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Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Volume 87 Issue 1
New turf
installed
Dorothy Charles
Multimedia Editor
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Walking into Spratt Stadium may seem a little different. Phase one of the Max Experience has been completed and
checked off the to do list.
Football and soccer players now have new green, yellow, black
and white turf to squish their cleats into. The track resurfacing
was also part of phase one of the Max Experience, a student fee
referendum passed in March.
Both teams started practicing on the new turf over two weeks
ago and the most common response from those individuals was,
“I love it.”
The cost of the track and turf together will total between
$750,000 and $800,000 which is on budget. Gumbo, a type of soil
that traps water, was found while putting in the sub-base. The
soil had to be solidified which cost an an extra $9,000. The turf’s
lifespan runs about eight to 12 years. This turf has an eight year
warranty and is expected to last the whole eight years.
Michelle Polk, a returning soccer player, says she really likes
the turf because it’s faster compared to grass.
“I like it a lot, it’s a lot faster pace and it’s the maximum
footage we’re allowed to have," Polk said. “So I think it gets us in
shape pretty well for other fields that we will be playing on.”
Even though the new turf helps players with speed, having
the maximum footage allowed might take more effort.
Stacey shores/Graphics Editor
Western football players practice on the new turf to prepare for the upcoming season. Western football's first game is on August 31.
See New turf page 4
Residence halls add staff, get facelift
Beshears finished
RAs, RHDs hired
A new semester brings new students living on campus and new students bring fresh residential assistants (RAs). This year, Missouri
Western State University interviewed nearly fifty students for RA
positions for the fall semester. The
Assistant Director of Housing Sean
O’Reilly was highly involved with
this procedure.
“We were highly selective at
picking them, but I believe we got
the best out of the pool,” O’Reilly
said.
Also this year there will be three
new residence hall directors (RHDs).
The new RHDs include Stacie
Middlebrook, Morgan Noland and
Jen Kacere. O’Reilly said Western
did a national search to bring in a nice
mix of talented people. Middlebrook
comes to Western from Memphis,
Tenn; Kacere is from Cedar Rapids,
Iowa; while Noland is local, from St.
Joseph.
“All three have been RAs but are
directors for the first time,” O’Reilly
said. “They have all gone through
two weeks of training with myself
and I believe they are highly qualified.”
With a new fully-trained hall
director staff moved onto campus,
the RAs now receive training of their
own with their specific hall director.
This training lasted nine days and
focused around the main goal set
this year by the residential life staff:
building community. While in training, the RAs also worked on diversity, customer service, thinking “outside of the box,” programming ideas,
as well as how to run the front desks
of each building and how to deal with
all situations that may arise.
After working with the directors
during this training period, senior
RA Nancy Diederich said, "The new
RHDs are doing a really good job;
I'm excited that our staff has become
more diverse."
See Residence Assistants page 4
Lisa Crawford
News Editor
[email protected]
Stacie Middlebrook
the new RHD for
Beshears, Juda, and
Logan Halls
Morgan Noland the
new RHD for Leaver�
ton Hall
Jen Kacere the new
RHD for Vaselakos
Out with Goldlink
Lindsay Holland
Copy Editor
[email protected]
After only two years, Luminis GoldLink
email and calendaring system is being cashed
in for a new network on campus, Novell
GroupWise.
Network Administrator Fred Nesslage,
who is managing the changeover, said that it
became apparent to the administration nine
months after GoldLink was installed that
there would need to be a switch. This summer Information Technology Services got the
green light from the Technology Management
Committee to migrate to the new system.
“The consensus basically was that it was
hurting productivity,” Nesslage said. “People
were moving away from using GoldLink email
and back to what they were used to, which is
hard for us as a department to support. So, if
we get everybody in one package, it will make
it a lot easier for us to support as well.”
Nesslage said that most of the complaints
from users were concerning GoldLink’s lack of
features.
“There were a lot of things that were missing," he said. "You couldn’t sort at all with an
email. It was slow from time to time. It wasn’t
as feature-rich as things like Yahoo!.”
See New Email page 4
Lisa Crawford / Photographer
Lisa Crawford
News Editor
[email protected]
This past academic year Beshears
Hall was closed to students while renovations and upgrades were made to
the interior. Also with upgrades came
policy changes and the intent for more
renovations to come.
With Beshears now up and ready
to open this week, students can be
ready to get what they paid for. The
rooms have been completely repainted
with brand-new shower units placed
in the bathrooms. Some of the rooms
have had some demolition and the
plumbing reworked to make single
rooms with single baths available for
approximately $300 more.
All the
window units in the common suit area
have also been replaced.
Michael Speros, director of housing, said, “The frames were all one
unit and have corroded over the years,
so we replaced the glass with a more
tempered one to detract the sunlight.”
The suites were built in the early
to mid '70s and though adequate for
the time, they have become outdated
in more ways than one. This past
summer, Western not only renovated Beshears but also changed the
window frames and doors to all the
suits. The total cost being approximately $200,000 for all three suites to
receive new balcony windows, frames
and doors. The balcony doors were
replaced at the same time giving the
residential staff the ability to lock disruptive students out of their balcony.
Speros said that past residents
would take university furniture out
onto the balconies exposing them to
the elements. Also, students would
leave garbage out on the balconies
which is not only an eye sore but also
a health hazard.
“We will assess each incident on
a suite by suite basis. Our goal is to
have the four to eight persons living
there to take ownership of the common space,” Speros said.
With Beshears reopening as a
Junior-Senior or 21 and over residence
See Beshears Renovaton page 5
PAGE 2 • Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Opinion
The Griffon News
STAFF EDITORIAL
We know about your boxers
Don’t try to deny it.
We all know you’ve got at least one pair of
lucky underwear stashed in the recesses of
your sock drawer.
Well, dear students, the time has come to
dig them out and don them again, for football
season is upon us!
Yes, rejoice, for now is the time of tail-gating,
face paint, over-priced team paraphernalia
and some of the funniest commercials known
to man.
All the fans out there understand the seasonal depression that comes with the off-season.
When the last second runs out on the Super
Bowl game, a sense of disappointment settles
over the nation.
It’s much like the day after Christmas, except
the sorrow that is the day after the Super Bowl
is only deepened by a great percentage of the
country being hung over, and lacking any gifts
to show for it.
However, as we inch ever closer to the Next
Season Marker, our hearts find the strength to
beat again as anticipation grows.
We excitedly engage in know-it-all chatter
about coaching changes, draft picks, injuries
and whether or not this will be “the year” that
the Chiefs reward our never-ending optimism.
It’s hard to predict these things.
However, there is one thing that can be stated without a shadow of a doubt: it’s football
season, and sports fanatics everywhere rejoice
at the thought.
So enjoy it while it’s here, because the offseason always lurks in the distance.
Commentary
Stop calling us devils; we have our horns for a reason
When I told one of my close male friends that
I am the editor of the school newspaper and my
staff is all women, he groaned, laughed and
wished me luck. I have found this to be the
response from females as well.
Why is it perceived to be a bad thing when
there is a room full of strong, educated
women?
I am excited to work with the variety of
women that I chose to support me in delivering
a product to the school.
I went to see ‘Devil Wears Prada’ this summer after reading the book and was a little
upset. When women are in power they are
always portrayed as being cold, unfriendly and
extremely uptight. Sure these are just characters of a fictional work, however, this is the
way that women in power are perceived. Who
would come to a CEO’s office and expect to see
a woman in jeans with her feet on the desk half
watching football, eating brownies and putting
the finishing touches on a proposal that could
end her career if done improperly and give her
any kind of respect.
As a child, my mother always taught me that
I had to be better than
everyone else around me.
Being average and the
same as everyone wouldn’t
work and I would get lost
in the shuffle. The two
reasons she gave me were
because I am a woman
and that I am black,
double whammy. At the
time she told me this I of
course rolled my eyes and
said that there was no
difference between my friends and me, naively
thinking that the world is fair. I was probably
seven or eight at the time and unfortunately; I
have found her words to be true. I slack off just
like the next person, but I also have to make
up for it if I want that extra edge.
