical issues including date rape, teen-

age pregnancy and gay rights.Some of the cast members

are still household names today like Jason Priestly, Luke Perry and Jennie Garth, who have all starred in the CW’s series “What I Like About You.”

When “Beverly Hills, 90210” began, the show dealt with the twins facing a different teen is-sue each week and as the show progressed, it became more character-driven with the char-acters entering into love-trian-gles. Then once they moved to college, the writing changes and

episodes were largely plot driv-en and much more soap operatic, as well as old characters leaving, and new ones debuting.

The viewings eventually de-clined and due to that and high costs associated with the show in its later seasons, FOX cancelled the series.

Reemerging as a new 90210, it is still expected to have drama, similar topical issues as well as hot bods and plenty of relation-ship issues. Tune in to see if this updated series can match the old one your parents used to watch.

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Jessica Charlotte Poland, bet-ter know as “ Charlotte Some-times,” is beginning to make some noise in the music indus-try. With an almost Lily Allen or Katie Perry sound to her music, this American born singer is on her way to making a name for herself.

The New Jersey native started out in dance and performance art until the age of 14, then de-cided to try her hand at an art she can create. She began to write and perform some of her own compositions, and released homemade EPs and one live CD that she recorded before she even graduated from high school. After graduation, Char-lotte embarked on her journey to the top.

The name “Charlotte Some-times” is based off a 1969 novel that follows a character that exchanges places in time with another girl from a dif-ferent year. Charlotte feels that both the character in the novel and herself struggle with self-perception and the perception of others.

Along with her quirky name, Charlotte’s impressive approach at making music that centers on her idea of connecting to each of her fans might make this singer-songwriter stand out from the crowd.

A recent interview has Char-lotte saying, “I want to make sure that whole emotional con-

nection is in each and every word and in each and every note of my songs, because if that’s not there, then what’s the point in music?”

The 20-year-old released a three-song EP in March and re-leased her debut album, “Waves And The Both Of Us”, in May of this year. The album focuses on telling the story of her per-sonal trials and tribulations.

You might have heard her first single, “How I Could Kill a Man,” which proclaims the truths of a relationship disaster that she has personally experi-enced.

Some other songs that are worth hearing include “Losing Sleep,” “Waves And The Both Of Us,” and “Sweet Valium High.”

Although Warped Tour is pri-marily known to be a punk cen-tered music festival, Charlotte graced last year’s fans with her presence and rocked out on tour in her retro style clothes and high heels.

Currently, this rising star scored a spot on tour with the ever-popular Gavin DeGraw, beginning this Sept.

Tickets will be on sale soon, so be sure to check out her debut album in stores now.

Overall, this chick has a very unique sound in the overwhelm-ing crowd of female singers trying to make it in the music industry today. The edge in her voice and the catchy lyrics to her songs truly make this singer someone worth listening to.

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The ensemble cast in ‘Burn After Reading’ includes big-name stars, including Brad Pitt (above), George Clooney and Tilda Swinton (right). The film brings big laughs by poking fun at not only every single character, but the CIA. Unfortunately, there are too many sequences that seem to drag on for far too long, and these weigh the film down.

WICHITA FALLS, Texas – Kelsey Hill completed her second hat trick of the season as the Mus-tangs beat previously unbeaten No. 15 Southern Nazarene 4-2 Tuesday afternoon at the MSU Soccer Field.

Not only had Southern Naza-rene not been beaten, they haven’t allowed a goal until Tuesday.

An offensive game plan from the Mustangs showed through-out the game as they were able to place 16 of their 23 shots on goal.

Former Rider standout and hometown product, Hill, has proven she plays her best while in front of the home crowd.

In four home games, Hill has all six of her goals on the season, consisted of her two hat tricks.

“She’s playing with a lot of composure,” MSU head coach Jeff Trimble said. “She stays focused under pressure and keeps her head up. She keeps control of the ball and finished well. I’m proud of her.”

The Mustangs opened the scoring with a beautiful Brit-tany Subia assist to set up Hill’s first goal in the 15th minute.

But the Mustangs didn’t have much time to celebrate as the Crimson Storm capitalized on a mistake from keeper Ash-ley Meek a mere 31 seconds later; Beatriz Silva scored on an empty net, knotting the score at 1-1.

Scoring chances were to be had for both teams in the first half but saves by both keepers halted any more goals from hitting the nets, sending the game to half at a 1-1 tie.

Whatever MSU head coach Jeff Trimble was saying at half time definitely worked, though.

