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Exaggerated Exit

Columnist Prajwal Sharma says he’s fi ne with campus media leaving the SUB.

Week of ‘Weeks’

Multiple organizations sponsor various diverse activities within one week.

Music Man

Local music scene has access to professional recording in Adair County.

Bluegrass Diva

Musical sensation Rhonda Vincent will

appear Tuesday

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Kirksville, Mo. 63501

Streak Continues

Bulldogs lose two games Wednesday,

have lost last six games

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Julie WilliamsStaff Reporter

An investigation continues this week after a shooting Friday af-ternoon left one woman wounded and a man in jail.

The Kirksville Police Depart-ment responded to a 911 call at 12:03 p.m. Friday about a woman with a gunshot wound to the leg, according to a press release issued by police. The press release iden-tifi ed Tammy A. Parrish, 42, as the victim, and Donald E. Smith, 52, as the suspect in the shooting.

Detective Jeremy Cordray said police responded to 1212 North Franklin St., which is Parrish’s residence. He said that when police arrived, they were not aware of any-one in the house except Parrish and Smith. Cordray said police have been told that Parrish and Smith are boyfriend and girlfriend.

Cordray said a motive still is under investigation.

Six or seven offi cers responded to the 911 call, Cordray said.

“Whenever the police arrived, of course we had to secure the residence,” he said. “Then we lo-cated Mr. Smith leaving the rear of the residence.”

Cordray said police then took Smith into custody.

“Initially he was taken into cus-tody for protective custody due to his level of intoxication,” he said.

Smith was not in possession of

Novinger man found dead outside barn with single gunshot wound

Julie WilliamsStaff Reporter

The death of a Novinger man last week has prompted an inves-tigation after his death was deter-mined to be a homicide.

The Adair County Sheriff’s Department responded to a 911 call March 23 about a man who had been shot in Novinger, Mo., 10 miles west of Kirksville, ac-cording to a press release issued

Grace MattieStaff Reporter

Elections for City Council and the Kirksville R-III Board of Education members are April 4, and three initiatives proposed by the city and the Adair County Ambulance District also are on the ballot.

“People are going to have to decide if [the initiatives] are im-portant to the community,” City Manager Mari Macomber said.

Voters can choose three of the following nine candidates, as they appear on the ballot, to represent Kirksville on the City Council for terms ranging from one to three years, depending on the most votes: Kevin A. Alm, Jill Wimp McCord, Dale

Blesz, Jeff Newton, Charles Cannaday, Sterling W. “Duck-Dutch” Ruddy, Terry “Klon” Smith, Aaron Rodgerson and Frank D. Wayman.

Mayor Martha Rowe and pro-tem Tim Crist will remain in offi ce until 2008 and 2007, re-spectively, and council member Ralph Cupelli will not return.

“Ralph’s a good supporter of the community, and he put the time in that he needed to un-derstand the various issues that we’ve been working on,” Ma-comber said.

As for members of the Board of Education, voters can choose two of the following four candi-dates as they appear on the bal-lot to represent the Kirksville R-III School District for a term

of three years each: Patrick Foglesong, Gay Jones Nichting, Sally Detweiler and Neal R. Chamberlain.

Not only will voters choose candidates, but they also will vote either yes or no to the proposition of the Adair Coun-ty Ambulance District and two questions from the city of Kirksville.

The Ambulance District pro-posed to reduce the property tax to zero after the end of the year and impose a sales tax of .375 percent for the purpose of provid-ing revenues for its operation.

Don Crosby, Adair County ambulance director, could not be reached for comment.

Additionally, the city See ELECTION, Page 7

Sterling W.“Duck-Dutch” RuddyResident

Key Concern: Blesz said his main concern is economic develop-ment, and citizens should not travel elsewhere to shop.

“Every time we go down the highway and go down to Columbia, [Mo.,] we are hurting the retail owners of Kirksville,” he said.

Truman-Kirksville Relations: He said the University and Kirksville citizens need to have the opportunity to become acquaint-ed with one another through meetings, luncheons or other activities.

Key Concern: Cannaday said he mainly is focused on job growth. “The bottom line is if we can get more full-time jobs in Kirksville,

a lot of people working two or three part-time jobs could get a full-time one,” he said.

Truman-Kirksvillle Relations: He said it is impossible to leg-islate people into getting along. “On the City Council level, I don’t think that’s something that actually can be done.”

Truman-Kirksville Relations: Newton said he thinks the Uni-versity does a good job of fostering relations with the Kirksville community, and he thinks more meetings with University President Barbara Dixon are necessary.

Economic Development: He said he thinks Kirksville Regional Economic Development, Inc. needs to continue its efforts to build up the city.

Dale BleszAssociate professor of education at Truman

Charles CannadayOwner of tree-trimming business,Adair Aerial

Jeff NewtonManager of Il Spazio

AaronRodgersonPastor at Southside Baptist Church

Terry “Klon” SmithLab technician at Hanger Prosthetics

Frank D. WaymanReal Estate Broker

Jill Wimp McCordCo-owner of Cottage Grove Bed & Breakfast

Kevin A. AlmMechanic

Key Concern: Rodgerson said he wants the people as a whole to be represented.

Truman-Kirksville Relations: He said he has heard that Truman students taking jobs is a concern of the community.

“It would be good to sit down with people from Truman and ask them what they would like to see in terms of improvements,” he said.

Key Concern: Smith said he wants to represent a wider range of citizens from Kirksville.

“I think that there are a lot more people that need to be repre-sented from all walks of life, ... and I think we’ve not been getting that representation,” he said.

Truman-Kirksville Relations: Smith said it would be advantageous for a Truman representative to express issues before the City Council.

Key Concern: Wayman said his father died in offi ce several years ago, and he wants to complete his father’s unexpired term.

“For 50 years, the city has been good to me,” he said. “Now I think it’s my turn to donate my time and effort to return the favor.”

Truman-Kirksville Relations: He said the key is communica-tion and that a direct line from the city to the University would re-solve problems.

Key Concern: Wimp McCord said responsible development and growth of the city is very important.

“That we restore the image and pride in our city government so that businesses and citizens will feel comfortable and proud of their city and incoming businesses would look at us with favor,” she said.

Truman-Kirksville Relations: Wimp McCord said open commu-nication is important, and public forums would help the relationship.

Citizens face several election options

Police fi nd body

Shooting injures local woman

SAB sponsors free MxPx concert

Chris Waller/IndexDetective Jeremy Cordray displays guns that were confi scated last week.

a weapon when he was secured by police, Cordray said. He said Smith still is in jail and has been charged with second degree assault and un-lawful use of a weapon.

Parrish was taken to the hos-pital by ambulance after suffer-ing one gunshot wound to the leg, according to the press release. Cordray said police are still inves-tigating what type of gun caused the wound, but he thinks it ap-peared to have been caused by a small-caliber weapon.

A Northeast Regional Medical Center offi cial declined to release in-formation on Parrish’s condition.

Cordray also said about 10 fi re-arms and numerous other items were found at Parrish’s residence in an in-

vestigation following the events.“While we were investigating

we did receive information from the sheriff’s department that they had a report of similar items that were stolen from a residence in the county,” he said. “That part of the investigation is still ongo-ing and is in joint efforts with the Adair County sheriff’s offi ce.”

Cordray said that because fi re-arms were recovered, they are po-tential evidence in the shooting. Those items still will need to be sent to a laboratory for testing to confi rm if they were used, he said.

Cordray said more charges probably are pending, but both Smith and Parrish are suspects in that investigation.

Taylor said SAB had enough money in the budget to afford

sponsoring a free spring concert for the students, Taylor said.

“They really wanted to have a free concert for the students, instead of having them pay,” she said.

Taylor said MxPx, which is la-beled as a punk rock band, placed third on the spring concert survey administered by SAB last fall with

858 students choosing the option. The survey also included Relient

K, which is no longer touring with MxPx.

Concerts could not be arranged with either Gavin DeGraw or Tak-ing Back Sunday, students’ fi rst and second choices, respectively, Taylor said.

The procedures for MxPx’s booking agency, William Morris Agency Inc., slightly slowed the contract process, which is why the concert wasn’t offi cially an-nounced until less than two weeks before the concert date.

Senior Tiffany Hendry, spring concert chairwoman for SAB, said the contractual pro-cess for signing MxPx had a relatively quick turnaround, tak-ing place within about a month.

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Photo SubmittedMxPx will take the stage at 8 p.m. April 7 in Pershing Arena.

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The band MxPx, after recently returning from Japan, will perform in a free concert sponsored by the Student Activities Board on April 7 in Pershing Arena.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for the opening band, Hated Nixon, which will start playing at 7, and MxPx will take the stage at 8, said Robin Taylor, coordinator for the Center for Student Involvement.

“I think we’ll have a really good show,” Taylor said. “It’s a little different genre then what they have brought in the past.”

The concert also is part of the concluding activities of Greek Week, Taylor said.

Tickets are available today to the fi rst 3,000 people, Taylor said. Although free for Tru-man students, general admission tickets cost $15, Taylor said. The SAB offi ce is located in the SUB Gover-nors’ room because of the renovations of the Student Union Build-ing slated for later this summer, she said.

Taylor said she recommends obtain-ing tickets early.

