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Petition for handball court availableSoutheast plans to tear down the old handball court to make a new residence hall. People interested in signing a petition to save the historic brick handball court located next to St. Vincent Academy on Southeast Missouri State University’s River Campus from being torn down can go to change.org. The number of people who have signed is currently at 292 and the goal is 500 supporters.

Get more details on arrow reporter Hannah Parent’s blog at southeastA-rrow.com.

Nominations

Award deadline extended to March 15The deadline for the Student Life and Leadership Awards has extended to March 15 from its original date of March 1.

The awards ceremony for the people who receive the eight student life awards available through each college and the overall President’s Spirit of Southeast Award is scheduled for 5 p.m. April 12 in the University Center Ballroom and is an invitation-only event. Only the award winners, parents and faculty are invited. Anyone can nominate, or be nomina-ted for the awards through an online process on semo.edu. Read the story at southeastArrow.com.

Marketing

Marketing students win at competitionKyle Jacobsmeyer, Matt Biehl and Markieta Huggans, three members of the Southeast Collegiate Distributive Education Clubs of America organiza-tion, competed at the Collegiate DECA State Career Development Conference Feb. 21-22 and were in the top five of each category in which they competed.

DECA is an international marke-ting organization.

Cost discussion avoided at bookstore forumsKYLE THIES ARROW REPORTER

Southeast Missouri State Univer-sity students and faculty were left with unanswered questions about the cost of textbook rentals and other services proposed by two potential vendors for the university’s bookstore, Follett Higher Education Group and Barnes & Noble College, at two open forum discussions in Glenn Auditorium on Thursday and Friday afternoon.

Bruce Snyder, vice president of marketing at Follett, spoke for the company at Thursday’s forum. Several students and faculty members from a crowd of about 50 people asked questions about the cost involved in the proposed services Follett was offering, and Snyder said he was unable to answer them.

Laura Stock, director of business operations at Southeast, offered her explanation on the matter during the presentation.

“When you are talking about a contract of this scope where it involves the bookstore and textbook rentals, it’s got so many different pieces and fingers. There are a lot of negotiation points,” Stock said. “So we’re hesitant to get a lot of pricing information out there because, quite frankly, we’re

just at the relative beginning of this process of working with Follett and some of those price points could change.”

Ben Dixon, vice president of campus relations at Barnes & Noble College, represented his company along with regional managers Cynthia Bader and Marc Eckhart in a crowd of about 60 people on Friday. When asked if they could match the schools current rental prices, he said it was a university decision.

“We have a rental program that we described to you here much different: 50 percent,” Dixon said, meaning the charge to rent the book would be 50 percent of the cost to buy the book. “That’s not what this university wants, I don’t think. I think that what they want to do is come up with a solution to where they can modernize their program, be prepared for the future ... and at the same time continue a low-cost book program for you as long as possible. We are going to try to work with them if we are selected to do so.”

Stock said the purpose of the open forums are to give students the opportunity to voice their viewpoints and opinions about the venders. This is the university’s way of getting student feedback since they are not yet directly involved in any decision.

“What [the students] think is

very important to us, and it could change things, but it’s a long process,” Stock said.

Southeast student Lauren Bethel voiced her concern of Barnes & Noble College’s program to its representatives.

“I had gone on to your corporate website and had looked at comparing the current books I have this semester to your prices you have online through there, and the prices sort of scare the bejesus out of me,” Bethel said. “Right now I’m paying $25.94 per text book no matter what the original retail price was. ... My cost for this semester would have come to about $400. That’s more than double what I’m paying now.”

Dixon replied by saying Southeast students receive a “super-duper bargain” with the current system. The university is correct to look toward the future to when their system no longer works for them, Dixon said. He also said that Bethel may have gone to Barnes & Noble’s website, which is not directly associated with Barnes & Noble College.

Jake Leffler, a senior at Southeast, expressed questions and concerns multiple times during the Follett presentation.

“Right now our textbook rental program is really good. I came from a community college before I came here, and I was forced to buy textbooks there,” Leffler said. “So this is a great improvement to that, but I’m kind of still curious to how this is an improvement from what we have now.”

“We’ve got the objectives: student success, accessibility and affordability, and all of those things are closely related,” Snyder said. “But when you just take one scenario and say how does it benefit you, and it’s cost-basis only, yours may come in cheaper, or it may not. I don’t know where

we’ll land. But it will change.”Even though no specifics on

cost were provided, Snyder proposed Follett’s IncludED Program to the university to help reduce the price of book rentals. This program decreases the cost of rentals by including the fees in tuition. They can pretty closely match the current prices of renting books with this program, according to Snyder.

“There are already changes that are happening now. ... We don’t know what all those changes are, but these folks, they’re national,” Stock said. “They work with schools all over the place. We’re a small school. We have a great staff, but a limited number of staff, whereas they have lots and lots of minds to pick. We don’t like to recreate the wheel if we don’t have to. So, that’s why whether we go out and partner with a third party or not, we’d at least like to see what’s out there in the market.”

The university’s decision to look for different venders for the bookstore came after Jan Chis-man, the manager of the Southeast bookstore, announced her retirement.

“I think they are using Jan’s retirement as an excuse to change,” said Billy Schmitz, a Southeast senior at the Barnes & Noble College open forum. “The current bookstore already does everything just fine. They are talking about preparing for the change to digital, but our current staff is already doing that. There were a lot questions that people asked that weren’t answered.”

Students and faculty are encouraged to take a survey to provide feedback on this process. The link to the survey can be found at southeastbookstore.com. The survey will be available until midnight on March 10.Follett presented at Southeast for their textbook rental forums on

Feb. 28. Photo by Kyle Thies

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Stockholm SmileSoutheast students in St. Louis-based band. Story on page 5 + NEW WEIGHT ROOM EQUIPMENT. PAGE 2 +


SOUTHEAST ATHLETICS PURCHASED ELITE FORM WEIGHT EQUIPMENT THAT USES TABLET-LIKE DEVICES AND 3D CAMERAS

NEW weight-room technology


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Southeast athletics department installs high-tech workout equipment for student-athletesDAMON CHRISTY ARROW REPORTER

The sound of weights being lifted and dropping to the floor, medicine balls being thrown against the wall, the thud of people’s feet running on tread-mills — these are all sounds people expect to hear at a Student Recreation Center on campus.

There are many types of workout equipment available with several different machines, which can take up a lot of space. What if there was one machine that offered every type of weight-lifting training? Well there is. It is called the Elite Form, and it is a state-of-the-art workout machine.

The machines arrived on Feb. 12 for Southeast student-athletes. The Elite Form, located only at the Stu-dent Recreation Center-South, has a tablet-like device that allows the per-son to choose from any weight lif-ting technique. It also has a 3D camera that records the number of repetitions and the velocity of each repetition the athlete does. The camera also will take a video of the athlete so he or she can review and see if their form is correct.

Southeast strength and conditio-ning coach Ryan Johnson likes what he sees from the Elite Form system.

“This machine measures in bar speed and power output. The bene-fit of that is it adds to our competitive environment,” Johnson said. “You can

see as each set goes on if the student is getting stronger or are they starting to tail off a little bit. That is the biggest advantage we see from it.”

Southeast is one of a few schools that have this new workout system and, according to Johnson, is the only school in the Ohio Valley Conference to have it.

Senior Brian Grote throws javelin for the Southeast track and field team and thinks the new system is “huge” for Southeast athletes.

“I think it will be really good for all of the athletes to use and see how they are improving their lift speeds and power outputs,” Grote said. “I think it will make all the athletes better and improve their skills.

“It will also help with team workouts because on the screen the coach can assign how many reps and at what weight the athletes need to be doing that day. It will help in not having to find out what we as athletes are sup-posed to be working on that day. Ins-tead the coaches can already have it on there and ready to go, so we can get started as soon as we get there.”

Both Grote and Johnson believe these new machines will also help Southeast in recruiting.

“This is a difference maker. It is one thing to bring recruits in here and talk about the program and talk [about] the history of Southeast. When they get something like this they can actually

see it helps,” Johnson said. “This sys-tem is the best of the best. It will give Southeast that ‘wow’ factor and will be something when a recruit leaves, they will be talking about it.”

According to a spokesman with the athletic department, the Elite Form workout equipment cost roughly $17,000 in total. It was part of a one-time fund that enabled departments to request equipment purchases from the university to enhance the student experience.

“It’s pretty expensive, but it’s worth it,” Johnson said.

Members of the Southeast football team lift weights in the Student Recreation Center-South on Monday. Photo by Drew Yount

BRIEFSMen’s Basketball

Redhawks head into OVC tournament with two-game winning streakThe Southeast Missouri State University men’s basketball team finished its regular season with an 84-68 win over Ohio Valley Conference opponent Murray State. The win marks the first time since 2006-2007 that the Redhawks defeated the Racers in Murray, Ky.

Southeast guard A.J. Jones led the Redhawks with 20 points. He was 6-for-6 from the field, 4-for-4 on 3-pointers and 4-for-4 on free throws.

