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The Rambler
Wesleyan celebrates 2005 homecoming
Phil McNeary
CAMPUS LIFE EDITOR
Homecoming week kicked off with a bang on
Feb. 21 with window painting by Alpha XI Delta
and the cheerleaders. In anticipation of the home-
coming basketball game against Houston Baptist
University, the girls dedicated their time and effort
to show school spirit with colorful murals on
Monday.
"Homecoming week - it was nice," said Joey
Gladney, a computer science major. "They had the
organizations, they were giving free food out,
everybody had the homecoming spirit and, after all,
we got a big win over Houston Baptist, and every-
body was just happy."
Tuesday, Feb. 22, the old fashioned charm of
the south made its way to Wesleyan with Phat
Tuesday. The event was marked with students
wearing crazy hats and colorful beads. The party
didn't stop as 97.9 The Beat showed up to jump in
on the festivities. The radio station praised
Wesleyan for its ongoing support of black history
month by giving away free T-shirts, posters and
CDs.
Wednesday
was supposed to
mark the three-on-
three intramural
basketball champi-
onship. but Stu-
dent Life decided to
extend the games
another week. Stu-
dents also donned
their favorite mili-
tary attire, as
Wednesday was
"Camo Day."
The Black Stu-
dent Association
sold homemade soul food plates in the SUB menu
on Thursday. Items such as ham, beef, potato salad
and banana pudding were big hits as the food
quickly sold out.
Later that evening Wesleyan and Texas A&M-
International University hit the hardwood for a
classic pre-homecoming clash. The Lady Rams
swept the Lady Dust Devils 88-75, and the men
won 81-76.
Halftime brought fun and
games as there was a musi-
cal chairs game that includ-
ed members of the basket-
ball team, baseball team
and student body.
Homecoming court
nominees were also
announced including junior
mass communication major
Marc Nettles, junior educa-
tion major Allison
Enrriques, junior kinesiolo-
gy major Ben Hunt, senior
psychology major Lacie
Freeman, senior political
science major Carlos Chou
and junior mass communi-
cation major Kori Yates.
Friday was pajama
day, and the Texas
Wesleyan campus was rid-
dled with students looking
like they had just risen
Photo courtesy of Logan Lawrence
Junior kinesiology major Ben Hunt and senior Lacie Freeman smile as they
are crowned homecoming king and queen. Hunt is a guard on the men's bas-
ketball team and Freeman is a member of Alpha Xi Delta.
Photo by I vet Valencia
Members of the Dunbar High School band drumline rock
the house during halftime of the men's game.
from a long night's
sleep. Participating org-
anizations from around
the campus also donned
their respective banners
around the gym.
As the sun went down on Texas Wesleyan
Saturday night, there was definitely a buzz in the
air. Homecoming had finally arrived, and it was
time to get it on!
Fans from the surrounding communities as
well as Wesleyan staff and faculty filed into the Sid
W. Richardson Center to watch both Rams basket-
ball teams take on RRAC leader Houston Baptist.
The Lady Rams came out first fired up but soon
fell apart has the Lady Huskies spoiled homecom-
ing for the Lady Rams with a 71-52 thumping.
Although they lost, the girls hung around and
cheered on the men's team as they defeated HBU
with a 113-91 shellacking.
Halftime saw Lacie Freeman and Ben Hunt
walk away with the homecoming queen and king
honors.
Gamma Sigma Sigma, a service sorority, won
the school spirit award based on their participation
in the week-long homecoming festivities.
97.9 The Beat radio station also gave away two
tickets to an upcoming hip-hop concert to end
homecoming week for Texas Wesleyan.
The dorm is where the heart is
Students share ideas on decorating
Jad B. Saxton
ENTER TA IN ME NT EDITOR
Students on campus are doing what they can to
beautify their rooms. The standard Wesleyan dorm
room offers two closets, two beds, two desks with
shelves and two bulletin boards. And, of course, the
ever useful concrete walls. What do you do with
that? Well, tape and sticky wall hooks seem to
come in handy.
Despite the concrete walls, the size of the
dorms is actually not bad. However, all three resi-
dent halls are extremely ancient.
"The main reason I decorated was because they
arc so nasty." said Amanda Milam, a junior kinesi-
ology major. Milam has a single room in Elizabeth
Means Armstrong Hall where she opted to take out
the extra bed and put in her own forest green love
seat across from her television. She also hung
posters, a dorm room favorite, due to the concrete
walls.