“I would encour-age those to get their tickets as soon as we can get them on sale,” Taylor said.

Candidates Kevin A. Alm and Sterling W. “Duck-Dutch” Ruddy did not re-turn phone calls as of press time.

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“They really wanted to have a free concert

for the students, instead of

having them pay.”

Robin TaylorCoordinator for the Center for Student

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by Adair County prosecuting at-torney Mark Williams.

According to the press release: “Upon arriving at the scene, two deputies found Melvin Bernard Griesbauer outside a barn, with a gun shot wound to the head.”

Adair County coroner Brian Noe said he performed an autopsy on Griesbauer on Friday in Co-lumbia, Mo. He said the autopsy will not be complete for another six to eight weeks, and he still is waiting on lab work.

Noe said he could not release the cause of death but he said Griesbauer’s death was not natu-ral and has been determined to be

a homicide. He said Griesbauer had a single gunshot wound.

Noe said he could not com-ment any further because it is an ongoing investigation.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol Division of Drug and Crime Control will assist in the investiga-tion, according to the press release. Highway Patrol Capt. Chris Ricks said he could not comment.

“All we can do is confi rm that we are involved in the investiga-tion,” he said.

Investigators will use the results of the autopsy and other informa-tion to determine the cause of death, according to the press release.

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NEWS In Brief

Barrington Broadcasting announced Monday that it has agreed to purchase all assets of KTVO-TV, the ABC affi liate based in Kirksville. Barrington already owns six television stations, including KHQA in Hannibal, Mo. In addition to KTVO, Barrington purchased 11 other televi-sion stations in the deal. The transaction is pending FCC approval. KTVO General Manager Crystal Amini-Rad said KTVO will continue with business as usual while the sale is being fi nalized, which could take up to six months.

Local television station will change handsEducator fi les for candidacy

DPS ReportsReport of property damage/vandalism in Parking Lot 7.

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Report of property damage in Baldwin Hall.3/24

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l Speaker junior Joe VanAmburg ruled campus diversity chairman senior Matthew Seibert out of order for moving that faculty adviser Scott Alberts’ 1-year-old daughter stop crying.

l Senate passed a money motion for $50 to purchase cookies and lemonade for the technology forum at 6 p.m. April 12 in Ryle Hall’s main lounge.

l Senate passed a money motion, moved by Seibert, for $200 to purchase prizes for Diversity Week.

l Senate passed a money motion, moved by Seibert, for $400 to fund a block party Friday outside Grim Hall.

l Senate passed a money motion for $100 to support the community bike-sharing program.

l Incoming senator freshman Mark Enselman was absent from the meeting.

l Senator freshman Mike Pieper resigned from Senate.

l Senate will move its April 16 meeting to April 17 because of spring break.

l Senate passed a money motion for $2,500 for the Educator of the Year Banquet on May 2.

l Senate adopted a resolution expressing its support for an increase in the Bright Flight scholarship amount.

l Senate passed a correcting money motion for $136.72 to cover costs of the diversity retreat March 5.

l Senate rejected a motion to establish an independent council that would admit Truman as a member of Missouri Students United! and place on the April 18 and 19 ballot an issue to establish a $2 per student per semester fee. The motion needed a two-thirds majority to pass.

l VanAmburg ruled Seibert out of order for moving that gerbils elect senators.

l Senate approved an amendment to the standing rules establishing the position of liaison to the Collegiate Readership Program.

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Despite the absence of Sen. John Cauthorn because of illness, Rep. Bob Behnen, R-Kirksville, delivered the State of the District Address at 8 a.m. Friday at the Adair County Annex Building. Behnen covered several issues and mentioned the 2 percent increase the state is commit-ting to higher education. He said the state wanted to send a message to higher education of how important it is.

Nathan BeckerAssistant News Editor

Upperclassmen moving into the new residence hall next year might see something they didn’t expect: freshmen.

The new hall, temporarily named the Suites at 215 W. Normal, will include a fourth fl oor full of fi rst-year stu-dents, said Andrea O’Brien, director of Residence Life.

O’Brien said Residence Life needs to fi ll about 100 beds in the new hall, which prompted them to use a fl oor of the new hall for fi rst-year stu-dents. After upperclassmen had selected rooms, the fourth fl oor was almost entirely empty.

The few upperclassmen who selected suites on the fourth fl oor still will live in the new hall, O’Brien said.

“What we’ll end up do-ing is working with the [up-perclassmen] that have been renewed to that fl oor and work

with them to basically ask them to re-select another suite within the building,” she said. “We’re not going to kick them out, we’re not going to break their housing contract. We’re just going to say, ‘Can you just select another suite?’”

The fi rst-year fl oor will be a learning community, O’Brien said. All students living on the fourth fl oor will be enrolled in one of four sections of the same one-credit class. The class will utilize four films and a book that will tie into a central theme for the class. This class has no affi liation with the Truman Week class all fi rst-year stu-dents have to take, she said.

The learning community will not group students by ma-jors, O’Brien said.

“As a liberal arts and sci-ences institution, we don’t want to group by major because we feel like that limits explora-tion,” she said. “We want to make sure that the students are

living among people of differ-ent interests and different expe-riences, and so that way, if we have a community that’s based around a theme, that theme will be very generic.”

Student advisers also would be affected by the implementa-tion of a learning community in the new hall. Two more SAs would be on the fourth floor than other fl oors, and they would be involved with the class, O’Brien said. These SAs have not yet been chosen.

Junior Holly Weber, who is an SA in Centennial Hall now, will be an SA on the first fl oor of the new residence hall next year. She said she didn’t ex-press interest in being a fourth-floor SA, but she understands why some would be interested in the task.

“It kind of changes things up a little bit,” Weber said. “I know there are a few returners – that will be their third year as an SA if they get the posi-

tion, where they want a job, just something a little bit dif-ferent than what they’ve been doing the last two years.”

O’Brien said the new hall probably didn’t fi ll up because of the cost difference between the new hall and others on cam-pus, which is about $1,200.

“I think when students move to a new building, a lot of times they know people in that other building who have said, ‘This is awesome over here,’ and there isn’t any of that,” O’Brien said. “It’s a lot of word of mouth, and right now there’s no word of mouth. ... It’s hard sometimes to justify paying more when you ... can’t see and can’t feel, touch and hear what you’re getting.”

Junior Rachel Holper said the price of the new hall didn’t deter her from choos-ing to live there next year.

“I had already pretty much decided to live there before they told us that it was more expen-

sive,” she said. “ ... It was kind of frustrating to fi nd out that it was more expensive, but I’m on a scholarship, so that’s why I’m still on campus anyway. ... That difference is all that I’m going to have to pay.”

Holper said she wouldn’t have a problem with first-year students living in the new hall.

“I think it kind of would work either way,” Holper said. “I think if they did inter-sperse them with upperclass-men, there might be people that would be upset since they thought that it was going to be an upperclassmen dorm, but personally, I don’t think I would be too upset.”

Incoming freshmen who already have submitted their housing preferences most likely will be notifi ed by mail of their option to live in the new hall. Placement into the hall probably will be on a first-come, fi rst-serve basis, O’Brien said.

Salma AhmedStaff Reporter

Rebecca McClanahan, assistant professor of nursing, will run for a state offi ce at the cost of some of her teach-ing opportunities.

McClanahan fi led to run for Mis-souri House of Representatives District 2 on Monday afternoon. She has been on the nursing staff at Truman for more than 30 years and is an active member of the Missouri Nurses Association and the American Nurses Association. The current District 2 representative, Bob Behnen, is ending his term and has fi led to run for Missouri Senate, leaving a va-cant seat in the House. She is running versus Nancy Summers of Unionville.

McClanahan said she decided to run because she wants to make a difference.

“I’ve been very interested in the is-sues for years and tried to infl uence leg-islative process as a citizen, and this is an opportunity to do it more directly,” McClanahan said.

However, running for a state offi ce dur-ing the middle of Truman’s semester has left McClanahan worried about students in the classes she is teaching this term.

“There are state statutes and also Truman Board of Government policies that prevent me from continuing as a full-time employee,” McClanahan said. “I want to do whatever I can to make

sure that my students have the experi-ence they need.”

Nursing program director Stephanie Powelson, who has worked with McClana-han for 10 years, said the nursing faculty is ready to help. She said the faculty had a meeting Monday to generate ideas after McClanahan had offi cially fi led to become a candidate in the election. One of her classes, Nursing Informatics, already has been given to another professor, and all of her advisees have been referred to another adviser within the nursing faculty.

“The students and faculty are very interested and admire her bravery,” Powelson said. “It’s a big step for any-body to fi le for offi ce.”

McClanahan also said she offered to continue some of her responsibilities at Truman whether she was employed or not.

“One thing that is good is that she doesn’t want to ditch us in the middle of the semester, and it’s happened to me before,” senior Rachel Mohler said. “She wants to stay oriented to people she’s responsible to.”

If elected, McClanahan said she hopes to promote higher education and draw more attention to the lack of health care availability.

“I welcome comments from students, faculty and other people from the com-munity,” she said. “I would urge people to vote in primary elections and then the regular elections on Nov. 8.”

New hall will house first-year studentsRoger Meissen/Index

Rebecca McClanahan helps senior Melissa Wells check out a Web site in Barnett Hall on Wednesday.