Like all the powerful women, I have acquired
my ‘horns’ and wear them proudly. I got them
from having to bust down a few doors and barriers to get where I am currently. As life and
career grows, I am sure my horns will grow as
well.
I do have many
women to look up to. I
may not respect all of
their programs or opinions, but I respect them
as powerful women that
have broken through
the glass ceiling and
saved, changed and had
a huge impact on lives.
Oprah, we all know
who she is and she
is the only one of her
kind, after all these years. People have tried
to replicate what she built and failed. She has
over come sexual assaults when she was young
and a variety of other issues that people allow
to define them and use as something to hide
behind.
Oprah is now a millionaire and household
name. Another woman that I have recently
started studying is Eva Peron. She was the
subject for the movie ‘Evita,’ which came out
in 1996. She started climbing the social ladder at the age of 16 in the 1940s and 50s. She
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came from a lower class family and her parents
weren’t married, which put her on the bottom
rung of the ladder and should have kept her
there.
She had a career as an actress and eventually became the first lady of Argentina. She
installed the nation’s first welfare system and
swore her life to helping the lower class people.
Statues were erected in her honor and petitions sent to make her a saint. Of course she
stepped on some toes to do what she did for
her country and made some enemies, but what
woman of power hasn’t?
The thought that women in power are mean,
aggressive and slightly masculine is a horrible
one and needs to be considered.
Women are not the weaker sex at all, but
rather the stronger because we have more barriers and issues to deal with to get to the top
or even in the same place as our male counterparts.
As far as women in power being called bitches, devils, evil and whatever else a quote comes
to mind. “It doesn’t matter what you are called,
but rather what you respond to.”
Commentary
Just when you think nothing else could go wrong...
And just that quick, my favorite sunglasses
were claimed by the depths.
Had I not been so shocked, I really would
have plunged in after them.
After all, I’d had these for, what, almost a
year now?
That’s a record for me.
Somehow every pair of sunglasses I buy end
up scratched, bent or MIA within a couple of
months of their purchase.
As tragic as the loss of my favorite shades
was, there were more traumatic events that
took place during my trip to go sailing with
some friends in Nebraska this summer.
As expected, my car-full of excited sailorsto-be got on the road later than scheduled, but
thankfully we finally made it out of the city
limits.
Ever since I got my car, Jack, he’s been begging me for a road trip, so I was excited to take
him out to stretch his legs a little.
I enjoy being a passenger on these kind of
trips, so I let a couple of my guy friends take
turns driving so I wouldn’t have to.
Our destination was Johnson Lake, NE,
Lauren Epps
Editor-in-Chief
Lisa Crawford
News Editor
Kathy Crawford
Lifestyles Editor
Ashley Izer
Sports Editor
Sarah Taylor
Opinions Editor
Stacey Shores
Design Editor
Lindsay Holland
Copy Editor
Dorothy Charles Multimedia Editor
Tracie Rouse
Ad Manager
Rikki Cason
Contributing Editor
Bob Bergland
Faculty Adviser
Web site: http://www.missouriwestern.edu/griffonnews
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which is about 5 hours
from here, give or take.
About half way into the
trip, we came into Lincoln,
as well as a situation
that totally caught us offguard.
The Low Coolant and
Check Engine lights blinked and then stayed on.
It was at this point I
was breathing a prayer of
thanks that one of the guys
with us worked at a car shop, because I am
your stereotypical clueless girl when it comes
to mechanical things.
We pulled off the highway, checked everything out, tried to start Jack back up again,
but he had other ideas.
We weren’t going anywhere.
We got there just as the shops closed on a
Friday, so the five of us ended up crashing in
Lincoln with the brother of the guy we were
actually going to stay with.
We made arrangements to have my car
towed to a shop in
the morning, and
had our buddy come
pick us up and take
us the rest of the
way.
I’ve never had a
car break down on
me before, so I was
spazzing out to say
the least, and it
never helps to know
you’ll have to utter
the words, “Daddy, I might need your credit
card number…”
Luckily I was with some of the most fun
people that kept my spirits up, and I have
parents who are always there when their little
girl needs them, or it could have been a pretty
bad situation.
As it was, everything was taken care of.
We made it to our destination, and eventually onto a sailboat under the purest blue
Midwest sky you could imagine.
So there I was, sitting on the side of the boat
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lowest to the water, just enjoying the day,
when a rope slipped and the boom flew at my
head, skimming my scalp and smacking my
sunglasses into the water.
Had I been sitting three inches to the left, a
piece of metal rigging would have caused some
major damage to my face.
I mean major.
Taking that into consideration, I was thankful my sunglasses took the hit and not my
nose.
Due to delays at the car shop, we all had to
stay there for a few extra days, and believe me
I was crying about it as I zipped around the
marina on a jet ski for hours.
Eventually we made it back home, us with
sunburns and Jack with a brand new intake
manifold… or something like that.
Looking back on an adventure like that, I
can only laugh. Sometimes when it seems like
nothing else could go wrong, it’s easy to forget
how good I really have it.
Here’s to good friends, fun memories, loving
family and the lack of need for reconstructive
surgery.
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Mystics Dance
Team Tryouts
Missouri Western’s dance
team, Mystics, will be having
tryouts Aug. 26 from 3 to 5 p.m.
Candidates are asked to bring
a complete application if they
have not turned one in already.
With the application should be
two teacher recommendations
and a full-length picture.
Tryouts consist of learning a
jazz/funk routine, kick routine
and auxiliary work. Judges will
also evaluate splits, toe touches, leaps and turns.
There will also be interviews
from the judges at the end
of the tryouts. Candidates
are asked to wear danceable
shoes, dance tights (if available), a sports bra, and athletic shorts only. No t-shirts or
pants, please.
Tryouts are open to all
Missouri Western students
who are enrolled full time and
have at least a 2.5 GPA. The
Mystics practice the same time
as Marching Band in the fall as
well as two nights a week to
learn choreography and three
times a week during the spring
semester.
The Mystics perform at all
home football and basketball games as well as other
selected activities throughout
the year.
Griffon Edge
Griffon Edge is a one credit
hour class that meets for three
days Aug. 23-25. This class
is designed to orient incoming
students with the campus as
a whole while explaining in
more detail the facilities, services, traditions, activities and
academic expectations of the
university.
The cost for Griffon Edge is
$100 making it the cheapest
credit hour available. Bobbie
Delaney, the first year programs director, along with three
interns Cara Humphrey, Kaari
Owens, and Ally Browning, reconstructed Griffon Edge. This
year students will watch and
discuss a movie as compared
to years passed where there
was a common reading.
Check-in starts at 9 a.m.
Aug. 23. All students must
be enrolled prior to this date.
Students are expected to leave
Griffon Edge and start their
first semester at Western with
an established sense of community and friendships made
among peers and faculty.
Griffon Edge is just a stepping stone towards success
in achieving academic goals.
Griffon Edge is a continuation
of the Orientation process and
is followed by College 101:
Freshman Seminar classes.
New degree in
engineering
technology
Missouri Western offers a
new four-year degree in manufacturing engineering technology. This degree responds
to the need for more highly
trained manufacturing workers. Headlines describing the
loss of manufacturing jobs to
foreign countries can be read
almost daily.
Dr. Virendra Varma, chair
of the engineering technology department, believes the
degree is a step in the right
direction to help staunch the
flow of U.S. manufacturing
jobs to foreign countries and to
alleviate the shortage of technically trained manufacturing
workers.
An associate’s degree has
been offered since 1998, and
this degree will help with the
downfall of post-secondary
programs in the area, that
need to meet the demand for
skilled workers in the upcoming years.
Students must complete an
internship at a manufacturing
facility. Graduates would be
qualified to work in operations
and production, engineering, or
supervision for manufacturing
facilities.