Guard Corey Wilford finished with 16 points and Nick Niemczyk added 14. Forwards Tyler Stone and Nino Johnson added 13 and 11 points, respectively, and each had six rebounds.

Murray State guard Isaiah Canaan led all scorers with 22 points

The sixth-seeded Redhawks face eighth seed Eastern Illinois in the first round of the OVC tournament at 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium.

Women’s Basketball

Redhawks finish with most wins since 2008The Southeast Missouri State University women’s basketball team’s season ended with a 61-58 win over Murray State on Saturday in Murray, Ky.

Southeast guard Bailie Roberts led the Redhawks with 17 points and eight rebounds. Guard Kara Wright and forward Patricia Mack added 10 points. Mack also led all players with nine rebounds.

The Redhawks finished the season with a record of 11-18 and 5-11 in Ohio Valley Conference games, their most wins since the 2008-2009 season.

Gymnastics

Redhawks post season-high scoreThe Southeast Missouri State University gymnastics team won 194.775-194.675 over Eastern Michigan on Sunday. That was the Redhawks’ highest score this season.

Southeast’s Megan Fosnow finished first in vault with a career-high score of 9.875.

Taryn Vanderpool won the uneven bars competition with a career-high 9.900, which ties for Southeast’s third-best uneven bars score. Margaret O’Neal’s 9.850 on uneven bars put her in second place and Taylor Westrick and Fosnow tied for third with scores of 9.825.

Westrick won the balance beam competition with a score of 9.875. In the floor event Emma Garrett scored a career-high 9.925 to win the event. It also tied for Southeast’s sixth highest floor event. Westrick tied for second with a career-high 9.875 and Vanderpool finished fourth with a career-high 9.825.

Baseball

Redhawks avoid doubleheader sweepSoutheast Missouri State University’s baseball team avoided a sweep in walk-off fashion in its doubleheader against Oral Roberts Sunday afternoon at Capaha Field. After Southeast lost the first game 4-3, shortstop Branden Boggetto dropped a suicide squeeze with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth to win the second game 6-5.

“I was just so happy,” Boggetto said. “I knew I got my job done, and it just felt good to get a win for the team.”

With one out and the bases loaded Boggetto came up to the plate. He laid down a suicide squeeze that scored catcher Dalton Hewitt from third and secured the Red-hawks’ victory.

“That’s a play we’ve executed a lot in practice,” Southeast coach Steve Bieser said. “[Boggotto] knew exactly what he needed to do with the ball. He wasn’t trying to get too fine with it. He was just trying to make the first baseman field it. That’s great execution on his part.”

Read the full story at southeastArrow.com/sports. A tablet keeps track of a Southeast athlete’s lift. Photo by Drew Yount

SMITH BREAKS RECORDSoutheast senior guard Marland Smith broke the school record for career 3-pointers made on Feb. 7. Read more about Smith at southeastArrow.com/sports.+


FORMER BASEBALL PLAYER RYAN PRICKETT COMPETED IN THE WORLD SERIES OF BEER PONG IN JANUARY WITH HIS BROTHER

STUDENT competes in Las Vegas


PLAYROLLER HOCKEY CLUB NO LONGER OFFEREDThe roller hockey club team at Southeast is not offered for the first time since 1999. Read the story at southeastArrow.com/sports.+

Ryan and Cody Prickett competed against nearly 500 teams at the World Series of Beer Pong in Las Vegas in January. Submitted photo

Southeast student competes in World Series of Beer Pong during breakKARLEE LURSEN ARROW REPORTER

Beer pong is a well-known ritual among college students. Many students have taken part, and those who haven’t probably know what the game is. There are four players stan-ding around a table, shooting ping pong balls into red Solo cups.

Now place 50 of those tables in one ball-room of the Flamingo Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas strip, and this is the experience Southeast Missouri State University student Ryan Prickett, a former baseball player at Southeast, and his brother Cody Prickett got to experience in January.

According to bpong.com, The World Series of Beer Pong features more than 1,000 parti-cipants from 45 states and five Canadian pro-vinces. There are two options to get into the tournament: buy in or win a satellite tour-nament. There are over 100 satellite tour-naments held in 19 different states and one Canadian province. Satellite tournaments are small tournaments that are held by bars in towns across America and are put together through the Beer Pong Association.

Cody Prickett started playing beer pong far before his brother by competing in tourna-ments where he lives.

“I first started playing competitive beer pong at a local bar in Owasso, Okla.,” Cody Prickett said. “Once I started playing and get-ting better, I got hooked and competed more and more.”

By competing in all of these local

tournaments, Cody Prickett was able to get his brother interested in competitive beer pong tournaments. According to Cody Pric-kett, he asked Ryan Prickett to play in a tour-nament with him, and that is how he got star-ted with competitive beer pong.

“My brother got me started in competitive beer pong. He wanted me to play a tourna-ment with him because we played for fun all the time,” Ryan Prickett said. “We got second in our first tournament and made around $80.”

After competing in that first tournament Cody Prickett went on to compete in others while Ryan Prickett went back to school and played purely for fun. Ultimately Ryan Pric-kett and his brother Cody Prickett competed in a satellite tournament in their hometown of Tulsa, Okla., to get their bid.

“A Tulsa tournament was being held for The World Series of Beer Pong bid and my brother had just come home, so I asked if he would like to play with me in the tournament for a bid to Vegas,” Cody Prickett said. “We played 12 teams in that tournament, including teams from Arkansas and Virginia. We ended up going undefeated in order to get our bid.”

According to Ryan Prickett, playing in the tournament was a spur of the moment event. He actually stayed in Tulsa an extra day before returning to school in order to play in the tournament.

As with any other big competition, there is preparation that needs to be done. Some compete in other tournaments, and some just play for fun in order to practice.

“I just shot a little bit here and back home, probably didn’t practice as much as I proba-bly should have,” Ryan Prickett said.

Ryan Prickett and Cody Prickett headed to Las Vegas in order to compete in the World Series of Beer Pong tournament in January.

“The local tournaments on average you can win anywhere from $100 to $250 apiece,” Ryan Prickett said. “In the World Series the winners got $50,000, $9,000 for second place and you got paid out all the way to 10th place.”

The tournament was bigger than either of the guys expected. There was a room full of 160 beer pong tables and almost 500 teams competed in this tournament.

“The experience overall was an amazing atmosphere,” Cody Prickett said. “There were DJs playing music the whole time and every-body in the event was very friendly.”

The World Series of Beer Pong took place over three days. On each of the first two days the teams played six different games. The top 160 teams going into the third day got to com-pete in the final round for the grand prize money.

“Our team name was Brotensity because we were brothers competing in the tourna-ment,” Ryan Prickett said. “We had a come-back to make the final day of the tourna-ment, we went 1-5 on the first then 6-0 on the second to put ourselves in the final round.”

The team finished 145 out of nearly 500 beer pong teams in the tournament.

There was a lot of activity outside of the tournament itself. All of the players in the

tournament were required to stay in the hotel where the competition was, and according to Ryan Prickett there was a costume contest, so there were a lot of people that dressed up in crazy costumes.

“On top of playing in the tournament ever-yone who competed or paid to watch got a wristband that got us into Club Pure for free, which was pretty fun,” Ryan Prickett said.

The World Series of Beer Pong took place at the Flamingo Hotel and Casino. Submitted photo


LAUREN PHILLIPS AND DENNISE HERNTON WALKED IN RUNWAY SHOWS AT NEW YORK FASHION WEEK

STUDENTS model in New York


CREATERIVER CAMPUS CAMPSThe River Campus is hosting summer camps including a Theatre and Dance Academy, Vocal Arts Boot Camp and more. Information can be found at rivercampusevents.com.+

Guitar Ensemble performance to feature four guitar majorsCALANDRA JONES-JACKSON ARROW REPORTER

The guitar is often thought of as a solo instrument. With Southeast Missouri State University’s Gui-tar Ensemble, members like to prove that it can be more.

According to Patrick Rafferty, professor of guitar, the ensemble was started by the department chair, Dr. Jeffrey Noonan. The group consists of four gui-tar majors, including Tiffany Mckinney, Jacob Seyer , Jake Tropf and John Walker.

“I have played in one recital with the ensem-ble, and I really enjoyed it. I’ve always loved pla-ying in ensembles, and it’s nice to be able to play my main instrument in an ensemble,” Mckinney said. “The guitar is usually seen as a solo instrument, and it’s nice to show people that it can be an ensemble instrument.”

Mckinney is a second-semester guitar major. She started off as a composition major and later decided to add guitar for a double major.

The ensemble usually plays pieces that are desig-ned for two or more guitars. However, Rafferty said the majority of the guitar pieces will be solos in the upcoming performance at 7:30 p.m. March 13 in the Robert F. and Gertrude L. Shuck Music Recital Hall.

“A lot of the concert is going to be solo guitar pie-ces, with a few ensemble pieces that are going to be spread out throughout the program,” Rafferty said.

According to Rafferty, the group is currently wor-king on new performance pieces that it has yet to perform on stage.

Aside from performing at the River Campus, the guitar ensemble travels to St. Louis and local schools in Cape Girardeau to perform.

