Author Archive: Megan Moore
Tips to help test anxiety
With the semester winding down and finals shortly approaching students are faced with a battle that occurs every test day: test anxiety. Educational and counseling services has hosted three different sessions this semester over how to handle anxiety. “We typically cover what test anxiety is and why it happens,” Jacklyn Cargill graduate student intern said. [...]
Bob Woodward serves as guest lecturer
After sixteen best seller books, twelve number one national non-fiction best seller books, years of ground-breaking investigative reporting, two Pulitzer Prizes and now an associate editor of The Washington Post, Bob Woodward served as the lecturer for the Distinguished Lecture Series on Monday night at The First United Bank Center. Woodward began reporting for [...]
WT Theater becomes “Legally Blonde”
Thirty-nine cast members, six rehearsals a week, and a number of dance moves later, the cast of WTAMU’s Legally Blonde the Musical are ready for their debut performance on Thursday, April 18. The cast had the opportunity to work with a guest music director from the Broadway National Tour of Legally Blonde and have been [...]
Engineering program to offer online classes
Starting in the fall semester of 2013, the Engineering and Technical Science Department will be offering online courses in two of the required classes for any engineering degree, dynamics and statics. The courses are pilot courses with the intent of offering more online classes in the future. Faculty members have been working on gaining online [...]
New Movie Review: “Oz: The Great and Powerful”
Disney’s Oz: The Great and Powerful, an adaptation/prequel of the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, is a fun family film that restores the idea of magic and friendship in the audience members. Oz, a circus magician played by James Franco, strives to be the greatest magician ever and charms women [...]
Student Gov permits conceal carry
The issue of whether the WTAMU campus will allow and approve concealed carry was settled this week through surveys and senate voting. After three town hall meetings, a collection of senate hearings and a student survey, it was concluded that concealed carry would be permitted on campus. There were 10 in favor of conceal carry, [...]
Gender bias affecting pay rates for graduates
A recent book called The Rise of Women concludes that women are outpacing men in education, but making less money in the workplace. They are obtaining the same degrees that males do upon graduating from a university or college but are not receiving equal pay for the work they do. This claim that gender plays [...]
Poster Festival to Show at WTAMU
Aspiring graphic design artists and faculty members gathered Thursday evening at 5 p.m. in the Cornette Library for a reception of the Breda Poster Festival. The poster festival has sparked creative thinking for the graphic design classes because they are to create and redesign posters of their own in response for the theme “Greed is [...]
Scout visits WTAMU to discuss racism
Mary Badham, who played Scout in the film To Kill a Mockingbird, took the stage of Legacy Hall Wednesday night, Feb. 13, for a question and answer session with an audience that gathered from all over the Texas Panhandle. She began the night with a small lecture and a little bit of a background on [...]
Circus Gatti at the Amarillo Civic Center
Ticket collectors greeted everyone entering with excitement-filled smiles to the Thursday night performance of Circus Gatti. Once you gained access to the night’s show, there was an even bigger surprise waiting. Elephants stood tall in the foyer, hay beneath their feet, playing with each other, one trunk messing with the other. The crowds that were [...]
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