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Office of Residence Life considering housing expansions for Greek studentsAdministration will present plans for improvements to existing lounges and sidewalks to studentsRACHEL WEATHERFORD MANAGING EDITOR

Greek students at Southeast Missouri State University will not get a proposed Greek village, which would have cost close to $30 million, according to a post on the blog of the Office of Residence Life.

Instead, expansions and renovations may be made to existing Greek housing, located near Towers complex, should a majority of Greek chapters at Southeast and then the Board of Regents approve them.

Bruce Skinner, the assistant vice president for Student Success and director of the Office of Residence Life, said the decision not to create Greek Village was due to concerns about how the project would be funded.

The Greek Village idea was a proposal that involved moving sorority and fraternity on-campus housing from its location on Greek Hill to another part of campus.

Skinner said students living in Greek housing could have seen as much as a 40 percent increase to their room and board fees.

Another option was for the students to fundraise $12-13 million before construction began to help with costs.

“With 1,000 students there was no way we could expect them to raise that much money,” Skinner said.

Students were worried that leaving their current location could hurt recruitment, according to a post by

Skinner on the Residence Life blog.Also, Skinner said the students,

especially members of sororities, lost interest due to the cost involved.

The university now is proposing renovating the existing housing, which would involve adding sidewalks and expanding the lounges of each of the existing buildings.

However, Skinner has not yet met with the students to discuss whether they support the new renovation plan.

“The idea developed at the end of the process, which was why no one was informed,” Skinner said.

He will meet with Greek students to present the new plan.

“It’s not moving forward unless Greek students tell the university and say ‘Yes, we understand room rates will go up,’” Skinner said. “If they say ‘No,’ then it will be dropped and there won’t be any work.”

Skinner said if the Greek students agree, the university would partner with a company, construct a budget and plan, and take them to the Board of Regents.

“The board would decide ultima-tely,” Skinner said.

In addition to potential housing renovations, the university is seeking a director of Greek Life, a newly created position at Southeast who will report to Skinner.

Skinner now is the vice president of Student Success and also retains the title of the director of the Office of Residence Life.

“The institution thought we needed to give more attention to Greek students,” Skinner said.

One of the job responsibilities of the new director of Greek Life will be to oversee Greek activities, Greek Week and the new Greek accreditation process, which is beginning this year.

“He or she will enforce and imple-ment that to ensure the Greeks are doing what they are supposed to be doing,” Skinner said.

Skinner said he has been receiving resumes and people could still apply for the director of Greek Life position.

He said the new director will be selected by late spring or early summer.

Renovations could be coming to Greek Hill if approved by the Board of Regents. Photo by Nathan Hamilton

SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITYSTUDENT PUBLICATIONJAN. 23 - 29, 2013 Student run since 1911

BRIEFSEvent

Moodle training class will be available Jan. 23 for students, staff and faculty to get tipsAn instructional designer for Moodle, Southeast Missouri State University’s new learning management system, will host an informational and training session at noon Jan. 23 in the University Center Indian Room.

Students and staff who are having trouble with Moodle can attend the training session. The instructor will teach students and staff tips and techniques for using Moodle in their classes. Moodle will be used across campus by January 2014.

Volunteer

Volunteers needed at SoutheastVolunteers are needed at Southeast Missouri State University, which is co-sponsoring two activities at the Show Me Center.

The first is the Missouri Mission of Mercy on May 3 and 4 at the Show Me Center. This is a dental clinic that is free and available to those who cannot afford a dental health clinic. To volunteer with MOMOM, go to momom.org and click the link that says “get involved.”

The second volunteer opportunity will be at the First Tech Challenge high school robot competition at Southeast. Students from 48 schools participate and build robots in the competition.

The event will be Saturday in the Show Me Center. This is the event’s fourth year. To register, go to stlouisfirst.org, click on the “Get involved” link and then click on “regional events.”

Enrollment

Southeast’s spring enrollment increasesIn a preliminary enrollment report released by Southeast Missouri State University, Southeast said spring enrollment has increased by 3.5 percent.

International student enrollment has gone up from 624 to 813. Visiting student enrollment, in which students from other campuses can register for classes at Southeast, is up 8.2 percent from last year.

Construction

Third and fourth floor restrooms closed for Phase II of UC restroom renovationsRenovations to the University Center restrooms on the third and fourth floors have begun, where the Redhawks Market and Starbucks are located. These restrooms are closed.

Students and staff can use the recently renovated restrooms on the first and second floor. The third and fourth floor restrooms are expected to be completed and open in mid-February.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL. SEE PAGE 2 +

Winter break travelsRead about students’ adventures over break on pages 8-9. +


SOUTHEAST LOST 82-71 TO TWO-TIME DEFENDING OVC CHAMPION UT MARTIN

REDHAWKS show improvement


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Redhawks set sights on OVC tournament berth

ERIN NEIER EDITOR

The Southeast Missouri State Uni-versity women’s basketball team is off to its best start in nearly five years. In just his second season, coach Ty Margenthaler’s team has a record of 8-10 and is 2-3 in the Ohio Valley Conference.

Southeast lost 82-71 to OVC oppo-nent UT Martin last Wednesday. UT Martin has won the OVC regular sea-son the past two years and also was the OVC tournament champion last year.

“I’m not a moral victory guy. I told our players that after the ballgame,” Margenthaler said after the loss to UT Martin. “This program has gone another step than that, and I think we have a lot to be proud of, but again we didn’t do some of the little things down the stretch to complete the game. But we put ourself in the position to win the game and a layup here, maybe not a foul there, it’s reversed. We’re right there and UT Martin, they’re a quality, quality basketball team, well-coached as you can see tonight, just two tre-mendous guards. That’s why they’ve been so successful the last two years and doing so well this year.”

Turnovers have consistently been an issue for the Redhawks this sea-son and were a big factor in their game against the Skyhawks. Southeast is averaging 17.2 per game and 18.8 per game against OVC opponents. UT Martin scored 31 points off of Southeast’s 18 turnovers.

“It’s something that we stress about

and we talk about,” Margenthaler said. “Our goal as a basketball team is 15 and under.”

Junior Jordan Hunter is avera-ging 3.9 turnovers per game, but also leads the Redhawks with 3.9 assists per game, 1.4 steals per game and 10.8 points per game.

The Redhawks have also had offen-sive success from younger bench pla-yers throughout the season. Fresh-men Olivia Hackman, Dru Haertling and Connor King have each contribu-ted for Southeast. Haertling had five points against UT Martin. Hackman had a career-high 15 points against Western Illinois on Dec. 8 and sco-red 13 points in 13 minutes against UT Martin. King had a career-high 11 points against the University of Mis-souri on Nov. 29.

“Our young kids really took a big step tonight and again, that’s a credit to where this program is going,” Mar-genthaler said. “We’re not where we need to be at right now, but if we can learn from this game and play with this focus and energy against every-body, we’re going to be where we want at the end of the year.”

Southeast has had several games that multiple players scored in double digits, including against UT Martin. In addition to Hackman’s 13 points, senior Brittany Harriel and sopho-more Allyson Bradshaw had 13 apiece, and Kara Wright and Bailie Roberts finished with 10 points each.

“I think it gives us an advantage because any given night someone can step up and really take over,” senior Bailie Roberts said. “If someone’s hot at a certain time we’ve just got to

continue getting that person the ball and just really cheering on some-body. You can’t always just stop one player because someone else is just going to step up. I think that’s going to be a huge thing that’s going to help us in the stretch is knowing that people coming off the bench are going to help us just as much as the starters do.”

