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TEXAS W E
TEXASWESLEYAN
FEB 2 5 2004
A AT U N I V E R S I I
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The students' voice since 1917
February 25, 2004
Fort Worth, Texas
Vol. 91, No. 5
News Briefs
Wesleyan Idol
The Student Govern-
ment Association (SGA)
has changed the date for
the "Wesleyan Idol" talent
show to 7 p.m. March 10
in the Quizno's area of the
Student Union Building.
The deadline for con-
testants to submit their
acts has been pushed back
to 5 p.m. Feb. 26.
Submissions should be
sent to SGA President
Kim Cooper at kcooper@
txwes.edu with the name
of the performer and a per-
formance description.
For more information,
contact the Student Gov-
ernment Association Off-
ice at (817) 531-4267 or
stugov@txwes.edu.
Homecoming events
A homecoming pep
rally is scheduled for free
period Feb. 26 in the Sid
Richardson Gym.
Wesleyan's women's
and men's basketball
teams will host Bacone
College at 5:30 p.m. and
7:30 p.m. Feb. 28 in the
Sid Richardson Center.
Wesleyan's "spirit stick"
winners will be announced
during the homecoming
festivities at the basketball
games.
For more information,
contact the Student Life
Office at(817) 531-4872.
Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday serv-
ices are scheduled for
noon and 6 p.m. Feb. 25 in
the chapel of Polytechnic
United Methodist Church
on the comer of Rosedale
and Collard Streets. Lunch
will be offered for free
after the noon service.
Art Nights
Wesleyan's Depart-
ment of Art will host part
two of "Examining your
Stamen and Pistil," intro-
ducing drawing tech-
niques and ways to apply
charcoal at 7 p.m. Feb. 26
in Studio Two of the Art
House.
For more information,
contact Peter Colley at
(817) 531-4973 or pcol-
ley@txwes.edu.
Race for the Cure
Tarrant County Race
for the Cure is scheduled
for 8 a.m. April 10 at
Sundance Square in down-
town Fort Worth. To regis-
ter with the Wesleyan
team, sign up online at
www.tarrantraceforthe-
cure.org.
For more information,
contact team captain Dr.
Libby Gilmore at
lgilmore@txwes.edu.
Enrollment on the rise for area universities
Marc Nettles
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Undergraduate enroll-
ment numbers at Texas
Wesleyan are on the rise this
year.
The total amount of
undergraduate students
enrolled in classes as of fall
2003 was 1,514, up from the
previous fall's enrollment of
just more than 1,400.
"Admissions succeeded
its enrollment goal for the
spring semester, as well,"
said Andrea Canales, assis-
tant vice president for
Enrollment.
Enrollment for all gradu-
ate programs also increased
from last spring, including in
the Graduate Program of
Nurse Anesthesia. The nurse
anesthesia program at
Wesleyan, which is the
largest of its kind in the
nation, experienced a 2.4
percent increase. Spring
enrollment credit hours have
increased from 26,367 last
spring to 26,557 this spring,
according to a press release
on the university's Web site.
Area universities have
also experienced
increases in spring
enrollment over the
past year, including
the University of
North Texas, which
experienced its highest
spring enrollment ever
with 29,714 students,
according to a Jan. 30
article in the Fort
Worth Star-Telegram.
Texas Woman's
University increased its total
student body to just more
than 7,300 from 6,349,
which was about a 15 per-
cent increase,
the article
reported. The
Star-Telegram
also reported
that Texas
Christian
University, the
only other pri-
vate university
in the findings,
managed a 2.4
percent increase
in enrollment.
Fall 2000 enrollment
was "our last really big fall,"
Pati
Alexander
said Vice President of
Enrollment Pati Alexander.
More than 2,000 undergradu-
ate students were enrolled
that fall. Alexander said,
however, that the university
does not want to benchmark
at 2,000 students. She cited
that amount as "unhealthy."
"We're much more stable
now," Alexander claimed.
She said that the presi-
dent of the university, Dr.
Harold G. Jeffcoat, believes
the optimum undergraduate
enrollment for Wesleyan is
See Enrollment,page 2
Suspects caught after office break-ins
Sharesa Alexander
STAFF WRITER
Three teen-age suspects were
apprehended the evening of Feb. 15
after allegedly breaking into several
offices of the Sid Richardson Center at
Texas Wesleyan
University using a screw-
driver causing more than
$400 in damages and
stealing close to $900 in
cash, checks and other
items, according to the
Fort Worth Police depart-
ment.
According to Ken
Dunson, director of
Facilities, other offices
including several coach-
es' offices. Student Life
and Student Government
Association offices were
all broken into.
"This break-in is one
of several break-ins to the
Sid Richardson building
over the past five
months," Dunson said.
Steve Jones, head
men's and women's soccer coach, said
that he arrived at his office around 7:30
p.m. when he noticed his office had
been rummaged through. When he real-
ized that money from a recent fundrais-
ing event was missing, he notified cam-
pus security, who then called the police.
According to the police report,
approximately $700 in cash was miss-
ing from Jones' drawer, and, "upon fur-
ther investigation, [Jones] also noticed
several personal checks that had been
filled out to TWU to purchase
[fundraising] tickets were also miss-
ing."
Jones said, "[The] suspects must
have broken into the building between
3:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. because
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coach], left the building about 3:30
p.m. and all was fine, but when 1
arrived at 7:30 p.m., the building had
been broken into."