The Mustangs came out of the half blazing, setting up shots on goal seemingly every possession.

Subia opened the second half scoring on an unassisted drive down the right side of the field to go along with her first half assist.

But once again the Crimson Storm came back scoring less than five minutes to tie it up 2-2.

Then, Hill scored two more goals as the Mustangs seemingly fed off of the home crowd to put the No. 15 Crimson Storm away for good, 4-2.

“At times, we take our home field and fans for granted,” Trim-ble said. “Our effort in the first half was unacceptable. I was proud of the way we responded in the second half, but we have a lot of work to do.”

Last Thursday, the Mustangs hosted the Incarnate Word Cardinals in a de-fensive game that they controlled for most of the second half.

The Mustangs never could capitalize on any scoring opportunities, though, while the Car-dinals made the most of their one shot on goal of the second half to sneak out the 1-0 victory.

Incarnate Word keeper Ashton Caffery came up huge for the Cardinals

stopping four shots in the second half alone in the shutout effort.

Midway through the first half MSU’s starting goalkeeper Heath-er Primavera had to leave the game with an apparent leg injury that also kept her out of Tuesday’s contest.

Meek has played well in re-placement of Primavera organiz-ing games well enough to let the offense have a chance.

This was the last home game for the Mustangs as they now will head on an eight-game road trip. They won’t return until they take

on the Texas A&M International Dustdevils on Tuesday, Oct. 21 at 4 p.m.

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WICHITA FALLS, Texas – With a two-week break in be-tween Friday night’s game and their next context, the No. 5 Mustangs were looking for a positive outing against the vis-iting Texas A&M International Dustdevils.

Junior transfer Nick Auditore connected for his first two goals of the season to propel Mid-western State to the 3-0 victory

and give the Mustangs a posi-tive start to two off-weeks.

“The first goal is always the hardest one,” Auditore said. “Hopefully more will come.”

Auditore opened the scoring in the sixth minute as he capi-talized on a mistake by Texas A&M International’s keeper Luis Ricon.

A Kyle Kmiec cross, meant for Auditore, was stopped by Ricon before squirting out and eventually hitting the net off the foot of Auditore.

In the 26th minute, TAMI defender Soamy Bautista vi-ciously tackled MSU’s Kyle Hyden from behind. The tackle sent Hyden off the field with an apparent leg injury while it forced the Dustdevils to play man-down for the remaining 65 minutes of the match.

“It was unfortunate about Kyle (Hyden),” MSU head coach Doug Elder said. “But then after the ejection, we let down.”

After playing to the 1-0 half-

time lead, the MSU midfield stepped up and gave the Mustangs a little insurance in the second half.

Midfielder Estaveo Alexandre scored on a header off of a Brian Martinez cross in the 76th minute before Auditore scored his second goal in the 80th minute to extend the final to 3-0.

“We knew they would be physical, but we’ve got to be able to handle that,” Elder said.

“We were able to get a few good chances to come away with the re-sult.”

The victory improved the No. 5 Mustangs to 4-1 on the season, as they will enjoy a two-week off period before traveling to face Regis in Denver, Colo. on Friday,

Sept. 26 at 2:30 p.m.They will also be facing

a familiar for, Metro State, on their Colorado road trip.

ADA, Okla. – Midwestern State rode three top-10 per-formances Saturday to take a runner-up finish at the East Central Tiger Chase.

Kayla Hendrix, Lindsey Pate and Andrea Borgman finished fifth, sixth and ninth, respectively, as MSU was the only other school with runners in the top nine except Dallas Baptist University.

“We were pretty relaxed to-day,” MSU coach Koby Styles

said. “We have three hard rac-es coming up, so today we had more of a workout mindset.”

Hendrix completed the 5K course in 19:38 to take fifth place, while Pate finished with a time of 19:50 to capture sixth.

Borgman finished ninth with a 20:43 finish. Kourtney Ay-lor (21:12) and Mallory Am-merman (21:50) rounded out the top five finishers for the Mustangs, who finished with a total of 50 points to place sec-ond behind Dallas Baptist’s 17 points.

Hassie Sutton finished 26th with a time of 22:20 and Min-dy Briones took 30th place in 22:40 to sum up the Mustangs’ day.

“I’m pleased,” Styles said. “We got a good workout and we’re ready to roll at Missouri Southern. I think we’re ready to shock a lot of people next week.”

The Mustangs will look to grow their first-ever regional ranking (9th) when they com-pete in the Missouri Southern Stampede next Saturday in Joplin, Mo.

