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The students' voice since 1917
April ,19, 2000
Fort Worth, Texas
Vol. 83, No. 12
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Dance kccital
i \eicise and Sports Studies
will 'host a dance recital May 1
Iron) 12:30 p.m. to 1 p.m. in Dora
Roberts Cafeteria. For more infor-
mation. call Exercise and Sports
Studies at ext. 4950.
Invitational Jazz Festival
I'ickets for the Wesleyan Invi-
tational J a//. Festival, which will be
held al 7:30 p.m. Mav 8 at the
Nancv Fee and Perry R. Bass Per-
formance Hall, are available at any
Albertson's location, the Bass Per-
formance Hall box office or
through Star Tickets at 1-888-597-
7S2 7 I'ickets are $5.
Fhe festival will feature Denis
BiBlaso on saxophone, Dave
M.uicini on drums and Allen Viz-
/irti and Steve Weist on trumpet.
Fhe I'exas Wesleyan Ja/z Ensem-
ble, ilireeled by Tim Ishii. assistant
piolessot of music, and jazz bands
lioni lames Martin, R.L. Paschal
.uui Grapevine high schools will
also perform.
The concert is sponsored by
the Arts Council of Fort Worth and
Tarrant County, the city ol Fort
Worth, the Texas Commission on
the Arts and the Claudia Stepp
Guest Artist .Endowment at Wes-
leyan
Art Exhibit
Networks by Metroplex artist
Wanda Lou Raymond, entitled
Lk>wntvun Dallas: Wrw fn>m
aie on display m the East
Room of the Eunice and James L.
West Library until April 30. For
more information, contact the art
department at ext. 4984.
Neighborhood Clean I p
Wesleyan will participate in a
neighborhood clean up April 29
A morning pep rally and lunch
w ll be held on southern half of
Wesleyan's plaza area
Organizers hope lo involve
-i MX) -400 people in the invent.
For more information, call
Anita Westmoreland in the Chap-
lain's Office at ext. 4461..
Capital campaign continues
with $500,000 challenge
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V/ \fh WRITER
Wesleyan s capital campaign to
iaise SVV5 million has currently
raised $26 million and is progressing
ssuh a <0,000 challenge.
Nick Martin recently requested
that the trustees v. ho have not made
coniributioiis give their gilts, and the
Martins will match up to $500.OtH.)
in retuisate the auditorium.
The university publicly
announced the campaign in Septem
her ll>99, and the campaign should
finish on May H . 2(H)2
According to Caren Handleinan,
vice president for university
advancement, it is typical for capital
campaigns to lake Ironi live to seven
years.
When the university publicly
announced the campaign. $22 9 mil-
lion was raised
Fhe capital campaign includes
gilts to the university such as the-
annual fund gifts, annual restricted
gitts, endowment and gifts for capi-
tal projects.
"SVe anticipate completing
the fundraising for the fine
Arts Building by the end of
the summer."
-Caren Handleman
In this campaign Wesleyan
plans to complete five capital pro-
jects. according to Handleman.
1 think that other things need to
get done first. They need to remodel
.or redo the dorms and then build the
new buildings," said Sara Parker,
freshman psychology major.
Weslevan President Jake B.
Schrum met w ith residents m Stella
Russell Hall to discuss campus
.issues in March, in the meeting
Schrum discussed the plans for the
campus improvements. Schrum said
he has an open door policy and stu-
dents may come and see the plans
tor the university.
"I do not feel adequately
informed about the capital cam-
paign," . said Jennifer Sevrens, a
senior psychology major.
The school of education will
receive a $1.18 million building
called the Nenetta Burton Carter
Building. The Anion G. Carter Foun-
dation has already given $750,000
for the capital project.
"We anticipate completing the
fundraising in the next 60 days," said
See Campaign, page 2
New SGA
officers elected
Dustin Focki.kr
EDITOR IN CHIEF
Results of the Student Gov-
ernment Association elections
were tabulated April 13..
Amy Bretthauer,. current vice
president, was elected president,
Alicia Young was elected vice
president, Antioneite Vega was
elected secretary. Brian Matlock
was. elected treasurer and Raun
Shephard was elected chief jus-
tice.
"I'm very elated about the
job. I have a lot of good ideifs and
Fin ready to implement them,"
Bretthauer said.
She said she is already
preparing for her presidency.
Bretthauer said SGA will meet
and discuss "the positives and
negatives from the past year and
try to build on them."
Elections for school repre-
sentatives, representative-at-
large, graduate representative and
senior representative .will be held
April 26
and 27 in
the Stu-
d en t
U n i o n
Building.
Changes
made to
the consti-
t u t i o n
will also
be on the
ballot.
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Amy Bretthauer
See Elections, page 2
Passionate Performance
Photo courtesy of Glen 'E. Eltman
Greg Beck (Juan Peron) and Leslie Jones (Eva Peron) perform in Evita, presented by
Wesleyan's School of Fine and Performing Arts, April 13 through 16. The play was Wes-
leyan's 46th annual spring musical, and was performed at the William Edrington Scott
Theatre, to sold-over crowds. See review, page 6.
Fifty percent of alumni
pass accounting exam
Shelly Wright
NEWS EDITOR
For the second' consecutive
year, 50 percent of the alumni
who took the certified public
accountant exam for the first time
received.a passing score.
Two students took the exam
for the'first time, and one student,
Kristi Birdwell, passed it.