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Students expected to spend $10.46B on electronic equipment
By Bob Albrecht
Oregon Daily Emerald (U. Oregon) U-WIRE EUGENE, Ore. -- For the
American college student, back to
school basics used to mean number
two pencils, notebooks and maybe a
protractor -- today most are in the
market for something substantially
more high-tech and expensive.
Yesterday’s pen and pad has been
replaced by a new notebook with a
$1000 price tag and wireless access.
College students will spend the
bulk of their back to school dollars on electronics, according to the
National Retail Federation’s 2006
Back-to-College Consumer Intentions
and Actions Survey. Of the estimated
$36.6 billion students will spend preparing for school, $10.46 billion will
be spent on iPods, laptops, flatscreen
TVs, Xboxes, and a slew of other electronic items intended to make entertainment easier, in addition to aiding
in academic pursuits.
That estimate is up 27.5 percent
from last year’s sales.
The survey shows that electronics
outperforms other popular back to
school shopping categories such as
clothing, dorm and apartment furnishings, shoes and school supplies,
according to BIGresearch, the consumer intelligence firm that compiled
data online from 8,529 consumers.
The only larger marketshare is held
by textbooks.
Elias Gayles a supervisor at Digital
Duck electronics section of the
University Bookstore, said he has
noticed the increased spending, with
the majority of sales coming from laptop computers and iPods.
“Sales get crazy during back to
school shopping,” he said. “We sell a
lot of iPods and laptops, when you buy
one of our MacBooks you get a rebate
that can be used towards an iPod.”
Gayles expects the Helio Hero, a
new product the size of a cell phone
that allows students to access their
MySpace accounts and other online
messaging programs on-the-go, to sell
well when it hits the market this fall.
Costing just under $300, the product is
geared toward busy college students.
“This product will basically be connected to the Internet all the time,”
Gayles said.
Chris Ferrin, a recent University
of Oregon graduate said that he has
noticed the increase in electronic items
on campus.
“I have seen a huge increase in iPods
and laptops since I got here as a freshman,” Ferrin said.
Gayles said that sales are increasing
because the technology is becoming
more widespread and devices are getting better and cheaper. The MacBook
sells at Digital Duck for $1199 features
a built in DVD and CD burner, software that edits videos and pictures,
and comes equipped with a built-in
wireless card.
“Laptops are half the price they were
four years ago, and now they are four
times the computer,” he said. “They
are made for students and a younger
generation of people.”
dent spending at $10.4 billion nationwide on electronic items alone.
“Today’s college students were using
computers before they could write,
which explains their gravitation
toward electronics,” said NRF president and CEO Tracy Mullin in a press
release Tuesday. “By merchandising
and marketing to the college crowd,
retailers are hoping to not only boost
this year’s sales but also gain customers for life.”
NRF officials attribute this increase
to the number of small electronic
devices and specialty items being purchased by students, including iPods,
notebook computers, flat screen TVs
and gaming systems.
“When I moved in to Abel Hall,
there wasn’t a television set anywhere
in the complex,” Schumann said.
“Last year I saw two gentlemen at
Abel Hall bring in a 52-inch TV, and
that, to me, is the most lavish thing
I’ve seen. They are bringing in large
TVs, larger TVs than ever before ...
it’s amazing to me the amount of electronic things they will bring in.”
In addition to electronic items, stu-
dent spending on textbooks, clothing
and accessories and dorm or apartment furnishings are expected to push
back-to-college numbers to a total of
$36.6 billion.
The seasonal retail boost is more
than just a bounce: The combined
$54.2 billion expected in back-toschool and back-to-college spending
is so large, it ranks second only to
holiday spending, according to the
NRF survey.
That could be a concern to incoming freshmen and younger students
who are, for the first time, being sent
credit card offers and experiencing
true financial freedom.
Debra Schroeder, an extension educator at UNL’s Northeast Research
and Extension Center, is co-developer
of Preventing Credit Card Blues at
22, a university extension program
that shows high school seniors how to
manage credit card debt.
She said unplanned, nonessential
spending could cause the greatest
trouble with college students, especially when such purchases are made
using a credit card. Because of that,
20 percent of college graduates leave
campus with at least $20,000 in credit
card debt.
“Purchasing, on credit, expendable
items ... must mean that you don’t
have money to pay for it today,” she
said. “At some point, someone has
to pay that bill. I really encourage
students to sit down and visit with
their parents about what is a realistic
amount.”
Parents can help students compare
wants and needs and prevent inexperienced buyers from making purchases they may regret later in the
semester.
“One of the things that causes youth
to drop out of school is not being able
to pay their obligations,” Schroeder
said.
She and other members of the
Building Strong Families Action Team
have created an online guide to assist
students with “paying down debt.”
The Web site, http://paydowndebt.unl.
edu, is available to all students and
parents and includes income and expense worksheets for avoiding initial
debt by identifying spending “leaks.”
Back-to-college costs can go far beyond tuition
By Zach Pluhacek
Daily Nebraskan (U. Nebraska) (U-WIRE) LINCOLN, Neb. -Things were much different when
Glen Schumann, associate director of
housing facilities at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, first stepped into
the then-newly-constructed Abel Hall
as a freshman in 1965. For one, he
was able to “survive” with only two
pairs of jeans, a suit, four shirts and a
rocking chair he brought from home.
“I moved out of my car in to my
room in 15 minutes ... and the reason
was, I had to wait on the elevator,” he
said.
Now, estimates are placing freshman student spending at over $1,100
for “back-to-college” purchases, including dorm furnishings, school supplies, textbooks, clothing and shoes.
The fastest growing market of all is
electronics, which is expected to see
a 27.5 percent increase in revenue
compared to last year, according to
the National Retail Federation’s 2006
Back-to-College Consumer Intentions
and Actions Survey. That puts stu-
New college data-reporting system may include multiracial option
By Cheryl Pon
Daily Californian (UC-Berkeley) (U-WIRE) BERKELEY, Calif. -- Students who
identify with more than one race may be officially
recognized as "multiracial" for the first time under a
controversial new proposal from the federal government.
After nearly nine years of study and planning, the
U.S. Department of Education issued a draft guidance last Monday calling for colleges to revamp the
way they collect and report data on student race, allowing students to choose multiple racial categories.
The move would overhaul a racial reporting system that many feel ignores the presence of mixedrace individuals.
Currently, college students can select only one of
five racial categories: black, white, Hispanic, Asian/
Pacific Islander and Native American/Alaskan Na-
tive. If a student selects multiple ethnicities, only
one is counted when the school reports racial statistics to the federal government.
Although some colleges have reworked their forms
to let students check multiple boxes for their own
internal records, such institutions still use the traditional system when reporting data to the government.
It is unclear how many students have marked multiple categories in past years. More than 6.8 million
respondents picked more than one racial category
in the 2000 U.S. Census, according to census statistics.
The new system of multiracial identity reporting
would also ask students whether they are Latino or
Hispanic and divide the Asian/Pacific Islander category into two distinct groups.
Though the idea of including a physical "multiracial" check box drew heavy criticism when proposed
Calendar of events
Wednesday, August 23
• The Griffon Edge orientation program begins.
the Clock Tower from 9:30
a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Tuesday, August 30
Thursday, August 24
•Late Registration begins
•Board of Regents meeting
from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in
Blum 220.
Saturday, August 26
•CME Stepping Stones
Mentorship Program training from from 5 p.m. to 10
p.m. in Blum 223.
•Suzuki Students Outdoor
Picnic at the Pavillion Picnic
Area from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
•Mystics Dance Team tryouts from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
location TBA.
Sunday, August 27
•Alpha Kappa Psi meeting
in Hoff Conference Room
219 in Blum Union from
7:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Monday , August 28
campus crime report
•CSE/Griffon Fun Fest at
•Volleyball scrimmage from
1 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Looney
Arena.
•Rehearsal for 'No Exit' in
Potter 106.
by former University of California regent Ward Connerly in 2004, some UC officials say they support allowing students to check multiple racial categories.