Andrew GantIndex Staff

For sale: 21,000 acres of Mis-souri forest.

Congress is debating a federal proposal that would do just that – sell off a piece of the Mark Twain National Forest in Rolla, Mo., to generate more education funding. The proposal is part of a national plan designed to raise $800 million for public schools in 41 states.

The land sale would earn about $2.6 million for public schools in Missouri counties.

But James Turner, associate professor of accounting and fac-ulty adviser for environmental or-ganization Sierra Club at Truman, said the proposal is shortsighted.

“It’s a bad precedent to sell off a substantial block of this forest land,” Turner said. “Once you sell

that acreage, it’s gone.”If the proposal is approved,

the state of Missouri will sell off more land than other states while receiving less money. Critics of the plan have said a state such as Oregon would sell less than half of Missouri’s proposed acreage and still earn more than $260 mil-lion for its schools – 100 times Missouri’s payoff.

The money earned from the sale in Missouri would represent about 2 percent of the state’s edu-cation budget.

Several prominent legislators have spoken out against the pro-posal, including U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson and U.S. Sens. Kit Bond and Jim Talent. In a public letter to U.S. Agriculture Undersecretary Mark Rey, members of Congress said they would fi ght to keep the forest land public.

Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt also wrote a letter urging Rey to recog-nize the land’s value to rural citizens, according to gov.missouri.gov.

But Rey told reporters he doesn’t think Mark Twain is one of the “crown jewels” of public land. He characterized it as “worn-out farmland” and “former cotton fi elds,” according to transcripts from the Forest Service Web site.

Ken Midkiff, Missouri Sierra Club chapter conservation chair-man, said Rey’s previous back-ground might infl uence his views. He said Rey worked with lobby-ists for the timber industry before he was Bush’s fi rst choice for the Forest Service.

“Putting Mark Rey in charge of the Forest Service is akin to put-ting a fox in charge of the chicken house,” Midkiff said.

Earlier this month, the U.S.

Forest Service announced a 30-day comment period for residents to call with their questions and concerns about the proposal. That period ends today.

If the proposal is approved by Congress, it won’t go into effect until the new budget passes in September. According to the For-est Service Web site, Rey told re-porters his department was operat-ing as openly as possible:

“I don’t think we can get any more transparent than putting it forward as part of the administra-tion’s budget request. We appreci-ate that there is considerable anxi-ety about funding reauthorization through land sales.”

The Forest Service’s Web site also provides maps of the poten-tial land tracts for sale, answers frequently asked questions about the proposal and contains mp3

fi les and transcripts of Rey’s press conferences.

Forest Service spokesman Jo-seph Walsh declined to comment about the proposal’s details. He said the Web site could answer most questions.

Charlotte Wiggins, public af-fairs contact for Mark Twain National Forest, also declined to comment about how the sale would affect the area.

“We don’t take a public stand one way or another on this pro-posal,” Wiggins said. “We’re just providing the information.”

But the Sierra Club has taken a public stand. The organiza-tion’s offi cial statement warned that if public forest is sold, “Wel-come” signs would be replaced by “Keep Out” signs.

Turner said the potential effects on the environment also were sig-

nifi cant. He said selling acres of the land essentially would sacri-fi ce the environment for money.

“My feeling is that we’re getting down to a minimum of what is need-ed to preserve our genetic library,” Turner said. “Who knows which bacteria in which gram of forest soil could be useful to us in the future?”

Others suggested the state of Missouri should make another proposal to buy more land.

Midkiff said public land in Missouri already is scarce, and selling it wouldn’t be worth the short-term gain in funding.

“In the state of Missouri, we have less than 5 percent of all the land in public ownership – and that includes state parks ... wild-life refuges, prisons, everything,” Midkiff said. “So rather than sell-ing off the land that we have, we should be acquiring more.”

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3IndexThursday, March 30, 2006

Kyle HillStaff Reporter

Senator junior Josh Kappel proposed an independent council at Student Sen-ate’s meeting Sunday that capped two hours of continuous debate.

A divided Senate voted to reject a mo-tion to establish an independent council that would allow students to vote on by-laws admitting the University to Missouri Students United!, a student union recently formed by two students at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

The motion, which also called for a measure on the April 18 to 19 Senate election ballot to institute a $2 per student per semester fee, fell one vote shy of the two-thirds majority needed.

Kappel, who is listed on United!’s Web site as the union’s organizer at Tru-man, said students should have the right to vote to unionize.

“In order for an organization to claim power in numbers, it has to have num-bers,” Kappel said.

Senate devolved into defi nitive fac-tions on the measure.

Kappel, along with senators senior Tim Gerhart and senior Stephen Huss, received support from incoming senator freshman Tracey Blasingame, external affairs chair-woman sophomore Mindy Maness and senator sophomore Andy Rudolph.

Campus diversity chairman senior Matt Seibert joined the voting bloc of se-nior senator senior Robert Kelchen, tech-nology chairman senior Ashley Young and senators senior Taylor Burks, sophomore

Daniel Poindexter and freshman Sarah Schmidt in opposing the motion.

“I’m a veteran of the old SAM wars,” Seibert said, referring to the failed Stu-dent Association of Missouri, from which students voted to withdraw in 2004. “This is a bad idea. I don’t want to go down this road again. SAM didn’t work, [and] this wouldn’t either.”

Seibert said students at the Univer-sity of Missouri-Rolla voted to table the idea indefi nitely. UMR’s Student Council overwhelmingly voted to do so Feb. 7, ac-cording to its Web site.

Kappel said United!’s structure differs from SAM.

“SAM was an organization that repre-sented students,” Kappel said. “Missouri Students United! is students. It’s nothing really like SAM.”

Kelchen attempted to postpone the motion indefi nitely but withdrew his mo-tion, then failed to adjourn the meeting, also falling shy by one vote. The close votes prompted senators to call division, resulting in speaker junior Joe VanAm-burg to call for a show of hands.

Treasurer junior Cory Kessler said that although he voted to keep discussion open, he opposes joining the union.

“I was looking at their Web site yes-terday and found a lot of contradictions,” Kessler said. “I feel more comfortable see-ing how this will work out. It seems that a lot of schools are having reservations.”

President junior Mark Kirtland, elected as a Bulldog party member last year, voiced concern about the organization’s structure.

“According to the by-laws that don’t ex-

Senators ax union motion

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Courtney Robbins/IndexSenators freshman Sarah Schmidt, sophomore Daniel Poindexter and senior senator senior Robert Kelchen listen to discussion during Sunday’s meeting. Senate voted down affi liation with Missouri Students United! at the meeting.

ist, anyone can join,” Kirtland said. “These by-laws are not binding. We need time to discuss this. Two weeks is not enough.”

Kirtland and Kessler both said they op-pose the fee structure. Schools with less than 12,000 students would pay a fee of $2 per student per semester while schools with more than 12,000 would pay twice as much, according to United!’s Web site.

“If they’re claiming to be the ultimate democracy, this isn’t showing it,” Kessler said. “A bigger school that’s giving twice as much, don’t you think they’re going to have a lot more weight? Schools should pay the same.”

Kappel said the by-laws are up to stu-dents to approve before meeting at an up-coming congress in August.

Academic affairs chairwoman junior An-gela Crawford left before the discussion be-gan because of an out-of-town commitment.

Crawford, who served as SAM’s presi-dent before the organization folded in Feb-ruary 2005, said Tuesday that the Univer-sity should wait before joining United!.

“Students have every right to give their opinion,” Crawford said. “They did two years ago when we left SAM. That opinion should stand for awhile.”

Kappel said he now is collecting signa-

tures to force a vote on whether students want to join United!.

He will need 300 signatures to place the issue on the ballot, according to Senate’s constitution. Kappel said he anticipates collecting enough by the end of the week.

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The Student Association of Missouri just won’t die.

Senator junior Josh Kappel introduced a motion at Senate’s meeting last Sunday that would have placed a resolution on the April ballot putting the University’s membership in the fl edgling Missouri Students United before the student body. (See Story, Page 2)

Senate rejected the motion and along with it the possibility of tacking on an extra $2 per student per semester fee.

A quick perusal of MSU’s Web site shows alarming parallels between it and the now-defunct SAM.

During the twilight of SAM in 2004, the Index staked out a position fi rmly against the multi-school organiza-tion, for a laundry list of reasons. It was a poorly run, highly insular organization with an enormous budget and little to show for it other than hollow rhetoric about “representation.”

Opponents of SAM didn’t expressly disagree with the organization’s mission – after all, state higher education will never complain about extra representation. Any effort to create more representation for higher education should be met with initial applause. We wish to put in perspective how much difference – based on the failure of SAM, despite its bloated budget of roughly $40,000 at one point – such an organization could make, however. SAM never was able to come up with a list of victories, precisely because it accomplished very little during its shelf life.

Although Truman students paid $2 a year to be a part of SAM, that rate would double under the umbrella of MSU. In

addition, larger schools would foot a bill of $4 per semester. Asking larger schools to shoulder a larger portion of the bill is non-sensical on one hand, and likely contrary to Truman’s interests on the other. MSU boasts on its Web site that it hopes to have six schools with 70,000 students on board soon, and according to our calculations, would operate with a budget between $150,000 and $200,000. To put this in perspective,

MSU wishes to operate with a similar budget to the University’s Student Activi-ties Board. This is laughable.