"I'm from Lubbock, so I wanted to make it real
homey." Milam said, commenting on her decorat-
ing style. Her room definitely offered a cozy feel-
ing with all of her friends and her coach hanging
out with her.
The guys on campus are a little less interested
in dorm room decor.
"The bare minimum, that's how I roll. I don't
have a decorating style," said Billy Privette, a
freshman prc-med/biochemistry major and Stella
Hall resident. "I don't hang posters or anything."
Junior psychology major Leah Brown and her
roommate, junior theater major Sarah Martino,
decided to hang navy blue curtains over the closets
and windows using sticky hooks in their
room at Elizabeth Hall.
"We wanted to make it as nice as we
could because the rooms are so ugly.
especially the closets," said Brown.
They also brought in their own bed
frames that raised the beds slightly. The
bedding for the two beds did not match,
but there was a general color scheme
throughout tying in to the navy curtains.
Both bulletin boards were made to look
like memo boards with cloth and ribbon
in a criss-cross fashion, just like in
Milam's room.
Having pictures up around the room
and on the bulletin boards seems to be a
must in decorating for the Wesleyan
dorms. Freshman music major Elizabeth
Mehaffey agrees.
"I like to put up a lot of photos of my
friends and family, and that works well
since the walls are concrete, and you
can't hang pictures," said Mehaffey.
Brown and Mehaffey's rooms also have rugs to
accent and cover-up the carpet.
"My room has a blue rug that matches my bed-
ding," said Mehaffey.
Brown said, "We wanted to make it comfort-
able and cute so that people could hang out."
Money seems to also be a factor when it comes
to decorating dorm space.
"I would decorate more, but I'm a college stu-
dent so I don't have any money," said Ronnie Lee,
a freshman music major and O.C. Hall resident.
If you are in a sorority on campus, this offers anoth-
er dimension to your decorating scheme.
"I use a lot of pink and put up all my Gamma
m
y
Photo by Phil McNeary
Freshman religion major Eric Douglas made extra space in his
room by building his bed above his kitchen/storage/office.
Phi stuff that my big sis' gave me," said Mehaffey.
The most common decorating accessory that
the dorm rooms had were posters. From favorite
movies to favorite athletes, posters are very practi-
cal to fill up the blank wall space in students'
dorms.
"1 have posters of naked women on my wall,
like swimsuit models," said Lee.
Jordan Watson, an Elizabeth Hall resident and
law school student, agrees that posters are the best
solution for the empty walls.
"They're big, and there's a lot of space," he
said. "I don't have a theme so I use mostly posters."
The
Week
Ahead
On Campus:
'Methodist Student
Movement meeting:
Stella Russell Hall
lobby, noon, free
lunch served
02
'Baptist Student Ministry meet-
ing: Carter Conference Room,
noon, free lunch served
03
On Campus
'Community
Church of Christ
Bible study: Carter
Conference Room,
7 p.m.
Off Campus
'Red River Athletic Conference
Tourney: Waxahachie, Texas
"Larry the Cable Guy: American
Airlines Center, 7:30 p.m.
Off Campus
'Willie Nelson:
Nokia Theater At
Grand Prairie.
8 p.m.
04
'Mark Manders
and Eleven Hundred Springs:
Billy Bob's, 10:30 p.m.
On Campus
'Baseball vs
Huston-Tiliotson:
LaGravc Field,
noon
05
'Softball vs UT-
Permian-Basin, Fort Worth, noon
Off Campus
'Mark Chestnett: Billy Bob's,
10:30 p.m.
On Campus
'Community
Church Sunday
morning service:
Carter Conference
Room, 10 a.m.
'Polytechnic IIMC Sunday morn-
ing service: 10 a.m.
'Softball vs Trinity: Fort Worth,
1 p.m.
07
On Campus
'Baseball vs Mary-
Hardin Baylor:
LaGrave Field,
I p.m.
Off Campus
'Golf: UST Texas Intercollegiate,
Hawks Creek golf course.
Fort Worth
Off Campus
* Softball vs.
College of Saint
Mary'i:
Fort Worth, I p.m.
08
Golf: UST Texas
Intercollegiate,
Hawks Creek golf course.
Fort Worth
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