"I think the idea of accurately representing one's
racial heritage and identity strikes me as a good
idea," said P. David Pearson, dean of the Graduate
School of Education. "Having students identify with
a multiracial box would be more accurate in representing our students' races."
A UC spokesperson declined to comment on the
new proposal.
But Yvette Felarca, director of the local chapter of
civil rights group By Any Means Necessary, said the
new proposal sounded constructive.
"We support students being able to self-identify
with their race as long as it's specific and it can make
campuses accountable for the demographic makeup
of their student body," Felarca said.
from 1 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in
Eder Hall.
•Ice Cream social for students and staff from 11 a.m.
to 1 p.m. at the clock tower.
Wednesday, August 31
•CAB Meeting in Blum PDR
from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
• Late Registration from 1
p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Eder
Hall.
1. Drug Violation
August 8, 2006
The evidence in this case was held over 30 days with no case developed. The evidence was diverted to Public
Safety use for drug prevention and the officer completed an information/follow-up report.
2. Motor Vehicle Theft
August 10, 2006 Parking Lot G
The officer took a report from a male student regarding his vehicle being stolen while it was parked on campus.
The officer obtained a statement, issued a try to locate, and completed an offense/incident report
Larceny
August 15, 2006 Potter Hall
3.
The officer took a report regarding a stolen computer monitor. The officer completed an offense/incident report.
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August 15, 2006 Spratt Hall
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stated he had set off the alarm. The officer reset the alarm, contacted the alarm company advising them of the
situation and completed an offense/incident report.
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The soccer team will now host their home games at Spratt
Stadium rather than having to play on bumpy ground at the
Riverside Soccer Complex.
“It helps that the turf is flat and we don’t have a bunch of
potholes and that cuts down on injury which we can’t have right
now because of our few numbers.”
From kicking balls around to catching them in the air, football is seeing the biggest difference.
Football’s head coach Jerry Partridge says he can see a difference in his team now that they are able to practice on the
same field they play on.
“It seems like over there in the practice field it’s kind of in a
valley and the heat gets trapped down in there and it just seems
like the attitude is a lot better when you’re in the stadium,”
Partridge said.
Partridge said the turf is a truer surface and you don’t have
to worry about getting ruts like in grass. The turf is able to be
used whether the sun is shining or is being hit by rain drops.
“You can practice under the lights and under the heat without it being hot and get out there when it’s cooler and have the
lights on and not tear your field up,” Partridge said.
Partridge said another positive would be that his players feel
like they’re faster.
Even though the new turf has many positives there are still
some negatives.
“I think there’s some more abrasions,” Partridge said. “It
seems like to me there’s a few more muscle pulls just because
it’s almost like being on a beach to a certain extinct. I’m a little
nervous about some of the knee injuries and ankle injuries that
could happen because I think their feet can get caught.”
The turf was just one part of phase one. The track was
resurfaced and won’t be made of rubber any longer. Now that
the track and turf is completed Athletic Director Mark Linder
hopes not only athletes use the new track and turf but students
as well.
He has expectations that students use it play intramural
sports, and as a place to set up booths, outdoor conventions and
concerts.
“I’m excited. They have the first project completed and on
time,” Linder said. “Hopefully the students see it and are excited
about it and know they can get out there and use it. Student
groups will be able to reserve it and have functions out there.”
Students don’t only have advantages outside of games there
are many positives during home games.
“The benefit package is in place and ready to go,” Linder
said. “We already have the bus trip lined up for the Central
Missouri State University football game for the students; we
have the website set up for people declare their four immediate
family members.”
The benefit package also includes two free concession stand
items at the student concession stand. Students will also be able
to use their flex dollars at the concession stand after their two
items.
What’s next on the priority tree? That is up to the students.
“We need to make sure that we know what our annual revenue stream is going to be. We need to make sure we can pay
for the benefit package and then pay for the turf,” Linder said.
“Once we get close to paying off the turf, we’ll probably look at a
new floor in the arena, which is starting to buckle. We probably
need to move that up on the priority tree.”
Missouri Western fronted the money for the contruction of
phase one which will be paid back when the student fees are
collected.
Linder says they don’t want to get ahead of themselves and
will take the time it takes to pay off this first phase.
“If it takes three semesters to pay it then that means we can
start a project earlier, if it takes 12 semesters to pay for what we
spent then we don’t start the next phase until 12 semesters. A
lot depends on enrollment,” Linder said.
On Saturday, August 29, there will be a “Tough the Turf”
kickoff party from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Students, staff, faculty and
members of the community will be able to watch football practice
and meet the Griffon athletes.
The Max Experience was approved by the student body on
March 9, with 75 percent voting yes out of 754. Students pay $5
per credit hour up to 12 hours.
The big day is Aug.
25 at noon, when the
final switch will be made.
Preliminary migration
began in July, and some
staff and Griffon Edge
participants have already
got to test it.
Russell Ezzell, a fellow network administrator, is in charge of debugging the new system
and running the training
sessions for staff and students.
There are five scheduled training sessions,
three of which are already
full. The remaining two
are on Aug. 30, 1 p.m.
to 2 p.m. and Sept. 1, 11
a.m. to 12 p.m. An RSVP
is required to [email protected].
Students will not be
issued a new email address
or password but are asked
to print off any important
personal calendar entries
presently stored on the
GoldLink system before
noon on Aug. 25.
Present emails, contacts and calendar information will not automatically transfer to
GroupWise. Users will
have until Jan. 31, 2007
to transfer any stored
email or contacts from
GoldLink.
Nesslage has an optimistic view of the switch.
“I think it’s going
to be worth it,” he said.
“We actually had a number of departments on
GroupWise before we did
the GoldLink switch, and
all those departments
were very appreciative of
it. I think we’ll find that
everyone will enjoy it a lot
more than the GoldLink
email.”
Western pays $22,000
a year for a licensing
agreement with Novell.
The Novell package is
what drives Western’s
server-based networking—things such as the Pdrive. Nesslage said that
GroupWise was already
included in that annual
package, so installing it
did not require any additional costs.
Aside from major version updates every two
years, Nesslage doesn’t
foresee having to switch
to a new network again
anytime soon.
New RAs, RHDs hired
Director of Housing Michael Speros said
last year there was not an assistant director
until O’Reilly was hired in late August. Many
times Speros would be called away from training, leaving the RAs to learn from each other.
“Sean has done an excellent job and has
made a solid RA training program that focuses
less on programming and more on community
growth,” Speros said.
Thirty-six resident assistants were hired
with about half returning from last semester. There are three RAs for Juda Hall, four
for Logan Hall, three for Beshears Hall, six
for Leaverton Hall, five for Vaselakos Hall,
and 15 for the Living Learning Center (LLC).
Returning RHD Lindsay Hayden will continue
to run the LLC building while Middlebrook will
monitor the suites, Noland will run Leaverton,
and Kacere will run Vaselakos.
With community being the main goal for
residential life, individuals have made their
own goals for the year as well.
Middlebrook wants to evoke change when
needed wherever possible, even if it is within
herself or her staff. Diederich’s goal is to be a
strong senior RA, a leader for other RAs, and
to keep a healthy balance between school and
her job.
Speros has also set goals for the RAs. They
are to know every residential student by name
by the second week of classes as well as having had at least one conversation with each of
them.
“It’s been challenging, but I feel it’s going
to be a wonderful year full of changes, excitement, and growth,” Middlebrook said.
O’Reilly has worked 14 years with residential life at five different schools across
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the country. He said building community
is the primary goal of the residential staff
as well as the residents. His experience has
shown him that community decreases undisciplined behavior and vandalism while increasing retention rates.
“My plan is to build a large RA team as
well as have individual hall staff teams. The
RAs have been preparing for the communities
to open. I teach about philosophy, diversity
and counseling available to students either
peer, crisis, or academic,” O’Reilly said.