If Kappel and the other organizers of MSU wish to be taken seriously, we

ask them to address three things. First, what lessons did they learn from the failure of SAM, and how is this new group any differ-ent? An examination of the MSU Web site leads one to believe that the only difference between the two are the organizers.

Second, what kind of oversight or advi-sory committee will MSU employ? SAM operated with zero oversight from a board of directors, didn’t retain higher-education faculty or staff in an advisory capacity, and was formally accountable to no one.

Third, after SAM proved its budget was outrageous for what its purposes were – primarily organizing marches and circulat-ing petitions around its member schools, which could have been done for almost free – how can MSU’s organizers justify such an enormous budget with a straight face?

Thus far, MSU has answered none of these questions.

Until they do, MSU isn’t worth the University’s time.

4 EditorialThursday, March 30, 2006

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MSU appears to be little more than a SAM replica

Serving the University community since 1909

Adult entertainment carries with it a great number of harmful effects

In the article “City restricts adult stores” [March 9 issue of the Index], Aaron Rodgerson listed several concerns about adult entertainment. The following is an excerpt of my concerns expressed three years ago in my letter to the editor of the Kirksville Daily Express when they continually advertised the local adult entertainment business:

“I am quite aware of what adult en-tertainment means, so I started to ponder the ‘privileges’ of what it means to be an adult in today’s society.

“One of the conclusions I made was that it gives us the freedom to buy and look at anything that our hearts desire. After all, it doesn’t hurt anyone – it’s just you and that magazine or that video, right? There is no harm done in the privacy of your own home – nobody gets hurt.

“And that is where the lie begins. Por-nography is destructive in that it promotes promiscuity, it encourages rape, it demeans women, it encourages marital violence, it destroys and ravages lives, it destroys minds, it portrays violence and fear, it causes bondage to pornography, it glorifi es incest and child pornography, and it opens the door to dissatisfaction in marriage.

“That’s some pretty scary stuff all wrapped up in our freedom of adults.

“The next time you have $20 to spend, may I suggest you reroute yourself from our local adult store to one of our two lo-cal bookstores and order a copy of Laurie Hall’s book ‘An Affair of the Mind.’ She will give you an incredible, eye-opening account of what adult entertainment really does to someone and their family.”

I am at a loss as to how adult entertain-ment can “assist” us with our romantic needs in light of the above facts.

Patti LinaresKirksville Resident

Index should support Dixon, realize benefits of 16:1 plan

Here’s an idea: Why don’t we try sup-porting President Dixon? I am writing in response to the Our View published March 23 regarding the University’s decision to refocus on the 16:1 faculty ratio. I wonder if anyone at the Index has taken the time to interview University offi cials, includ-ing Garry Gordon, the VPAA, or President Dixon. Perhaps if they did, they would realize why the administration feels that this ratio is important to maintain the quality of education at Truman.

After attending a roundtable discussion with Dixon on March 21 as part of Omi-cron Delta Kappa, I feel that I now have a clear idea of why this 16:1 ratio is neces-sary. First, the 16:1 ratio has been the plan for Truman for several years. It became skewed (less than 16) as a result of a few factors. One was the cuts in state funding to higher education after 2001. Another was dropping Truman enrollment rates (new student recruitment programs have since been implemented, and we will have to wait to see the results). Having more teachers than are needed for the student population hurts the students and our faculty. There is not enough money to give raises to the large number of faculty, affecting our ability to please and even keep them here. Truman also cannot offer candidates applying for positions here a competitive salary. This has already resulted in those offered jobs turn-ing down Truman’s offers.

It is important for the facts to be presented to Truman students, who often rely on the Index as their primary source for information on University affairs. The Index, as well as the student body, should also try supporting our extremely qualifi ed president.

Meghan DohertySenior

Outgoing professor clarifi es her remarks in March 23 Index

While I do appreciate the Index’s coverage of the ongoing staffi ng dilemma in theater, I feel it is important to correct a couple of misrepresentations of the facts in the March 23 Index.

First of all, as I noted in a quote-check-ing call to the Index (initiated by me, not the reporter), I came to Truman in 1999, not 1998. In the article, I am also quoted as saying, “That same day we found out Lee was leaving, Columbus State University called and asked if I would visit.” This is an especially problematic misrepresenta-tion of my words, since I had not even applied for the position at CSU when Lee announced his departure from Truman in November. What I actually said to the Index reporter is that on the same day we were told Lee Orchard’s position would not be fi lled, ironically, I received a call from Columbus State University to request an on-campus interview.

Although the facts of my interview and subsequent departure may not seem particularly important to most readers, it is disconcerting to see my own words distorted. I would hope that the Index staff, given their predilection for judging people’s personal choices, might at least get the facts straight when doing so.

Becky BeckerAssociate Professor of Theater

Becker’s departure is an example of current University brain drain

It would be totally remiss not to com-ment on the shocking news story on your current front page of professor Becky Becker’s sensational announcement that she will cease her post as TSU’s senior ranking drama teacher for a better deal down southwards next academic year. Instantly, following upon the squalid book “sacking” call on a history namesake of hers by a Bush-Cheney pro-Iraq war hack writer, a sad picture of brain drain and demoralization on a colossal scale here is emerging, uncountered by President Dixon and Dean Gordon. Even though preserva-tion of the state’s mandated “liberal arts” supremo mission designation of the former proud NMSU might be legitimately felt their protective, fi duciary duty way above even cash shortages.

You see, these things in loss do matter. TSU no longer has paintbrush and other valuable journals so well produced since prematurely their foreign-born faculty originator was insuffi ciently discouraged from also post-taking southwards. History, too, suffered when a Monitor-led witch hunt inspired by jealous elements in the badly run TSU Study Abroad offi ce, led to the premature departure elsewhere of yet another foreign-born faculty, one who alone had brought in top overseas guest speaker faculty in student massive-attended lectures on topical things like Italian political cor-ruption.

Bertha Thomas, for her part, can chronicle for you examples as she does of Becker’s rare outreach work for TSU’s too-ignored black women communities dramati-cally. I can cite as that under-used for free commodity, faculty spouses, consultation by her department even to the point of brochure attribution on foreign dramas elevatingly Becker has encouraged unstintingly her colleagues and students to do, like Charles Dickens’ “The Mystery of Edwin Drood.” Or, too, those of us engaged in TSU Am-nesty International’s ongoing anti-Bush war efforts can easily recall Becker’s courageous revival of ancient Greek anti-war plays and later seminars, just what you would expect from a New York Village Voice occasional contributor, as she too modestly has been in now talents-elsewhere recognized acclaim!

It’s no good, Dr. Dixon and Mr. Gordon, your going silently “mum” about this tragic loss needlessly of your faculty talent.

Perhaps on a barely concealed agenda of “salary savings” as Becker herself openly implies she is fi nding in her help of your fi nding a “temp!” replacement for herself! Savings could, and ought, to be found inside the TSU male-overloaded “administration” offi ceholders so that people like Becker can be retained at a staff level 2006-07 enabling you students to get the mandated “quality” liberal arts overall teaching inspiration.

I don’t even have to name names to prove it. Does the administration think it profi table to have a full-time paid French professor as head of the Study Abroad Of-fi ce most of his paid week?

Do Dixon and Gordon think it correct to still maintain in place the non-teaching divi-sion TSU male largely heads, in antiquated structures idly kept on from the non-subject teacher trainer NMSU college days, rather than pay to keep the Beckers to teach well and innovatively for your 2006-07 thereby cheated younger generations of quality faculty in all but nasty name mockery? Is it really not patronizing, as well as salary costly, to have a non-student headed Center for Student Involvement ridiculous poster-stamping outfi t, with a dean of offi ce “fi ning and trying students” when we already have both local and over-armed costly campus male police services duplicating the exact same workload?

I am tempted to end by a commiseration. Becky, I think, herself feels, judging by her past Index contributions she has given you in ample frustration warnings. This is an Alice-in-Wonderland none way not to run a university topsy-turvey-style Dixon and Gordon, isn’t it? Your Highnesses, sorry for the uncomfortable truth spoken to power gone amiss and speaking for many afraid of doing so, on TSU’s payroll, aren’t I?

Larry IlesKirksville Resident

Observation hours are key in the education of a teacher

In the fall of 1969, I was a senior elementary education major at the Uni-versity of Kansas. We were told that KU’s education department was going to require us to observe a certain number of hours in elementary classrooms during that semes-ter. We were scheduled to do our student teaching in the spring, and so we asked why we had to complete this new, mandatory requirement. It was explained that fi eld ob-servations would be benefi cial in preparing us for the student teaching experience, and that the department didn’t want students to reach their senior year, only to fi nd out dur-ing student teaching that they were not cut out for their chosen career.

I can’t tell you what an eye-opener it was to go back to the classroom and ob-serve after so many years. Education is not a static fi eld, and books, teaching methods and discipline techniques had changed radically since I had been an elementary student. I would not think very highly of the MAE program if it did away with all observation hours. Just because you’ve been a student doesn’t mean you know what it’s like to be a teacher. It’s a whole different ballgame.

