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WEDNESDAY
September 29, 20 0
Vol. 93 • No. 18
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Theatre Wesleyan puts on
Chekhov's Vaudevilles.
A&E, page 4
The Rambler
he voice of exas Wesleyan University students since 191
The Lady Rams sweep their
opponents.
Sports, page 5
Bed bugs
Bed bugs feed on blood
by piercing exposed
skin with an elongated
beak, anywhere from
the face to the legs
Bed bugs do not transmit
any diseases known to
Bed bug infestations aren't
signs of hygiene or clean-
liness problems — even
luxurious hotels encounter
difficulties with them
Bed bugs can live for more
than a year without
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teeding
Bed bugs can hide in slots
Photo Illustration by Erica Estrada and Jonathan Resendez
Malicious beast or harmless pest?
Jonathan Resendez
jlresendez@mail. txwes.edu
Stella Hall director Harry Krider,
senior international business ad-
ministration major, said giving out
the names of residents who reported
bed bugs in their room was like giv-
ing out the names of people who had
diseases.
Krider's misconception that bed
bugs are caused by undesirable rea-
sons is one shared by people across
the globe.
"That's not the case at all," said Dr.
Ray Thompson, president of Inno-
vative Pest Management Associates.
"Bed bugs are totally indiscriminant.
They don't care as long as there's a
food source—and the food source of
course is blood."
Bed bugs aren't the result of poor
hygiene and can affect anyone, any-
where and at any time, according to
the Laboratory Identification of Par-
asites of Public Health Concern.
In early September, two female
Stella residents reported bite marks.
"We had two students come in
with some bites, some concern," said
housing director Sharon Manson.
"So we sent them to [nurse] Paige
[Cook] to make sure it wasn't any-
thing threatening health-wise."
After a bed bug infestation was
identified, Manson said the two
students, along with the neighbors
above, below and to the sides of
them, were temporarily moved to
vacant rooms while the rooms were
treated.
Housing contacted Myers Pest &
Termite Services who treated the af-
fected rooms in about four hours al-
though preparation took a week.
"In my mind I'm thinking, 'These
kids just got here; they just set up
their room; now we're telling them
to get everything they have out of it,"'
Manson said.
The nine students affected had to
thoroughly wash their belongings in
hot water before transferring to their
temporary rooms for a week. Man-
son said as much as housing did not
want to inconvenience the students,
they had to ensure the bed bugs
would not spread.
IPMA President Dr. Thompson
also serves as a consultant to Myers
and has studied bugs for the past six
decades. Thompson said he kept bed
bugs on his desk and let them feed on
his own blood while he studied them.
"The only saving grace of this par-
ticular pest, even though it's extreme-
ly annoying, is that they do not trans-
mit any diseases, right now, known
to man," Thompson said. "Even if
they feed on a person that has HIV
and they go feed on somebody else,
there's no transfer."
Bed bugs' ability to travel almost
anywhere are the results of their
ability to hide in miniscule spaces
paired with their potential long life
spans. Researchers have found that
bed bugs can live up to a year with no
food source, Thompson said.
Manson served as housing director
for Mississippi State University and
Louisiana State University and said
this is her first encounter with bed
bugs.
All the directors conferences she
has been to "they say, 'If you haven't
dealt with it [bed bugs], you haven't
dealt with it—yet,'" she said.
Research demonstrates
increase in tolerance
Strategic
plan adds
focus to
TWU goals
Jonathan Resendez
jlresendez@mail. txwes. edu
Wesleyan administrators
said they hope to increase edu-
cational quality and monetary
endowment, among other
things, as they forge the uni-
versity's 2010-2015 strategic
plan.
With previous plans in place
for more than the past 10
years, the preliminary draft of
the new strategic plan submit-
ted to the Board of Trustees at
the beginning of the fall term
focuses on six academic goals.
According to the Aug. 8 draft,
the school's vision is "to be
the premier student-centered
teaching and learning univer-
sity in North Texas."