O’Reilly plans to have the RAs prepared
for anything they may face this up coming
year. He wants the incoming residents
to know that the staff cares and will be
available to assist with any problems they
may have and they are not just enforcers, but
reinforcements as well.
The selection process this year consisted
of interested students first turning in applications. After the applications were assessed,
then there was a two-part interview process.
The first interview was personal. The applicants met one-on-one with a current member of
the residential staff.
The second interview was a group interview where students interacted with each
other to experience what it would be like to be
part of a team of residential assistants.
After the interviews, students who were
accepted as RAs were given letters congratulating them. A first for this year, some students were considered alternates in case an
accepted student was unable to fulfill the
duties of an RA.
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hall, policies have been changed to
accommodate this lifestyle. Beshears
has been granted overnigh visitation
policies for the weekends only. This
means if a student properly cheks
a guest into a residence hall, they
will be able to stay overnight for the
weekend only.
The Assistant Director of Housing,
Sean O’Reilly said, “Beshears is a
test case. If we can prove this works,
and if students respect the policy,
then we may expand it to other halls
as well, but students need to work
with us for this.”
O’Reilly believes balconies and
overnight visitation policies are privileges given to students but if you
abuse a privilege it can be taken
away.
“I think the balconies are a great
place to get fresh air, socialize and
relax but if a student abuses this
privilege they can be locked for a
short amount of time or if there are
repeat offenders, it can be locked for
good,” O’Reilly said.
Upperclassmen and returning
students may find it difficult the first
few weeks returning to the apartments. While in past years students
were able to exit through the side
doors, Vaselakos, Leaverton and the
Living Learning Center will now
have only one entrance through the
lobby. Students will have to always
have their room keys and student ID
on them to enter the buildings. The
side doors will be alarmed for emer-
gency exits only.
“This may start off as an inconvenience, but as long as student pay
attention and abide by the policies
this will increase security and safety
for the residents here,” Speros said.
Even students living in the suits
will have policy changes. Although
doors will not be alarmed, all students will be expected to escort all
guests around campus and must
carry their keys and ID at all times.
O’Reilly is pleased with the
suites being open to only upperclassman. He believes it is nice to have
the common space and appropriate
for students to choose three to seven
friends to live with. Students can
decorate as they please while having
the safety and security the campus
offers.
Suites are still in need of more
major repairs, though the renovations to Beshears seemed to have
fixed many of the problems. Since
Logan was the first residence hall
built on campus, it will most likely
be the next to receive renovations.
Also, the next step is to replace all
the stair towers in the suites.
“They are very sturdy and have
held up for almost 30 years but the
noise can be a distraction,” Speros
said.
Western plans on replacing a
stair tower each summer starting
with summer 2007. Each stair tower
estimates approximately $110,000 a
piece.
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The Griffon News
Students get oriented to Western
Lisa Crawford
News Editor
[email protected]
Every summer hundreds
of incoming students experience Western for the first time
through the orientation and
registration process known
as Destination Western. This
year approximately 750 students attended.
Director of First-Year
Programs Bobbie Delaney
said she was really pleased
with the way things went this
year.
Delaney recently moved
from being a housing director
for the suites to this position.
This was her first year with
orientation. In about a month
Delaney, along with her
three interns Ally Browning,
Cara Humphrey and Kaari
Owens ,planned orientation.
This year there were also 27
ambassadors involved with
the orientation process.
“Bobbie is a great director,” Humphrey said. “She
came into this program knowing nothing, but she works
hard with us and has a better
understanding now.”
Orientation is mandatory for all incoming students
including transfer students.
This summer there were
seven sessions for first-time
freshmen and three transfer
sessions.
“We designed a program
for orientation that prepares
students for their first year
at Western,” Browning said.
“There is a lot of behind the
scenes work, but the enthusiasm the students have towards
getting involved and learning
more about what Western has
to offer makes me proud and
excited to be part of their initial experiences here.”
Orientation consists of
two days filled with information for incoming students.
On the first day, students
check into the program and
have the opportunity to take
placement exams in writing,
reading or foreign language.
Students then are able to take
a tour of campus, check into
their rooms for the night or
ask questions of the staff.
Students and parents have
the opportunities to stay on
campus in the residence halls
overnight. Students are paired
with a roommate for one night
to give them a taste of what
residential life will be like in
the fall.
Incoming freshman Holly
Gallope of St. Joseph said,
“My favorite part of orientation was meeting new people
and having interactions with
them.”
Students and parents
then heard from Public Safety,
Residential Life, Esry Health
Center, Student Government
Association, Student Services,
Center for Multicultural
Education, Financial aid and
Business Office. All of the
speakers during the two-day
program were available for
Jeremy Weikel / Guest Photographer
Above: Trevor Parker leads a group of incoming students and guests on a tour of campus during
Destination Western.
Left: Incoming students work together with a team-building exercise during group sessions of
Orientation.
Right: Cara Humphrey and the Orientation Ambassadors welcome students and guests by linking
arms and swaying to the Alma Mater.
question and answer sessions
as well.
After the first night of
information, students were
able to choose between taking
a bus tour of St. Joseph, playing board games in the lobby
of the Living Learning Center
or watching a hypnotist hypnotize incoming students as
well as ambassadors.
Another benefit of attending Destination Western is a
first-hand taste of Western’s
cafeteria food. Students and
guests were able to experience
all three meals during the
two-day program.
Students leave orientation
knowing a little more about
the campus, the people and
facilities available to them.
Senior Brad Dixon said
orientation helped him when
he came to Western in 2003,
and that is why he wanted to
be an ambassador.
“I had a lot of fun. I had
already done my research
before I came here, but orientation helped me dot the i’s and
cross the t’s and also made me
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Dixon said.
Parents are encouraged to
attend Destination Western
as a last experience with their
student. While each orientation session has approximately 75-100 students attending plus parents and guests,
Griffon Edge will have around
700 students without parents.
Scarlett Clark’s daughter Cheyenne will come from
Platte City to be a freshman
this semester. Clark said she
feels it is really important for
parents to attend orientation
and stay overnight in the residence halls.
“Parents get the direct
information they need to help
their student later when they
call home with questions while
also getting to experience the
type of atmosphere the students stay in on a daily basis,”
Clark said.
Orientation is mostly run
by students. Ambassadors
are there to assist students
in registering for classes and
receiving the information necessary to enter the fall semes-
ter clear, confident and ready.
“I was thrilled to see such
support of the upper classmen
to help them come out of their
shells and experience the college atmosphere,” Clark said.
Sophomore Megan Glenn
said she speaks for all ambassadors when she says they
are always willing to help students.
“We’re the first place students get to go for answers,
and we’ll continue to be here
for them as classes begin
and they start their college
careers,” Glenn said.
Lifestyles
The Griffon News
Off Hours presents:
Graphic by Clint Gerdes
Rock Off
T
Kathy S. Crawford
Lifestyles Editor
[email protected]
Ten regional bands
will take the stage
this Saturday for a
free concert event
at the Horseshoe
Lake Drive-In on
Frederick Avenue.
he last weekend before classes begin
is the perfect time to be at a free
music festival, and the Horseshoe
Lake Drive-In on Frederick Avenue
is a good location.
“We’re all moving off to college, and we want
to get together for one more show before
then,” said Jeff Brooks, guitarist for the band
Skeffington, scheduled to take the local stage
at 1:30 p.m. on Aug. 26.
The inauguration of Rock Off, presented
by Off Hours, the entertainment section of
the St. Joseph News-Press, will begin at 11
a.m. on Aug. 26 and continue until 6 p.m. with
10 bands on two stages. The variety of music
genres is sure to have something for everyone
from classical rock to screamo.
“It’s actually a great representation,” said
Crystal K. Wiebe, an arts and entertainment
reporter for the St. Joseph News-Press.
Wiebe, one of the people who spearheaded
the affair, said some 30 regional bands from
Lawrence to Omaha signed up as friends on
MySpace to compete for a place on stage at
Rock Off. About 900 votes determined the final
line-up.
