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October 12, 201
Opinion
The Rambler I www.therambler.org
Chris hristie criticized or appearance
Eliana Mijangos
Sports editor
emmijangos@txwes.edu
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Chris Christie, Governor of
New Jersey, has been labeled "not
president material" for his obe-
sity issues.
According to abcnews.go, colum-
nist Mike Kinsley of ABC news is
calling Christie's weight a charac-
ter flaw that completely disqualifies
him from the race for presidency
All this said to a man who actually
chose not to run in the 2012 presi-
dential election.
According to washingtonpost.
com, Ari Fleischer, a former
spokesman for the Bush White
House, said appearance, whether
we want to admit it or not is a
huge factor in voting outcomes.
Fleischer said he agreed with
some policy ideas Christie had
suggested throughout his
campaign, but said ap-
pearance can be too hard
to overcome.
Taking his political
views and ideals out of the
picture, I would simply
like to say the appearance
of a person should not
make him more or less viable for
a position in politics. This is the
federal government we are talk-
ing about, not how skinny Paris
Hillton can get off of cocaine or
how many weaves Beyonce can
wear.
With the 2008 election being
the first time I could vote, I took
it upon myself to educate myself
rather than vote for Obama be-
cause of his ethnicity or fine phy-
sique. It is truly disappointing to
see my generation and ones be-
fore me influenced to even enter-
tain such publicity.
According to tnr.com, in 2006
two political scientists did a
study on the impact outer ap-
pearance in the media has on
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voters who are less
than informed on
politics. The results
showed that voters
who watch a mul-
titude of television
and lack political
knowledge will vote
for the better look-
ing candidate.
To me, this simply
says that as viewers,
we need to have a
veracity thermom-
eter that goes off
every time we are
misinformed by the
media.
I, too, currently
work in media and
plan to have a career
in the field because
I am interested in
finding and report-
ing the truth. How-
ever, as voters and
as the future for America, we the power of reality television,
have to understand the power of Politics should be about the un-
knowledge and stray away from derlying changes and implemen-
tations that a candidate can use to
improve our nation for the better,
not his daily exercise regimen.
Email system creates more hurdles "or students
Shauna Banks
Editor-in-chief
sbbanks@txwes. edu
Facebook and the new Texas Wes-
leyan website now have something
in common—neither is user friendly.
Toss into the mix a new emailing sys-
tem for the Texas Wesleyan communi-
ty and you've got a never-ending head-
ache for current students and faculty.
Sure, the new website is pro-
fessional looking. It wows pro-
spective students with lively
pictures of current and past
Wesleyanites. But it falls short
in the usability department for
current students.
As a part of The Rambler
staff, I found the most useful
tool on the old website to be
"people finder," which allowed us to
find out email addresses and contact
information for faculty and some
students in the blink of an eye. For
the first few days after the new web-
site debuted, I searched far and low
for this feature, which seemed to be
nonexistent. It was only by chance
that I found it nestled in the main
page for RamLink—a page I don't of-
ten visit unless I'm racing to see if my
financial aid has posted or to register
for classes.
Overall, I have mixed feelings
about the website. There are no lon-
ger those familiar links under the
same tabs, which can be discourag-
ing when trying to find out more
information on things from using
databases for research to forms for
human resources.
After exploring the new website, I
think the upgrade wasn't completely
necessary. The old website was plenty
attractive for me, with links and tabs
most of us were already familiar with.
The only problem was, it wasn't made
to fit anything larger than a five-inch
screen.
As for the new email system, I'm
wondering if many students have
found it to be more than a huge nui-
sance. Yes, it has pulled Texas Wes-
leyan's email system out of the stone
ages—but it's only provided a new
task for us, as we all scramble to fig-
ure out how to have the emails for-
warded to the personal email address
we actually check more than once a
month.
Those who are student work-
ers have double the task, having to
change settings on their student
worker and student email accounts
both.
So, I'm forced to resort back to
the old (and cliche) adage—if it ain't
broke, don't fix it.
In this case, neither the website
nor email system were broken. They
were in need of a touch of makeup,
but not the complete makeovers they
received in September.
Visit www.therambler.org to find
out how to log into the new email sys-
stem and how to forward emails to a
personal email account.
