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The Wichitan

The Student News Site of Midwestern State University

The Wichitan

The Student News Site of Midwestern State University

The Wichitan

Bolin renovations on track for fall 2025

Ryan Lemond, Reporter September 20, 2024

Students are not the only ones being tested this fall. Students may have noticed construction workers on campus working hard to meet their December deadline for phase one of the renovations at Bolin...

Space was repurposed in Bridwell Hall to create a gym for the West College of Education, Mar. 10.

West College of Education Gets New Gym

Javier Contreras, Reporter March 11, 2022

A new gym was built on the first floor of Bridwell Hall as an instructional setting for kinesiology and physical education majors. This is the first semester that the gym is open to students and instructors....

The Bridwell Activities Center will take the place of the Daniel building, Feb. 10.

Bridwell Activities Center Postponed Due to Supply Shortages

Javier Contreras, Reporter February 11, 2022

Supply shortages are affecting construction projects across the country, as well as on campus. The delay in materials has resulted in postponement of the completion of the Bridwell Activities Center and...

The Daniel building is receiving renovations to become the Bridwell Activities Center

Catching up on campus renovations

Stephanie Robledo, Managing Editor September 1, 2021

MSU Texas underwent renovation around campus to bring a modern and updated look. Renovations have been going on since last fall when the initial stages for the Bridwell Activities Center began.  “[The...

zoom meeting

Virtual Board of Regents meeting provides university updates

Amos Perkins, managing editor February 14, 2021

Thursday, Feb. 11, MSU Texas hosted the Board of Regents meeting virtually through Zoom, with a live stream link available publicly at msutexas.edu, giving an update on MSU's current and future projects. SGA...

Moffett Library's entrance

New and improved Moffett Library

Stephanie Robledo, Reporter June 2, 2020

Moffett Library was under construction during the entire Spring 2020 semester. Up until March 23, students have only had access to the second and third floors, now students have access to all the floors...

Inmates assist with the demolition of acquired property

Colin Stevenson, Reporter/Photographer March 5, 2020

After its approximately $3 million purchase, construction on the property at 2733 Midwestern Pkwy has begun with the help of local inmates. They are performing demolition in collaboration with Wichita...

Library construction schedule for April 2020 completion

Library construction schedule for April 2020 completion

Lauren Brosch, Reporter January 31, 2019

The Moffett Library contracting team is bringing back hope to the librarians and students by being two weeks ahead of the set schedule.  According to Clara Latham, the university librarian for 30 years,...

Bridwell Courts Aug. 10, 2018

$58.4 million construction projects advance

Carli Woolsey, Reporter October 25, 2018

When walking across campus on a cold October morning the crane used for construction overtakes the skyline. MSU seems shadowed by the crane and construction that surrounds it. Construction is around every...

Construction inconveniences students

Latoya Fondren, Reporter October 20, 2018

It's 9 a.m. on a sunny, Thursday morning and students are usually in class learning while listening to the soft chirps of birds as they fly across the sky. Instead of a normal morning on campus for students...

new health building

Summer news: Campus continues to evolve

June 7, 2018

After about 6,000 students packed up and left in mid-May, campus officials quickly took to re-paving parking lots, working on the new health sciences building, preparing for summer orientation and, well,...

Kyle Owen, facilities services associate vice president, presents to the board with budget cuts to the original plans for the new Health Science Building, held in the Board Room in Hardin, Wed., Dec. 13, 2017. Photo by Rachel Johnson

Board scales back plans for new health sciences building

Tyler Manning December 14, 2017

  Board members approved revised design and budgetary plans for the news health sciences and human services building on at a special meeting Dec. 13. After budgetary problems plagued the...

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