“We spend a lot of time in Cape high school and Cape junior high recently,” Rafferty said. “It always goes really, really well. The kids really like it.”

Entertainment is one aspect the Guitar Ensemble would like for its audience to get out of the perfor-mance. According to Rafferty, it is also a chance for people to experience music they didn’t know about and open their minds to different music.

“I just want to broaden people’s horizons,” Rafferty said.

Tickets for the concert are $10. For more informa-tion contact the River Campus box office at 573-651-2265 or visit rivercampusevents.com.

“I have played in one recital with the ensemble, and I really enjoyed it. I’ve always loved playing in ensembles, and it’s nice to be able to play my main instrument in an ensemble. The guitar is usually seen as a solo instrument, and it’s nice to show people that it can be an ensemble instrument.” Tiffany Mckinney

Dennise Hernton participated in New York Fashion Week. Photo by David Kilper of Arkitography

Southeast students work New York Fashion WeekASHLEY BENNETT ARROW REPORTER

Southeast Missouri State University senior Lauren Phillips and sophomore Dennise Hernton traveled to New York City to par-ticipate in New York Fashion Week. Phi-llips and Hernton were both there Feb. 7-12.

“It was amazing. I’ve been to New York before, but actually seeing the fashion side of it and being so close to Mercedes Benz Fashion show — it was so amazing,” Phi-llips said. “There were CoverGirl casting calls and just so much going on all around us. It was so good for networking.”

Hernton and Phillips are both freelance models but are associated with a mode-ling group called Cynique Evoule. The group does fashion shows all around the St. Louis area as well as participates in Atlanta Fashion week and now New York Fashion Week.

“We’ve done several shows in St. Louis, two at the St. Louis City Museum as well as at the Opera House in St. Louis,” Phi-llips said.

Both Hernton and Phillips have been to New York before, but this is the first time they have participated in New York Fas-hion Week and have been so connected to the fashion.

“It was crazy. I’ve done fashion shows before, but I had never been in the real setting before. The fashion show was on the rooftop of the Empire Hotel, which is in Lincoln Square, right next to where Mercedes Benz Fashion Week is,” Hernton said. “It was fun. I saw a lot of people, and I met a lot of people.”

Herton walked for three designers from Chicago during the course of the week, Alex Carter, Elizabeth Smith and Garic

Stephens. Phillips also walked for Carter and Smith.

The models have different plans in regards to their future. Phillips hopes to land a job at a magazine, and she uses her modeling group as networking to get her foot in the door and get in contact with bloggers and people who work at maga-zine agencies. She said she is modeling for fun.

Hernton is in the process of finding an agency to sign with. She recently went to a casting call for West Model Management. Her hope is to be signed so that she can get more publicity.

She would like to do runway modeling as well as editorial modeling, but being 5’7’’ she has been told she is too short, and the preferred height is 5’9’’ or taller.

“Commercial modeling is always an option,” Hernton said. “I really don’t mind it. If I get paid, that’s fine.”

Being an up and coming model has its perks of being able to travel and wear all types of different clothes, but being a model and a student can sometimes be a challenge.

“It’s so hard,” Hernton said. “The lady who I work for, she has practices every Sunday, so all last semester I was going home [to St. Louis] every Sunday and sometimes she would just shoot an email to be back at rehearsal Friday, so I would have to drop everything to go to rehearsal. It’s just really hard. I’m trying to get back into the groove of things after coming back from New York.”

With Phillips being a senior, it is also hard preparing to graduate soon while at the same time having a fast-paced career.

“Aw man, it’s wearing on me,” Phillips said. “I work full time, I go to school full time and the days that I do have off I’m

modeling. It’s a lot, but I kind of like the fast pace. I’m always doing something, hardly sleeping. I would rather prepare myself for that now than be surprised later.”

Trying to balance is hard for both, but they do offer advice to anyone trying to make it in modeling.

“Research casting calls, just go. You never know what they will like and what they won’t like,” Phillips said. “Don’t be afraid. Never be afraid because you might have a unique look that they like, and you will never know until you try. Don’t be afraid to get out there.”

Hernton said that models trying to get started in the fashion world should be aware of scams and try not to fall into traps.

“Don’t pay anything,” Hernton said. “You don’t ever have to pay to be a model. If the agency wants you but they are trying to make you pay this enormous amount of money to be in their agency, don’t do it. You’re going to have to pay some money to get pictures, but you should never have to pay a lump sum of money just to be with their agency. My other advice is just to stick with it, it’s so easy just to say, ‘For-get it, I give up,’ but just network and get out there.”

Phillips is majoring in advertising and will graduate in May. She plans to move to either New York or California to try to get an internship and begin in her career.

Hernton is in her second year majoring in fashion merchandising. After she gra-duates she wants to possibly relocate to Chicago because she has dreams of beco-ming a stylist.

“I just want to be in fashion.” Hernton said. “I love it.”


ST. LOUIS-BASED BAND IS MADE UP OF MEMBERS FROM ALL OVER MISSOURI

SOUTHEAST students in Stockholm Smile


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Above: Scott Menzel, Below: (left) Matt Bonasch and Kowan Turner Submitted photos

St. Louis-based band hopes to grow local fan baseJ.C. REEVES ARROW REPORTER

The St. Louis-based band Stockholm Smile formed in 2010 from the remnants of other local bands.

“[Stockholm Smile] actually came together from a bunch of the St. Louis local bands,” guitarist and Southeast Missouri State University junior Scott Menzel said. “We all grew up together, played shows together and stuff like that. Then we just kind of got a best-of type of deal. We got a little super-group going, and we’re pretty happy with it.”

Stockholm Smile, composed of Men-zel, Drew Lance on vocals, Matt Bonasch on guitar, Blake Boyster on bass and Kowan Turner on drums, previously worked with Wentzville, Mo., based independent record label Moonspinner Records.

“They [Moonspinner Records] basica-lly find young talent, work with them, show them the ropes, how to get stuff done, how to write good music and stuff like that,” Menzel said. “And give a lot of really hel-pful tips, while not taking away from your goals.”

Stockholm Smile is using kickstarter.com to attempt to fund an album they plan to record this summer. Kickstarter is a fun-ding platform that helps musicians, artists, film and game creators and other projects through donations from people who want to see the work become a reality.

“There was a short time where we were talking to another label,” Menzel said. “They were a subcategory of a really big

label right now, especially in the heavier scene, but we just kind of drifted away and decided we wanted to do this kickstar-ter thing and get up on our feet on our own before we put it in yet another person’s hands.”

The funding through kickstarter is an all-or-nothing approach.

“It’s less risk for everyone,” the kickstar-ter website states. “If you need $5,000, it’s tough having $1,000 and a bunch of peo-ple expecting you to complete a $5,000 project.”

Stockholm Smile plans to record their upcoming full-length album with Matthew Amelung from Encapsulated Studios, who just recorded popular St. Louis band Story of the Year’s new album and has recorded many other popular bands from St. Louis.

“If there’s even a somewhat big name out of St. Louis, they go through this guy,” Men-zel said. “He does a fantastic job and for pretty cheap, too.”

Each member of Stockholm Smile has different musical influences, ranging from alternative rock, to blues and even gos-pel. The multiple influences helped set the band’s sound apart from other bands’ genres. Stockholm Smile is also heavily

influenced by bands such as Story of the Year, Anberlin, Saosin and many St. Louis bands.

Stockholm Smile has been able to share the stage with a few pretty popular bands.

“A couple of months ago we were able to play with Hurt and Smile Empty Soul,” Menzel said. “Another big one we’ve pla-yed with is a band called At A Loss out of California.”

Two of the five members of Stockholm Smile currently attend Southeast, and another has previously attended the uni-versity. The band is also featured on the stu-dent-run radio station RAGE 103.7. They are looking to expand their fan base in the Southeast Missouri area.

Stockholm Smile is able to stay together as a band despite various members being scattered throughout Missouri.

“We usually have certain weekends set out to practice,” Menzel said. “We’ll get together and just lock ourselves in the base-ment to get our stuff tight, especially before a show.”

Stockholm Smile is able to write and edit songs through the internet, by use of Skype, Facetime and by emailing each other diffe-rent recorded parts of new songs.

As a band, Stockholm Smile really only has one main goal, and that is to keep things fun.

“The biggest thing that we go for is to not take the fun out of it,” Menzel said. “We just really like to play the music that we want to hear and have a kick-ass time doing it. That’s pretty much the only goal that we’ve ever set.”

“The biggest thing that we go for is to not take the fun out of it.” Scott Menzel

PERCUSSION ENSEMBLEThe Southeast Missouri State University Percussion Ensemble will present its annual spring concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Donald C. Bedell Performance Hall.+


LUNCH AT LAURIE’S IS HELD FROM 11 A.M. TO 1 P.M. EVERY WEDNESDAY

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Cape Girardeau woman offers students free homemade lunch each weekLunch at Laurie’s began in September 2011ANDREW TYAHLA STAFF WRITER

Lunch at Laurie’s is a weekly event during which Southeast Missouri State University students can hang out, talk about life and get a free lunch at the home of Laurie White.