STEPHENVILLE, Texas– The Midwestern State vol-leyball team competed in the Tarleton State Invitational this weekend as it looked to keep its record perfect.

The Mustangs relayed a strong message to teams in the Lone Star Conference and the rest of the nation as they con-quered all four matches to im-prove to 13-0 on the season.

On Saturday afternoon, Mid-western used freshman Kiara Jordan’s 11 digs to take care of Oklahoma Panhandle State, 25-16, 25-16, 25-12.

Junior middle blocker Aly-sha Pritt contributed 12 kills and Sesley Graves threw in five.

Setter Allison Schreiber continued her stellar play by racking up 39 assists and lead-ing the team to a .413 hitting percentage.

Earlier in the day, MSU shot down the Falcons of Texas-Permian Basin, 25-19, 25-27, 26-24, 21-25, 15-9, as six Mustangs had at least 10 digs in the five-set thriller.

“It was a really great defen-sive battle,” MSU coach Ven-era Flores-Stafford said.

Pritt had another productive game on her way to garnering LSC offensive player of the week honors with 17 kills and 12 digs.

Outside hitter Jessica Ran-som tallied 15 kills and 12 digs, while senior Whitney Maxwell and Graves each had 10 kills.

MSU’s all-time digs leader, senior Shay Velasquez, posted a team-high 17 digs to lead the defensive end and give her 1,800 career digs.

On Friday, MSU faced the Texas A&M International Dustdevils in what proved to be the toughest match of the young season.

The Mustangs were one set up but quickly found them-selves down 13-10 in the fifth set.

Texas A&M International failed to finish the upset on four match points and MSU capitalized.

Ransom and Maxwell had consecutive kills to bring the momentum back to the Mus-tangs to seal the win, 21-25,

25-12, 25-7, 24-26, 24-22. Once again, Schreiber led

the offensive attack, gained 52 assists to go along with nine digs.

MSU had a season-high 20 kills with a .447 hitting per-centage. Katie Guehler had seven digs for the Lady Mus-tangs.

“After being down in the fifth set, I’m proud of the way the girls fought so hard to win,” Flores-Stafford said.

MSU also handled Missouri Western in three sets on Friday, 25-11, 25-13, 25-15. Graves led the attack with 10 kills and Pritt ended the game with 13 digs and six blocks.

Maxwell had six blocks of her own while freshmen Hil-lary White and Miranda Byrd added four kills each.

“I’m glad to see we’re play-ing this well,” Flores –Stafford said.

While they have yet to cap-ture their second-ever Ameri-can Volleyball Coaches’ Asso-ciation national ranking, more votes keep rolling in for the Mustangs as they received the most votes of any team not in the AVCA Division II Top 25

poll. The Mustangs open confer-

ence play this week with a pair

of home matches. Central Okla-homa comes to town Thursday at 7 p.m. before Southwestern

Oklahoma comes to D.L. Ligon Coliseum for a match slated to start at 12 p.m. Saturday.

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ABILENE, Texas – Mid-western State’s Chad Bryant made a great first impression at the Charles Coody West Texas Intercollegiate at the Par-71, 6,977-yard Diamondback Golf Course.

Unfortunately for the Mus-

tangs, his even-par 142 was good enough for eighth place in the individual medalist compe-tition, but didn’t count towards MSU overall team score.

MSU sophomore Travis Klutts carded the Mustangs’ best round of the day with a 2-under 69, but the team couldn’t over come yesterday’s slow start and took a 10th-place overall finish

for the two-round tournament.“We played better golf today,

but with the weather conditions being so good there were good scores all around,” Ray said.

The Mustangs carded a two-round total of 599 (+31) after improving Monday’s 305 to a 294 in Tuesday’s final round.

MSU finished 40 strokes back of St. Edward’s, who fired a 559

(-9), but were just 15 strokes out of fifth place.

Bryant recorded rounds of 72 and 70 for a total of 142 (Even) to finish strokes behind the tour-nament’s top individual medal-ist, St. Edward’s Collin Mayer.

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LSC offensive player of the week Alysha Pritt and setter Allison Schreiber led the way for the Mustangs as the swept through the Tarleton State Invitational. MSU is having the best start in program history while getting closer to climbing into the AVCA Top 25 Poll.

Lindsey Pate running last weekend at the MSU Relays. Pate finished sixth at this week-end’s East Central Tiger Chase, one spot behind team-leader Kayla Hendrix.

Auditore Alexandre