Equipment Updated at Campus Print Shop
Paige Dickerson | News Editor

Andy Martinez, print shop supervisor, hopes more of the posters hung around campus will come hot off the MSU presses.
With a whole new array of equipment to make printing more efficient and less costly, Martinez is working to draw more of the printing jobs back to campus.
One of the new services provided is a machine that can take 20 loose sheets and a cover, fold them, bind them and face trim (cutting off the edges so they all line up) them. This can be used for booklets for departments or organizations.
A Canon 105, a copier that can reproduce about 105 pages per minute, was also purchased.
“It also has document job building. Each job can be about 600 pages,” Martinez said.
With job building, the copier works as a computer by scanning and saving the pages in its memory so later all someone would have to do is select the job number and it would print them all out. The Canon 105 can also add page numbers, fold, staple and punch holes as needed.
The color copier, a Canon 3220, produces about  32 copies per minute. It, too, can store up to 100 jobs for a later date.
Since the arrival of all the new equipment, Martinez has gathered samples from Kinko’s to compare quality and prices. The price per page is about half the price of what it would cost to have it done off campus.
“We do a lot in house and we want to bring some back and keep some of the jobs on campus. It is more convenient,” Martinez said.
If a department needs a project done they want printed up, the print shop needs about two or three days notice depending on their work load.
“A lot of the time we can do it the same day, but it depends on our work load,” Martinez said.
As an extra service the print shop will begin packaging the final products.
“We want to package things so if they get dropped or something it won’t go everywhere. It will make things a little easier,” Martinez said.
Although it has not yet arrived, Martinez is looking at a machine that could print off posters 23 inches by however long the people need. It would use rolls of paper to print posters or banners.
If a student organization has a project they want printed at the MSU press, they should go through their department or their advisors department and have any posters or banners approved by the Office of Student Development.
In the past, the print shop has done posters for International Dance Night, admissions brochures and campus maps.


Young Stars give the Ins and Outs of the Local Scene
Camron Rushin | Editor-In-Chief