The event was born out of White’s desire to connect with the community as a whole. Once her husband, Tom White, got a job as the broadcast engineer in the Department of Mass Media at Southeast, she had found her audience.

“We were praying ‘How do we reach peo-ple?’” Laurie White said. “After Tom got the job at the university, I had the answer.”

Lunch at Laurie’s first started in Septem-ber 2011 after the Whites had their driveway expanded to accommodate the guests. Ini-tially, the core group consisted of members of Southeast’s In Touch Student Ministry and members of Bethel Assembly of God. Later

on, people started coming based upon word of mouth, with a current average of 15 to 20 attendees each week.

“We used to have 25 to 30 guests a week, including a large group of students from IT,” Laurie White said. “When they left, atten-dance fell to current levels. But I prefer this size of group because it is much easier to con-nect with our guests.”

While a lot of the early guests were from Bethel and IT, some people come without a religious background so discussions only occasionally have a religious tone.

“We want to provide a positive atmosphere for visitors, so we say that we talk about life,” Laurie White said.

Visitors are also given a chance to request future meals. According to Laurie White, some of the favorite menu items have inclu-ded lasagna, enchiladas, soup and sandwi-ches and a “super nacho bar.” Other kinds of food have included soul food, barbecue and Chinese. In addition, some students bring in dishes of their own.

“One time a student from China brought in homemade dumplings and a ‘hundred-year-old egg,’” Tom White said. “The egg was ebony black and did not look edible, but it tasted no different from a regular hard-boiled egg.”

According to the Whites, most of the meals turn out well, with only one occasion where it did not turn out as good.

“I think it might have been some sort of pasta, but I’m not sure exactly,” Laurie White said.

Lunch at Laurie’s is largely paid for out of pocket by the Whites. However, Bethel covers one meal each month and donations are welcome.

“We welcome anyone who wishes to come,” Laurie White said. “Some college stu-dents do not get home-cooked food very often and just get tired of dorm food. That may be why people come back so often.”

Lunch at Laurie’s is held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Wednesday because it is during the

university’s common hour. The event is loca-ted at the Whites’ home at 1016 N. West End Blvd. Students are welcome to come and go as they please during that time. The menu is available in advance on the event’s Facebook page.

Laurie White stirs beef stew at her home on Feb. 27. Photo by Rachel Weatherford

“Some college students do not get home-cooked food very often and just get tired of dorm food. That may be why people come back so often.” Laurie White

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FIVE OF THE 50 GREEK ORGANIZATIONS ON CAMPUS EMPHASIZE RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

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There are around 50 Greek organizations at Southeast Missouri State University, with classifications ranging from social to aca-demic and professional to service. Only five of the organizations base their values solely on religious beliefs like Alpha Theta Omega Christian Sorority Inc. and Sigma Omega Mu Christian Sorority Inc.

“Although we are a Greek letter organi-zation, we are a ministry first,” said Stepha-nie Bird, a member of Alpha Theta Omega Christian Sorority Inc. “Before someone sees our letters, or recognizes our colors, we want them to know that Jesus is Lord.”

Alpha Theta Omega Christian Sorority Inc. was founded at Southeast in March 2007 and rests its beliefs on its foundation scripture, Romans 1:16, which says, “For I am not asha-med of the Gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that belie-ves; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”

Bird said the purpose of Alpha Theta Omega is to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ through discipleship, fellowship and evangelism.

“Alpha Theta Omega has impacted my life on so many levels,” Bird said. “It would take hours to tell you each and every way. This organization has not only helped to streng-then my relationship with Christ, but it has given me a sisterhood out of this world.

“Every single woman in this ministry has a tremendous testimony. Many of my sisters have dealt with abuse, addictions, bad habits, low self-esteem, depression and so many other issues. But, now we can say ‘To God be

the glory.’”Bird said the faith-based sororities and fra-

ternities are underrepresented on campus. They are not here to judge, but to make peo-ple recognize that all have sinned and by the grace and mercy of God he has forgiven people.

Another faith-based sorority on campus is Sigma Omega Mu Christian Sorority Inc. It was founded at Southeast in April 2010 and has adopted the scripture Matthew 22:14. It says, “For many are called, but few are chosen.”

According to Sigma Omega Mu’s web-site, its purpose is “to honor those ladies that have shown strong ministry leadership skills, who have first served in their communities as volunteers and are not ready to go out into the highways and hedges to compel people to come to Christ.”

“There is no limit to where you are with

the Lord,” Crystal Vinson, president of Sigma Omega Mu, said. “When you join, we still want you to grow as well, so there is no stan-dard, as long as you have some kind of belief in the Lord.”

According to Vinson, with roughly around 10 to 12 members, her sorority may not have as many members as other Greek organiza-tions, but she believes the members represent their chapter well.

While Vinson is proud of how her chapter is represented and the standards they have, she believes the members could improve on the number of events they have on campus to get their chapter recognized.

Sigma Omega Mu recently had an event called “Girl Talk: My Black is Beautiful” on Feb. 28 to celebrate Black History month.

Vinson said they hope to have more events like this in the future.

“I’ve grown to really develop a sisterhood

with these girls,” Vinson said. “They are my sisters, and we have so much fun together. It’s also given me a place where I can wors-hip and love God with people that have the same interests that want to grow with me and help me grow. We kind of hold each other accountable.”

“Sigma Omega Mu has impacted my life greatly,” Melissa Hester, a member of Sigma Omega Mu, said. “It has made me a stronger woman, given me sisters I’ve never had and strengthened my faith in Christ.”

Each sorority has weekly meetings at a set time and place of their choice. To learn more information or ask questions, email Angela Spearman, Alpha Theta Omega Christian Sorority Inc. chapter president, at [email protected]. Contact Sigma Omega Mu Christian Sorority Inc. by emailing questions to [email protected].

“I’ve grown to really develop a sisterhood with these girls. They are my sisters, and we have so much fun together. It’s also given me a place where I can worship and love God with people that have the same interests that want to grow with me and help me grow. We kind of hold each other accountable.” Crystal Vinson

The women of Sigma Omega Mu Christian Sorority, Inc. pose before their event “Girl Talk” On Thursday, Feb. 18, located in the University Center’s Programs Lounge. Photo by Kelly Lu Holder

Visiting Truman State University professor juror for annual student exhibitELLEN FIKE ARROW REPORTER

The annual Juried Student Exhibition will be on display in the Southeast Missouri State University River Campus Art Gallery from Feb. 25 through April 3.

Kristin Powers Nowlin, the gallery coordinator, said that this exhibition helps the art department assess its program, so it is a win-win for the students and the faculty to “see how we mea-sure up against our peers — the students against each other and the faculty against similar programs.”

Russell Nelson, an associate professor of visual commu-nications and the art department chair at Truman State

University, will be the juror at this year’s competition and will also have a solo display of his own artwork. Nelson was selec-ted to be the juror by Louise Bodenheimer, a graphic design and illustration professor at Southeast.

Nelson said his overlying theme of his display is the “anti-que imagery of family.” He started this artwork as his thesis work when he attended Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan., for graduate school.

He was told to “define himself through his artwork,” and the pieces have now evolved into a family genealogy, and Nel-son also said he is now trying to figure out how to work himself into the pieces, as well.

“This is an outstanding opportunity for the students to have

an outside artist review their work,” Powers Nowlin said. “Each year we select a juror from a different area of specialization in the art department; this year it was the graphic design/illustra-tion area’s choice.”

Nelson will judge the pieces and select the award winners on April 2, and he came to campus on March 1 for the official opening of his solo exhibition. He will lecture about his work on April 3, and the Student Juried Exhibition will open in the museum on April 5.

“We are fortunate to have this as an annual event that is also displayed in the amazing exhibition space in the museum,” Nowlin said.

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Â 8 ARROW • week of March 6 - March 12, 2013 Â 9 ARROW • week of March 6 - March 12, 2013

Dr. Andrew Fulkerson teaches criminal justice courses . Photos by Drew Yount

When you’re driving you can’t look at

any scenery or any-thing, but when

you’re flying you can. There are some

days I can look on my right and see

the Mississippi River and I look on my left,

and I can see the edge of the Ozarks if I’m high enough.

Dr. Andrew Fulkerson

ars begin to pop as the pressure gets higher. Thin, white wisps of clouds flash by in the blink of an eye. There’s not a soul to see, just patches of land intersected with a never-ending maze of roads that fade off into the distance.

The pinpoint line of the river is almost unnoticeable. There’s no need to worry about stoplights turning red, the bumper-to-bumper traffic of rush hour or the overly cautious driver ahead going 10 under in this early-morning commute. All that lies ahead is air, miles and miles of open air.

For Dr. Andrew Fulkerson, a criminal justice professor at Southeast Missouri State University, this is a normal view on his ride to work — his ride being a 160-horsepower, four-seat Piper Cherokee Warrior airplane that cruises smoothly at 110 mph.

Fulkerson has made the 130-mile commute from Paragould, Ark.,to Cape Girardeau twice a week throughout his 10 years of teaching at Southeast, flying his plane whenever the weather allows.