“None of the bands are being compen-
sated,” she said. “We’re so grateful for that. It
is unheard of.”
Wiebe, who will be introducing the bands
on Saturday, said she’s confident the sound
system will be great, as the same company
sometimes used at Verizon Amphitheatre is
handling it.
According to www.rockoffstjoe.com, the
festival is an alcohol-free event, but concertgoers are encouraged to bring their own food and
non-alcoholic beverages. Lawn chairs, blankets
and cameras are permitted, too. In addition,
concessions will be available at the drive-in.
Wiebe said the birth of Rock Off was
“kind of an organic thing” that several people
and sponsors, including Missouri Western,
the Horseshoe Lake Drive-In, Off Hours and
Record Wear House, made happen. She said
she hopes it will help invigorate the local music
scene.
“We hope a ton of people are there and stay
all day,” Wiebe said.
There will be advanced copies of Diem and
Off Hours, along with free mini-beach balls
while they last. There will be official Rock Off
t-shirts for $8 at the show or they are available
now at Record Wear House for $5.99.
a preview
Main Stage
11:30 a.m.
12:45 p.m. 2:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m.
4:30 p.m.
Anchondo
True North
Flee the Seen
Cruxed
National Fire Theory
Local Stage
11:00 a.m. 12:15 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 4:00 p.m. Broken Avenue
The Great Northern
Skeffington
The WayStation
Alice
No Exit:
Kathy S. Crawford
Lifestyles Editor
[email protected]
M
ost people have
imagined, if only
fleetingly,
what
hell would be like;
others are pretty sure they’re
already living it.
The upcoming play No
Exit, translated by Peter
Bowles from the original by
Jean Paul Sartre, ponders this
enigma. The fact that the play
opens on Sept. 11 at the Black
Box Theater in Potter Hall
and is the fifth anniversary of
9/11 played on Director Aaron
Westlake’s decisions about the
production.
“Something changed in
the world on that day,” he said
in a press release. “With the
knowledge of what’s happened
in the last five years, we’re
going to play with what we
think will happen in the next
five years, and that’s the world
our characters are from.”
The stage is set in 2011,
and Costume Designer Melissa
Stacey shores
Graphics Editor
Director Aaron Westlake looks on at
a rehearsal of the play No Exit. He
said he had a "gut reaction" to the
play upon first reading of it.
Stacey shores/ Graphics Editor
From left to right: Jennifer George plays Inez, Bekka James plays Estelle and Anthony Bossler plays Credeau. The characters in Jean Paul Satre's play find themselves in a self-made hell.
Gregory created the clothing
to fit the era.
“(Westlake) told me that he
wanted the costumes in 2011,”
Gregory said. “Changing styles
are generally reflective of the
past, anyway, so that makes it
easier.”
The costumes have a
worldly influence. The bellboy’s
costume is sleek, modern and
European while high collars,
sparkly satins and slits will
adorn the actresses, Gregory
said.
According to the press
release,
Credeau,
played
by Anothony Bossler, finds
himself in a single room with
Inez, played by Jennifer
George and Estelle played
by Bekka James. His sin had
been cowardice in life, and in
hell he tries to use the two
women as mirrors in which
he will see a complacent and
reassuring picture of himself.
The women find themselves
in the same self-discovery
struggle, not liking what they
see. Soon they find they are
in a self-styled hell where no
torture is necessary – they
have each other for that.
Joining the three in hell is the
only inhabitant, the bellboy,
played by Christian Burnett.
Jean Paul Sartre’s No Exit
was first performed at the
Vieux-Colombier in May 1944,
just before the liberation of
Paris.
“The play is written
by one of the most famous
existentialists
in
history,
Jean-Paul Sartre,” Westlake
said. “Existentialism is an
interest of mine.”
He also said that one of the
things the play accomplishes
is getting to the core of what
it means to exist. He said the
play does this by putting the
characters in a situation that
reduces them to their essence.
Westlake is the first
student of many to direct a show
in the regular performance
season, Assistant Theatre
professor Deny Staggs said in
a press release. Westlake won
the chance after submitting a
proposal to the departmental
staff.
“We chose the best
proposals from a pool of
students who have completed
the required classes to allow
for a successful process,”
Staggs said. “The only thing
that changes when a student
is in charge is that she is on a
peer to peer level with cast and
crew. The faculty provides as
much assistance as is needed
with budgeting, set & costume
construction, publicity and
artistic choices. The student
gets an enormous amount
of latitude, but with help as
needed.”
Westlake
will
most
likely take advantage of that
latitude, as he is experienced
and
has
directed
two
productions and was assistant
director with faculty member
Jeremy Warner on another.
The choice to direct No Exit
wasn’t difficult for him.
“I happened to pick up
the play at a used bookstore
while I was assistant directing
Bodies, Rest and Motion last
year,” Westlake said in a press
release. “When I read it, I was
amazed on many levels. One,
it was one of the first scripts
that I immediately loved upon
the first reading. I wasn’t
exactly sure why at that point,
but I knew I had to read it
again. I did, and I just had a
gut reaction that this could
have the potential to make an
amazing piece of theater.”
Westlake also co-directed
Laundry
and
Bourbon/
Lonstar in conjunction with
the theatre fraternity Alpha
Psi Omega, which confirmed
his desire to direct.
No Exit runs through Sept.
17. Shows are at 8 p.m. on all
but the final day, which will
be a 2 p.m. matinee. Tickets
are $4 for students, university
faculty and staff and senior
citizens. General admission is
$8.
Lifestyles
The Griffon News
Personality: Lisa Siudym
Financial Aid Director
W
Kathy S. Crawford
Lifestyles Editor
[email protected]
hen Western’s new Financial Aid Director Lisa Siudym speaks, her vowel sounds
give away the Michigan in her. But she disagrees.
“You guys have the accent,” she said about the folks in her new community.
When Siudym, decided to make a change of location, she was looking for several factors
in a new college community. She wanted some place that was growing, had a good reputation
and was smaller than what she was used to in Michigan. She also wanted a good team to walk
into and said she found that with her co-workers in the financial aid department.
“The staff here is really devoted, and they have a real concern for the students,” she
said.
Siudym, who has 23 years of financial aid experience, said that it wasn’t really a career
choice. She just sort of fell into it and liked it so much she’s been with it ever since.
“I enjoy working with the college students,” she said. “I know a lot of decisions we make
are going to determine whether students can attend.”
She comes to Western after working for three other colleges: Kattering University, Oakland
University and St. Clair County Community College. When she interviewed for the position
at Western in mid-May, she knew there wouldn’t be any hurricanes. However, she also knew
she would have to contend with a new weather event that Missouri is famous for.
“I did ask about tornadoes,” she said.
The new director has been in town for only a couple of months. When she was here in
May she didn’t get to see much of the community, so she’s been exploring. She said she
loves the “cool architecture,” lofts, the parkway and the Belt. She’s also been trying to do all
of her business locally in St.
Joseph.
“When I saw you had a
Sonic and a Dillards, I knew I
would be okay,” she said.
She describes herself
as approachable, which
many Western students will
appreciate. She said she’s the
kind of gal who likes to get
in the trenches and roll up her
sleeves. And she’s a sports
fan.
“I’m excited to be at
a school with Division II
sports,” she said. “I’m ready
Stacey shores/ Graphics Editor for football. I’m looking
Financial Aid Director Lisa Siudym is getting used to her new office at forward to becoming a Chiefs
Missouri Western. She is orginally from Michigan.
fan, especially since the Lions
aren’t doing so well.”
And she’s not just a spectator. Siudym enjoys scuba diving and gold. No doubt she will
be able to satiate her love of the outdoors in Northwest Missouri, too. She said she wanted a
climate where the winters would be milder than those in Michigan.
Wait ‘til she gets a load of some Northwestern Missouri winters.