Eddie Galvin is hardcore.
While performing Saturday with his experimental/scremo band Sexy Sexy Neglige’s he swung his microphone around hitting himself in the mouth pulverizing his bottom four, front teeth. With a busted lip and broken teeth he finished the set.
“That’s rock ‘n’ roll,” he laughed.
Two weeks ago he left the show with a bloody head and last week he sprained his ankle.
“I really don’t care anymore,” he said. “It gets progressively worse.”
Galvin lives in Colony Park apartments with two of his bandmates, sophomore art major Joel Abeyta and sophomore English major Caleb Hensely. Their other bandmate, sophomore accounting major Marcus Johnson, lives down the block
Among the cluttered of guitars and music equipment, they play “Grand Theft Auto” and surf the Internet.
These guys are the essence of Wichita Falls rock stars.
Their name, Sexy Sexy Neglige’s, happened as a fluke. Hensley heard someone on a country station sing about sexy negligees.
“It sounded cool and I thought it was hip,” Hensley said.
The band has only been together for three months, so they don’t have any outrageous stories.
“We haven’t had the drunken, naked girl fish-beatings like Led Zeppelin yet,” said Galvin.
Though the police came into one of their practices at 1 a.m. The band practices in Abeyta’s church.
“The cops were giving us a hard time thinking we didn’t have permission to be there,” Abeyta said. “We told them the name of our band and they started laughing. They were cool after that.”
The band members have to hold real jobs to make ends meet. Abeyta and Johnson work for Target. Hensley works at a nursing home. Galvin claims Target refused to hire him. He was a tattoo artist in Seattle before moving back to Texas a year ago. He doesn’t have a license to tattoo in Texas.
The guys are covered in tattoos. Galvin’s arms look like sleeves and he even has tattoos on his neck. He fits the part of the stereotypical rock star.
“I think the saying should be changed to sex, drugs, tattoos and rock ‘n’ roll,” Galvin said.
The Wichita Falls music scene is growing the guys said.
“it’s getting better,” said Abeyta. “It’s growing because for a while it was dead.”
“Now that the kids are starting bands again, that’s the main sign a scene is going well.” Galvin said.
High school kids keep the music alive. Most of the people in the audience are high school students.
“I don’t think anyone in college knows about the scene,” said Hensley.
“There needs to be more college kids because I’m tired of being chased by the cops for hitting on 15 year olds,” Galvin said.
The guys said the scene went on hiatus for a while after the Mac Stack, a venue on Kemp street, closed down. Many bands broke up when they lost a place to play. The shows moved back to the American Legion.
Last Saturday there were two local shows going on at the same time. One was at the American Legion and the other was at the Brickhouse, a new venue on Rhea road.
The hardcore metal band, Ten Cent Pistol, played with seven other bands at the Brickhouse. Twenty people were in the audience.
“It was an awesome show, but it was disappointing knowing only 20 people were there watching these bands,” said TCP singer Jesse Witt.
After the show, TCP got a surprise at the after-party when girls began showing their breasts.
“That was like the first time that’s happened,” Witt said.
“There is a music scene but no one has taken notice of it,” Witt said. “We have a lot of metal and punk shows but people would rather stay with the mainstream.”
TCP formed a year ago, after the Mac Stack closed. Several bands broke up and reformed to make TCP.
Ten Cent Pistol refers to a hit of heroin laced with poison.
“It’s just a cool name and it’s the way a lot of awesome rock stars have died,” Witt said.
Witt said the scene died about two years ago when “The Fixx,” a local radio show on 104.7 The Bear, was taken off the air.
“The only kind of publicity a local band could get after that was by putting a flyer in Hastings,” Witt said.
This Thursday, TCP will be featured on 106.3 The Buzz’s “Local Licks.” They are thankful for the publicity they get, but say it is not enough.
Witt wishes they could get a radio show to sponsor the show.
“They could plug the show and then hang banners and hand out promo items at the show. It would be helpful for both sides,” Witt said.
Witt says the Internet is a major way for bands to get publicity in the area. TCP maintains a Web site called www.fallsmetal.com where they have schedules of local and national acts around North Texas.
There is also a Web site called www.myspace.com where a band can make a free profile, uploading their music, photos and schedule information.
“Myspace is awesome, it’s free promotion,” Witt said.
Ten Cent Pistol also have their own Web site, www.tencentpistol.com.
“The Internet has made it a lot easier to know what shows are going on,” Witt said.
Witt said he hopes the band will be able to tour in the future. Touring is the only way to be notice, he said.
Witt works full-time at Home Depot,  but he thinks it wouldn’t be difficult for him to take a holiday for touring.
Witt said it would be fun to go from town to town making just enough money to get to the next show.
“Small-time bands go on tour and ask 13-year-olds if they can crash on their floor for the night,” Witt said.
A band from Dallas that TCP played with was featured on MTV’s “Battle to Ozzfest” show. That gave Witt a bit of encouragement when he thinks about making it big.
“Getting signed and getting on MTV is all about who you know and luck,” Witt said.
But Witt doesn’t expect to get rich and famous.
“As long as we’re happy we’re going to keep playing music,”
Solo artist Cody Shaw said he has music in his blood. His father, Ben, and mother, Shasta, are in a local country band. His father played in the Grand Ole Opry.
“My parents play and their parents played. And their parents’ parents probably played too,” Shaw said.
Shaw plays a mixture of jazz, blues and mainstream rock at Toby’s every Thursday.
He uses loop pedals to loop riffs so that it sounds like more than one guitar is being played. Before he is finished, he could have several different guitar riffs and percussion beats making it sound like he’s a full band.
Shaw said he could make enough money by just being a musician, but he got a job giving guitar lessons at Great Neck Guitars.
“What more could you ask for than to hang around people who play guitar all day,” Shaw said strumming his guitar.
He’s played for fraternity parties the Tau Kappa Epsilon Back-to-School Bash.
Shaw began his career playing in the bars during high school. He was only seventeen, but everyone knew his parents so they would let him play. Once he graduated he began to travel around playing different places.
He went to Newcastle, England, for a while with a friend and played around until he was deported.
Shaw said he lived in a friend’s closet for a while because he refused to get a real job.
“It was music or nothing,” he said.
Shaw was living with a friend in Tyler, Texas, until about seven months ago when his dad called him and told him he needed a bass player for his band.
Now, Shaw plays bass for his dad and Steven Bedunah. Bedunah is an Americana artist who Shaw said he may be touring with in Europe.
Shaw is very fortunate to be able to make a living at music alone.
“If you’re versatile you can make it just by playing music. I jump at every opportunity I’m given,” Shaw said.
Shaw said it’s difficult to make it in Wichita Falls.
“It’s hard to break new ground. People don’t want to hear new stuff,” he said.
He said the younger kids are starting to come to shows.
“I’ve heard that 100 kids show up to the legion shows. I couldn’t get 100 people even if I paid them,” he said.
Shaw seems like kind of a loner because he spends most of his time at home practicing guitar. He only stopped practicing during this interview long enough to show me his 1967 Fender Stratocaster and some tunes he had learned on his keyboard.
Shaw said he is working on some rap beats and is making a CD right now that will be released around February.
He said most people think he is cocky because he usually plays a show and immediately leaves.
“I usually go home and practice. I play music for myself and the fact that people listen is a plus,” Shaw said, munching on Captain Crunch from a red Solo cup.


Robes presented to SGA
Shinice Curry | Staff Reporter

Greg McDonalds, a representative from Herff Jones, gave a presentation for new graduation robes at the Senate meeting on Tuesday. 
The new robes proposed would be customized for MSU graduates.
According to Mr. McDonalds, these customized robes will make graduates look more uniform.
The robes that were presented would be rentals, meaning that graduates would rent their robes for graduation, but would be able to keep their caps and tassels. The rental gowns would be better quality and about $6 cheaper, according to Jenny Duncan from the MSU Bookstore.
“We don’t want to bring anymore cost to you,” Mr. McDonalds said.
In other business, an update was given on the proposal for the Multicultural Resource Center. After collaborating with advisor Sofia Rodriguez, President of SGA Abdel Ait Roua is now in the process of appointing a Multicultural committee to do things like update the multicultural library. After the appointments are finished, Ait Roua will present the committee to the Senate for approval.
Four leadership fund reviews were also on the agenda.  The leadership fund is granted to student organizations to attend conferences and participate in events to learn more about leadership on campus.
The Society of Manufacturing Engineers request of funds for their Annual Bridge building Competition was passed.
Another request was passed from the Omega Delta Phi Fraternity for the Regional Leadership conference they attended on Nov. 5 and 6.
The request from the Association for Social and Behavioral Sciences was not approved, because the funds they were requesting are funded by a different SGA account besides the leadership fund.
A request for funds to purchase new uniforms  for the Embrace Dance Team was also disapproved because some senators felt the leadership funds could not be spent to for that purpose.