“The commute is not that bad,” Fulkerson said. “I get to fly most of the time — probably 60 per-cent of the time. When I do get to drive, it gives me a chance to listen to music or listen to an audio book.”

Fulkerson said the drive time from his home to work is about two hours, but the fly time norma-lly averages about 50 minutes.

“Usually it’s faster coming [to campus] because the prevailing winds are out of the southwest, but every now and then that’s different,” Fulkerson said. “The fastest I’ve ever made it was like 38 or 39 minutes at a real good tailwind.”

Born into a family with a passion for aviation, Fulkerson had no choice but to love flying as well. His father was in aviation his entire life working as an instructor for the Air Force, an examiner and instructor for the Federal Aviation Agency and a crop duster. His mother has her pilot’s license as well.

With the help of his father and other instructors, Fulkerson earned his student pilot’s license at 16 years old, the youngest one can be to obtain a license.

A student license allowed Fulkerson to fly solo or with other licensed pilots, but that was not enough. A year later he moved on to his private pilot’s license, which allowed Fulkerson to have pas-sengers fly with him.

“I probably would’ve been disowned had I not learned how to fly,” Fulkerson said. “It was just one of those things that was expected that I learn how to fly, so it was great that I had that opportunity.”

Although flying always has been a big part of his life, Fulkerson has gone through spurts of flying frequently to hardly flying at all, he said.

“I always kept my medical certificate and my license up,” Fulkerson said. “I wasn’t really flying

much until I got the job here. I thought ‘This will work real well’, and so I’ve flown a lot the last few years.”

Fulkerson rented an airplane during his first couple of years at Southeast before he bought a plane in 2005 or 2006.

“There’s not a lot of airplanes for rent, at least there weren’t in Paragould, Ark.,” Fulkerson said. “So the first couple years it wasn’t difficult to [rent], but then it got to where it was becoming more of a problem to have access to an airplane that I could rent, so I bought one.”

Fulkerson is in a partnership with two other pilots in order to make the cost of ownership more affordable.

“They [co-owners] know that I want it to fly to Cape and one of them wants it on the weekend to do certain things and the other one is just trying to build up as many hours as they can, so it has worked out real well,” Fulkerson said. “It’s been a good partnership. It helps make it a lot more economical.”

Fulkerson flies to work when the weather conditions permit. When flying, the airplane has to be at least 800 feet off the ground, and the sky must be clear of clouds and bad weather.

“I try to avoid bad weather,” Fulkerson said. “You don’t want to get stuck in a storm. I’ve been in some really turbulent weather that I didn’t particularly like, just really bouncing around. It’s just hard to control the airplane. It’s like a ride at Disney World.”

Fulkerson said he usually flies between 5,500 feet and 7,500 feet above ground.Fulkerson lands his plane at Cape Girardeau Regional Airport, where he keeps an old car he

owns to make the drive to campus. Conveniently, there is an airport located about three miles from his home in Arkansas where he can store his airplane.

“The airport here [in Cape] is great,” Fulkerson said. “They’re wonderful. It’s a controlled airport, controlled air space. They’ve got a control tower. The people at Cape Aviation are really wonderful.”

Supervisor of Cape Aviation Derrick Irwin said he sees Fulkerson on a daily basis flying in and out of the airport.

Irwin compared Cape Aviation to a gas station for airplanes. It handles commercial airlines as well as general aviation, such as corporate jets and flyers like Fulkerson.

“It’s common to see people fly to work like he does,” Irwin said. “A lot of the businesses here have aircrafts here.”

Irwin explained a lot of medical professionals and executives for Drury Hotels stop in at Cape Aviation.

Cape Aviation averages 66 operations per day between commercial and general aviation and Fulkerson is just one among several others flying to work.

Fulkerson said he does not have any problems trying to land in Cape, except for once, which led to the only time he was late for class.

“I’ve only been late once, and that was because I misjudged the fog,” Fulkerson said. “The Cape airport in the fall — there is about a month, a three-to-four-week period, where it’s real suscepti-ble to fog early in the morning. There had been times when I would take off, and there had been fog here [Cape], but I felt pretty confident that it would burn off by the time I got here.

“I did that several times, and it worked out fine. One time, it didn’t and I requested permission — clearance — for landing and they said no. They gave a negative. I landed in Sikeston and somebody came and picked me up. That’s the only time that’s happened.”

Cape Girardeau is not the only place Fulkerson has flown to, though. Being on the Arkansas Edu-cation Television Network commission, Fulkerson flies to the commission meetings at its head-quarters in Conway, Ark. He is also the coordinator for Southeast’s online criminal justice graduate program, which is in cooperation with Missouri Southern University in Joplin, Mo. Fulkerson flies to those meetings as well.

The farthest trip Fulkerson has made was to El Paso, Texas, shortly after he earned his pilot’s license.

Fulkerson plans to continue flying to campus as long as he can because, although he enjoys dri-ving, flying is more relaxing to him.

“When you’re driving you can’t look at any scenery or anything, but when you’re flying you can,” Fulkerson said. “There are some days I can look on my right and see the Mississippi River, and I look on my left and I can see the edge of the Ozarks if I’m high enough.”

In order to keep a pilot’s license, the license holder must complete a full-body physical every two years to ensure he or she is eligible to fly.

Fulkerson has reason to not be completely confident he will pass his next exam due to surgeries he had last year.

“I had three eye surgeries last year, and I’m cautiously optimistic that I’ll pass my medical exam,” Fulkerson said. “If I don’t, then I may not be flying anywhere, but I think I will.”

MARISSA FAWCETT STAFF WRITER

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Bird’s Eye ViewSoutheast professor Dr. Andrew Fulkerson uses his hobby of flying planes as a way to commute from his home in Paragould, Ark., to campus.

Dr. Andrew Fulkerson co-owns a Piper Cherokee Warrior airplane. Submitted photos


IF NEW MODEL IS USED, SOUTHEAST COULD LOSE 20 PERCENT OF FUNDING DUE TO LOW FRESHMAN RETENTION RATE

LOW retention rate could result in less funds


RETAIN

Statistics found on semo.edu. Graphic illustration by Kelly Lu Holder

Improvements coming after model reveals university’s low freshmen retention rateBRIAN ASHER ARROW REPORTER

Retention rates for students in their first year as full-time degree-seeking students at Southeast Missouri State University will need to improve in order for the univer-sity to receive full funding from the Missouri Department of Higher Education if a pro-posed performance-based funding model is used.

The students who fall under this distinc-tion are those for whom Southeast is the first college they have attended and who are enrolled in enough classes to be full-time students. In order for these students to be considered retained students, they need to return to Southeast and take at least one class during the fall semester following their first fall semester. This is a national defini-tion of student retention.

Southeast met four out of five perfor-mance targets in the proposed perfor-mance-funding model. This model would dictate funding received by universities from the Missouri Department of Higher Educa-tion in addition to funding the universities already receive. The one goal missed was in freshman retention rate, officially referred to as “student success and progress.”

Based on the proposed model, missing one of these goals would mean Southeast would only receive 80 percent of the fun-ding it otherwise could have been receiving. The total amount of money that Southeast would lose because of this would be nego-tiated and approved by Missouri legislators later this spring, according to Dr. Debbie Below, dean of students and vice president for enrollment management and student success.

“At that time, we will know our actual level of appropriations and whether or not the performance-funding model will be used,” Below said.

The statistics used for this process are collected over three-year periods, and in 2009 Southeast experienced a steep drop in freshmen retention rate. Retention rate climbed every year from 2005 through 2008, reaching a peak of 74.1 percent in 2008, before falling to 69.4 percent in 2009. The numbers have risen since 2009, and in 2011,

which is the last year for which data is avai-lable, it was at 73.7 percent. The current goal at Southeast is to reach a 75 percent reten-tion rate.

“I do believe that’s an aspirational goal,” Below said. “When we look at institutions similar to ours, our benchmark institu-tions, other moderately selective institutions that pride themselves on providing access to education and being affordable I rarely, if ever, see 75 percent. But we’ve come very close to 75 percent. We still believe it’s achie-vable, but it will take the whole institution focusing on student success to achieve that.”

One issue with retaining freshmen is that some students fail to qualify for financial aid after their first year. Below said it is key for freshmen to know what their minimum grade point average to retain financial aid is so they can work to get their grades where they need to be.

“Roughly 75 percent of our students recei-ved some sort of financial aid to go to school, so if they aren’t able to achieve the GPA that they need to retain that aid, then there’s a good chance we might lose them the next year,” Below said. “Whether that be a Pell grant, a student loan, a scholarship, a work program, whatever it is, they just need to know their minimum GPA.”

Trent Ball, associate dean of students, will chair a committee to identify ways student retention rate can be improved.

“We’re going to look at our best practices at the institution here and our peer institu-tions,” Ball said. “We’ll make recommenda-tions to the administrative council on what steps can be taken further.”

Ball said within the committee, “Every division is represented. We have somebody from every college, every major division, every group that has their hands in the pot.”

