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Students eat their lunch in the renovated Mesquite Dining Hall Aug. 23. Photo by Izziel Latour.

Dining hall renovations still incomplete

Kara McIntyre August 30, 2016

Mesquite Dining Hall's empty spaces and idle kitchen areas have some students confused, such as mechanical engineering freshman Braeden Alvez. He gestured to the middle of the cafeteria, which holds a...

Morgan White, psychology sophomore, sits on the dunking booth during Roundup Olympics on the Quad Aug. 24. The water wasnt cold, she said. It feels uncomfortable being in the water in front of everybody. Photo by Izziel Latour

Students participate in dozens of Roundup events

Kara McIntyre August 24, 2016

For six days before the first day of classes, events ranging from Pokémon Go hunting to soccer tailgate parties were coordinated by the Office of Student Development and Orientation to create Mustangs...

Robert Sayler, business freshmen, watches for an opportunity to get the ball when the soccer players gathered the week before official practice began to run plays on the new turf field. Earlier in the week, coaches had recorded temperatures approaching 150˚F on the turf field. Photo by Bradley Wilson.

Turf fields pose challenges for athletes

Kara McIntyre August 17, 2016

The summers in Wichita Falls are not exactly known to be moderate with an average high of 97.8˚F and record high of 117˚F.But with the conversion of all practice fields from grass to turf, athletes are...

Terrence Clemens, LGBTQ+ issues in athletics speaker, speaks to a crowd of 125 MSU students and faculty members in the Fain Fine Arts Auditorium on March 31 as a part of the frist social justice week put on by P.R.I.D.E. and the Fain Fine Arts College called Inclusion Now. Photo by Rachel Johnson

Openly gay athlete speaks on challenges he faces

Kara McIntyre April 6, 2016

After multiple incidences of social media bullying last semester, professors, administrators, and social justice organization leaders came together to create a social justice celebration called Inclusion...

Kara McIntyre, mass communication junior

Build a positive social media presence

Kara McIntyre April 6, 2016

When I first started using Twitter six years ago, I never imagined that it would influence the world as much as it has. I never imagined that for any social media network, really. I figured it would...

A.J. Lopez III, social media coordinator for student affairs and enrollment management, talks about his normal day-to-day activities as his role as Social Media Coordinator in an interview with a Wichitan reporter. Photo by Rachel Johnson

Coordinator: ‘We try to be ahead of everything’

Kara McIntyre April 6, 2016

About the jobWhat does your job entail?"We monitor all of the social medias and everything on campus. We try to be ahead of everything and educate the students, faculty, and staff on social media in general...

Frank Cruz and Kara McIntyre.

Quality over quantity: making time for your significant other

Kara McIntyre March 2, 2016

How did you transition your priorities from your best friend to your significant other?Frank: Well my priorities did not fully transition from my best friend to my girlfriend. Jeff (my best friend) understands...

Shawn Hessing, chairman of the Board, comments on the future concept plans of the campus at the Board of Regents meeting on Feb. 12.  Photo by Kayla White.

Board gives go ahead for strategic plan

Kara McIntyre February 17, 2016

At a two-day Board of Regents meeting and retreat on Feb. 11-12, University President Suzanne Shipley presented a concept for a strategic plan to get feedback coordinated by a committee of yet-to-be-determined...

Parking remains on forefront of Boards agenda

Parking remains on forefront of Board’s agenda

Kara McIntyre February 3, 2016

The Board of Regents will meet on Feb. 11-12 to discuss a new strategic plan for the university including a five-year plan for parking on campus.But this wasn't the first plan the Board developed."Any...

Kirkpatrick retires, wishes “all the best” for MSU’s future

Kara McIntyre January 27, 2016

After 18 years of working at MSU, Randy Kirkpatrick will cross the corner of Comanche and Council and enter Memorial Building on Friday to serve his last day as Chief Information Officer. He sat behind...

Greek life, enrollment increase pave way for change

Greek life, enrollment increase pave way for change

Kara McIntyre December 10, 2015

Economic development | Enrollment | Budget | Nursing | Housing | International enrollment | Crime | Greek life In the 1960’s, Pinto and Flounder, characters from the movie animal...

Kiran Chapagain, mechanical engineer junior, presents his poster on Computational Study of Film Boiling Droplet Motion on Micro- and Nanoscale Ratchets to Eduardo Colmenares, professor of computer science and one of the judges, at the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Forum, held in the CSC Atrium, Nov. 19. Photo by Rachel Johnson

Undergrad research forum considered ‘huge success’

Kara McIntyre December 1, 2015

Sept. 26, 1905. Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity (or E=mc2) is published after more than seven years of research, introducing new ideas to mechanics close to the speed of light. “If...

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