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"September 27, 2007
INDEX
TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY, -STEPHENVILLE
The T-TAC
Vol. 178, No. 5
'News
Opinion
Feature
Entertainment
Campus Life
Sports
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Devine start
Devin Guinn helps Texans ^
to 4-0 start Page 10
A bone to pick...
Competitive wing eaters
flock to pep rally Page 7
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ROTC female enrollment numbers grow
By JOLYNN ELKINS
Staff Writer
tt .may sound odd, a young woman
claiming her childhood dream was to
be in the military. But that is the chang-
ing face of today's Army, visible even
here on the Tarleton State University
campus with an increase in female en-
rollment in the Reserve Officer Train-
ing Corps.
. "I guess wheji I was a little girl I
wanted to be in the military. It's some-
thing I've always wanted to do/' Cadet
Mackenzie Duncan said.
According to Lt. CoL Robert Levis,
Professor of Military Science of Tarleton
ROTC, female enrollment was only 15
percent of the total number of cadets
three years ago,
This year, female enrollment is up
to' 23 percent, with 40 percent of the
freshman cadets being, women. Levis
asserts this increase is due to the clarifi-
cation of misconceptions about RQTG
One of the biggest myths is that to
be a woman in ROTC, you must forgo
the frillier and softer parts of what it is
to be a woman. Not so in the opinion of
Duncan.
"When you enlist, they don't ask
you to check your femininity at the
door and say 'OK, you aren't a girl any-
more, you are a robot'...you can still
get dolled up and get giddy. They want
you to keep your independent think-
ing," Duncan said, Levis claims that a
female cadet won't lose her femininity.
"You don't have to be G.I, Jane and
shave your head...you can have rela-
tionships and even get married and
have kids," Levis said.
Levis also claims that having
friendly, visible women in ROTC has
done much to change the conception
of women cadets. This is beneficial be-
cause other students can see that ROTC
is "mainstream, not a bunch of rejects,
[we even] have cadets [who play] sports
on campus," Levis said.
He admits that it can be hard for
a woman to join when they think they
may be the only woman in a class of 20
male cadets. |
"The more female faces there are,
the more women feel comfortable [join-
ing ROTC]," Levis said.
Levis named Chai Read-Walsh as
mmh
Johnathon Parker/The J-TAC
Sophomore Mackenzie Duncan aims her rifle during
See ENROLLMENT, Page 9 ROTC lab at Hunewell Ranch last Wednesday.
Reisman's 20-year reign celebrated
Johnathon Parker/The J-TAC
Loiui Reisman has served 20 years as basketball coach at Tarleton. Since his arrival, Resiman has compiled a record of 392-179.
By REED BAIZE
Sports Editor /
Twenty years ago, Tarleton State
University made the fateful decision
to hire a, young up-and-coming coach
from Conijors State College. Lonn Reis-
man, in the previous year, had taken a
10-win Connors State basketball squad
and turned them into a winner, yielding
a 21-win season and a semifinals berth
in the state junior college tournament.
That decision turned out to be a
monumental move that has resulted in
the ascension of Tarleton basketball to
a perennial contender and Division II
powerhouse. Since his arrival on cam-
pus, Reisman has compiled a record of
392-179, won "Coach of the Year" hon-
ors eight times, eight Lone Star Confer-
ence tournament berths, and two Elite
Eight tournament appearances.
"It takes a special person to stay
somewhere- for 20 years," said former
letter-winner Gabe Johnson.
See REISMAN, Page 10
Stephen Cage
remembered
By TYLER
McCOLLUM
Staff Writer
-:i A -great, friend and. an
all-around good guy is how
many students . described
Stephen Cage, the young
Tarletqn student who was
killed in a car accident on
Sept. 11.
Cage has been described
as a very pleasant young man
by . his peers as his name is
forever etched in the minds
of the Tarleton family.
Stephen and three
friends were driving on the
morning of Sept. 11 when
their car struck a retaining
wall in a Tarleton parking lot
near the intersection of Lil-
lian and Washington streets,
The other young men,
Ryan Crutsinger, Ryan Ma-
son^ and Matthew Ulibarri
were rushed to the hospital.
Ulibarri Was treated and re-
leased but Crutsinger and
Mason were held to Undergo
further treatment.
It is unclear as to what
caused the car to hit the wall
and the investigation being
conducted by the Tarleton
Police Department is still un-
der way. •
Cage, 19, was from
Conroe, where his fam-
ily still resides, and had re-
cently graduated from Oak
Ridge High school where
he played varsity football
and wrestled, Stephen was
a marketing, management,
and administrative systems
major and was planning on
going through fraternal re-
cruitment with his friends.
A memorial was made at
the site of the accident where
students, family, and friends
left flower^ and wrote mes-
*.
sages. Friends of Stephen
said he was- overwhelmed
with excitement about start-
ing college; his loss comes
as a shock fo; us all and has
changed many lives in many
,ways.
COMING SOON
Delta Chi moves* out of
their house on Lillian
Street
Everybody knows Bob Doty
Zeta Phi Beta blue and white
picnic ' ,
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Hypnotic Intoxication tomes
to Tarleton
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'Mad-hatter' has medicine skills
■ Senior ranks in top 2 percent of nation with MCAT score
Rebecca Hoeffner/The J-TAC
Senior Kim Fehlis scored a 37 out of 45 on her MCAT,
surpassing the previous Tarleton record of 34,
By REBECCA HOEFFNER
Staff Writer
A Tarleton student who took
the Medical College Admission Test
on Aug. 20, received her scores last
Wednesday, and she has been ranked
in the top 2 percent of the nation. The
MCAT is graded on a 45 point scale,
and until this year, the Tarleton record
for the highest score on the MCAT was
a 34,
Kim Fehlis not only scored high
nationally, but also holds the new uni-
versity record with a 37.
Anyone who knows about the
process of getting into medical school
knows that the MCAT is a great source
of stress for aspiring medical doctors.
The score a student earns on this five-
hour test can determine the outcome
of their future, no matter how hard or
how long they may have worked in the
classes required for an undergraduate
degree.
You may have noticed Fehlis
around campus, especially if you fre-
quent the science building on Mon-
days. Fehlis wears a hat every Monday
without fail.
"I wear hats on Mondays because
Mondays are depressing and they need
some livening up," said Fehlis. She has
over 70 hats, including one shaped like
a moose and one like a lobster. ,,
"If you show up the first day of
class with a lobster on your head ifs a
little startling for people, so I start off
tame and work up to the good hats. But
people who aren't
See MCAT, Page 9
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