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WEDNESDAY
March 10, 2010
Vol. 93 • No. 8
ONLINE:
www.therambler.org
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Jonathan Resendez
jlresendez@mail.txwes.edu
Wesleyan faces a tuition increase
similar to other local public and pri-
vate institutions.
Wesleyan tuition will increase 5
percent in the fall, according to Vice
President of Finance and Administra-
tion Bill Bleibdrey.
Wesleyans increase estimate comes
from predicting what peer institutions
will do along with predicted fall en-
rollment numbers, Bleibdrey said.
"We want to stay in the same range
as a lot of other institutions," Bliebdrey
said. " The issue is a lot of us come out
with our price increases at the same
time, so nobody really waits and see
what's there. We kind of expect, and
react to, what's gone on in prior years."
Bleibdrey said Austin College, Uni-
versity of Texas at Arlington and Uni-
versity of North Texas are among the
schools Wesleyan looks at.
U1A is increasing tuition 3.95 per-
cent while UNT's expected tuition in-
crease is 5 percent, according to news
reports.
Texas Christian University is in-
creasing tuition 6.2 percent. However,
Bleibdrey said he does not consider
TCU a peer institution.
Wesleyans scholarship budget will
also go up more than 5 percent in the
fall, which means more money avail-
able for students, Bleibdrey said.
"We think that's necessary based on
the economic climate and what stu-
dent's tell us about the affordability,"
Bliebdrey said. "It's part art, part sci-
ence."
Director of Financial Aid Shanna
Hollis said it's important that students
remember Wesleyan is a private insti-
tution.
"It allows more flexibility in terms
of how we award some institutional
funding," she said. "The more you
have to pay in direct costs is directly
related to the total amount you can re-
ceive in financial assistance."
Public institutions are feeling the
pinch more than private ones, she said.
♦ TUITION, page 3
Formerly homeless
students find niche
Rene' Edwards
lredwards@mail. txwes. edu
Wesleyans student body is vast. It is made
up of traditional, non-traditional, interna-
tional and even previously homeless students.
Two of these students are Melissa "Red"
Bates, 29, and "Max", 42, a current Wesleyan
student who wants to keep his identity pri-
vate.
Red and Max have different backgrounds
and stories, but share the commonality of go-
ing from homeless in Fort Worth to pursuing
a bachelor's degree from Wesleyan.
For Red, the choice to attend Wesleyan
stemmed from childhood. She and her fam-
ily have been members of the Polytechnic
United Methodist Church since 1992.
"I always loved the campus and knew
that TWU was where I wanted to go when I
decided to go back to school," Red said.
An English major and a current staff writer
for The Rambler, Red said she lived in two
Fort Worth homeless shelters for a total of
three years.
"The domino effects started when my
mother died on Dec. 15, 2004," she said. "Af-
ter that, I moved in with some family friends
who were like second family to me for about a
year and a half, and that's when I started TCC.
Then the husband of the family said that I
needed to find a job in a certain amount of
time or I was going to have to move out.
"I have no hard feelings because he was try-
ing to make me jump into life with both feet,
because I grew up kind of sheltered."
She didn't find a job.
"I went to the Presbyterian Night Shelter
first, and I stayed there for about a year and
a half," she said. "Then I stayed with some
friends at a camp site for a little bit, and then
I went to the Union Gospel Mission.They're
the ones who put me back in school."
Eventually, Red got hired working the front
desk at a women and children's shelter across
from Presbyterian Night Shelter
"I really did love my job, and I loved work-
ing with the kids," Red said. "Even though
I was working and I loved my job and I felt
like I had a purpose, I never forgot that I was
homeless."
♦ HOMELESS, page 3
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Rebecca Moore
There are approximately 6,378 people who are homeless in Fort Worth over the course of a
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year.
Jonathan Resendez
Honor
society
collects
books
Melissa Bates
mdbates@mail. txwes. edu
Mortar Board, the na-
tional senior college honor
society at Texas Wesleyan,
is hosting a book drive.
Mortar Board's national
project is reading literacy.
"if you look at the sta-
tistics, a child that hasn't
learned how to read by
the time they are in sec-
ond grade will not gradu-
ate high school," said Alice
Wade, president of Mortar
Board. "Seven out of 10 will
end up in jail."
The book drive will ben-
efit a school that caters to
Pre-K through 12th grade
students.
Mortar Board chose to
work with a private school,
Vision Academy.
"The school has 47 stu-
dents they are currently
helping," Wade said. "A lot
of them are low income and
they live in this neighbor-
hood."
Pre-K through fourth
grade children need books
like Easy Readers, while
upper grades need biog-
raphies, fiction and non-
fiction.
"We have children 3
years old learning how to
read, then we have students
all the way up to 12th grade,"
said Tiffanie Alexander, Vi-
sions Academy teacher.
Multiple copies of the
same book are preferred so
the entire class and teacher
can read the book together,
although single copies are
accepted.
"I think this is a won-
derful opportunity for the
community to become
aware that we are here and
♦ BOOKS, page 3
Study abroad trip offers firsthand exposure
Jonathan Resendez
jlresendez@mail. txwes. edu
Some students crack a text-
book and learn Spanish.
But others can learn Span-
ish and receive course credits
by actually living in Mexico.
Wesleyans International
Programs department will
travel to Cuernavaca, Acapul-
co and Mexico City, Mexico
from July 11 to 25. The ma-
jority of the trip takes place
in Cuernavaca where students
pick two out of three upper-
level Spanish courses to study
while they stay with Mexican
families.
"We want to give students
an experience that's beyond
what they would see as a tour-
ist," said Marie Boisvert, direc-
tor of international programs.
"The real value in the study
abroad experience is seeing
how everyday people in Mex-
ico live, what their everyday
life is like and experiencing
their culture more firsthand."
Boisvert used the example
of staying in a beach resort to
illustrate a tourist's disconnec-
tion with the real essence of a
location.
"If you never explore be-
yond that, you're not going to
have a real sense of what it is
to experience the culture," she
said.
There are both obvious and
hidden benefits to studying
abroad. Complete language
immersion is an advantage
taking courses in Mexico has
over taking courses in a Wes-
leyan classroom, Boisvert
said.
"Instead of going home
and speaking English, order-
ing something at the store or
getting around here speaking
English," she said. "If you're
in Mexico, you have to do
everything in Spanish. You're
thinking in Spanish and your
language capabilities grow ex-
ponentially."
Roberto Gomez, assistant
director for the Language
Education Travel Service, said
that seeing how the Mexican
International Programs
♦ MEXICO, page 3 Students enjoy downtime from studying while in Mexico.
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