The past two seasons, Southeast lost to UT Martin by no less than 30 points in each of the four games they played. In 2011 the Redhawks lost 92-62 and 85-55 and last season lost 88-47 and 77-44.

“The fact that we competed, it pro-ves a lot,” Roberts said. “It proves to us, as a team, that we in fact can do it. And also I think it kind of makes a sta-tement to the rest of the league that we’re right there with everyone, but we still definitely have things that we’ve got to work on. The main thing I think is just playing the 40 minutes.”

Southeast’s next game is against OVC opponent and West Division lea-der Eastern Illinois at 4 p.m. Saturday in Charleston, Ill.

“I’ll tell you what, I have no pro-blem saying this to everybody: every game we play from here on out is the biggest game of the year,” Margentha-ler said. “That’s how we approach it. Every game is the biggest game of the year. That’s the attitude I have, and that’s what I truly believe and that’s how we’re going to approach it. That’s how I approach conference games. Every game is the biggest game of the year, there’s no question about it. If it’s at home or it’s on the road, it’s the biggest game because we want to get to Nashville.”

Southeast guard Jordan Hunter dribbles past an opponent during the game against UT Martin Jan. 16 at the Show Me Center. Photo by Nathan Hamilton

BRIEFSMen’s Basketball

Redhawks recover from four-game losing streakThe Southeast Missouri State University men’s basketball team was able to end its four-game losing streak with a 74-62 win over Ohio Valley Conference opponent Tennessee Tech on Saturday.

Junior Michael Porter played for the first time this season after being sidelined with a broken foot and finished the game with six points and 3 rebounds. Porter refractured his foot in the game and will miss the rest of the season.

Junior Tyler Stone led all scorers with 20 points. He was 5-for-5 from the field and made 10 of his 12 free throw attempts.

Sophomore Nino Johnson added 15 points and seven rebounds and senior Corey Wilford scored 14 points and collected seven rebounds.

Southeast improved its record to 11-10 and 3-4 in the OVC Conference. The Redhawks are in second place in the West Division.

Southeast’s next game is against SIU Edwardsville at 7 p.m. Thursday in Edwardsville, Ill.

Track & Field

Redhawks compete at Wisconsin InviteThe Southeast Missouri State University track and field teams competed at the Wisconsin Invite on Saturday.

Sophomore Reggie Miller Jr. won the high jump and tied his school record with a jump of 7 1/4.

Sophomore Blake Smith finished first in the long jump with a jump of 22-3 3/4. Miller finished second with a jump of 21-9 1/2.

Senior Jill Schnurbusch finished third in the pole vault with a height of 12-3 1/2.

Freshman Macy Ritter finished third in the long jump with a jump of 17-1 1/4.

The Redhawks’ next meet is the Indiana Relays on Friday and Saturday in Bloomington, Ind.

Gymnastics

Redhawks open season with winThe Southeast Missouri State University gymnastics opened its season with a 192.200-188.625 victory over Lindenwood.

Juniors Megan Fosnow and Taryn Vanderpool tied for first in all-around competition with scores of 38.525. Senior Taylor Westrick finished third in the all-around with a score of 38.300.

On the uneven bars Vanderpool and Fosnow finished first and second with scores of 9.800 and 9.725, respectively.

In the vault competition, Fosnow and senior Emma Garrett tied for first with scores of 9.675.

Garrett also finished second in the floor competition with a score of 9.725.

The Redhawks’ next meet is against Centenary College at 6:30 p.m Friday at Houck Field House.

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TEAMS CAN SIGN UP UNTIL FEB. 1 ON THE SOUTHEAST RECREATION SERVICES WEBSITE

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Â 3 ARROW • week of Jan. 23 - 29, 2013INTRAMURAL SIGN-UPSRegistration for the intramural team bowling tournament begins Monday and ends on Feb. 5. Students can sign up at imleagues.com.+

Brendon Smith, left, looks over the group fitness schedule with Dr. Takeshi Fujii, right. Attending group fitness classes counts toward points in the Shape up Southeast competition. Photo by Nathan Hamilton

Shape Up Southeast combines exercise and competitionMARISSA FAWCETT ARROW REPORTER

Winter: a time of hibernation. A season full of freezing temperatures, shorter days, holi-day baking and cuddling up to watch hours of movie marathons. As the indulgences and relaxation of winter build up, so do the pounds.

Pants become a little tighter and New Year’s resolutions to get to the gym, no mat-ter what the weather may be, appear just as fast as those holiday cookies disappeared. A new year means getting back on track and shedding the pounds from an overextended exercise hiatus. To make that easier, Recrea-tion Services designed the program Shape Up Southeast.

Shape Up Southeast is a free, 10-week incentive program that encourages physi-cal health and wellness for students, faculty and staff.

Participants register as teams online and are divided into categories: student, faculty and staff, or open. Open is a division for mixed teams that have students, faculty and staff.

The teams are divided into categories based upon the number of teammates they have. Bachelors teams consist of 2-4 par-ticipants, masters teams consist of 5-7

participants and doctorate teams consist of 8-10 participants.

To get participants to become more aware of their health, they are required to log their physical and wellness activities they com-plete throughout the week to gain points. The three teams with the most points at the end of ten weeks receive prizes such as massa-ges, Southeast bookstore gift cards, discounts on birthday parties at the Recreation Centers, Redbucks and group fitness semester passes.

Southeast treasury accountant Lynda Sea-baugh, a spring 2012 Shape Up Southeast winner, said that she and her teammates have signed up for the program the past several semesters.

“The awesome prizes are the reason we sign up each semester,” Seabaugh said.

Participants earn points by completing physical activities and/or wellness activities that are worth certain point values based on the difficulty of the activity.

Physical activities are divided into three levels: Level 1 Daily Physical Activity, Level 2 Moderate Intensity Activity and Level 3 High Intensity Activity.

“The first level is the easiest where you can take the stairs instead of the elevator or par-king the car far, those kinds of things,” said assistant director of Fitness and Wellness, Dr. Takeshi Fujii. “Level two is more like leisure activities like playing golf, playing volleyball.

Level three is more vigorous, or more regi-mented workouts like intentionally you are working out.”

Spring 2012 winner and mathematics ins-tructor Linda Tansil said she ran, played ten-nis and lifted weights using the workout video, ChaleanExtreme, to gain her physical activity points while Seabaugh said she went to Lunch Express fitness classes at the Student Recreation Center-North for core strength, yoga and pilates. She also walked and jogged.

Teams can also gain points by completing wellness activities that are divided into six categories. The six categories include: nutri-tion, emotional/social wellness, environmen-tal wellness, intellectual wellness, financial wellness and safety.

“It’s not only the physical fitness part of it where you need to work out five times a week to be physically active, but also I wanted the participants to be aware of how to be green or how to be financially responsible or how to be emotionally healthy,” Fujii said.

Wellness points include spending time with family, using grocery bags from home instead of ones provided by the store, reading a new book and wearing sunscreen when outdoors.

Teams must sign up online for Shape Up Southeast by 5 p.m. Feb. 1 on the Recreation Services website.

Shape Up Southeast lasts from Feb. 4 to

April 16, which means participants have to try to stay motivated for that time period to stay healthy and earn the most points.

