Thursday, October 26 2006

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The University’s student-produced newspaper
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Kirksville,
Mo.63501
63501
Kirksville,
Mo.,
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Truman plans museum
Board of Governors
approves plan for
$1M-plus museum
Jessie Gasch
News Editor
The Office of Admissions
will find a new home in an old
firehouse.
On Friday, the Board of
Governors allocated about $1
million and authorized University President Barbara Dixon
to proceed with plans to create
the Dr. Ruth Towne Museum
and Visitor Center. The museum, which also will house
the Office of Admissions, will
be in the former firehouse
on Franklin Street. The University acquired the building
from the City of Kirksville
during former President Jack
Magruder’s administration.
“Think of the old visions of
the people ... of the firehouse
being on the second floor
and jumping on the pole and
sliding down,” Dixon said.
“There’s this whole part of it,
basically, that goes all the way
to the ceiling. And then there’s
a great big mammoth space
where they would have stored
fire trucks.”
The space is ideal for displaying a collection of artifacts from the University’s
history, as well as for providing a welcoming environment
for visiting students and families, she said.
The museum will be funded
in part by a $1-million endowment from Towne and in part
by a second donation of about
$150,000. The University also
will use rollover, money that
was not spent in the last fiscal
year, to complete the construction, said Dave Rector, director
of institutional research and
budgets. Dixon said $250,000
of the endowment can be used
on capital, but the remaining
money is designated for the
operating costs of the museum. If the University had been
unable to use it in this way, it
would have gone to a second
recipient.
“That will be an endowment
that will generate resources for
the upkeep,” she said.
Dixon said administrators
discussed the Office of Admissions as well as the Advancement Office as possible
candidates for the move to the
museum.
“What made the decision
to finally go with Admissions
as opposed to Advancement
or anything like that is the
amount of public traffic,” she
said. “Admissions, you might
say, won the toss.”
Please See MUSEUM, Page 7
Design Plan of
Museum and Visitor Center
1st Floor
Location: Old firehouse
at corner of Franklin and
Normal Streets.
Cost: $1.4 million
Completion date: 2008
Reception
Desk
Conference
Room
2nd Floor
Museum
Computer
Wo r k
Stations
(Open to
Museum
below)
Wa i t i n g
Area
Restrooms
and Closets Admissions
Offices
Lobby
Source: HKW Architects
Design by Nick Wilsey/Index
Two men stabbed
outside of Toons
Nathan Becker
moved a pocket knife from his right front
pocket, according to a probable cause
statement issued by Feeney.
Two men were injured and two others
Jonathan Norfolk, 24, then approached
are in jail in connection with stabbings officers with what appeared to be a knife
outside of local bar Toons at about 1:30 wound in his left shoulder, according to
a.m. Saturday.
the statement. Hughes said Norfolk, a
Forest Roberts, 27, is in the Adair Kirksville resident, was taken to NorthCounty Detention center on $10,000 cash- east Regional Medical Center.
only bond for unlawful use of a weapon,
Hughes said he couldn’t release the
and Jahmell Robinson, 25, was jailed on other victim’s name but could say he is a
$50,000 cash-only bond for first-degree 45-year-old Kirksville resident who also
assault and armed criminal action. Both was taken to the hospital for treatment.
men are Kirksville residents.
Although Hughes said he couldn’t
Kirksville police officers Steven Fee- comment on the extent of Norfolk’s injuney and Jon Crouse were radioed to a ries, he said the charges against one of the
large fight in front of Toons, located in suspects, later determined to be Robinson,
the 300 block of West McPherson, at 1:36 are indicative of the degree of injury.
a.m. Saturday. Kirksville Police Chief Jim
“One of the charges ... is first-degree
Hughes said Toons closes at 1:30 a.m.
assault, which does require fairly serious
“It’s not unusual to encounter fairly injury or the likelihood of serious injury,”
large crowds at bar-closing
Hughes said.
time, especially on the weekRobinson was released
ends,” Hughes said.
“The expression from the scene, but he later
When Feeney and Crouse
returned to the Police Dearrived, they saw Roberts on on Mr. Roberts’ partment for questioning
face was one
the sidewalk with his right
and was taken into custody,
arm raised above his head and
Hughes said.
of anger.”
holding a kitchen knife with
“[Robinson] was arrested
a six-inch blade. Roberts was
once the officers developed
Probable Cause
yelling and moving toward a
probable cause [for his arStatement by
crowd of more than 50 people,
Officer Jon Crouse rest],” he said.
according to a probable cause
Upon his return, Robstatement issued by Crouse.
inson waived his Miranda
“The expression on Mr.
Rights to speak with police.
Roberts’ face was one of anger,” accord- He then stated that Norfolk said Robining to the statement.
son attacked him. Robinson also admitRoberts complied with police and ted to having his pocket knife, with blade
pocketed the knife before being arrested, drawn, in his hand during the fight. Police
according to the statement.
found blood on Robinson’s knife, and
During Roberts’ arrest, Robinson ap- they found what appeared to be blood
proached the officers, who handcuffed on his shirt, hands and ring. Hughes said
him for their safety. The officers then rePlease See FIGHT, Page 7
Assistant News Editor
Pipes Burst
Photo by Phil Jarrett
Water rushes down Franklin Street near Patty’s University Bookstore the night
of Oct. 18 because of a pipe break.
Candidates greet citizens
Proposed amendments
involve felons, veterans
The Kirksville Area
Chamber of Commerce
sponsored the event
Kristyn Potter
Amy Aikin
Staff Reporter
Commit a felony, lose a state
pension.