An analogy that comes to mind is when my daughter got married. I had attended a lot of weddings as a guest, but didn’t know the fi rst thing about “planning” a wedding. I had to read all the books and ask a lot of questions of parents who had already planned weddings for their children. I would urge the MAE program to keep at least some of the observation hours, and if not, I would urge those thinking about becoming teachers to observe on their own. They will fi nd it to be a very valuable experience.

Joan JonesReading Specialist,

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IndexMarch 28 Results

as of midnight Tuesday

Web pollShould federally funded universities be allowed to ban military recruiters from their campuses?

THIS WEEK’S QUESTION: vote online atwww.trumanindex.com

Did you vote in the City Council elections?

Yes. Schools should have a right to control who enters their premises.

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Although Truman students paid $2 a year to be a part of

SAM, that rate would double under the umbrella of MSU.

27% (28)

No. Schools only have such a right if they refuse federal funding.

73% (75)

5Other VoicesThursday, March 30, 2006

Around the Quad

Jennifer Youngjunior

This week’s question:“What do you thinkof bluegrass music?”

Tamim Sirawansophomore

Aaron Mackjunior

Jeremy Broomhallfreshman

“I love it, actually.”

“I like bluegrass music. I don’t listen to it that much, though. It’s pretty good, but just in small doses every once in awhile.”

“It’s not my preferred choice of music, but I can stand it.”

“I wish it would die out from American culture. It sucks.”

21st birthday doesn’t have to be painful

Joel Andersen

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the celebration, a natural paradox quickly arises, in that memorable 21st birthdays are often the least remembered with

any accuracy.

Cell phone conversations should take place in private

Many of my friends have been turning 21 recently, which means I’ve seen many types of celebrations to mark this auspicious occasion. You only turn 21 once, so it’s best to celebrate with style and aplomb and not with your head inside the porcelain altar, praying to the gods for a swift and merciful death.

No rule states that one has to drink on his or her 21st birthday, but it is somewhat expected to have at least a birthday drink or 12. Some people attempt to drink 21 shots, which is about as safe as going hunting with the vice president. I’m not going to say that you shouldn’t drink 21 shots because I know very well that this type of advice only is appreciated in retrospect. Of course, if you die in the process, there’s no retrospect to appreciate. If you do end up dying in the process, we’ll be sure to engrave your tombstone with “died doing something incred-ibly stupid” to commemorate your valiant sacrifi ce to the lords of liquor.

Whether they want to or not, it’s your friends’ duty to take care of you on this hallowed night of debauchery, so surround yourself with people you can trust. A friend makes sure you get home OK. A better friend won’t let you go home with that skeezy character with the wicked Guns and Roses tattoo. Your best friend refrains from drawing phallic symbols on your face and posting them on the Internet after you fall asleep. Those are the true bonds of friendship, and everything beyond that is secondary.

Nobody, no matter how unlik-able, unattractive or smelly, should have to pay for a single drink on his or her 21st birthday. My policy always is to buy two drinks, one for me and one for the person turning 21. With any luck, the bartender only will charge you for your drink, and you’ll still look like a stud (or studette) to the person whose drink you just “bought.” In any case, he or she most likely will be too heavily under the infl uence of various spirits to know the difference anyway. Worst-case scenario, you end up buying two drinks. Best-case sce-nario, they throw you a tickertape parade the following week and name their fi rstborn after you.

People always ask what bar they should go to when they paint the town red, blue or vomit-green for the first time. If most of your friends are younger than 21, then I suggest going to the grammatically

Writers write stories, reporters gawk

and everyone talks about the dreaded move

to Barnett Hall like it were some kind of media elimination from the University.

Index has overblown campus media move

If I come across one more mention of the much talked-about media offi ces’ move, I will yank my eyeballs out.

Self-publicity. Unfair coverage. Putting one’s problems over those of other organi-zations – that’s what the Index’s devoting a lot of its precious space to the move of the Student Media Center from the Student Union Building to Barnett Hall is.

The Index considers this move so unac-ceptable that it even wasted an editorial in the March 3, 2005, issue. After an editorial (See the March 3 Our View), a column and a few stories, I thought it was the last I was going to see about the very intensely cov-ered move when bang! a recent interview with President Barbara Dixon revealed that even a year later, we still think the move is as big a deal as it was when we fi rst got obsessed with talking about it.

A year later, and the Index still thought the media-move issue that President Dixon addressed in her interview was worthy of news space.

Maybe it’s time to talk about the Index’s self-love.

Apparently, the campus media staff still considers the move intensely unwise and unfair. The Index undoubtedly has displayed poor journalistic judgment in attaching so much importance to a trivial change of venues. Writers write stories, reporters gawk and everyone talks about the dreaded move to Barnett Hall like it were some kind of media elimination from the University.

All the more agonizing is the fact that the Index has pursued stories about the de-velopment of the move more consistently than it has pursued several more important stories.

Did the move of the Offi ce of Resi-dence Life from Kirk Building to Baldwin Hall receive as much coverage? No. Have we written as much about the dislocation

of the academic advisers’ offi ces because of hall renovation? No. Have we covered the move of any other offi ce as much as we have that of the campus media? No.

The editorial in the March 3, 2005, issue of the Index talks about just how important housing the media offi ces in the Student Union. It focuses on how having the campus media offi ces at the center of the campus helps members of the public to regularly visit the media offi ces to “share a story, drop off letters to the editor and par-ticipate in interviews with reporters.” The editorial points out that a move to Barnett Hall would result in fewer visits from the public, thus diminishing the quality of the media’s work.

But, ahem, tell me this – the Index prides itself in being as much a community newspaper as a school newspaper, the radio station calls itself Kirksville’s true alterna-tive, and Detours is a publication that has not even done a Kirksville-related story for a long time, so forget about its doing a school-related story. Basically, it’s just the yearbook that is entirely student-focused.

So why then do we have this totally narrow-minded view of a central location? Should we not take into account a central-ized location after taking into account all that we cover? Touting ourselves as publications that cover a lot more than the

University alone, isn’t it unreasonably silly of us to whine about peripheral and central locations when we are forgetting to take into account the circle we write about?

Barnett Hall is a part of the school as much as the Student Union or Violette Hall, and by treating it as a far-fl ung, isolated island, as is evidenced in our cov-erage of the move, we are helping spread a wrong message about it – a message its being a few minutes’ walk away from school only exacerbates. It becomes our responsibility to help the University try to make it as much a part of the school as it is. Maybe the move to Barnett Hall will help that after all.

If central location is all we are bothered about, have we not heard about decentralization and the benefi ts it brings? The status of Barnett Hall might even change after the move of the media offi ces.

The change in location and the impact it brings still are secondary issues. The big issue still is, yeah, the importance the Index attaches to the move – important enough to still talk and write about a year later. A narcissistic personality disorder, anyone?

Prajwal Sharma is a senior communication majorfrom Gangtok, Sikkim.

One unelected adviser with heavy influence is more than enough

incorrect Il Spazio. It still cards like every other bar in town, but it will let the youngsters into the restaurant while most bars won’t. The drinks are a little pricier, but the birthday boy or girl doesn’t have to pay for any of them, so that’s only an issue for the guests.

On the other hand, if you think your younger-than-21 friends should just cry in their non-alcoholic beers alone, Woody’s (my personal favorite) and Dukum might be more up your alley. The prices are good, the atmosphere is relaxed and the barkeeps are quality people.

Lastly, if having your eardrums liquefi ed while being smashed against a sea of drunken, sweaty people sounds appealing, many other bars specialize in that type of vice. I’m going to re-frain from naming those bars by name, but they aren’t too hard to fi nd. Just look for the place where innocence goes to die.

Your 21st birthday should be a memorable event. However, because of the nature of the celebration, a natural paradox quickly arises, in that memo-rable 21st birthdays are often the least remembered with any accuracy. So if you run into me on your 21st birthday, chances are that I will buy you a drink. It might just be a drink of water, but if you’re really having a good time, you won’t really remember, and I know your body will thank me the morning after.

Joel Andersen is a seniorEnglish and linguistics major

from Blue Springs, Mo.

”Prajwal Sharma

“

If I wanted to hear your conversa-tion, I would have stood outside your window and listened from the bushes.

Last semester I was walking across campus, lost in my own thoughts, when a passing woman thrust herself into my reality. She was talking to someone on her cell phone (I would assume to one of her sorority sisters, based on the Greek letters on every article of cloth-ing she had on, even her shoes) and was carrying on the conversation so loudly that aliens on other planets were send-ing radio transmissions to Earth asking us to quiet her down. Because of the volume of her side of the conversation, I couldn’t help but listen as I walked past her.

I wish I hadn’t because the next line made absolutely no sense whatsoever.

“He really is a nice guy. I mean, as far as stalkers go, he was probably the nicest I have ever had.”

As far as stalkers go, he was the nicest I’ve ever had. As far as stalkers go. Stalkers.

I don’t know about you, but if I had a stalker, wait, stalkers, I wouldn’t spend the time to get to know them personally. I would run away in fear and change my name and hide forever in fear of what this person might or might not do. If I had multiple stalkers, I would question my personality and

wonder why all these people are stalk-ing me and what I could do to make it stop.

And what did this “nice” stalker do that made him different from all the others? Did he hand you the paper from the bushes every morning when you left the house? Did he leave a chocolate mint on your pillow after lying in your bed when you weren’t home? Perhaps he returned your old panties whenever he snuck in to steal a new pair so you wouldn’t have to buy new ones. It doesn’t matter what he did. In my opin-ion, no stalker is a good stalker.