“I think a lot of them are motivated or are forced to be motivated because you are not only responsible for yourself but responsi-ble for the team,” Fujii said. “I think that helps a lot, and some people are very competitive, so if there is another team in that same divi-sion and category somebody may want to be ahead of that team.”

Seabaugh and her teammates stayed moti-vated because they didn’t want to let each other down.

Tansil said she just reminded her team-mates to keep logging their points to keep them going.

For participants that were hesitant about signing up for Shape Up Southeast in pre-vious years, Fujii said most of the time, by the end of the program, they are glad they stuck with it.

“I feel, I guess, blessed — or the reason that I enjoy offering this is that some people will come up to me later and say ‘Because of this, I did it even though I did not want to do it,’” Fujii said. “Some people are very hesitant or reluctant to start, but then once they’ve star-ted they feel competitive or responsible for their team and then they just keep going.”


FUNDS WERE RAISED FOR JACKSON RESIDENT JOE HOFFMAN, WHO HAS BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH LIVER CANCER

ARTISTS raise money for a cause


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Clockwise from left: Brooke Burrows, Chris and Camille Wallin, Ira Dean and Aaron Barker Submitted Photos

Jackson native living in Nashville brings benefit concert to Cape GirardeauWHITNEY LAW ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

Jackson, Mo., native Brooke Burrows has made her way to Nashville to launch a career in country music. With plans for a single from a complete album that she co-wrote to come out on the radio soon, Burrows still made time for a benefit con-cert for a family in need.

Burrows grew up next door to Joe Hoffman and his family and was close friends with his three children: Joey, Amanda and Amy. When she found out that Hoffman had liver cancer, she was determined to help somehow.

“I learned about the cancer several months ago, and I just immediately felt like I had to do something,” Burrows said. “I didn’t know what I was going to do, but I knew I had to do something, so that’s when I called on my friends Aaron Barker, Chris Walling, Camille Walling and Ira Dean to go back to my hometown in Missouri and do a benefit concert to help raise money for this family. I was thinking of something that I didn’t think that Cape Girardeau has really ever seen, so that’s when I thought of the singer/songwriter show.”

Nashville for a Cause: Storytellers Behind the Songs was held at Notre Dame Regional High School in Cape Girardeau on Saturday to raise money for the Hoffman family as Joe

Hoffman battles cancer and paying medical bills.Hoffman worked at Nordenia in Jackson for 20 years, and

his wife Dollie now cares for him after he was forced to quit his job. Hoffman’s daughter Amanda Crombie said that her father has his good days and his bad days, but their family is grateful for this concert in his honor.

“It means a lot to us knowing that people are going out of their way to help my family,” Crombie said.

The five artists featured at the event performed songs that they have written for country stars such as George Strait, Kenny Chesney and Toby Keith.

Barker performed “Baby Blue,” “I Can Still Make Cheyenne” and “Love Without End, Amen,” which all became hits recor-ded by George Strait.

Chris Wallin performed his song “Don’t Blink,” which was recorded by Kenny Chesney, “Something to be Proud of,” recorded by Montgomery Gentry and “Love Me if You Can,” recorded by Toby Keith.

Dean performed his first No. 1 as a songwriter “One in Every Crowd,” recorded by Montgomery Gentry, “Pour Me,” which he recorded with his former, Grammy Award-nominated band Trick Pony and “Something About a Sunday,” which he recor-ded as a solo project and has been released on country radio and Montgomery Gentry’s new single that he wrote “I’ll Keep

the Kids.”Camille Wallin played bass guitar and lead guitar along with

the other performers and sang harmony on most of the songs. She also played her song “All You Gotta Do (Breathe),” which is the theme song for the Ronald McDonald Charities of South Dakota.

Aside from orchestrating the idea for the concert, Burrows performed the song “Liar” that she wrote with Dean and Bar-ker and other new songs that will be on her album.

Throughout the concert, Burrows thanked the other artists and the audience for coming to the concert and supporting the Hoffman family.

Barker said he has a theory that no one helps someone like a neighbor can and that he was proud to be a part of the concert.

Tickets to the concert were $10, and there also was a silent auction for signed guitars, photos and prize packages from local businesses, among other things. Dean, who is currently touring with Montgomery Gentry, brought a hat that Eddie Montgomery gave him that was signed by Montgomery Gen-try and personally auctioned it off from the stage.

“We wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for someone who saw something and wanted to do something, make a difference,” Dean said of Burrows at the concert. “I’m really proud of her.”

RIVER CAMPUS EXTRAVAGANZAThe Extravaganza is a fundraiser to send seniors to showcase in New York. It features musical performances from students and is at 5 p.m. Saturday in the River Campus atrium.+


LOCAL MUSICIAN TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM ‘NATURE BOY’

DOUG E. Rees at Dockside


ENTERTAINBLOGKeep up with arts & entertainment editor Whitney Law’s blog at southeastArrow.com for coverage of local shows, shows in St. Louis and campus arts news.+

Hollands choose ‘A Chorus Line’ for River CampusSAVANNA MAUE ONLINE EDITOR

Every year Earl and Margie Holland, the founders of the Earl and Margie Holland School of Visual and Performing Arts at Southeast Missouri State University, choose an event to be featured on the River Campus stage. This year the Hollands chose the Broadway musical “A Chorus Line.”

This show is their favorite, according to box office mana-ger Ellen Farrow. She said the Hollands normally choose one of the biggest musicals of the year. Last year the couple chose “Young Frankenstein” for their Hollands’ Choice at the River Campus.

Farrow said the Hollands choose a musical based on what “they think will reach out to everyone of all age ran-ges and all types of individuals with different backgrounds would love.”

The musical is about a group of struggling young actors, actresses and musicians going to New York and trying to get into show business. It is a story about their struggles and the challenges they go through to create a name for themselves in the industry.

Touring shows are normally chosen by Bob Cerchio, the assistant director of the Earl and Margie Holland School of Visual and Performing Arts, with the exception of the Hollands’ Choice production chosen each season.

Throughout the year the River Campus hosts 100 or more shows, Farrow said. That includes music-based produc-tions, theatre and dance, symphony, faculty recitals, plays and musicals. There is a mixture of student-performed pro-ductions as well as guest performances throughout the year.

“We also put on six to seven touring shows, but we conti-nue to grow every year,” Farrow said.

“For touring shows we are really not in it to make a pro-fit,” Farrow said. “We see it as a way to reach out to our com-

munity, as a community service. So our goal with touring shows is not to make money. We are happy if we break even. We just want to make sure that the residents of southeast Missouri are offered the same opportunity to come see Broadway-quality shows but in their hometown.”

This troupe of “A Chorus Line” is New York-based and tours all over the Midwest. The members are professionally trained and could be seen on Broadway.

“Honestly this is a real classic, so I think people would be missing out greatly on their opportunity to see such a great performance right here close to home,” Farrow said. “And you can’t beat the prices, there is no way you could go to The Fox Theatre in St. Louis and be able to go see this show for the small amount of money.”

The show is at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Donald C. Bedell Performance Hall and tickets are quickly being sold. Farrow said on Friday that all tickets have been sold except for the last few rows of the upper balcony.

Tickets may be purchased for $49 to $43 at the River Campus box office from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. by calling the box office at 573-651-2265 or online at rivercampusevents.com.

