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February 4, 2004
Fort Worth, Texas
Vol. 91, No. 2
News Briefs
Thursday's Art Night
Wesleyan's department
of art will host "Thrown by
the Wheel,"an introduction
to throwing pots on the
wheel at 7 p.m. Feb. 5 in
Studio One of the Art
House on the corner of
Wesleyan Street and
Avenue E.
For more information,
contact Peter Colley at
(817) 531-4973 or pcol-
ley@txwes.edu.
Homecoming scheduled
Wesleyan's Home-
coming week is scheduled
for Feb. 23-28.
For further details
about the planned festivi-
ties, read next week's edi-
tion of The Rambler or con-
tact the Student Life Office
at (817) 531-4872.
Phi Alpha Delta meetings
The Phi Alpha Delta
pre-law fraternity is sched-
uled to meet at 12:05 p.m.
Tuesdays in room 124
of the Armstrong-Mabee
Business Building.
Chapel schedule
Chapel speakers for the
month of February include
the following: Interim
Wesleyan Chaplain Dr.
Gladys Childs on Feb. 3;
Wesleyan student Isaac
Thomas on Feb. 10; pastor
of Polytechnic United
Methodist Church, the Rev.
Georgia Allen, on Feb. 17;
and pastor of Handley
United Methodist Church,
the Rev. Gus Guthrie, on
Feb. 24. Chapel services
are held at 12:15 p.m.
Tuesdays at Polytechnic
United Methodist Church
on the comer of Rosedale
and Collard streets.
Selection committee continues provost search
Sharesa Alexander
STAFF WRITER
The Provost Search
Committee continues its mission
to nominate a new Wesleyan
provost by the fall.
Dr. Allen Henderson was
named interim provost in
September to replace Dr.
Douglas Nancarrow after his
unanticipated resignation.
Currently, the committee
selected by President Harold G.
JefTcoat last fall is working to
gather a diversified group of
applicants.
Dr. Carlos Martinez, dean of
the School of Education, chair-
man of the selection committee,
said, "Our main goal is to get
the largest possible pool of
applications."
Martinez said that interested
applicants would come from fac-
ulty and staff recommendations
and from responses to advertise-
ments that are posted in print
and online in the Chronicle for
Higher Education and possibly
other publications. Martinez said
that the ads were posted as an
open search with no
deadlines so that there
would be no restric-
tions.
According to
Martinez, after the
search committee
receives a sufficient
number of applicants,
the committee will
review the resumes,
make some initial cuts,
and then narrow it
down to a smaller
group of about 10 applicants.
Background checks will be
conducted on those applicants,
and the committee will make a
final cut down to just a few can
didates.
the final cut will endure a two-
day interview process in which
they will be interviewed by the
selection committee, vice presi-
dents, deans, faculty and student
representatives.
The selection
committee will then
decide on its top can-
didates and rank
them based on their
interviews, then rec-
ommend them to the
president.
"The committee
only makes recom-
mendations. The
president makes the
final decision," said
— Martinez.
Dr. Ben Hale, mass commu-
nication department chairman
and the school of business repre-
sentative on the selection com-
mittee said, "The last two
[provost] choices have been very
Carlos
Martinez
has to try to find someone who
is qualified and someone who
will work well with the president
and with the faculty."
Other schools in the area,
including Texas Christian
University and the University of
Texas at Arlington, are also cur-
rently seeking a new provost.
Therefore, finding a qualified
provost is a competition.
This is a concern for some
of the Wesleyan staff.
Hale said, "We are not the
only school in the area looking
for a provost [and] there are peo-
ple on campus concerned with
the quality of the potential
provost."
"The stakes are high," said
Martinez, and "we want to
remain as open as possible, with
everything on the table. No poli-
tics and no [unanswered] ques-
tions... [Our] job is to strictly
evaluate the candidates."
The candidates who make traumatic [and] the committee
Wesleyan proceeds with housing plans
Sara Southerland
CAMPUS LIFE EDITOR
New campus housing is set to open in July
2005, culminating two years of work on a proposal
by the Student Life Committee. In November, the
board of trustees gave their approval.
"This is the third time a new housing project
has been presented, but the funding just wasn't
there, so we are
thrilled," vice president
for Enrollment and
Student Services Pati
Alexander said.
The first new
housing since 1967, the
new dormitory, to be
built on the corner of
Wesleyan Street and
East Vickery Boule-
vard, is planned to
house upperclassmen
and graduate students.
"It's designed
exactly like an apart-
ment," Alexander said.
The apartment-style
housing will accommodate 250 students. As well
as a living room, kitchen and bathroom, each resi-
dent will have his or her own bedroom. Benefits of
the new housing include fully furnished rooms, a
mini refrigerator, microwave and accessible laun-
dry facilities.
The price range will be a little more expen-
sive, but a seemingly reasonable price, Alexander
said. There will also be 10- to 12-month leases
available, so students are able to stay over the
Christmas or summer breaks, if desired.
"This will be good for us because most uni-
versities already have apartment-style housing, and
we now can be competitive in that aspect," Dean
of Students Cary Poole said.
Closer to the open date, Poole said that a sur-
vey will be used to determine the interests of stu-
dents living on
campus.
"One proposal
may plan to make
one floor practice
24-hour quiet
hours," Poole said.
"More details will
come."
"We have
hired a new hous-
ing director with a
background in
apartment-style
housing. With her
help, we hope to
make it a big suc-
cess."
According to Alexander, there should be
approximately 450 students living on campus by
July 2005.
"We're very excited about this progression.
It's going to bring wonderful opportunities for stu-
dent life," Alexander said.
NEW STUDENT HOUSING
COMING IN SUMMER OF 2005
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Photo by Rebekah Sierra
A sign on the corner of Wesleyan Street and Vickery
Boulevard announces the upcoming construction.
Quizno s
manager
reports two
break ins
Ayah Sayyed
STAFF WRITER
Irritated Quizno's employ-
ees reported that two weeks ago
trespassers broke into their
Student Union Building shop
twice, rummaging through and
robbing inventory, leaving them
with no answers or sufficient
help from the Texas Wesleyan
Security.
According to Quizno's
manager Annie Jones, this is not
the first time an unpleasant inci-
dent such as this has happened.
Jones said that last year
employees had to call the Fort
Worth Police Department to
report a break in, in which much
of their property was vandal-
ized, including broken locks,
ruined kitchen utilities and a
damaged entry door, which had
to be replaced.
See break ins, page 2
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