Below said there may be a “sky is falling fear” about retention rates, but it is unfounded.

“The retention rate is improving, and it’s actually very competitive for schools like us,” Below said. “So I’m glad we’re doing what we’re doing.”

Below said this performance funding is about maintaining what the university is already doing and “being in a mode of conti-nuous improvement.”

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STUDENTS PRODUCE ABOUT A HALF CUP OF WASTE. CHARTWELLS’ GOAL IS TO REDUCE IT TO A QUARTER CUP OF WASTE PER STUDENT

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The pink slip: Students sometimes have problems receiving their mailANDREA GILS COPY EDITOR

Many students run excited to their mailboxes to see what their friends or parents have sent. Unfortunately, that excitement can fade away when they open the mailbox and see the pink slip the resident assistant leaves is not there.

That “pink slip” is a piece of 3-by-2 inches neon pink paper that the resident assistant on duty, who is on the front desk when a package is delivered, places inside a student’s mailbox when the package is too big to fit in it.

Multimedia journalism major Jacob Haun said that, as a residence assistant, he had one instance where a letter was delivered off the typical delivery time frame.

“I had a letter come in one time that was really, really late, like we are talking about three weeks late and it was already here, but it came from someplace far away like from South Dakota,” Haun said. “But it was ridicu-lously late, and it had gotten lost in the mail in central receiving.”

Haun said he has heard of residents on campus who said they had packages come in on a Saturday afternoon and they won’t get them until Tuesday or Wednesday.

Public relations major Mallory Olwig left her medicine and make up bag at her home

in St. Louis and her mom sent a package to her with the contents, which arrived on a Saturday.

“I had to call and go pick it up because they forgot it in the mail room and sent the mail truck out without it and the next day was Sun-day and I wasn’t going to get it then,” Olwig said.

The University Receiving and Mail Servi-ces office picks up and delivers intra-campus mail, distributes mail and packages to resi-dence halls coming from USPS, FedEx and UPS. According to the University Receiving and Mail Services manager, Charles Hirsch, a university employee picks up the mail from the post office at 9:30 a.m. every day and deli-very to campus buildings begins around 1 p.m. When mail is delivered, outgoing mail is picked up to deliver the following day. Deli-very to the residence halls takes place from 10:45 to 11 a.m.

The mail distribution on campus is divided into three different routes: north, south and central campus. Hirsch said the south route includes the River Campus, the Law Enfor-cement Academy and Kent Library. The cen-tral route goes from Grauel to Scully Buil-ding and will include Academic Hall when it is reopened. The north route includes the Show Me Center, Dempster Hall, Otto and Della

Seabaugh Polytechnic Building and the Stu-dent Recreation Center North.

According to Hirsch, private mail servi-ces cannot deliver any packages once there is no one in the front desk of the hall and the buildings are locked. If this happens, the company keeps the package or mail in the establishment until staff from Univer-sity Receiving picks it up the following Mon-day. The buildings that private mail servi-ces can get into are Towers Complex, Merick Hall and Vandiver Hall. These can receive mail on Saturday and will be affected by the USPS change in the system, effective in August, where mail will be delivered from Monday through Friday only, while package delivery will remain Monday through Saturday.

If a package from UPS or FedEx is delivered directly to the residence hall, the employee at the front desk signs for the receiving of the package but no bar code scan is made. If the package is received at University Receiving, it gets scanned. This way, University Receiving can easily track where a package has been and where it should be.

Hirsch said there are also three places on campus for late pick-ups, which are Memorial Hall, Kent Library and Dempster Hall. Mail sent from these locations is picked up bet-ween 3 and 3:30 p.m.

According to Hirsch, there have been mini-mal mail delivery complaints through the years.

“This year I can’t think of any issue other than someone moved from one dorm to another and the mail got delivered to the old room,” Hirsch said.

Sophomore and psychology major, Brianna Wahl, was supposed to receive home-made cookies from her parents from Breese, Ill., for Valentine’s Day, but instead received her cookies on Feb. 19, six days after the pac-kage had arrived on campus. Her parents tracked the package and saw it arrived on campus on Feb 13. The following week, Wahl said she went to the front desk and asked for the package her parents had sent.

Wahl said she was told the package had been sitting there for some days and that she should have picked it up earlier. The problem was that Wahl said she never received the pink slip that the residence hall places in the mailbox to notify residents when they have big package to pick up.

“They said that they gave me a slip but maybe I pulled out my newspaper and I didn’t see it, or maybe it fell backwards into the mail room. … Maybe I looked over it or maybe they looked over it in the mail room,” Wahl said.

Southeast students eat at Towers Cafe on Monday afternoon. Photo by Drew Yount

Chartwells and ag department unite to reduce waste by compostingMARISSA FAWCETT STAFF WRITER

Pizza crusts, half-eaten turkey sandwiches, browned apple cores and crumpled, dirty napkins — a few of the things that might be seen on students’ plates as they exit Towers Cafe. Continuing conversa-tions with friends and carelessly tip-ping their plates into the garbage cans, students carry on with their day while the trash bags carry on the waste.

Imagine this same daily ritual happening nearly 1,500 times a day, seven days a week. The amount of trash builds up as fast as the trash bags can be changed, which hap-pens approximately 15 times a day. By the way, that is without adding in the waste from other on-campus dining establishments including Olive’s, Subway, Rowdy’s and the seven in the University Center.

“I think it’s really sad,” registered dietitian Laura Vollink said. “I think that students aren’t even aware or don’t care how much they’re was-ting. I mean you can go and say, ‘Well, kids in Africa are less fortu-nate,’ and it’s sad that we see all of this waste and people don’t have enough. I see whole pieces of fruit come back, and we can’t put it back out and serve it once it’s on somebody’s plate, you know, so we have to throw that away. You know how sad that is?”

Realizing the immense amount of waste created each day, Chart-wells came up with Project Clean Plate, an initiative to help reduce food waste by students.

Chartwells employees took stu-dents’ plates as they were exiting

Towers Cafeteria last semester and measured the total amount of waste students were throwing away. They divided the total amount of waste by the number of students coming through the cafeteria to get the ave-rage amount of waste per student.

“Basically, with Project Clean Plate we are making the students aware of how much food that they are actually wasting on their plates so when you come with your plate, you’re like, ‘You’re going to mea-sure how much waste that I have?’” Vollink said. “It makes you feel a little guilty.”

Chartwells’ goal is to have a quar-ter cup of waste per student. When they measured last semester, the waste was at a half cup per student.

“So we’re not quite there [to a quarter cup] yet,” Vollink said. “It’s also our job to help make sure that they’re [students] aware of why we’re doing it first of all and even the benefits of it that we will have.”

Vollink hopes that with Project Clean Plate helping to cut back on waste, it will also lead to students realizing how to build their plate right and allow Chartwells’ food costs to decrease.

Vollink advises students to take one plate at a time and to build it conservatively.

“We also have started serving our proteins,” Vollink said. “We star-ted last spring. At first, students were not very happy with us, you know. It’s still all you can eat. You can come back up and get as much as you want, but I think that’s hel-ped with the waste part of it and the overeating part of it, so I’m happy in both respects, I guess. It’s either way they’re wasting less. So we’ve seen

a reduction in our food costs from that too because kids aren’t, you know, wasting as much.”

There is always going to be stu-dents that have a little bit of waste on their plates, though, so Chart-wells wanted to find a better way to get rid of it, other than throwing it away.

This is why they teamed up with department of agriculture assistant professor Dr. Sven Svenson, who was more than willing to take the waste off of Chartwells’ hands.

Through the Charles Nemanick Alternative Agriculture Garden, the campus compost garden located behind the Abe Stuber Track and Field Complex, some of Chartwells’ waste will be turned into a usable soil amendment.

“You are taking organic waste that is essentially unstable and making it stable,” Svenson said.

The workers at the compost gar-den will start to gradually accept some of Chartwells’ waste in March

to gage how much it can handle and then adjust the amount based on how well it goes, Svenson said.

The waste items the compost garden will initially be accepting are back-of-the-house products, paper napkins and coffee grounds.

“It seems like it’s not that much,” Svenson said. “But a five-gallon bucket a day times a month, now you have a pile.”

Svenson explained that the waste will be transported from the Towers cafeteria kitchen by horticulture students three days a week to the compost garden. At the compost garden, there is a large, wooden box built for the waste to be dumped in.

In the box, there will be a tem-porary solid bottom layer made up of something like newspaper, a second layer of brown compost, which is compost made of things like leaves and sticks, and the waste from Chartwells will be added to the top.

The key ingredient to speeding

up the compost cycle is worms at the very bottom that will eat through the waste.

“We use red wriggler worms,” Svenson said. “They’re often used for fishing. They’re very active and work quickly. They work up to the fresh food, which will be at the top of the box.”

With the use of the worms, the waste will take about four to six weeks to be made into a soil amendment that will later be used to grow vegetables and fruits on site.

The Charles Nemanick Alterna-tive Agriculture Garden grows in-ground vegetables, blackberries, raspberries, table grapes, tomatoes and blueberries.