“So our goal with touring shows is not to make money. We are happy if we break even. We just want to make sure that the residents of southeast Missouri are offered the same opportunity to come see Broadway-quality shows but in their hometown.” Ellen Farrow

Doug E. Rees Submitted Photo

Singer-songwriters John Latini and Doug E. Rees to play CD release show in Cape GirardeauWHITNEY LAW ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

Local singer-songwriter Doug E. Rees has established himself as a consistent performer and songwriting mentor in the Jackson, Mo., and Cape Girardeau area and will release his new album “Nature Boy” at a concert at Dockside The Upper Deck on Saturday.

Rees has performed his Ameri-cana music every week at Stooges Res-taurant in Jackson for seven years. He hosts the show, meaning that he plays his set and then another musician gets a chance to play his or her music. All of the music is original, and Rees said Stooges is one of the only places in the area that offers all original music.

“That’s what Stooges does,” Rees said. “It’s also a good place for people

who are interested in writing can come out and see some of the mentors do it in that capacity. We have just saw sur-ges of people coming out around here that are songwriters and poets, any-body that really wants to take their wri-ting to another level as they say.”

Rees said that when he’s writing anything he makes sure he puts him-self into the story. He said that no other person can do it like the writer and that a songwriter needs to be true to himself or herself.

“Several years ago I spent some time and moved to Nashville for a cou-ple years,” Rees said. “That was kind of my college days in songwriting 101. By being around everybody that was bet-ter than I was at everything, I found some kind of comfort that, ‘OK, if I do what I do and say it the way I say it, then I’m really not in competition.”

“Nature Boy” includes all original songs from Rees as well as two co-writ-ten songs of which Rees says he is very proud.

Smokin’ Sleddog Records, a Michi-gan-based independent boutique label established in 1999, is assisting Rees with this album and its launch. The label also manages John Latini who has played many times in the Cape Girar-deau area at events like Tunes at Twi-light and at Stooges. Latini has played with Rees in the past and will be opeing the concert at Dockside.

“He is a wonderful man with a heart of gold, and we are happy to welcome him into our Smokin’ Sleddog Records family,” co-owner Jamie-Sue Seal said of Rees in an email.

Latini, a Michigan-based singer-son-gwriter already had planned to be tra-veling through and Rees was happy to have him play at his show.

“He’s a great songwriter, entertainer and a great person,” Rees said. “John’s good gold. … He’s prolific enough that folks really enjoy hearing him and

listening to his songs.”The concert will be at 8 p.m. Satur-

day. Tickets are $10 at the door, and the CD can be purchased at the event for $15.

Ticket packages can be purchased at brownpapertickets.com. A $30 ticket includes admission for two people and one copy of “Nature Boy,” and a $20 tic-ket includes admission for one person and one copy of “Nature Boy.”

Rees’ music and information about upcoming shows can be found on his Facebook page Doug Rees Music. Infor-mation about Smokin’ Sleddog Records can be found at SmokinSleddogRe-cords.com.

“Several years ago I spent some time and moved to Nashville for a couple years. That was kind of my college days in songwriting 101. By being around everybody that was better than I was at everything, I found some kind of comfort that, ‘OK, if I do what I do and say it the way I say it, then I’m really not in competition.’” Doug E. Rees

John Latini Submitted Photo


SAC HAS THREE NEW OFFICERS THIS SEMESTER AND MEETS AT 7 P.M. TUESDAYS

STUDENT Activities Council convenesCHANGEÂ 6 ARROW • week of Jan. 23 - 29, 2013

SAC to offer new events for studentsSAVANNA MAUE ONLINE EDITOR

This semester is beginning with a few chan-ges in the Student Activities Council executive board. Anna Kauffman is now the vice presi-dent, Angela Jacobs is the new Films and Lec-tures chair and Kayla Mengwasser became the Comedy chair.

SAC’s two most popular events last semes-ter were the iceless ice rink and the midnight showing of “Elf,” which starred Will Ferrell in the title role. SAC president Trevor Mul-holland said the iceless ice rink “drew in a diverse group of students and everyone who attended loved it.”

Group adviser Joanna Shaver said 440 stu-dents attended the showing of “Elf,” which was the second largest crowd in the past seven years.

“The purpose of SAC is to provide Southeast students with quality program-ming,” Mulholland said. “Students tell us what they want to see at Southeast and we try our hardest to make that happen.”

Mulholland said a perfect example of this was the iceless ice skating rink. A group of students wanted an ice skating rink because there isn’t one in Cape Girardeau. A trave-lling company pieced together two-inch thick surfaces in the Student Recreation Center-North.They then sprayed a chemical on it causing it to freeze. Students used ice skates and skated, just like on a regular ice rink at no cost.

The iceless ice rink attracted nearly 300 stu-dents, according to Special Events co-coordi-nator Chris Dzurick.

SAC has 19 events planned this semes-ter, which is two more than they usually do, according to Shaver. A few of these include

presenting the film “Pitch Perfect” at their midnight movie event as well as hosting bowling at West Park Lanes and a tethered hot air balloon.

“SAC is working hard to try new activi-ties, bring new artists to campus and work more with the community,” Shaver said. “We have two musicians from NBC’s ‘The Voice’ coming this spring, as well as a spoken word poet and a poetry duo. We have four come-dians coming to campus, including Roy Wood Jr., who is currently a regular on TBS’s ‘Sulli-van and Son.’”

“Pitch Perfect” will be featured as the January midnight movie, bowling is schedu-led for March 5 and the hot air balloon will be located on the Golden Eagles Marching Band’s practice field from 6-8 p.m. on April 1. Dzurick said that reservations will be taken beforehand for this event and time slots will be assigned to students.

“My goal for the [past] semester was to bring special events to campus that students would not otherwise have the opportunity to do in Cape,” Dzurick said via email. “You’ll see this theme carried into this upcoming semes-ter as well. This will be the first time we have ever had a hot air balloon on campus. This is by far what I am most looking forward to. For many students hot air balloons are too expen-sive, and this may be their only opportunity to ride one.”

SAC is an on-campus organization that does not have a commitment requirement and students do not have to pay any dues. Meetings are open to all students and anyone can come and give suggestions for future events or voice feedback on past events. Stu-dents looking to get involved can attend mee-tings at 7 p.m. on Tuesday nights in the Uni-versity Center Redhawks Room.

The SAC-sponsored midnight showing of the movie “Elf,” starring Will Ferrell, brought 440 people to Cape West 14 Cine. Submitted Photo

STUDENT ORGANIZATION FAIRCampus Life is sponsoring a student organization fair, which will feature more than 30 organizations, from 6-8 p.m. Jan. 30 at the Student Recreation Center-North.+

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PROFESSOR ROGER ARPIN WAS CHARGED WITH A CLASS “D” FELONY

SOUTHEAST professor accused of cheating REPORT

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Arpin was arrested at the Isle Capri casino for allegedly “capping” at a blackjack table.Southeast Missourian Photo

Literature professor continues to teach after being chargedHANNAH PARENT STAFF WRITER

Southeast literature professor Dr. Roger Arpin still is teaching classes at Southeast Mis-souri State University after being charged with a class “D” felony of violating laws per-taining to riverboat gambling. Arpin was alle-gedly “capping” bets during a blackjack game at the newly built Isle Capri Casino in Cape Girardeau.

Capping bets is defined by the Missouri Gaming Commission as adding to a bet after the cards have been dealt. Arpin, 66, pleaded

not guilty during his arraignment Dec. 17.According to MissouriCase.net, his cri-

minal court date is set for Feb. 6 at the Cape County Courthouse in Jackson. If convicted he could serve up to four years in prison as well as be banned from gambling at river boat casinos across Missouri.

