Posts tagged Vol 105 No 04
Wellness initiative changes lives
News Editor Andrew Bauer speaks with faculty, staff and students about the Wellness Initiative and the free courses it offers. The fitness boot camp is the most popular course, and helped some out-of-shape faculty to turn their lives around.
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Wellness Initiative
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Mock interviews set for Wednesday
As students dive into the sea of job opportunities, they often find themselves drowned by different applications, new bosses and stress.
As a way to keep students afloat, the department of career services offers career day twice a year, once in the fall and again in the spring.
Career day provides an opportunity for students to introduce them [...]
The Scoop on Sororities
Hey, girl, hey!
Ok, like, I totes want to tell you all about sororities!
Just kidding.
But really, I do want to tell you all about sororities.
The sorority community at Fort Hays State University has grown tremendously over the past several years.
And this fall, 29 women were recruited between the two sororities.
That’s quite a large recruitm [...]
Tigers look to start 3-0 for the firs...
It has been 26 years since Fort Hays State University football started 3-0, and the Tigers haven’t beaten Missouri Western State University since joining the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association in 2006.
However, this 2009 team has not been fazed by mere numbers.
Since the start of the season, the Tigers snapped an 18-game road lo [...]
Golf tees off season
Fort Hays State University women’s golf coach Richard Guffey said his team knows it will have to play better to avenge last season’s finish.
After winning FHSU’s first-ever conference championship, the women’s golf team got a wake-up call at the NCAA Division II Super Regional last spring when it finished in fifth place and missed a national [...]
Tennis returns with youth
The women’s Fort Hays State University tennis team has a familiar feeling to it. Like last year, this year’s team is very young.
The Tigers’ tennis squad is led by head coach Brian Flax, who enters his 12th year at the position. Helping him this year is graduate assistant Alberto Bermudez, who enters his first year at this position. The team [...]
Women runners dominate Lopers
The cross country teams started the season against former Rocky Mountain Athletics Conference rival University of Nebraska-Kearney on Friday.
Though Hastings College also competed, the Twilight Open, hosted by UNK, turned into a race between Fort Hays State University and UNK.
The Tigers split the competition, taking first and second.
The wom [...]
Volleyball gains confidence
Fort Hays State University volleyball coach Kurt Kohler said he saw two different teams from match one to match four at the Eastern New Mexico University tournament.
One team was riding a 19-match losing streak, posted negative hitting percentages and lacked conviction. By match four, his team was riding a three-match winning streak, was hitt [...]
Notes from the President
Column by SGA President, Bradley Stramel
With a new senate session underway and various seats to be filled, we take the stage for issues and opportunities that lie ahead.
I encourage all students to utilize SGA this year to the fullest extent.
Contact your elected senators, vice president Tyler Thompson or me about what is going on.
Whether t [...]
Students react to new e-mail
Scatcat Webmail has undergone some changes as many may have noticed.
The new e-mail was made available the afternoon of Aug. 21, the Friday before the semester began. According to Jeffrey Mayo, UNIX and networking administrator of Fort Hays State University, the default e-mail students see is very similar to the new Web site that will be laun [...]
Lohan delivers painful performance
Oh Lindsey Lohan … why do you keep trolling under bridges, demanding us to watch your train-wreck movies you make only to earn a quick buck?
Why can’t we go back to the happier times, when you were the funny redhead in “Mean Girls” or the adorable freckle-faced twin in “The Parent Trap?”
“Labor Pains” is aptly named — it’s painful to watch a [...]
Thirty minutes of intensity
A year ago, associate professor Bob Howell had a laundry list of health problems.
With sleep apnea, high cholesterol, high blood pressure and weight issues, he was finding he couldn’t do as much as his younger colleagues.
Now, at 62, he’s lost 50 pounds, and his health issues are fading into memory.
“Aside from losing 50 pounds, my high blood [...]
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