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SIFE will travel to nationals

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SIFE team after winning regionals for the 18th year. Photo courtesy of SIFE.

SIFE team after winning regionals for the 18th year. Photo courtesy of SIFE.

WTAMU’s Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team will be traveling to Kansas City for the national competition.

SIFE President Marco Jimenez, a Business Administration major, said the team will leave at the end of May.

“The SIFE USA National Exposition will be on May 22-24,” Jimenez said.  “Our team will be leaving on May 21 and be back on May 25.”

The SIFE presentation team will use a multimedia presentation to showcase projects to SIFE sponsors.  Speakers on the team include Manuel Garcia, Alex Long, Navdeep Uppal, Erin Stodghill, Jordan Cox, Juan Carlos Ramirez, Cedric Nguimatsa, Emilee Cavaness and Yu-Hsian (Jimmy) Tseng.

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WT jazz bands attend festival

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From April 19 to 21, WTAMU jazz band students attended the 42nd annual Greeley Jazz Festival hosted by the University of Northern Colorado and sponsored by Jamey Aebersold.

“This guy is probably credited to be the biggest jazz educator ever, releasing at least 25 books of jazz for students,” Nathan Hoover, sophomore Music Education major, said.

Each student was a part of one of the WT ensembles, which included Jazz I, Jazz II and Jazz combo.

“It is a great event that allows us to get the West Texas name out there playing great music,” Shannon Gray, Mass Communication major, said. “I look forward to Greeley every spring semester. The music we play is fun and entertaining. This festival gives us, as students, a chance to see amazing musicians and how they perform that we wouldn’t get to see otherwise. “

None of the WT groups competed, but they performed for judges in order to get critiqued and hear ideas about how to improve.

Hoover said the judge for his group chose to miss his lunch break in order to work with the students.

“He was very insightful and knowledgeable of what we were doing and how it could be better,” he said.  Continue reading →

Music Department prepares for Spring Concert

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The WTAMU Department of Music is getting ready for their final concert of the spring on May 2. All three bands from WT (Symphonic, Concert, and University) will perform as well as a special guest artist.

John Stacy, a French horn player, said they are anticipating a high turnout.

“Attendance for these concerts is usually pretty positive,” he said. “The student body is quite supportive of what we do here. I would encourage as many people to attend, as all three groups performing are top notch. Some really fine musicians are performing, and the music we are performing is also interesting and quite exciting.”

Stacy, who plays in the University band, also said the concert gives him and others the opportunity to play more music.

“I wanted more playing experience,” he said. “I was already in the Symphonic band, but wanting to play more, I auditioned for University and Concert bands just to play more. More music is more fun, or at least to me it is.” Continue reading →

Panhandle Storytelling returns to WT for festival

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2012 Storytelling Festival Poster. Photo courtesy of Panhandle Storytelling Guild Facebook page.

2012 Storytelling Festival Poster. Photo courtesy of Panhandle Storytelling Guild Facebook page.

Since 1991, the Panhandle Storytelling Guild has held festivals for the WTAMU family and surrounding community.

On May 4, they will hold their annual festival with this year’s theme being ‘Lives and Legends’ with guest artist Barbra McBride-Smith.

“I’ve never met McBride-Smith in person, but we’ve watched her [story]telling in class throughout the semester,” Jere Ellison, Vice President of the Guild, said. “Her mix of familiar Greek tales with a ‘southwest’ twist should be appealing to all who attend.”

Dr. Trudy Hanson, head of the Department of Communication, said the festival will follow its normal format, with a few changes.

“We’re following the same formula for the festival,” Hanson said. “But this year, we will have three international students and they’ve chosen stories in their interests.”

Hanson said there will be two children’s concerts in the morning, a workshop with McBride-Smith at 1:30 p.m. in the Fine Arts Complex room 185 and a performance at 7 p.m. with McBride-Smith and WT graduate students in the Branding Iron Theater.

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WTAMU Student Senate amendment fails to pass

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An amendment to the WTAMU Student Government constitution failed to pass in the Student Senate meeting on April 23.

The amendment would allow part-time students to run for Student Senate. Current requirements dictate that only full-time students can be considered for senators.

“There have been applications turned in of over-qualified students; however, they are not taking enough hours as our constitution dictates,” Senator Brianna Harvell said in the meeting. “I think we are very much a commuter school…[and] they are still representatives of WT.”

Student Government has worked to figure out how to have part-time students represented. According to Harvell, the author of CA 20112, it was suggested that there should be a certain number of part-time students represented in each college like there are with graduate students. However, the number of senators would change every year to reflect the current student population.

“My only concern here is that if you allow part-time students in, they should have a higher requirement of GPA just because they have less classes to go to,” Senator Ciro Baldiviezo said.

However, Senator and Vice President-elect Jose Lopez pointed out that such a measure would be discriminatory. Continue reading →

Step team hosts competition

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WTAMU steppers entertain the audience. Photo by Brittany Castillo.

WTAMU steppers entertain the audience. Photo by Brittany Castillo.


Web Editor’s Note: For more photos of Step, click here!

The Texas Panhandle’s first step competition took place at WTAMU on April 27.

Men of E.X. Clusive and Lady E.X. Clusive, WT’s own step teams, hosted the event in Mary Moody Northen Hall at 7 p.m.

Local step teams, including the Amarillo Venom dance team, the Texas Tech step team, Greater Love Temple youth step team and Tascosa High School’s soloist, Joel Miller, participated in the contest. Continue reading →

Shack-A-Thon and Give-A-Goat returns to WTAMU

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Shack-A-Thon/Give-A-Goat 4.0 kicks off on April 18 and students are getting ready to construct and live in temporary structures made of little more than wooden pallets, cardboard and tape.

The event is sponsored by the WT Alliance, a coalition of campus ministries, to raise money to buy goats for people in Africa. The five campus ministries represented in the alliance are Buffs for Christ (Church of Christ Bible Chair), BSM (Baptist Student Ministry), CSC (Catholic Student Center), NAVS (Navigators) and The Wesley (Methodist Student Ministry).

“The students like pooling their money and giving holistically [to buy a goat],” Kent Mereness, director of the West Texas Church of Christ Bible Chair and member of the WT Alliance, said. Continue reading →

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