As the Southeast Missourian previously reported, the probable cause statement filed by the Missouri Highway State Patrol’s Sgt. Darryl Suhr said that on the night of Dec. 14 Arpin was warned about capping bets by both the dealer and the pit supervisor. He was allowed to finish that hand but did receive a payout.

The statement also said that a half hour after the first warning, Arpin was allegedly seen capping another bet at the same table by the casino’s surveillance department. Then, according to the report, the dealer was aler-ted and Arpin was not given a payout for that hand. He was subsequently arrested at 7 p.m.

According to the Missouri Gaming Com-mission, 44 other individuals were charged with cheating-related offenses in Missouri so far this year. Arpin was the first arrest at the Cape Girardeau Isle Capri location that ope-ned Oct. 30.

Arpin has been an assistant professor at Southeast since 1979 and has been teaching all his classes scheduled for the spring semes-ter. University President Dr. Kenneth W. Dob-bins, English Department chair Carol Scates and Arpin all declined comment.

Southeast student Victoria Keller is enro-lled in one of Arpin’s classes this semester.

“He is a very good teacher and from what I can tell an extremely intelligent, professio-nal man,” Keller said in an email. “I don’t find [him teaching] to be offensive at all.”

“He is a very good teacher and from what I can tell an extremely intelligent, professional man.” Victoria Keller

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Twenty-two Southeast Missouri State University students and faculty traveled to Italy during winter break and visited six Italian cities in 10 days. Public relations major Jill Irvin had the oppor-tunity to cross off the No. 1 thing on her bucket list: visit the Vati-can City.

Irvin said that group members, which included students from different majors receiving different class credits for the trip, had structured sightseeing in the morning and then were free to do whatever they wanted to do in the afternoons and evenings.

“It was really good experience,” Irvin said. “We got to go to Venice and then Pisa, and then Florence and Sienna and Tus-cany and then Rome. It was just kind of a culture shock, but at the same time it was nice to learn about different cultures and to see how they do things — a lot of really cool things to see and do. Everyone always thinks America is so old, but then you realize that some of the buildings that we walked in are 2,000 years older. It was crazy to think about, but it was really cool.”

Irvin said it was neat to get to see places that she has always learned about, like the Colosseum, and that Rome was her favo-rite city that they visited. The group members liked the Leaning Tower of Pisa because they were able to take funny photos in front of it. They also did a pub crawl, which Irvin said was one of the most fun nights of the trip.

“We traveled by bus between the cities and then we walked everywhere, probably five miles a day in some places,” Irvin said. “In Venice you’re not allowed to have any transportation, so all we did was walk or you could go by ferry. In Florence we just walked everywhere. When we got to Rome, since it is such a big city, we did bus or tram or trolley. We mostly went by the subway. It was pretty cool. I had never been on a subway before.”

Irvin had to complete assignments before the trip and while she was there to get credit for a university studies course.

“It varied between the different classes, but my university stu-dies class had to write five papers before I left and then we had on-site assignments while we were there, which included com-paring a department store in Italy to a department store in the United States, like a supermarket, what they wore, and how the restaurants were different. Then we have a final exam to do, too,” Irvin said.

Irvin is a junior at Southeast, and this was her first time stu-dying abroad. Mexico is the only other other country she had been to. She said she had always wanted to have an opportunity like this.

“I’ve always wanted to study abroad, so it didn’t really mat-ter where we got to go if I would’ve went anywhere it would have been cool, but I’ve always wanted to go to Italy, too,” Irvin said. “The Vatican City is the number one thing on my bucket list, so it was really neat to get to check that off.”

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Jill Irvin visted six Italian cities in 10 days with other students on a university-sponsored trip. Submitted Photos

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When most people think about Orlando, Fla., they pic-ture Disney World or Universal Studios, but for about 60 stu-dents from Southeast Missouri State University it was the site of SEEK2013, a Catholic conference.

After the conference, the group stayed an extra half day so that they could go to Disney World, Downtown Disney or the Boardwalk at Disney, but that was not how they spent the majo-rity of their trip.

The conference was associated with FOCUS, the Fellowship of Catholic University Students. It took place from Jan. 2-6 and hosted students from universities across the country.

“Things FOCUS does, for instance, is they have a digital

campus for schools that don’t have FOCUS, they have FOCUS Greek for sororities and fraternities and different sites that pro-vide bible study information to get those started,” Southeast stu-dent Samantha Doherty said.

Each morning a mass was held with the nearly 6,000 confe-rence attendees, which Southeast student Alex Heeb said was neat because, “most cathedrals on Sunday won’t even have that many people in them.”

“When you have mass at a conference like that you have so many priests available. Like normally at a usual mass you’ll just have the priest, maybe a deacon up front, some servers,” Doherty said. “When you have a conference like that where all these priests come with their different groups, they all partake in the mass. There were probably 40 to 50 priests. They were all [in the procession], they’re all there the entire thing up front, partaking in the mass.”

Each day there were two breakout sessions. Students could choose to attend sessions on different topics such as prayer,

theology of the body and spirituality vs. religion. There were also speakers each day, including emcee Chris

Stefanick, with whom many Southeast students were familiar. “He came to our university last year to speak to our students

on relativism, so it was really cool to have him as the emcee because he was someone that students had the opportunity to see before, and a lot of the students that went on the trip had seen him before,” Doherty said. “We already knew him and had a chance to talk to him so that was kind of cool.”

Other speakers were FOCUS co-founders Ted Sri and Curtis Martin and former “America’s Next Top Model” contestant Leah Darrow.

“They had some of the top Catholic speakers in the coun-try, I guess really the English-speaking world, at the conference, and they really challenged you to grow in Christ and to just be the best person that you can be and truly live out a holy and fulfilling life,” Heeb said. “So it was just really cool to hear them speak, and it was pretty inspirational.”

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above: about 60 Southeast students attended SeeK2013, a Catholic conference in Orlando, Fla. Submitted Photos

Nick Maddock’s mother was not very happy that her son couldn’t be home for Christmas. But, that issue was resolved after Maddock’s boss was able to fly him home from his internship in Dallas, Texas, to see his family.

Over winter break senior Nick Maddock a finance, economics and entrepreneurial management major completed an interns-hip with PSAV, an audiovisual services company.

Maddock worked as a financial analyst while at PSAV. He said it was a fantastic experience and a desperately needed break from life in Cape Girardeau.

Maddock was given the opportunity by an alumnus of his fra-ternity Lambda Chi Alpha. Mark Lee, a Southeast Missouri State University alumnus and founding father of Lambda Chi Alpha offered him the position while at their fraternity’s founder’s day last April. Lee is the director of sales for the Dallas branch of PSAV.

“On top of that I received a well-rounded internship expe-rience with great pay, a three-credit hour elective for my acade-mic program, and a place to live for free,” Maddock said.

One day on the job Maddock and Lee visited the Texas Rangers’ stadium to plan out an event that was contracted through PSAV.

“During that visit we were able to take a tour of the stadium, which was a neat experience for me because I had never been to Dallas or the Rangers stadium before,” Maddock said via email. “I made it a point not to mention that I was a Cardinals fan. Game 6 probably still holds some hard feelings.”

One of the last things Maddock was able to do was attend “Ice! Merry Madagascar,” which was a walkthrough of hundreds of detailed ice sculptures depicting the characters of “Madagascar” the movie. They did this by closing off a section of the Gaylord Texan hotel and chilling it down to 18 degrees, Maddock said.