Lillieroos verified that when he left
his office, things were fine, but when
he came back at 8:30 p.m., his lock was
destroyed. Nothing had been taken,
however, because the burglars could not
get in.
According to Dunson, the burglars
had been casing the area. He said,
"Apparently they were watching the
routine of the security officer, because
security completed a round on the
building at 6:30 [p.m.] and all was
well."
According to Jones, the suspects
seemingly were in no rush.
"My guess is that
the suspects were proba-
bly on the campus [...]
for a couple of hours,"
Jones said.
Terry Waldrop,
director of athletics and
head basketball coach,
said that the suspects
took the time out to steal
an envelope of loose
change sitting in an
inconspicuous place on
his desk.
Aaron Whaley,
director of Student Life,
said that the suspects —
after kicking his door in
and stealing 720 pieces
of bubble gum, two
peanut dispensers, five
intramural T-shirts, a
liter of Coke and an
AND1® banner — seemingly had time
to use his computer.
Whaley said, "Sites were pulled up
on my computer that I have never been
to. Someone had actually sat down and
used my computer."
Whaley's computer was not the
only computer the juvenile suspects
decided to use.
"When the suspects broke into the
Student Government Association office,
See Office break-ins, page 2
Students to be invited to assess core curriculum
Whitney Fowler
NEWS EDITOR
The General Education
Curriculum (GEC)
Committee at Wesleyan is
assessing the university's
core curriculum, weighing
options to possibly make
changes to the GEC, which
has not been significantly
altered in 15 years.
According to Dr. Linda
Carroll, assistant professor of
English and chairwoman of
the committee, the GEC is
undergoing an assessment
process with the committee
"exploring all options to
determine if this core cur-
riculum is the best core cur-
riculum for our students."
The committee has not
discussed any definitive
changes, Carroll said, but is
working to gather data about
the GEC that could be used
next year to investigate the
possibilities of actually mak-
ing revisions.
This year, Carroll said,
the committee has conducted
faculty focus groups coordi-
nated by Dr. Bruce Benz,
attempted to survey students
who have chosen not to
enroll at Wesleyan, asked
faculty to send student out-
comes — what they expect
students to know from the
course at the end of the
semester — and compared
Wesleyan's core curriculum
with the curriculum of simi-
larly sized public and private
universities.
According to Carroll,
after this semester, the GEC
committee will compile the
data, analyze the data during
the summer and file a rec-
ommendation next year to
the GEC committee. Certain
faculty members serve two-
year rotations on the com-
mittee.
Carroll said that it is
important to keep the univer-
sity's mission statement in
mind when examining the
GEC, always exploring the
possibility of change "to
meet students' needs and
prepare them with a solid
liberal arts foundation."
This evaluating process,
Carroll explained, is typical
at universities such as Texas
Christian University, which
recently voted to make
changes after several years
in the decision process.
The committee plans to
invite 100 students — jun-
iors and seniors who have
taken at least 39 of the 54
hours of the core curriculum
at Wesleyan — to participate
in an assessment program
tentatively scheduled for the
week of March 29.
According to Carroll, the
committee examined the
three most used national
assessment tools and voted
unanimously to use the
Academic Profile tool dis-
tributed by the Education
Testing Service (ETS).
This particular tool is
norm-referenced and criteri-
on referenced, assesses three
major content areas includ-
ing humanities, social sci-
ences and natural sciences.
Its skills dimensions include
college level reading/critical
thinking, college level writ-
ing and application of math-
ematical data. It has a sepa-
rate writing component and
it is more closely aligned
with Wesleyan's current
competencies.
According to Carroll,
students selected to partici-
pate in the assessment will
be notified around the first
or second week of March.
"I am hopeful that our
students whe are invited to
participate will do so, for
they will be providing much
needed data about our cur-
rent GEC and its outcomes,"
Carroll said.
Former
director of
admissions
promoted
Marc Nettles
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Former Director of
Admissions Andrea Canales
was recently promoted to
assistant vice president for
Enrollment by Vice
President for Enrollment
Pati Alexander.
Canales was appointed
to the position after the win-
ter break. Former Assistant
Director of Admissions
Carolyn Hall was named
interim director of admis-
sions to fill Canales' vacan-
cy for the present time.
Canales has been at
Wesleyan almost two years.
"I'm very excited and
appreciative of this opportu-
nity," Canales said.
As assistant vice presi-
dent for Enrollment, which
is a new position to the uni-
versity, Canales will be
responsible for following up
on recent retention initia-
tives. These initiatives were
formed by the Quality of
Student Life and Learning
(QSLL) Committee along
with consultants Noel-
Levitz Inc. The initiatives
were formed based on the
Student Satisfaction
Inventories (SSI's) that were
distributed last October.
"I take the results of that
survey very seriously," said
Canales of the SSI's. She
said that the QSLL
Committee has "identified
some short- and long-term
goals to follow up on those
results."
Canales is also holding
the position of chairwoman
of the Quality Service Team
(QST), which is also a part
of the retention initiatives
and the QSLL Committee.
"We're focusing on bet-
ter servicing the students,"
Canales said. "Everyone is
very excited and willing to
work on these initiatives."
Canales said that the
QST has identified some
goals and strategies and
developed a proposal, which
they will present to universi-
ty senior statf for approval.
"We'll start acting on
them after approval," said
Canales. "We'll be commit-
ted to the students."
See Canales, page 2
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