Renowned drummer teaches master class
R
enowned drummer Dave Weckl
dropped a stick while he was
conducting a master class to an
adoring audience of 75 plus in the Potter Hall
Theater on Friday. He picked up his stick
without any embarrassment or frustration at
having done this a half a dozen times.
“I’ll explain why I keep dropping those in
a minute,” he said.
Weckl, who is from St. Louis, made a
stop at the campus thanks to the Allied Arts
Council and Western before performing at
Trails West! later that night. According to
a press release, Weckl has performed with
Robert Plant, Madonna, George Benson and
Diana Ross. He has earned a Grammy and
was also inducted into the Modern Drummer
Hall of Fame, which named him one of the
25 best drummers of all time.
Weckl has recorded and produced 10
albums, and the Dave Weckl Band, which
was formed in 1998, has released five studio
albums, according to the press release.
“He’s an amazingly talented drummer,”
said Mark Elting, an instructor in the
recording arts program at Western who
helped coordinate the class. “Everyone can
learn something from him.”
Weckl plays a little bit of everything –
rock, jazz and Latin – and advised drummers
at the master class to be capable of the same.
“Bottom line is you have to get good,” he
said. “You have to try to be the best. This is a
business, so you have to be smart.”
He acknowledged that drummers don’t
use the rudiments when playing, but rather
what they feel. Still, he impressed the
importance of rudiments, and he also advised
musicians to learn keyboards so that they can
write music.
He dedicated much of the class to physical
fitness, ergonomics of the drum set up and
“the independent four.”
“We just didn’t come out of mom ready
to move four different things independently,”
he said.
Weckl, who is obviously physically fit,
stressed the importance of drummers staying
in shape. He said that drummers have another
option for a cardio workout other than jogging
or the elliptical machine: playing the drums.
“Just set out on the drum set at a pace like
that,” he said as he pounded out a riff. “It’s
good exercise.”
Modern technology has made changes in
the way Weckl approaches his art. He said
that thanks to technology most of his work
is done at home now days. In addition, it is
possible for aspiring musicians to do some
learning with the click of a mouse.
He said that drummers need to make
musically mature decisions. When the day
Photo be gene martin
Renowned drummer Dave Weckl taught a master
drummer class at Western on Aug. 18.
is done, the biggest compliment is not about
an awesome drum solo, rather when other
musicians like playing with a particular
drummer and call them back.
“No one will touch this instrument the
same way as me or as you,” he said.
He talked about the positioning of the
sticks – about grip and gap. He warned the
drummers in the theater about the importance
of ergonomics. When setting up the drums,
repetitive strain could be creating injuries in
the wrists or neck.
“It’s not a big deal when you’re young,
but when you get older, stuff begins to hurt,”
he said.
Weckl likened playing the drums to being
martial artist. As he explained the importance
of staying loose while playing, he dropped a
stick again.
“That’s why I drop them all the time,” he
said. “Because I stay loose.”
Sports
The Griffon News
2006 Griffon Volleyball Schedule
submitted
photo
Western’s 2006
Mystics Dance
Team members
at an event in
the Looney gymnasium
Western’s Mystics
Ashley Izer
Sports Editor
[email protected]
As the students of MWSU all
know the 2006 football season is about
to begin, but the guys on the field are
not the only ones in the spot light.
Fans should also be on the look out for
the Western Mystics Dance Team.
The Mystics have been performing
for our campus and many other fans
for a number of years.
Although the team has undergone
two name changes over the years,
which include the Golden Girls and
the Griffettes, the dance team has
always been a halftime highlight during football and basketball games.
The roster for the upcoming 2006
fall season consists of 7 members thus
far. The team is shooting for a squad
numbering around 18 to 20 individuals. The next scheduled tryouts for
the Mystics are on Saturday, Aug. 26,
from 3 p.m. to 5 pm.
The dance team is actually considered apart of the MWSU Golden
Griffon Marching Band while the football season is in session. While the
basketball season is underway the
dance team performs only at a
select number of games before, during, and after each.
The most important element to
the squad’s performance is the halftime presentation. The girls practice
Monday through Friday. for one hour
a day with the marching band and
two days a week for an hour and half
during the fall semester. For the duration of the spring semester the team
practices three hours a day two days
a week.
Kalya Hinton is working on her
tenth year as the director and sponsor
of the Griffon’s dance squad. Hinton
has been involved with a number of
dance studios and performing groups
through out her career as a dancer
and choreographer.
Hinton is very passionate about
each group and individual that dances
under her guidance and leadership.
“Our purpose is to promote school
spirit through dancing,” Hinton said.
“I care about each and every one of
my girls.”
During tryouts members are selected based on potential they behold has
dancers, and not just the technique
they possess at the moment.
Hinton feels that the decision
whether or not a candidate makes the
squad is if they posses the passion for
dance that is required.
Healthy, fit, and time management skills are also a key ingredient
to becoming apart of the Western
dance squad.
Junior and captain of the squad
Crystal Scott marked her second year
with the dance squad after the completion of her tryout period last spring.
Each year every member of the
preexisting squad has to retry out
for the upcoming year and team.
Scott must be able to perform a
jazz/funk routine, kick routine and
auxiliary work such as general dance
turns, leaps, and splits in order to
make the cut each year.
“We’re there to support the school
and provide entertainment for the
fans,” Scott said.
Date Opponent
8/25
Southern Arkansasm
8/25
Christian Brothers
8/26
Ouachita Baptist
8/26
Montevallo
9/1
Colorado Christian
9/1
Alabama-Huntsville
9/2
SW Minnesota State
9/2
Nebraska-Omaha
9/8
Southern Arkansas
9/8
Albany State
9/9
West Florida
9/9
Arkansas-Monticello
9/13
Central Missouri State
9/16
SW Baptist
9/20
Northwest Missouri State
9/22
Truman
9/23
Emporia State
9/29
Fort Hays State
9/30
Washburn
10/4
Pittsburg State
10/7
Missouri Southern
10/11 Truman
10/14 Upper Iowa
10/16 Dixie State College - Utah
10/17 Dixie State College - Utah
10/20 Central Missouri State
10/21 Southwest Baptist
10/24 Nebraska-Kearney
10/27 Northwest Missouri State
10/28 Washburn
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Volleyball preparing for
season with new coach
Ashley Izer
Sports Editor
alv3446@missouriwestern. edu
Inside and outside the
Missouri Western Women’s
Volleyball team has been preparing themselves both psychically and mentally for a grueling 2006 season.
The votes are in and the
Western women were ranked
at No. 7 in the Mid-America
Intercollegiate
Athletics
Association Preseason Coaches
Poll. The Lady Griffons finished with a record of 17-15
record overall and a 7-9 record
with the MIAA placing them at
the No. 7 slot.
They will mark
the beginning of the
much
anticipated
season by traveling
to Memphis, Tenn.,
in order to participate in the Christian
Brothers Tournament
on Aug. 25-26.
Leading the way
is freshly named
head coach Kyprian
“Kyp” Harasymowycz.
Former head coach
Cindy Brauck stepped down
from her position due to illness
in May of 2006, which as a
result, moved
Harasymowycz from assistant to head coach. He took on
the position knowing that he
would have to fill some pretty
big shoes, and now shines new
hope into the eyes of all the
girls on the team. “For the goals that we’ve
set- we would like to finish third
in the conference [with] 20
wins and make the NCAA,”
Harasymowycz said. “If we
do the things that we’re suppose to than we should be able
to reach our goals.”
Harasymowycz boldly takes
his strides as the new coach
by modifying the traditional
5-1 formation the Griffons are
familiar with to a 6-2 formation, which consists of two setters instead of one.
“Running a 6-2 makes us
a little bit taller and a little
bit more athletic than we were
last fall,” Harasymowycz said.
“To come out of the blocks right
away and be ready to play is
the most important part of our
plan.”
Harasymowycz contributes
one of the reasons for switching
to the new formation is because
he has three setters and wide
range of versatility with them.