Maddock had lunch with Scott Crowell, the first mem-ber of Lambda Chi Alpha at Southeast, on his last day in Texas. Maddock said he developed a lot of great insight on how to move his fraternity forward and that it was a privilege to be able to meet Crowell in person.

“Overall it was a fantastic experience and I would do it again in a heartbeat,” Maddock said.

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Venice is a city rich in heritage, comprised of many separate islands connected by bridges and several only reachable by water taxi.

“The best part about Venice was getting to ride a gondola,” junior Chris Dzruick said. “The ride took us through the canals of Venice and, even though he wasn’t singing, our driver did tell us about the history of the buildings we saw along the way.”

This was just the first stop on Dzruick’s trip through Italy over winter break. Dzruick, a marketing management major, took a study abroad trip with Southeast Missouri State University’s international business program from Jan. 2 through Jan. 12.

The trip included visiting three major cities as well as day trips to several others. Dzruick received international marketing credit and UI 343 Transcult Experience credit for the trip.

Dzruick and the other Southeast students with the internatio-nal business program began in Venice.

They also took tours of the islands of Murano, famous for blown glass made there, and Burano, famous for its brightly colo-red houses.

The next city the group visited was Florence where Dzruick saw the beautiful churches that grace the city. He said there were a mix of Roman and Gothic architecture. They also saw the Ponte Vechio, a bridge that spans the river in Florence and includes many expensive jewelry shops.

Along with the stunning sights throughout Florence Dzruick also showed a great deal of excitement about the food he was able to experience, in particular, the steak.

“Florence is also famous for steak —extremely large and ten-der steak soaked in vinegar, mustard and tomato,” Dzruick said. “I have never had a better steak in my life and will crave it until I’m there again.”

The Southeast students’ trip ended in Rome. Dzruick said that even though he knew about Rome’s famous structures, he never really grasped the beauty until standing in them.

“The Colosseum was absolutely amazing. You can see the scars on it from years of wear, but the way it stands today is

extremely impressive,” Dzruick said.“The Trevi Fountain was by far my favorite aspect of Rome,”

Dzruick said. “The gorgeous fountain marked the end of the Roman aqueduct. Each statue tells a story, interacting with the others in different ways. Many piazzas can be found by simply wandering — holding fountains, churches and their own stories.”

Vatican City was also part of their trip. The country is tiny, but the magnitude of religious power that came from that small space amazed Dzruick.

Walking through St. Peter’s Basilica, Dzruick said he realized that he was stepping where history had been made.

The Southeast students walked to the top of St. Peter’s, and Dzruick said the view was his favorite part of the entire trip.

“It really put everything into perspective,” Dzruick said.

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The best part about Venice was getting to ride a gondola. The ride took us through the canals of Venice and, even though he wasn’t singing, our driver did tell us about the history of the buildings we saw along the way.

Chris dzruick

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THE VICTORY PROGRAM WILL HAVE A STALKING AWARENESS INFORMATIONAL FAIR ON JAN. 23 FROM 11 A.M. TO 1 P.M. IN THE UC

STALKING Awareness MonthADVOCATEÂ 10 ARROW • week of Jan. 23 - 29, 2013

“Students may see this type of behavior as creepy or annoying, but things can escalate. For instance sending someone 40 text messages a day is not right. Somebody trying to control where you are at all times is not right.” Millicent Odhiambo

Information from victimsofcrime.org

Southeast VICTORY Program promotes awareness of stalkingThere were 10 stalking cases reported on Southeast’s campus last semesterHANNAH PARENT STAFF WRITER

Like most Southeast Missouri State University freshmen, multimedia journalism major Bai-ley McCormick stayed in a residence hall. In fall 2009, Bailey and her roommate at Towers Complex started receiving threats from someone using a fake Facebook account.

The unknown individual claimed to know her whereabouts and used crude and mean language in daily messages. McCormick wasn’t sure what to do, until one day this unk-nown person started to threaten violence. It was at this point she contacted the Cape Girardeau Police.

Through the police, she found out that this person lived in the same residence hall as her, but she was never able to find out who it was. After the police were contacted, the harassment, which lasted about a month, stopped.

According to victimsofcrimes.org, stalking is defined as a “course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to feel fear.”

The VICTORY Program at Southeast pro-motes awareness of the realities of dating vio-lence, domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking. The month of January is Stalking Awareness Month.

Project coordinator for the VICTORY Pro-gram Millicent Odhiambo said students often do not understand that they are being stalked. She said that is why the National Center for

Victims of Crime launched Stalker Awareness Month in 2004.

“Students may see this type of behavior as creepy or annoying, but things can esca-late,” Odhiambo said. “For instance sending someone 40 text messages a day is not right. Somebody trying to control where you are at all times is not right.”

Odhiambo said that this behavior can be taken too lightly, and sometimes it can cause students to blur abusive behavior in their interactions with others. She said that the stalking cases increased during the fall 2012 semester. According to Odhiambo, there were 10 reports of stalking on Southeast’s campus last semester. These reports include both male and female students and varying types of stalking, including cyber bullying. These reports were made to either Disability

Services or to the Office of Student Conduct.According to victimsofcrimes.org, 6.6

million adults are affected by stalking every year — 1 in 6 women and 1 in 19 men have experienced some type of stalking victimi-zation. The site also states that a majority of these people are stalked by someone they know. Stalking is a felony charge in a third of the states across the country, though crimi-nal in every state. According to Cape County Courthouse website, stalking is a misdemea-nor in Missouri, unless a “credible threat” to the victim.

Odhiambo said stalking can occur many different ways — through unwanted emails, gifts, phone calls, Facebook contact, calling and hanging up on an individual or even pla-cing a GPS on someone’s person or property. Stalking is more than just following someone around physically. According to victimso-fcrime.org, 78 percent of stalkers use more than one approach to stalk an individual.

Odhiambo said any students who feel like they are being stalked should go to either the Office of Student Conduct or Disability Ser-vices and report the problem. The Office of Student Conduct is located in the Univer-sity Center room 422. Disability Services is located in Dearmont Hall B1. The offices can place a “no contact order” on the accused, if warranted, and if the person violates this order they stand to be further disciplined. She stressed that the person who reports the crime will never be in trouble and should not be scared to get help.

The VICTORY program will hold a Stal-king Awareness Month Informational Fair on Jan. 23 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Univer-sity Center Program Lounge on the third floor, offering information for students on what to do if they become a stalking victim.

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FORMER ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS LENELL HAHN REPLACED DR. DEBBIE BELOW AS DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS

OFFICE of Admissions gets new leader


PROMOTEMISSOURI MINIMUM WAGE INCREASEMissouri minimum wage has increased 10 cents from $7.25 to $7.35 as of Jan. 1. FICA tax rates have also gone up to 6.2 percent.+

Lenell Hahn, left, talks with Show Me Day coordinator and student worker Ashley Harris, right, about the upcoming Show Me Days. Photo by Nathan Hamilton

New director leads office to meet goalsRACHEL WEATHERFORD MANAGING EDITOR

Lenell Hahn was promoted from associate director of admissions to the director of admissions this month.

“I really felt honored because they did a national search for the director position,” Hahn said. “To find out I was the best candi-date out of a national search was very exci-ting. I’ve worked in the office for almost 10 years now and have really enjoyed my time here.