The last thing I would do is have a lengthy, exceedingly loud conversation about it in the middle of a crowded university where the stalker I’m refer-ring to as well as any previous stalk-ers could be within earshot. This girl

however, didn’t seem to understand this and continued having her conversation. It was if she not only didn’t care if any-one else heard her, but she insisted that everyone listen, whether they wanted to or not.

I for one did not. I could honestly care less about her conversation. I don’t care about her stalkers or why this particular stalker was so nice. While this incident was mildly amusing, hearing others’ conversations usually isn’t. So do us both a favor, and save your cell phone minutes for when you need them. Have your conversations at home on your own time, that way your stalker doesn’t have to follow you around to hear what you say about him.

Chris Waller is a seniorcommunication and Englishmajor from St. Joseph, Mo.

Chris Waller

While this incident was mildly amusing,

hearing others’ conversations usually isn’t. So do us both a

favor, and save your cell phone minutes for when

you need them.”

“

Rachael Spavone ”

If Hillary had been a man ... there would have been a public outcry about the infl uence on the

president, and demands of, ‘what is this person’s

background?’ ...

Hillary Clinton is the most danger-ous person in the United States. That is, besides all the terrorists the F.B.I. just can’t seem to get its hands on, despite Dubya’s “terrorist surveillance program.”

I am convinced that Hillary Clinton actually is Rasputin reincarnated. For any-one not familiar with the story of Rasputin, he was a mysterious fi gure in the court of Czar Nicholas II, who gained infl uence by “healing” the czar’s ailing son, and many people criticized Rasputin as being inap-propriately infl uential over the czar. So, fast-forward 80 years, and we are experi-encing the same thing, except that instead of the Kremlin, it is the White House, Bill Clinton is Czar Nicholas, and Hillary is Rasputin. And now she is trying to parlay her “experience” in government into a sec-ond Clinton presidency. It is cheap trickery, and I, for one, won’t fall for it.

Let me paint you a picture: We have a president who relies on one person more than anyone else for advice on his personal life, his presidency, his campaigning and even policy decisions. This unelected of-fi cial has the president’s eyes and ears 24 hours a day, and the president consults this person for every decision, major or minor. This person is not on staff, all the talks are in private, and no one really knows what is going on. Hmm, sounds positively Karl Roveian.

Karl Rove crazily infl uences Bush, but in my eyes, he is a strategist, covering mainly political sabotage (such as well-

timed leaks) and campaigning, whereas Hillary was a policy wonk who was ap-pointed to President Clinton’s Task Force on Health Care. If Hillary had been a man, like a shifty brother of the president there would have been a public outcry about the infl uence on the president, and demands of “what is this person’s background?” and “why is he or she always in the White House?” But because Hillary was his wife, these questions weren’t asked. And she just kept chipping away at Bill, getting her way. Just read her book – it reads like a résumé.

Hillary Clinton once famously said, to much criticism, “I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas. But what I decided to do was pursue my profession.” We all would have been better off if she had done so. What has she really done besides trail Bill around, monger credit and position herself to be a politician.

Take a look at Laura Bush. She’s a

good fi rst lady. Classy, not too hard on the eyes, keeps her mouth shut. Look back on Hillary as fi rst lady – scary, right? Now imagine her with the bully pulpit that is the presidency. I just got the chills.

A note to my fellow Democrats: I have been getting some criticism for being too hard on the Dems lately and not hard enough on President Bush. Well, President Bush has a laundry list of problems right now, starting with approval ratings in the low 30s. So, because I am a Democrat, and we are by defi nition weak, I don’t like to really kick a man while he’s down. People don’t need me to tell them about what is wrong with Bush. Just pick up any major newspaper. But I feel like this Hillary situation is getting more dire by the day. When will the love-in stop?

Rachael Spavone is a senior political science major

from Springfi eld, Ill.

“

6 Index Thursday, March 30, 2006

Hall jobs cross campus

Missouri Hall renovations prompt support, concerns

Eric Frazierfor the Index

One hall down, jobs to go.That might be the logical assumption

when considering what will happen to the current Missouri Hall cafeteria workers next fall. But Dennis Markeson, director of food service for Sodexho, said he would rather shuffl e his employees to other on-campus dining areas than lay them off.

“Most of the employees will be relocated into one of the other build-ings,” Markeson said. “We’ll be adding extra spots to both Centennial and Ryle halls, plus we’ll be having two new C-Stores opening.”

Markeson said the 35 or so Missouri Hall cafeteria workers aren’t completely aware of their futures job-wise.

“They know we’re going to work it out where they have a position, but they don’t have an exact position yet,” Marke-son said.

He said the two new convenience stores will be located in the new resi-dence hall and Kirk Building and will add about four to fi ve full-time positions and 10 part-time positions. Students can rest assured knowing that some of these positions will be left available for them to fi ll.

Markeson said he is unsure as to how many of the current employees are look-ing for positions elsewhere and under-stands their fears about job security.

Cheryl Freeze, a Missouri Hall cafeteria cashier of two years, said she thinks there will not be enough positions available for all the current employees. Freeze said she decided to take matters into her own hands by increasing her options.

“They’re telling me that they’ll have a position for me next year, but there are only two other cafeterias,” Freeze said. “[I have to decide] if I want to go through the summer on unemployment, then see if I have a job come August. So I’m looking for a job now to cover myself.”

Markeson said he is doing all he can not only to maintain his full staff, but also to allow them to maintain all of their cur-rent working hours.

Some job positions will be posted soon, allowing anyone to apply for them early, Markeson said.

“People will apply for those positions, and then we take those [new] positions and repost them for other people to ap-ply for,” Markeson said. “We will have a [full] list of positions that are available prior to the end of the school year.”

The 650 to 725 daily Missouri Hall cafeteria customers will have to eat else-where. The issue could become a major problem if the remaining dining halls can-not support the added business.

Markeson said he has considered how the other dining halls might be af-fected, but he said there probably will not be a problem.

“We have served larger numbers in both those cafeterias before,” Markeson said. “We feel that it won’t be that bad as far as overcrowding goes.”

Markeson said that in the past, the Ryle Hall cafeteria could serve as many as 1,025 customers per day, but it serves only 725 to 800. The capacity in the Centen-nial Hall cafeteria also will be increased to adjust to the added fl ow of guests.

Andrea O’Brien, director of Residence Life, said she is familiar with the changes that will take place and also has consid-

ered the problem of overcrowding.“I think it will put some more pres-

sure on some of the other halls,” O’Brien said. “I think ... Sodexho believes that it will be manageable.”

O’Brien said that to increase the ca-pacity in the Centennial Hall cafeteria, some of the round tables in use will be replaced by rectangular ones from the Missouri Hall cafeteria.

Markeson said closing the Missouri Hall cafeteria might present a hassle to some loyal patrons, but the renovation of the building is necessary.

“It’s going to be different because students that live in Blanton, Nason and Brewer [halls] will no longer have a cafeteria on the north end of cam-pus,” Markeson said. “So, it will be a little inconvenience for them for the coming year.”

Markeson said he doesn’t believe fi nd-ing a new place to eat will be that much of an inconvenience for students and thinks things could be worse.

“A lot of schools this size have a cen-tral cafeteria in the middle of campus, and everyone has to walk to it,” Markeson said. “I don’t think [it will be] that big of a walk for anybody to get some type of food service.”

One of the new C-Stores, to be added inside Kirk Building, will be placed there for students on that side of campus to be able to buy snack and personal items with-out having to walk a greater distance than they might be used to, Markeson said.

The plans for the renovated Missouri Hall cafeteria are posted outside the dining area. A meeting room and pri-vate dining area will be new additions to the area.

Sophomores Jessica Wright and Marie Weichold, members of Voices for Planned Parenthood, paint surplus bikes Wednesday on the Quad to donate as a kickoff for the upcoming Bike Sharing Program.

Ben Yarnellfor the Index

To freshman Mandy Duffey, home is a place she can walk around in her socks, just like she does in Missouri Hall.

Duffey said she feels at home within the walls of the 40-year-old residence hall.

“My SAs at the beginning of the year made it seem like a family community,” Duffey said. “Everybody here just clicks and gets along. I’ve never really heard people fi ghting in Mo Hall or had any issues.”

Just like most families would have their opinions about changes to their home, Duffey, along with many other Missouri Hall resi-dents, has her thoughts on the new

designs presented last Friday.One of the most adamant sup-

porters of the renovation of Mis-souri Hall is its hall director, Zac Burden. Burden, who has been on campus with Truman since his undergraduate days, said he sees many advantages for students in the plan.

One such perk is a move to make Missouri Hall more condu-cive to studying, Burden said.

“The layout of the building is naturally oriented toward building a really quality community, but at the same time, academic study space was sometimes the cost,” Burden said. “With the renovation proposal, you can start to see those study spaces really come alive.”

He said other perks would include laundry facilities on ev-

ery fl oor, air conditioning, a new classroom and a wider dispersion of kitchens throughout the fl oors.

Another major change will be an expansion of the lounges, which makes the Missouri Hall culture unique, Burden said.

Freshman Meagan Batson, a Missouri Hall resident, said the lounges are one of the highlights of her stay.