“The girls have worked really hard to make sure they learn,
and learn how to win,”
Harasymowycz said.
He has had a very
positive influence
on the attitude and
atmosphere within
the volleyball circle.
Junior and Captain
Alyssa Berg shares
the same ideas and
goals with her coach
when it comes to
NCAA play and the
20 wins needed to
get them there.
“He is making a lot of
changes this year that I think
will take this program even
further than it has gone in the
past,” Berg said.
Berg will take on the position of a right side hitter, which
is change from the middle position she played last season.
Berg feels that an important
part of her contribution to
the team is setting a good
example during practices as
well as on game day.
“I want to help my team by
doing my job on the court so
then it will be easier for everyone else to do theirs,” Berg
said. “Overall, we have a great
group of girls on and off the
court, and I’m excited to start
the season.”
Sports
The Griffon News
Football season begins
Ashley Izer
Sports Editor
[email protected]
With the end of summer
just around the corner that
can only mean one thing,
the 2006 Missouri Western
Football season is about to
begin.
The Griffon men finished
the 2005 season with a record
of 9-3 overall and 6-2 within the
Mid-America Intercollegiate
Athletics Association, landing
them in a tie for the No.2 position within the conference.
The men have been ranked
at the No. 5 position for the
upcoming season as a result,
and will kick off the season
on Aug. 31, by taking to the
road to play tough competitor
Central Oklahoma in Edmond,
Okla.
Jerry
Partridge
will
resume his position as head
football coach for the tenth
consecutive year. Over the
years Partridge has learned
that there is much more that
goes into the game than just
the numbers and records.
He feels that every season
is a week to week obstacle
course that the team has to
take one game at a time.
“There is so much more
to measure the success
other than win/loss records,”
Partridge said.
Partridge feels that one
of the main successes he has
achieved this year is that 75
–80% of his squad are veterans and have played under
the lights and pressure of the
stadium. Partridge is very
confident in each player to
go out there and get the job,
while showing the younger
and newer players how it’s
done.
“That’s what you always
worry about,” Partridge said.
“Kids can be great players,
kids can be great athletes and
be physical and
want to
go
out
t h e r e
and play
the game
then they
freeze.”
There
are sev- Jerry Partridge eral different
Head Football Coach
aspects to
take into
consideration when trying to align a
winning team.
Partridge said that the
offense and defense aspects
are at a very good standing point, and the only
concern is the depth and
mobility of the team in case
of injuries.
No matter what happens,
Partridge believes that his
team is ready for the challenges and ready to win some
games.
“It’s going to be great foot-
ball all year long,” Partridge
said.
Agreeing with Partridge
is senior Gijon Robinson who
has resumed his position as
starting tight end for the
Griffons, and has every desire
to end his college football
career with victories. He is
one of the four returning First
Team All-Conference players,
which include running back
Jeremiah White, defensive
end Michael Cobbins and cornerback Greg Carbin.
Robinson feels that this
year the team will focus a
great deal of time on team
unity as well as striving for
perfection in all aspects of the
game.
“My expectations are for
us to have a great season on
offense and defense,” Robinson
said. “We have a great chance
at making it to the playoffs.”
In order for the Western
football team to reach playoff aspirations Robinson says
that the team is working
hard at polishing up on all
of the basics and making
sure the incoming players are
learning as well.
Fellow teammate junior
Joey Harris, who is a wide
receiver for the Griffons, coincides with Robinson as far as
the team unity and togetherness as one of their strongest
aspects. Harris best describes
the team’s goals and attitude
in one phrase: “We want to
win it all.”
stacey shores / Photographer
Western football players practice in the afternoon to prepare for the upcoming season.
2006 GRIFFON FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Date
Opponent Location Time
Aug. 31
at Central Oklahoma
Edmond, Okla.
6:00 pm
Sept. 9
ST. CLOUD STATE
St. Joseph
6:00 pm
Sept. 16 PITTSBURG STATE*
St. Joseph
6:00 pm
Sept. 23
Maryville, Mo.
1:00 pm
St. Joseph
2:00 pm
at Northwest Mo State*
Sept. 30 TRUMAN*
(FAMILY DAY)
(WENDY’S HALL OF FAME GAME)
Oct. 7
at Central Missouri State* Warrensburg, Mo.
1:30 pm
Oct. 14
at Missouri Southern*
Joplin, Mo.
2:00 pm
Oct. 21
EMPORIA STATE*
St. Joseph
2:00 pm
Oct. 28
at Southwest Baptist*
Bolivar, Mo.
1:30 pm
Nov. 4
FORT HAYS STATE*
St. Joseph
2:00 pm
Nov. 11
at Washburn*
Topeka, Kan.
1:00 pm
(HOMECOMING)
*Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association game
Soccer team ready for second
season with high expectations
Ashley Izer
Sports Editor
[email protected]
Stacey Shores / Photographer
Western soccer players Michaella Guadiana (15) and Michelle Polk (6) practice on the new turf field, getting ready
for the upcoming season starting on Aug. 24.
2006 GRIFFON SOCCER SCHEDULE
Date
Opponent
Aug. 24
Winona State
Aug. 25
Viterbo
Sept. 9
Concordia-St. Paul Sept. 6
Wayne State (Neb.) Sept. 10 Upper Iowa Time
Sept. 16
Southwest Baptist noon
Sept. 17
Missouri Southern 2:00 pm
Sept. 23
Emporia State
noon
3:00 pm
3:00 pm
1:00 pm
4:00 pm
2:00 pm
Missouri Western made
history in 2005 by introducing
the campus to a brand new
woman’s soccer team, and
now the women are back on
campus ready to fight.
Western’s Woman’s Soccer
team got off to a rocky first
season with an ending record
of 3-15-1 overall and 2-11-1
within the MIAA. Now the
Griffon ladies are under new
guidance and are ready for
the challenge of the 2006 season. Not only does the team
have a new leader they also
have a new home field to play
on located on campus at the
Spratt Memorial Stadium.
One challenge begins with
the fact that the team was
ranked at the No. 8 slot in
the Preseason Coaches Poll
within the conference.
Jeff Hansen will assume
the position of head soccer
coach and lead the women
into the fall season starting
in Winona, Minn., where they
will take on Winona State on
Aug. 24.
This will be Hansen’s first
year with the team and he has
high expectations for the girls
and the new season.
“You very rarely see
teams that win three and then
national title so you have to be
realistic,” Hansen said. “We’re
looking for anywhere from 8
to 12 wins in our first year.”
A key ingredient to
Hansen’s successful year is
that there are a total of 13
returning players from last
season. The
Griffons
are returning three
of the top
s c o r e r
s w h i c h
include
s e n i o r
N i k k i
Heiser,
- Jeff Hansen
senior
Head Soccer Coach
Melody
Grayhem
and sophomore Michelle Polk.
Polk will start as a forward for the Griffons and is
excited about the upcoming
season. Polk takes side with
her new coach when it comes
to the team discussing and
understanding the goals they
have for this season.
“We have high hopes and
expectations and plan on
drastically improving our win/
lose record from last year,”
Polk said. “It would be nice
to obtain more wins than
loses overall, and to develop a
strong fan base.”
Polk feels that if the team
can build a strong fan base it
would give the team the motivation and confidence to play
at a level beyond last year. By
far playing well and winning
are at the top of Polk’s list of
priorities, but fans will always
shine first.
“It really helps give us
motivation and confidence on
the filed knowing that our
school and fellow classmates
support us,” Polk said.
Polk and Hansen both
feel that the team has set
realistic goals that are perfectly attainable.
Hansen and the team are
ready to step out onto their
new home field and show the
campus as well as other teams
what they are made out of. He
believes that this is not going
to be an easy season by any
means, but they as a whole
are ready or it.
“They’re ready to work
hard,” Hansen said.
If the Western soccer
ladies are ready to work hard
for us, then we as a student
body should be ready to come
out and stand behind them
the entire way.

August 22nd - Griffon News

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