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The students' voice since 1917
March 3, 2004
Fort Worth, Texas
Vol. 91, No. 6
News Briefs
Vocal chamber concert
A vocal chamber con-
cert will be presented 7:30
p.m. March 8 in Nicholas
Martin Hall.
Wesleyan Idol
The Student Govern-
ment Association (SGA)
is hosting the "Wesleyan
Idol" talent show 7 p.m.
March 10 in Nicholas
Martin Hall.
For more information,
contact the Student Gov-
ernment Association Off-
ice at (817) 531-4267 or
stugov@txwes.edu.
Art Nights
Wesleyan's Depart-
ment of Art will host a
Movie: "Learning Curve"
by filmmaker and
University of Texas at
Arlington professor Andy
Anderson at 7 p.m. March
4. Anderson will talk
about his film and making
movies.
For more information,
contact Peter Colley at
(817) 531-4973 or pcol-
ley@txwes.edu.
Toastmasters
Toastmasters meets
weekly from 5:30 p.m. to
6:30 p.m. Thursday
evenings in the
Armstrong-Mabee
Business Building in room
124.
For more information,
contact Dr. Steve Heller at
(817) 531-7592, or
Professor Joe Brown at
(817) 531-4976.
Goostree Symposium
Fifteen student schol-
arships are available to
fund attendance at the
luncheon for the Goostree
Symposium, this year
entitled, "A Woman's
Voice... and the power of
her silence." The sympo-
sium is scheduled from 11
a.m. to 2 p.m. April 1, and
includes a keynote add-
ress, luncheon, musical
and theatrical entertain-
ment and an open-micro-
phone text reading. To
apply, send your name,
telephone number and e-
mail address, along with a
100+-word statement, an
original poem or an artis-
tic expression that shows
why you are interested in
this year's topic.
Send applications to
Dr. Elizabeth Alexander at
ealexander@txwes.edu or
drop them off in her mail-
box in Library 210 before
4 p.m. March 26.
For more information,
contact Dr. Stacia Neeley
at sneeley@txwcs .edu.
RamLink provides easy access to schedules, grades
Whitney Fowler
NEWS EDITOR
RamLink, a portal that allows
secure access into the administrative
system of the university, is now
available by link on Texas
Wesleyan's Web site or at http://ram-
link.txwes.edu.
According to Jose
Ortega, director of
Information, Communica-
tion and Technology (ICT)
at Wesleyan, students may
currently access informa-
tion on class availability,
schedules, grades and
unofficial transcripts through
RamLink. By the end of the year,
Ortega said, the system will allow
faculty to submit grades, allow stu-
dents to register, add and drop class-
es, request official transcripts and
pay tuition, all online.
The system currently allows
users to pull information from the
system, but by the end of the year,
users will be enabled to actually
input information, Ortega explained.
Gary Brunner, communications
support specialist for ICT, RamLink
is a "work in progress," with an
extent of
function-
ality
launched
March 1.
One of
the bene-
fits for
students is less frequent trips to the
Registrar's Office, said Kay Van
Toorn, registrar of the university.
"[Students] are always coming in
for transcripts and course schedules,"
Van Toorn said, but now the flow of
traffic will be reduced and the office
will be using less paper.
The system will eventually
allow faculty to submit grades,
allow students to register, add
and drop classes, request
official transcripts and pay
tuition, all online.
"This is just the start, but a long
time coming," Van Toorn said.
"[We're] finally able to offer stu-
dents something we've talked about
for the last two years."
RamLink should be a success,
Van Toorn said, with "students so
computer savvy now."
According to Van Toorn, by the
end of this week, the summer, fall
and proposed spring course sched-
ules will go to print and be posted on
RamLink.
The "upside for faculty," Van
Toorne explained, is that they can
view their student records.
Eventually, faculty will input their
students' grades online.
The instructions for using
RamLink listed on the Web site are
"very straightforward," Ortega said.
Students can search for classes using
term, subject or course number
fields.
According to Brunner, this sys-
tem is "very secure" and ICT has
gone to great lengths to keep it that
way.
"Nothing is more important to
ICT than student's security," Brunner
said.
According to Van Toorn, there is
also a plan to make degree plans
accessible online. She said that this
"degree audit" should be available
for the School of Education this
summer, and degree audits for the
School of Business and School of
Arts and Sciences should follow
soon thereafter.
Currently, Van Toorn explained,
there is a single staff member work-
ing manually to enter the necessary
information into students' degree
plans, but with the new system, stu-
dents' course information would be
electronically inserted and retriev-
able online.