Apps serve as solutions to everyday life obstacles
Rachel Peel
Community Editor
rpeel@txwes. edu
Do you have an app for that? Ap-
parently we have come to a point
where laziness has officially taken
over our smart phones. Before
long, looking up items on the Inter-
net will become a thing of the past.
Many of us are guilty of purchas-
ing apps to make our life easier, but
do apps really make things easier
or do they just take up memory on
our phones?
When I purchased my an-
droid phone, several apps
were already on the phone,
but other ridiculous apps
such as the Pocket Express
or the Think Free Office app
just seem to take up valuable
memory space.
I downloaded the weath-
er app, email app and of
course my music box app as items
I thought would be useful to me.
These have a significant purpose in
my smart phone.
I use my email app to check my
email on the go on a regular basis
and the weather bug app keeps me
updated with temperature, emer-
gency alert systems and radar
to tell me when to expect rain to
come in. These apps, I could argue
help me in my daily life, but others
are just ridiculous and a burden to
society.
Some of the top rated ridiculous
apps include the following: Got-
taGo, Drink Buddy, iFart and Cry
Translator. The GottaGo app is for
all men and women out there who
get set up by their friends with a re-
ally bad date and if you download
this app on your phone you can
call yourself and tell your date you
need to go.
According to new.cnet.com, the
DrinkBuddy app uses the ancient
art of math to give you generally
precise indications of how inebri-
ated you are based on what you've
had to drink. To make things more
interesting it also allows you to
link up with your friends to see
what they've had to drink and re-
cord your last drinks. This app I
think could be used as long as it is
correct, but never rely solely on a
phone instead of a breathalyzer.
For all you jokesters out there,
this next app is catered to you—the
iFart app. I will sadly admit that
my husband, who is quite the joker
himself, has downloaded this app
to his phone to use on people as
they walk by. This is hilarious for
the first few times, but it eventu-
ally becomes an annoyance I would
prefer not to hear in the middle of
a nice dinner.
Lastly, the most ridiculous of
them all is the Cry Translator. This
app was made for first-time par-
ents who do not understand any-
thing about parenting. According
to www.ranker.com , when a baby
is crying, parents can hold their
phone up to the baby and accord-
ing to "clinical trials" it accurately
tells the parent if the baby is hun-
gry, needs a diaper, wants a toy or
wants a pacifier. If parents need this
app to know what their baby wants
then they don't need to be parents.
I have mixed feelings about all
this splurge of applications for
smart phones, but most of the time
the apps I download are on my
phone for one of two purposes:
one, I actually use them on a daily
basis or two, they are strictly for
entertainment purposes only.
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Thumbs up to whoever decided having a pancake
eating contest in Doras at 11 p.m. this mursday
was a good idea. All we have to say to that is... pass
the butter and syrup please.
Thumbs up to the resident advisers who grilled
the burgers at the latest residence life cookout last
Thursday. Free food is awesome, but tasty free food
is even better. Topping that off with free soda and
chips was just the icing on the cake.
Thumbs up to the Social Rams and its involvement
in breast cancer awareness this month. The cam-
pus is looking pretty fly donning the pink ribbons
in rememberance of those we have lost and those
who have won their battles with breast cancer. We
commend you for being one of the only organiza-
tions to go pink.
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Thumbs down to whoever on campus is responsible
for refilling the hand sanitizer despensers mounted
in most buildings. While the dispensrs say they are
supposed to deliver sanitizer, we often find that to
be a fib. While we like to live on the edge as much
as anyone, we prefer to keep the bacteria to a mini-
mum, so we would appreciate the occasional refill.
Thumbs down to the West library and the overflow
of chalkboards in the study rooms. This is 2011, and
no one likes a dusty shirt or hand. It's time to upgrade
to dry erase boards and ditch the 1950s boards.
Thumbs down to everyone on campus who uses the
restrooms and forget to flush. Since this is a college
and not an elementary school, the flush sounds
scare me excuse does not apply--so we are stumped
as to why a simple flush is so exhausting.
'he Rambler
Shauna Banks, editor-in-chief
Eliana Mijangos, sports editor
Rachel Peel, community editor
Jordan Twine arts & entertainment editor
Alejandro Garcia campus feature editor
Jonathan Resendez, multimedia editor
Meisa Keivani Najafabadi, photo editor
Erica Estrada, cartoonist
Wendy Moore, faculty adviser
Dr. Kay Col ley, faculty liaison
Frederick Slabach, publisher
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