“It was very humbling to me.”Hahn replaced Dr. Debbie Below, who was

the director of the Office of Admissions. Below is now the vice president for enrollment management and Student Success Council and the dean of students as of Jan. 1.

“The student experience is of the utmost importance to Lenell,” Below said.

Hahn graduated from Southeast with a bachelor of science in business administra-tion and completed her MBA at Southeast Missouri State University. She joined the Office of Admissions in 2003, and spends her time working and going to her lake house on Kentucky Lake to water ski during weekends and vacations.

As associate director, Hahn planned special events and supervised admissions counse-lors, students and the recruiters at Southeast.

In her new role as director, Hahn provides leadership and direction, and assists staff in attracting students to Southeast. She also pro-vides assistance and training to faculty. She is in charge of the staff members in the Office of Admissions, and also of new and trans-fer students as well. She now supervises pro-grams for new and transfer students, where

potential and new students learn more about the university, and serves on committees. She is the president-elect of the Missouri Associa-tion of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers.

Hahn is also in charge of managing and developing the budget for the Office of Admissions, which she did not do as associate director.

Hahn said she listens to people, like mem-bers of the university staff, her workers in the

Office of Admissions, students and members of the community, knowing doing so will help meet the goals of her office.

“I’ve learned quickly that to be a really good director you need to be a really good active listener,” Hahn said. “There’s a lot of people who have great information that they want to share with me.”

“Lenell has many years of experience in college admissions, and she is emerging as a statewide leader,” Below said.


ASKADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT DALE CHRONISTER ASSISTS CAMPUS ORGANIZATIONS WITH REGISTRATION

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CAMPUS organization guru

Dale Chronister works closely with Student Government AssociationRACHEL WEATHERFORD MANAGING EDITOR

Dale Chronister is the administrative assis-tant for Campus Life, which deals with stu-dent organizations and SGA. He also coor-dinates elections for Man and Woman of the Year, and Student Government and Student Activities Council events. He works in the University Center in room 202, and is the first person that visitors see when they enter the office. He has been working in different areas of the university for almost 15 years.

Q: Describe your time at Southeast.A: I started working in the printing and dupli-cating department when it was over on Foun-tain Street. I was there for about a year. I applied for the administrative assistant posi-tion with Student Government and I was there until they completed the Center for Stu-dent Involvement. I’ve pretty much been with Student Government and Campus Life ever since then, starting in about ’98.

Q: What do you do on campus?A: I mainly work with student organiza-tions, getting them registered, helping out the groups if they have any questions or any pro-blems. For Campus Life, I do [the] accounts, purchasing, [reviewing and reconciling the monthly budget], the billing [of student orga-nizations], anything along those lines. I work at selling budgets. I’m also the administrative assistant for the office, the first person people see when they come in, the go-to person.

Q: Can you explain your job?A: I work mainly with Student Government. I’m mainly Student Government’s adminis-trative assistant, so anything they need, I help them out with whatever they need. In Cam-pus Life, I do work with the budgets for Cam-pus Life and a little bit for Student Gover-nment. I work with the Student Activities Council if they need anything, with Joanna Shaver. Our office does the Speakers’ Series, so I help with that if there’s something going on with it. Pretty much anything they need for the office.

Student organizations have to come through our office to register, and I’m the main one. Between me and Megan Ran-dolph, I’ve been dealing with the registration for the student groups since I started because it was handled through the Student Govern-ment office to begin with. So I’m usually the first person they always go to, or they always

come to me anyway. It’s all online now. I’m the main one who knows how to operate the pro-gram online, so I’m the first one they send it to, anyway, because no one else knows how to get into the system. The main online program is on my computer, so I’m always the first one who has to deal with it.

Q: What is your favorite memory of Southeast so far? A: Usually what I tell everybody is I like the variety of students that I get to meet. Every year there’s always new students each year coming in. That’s what I always love about working here. You always get to meet new students every time, every semester. There’s always new ones. It always adds the spice to life, new variety each year.

Q: What do you like to do outside of Southeast? A: Well, I work part-time tending bar. So this is my full-time job and I also work part-time tending bar, so I really don’t have much free time. And then if I do have free time, that’s usually in the summertime, it’s spent mowing lawns and doing yard work at my house. I’ve got five dogs that I have of my own, and then I’ve got my 18-year-old daughter.

Q: What thing do students

need to know that it seems like they don’t when they try to register an organiza-tion? A: They must have an on-campus adviser, someone employed by the university, a faculty or staff member or grad assistant. Greek organizations forget and list their chapter adviser, which won’t work.

Q: What is the craziest or most different orga-nization you remember being on campus?A: Here are a couple groups that are no longer active that we had in the past: Buhse’s Foosies Foosball Club, Capers Spirit Club.

Q: If a student wants to start an organization what does he/she need to do? A: To start a new organization they just need to come by the office and pick up our registration form. When they pick it up we go through with the person what the requirements are to register a group. I usually first direct them to our student organization web site, semo.edu/leader-ship/studentorgs/resources, which gives them all the information for registering their organization, but I usually give them

a brief overview of the main requirements. First, you must have at least five active stu-dent members, these you will list on your registration form and two of these should be your officers of the organization. They must be in good academic and judicial standing and have at least a 2.0 GPA. The organization must also have an on-campus adviser, which can be faculty, staff or a grad assistant, just as long as they are an employee of the university. They must also submit a constitution for the organization along with the registration form.

Q: What is the most com-mon problem you see pop up when students try to register an organization? A: I really have not had any problems with student organizations themselves other than getting them to meeting deadlines. The most problem I have had has been since we started using our online registra-tion program. For organizations that are renewing, we do our main registration of organizations each fall and those groups submit their five members plus adviser using the online program. Each one of those members receives an email that has a link in it for them to click on and it takes them to a page for them to verify that they do hold that position within that organization. That has been a major problem, just getting them to follow that link just to verify their position.

Dale Chronister at his office in the University Center. Photo by Nathan Hamilton

What are three things you can not live without?

Jenine Miller My computer, cellphone to talk to family and my boyfriend and eggs.

Cody Lute Music, video games, something to stay busy.

Kamel Gnawali Family, education and health. Skylar Horton Sports, my phone, friends

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THINKA SOUTHEAST STUDENT AND PROFESSOR SHARE THEIR OPINION ON WHETHER THE AWARD SHOWS ARE WORTH WATCHING

WATCHING the Hollywood awards


BRANDON TAPPMEYER SOPHOMORE WILDLIFE CONSERVATION MAJOR

A: The Hollywood awards. I am not quite sure what they all are or how they are awarded. In the grand scheme of things,

what do they really mean? Some might say that they recognize the best actors and actresses of movies, TV programs, etc. I call shenanigans on that!

Don’t get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoy watching movies, especially when one of my favorite actors is in them. I just don’t see why the actors need (or deserve for that mat-ter) any more recognition than what they already have.

Think about it. The entire nation and many people outside the United States know actors’ and actresses’ names and faces because they have been in a number of big movies or television programs. Do they rea-lly need an award to recognize them? What it all boils down to is a simple feeding of their egos.

They gain fame by doing a fantastic job portraying a certain character. Once they have fame, they crave more. Take Charlie Sheen for example. He was pretty famous for his role on “Two and a Half Men” but was not satisfied. He won an ALMA and a Gol-den Globe among others and still was not done. He began to speak out and threw out wild claims because he wanted all the atten-tion. I guess his “tiger blood” couldn’t quell his thirst for media.