The plan is to get Chartwells’ waste for the compost garden in exchange for vegetables to serve in the cafeteria.

“Cherry tomatoes for salad we can supply for a good while,” Sven-son said.


ASKAPPROXIMATELY 30 STUDENTS WILL VISIT THE CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES TO WORK WITH RESEARCHERS

STUDENTS travel to Washington, D.C.


Students learn about strategies and researching over breakSAVANNA MAUE ONLINE EDITOR

Spring Break is a time to relax for a lot of stu-dents. But for some it is an opportunity to tra-vel to Washington, D.C., and gain experience that would prepare them for their future careers.

Dr. Willie Redmond is a professor of finance and the adviser for the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He has been the CSIS faculty adviser for the last five years. Every Spring Break he and approxima-tely 30 students travel to the nation’s capital to work with experienced researchers, improve their skills in strategic planning and hear some influential national speakers.

More information on the Center for Strate-gic and International Studies can be found at semo.edu/CSIS.

Q: What is CSIS?A: CSIS stands for the Center for Strategic and International Studies. What it is, is basically a non-partisan think tank in Washington, D.C., and for the past seven or so years Southeast would send about 30 or so students up there over Spring Break.

Q: How did you get started with this?A: For the last five years I have been the advi-ser to the program, and as the lead instructor it is always me and the other instructors who are basically teaching the course who go up to Washington, D.C., but I am the permanent person in the program.

Q: How did they get started with this idea to go to Washington, D.C.?A: Really it just got started from a partners-hip between President [Kenneth W.] Dobbins and this guy named Erik Peterson, who used to be in CSIS. They basically met in a confe-rence, President Dobbins invited him to cam-pus and he came and spoke here on campus, and from that they just started discussions on CSIS events and that they would like to bring students to Washington, D.C., to explain what they do a little bit. And of course we jumped on that opportunity, and as a result Southeast is the only university at all who has a week-long program with CSIS. We are very unique in that respect.

Q: Does the presi-dent still have involve-ment with the group?A: What happens is that deans from every college and the president get to make nomi-nees. They accept applications for this

particular program, and each dean picks two or three and then the president picks another 10 or so, the numbers are kind of flexible. They are the ones who pick applications for the program. That’s kind of all the involve-ment that they really have. But, the president comes up at the end of the week and basica-lly does a reception on the last day that we are there. The president really doesn’t do much except for helping the selection process and so forth and stuff like that.

Q: Does the President come to Washing-ton, D.C., with you? Or does he meet you the day you come home?A: He goes to Washington, D.C., What we do is we usually leave on Sunday and come back on Friday. But this year the reception is going to be on a Wednesday night because the pre-sident has to be back in Cape Girardeau on Thursday. But one of the later nights in the week what we do is invite all of our alums that are there in the Washington, D.C., area to a reception at the CSIS offices that evening. We have a number of Southeast graduates who are doing some really wonderful things in the Washington, D.C., area. But the president is there to preside over that alumni event also. That’s kind of at the end of our program while we are still at Washington, D.C.,

Q: This is all with the CSIS program?A: What we really do while we’re there is, again, CSIS is a think tank where they have a lot of researchers who advise the Congress, advise the [United States] president and, in fact, if you turn on “Meet the Press” or “Face the Nation” or something like that on Sunday morning you will see a lot of these people that they are talking about — like what’s happe-ning in Afghanistan, Russia, things like that. But they are some of the leading researchers in the nation who advise our government and such. During that week we are there with peo-ple who we very well may see on “Face the Nation” on Sundays. They are sitting in a little smaller ring with us students talking to them about different issues and such.

We don’t have our agenda yet for this year, but they are supposed to be sending it to me any day now. We may have one-hour blocks for most of the week, but then we have another interactive part where the students are given some background material that they have to read before we go up there and then other things that they are given while we are there. The students have to play act as the [United States] president’s advisers or if they are in the United Nations and have to decide on something like that.

So part of it is people speaking to us, but

a lot of it is interactive and our students are allowed to give a presentation of their own that CSIS people can answer. That is the structure during the week.

Q: Are students normally satisfied with their expe-rience? What benefits do they get from it?A: I would say satisfied is an understatement. They are usually absolutely amazed by the program and what we usually hear is that, you know, we build this up and tell them how impressive the program is and in turn the stu-dents come to us and say, ‘Wow! You didn’t tell me it was going to be that good.’ And basi-cally we are talking about these people who just got back from Russia or something like that, and they are sitting in a room with us, not even a stage or anything but at a table just discussing things with us and talking with us. Everybody is just so impressed with the pro-gram we have.

While we are up there we have full days on Sunday, Monday and Wednesday from 9 a.m to 5 p.m. and then on Tuesday and Thurs-day we have time to explore Washington D.C. a little bit because they have museums and all kinds of other things that we don’t want to keep them away from by having them stay in cooped up all day long.

So really it is enriching for the students in that they get to see a little bit of Washington, D.C., life also.

Q: What would you say

is their favorite part of the whole experience?A: Their favorite part is just the speakers that they have come in, and I would say bet-ween two things it is just being impressed by the speakers who are talking with them and they are impressed by the inner activity of it. Where they get to play act as a part of the Uni-ted Nations or being in the president’s cabi-net and things like that. It really makes them think more than they would normally do to know that ‘OK, I have someone from CSIS that is going to act like he or she is the presi-dent and they are going to expect some hard politics from you.’ And so they really love the fact that they are challenged in that way.

Q: You said the deans pick the students? Or can anyone apply?A: Anyone can apply, but there are requi-rements. They need to have a 3.0 GPA, and we kind of look for junior students because we don’t want them to do the program and then walk away from Southeast in May. We want them to do the program and still stick around for a year, so the requirement is 60 to 90 hours. They also must have leaders-hip abilities on campus. So the deans choose from two thirds of the people, and the [uni-versity] president has 10 wildcard spots that he fills himself. As you can imagine, it is very competitive.

Q: Is there anything else you want to say?A: From my perspective this is probably my favorite thing that I do on campus because it is just wonderful to see these great stu-dents that we have. It is wonderful to see how impressed the people at CSIS and the speakers are with the students. It is just ama-zing how many people stay an hour and talk with us, and as they walk out the door I shake their hands and thank them for coming and as I shake their hands they say ‘Wow, these are better questions then I get from people in Congress, from people in congressional aids’ and things like that. They are just really impressed with the knowledge of our stu-dents and how they handle themselves on the big stage in front of some really impor-tant people.

Beside CSIS and other composites where we do work, other universities are very impressed with us that we have this program with CSIS. They try to hone in elements, they suggested that CSIS allow four or five other people from other universities to come in but CSIS is really adamant about just keeping us because they are so impressed with us over the years, and I think that is just wonderful for Southeast.

Dr. Willie Redmond is a professor of finance as well as the adviser for the Center for Strategic and International Studies . Photo by Drew Yount

What are your plans for Spring Break?

Kade Randol Probably just spend time with my girlfriend Denae.

Denae Payne To see Kade, my boyfriend. Jonnetta Alexander I’m going home to relax, watch TV, probably babysit a little bit and hang with my boo.

Milyra Tubbs I’m going to work at the zoo at Lakeside Cafe — come visit, and I’m going to do my weave again and chill with my snake Rocky Redbone.

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TWO SOUTHEAST VERSIONS OF POPULAR DANCE VIDEOS HAVE 11,000 VIEWS EACH

STUDENT produces dance videos


SHAKE

Reggie Miller works on production in his room. Photo by Daniel McElreath

Southeast athlete produces videosReggie Miller has made Southeast versions of the Gangnam Style and Harlem Shake videosJACOB HAUN ARROW REPORTER

Driving by the library in February it might seem surprising to see a bunch of students in crazy clothing and costumes dancing around and on the fountain in front of Kent Library. People likely would be more surpri-sed to have seen that it was being recorded.

Southeast Missouri State University joi-ned the likes of countless other churches, schools, banks and organizations that have created Harlem Shake videos to go on You-Tube. One of the masterminds of the project was Southeast track athlete Reggie Miller.

Miller, a sophomore, has made his pre-sence known while at Southeast. Miller was recently named the Ohio Valley Conference track and field athlete of the year and hel-ped the Southeast men to a second-place finish at the Indoor Track Championships in February. Aside from his track abilities, which include holding the school high jump record, he likes to create movies.

However, many people don’t know about his creative side. He has published more than 50 videos to his YouTube channel called “ezoen.”

“These videos are just random,” Miller said. “We decide that we want to make

something, and then we do it.”This was the case with the “Harlem Shake-

SEMO Edition” video. Miller said that he and his friends invited about 2,000 people using Facebook and by having friends contact other friends. Students were told to meet at the library and dress in crazy outfits.

“It was like a real job. We had students in charge of filming, people in charge of the audio and I was in charge of making people get there and their positions while dancing,” Miller said.

Somewhere between 100 and 200 stu-dents showed up to the event, and the video was shot from trucks in the middle of Nor-mal Street.

Miller said that he has a real passion when it comes to working with film. His major currently is mechanical engineering, but he plans to change that to pursue his love of film.