"An educational institution
must be forever remembering
that their purpose is students,"
said Interim President Dr. La-
mar Smith.
Wesleyan is required to have
a strategic plan in place to re-
ceive accreditation from the
Southern Association of Col-
leges and Schools.
"We've always had some
plans in place," said Provost Dr.
Allen Llenderson. "Over the
last 10 years we've gotten more
detailed with them."
The six broad goals range
from developing and support-
ing excellence among the fac-
ulty to providing students with
programs that prepare them
for their professional career,
with specific action plans for
each goal.
Pati Alexander, Vice Presi-
dent for Enrollment and Stu-
dent Services, said administra-
tors check in with the Board of
Trustees at least once per se-
mester to monitor the strategic
plan's progress and to ensure
that goals are being met.
♦ PLAN, page 3
Shauna Banks
sbbanks@mail. txwes. edu
Nine years after the events of 9/11, tolerance
for individuals of Middle Eastern descent par-
ticipating in American society has increased at
Wesleyan.
In 2003, Dr. Sara ITorsfall and Dr. Ibrahim Sa-
lih of the sociology and political science depart-
ments presented results from a study done in
Fall 2002 by Horsfall's Applied Research Meth-
ods class. In the study, Wesleyan students were
asked a series of questions regarding their feel-
ings about people of Middle Eastern descent.
Seven years later, with the help of Tanni
Chaudhuri, assistant professor of sociology and
criminal justice, Llorsfall and Salih have com-
pleted a similar study with current Wesleyan
students.
"It's basically the second part of a longitudinal
study that started in 2002 after 9/11," Chaud-
huri said.
To measure the social distance between stu-
dents at Wesleyan and those in the Middle East,
an adaptation of the Bogardus scale was used.
"The scale has seven measures of acceptance,
from excluding the group from the country to
accepting them in your family by marriage,"
Horsfall said.
During the 2010 study, students were also
asked a series of questions to measure their
knowledge of international current events and
issues.
Students from various classes offered at Wes-
leyan during the Spring 2010 semester were
chosen at random, with an option not to par-
ticipate.
According to study results, 81 percent of stu-
dents given the questionnaire were between the
ages of 18 and 25, 55 percent in a relationship
at the time, 47.5 percent white, 74.6 percent fe-
male and more than half had an income of less
than $25,000 a year.
Horsfall said the recent study indicated fewer
students said diey were against Middle East-
erners entering the country than in the 2003
study.
This year 59 percent of students surveyed
strongly disagreed that Middle Easterners
should be kept out of the country, and 64.8
percent indicated that they would approve of
a person of Middle Eastern descent marrying
into their families.
"That speaks toward the diversity on cam-
pus," Chaudhuri said. "That speaks toward our
willingness to accept. It speaks toward if we
actually do have more international students
on campus that can enrich the learning experi-
ence."
Although data is still being analyzed, there
are plans to present the results of a comparative
study done with the results from both studies
at the Southwestern Sociological Association
meeting in Las Vegas in March 2011.
Salih said after that presentation, the re-
searchers hope to get at least five more univer-
♦ RESEARCH, page 3
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Mireya Gallegos, junior early childhood bilingual education major and Hispanic Women's
Network scholarship recipient, stands next to Amber Bailey's painting Embracing Opportunity,
which was valued at $350. Portions of the proceeds go toward the scholarship fund.
Network gives scholarships
Rachel Peel
rlpeel@mail. txwes. ed u
Hispanic Women's Network shelled out
tens of thousands of dollars to three Wesleyan
students over the past three years.
Cristina Ibarra, Mireya Gallegos and Clau-
dia Gonzalez won scholarships ranging from
$14,000 to $20,000 per year to Texas Wesleyan
University from the Hispanic Women's Net-
work for achieving excellence in high school.
The funds were earned by hosting a Latin art
show at the Rose Marine Theatre.
"[Students] must go through a scholarship
♦ SCHOLARSHIPS, page 3
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