“The way the lounges are set up, it’s easy to get a break from studying, and there are always people out there,” Batson said.

On an average weekend, she is likely to run across people watch-ing movies projected onto the lounge wall, playing card games or playing computer games on their laptops, she said.

“I’ve talked to my friends in

Ryle or Centennial, and if they come here to visit, they really like how [the lounges] are set up,” Batson said. “I think it is re-ally good for freshmen coming in because you get a chance to meet people easily.”

However, not all of the reac-tions to the proposed renovations have been as positive. Burden said many students expressed concern with some of the initial conceptual drawings for the outside of Mis-souri Hall.

Burden said one of the big-gest concerns residents had was the omission of Missouri Hall’s original columns. He said he has received many e-mails and com-ments about the columns.

“It was almost as if a lot of the residents imbued the columns

with their experiences in Missouri Hall, and if removing that archi-tectural element were to happen, it would be somehow removing part of their Missouri Hall experi-ence,” Burden said.

Duffey said she is not a fan of the original conceptual design.

“I don’t like the general look,” Duffey said. “It makes me think of a rec center that we have in Iowa City that smells bad. I think it looks cheap and stupid.”

Duffey said she felt like Mis-souri Hall was like a colosseum with the pillars, and the new design was just too modern for her taste.

However, Burden said the de-signers have since presented him with a second conceptual drawing that included a set of columns.

Throughout the entire process

so far, Burden said the forward-thinking of current residents re-garding the design of the hall has impressed him the most.

“As I went from lounge to lounge or talked with people out by the display [on the fi rst fl oor], I was always amazed by the passion that they had for the plans and the honest conviction to follow through with it,” Burden said.

Burden said he encourages all who have an opinion about the de-signs to express them at the forum at 8 p.m. April 6 in the Missouri Hall Cafeteria.

As for Duffey, she said she will try to be sure to attend.

“I am going to tell them how they are taking away the character and making it commercialized,” Duffey said.

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Midterm break becomes opportunity to provide relief in New Orleans

Emily Blackfor the Index

More than 100 Truman student volunteers saw fi rsthand the con-tinuing devastation of Hurricane Katrina, six months after it swept through New Orleans.

For the duration of midterm break, Campus Crusade for Christ organized a trip to downtown New Orleans, where students helped with the continuing relief effort and saw for themselves what still needs to be done.

“I was pretty clueless to what was going on there just because, you know, time passes and other stuff happens,” junior Will Rear-ick said. “We are so far away from and so removed from the impact of it, it seems it is a very natural sort of thing to happen, just like it is hard for us to care about civil unrest in Uganda or something like that. A lot of people have not realized how bad it still is.”

Rearick said he was concerned about the organization of the relief effort and that it might be hinder-ing its progress.

“I asked some of the ladies we were working for what they thought they needed the most, and they said ‘levies,’ which I think is

Continued from Page 1of Kirksville questioned a pro-posed sales tax of .25 percent be-ginning Oct. 1, 2006, and ending Sept. 30, 2012.

The purpose is to fund local parks and recreation services, such as soccer fi elds, baseball lighting and trails, as outlined in the Adair/Kirksville Community Strategic Plan.

“I believe that we’ve provided the information to the citizens, and they’re going to have to look at it from their own perspectives,” Macomber said.

The city also questioned wheth-er or not to issue its combined waterworks and sewerage system revenue bonds in the amount of

$7 million for the purpose of pay-ing a portion of the cost of pres-ent and future improvements and extensions.

“This just allows the city to go into debt to complete projects that we don’t have cash in hand for,” Macomber said.

Citizens can vote between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m. as long as they have a form of identifi cation, preferably their voter registra-tion card, at any of the follow-ing precincts: Missouri Division Family Service building, YMCA, Health Center, Adair County Annex, Adair County Public Li-brary, Nazarene Church, Student Union Building, Moberly Area Community College, Brashear

City Hall or the Novinger Com-munity Center.

Chief Deputy Adair County Clerk Pam Speaks said she esti-mates the results will be known in less than two hours after the polls close.

Speaks said candidates gener-ally are accompanied by the media as they wait outside the County Clerk’s offi ce for the results.

She said all citizens are wel-come to do so as well.

Macomber said the three can-didates will take office April 6, after the City Council certifies the election and each candidate takes an oath of office.

The new council then will vote on a new mayor.

Continued from Page 1Once MxPx accepted SAB’s bid, preparations began in earnest for the concert, Hendry said.

“Everything was ready to go when the contract was signed,” Hendry said.

The SAB received offi cial ap-proval of the contract March 27, and preparations for the concert began the same day, Taylor said.

The beginning of ticket sales was timed with the release of the posters, which as of Wednesday were still being printed by Print-ing Services, Taylor said.

Hendry said this is the fi rst time the spring concert has been tied in with the concluding ceremonies of Greek Week. She said that because

the concert will coincide with Greek Week, SAB approached the Greek Week team with the idea to combine the two events.

Hendry said MxPx falls into the genre of SoCal pop-punk.

The opening act, Hated Nixon, has a signifi cant fan base in St. Louis and also has been advertis-ing in St. Louis, Hendry said.

“I’m really excited because the students are getting what they want, and it’s going to be a free concert, which is awesome,” Hendry said.

However, sophomore Jeff Gaffney said he wasn’t impressed with MxPx’s quality of music.

“It’s a simple punk band – lots of teenagers listen to them,” Gaff-ney said.

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CandidatesPatrick FoglesongGay Jones Nichting

Sally Detweiler Neal R. Chamberlain

Students sacrifi ce vacation

Photo Submitted by Sophomore Chelsea BrownStudents from Campus Crusade for Christ join hands in prayer with a local pastor. The students spent midterm break in New Orleans.

ELECTION I Ballot contains Ambulance District proposition, parks and recreation sales taxCONCERT I Band set to perform for free

Kyle Bybeefor the Index

Information Technology Services has done something that it has never done be-fore: It tried to overload the network.

ITS ran a test of the University serv-er at 4 p.m. March 9, by requesting that students log in to TruView. The test was to determine any problems that might occur with the high network traffi c coin-ciding with registration. Between 3:55 and 4:05 p.m., 332 people logged into TruView, helping ITS fi nd any potential problems before summer registration began.

“We’ve had some bad registration peri-ods in the past, and we realize that,” Web Developer Greg Marshall said. “[Regis-tration] is something that we want to be a good experience.”

Marshall said TruView is bound to have problems when so many students log in at the same time. He said registra-

tion has been a weak point in the system, and the purpose of the test was to identify these problems and fi x them before regis-tration begins.

“We’ve put a new version of the software [on the system] that we think will help with the problem,” Marshall said.

Although many students were not aware of the test, Marshall said enough people logged in to TruView to make the test successful.

“We had quite a few [log in],” Marshall said. “It wasn’t quite what we get with registration, but it was above normal.”

Marshall said the system held up well, and no major problems occurred. He said the system did slow down a lit-tle bit, but that is to be expected with so many people.

During past registrations, ITS has had many problems with the system slowing down. Marshall said he is aware of the problems students have

had with registration, and he is at-tempting to fix them.

“We’ve had a lot of nasty e-mails, and we understand,” Marshall said. “We know what we’re striving for.”

Marshall said he thinks things should go well. He said that if students encoun-ter problems, there are backup plans so students can have a good experience with registration.

“We’re not trying to make it diffi cult,” Marshall said. “We want it to work, and we want the students to be happy.”

Registration for summer courses, which began March 20, and fall registra-tion, which began Monday, is giving ITS another chance to see how well the server holds up during high Web traffi c.

Senior Kristina Licklider said she reg-istered for her summer classes Monday and had a good experience.

“[Registration] was really easy,” Lick-lider said.

Licklider said she has never had any

serious problems with registering. She said summer registration was nothing out of the ordinary.

“[Registration] wasn’t better, but it wasn’t worse,” Licklider said. “It was kind of like usual.”

Registrar A. Kay Anderson had a simi-lar experience with summer registration, she said.

“[Summer registration] went great,” Anderson said. “We were pretty ner-vous.”

Anderson said simulating registration is hard. She said getting 500 students to log in at one time to do the exact same thing is a diffi cult task.

Anderson said the number of students who register on any given day should not matter. The University server is supposed to be able to support several thousand us-ers at once.

“Small groups had just as many prob-lems as large groups at registration time,” Anderson said. “The number of people

registering at any given time is not the problem.”

She said that last year, a group of 800 students was assigned to register at the same time. She said it was in-credibly successful, and it was the fast-est registration period there has ever been.

Despite the successful test of the serv-er, Anderson said registration time is a very stressful time for her in her profes-sional and personal life.

“The fi rst time we went to electronic registration, I could not sleep the night be-fore because I was so worried,” Anderson said. “I don’t think I’ve been as nervous since then.”

Anderson said she will have her fi ngers crossed as registration season begins, but she is feeling confi dent that the system is going to work well.

“I’m optimistic,” Anderson said. “I want everything to be perfect for our students.”

ITS computes possibility of registration errors

Rowe declined to comment about considering the position of mayor for another term.