Wesleyan alumnus, local
disc jockey, dies at age 60
Cheerleaders rally school spirit
Marc Nettles
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Texas Wesleyan alumnus and
local radio personality Ken "Hubcap"
Carter, 60, died Feb. 28 at his home
in Dallas after a lengthy bout with an
illness related to hypertension and
diabetes.
Carter was most well known to
the public for his successful 40-plus-
year career as a disc jockey, including
nearly 20 years at KLUV-FM (98.7),
where his abundant knowledge of
music, especially classic rock and
oldies, earned him "semi-legendary"
status. He began his radio career in
Lufkin at KRBA while still in high
school. After graduation, Carter
joined KEEE in Nacogdoches, where
he became the news director at the
tender age of 20. He then moved to
WWUN in Jackson, Miss., where he
also became news director, and start-
ed to truly establish his name and rep-
utation in radio news. He covered the
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. march and
marched alongside the activists,
despite harassment from police. He
went to Vietnam with NBC Radio
News and was involved in a mortar
attack. Most recently, Carter helmed
the Saturday Night Oldies Show on
KAAM in Dallas. He accomplished
and survived all this and still man-
aged to maintain his contagious per-
sonality.
In the Wesleyan community, how-
ever, he is remembered for much
more. He is remembered for blazing
trails and lighting up faces.
Carter received his bachelor's
degree and a master's degree in histo-
ry from Wesleyan in the early 1980s.
While earning his master's degree,
Carter worked as the school's sports
information director and volunteered
as a men's basketball coach, all while
still working at KLUV. Carter worked
as an adjunct staff member in the
Mass Communication Department
"from about 1988 to 1993," according
to Dr. Michael Sewell. Carter taught
the university's first broadcast jour-
nalism class after convincing the uni-
versity president to allow it. Carter
also taught pop culture class with
Sewell. "He's the main reason the syl-
See Hubcap, page 2
Tne,
Photo by Rebckah Sierra
Wesleyan cheerleading squad pumps it up at a school
spirit pep rally Feb. 26.
Students score victories at national ethics contest
Whitney Fowler
NEWS EDITOR
A team of six Wesleyan students
participated in the Tenth
Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl
Feb. 26 in Cincinnati, win-
ning their second two
matches, after losing the
first match to Indiana
University — the eventual
winner over the entire
competition.
According to Dr. Ron
McManus, Wesleyan reli-
gion and psychology pro-
fessor, the capstone of the
Association for Practical
and Professional Ethics
annual meeting is having
students from 40 different
universities participate in
this national ethics bowl
competition.
Students argue verbal
solutions to ethical dilem-
mas and are judged based
on the clarity, focus and depth of
their presentation, McManus
explained.
"The 'Ethics Bowl' is an inter-
esting opportunity to study pertinent
issues relevant for today's social
fabric," said Hank Sinatra, senior
English major and member of this
year's Wesleyan ethics team. "It
gives Wesleyan students a chance to
think and operate outside of their
Photo courtesy of Linda Carroll
From left, Brett Walters, Hank Sinatra, Kathryn Keaton,
Kathryn Wheeler and Gail McCrite compete Feb. 26.
accepted mores and allows them to
compete with some of the finest
schools in the country."
Cases range from issues includ-
ing law, the environment, education
and more. Each team, McManus
explained, receives about 12 to 20
cases a month before the convention.
The team members receive one-
hour credit for their involvement on
the Wesleyan ethics team
and must enroll in the
3PR 4301 course,
McManus explained, or
seek the consent of the
instructor before being
admitted to join the team.
According to
McManus, there are a
variety of students
involved — this year's
roster included three
political science majors,
two English majors and
one mathematics and
physics major.
McManus said that
he views ethics "as a
work in progress." The
program demonstrates "many issues
really do require a struggle," he
explained, and it is beneficial to lis-
ten to other people's arguments and
to be "flexible."
"Students are encouraged to stay
with their convictions, but to reason
it through," which is valuable for a
liberal arts education, he said.
McManus said that the class,
which met from 12 to 4 p.m. Fridays
prior to the competition, explored the
meaning of critical thinking and
examined values and principles in
preparation for the ethics bowl.
"Values either compete, conflict
or complement," McManus
explained. And it is when values
compete or conflict with one another
that a dilemma usually arises, he
said.
The team also brought in practi-
cal experience to help them examine
various ethical issues.
"Dr. McManus has invited mem-
bers of the community and members
of the Wesleyan faculty to bring
additional and. often, professional
insights to the cases that we are con-
sidering," Sinatra explained.
"We ask faculty members to
think out loud with us," McManus
said. Dr. Bruce Benz associate pro-
See Ethics team, page 2
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