Dr. Cheryl Prachyl, professor
of business administration, said
only about 15 percent of those
who take the exam statewide pass
it.
Prachyl said the test' to
become a certified public accoun-
tant is given in November and
May. and an average of three to
four Wesleyan alumni take the
exam for the first time each year.
Those who take' the exam
must have a bachelor's degree in
accounting and 150 college
hours, have 30 hours of account-
ing credits beyond Principles of
Accounting I and II, submit let-
ters of recommendation and have
a criminal background check.
Prachyl said students spend
two seven- to eight- hour days
taking the test, and passing it
requires intensive study. Prachyl
said she prepared for her exam by
studying about 20 hours a week
for six months, in addition to
completing the homework assign-
ments.
Prachyl said Wesleyan's high
pass rate reflects a strong
accounting department.
Dr. Hector Quintanilla, pro-
gram director for accounting, said
that a higher pass rate in a small-
er sample size sometimes reflects
more success.
Quintanilla said.the difficulty
of the CPA exam explains why
there is such a great demand for
accountants.
Quintanilla said, "Not only
are fewer students taking the
exam...but fewer students are
passing."
Prachyl said she expects con-
tinuing success in Wesleyan's
accounting department.
Prachyl said, "Our high pass
rate will continue, and so we'll
have a history of a high pass
rates."
New courses to be offered in summer, fall terms
Dee Flow ers
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
New classes will be offered for
the Summer I term starting May 30
and Eall term starting August 23 in
English, psychology, finance and
management information systems
The English department added
another world literature course that
will go beyond the sophomore level
tii include work- tn m Via. \lrica
and other areas of the world not fre-
quently covered, said Dr, Thorn
Chesney, assistant professor of Eng
lish
This course ha two units The
first will be ottered during Summer
l and will,covet the Clascal to the
Restoration period In the fall, the
second half will focu* on subjects
after the Restoration
Amonewho has completed tine
sophomore survey requirement mav
t«ki this course, "I'd love to have
people from all majors take thi-
class," said Chesney
• Chesney will teach the Summer
I course from 7:30 to 9:20 a.m.
Mondays through Thursdays, and
the fall course with Dr. Dene Scog-
*
Thorn Chesnev
gins, assistant professor of English,
from II a.m. to 11:50 a.m, Mon-
days,
Wednesdays
and Fridays.
Creative
W'riting will
also be avail-
able for the
first lime dur-
ing Summer
I. Chesney
will teach this
class from I p.m. to 5 p.m. on.Sun
V
ays.
To reflect
the cultural
change and
awareness in
American
society, the
psychology
department is
offering Inter-
national and
Cultural Psy?
chology dur-
ing the tall from 1:30 p.m to 2:45
p.m: Mondays and Wednesdays.
"We'll look at what the culture
is. 4he different cultural and physi-
Louis McLain
cal concepts and how we are affect-
ed by culture. We will also focus on
the international sector and how it is
practiced and mental illnesses," said
Autumn Clark, sophomore psychol-
ogy major.
Real Estate Finance is a new
course that will cover the various
ways to finance land and property.
"We will be looking at how
land can be purchased on credit. We
will look at all phases of the finance,
of homes from the start of a mort-
gage to its pay oft and various kinds
of mortgages and how payments are
set and the costs," -said Dr. John
Shampton professor of business
and business law Shampton will
teach this course during the Fall
from 11.50 a m to 1:05 p.m. on
Tuesday s and Thursdays
Electronic Commerce and
Telecommunications for Managers
are two newr: management informa-
tion systems courses offered for
both graduate and undergraduate
business students during Summer I.
"We're looking to expand the
MIS program by offering more
courses.' said Louis McLain. dean
of the school of business.
, "E-commerce students will
work with university department
administrative services and other
organizations throughout Fort
Worth to help identify products or
services that determine their mar-
ket," said Dr. Thomas Bell, assistant
professor of business administra-
tion.
Telecommunication for Man-
agers deals with the design of the
computer network.
"We'll look at the actual com-
munication infrastructure and all
the various formats of communica-
tion and how to manage and secure
it and its role. If information is the
life blood of the organization, then
management of telecommunica-
tions is the vein or conduit to the
world," stated Bell.
"These courses line up with
where the world is moving."
"The hands-on experience
these classes will require will give
you good practice for the real
world. It'll look good on your
resume," said Desmond Hemphill,
senior management information
systems major.
"I think the new e-commerce
course is great. I'm out in the work-
force and everything's going so
global. I think this course will help
make you more valuable to an orga-
nization," said Malik Mainor, an
MBA student.
Bell will teach the e-commerce
course Saturdays from 8 a.m. to
noon, and Telecommunications for
Managers from 1 P m-to 5 p.m. for
both undergraduates and graduates
during Summer I.
Also, computer science majors
may take the Computer Program-
ming C++ with Dr. Stephen Yuan,
professor of mathematics and com
puter science instead of the older
PASCAL version of programming,
beginning next fall on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays from noon
to 12:50 p.m.
« "It's good that they're finally
catching up with the times and other
major universities," said Elishia
Flowers, senior computer science
major.
"We want to give the student
more experience with object-orient-
ed programming which is what the
industry is using more of," said
Yuan.
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Pfaffengut, James. The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 19, 2000, newspaper, April 19, 2000; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth287755/m1/1/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas Wesleyan University.