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it semesters bring different faces to campus in students and in
sors. Three of this spring's new faces, however, all look a bit
familiar to the Wesleyan campus.
Mary Landers
A Fort Worth, Texas, native, Dr. Mary
Landers, Texas Wesleyan University's new addi-
tion to the mathematics department, holds a bach-
elor's degree from Texas Christian University, a
master's from New Mexico State University in Las
Cruces and a doctorate from Texas A&M
University-Commerce. All degrees are in mathematics.
With her love of all students, TWU students and the people of Wesleyan, she
said, she plans to contribute to the Wesleyan community by making math accessible
to students so they can understand it better and eventually develop more passion for
it.
Prior to Wesleyan, Landers was a math professor at Weatherford College for
eight years. She also has a previous relationship with the Wesleyan community from
helping with Wesleyan's Teacher Quality Program, which provides Fort Worth
Independent School District teachers with math and science preparation.
Taking a break from her busy schedule, Landers said she loves to play tennis and
golf in her spare time.
David Ritter
Born in Sweetwater, Texas, and raised in
Alpine, Texas, Dr. David Ritter, visiting professor
of accounting, earned a bachelor's degree from
Sul Ross State University, a master's from
Louisiana Tech University and a juris doctorate
from Texas Wesleyan's law school. Holding both
the title of lawyer and Certified Public Accountant, Ritter said he hopes students can
benefit from his practical knowledge.
Ritter brings 40 years of business experience after working in a variety of fields.
He worked with Electronic Data Systems and was the president and chief operating
officer of Medical Education Management. He was also a fighter pilot in the U.S. Air
Force and has an extensive teaching repertoire. He is returning to Wesleyan after retir-
ing in 1995 as an associate professor of accounting. Ritter has also taught at the
University of Texas at Arlington and Centenary College and at Northwood University
where he was the chair of the accounting department. Two years ago, Ritter shut down
his law and accounting practices and said he is back at Wesleyan because he enjoys
the people and students.
In his spare time, Ritter loves to read, exercise and power lift.
Tommy Nichols
Born in Anaheim, Calif., and raised in
Saginaw, Texas, Tommy Nichols, visiting professor
of management, obtained both a bachelor's of sci-
ence in biology and a master of business administra-
tion from Texas Wesleyan. He is currently working
on his doctorate at the University of North Texas.
Along with a love of teaching and a desire to learn, Nichols said he plans to pro-
vide students with current research perspectives in business. Prior to coming to
Wesleyan, Nichols managed pizza restaurants and retail stores, worked for the Boy
Scouts of America and taught at the University of North Texas for the past several
years. 41ong with these career experiences, Nichols worked with Wesleyan's advance-
ment office as a corporate fund-raiser. Nichols said he had to come back to Wesleyan
because he simply loves it here.
In his free time, Nichols likes to engage in outdoor activities such as camping, fish-
ing. canoeing and hiking.
- Shameka Hvatt
MPAA overestimates college students'
hand in movie piracy; overseas to blame
are doing worse things. You see all the rock
stars and movie stars - they're still living in
these huge houses. They aren't being hurt
very much by the money."
"We have a responsibility to have poli-
cies and procedures that comport with the
law, and you can't shield anybody from
that," said Russell Carey, interim vice presi-
dent for campus life and student services.
The Herald reported April 12 that the
Recording Industry Association of America
sued 12 Brown students for illegally down-
loading music.
Carey explained private suits are out of
the university's hands but that complaints of
piracy to the university often result in a
warning sent to students and temporary sus-
pension of their Internet access.
Since September 2007, 76 percent of the
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When it comes to the heated topic of
movie piracy, it seems college students are
not as criminal as the entertainment industry
made them out to be.
The Motion Picture Association of
America admitted last Wednesday that it
overestimated the money lost because of ille-
gal file sharing among college students by
almost 300 percent. In a 2005 study, the
MPAA blamed college students for 44 per-
cent of its losses - a number that has recent-
ly been readjusted to 15 percent.
"The numbers were wrong, and we
thought they were wrong, but we couldn't
prove that," said Connie Sadler, director of
information technology security. She' feels
that piracy is nothing unique to
colleges but that entertainment
corporations often target college
networks because their high
bandwidth makes downloading
faster and because student con-
tact information is easy to access.
The MPAA's study claimed a
loss of $6.1 billion because of
illegal movie downloading and
file sharing, though*most of the
losses are attributed to piracy
overseas. It attributed the miscal-
culation of student piracy to
"human error," without elaborat-
ing.
"They're
going to try
to do things
that they can
get away
with," said
Joe Larios,
treasurer of
the Brown
Film Society.
"The higher
the figure
that you can
use with your
lobbies in
Congress, the easier it is to get legislation
in your favor."
The MPAA is currently pushing for
laws to make universities crack down
harder on piracy within their networks.
But this new statistic suggests that on-
campus solutions to piracy would affect
only a small percentage of the MPAA's
profits.
"I don't think it's really a case of
individuals wanting to steal intellectual
property," Sadler said. "It's more of a
case of consumers wanting to get content
quickly and at a reasonable price."
She said the range of download options
often leave consumers unsure what is legal
and what is not. Sadler, like many Brown
students, feels that the current ways of legal-
ly buying media do not meet consumers'
expectations of convenience.
Larios said legally bought music and
movies are often inferior to their illegally
obtained counterparts because corporations
limit the ways in which the purchased files
can be used. For example, he pointed to soft-
ware on DVDs that prevents people from
copying movies to a computer or another
DVD. Songs bought from Apple's iTunes
music store can only be played on five com-
puters.
"It's just easier to download it (illegal-
ly)," said Osmar Olivo, a Brown student.
"They're prosecuting the kids who are doing
this stuff, but there are definitely people that
More than 40 per-
cent of losses from
recent bombs The
Golden Compass,
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\or lie and Over Her
Dead Body might
have been blamed
on college students
had the MPAA not
retracted their
claim that students
were responsible for
44 percent of movie
piracy losses.
total piracy complaints received by the uni-
versity have been about music, not video.
But Sadler said that last year, she saw more
complaints regarding video than music.
The Office of Student Life and
Computing and Information Services work
together to provide free entertainment such
as IPTV and Ruckus, an online music serv-
ice. Although Ruckus is free, it limits the
usage of its music files songs must be
played on a computer and cannot be copied
to a CD or played on an iPod.
Many students expressed a desire for a
service that would provide unlimited music
or movie downloads for a flat yearly rate.
"We're really in the midst of a revolution
here in terms of content management," said
Sadler, "and there a lot of things to be decid-
ed before this problem is solved."
Students, from page /
Morning News, the commission found that Texas students were less prepared for college-
level classes than others in the nation.
Whatever the future holds, the work is cut out for the school and higher-education offi-
cials who now have to demand higher standards and tougher curriculum.
ROTC, from page 1
in-pocket per month, he said, it is $350 for a freshman, $400 for a sophomore, $450 for a
junior and $500 for a senior.
ROTC provides two-, three- and four-year scholarships. One may apply for the awards
immediately after high school or during their college years. The individual must have at least
a 2.5 grade point average, be a full-time student and be in reasonable physical condition.
Generally, the major is irrelevant.
The Air Force ROTC prefers engineers and technology majors, but the Army is more
people and leadership-oriented, so they allow their recruits more flexibility, according to
Joye. Joye said he can't name a major at this school that would not qualify for a scholarship.
This is a flexible program because a junior or senior may join and continue to work in it dur-
ing their grad school years, he said.
For more information on ROTC, contact Lt. Col. Rodney Joye at (S17) 531-4273 or
rjoye@txwes.edu.
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