“If I could have any job, I’d like to work

on movies like ‘The Hobbit,’” Miller said. “I want to follow cinematography and work on actual films.”

Miller said that it has been making films like the Harlem Shake that has helped him decide that.

“With film, it combines all the things that I like,” Miller said. “I love music, I can write music and you use problem solving because you have a problem or a creation and you can make it on film.”

Miller has no plans for future films, but he said that ideas are brewing. So far Miller’s videos have been popular on campus. The “Harlem Shake-SEMO Edition” was publis-hed on YouTube in February and already has more than 11,000 views.

An earlier creation of his, the “SEMO Gangnam Style,” was published last year and has about 11,000 views as well.

Miller employs the talents of many Southeast students when he creates videos,

and they are heavily featured throughout both videos.

The Harlem Shake has become a trend in popular culture lately as it has been pop-ping up all over YouTube. It was started by a group on the Internet and has been growing in popularity ever since.

The Harlem Shake, while originally a dance that is about 4 minutes long, has been made into a 30-second clip that usually fea-tures one person dancing and others joi-ning in.

At one point, according to the Huffington Post, nearly 4,000 videos were being added to YouTube per day. People get pretty creative when they are making them.

The University of Georgia swim team created one where they are doing the Harlem Shake underwater, and there is also a ver-sion of the video that features members of the U.S. Army.

“With film, it combines all the things that I like. I love music, I can write music and you use problem solving because you have a problem or a creation and you can make it on film.” Reggie Miller

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BENNY DORRIS A-TEAM MEMBER

A: I’m excited to spend my Spring Break in Washington, D.C., par-ticipating in the CSIS program that Southeast offers. Myself,

along with about 30 other students from various majors and backgrounds, will spend a week at the Center for Strategic and Inter-national Studies listening to speakers, parti-cipating in conversations and exploring the nation’s capitol.

The CSIS is a think tank that provides bipartisan policy solutions and insights regarding global issues to the nation’s deci-sion makers. These individuals are former ambassadors, senators, economists and cabinet members, and they want to talk with Southeast students.

This program is a huge opportunity for students each year. It’s a learning expe-rience in many different ways. Not only will the seminars at the CSIS be eye-opening enough, but we’ll also have ample time to explore all the monuments, museums and landmarks around Washington, D.C. The program requires that students enroll in a UI 400 course, so along with everything else,

my classmates and I will receive three credit hours toward our degrees.

Why spend a week in Washington doing coursework when I could be on a beach in Florida or Texas? Well first, it won’t be the standard classroom experience. I’ll mainly be sharing in discussions, with no reports nor quizzes — just a short presentation at the end of the semester. I’ve spoken to other Southeast students that have gone, and the recurring message is that it’s one of the best experiences one could have in college. I’ll take their word for it.

I’ve only been to the capitol once before, for two short days, but it was one of the most interesting places I’ve been. I really look forward to exploring the National Mall, the Smithsonian Institutes and the city in greater depth. So forfeiting a week on a beach seems like a small trade off for the experience I’ll have this Spring Break.

KELLY FARRELL A-TEAM MEMBER

A: I have never been on a trip for Spring Break before. Every year I usually go home and work so I can pay for any bills that I

can. Even in high school, I would usually be playing sports or working during this time. This year, I was able to make payments, save up and will finally go on the trip that I have heard so much about — Spring Break in Panama City, Fla.

My roommate confronted me around September and said she wanted to get a group of girls together for the trip. We ended up getting two rooms of six together from girls in my sorority. We made payments every month and the final one in December. The total bill for seven days and seven nights is $459.

We are staying at the Summit Condo-minium Resort right on the beach. Accor-ding to everyone else that I have talked to at Southeast, they are staying at the exact same place.

I have heard all the wild stories about this trip, as well as the scary ones. I hear about dancing on stage and all of the drinking that

goes on. I have also heard about some of the scary events that somehow my friends have made it out of alive.

I have always wanted the cute picture of me and my friends on the beach and in the sun. All of my friends keep telling me how excited they are for me to go on this trip. All of my roommates have already been there and know what to expect. We have been die-ting and working out all year in prepara-tion for this one week. All of us are terrified to look like fat, beached whales in all of the pictures.

I have a lot of expectations, worries and exciting thoughts about this trip. Most of the people that come back from Panama look like they need another vacation for their vacation. The pictures come back every year and whatever happens at PCB, very rarely seems to stay at PCB. I hope it all stays there this year.

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A: As a sophomore, I am happy to say that the time is near for me to enjoy my second Spring Break in college, and

by “enjoy” I really mean relaxing in my own home where I feel most comfortable. To me, Spring Break literally means taking a “break” that just so happens to be perfectly posi-tioned during a time where it is truly nee-ded. Knowing that I am going home for break eases my mind through midterm week because I know that after the tests are done I get to kick my feet up and really just take a break from all of the school work, stress and repetition of my busy weeks. By sta-ying home for break I gain the benefits of not having to worry about planning a mini vaca-tion by packing, booking a hotel and forking out a lot of money for gas or other things I would need if I went on a trip like many other college kids often do.

Not only this, but the thought of going home makes me excited to see my family, whom I haven’t seen very much since win-ter break!

With all of my track meets and practices, it can be difficult to find a good time to go home, so Spring Break is the perfect oppor-tunity. When I go home I often look forward to the simple things like sleeping in my own bed, eating food from my own fridge, laughing with my family and even driving around my hometown and seeing all the familiar faces and places. If I am lucky, I even get to catch up and hang out with some of my good friends I haven’t seen in what seems like forever. While I’m away at school, I tend to miss being home quite often. However, I have found that sometimes all you need is a little time at home to get you by and to lift your spirits just enough to help you finish the school year out strong and successfully.

BILLY SCHMITZ A-TEAM MEMBER

A:There are many options for college students on Spring Break. For break last year, I chose to stay in Cape Girar-

deau and work. The main reason I did this was because I could use the paycheck that came from working 35 hours. It was easily doable because I didn’t have classes. Also, I was already paying rent at my apartment to be in Cape, so I figured I may as well make use of that. Additionally, my job that I wor-ked at home did not need me, so that helped make the decision, too. For that break, I went home to see my family the weekend prior to break starting and came back to Cape on Sunday evening to start work on Monday. It really was neat to see Cape without the majority of the Southeast students around. It was a slower, different town. If you live on campus, I guess you do not have that option because you would have to pay per night to stay while the residence halls were closed.

Over break in the past, I have actually done a missions trip and a vacation with my family. Obviously, those are also great

options! But students in the residence hall are mostly underclassmen and enjoy spen-ding time at home, anyway. As you get fur-ther into college, it seems the general stu-dent sees the frequency of their trips home start to diminish. My advice to under-classmen would be to enjoy time at home with your family and friends while you have fewer obligations than you will as you get older.

This year, I am actually planning on going home to substitute teach at my high school. I’ll get to spend some quality time with family and friends from home, make some good money over five days and see some old teachers and acquaintances from high school and catch up with everyone. I am rea-lly looking forward to it.

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Power of Women luncheon provides student networkingELLEN FIKE ARROW REPORTER

Networking is a powerful thing for a college student, and Southeast Missouri State Uni-versity wants to help students expand their connections. Southeast will hold a Power of Women luncheon for the women and men of the community.

An exhibition of local businesses, student organizations and community groups will also be a part of the event to help students, faculty and community members make some new connections.

The main theme of the luncheon is to highlight the philanthropy of women and entrepreneurs. The event also will honor Title IX, which prohibits sexual discrimina-tion in education. The Southeast Missouri University Foundation, Southeast Athle-tics and Women Inspiring Entrepreneurship (WIN!) will sponsor the event.

Dr. Erin Fluegge Woolf, a business profes-sor at Southeast and a member of WIN!, said that the goal of the event is to honor women and provide networking opportunities for students.

“We would love to have anybody in the community who wants to learn about the awesome things going on at SEMO,” Woolf said.

According to Woolf, the event is not just going to be focused on the female students but the connections as a whole.

The keynote speaker at the luncheon will be Dr. Kala Stroup, the first female presi-dent of Southeast. Sherri Cliffe, a Southeast

alumna, will speak about her experiences in entrepreneurship and how she journeyed from Southeast to owning and becoming president of her own company, Cliffedge Marketing, LLC. University president Ken-neth W. Dobbins also will speak.

Amanda Lincoln from the University Foundation agreed that this event will be a great networking opportunity for the students.

“Every time a student has an opportunity to meet with a professional, it provides an opportunity for later,” Lincoln said.

Lincoln said she believes that the stu-dents who attend will be inspired and feel a sense of pride to be Southeast students. She encourages students to come and ask questions.

The Power of Women Luncheon will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m on March 13 at the Show Me Center. The expo will begin at 10 a.m., with lunch being served at noon. Student tickets are free but must be reserved in advance. Regular tickets are $25. The first 15 student organizations to sign up for the exhibition will be able to register for free.

“The goal of the event is to honor women and provide networking opportunities for the students.” Erin Fluegge Woolf

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