Let’s get back to the point, they have sta-rred many leading roles. Why? Because they are proficient at what they do. Do they deserve more than a good chance at starring in another large film on top of the love of countless adoring fans? Do they really need an oversized paperweight for them to feel

that they are accomplished?It is greed. Another instance of the big

guy picking on the little guys. Humans are greedy by nature. Andrew Carnegie, while a major philanthropist, was not as wealthy as John Rockefeller. He wanted the title of the wealthiest man in the U.S. Carnegie did all he could to become more wealthy, including pushing his steelworkers past their limits, which resulted in many of their deaths and a strike that ended in workers being shot.

Now I am not saying that the people who win the Hollywood awards can be accoun-table for deaths, but they do step over many other people. My main reasons for not caring about the Hollywood awards at all are that they are pointless, the people who win them don’t need any more recognition than what they have, and it is a showcase of greed. Simply put, they are not a positive force.

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LYNN MOORE FASHION MERCHANDISING INSTRUCTOR

A: As a faculty member at a state university, I am an oddity. Unlike most of my fellow faculty members who scoff at

the superficiality of all the glam and glitter, I like the Hollywood award shows.

I am fascinated by contemporary 20th and 21st century culture, and the awards shows certainly fit within this framework. However, the fact that my curriculum area is fashion merchandising is the more obvious answer to why I like the award season.

When I watch the awards shows, I not only am looking at the gowns that the female actors are wearing, but reflecting on the evo-lution of each of the styles. My mind jumps back and forth from historical illustrations of similar styles to the most extreme inter-pretation of that particular style in our cul-ture today.

My “teacher brain” switch is always in the on position during the awards shows. How can I help my students understand the social and psychological implications of fas-hion against a backdrop of fashion as a busi-ness and industry that has become global, a vital part of the overall economy of the world today?

OK. Now that I’ve shared the serious side of my desire to watch every award show, let me also share why I find them mesme-rizing. The “beautiful people” do put on great shows! It can be several hours of tota-lly immersing me in a world that I will never know. Just as some people like video games, horror movies, vampires and science fic-tion, I love Hollywood, vintage Hollywood and all its glamour. Long before the Inter-net, reality TV, MTV, Facebook, Twitter and blogs, Hollywood brought us the newest and

the most fashionable styles. (The first Ame-rican fashion designers were Hollywood cos-tume designers in the early decades of the 20th century.) Sometimes it was in clothing, other times it was from another part of our lives like that great Corvette that was defini-tely one of the stars of the vintage TV show “Route 66.”

Here in 2013, I will sit back, relax and wax nostalgic about the good old Hollywood gla-mour while watching the remaining awards shows, all the time, adding to my Netflix queue and Googling every young actor’s name, male and female, that I am not fami-liar with. It’s my fantasy world all wrapped up in neat little packages: the Hollywood awards shows.

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SKINNER IS NOW THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR STUDENT SUCCESS AND DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF RESIDENCE LIFE

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Top: Dr. Bruce Skinner looks over a flyer on Thursday in the University Center. Bottom: Dr. Bruce Skinner talks to a student worker on Thursday. Photos by Nathan Hamilton

Skinner works to advance student life by coordinating four departmentsSAVANNA MAUE ONLINE EDITOR

Dr. Bruce Skinner is a name often heard on Southeast Missouri State University’s cam-pus. Students know he is an important per-son but often do not know what he does. As of Jan. 1, Skinner is officially the assistant vice president for Student Success and director of Residence Life. Skinner describes his posi-tion as overseeing the “outside the classroom experience.”

As the assistant vice president for Stu-dent Success and director of Residence Life Skinner’s goal is to make sure the offices of Residence Life, Campus Life, Greek Life and Recreation Services are all working together to advance the student life agenda, student activities and working together on student programming. His role is to make sure all these departments are coordinated and that they are all working toward the same goal.

Skinner graduated from Southeast in 1997 with his bachelor’s degree in political science. He then attended the University of Mis-souri law school for a short time but returned to Southeast to earn his master’s degree in public administration after realizing he hated law school.

He met his wife, Tonya Skinner, during his freshman year at Southeast when he lived in the Towers South residence hall while she lived in Towers East. They have been married for almost 17 years.

Skinner has had a variety of jobs outside of the Residence Life department. As a student he worked at the University Center for the student union and was a building manager. While in law school he worked in retail and as a pharmacy tech, which is one of the coo-lest jobs in the world he said. He was also an assistant store manager for a Kmart in Kan-sas City.

“When I left Southeast in ‘97 for law school

I thought maybe I would see Cape occasio-nally for a homecoming. When I came back a few years later I figured I would do the gra-duate degree, get a little experience and move on to the next thing,” Skinner said. “Southeast has been very good to me, it’s been good to my family and in the end it has given me a lot of different opportunities.”

Skinner is interested in students’ fee-dback. He said the best way to get honest stu-dent feedback is through meetings and social media.

“I am in an office most of the business day, so my opportunity to hear from students directly is very limited unless I am actually out at the student organizations meetings, so that is my way of hearing what the latest issue is,” Skinner said.

Residence Life has different Facebook pages for students to express their concerns. Skinner says feedback from these pages helps give him a good feel about what Residence Life needs to improve on and what is wor-king well.

Skinner is also an alumnus of the Delta Chi fraternity. He has been the fraternity’s faculty staff adviser for over a decade, the alumni adviser for a number of years and is the pre-sident of the alumni board of trustees for the entire Delta Chi organization.

“That is sort of what sparked my interest in Greek Life overall and now within the new role I have more involvement,” Skinner said.

Skinner hopes to have the newly created Greek Life director position filled by the end of the spring semester to continue with pro-posed projects and assist Greek students with their ideas.

When Skinner interviewed for the director position in 2006 he told University President Dr. Kenneth W. Dobbins that he mainly wan-ted to address the air conditioning quality in Dearmont and change certain aspects of Greek housing. Skinner said Dearmont’s air

conditioning situation has been “half way” addressed and a housing master plan for Greek Life has been created. Greek housing rooms have 168 square feet of space whereas new residence halls have at least 220 square feet of space with private bathrooms and other amenities. Skinner hopes that upda-ting Greek housing will encourage students to continue joining Southeast’s sororities and fraternities.

With Skinner’s new position he hopes to better integrate volunteerism in the Southeast community and make a more aggressive effort to recruit students to serve as legislative interns. Incoming students are showing a greater interest in voluntee-ring in the community and Southeast wants to have programs in place to offer these stu-dents what they want. Skinner also plans to

have more students intern in Jefferson City or even Washington, D.C., to build better con-nections with resources while they work on their degrees.

Skinner is also collaborating with Recrea-tion Services to begin a $5 million investment in a chiller plant behind the Student Recrea-tion Center-North. This chiller plant will pro-vide the recreation center and Show Me Center with steam and their own hot water system so that if there is ever a power outage on campus the Recreation Center and Show Me Center will not be affected.

“This is the first time that I’m aware of, cer-tainly in more than a decade, that all of those offices [Residence Life, Campus Life, Greek Life and Recreation Services] have been for-mally linked together, and I hope to help with that,” Skinner said.

SAC MIDNIGHT MOVIE“Pitch Perfect” will show on Friday at Cape West 14 Cine. The doors open at 11:30 p.m. Admission is free for students with a Southeast ID and $3 for non-students.+

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