Gene Croarkin, superintendent of Kirksville R-III schools, said new members of the Board of Education will be sworn in at the board meeting April 11.

a pretty good idea if you want to start rebuilding in those areas,” Rearick said. “I think aside from that, what seemed to be the most needed was just strong leadership. When we were down there helping out it seemed like it was really dis-organized.”

Sophomore Chelsea Brown said the condition of the city was a lot worse than what she had ex-pected.

“A lot of the places looked as if the hurricane happened the day be-fore,” Brown said. “It wasn’t fl ood-ed anymore, which is great, but es-pecially the lower parts by the levy, it was completely demolished. We got out of the car and just looked around. Everyone was so quiet be-cause they were just astonished.”

Brown said the students gutted buildings that could be rebuilt lat-er. She said her group worked on two houses and a church, remov-ing everything.

“It was mostly taking out the furniture and belongings, com-pletely emptying the house as if they were moving out,” Brown said. “Taking out the walls until there were just beams left, getting tiles out with hammers, taking out

the insulation, taking out refriger-ators that had food in there for six months – it was kind of gross.”

She said it was an emotional time for the homeowners.

“At fi rst they were upset, like, seeing their belongings just in a big pile in front of their house,” Brown said. “But then they were also really happy because it gave them hope.”

She said extra help is welcome because insurance does not help out as much as people think it does.

“They don’t get a lot of in-surance,” Brown said. “People say, like, ‘Oh, they’ll get lots of

insurance,’ well they won’t. For example, if you have, say, a 10-foot-tall house and it gets fl ooded with eight feet of water, you’ll get insurance money for the two feet that wasn’t damaged, which is about $5,000.”

Brown said she read in a New Orleans newspaper that more than 2,000 people from across the coun-try, consisting mainly of college stu-dents, came to help with the rebuild-ing effort during midterm break.

“Before the groups came it took a few weeks to do 100 hous-es,” Brown said. “They said in one

week after the groups started com-ing about 250 houses were gutted in one week.”

She said so many people came that the Federal Emergency Man-agement Agency actually turned away about 400 volunteers be-cause it did not have the resources to house and feed them.

Even with the increase in help, sophomore Anna Koch said she was told the effort will need to continue for years.

“They were saying that some of the areas probably won’t be starting to clear up for another fi ve

years,” Koch said.She said the homeowner whose

house the students gutted had been signed up for help from various organizations for a long time, and her friend still was unable to get on a list for help.

Koch said that even though the woman had waited so long, she still was very grateful.

“She gave us the best that she had even though she had basically nothing,” Koch said. “The ladies there were just so humble and so thankful, they couldn’t stop thank-ing us enough.”

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For Debra Davis, the transgen-der life is nothing to snicker at.

So tonight, she’s going to speak about it instead.

Davis, an outspoken member of the transgender community, will speak at 7 tonight in the SUB Activities Room, an event sponsored by the Funds Allot-ment Council and Prism and is part of Diversity Week.

“We talk not only about who transgender people are and what we’re all about, but also about accepting all different kinds of people,” Davis said. “It’s OK to be different, ... no matter who you are.”

Davis worked at a public high school when she came out publicly in 1998. Today, she’s the executive director of the Gender Education Center in Minneapolis, a job that allows her to tour the country and teach

others about her life.It’s an education many Truman

students haven’t yet received.“We wanted to bring a trans-

gender person to campus be-cause we don’t think that’s a type of speaker we get very of-ten – or ever, actually,” Prism treasurer senior Matthew Seib-ert said.

Davis’ 1998 decision to go public was magnified by her position as a librarian at South-west High School in Minne-apolis. She was one of the first educators in the nation to suc-cessfully transition while work-ing in a secondary school.

She retired from the school in 2001 after 32 years of ex-perience. Today, she has given about 900 presentations across the country.

“I always get a very nice reception because what I talk about is love and caring and accepting – not the shame and blame,” Davis said.

Weeks show strong diversity

Grace Mattie/IndexIn honor of Diversity Week, students proudly paraded various fl ags around campus Monday.

Julia GarrettStaff Reporter

It’s a week of “weeks” at Tru-man, and students have a plethora of opportunities to explore cultural, spiritual and recreational diversity.

With Diversity Week, Islamic Awareness Week, Geek Week and Sleep Awareness Week, students can explore different interests through presentations, discussions, fi lms, games and other activities.

In an effort to cover many as-pects of diversity among Truman students, several organizations have combined their efforts to put Diversity Week into effect.

Diversity Week, sponsored by Student Senate, the Multicultural Affairs Center, University Coun-seling Services, the International Student Affairs Offi ce, Prism, ser-vice organization Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and International Club, includes presentations by the Muslim Student Association throughout the week.

Senior Matt Seibert, Student Senate chairman for campus diver-sity sub-committee and Prism trea-surer, said fi lms, speakers and other activities will highlight the diverse heritage of Truman students.

“It is an important part of our liberal arts culture to understand our diverse population within our own community, the Kirksville community and just our nation at large,” Seibert said.

To give students a taste of the broadness of human diversity, many different cultural topics are addressed this week. Prism will host transgender speaker Debra Davis at 7 tonight in the SUB Ac-tivities Room, and International Club and the ISAO will host In-ternational Idol at 7 p.m. Friday in Baldwin Auditorium.

Alpha Phi Alpha hosted a dis-cussion Wednesday, “Stereotype Talk Show” to address religious, social and racial stereotypes. The discussion, which also is part of Diversity Week, was facilitated by a diverse group of Truman students, including a member of Prism, a white male in an interra-cial relationship, a black, lesbian female and a Hispanic female.

Junior Mu Kupara, Alpha Phi Alpha member, said he wanted the forum to be conducive to a discussion and debate so it would open people’s eyes to stereotypi-cal mindsets of each other.

Transgender speaker gives presentation for tolerance

“Basically, Truman’s campus is stratifi ed according to race, and we asked why that is,” Kupara said. “We basically want people to talk in terms of racial interactions.”

Diversity Week runs from Sun-day to Friday.

In conjunction with Diversity Week, the Muslim Students As-sociation is sponsoring its Islamic Awareness Week. Sophomore An-drea Cluck, MSA chairwoman for Islamic Awareness Week, said it is a coincidence that the association scheduled its awareness week at the same time as Diversity Week.

The MSA decided to work with the Campus Diversity Sub-Com-mittee to publicize and encour-age participation in each others’ events, Cluck said.

“Apparently it has worked,” Cluck said. “We’ve had a really good turnout.”

The MSA showed the movie “Kingdom of Heaven” Sunday and discussed the portrayal of Islam in the media. Guest speaker Imam Mohammed Nabeel Khan was in-vited to share information about the origin of Islam and answer ques-tions from the audience Monday.

On Tuesday, an interfaith dis-cussion panel, “Three Faiths, One God,” was also part of Islamic Awareness Week. Cluck said rep-

resentatives from the MSA, Hillel, the Foundation for Jewish Cam-pus Life and the Catholic New-man Center formed the panel. The discussion focused on similarities and differences among Islam, Ju-daism and Christianity.

Cluck said universities around the world host similar weeks to raise awareness about Islam. She said this week should bring true Islam into the consciousness of both Muslims and non-Muslims.

“We’ve been really pleased with the turnout and participation, and I think it’s something we can expect to continue in the future,” Cluck said.

In non-religious campus ac-tivities, Geek Week and Sleep Awareness Week also are facili-tating activities.

Sleep Awareness Week, spon-sored by the Student Public Health Association and University Coun-seling Services, has an informa-tional table concerning sleep in the Student Union Building and hosted a booth on the Quad on Wednesday to answer questions students might have about sleep and its importance.

Geek Week, sponsored by the Role-Playing Game Club, includes events run by Beta Omega Beta, Rendezvous Club, Anime Club and

Computer Gaming Association. Sophomore Eric Scott, RPG Club President, said Geek Week has sev-eral activities for students who want to explore different interests.

RPG Club will host a “Magic: The Gathering” tournament from 6 p.m. to midnight tonight in the Centennial Hall main lounge. The CGA will host a console gaming night from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. Friday in the Ryle Hall main lounge. The Geek Week End Bash party will be from 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. Saturday in the Centennial Hall main lounge.

“[Geek Week] does two things,” Scott said. “One, it’s kind of a recruitment drive for clubs to get new members. And two, it’s for members of all those clubs to share interests with each other. Oh, and also it’s just fun.”

Many other organizations re-cently had their “weeks” on cam-pus. Last week, service organiza-tion Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. had its “Think Pink Week of Service,” and agriculture frater-nity Sigma Alpha celebrated Na-tional Ag Week on campus.

Next week sororities and fra-ternities will celebrate their an-nual Greek Week with a weeklong series of inter-team competitions and games.

Diversity Week

Islamic Awareness Week

<geek week>

Sleep Awareness Week

Thursday MagicTournament

6 to 12 p.m.Centennial Hall Main Lounge

Thursday Transgendered

Speaker Debra Davis7 p.m., Activities

Room, SUB

FridayBlock Party4 to 7 p.m.,

Grim Hall lawn

SaturdayInternational Idol

7 p.m., Baldwin Hall Auditorium

FridayGCA Console Gaming Night

6:30 to 10:30 p.m., Ryle Main Lounge

SaturdayEnd Bash

6 to 12 p.m., Centennial Hall Main Lounge

No Remaining Events

Thursday Count the Sheep

11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Centennial Hall Main Lounge

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