Fall Semester
By: Steve May
President Nelson is excited about the new crop of Freshmen coming to ETU’s annual Sweat Lodge Orientation. “We have the largest class of freshmen ever enrolled this year, and I’m sure they will all add to the Raven’s history with pride and honor.”
This year’s Sweat Lodge is the third weekend of August to coincide with dorm check in. There are three sessions on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evening, in which the new class receive an personal introduction to the campus, our traditions, and expectations.
“It is important that all incoming freshmen attend Sweat Lodge. They learn about the importance of campus safety, traditions, the Raven’s Honor Code, and fight songs. They also get teamed into pods to help them make friends and it is also a fun evening of dancing, live music, and free food.” President Nelson stated that several bands have agreed to play for the event, including local favorite A Jury of Robots. Students will also meet with Senior Ravens to get their perspective on life on campus and advice on how to be successful in their college careers.
The final events of the evening will take place in the Roost and the party will continue in a lock-in fashion till the following morning, though the rules state that if a student leave the event, they are not allowed reentrance. President Nelson explained that this is an effort to keep alcohol out of the arena. “I’m looking forward to a fantastic night of good , clean Raven’s style fun.”
Tags: President Nelson, Sweat Lodge
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Summer Semester
By: Steve May
We are pleased to announce that two investigators from Pinebox Paranormal are now contributing reporters for the Raven’s Reort. Pinebox Paranormal runs a book and music store downtown and also work as Paranormal investigators and have had their own magazine for the past 15 years. The company was started by Dr. Austin Slade, professor of Investigative Journalism at East Texas University.
“We need to know what’s out there. You can see the truth if you keep your eyes open,” Dr. Slade discussed many issues at the announcement party. “Writing the Pinebox Paranormal Report is easy. Suffice it to say that it practically writes itself these days: never a shortage of material in this small town.”
Besides Dr. Slade, we are also welcoming Paranormal Investigative Reporter Patty Wak. Look for their selected stories in future issues of The Raven’s Report.
Tags: Dr. Slade, Patty Wak, Pinebox Paranormal
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Summer Semester
By: Thomas Alvarez
photo by: Jake Miller
While city fire crews cleared all security and electrical systems for normal operation in the Applied Sciences, students are still reporting odd behavior relating to the building’s north elevator. Since Sunday’s power loss, students and faculty using the elevator have reported flickering lights, sudden movement while going up and down floors and as many as four complete failures have been reported.
Additionally, students have reported travel time for the elevator becoming unpredictable. “Sometimes going from the first up to the fourth takes half a minute, sometimes it takes five minutes. Even with no stops in between. I might as well just take the stairs!” reported an exasperated student rushing to class after exiting the North elevator.
ETU Building Services has also informed the Report that they’ve received reports of electrical devices such as laptop computers and portable hard drives have been erased after taking the elevator. Additionally, both digital and mechanical watches are acting erratically after a short trip.
The elevator has been shut down until it can be complete diagnostics are performed. Students are advised to use either of the two other elevators or the stairs to get to their classes on time.
Tags: Applied Sciences Power Loss
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Summer Semester
By: Thomas Alvarez
While all of you are aware of the fire that destroyed the offices of The Raven’s Report, there’s more to the story that we’ve had to keep quiet for nearly 7 months now. Slowly, you began to see our reporters write fewer and fewer news articles until in September of last year publication of the Report ceased altogether when our newsroom caught on fire trapping and killing student staff photographers Jake Miller and Sara Marshall.
In addition to the deaths of our friends, senior staff members—myself included—were abducted from our homes, rendered unconscious and forced to reside isolated in a concrete and steel vault in a location that is still unknown. Following the abduction, remaining Report staffers received messages threatening them if they continued writing for the Report—messages signed with the familiar closing: “Those with no eyes are watching.” These demands were shown to campus President Nelson who immediately issued a moratorium postponing The Raven’s Report publications.
Three days ago, other Report staffers and I were returned to our homes in much the same way we were taken. We remember very little of the events that occurred there. We are all shaken and afraid. Who or what could have done this so quickly to all of us? What had we uncovered that made an organization with such obvious resources take note?
While some of us have become more dedicated to finding out what happened and why we were taken, others were affected by the events and have left campus—possibly Pinebox—without a word. For the time being, The Raven’s Report will only be produced through this website, and without our offices available to us articles published will be more infrequent than in times past.
We have established a Twitter feed @theravensreport so that we can send immediate reports out quickly and notify our readers as soon as posts can be created on this site. If you have any information about the abduction or deaths of Jake and Sara please contact the Report or President Nelson immediately. Our apologies for the delays in our publication, we hope you understand.
Be careful ETU, those with no eyes are watching all of us.
Tags: those with no eyes are watching
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Summer Semester
By: Colleen Parker
The registration deadline for the second Summer semester is Friday, June 26. Students are allowed to take up to two classes per session, and the summer is divided into two sessions. The first summer session is well under way, but Summer II starts on Monday, July 6. Summer sessions at ETU are a popular way for students to make up grades if they have a “bad semester” or to graduate early by completing classes during the compressed summer schedules.
“I’ll do whatever it takes to get out of here, even study,” said ETU senior Cody Hillborough before his 2.5 hour class Friday morning.
That sentiment is shared with many other seniors who were only a few credits shy of graduating in May. The Registrar’s Office estimates that another 150 seniors will be elgible for graduation by the end of the summer semester.
Tags: Deadlines
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Spring Semester
By: Steve May
Mike Marley, a professional hypnotist and entertainer, put on a great show last Friday night in the Student Center before several hundred students and faculty. In an amazing feat of his craft he hypnotized the entire crowd and had them acting like chickens, dogs, and used car salesmen (each trying to sell cars to everyone else).
Remarkably, he videotaped the event and posted it on the internet after showing the crowd what he had them do. Some of the hypnotized were upset however. “He didn’t ask my permission and I don’t appreciate being made a fool of,” said Senior Chemistry student, Valery Pina.
Mr. Marley answered the concerns, “It was a Mesmerism show and no one can be hypnotized without wanting to be. I’m sorry if it offended anyone, but that’s the show.”
The ETU administration has yet to return any calls about the show, but issued this statement: “The show was a hit with most of the attendees and we are certain that Mr. Marley acted in a fully appropriate way for that type of event.”
Tags: entertainment, Marley, show
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