A new proposed amendment
to the Missouri Constitution
would require government of- said. But with this new resoluficials who have been convicted tion, regardless of its correlation
to their duty, they
of felonies to forfeit
will be forced to fortheir state pensions,
feit their pension.
which are partly
“If you commit
funded by taxpayers.
“It is just
any felony while in
Rep. Scott Lipke, Rfixing the
office, you will lose
Jackson, proposed
broken
[the pension], rethe amendment.
gardless of your duty
“We have a citisystem.”
or not,” Lipke said.
zens’ commission
The process of putof
compensation,
Scott Lipke
so it is just fixing Missouri Representative ting an amendment on
the ballot and getting
the broken system,”
it passed involves
Lipke said.
several steps.
A Missouri law
“The amendment
already states that
government officials who are has to get passed, the commisconvicted of felonies directly sion has to make a recommenrelated to their duty will have dation and include inquiries and
to forfeit their pensions, Lipke the legislature still has the abil-
INSIDE
INSIDE this issue
Terror-iffic
Columnist Sarah Shebek
has a ghostly good time in
the month of October
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Copyright © 2006 Index
Staff Reporter
Phil Jarrett/Index
Kirksville resident George Sullivan is a WWII veteran who volunteers at the Veterans of Foreign Wars lodge off of Highway
E. The VFW supports the proposed amendment that will exempt veterans’ organizations from taxes on nonprofit buildings.
ity to veto by two-thirds vote,”
Lipke said.
Although the proposed amendment doesn’t appear to have any
opposition, Lipke said it is possible that people do not support
it 100 percent. But because the
amendment is sensible and directly benefits taxpayers, its likelihood of passing is fairly high,
he said.
“It just gets tougher on the
few that put themselves in this
position,” Lipke said.
Another proposed amendment to the Missouri Constitution would exempt veterans’
organizations from being taxed
on property solely for nonprofit
purposes. The local branch of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars
Please See BALLOT, Page 7
Pin Prick
The Kirksville Area Chamber
of Commerce hosted a local candidate forum and question-andanswer session Tuesday at the El
Kadir Shrine Club.
Kristie Swaim, incumbent associate judge and candidate, said
the public forum was a good opportunity for voters to learn about
all candidates of all parties running for local offices.
“When you hear radio ads or
see a newspaper ad, you don’t
really get to compare apples and
apples, and I think at least seeing
and hearing them at the same time
gives you an opportunity to judge
them,” Swaim said.
Two sets of campaign tables
lined the walls with political candidates, representatives, brochures
and information. On one side, the
Republican candidates were available, and the other side featured
Horse Bones
Flu shot season should
not be plagued with
shortages this year
Democratic candidates.
In attendance were Gary W.
Jones and Jack Ward for Presiding Commissioner, County Clerk
candidates Pam Speaks and Sandra Collop, County Recorder candidates Pat Shoush and Claudia
Minor, Prosecuting Attorney candidate Mark Williams, Associate
Circuit Judge candidates Kristie
Swaim and Wallace Trosen and
Circuit Court Judge Candidates
Russell Steele and Tom Hensley.
Candidates for State Representative Rebecca McClanahan and
Nancy Summers were introduced
at 7 p.m. Local media and radio
personalities asked the opponents
questions ranging from where
they stand on the stem cell initiative to where their passion lies.
Some members of the public
also contributed by writing questions on note cards that were read
Please See FORUM, Page 7
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INSIDE FRONT
Senate members
urge policy shift
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Chris Boning
Staff Reporter
Phil Jarrett/Index
The roof of Ophelia Parrish will be replaced with thicker paving blocks to cut
down on outside noise coming into the OP Performance Hall.
OP to undergo
$1M reroofing
Chris Boning
Staff Reporter
The Ophelia Parrish Fine
Arts Center is about to undergo its third set of repairs
in five years.
Last Friday, the Board
of Governors approved the
allotment of about $1 million to replace roofing tiles
of the OP Performance
Hall. These repairs will
come less than a year after
the University had the firstlevel floor tiles replaced
and less than five years after the building itself was
renovated completely.
General Counsel Warren Wells said the repairs
involve
putting
down
thicker paving blocks on
the roof as well as moving
ventilation machinery. The
goal of these repairs is to
cut down on outside noises
coming into the Performance Hall, where faulty
acoustics have been a major issue, he said.
Rain has been the source of
many of the hall’s problems.
“There aren’t too many inside venues where you have
to cancel events because of
rain,” said Bob Jones, dean
of fine arts.
He compared the current
roof to a drumhead.
“The roof is basically
too thin right now, in my
opinion,” Jones said. “It’s
stretched like the head of a
drum, and so when a raindrop hits it, it just amplifies
it. It sounds like someone
beating on top.”
Junior
music
major
Christina Scheperle said she
remembers when it rained
during an orchestra concert.
“It was so loud it disrupted the performance,”
Scheperle said. “It is a nice
performance hall, and to
have performances disrupted is not professional. I’m
excited they’re replacing
the roof.”
Jones said the acoustical
issues became evident the
first time the fine arts faculty used the Performance
Hall during the summer of
2002.
“It was very disappointing to move in and find
things inherently wrong with
the building that would prevent us from being able to do
what we needed to do, which
was instruct our students,”
Jones said.
Both Wells and Jones
said it is unclear how much
repaving the roof will help
with the overall acoustics.
“We’ve retained some
additional architects and
gotten some additional expert advice on acoustics and
construction for this kind of
facility, and all we can really do here is do what the
pros tell us,” Wells said. “We
believe it will produce very
good results for us.”
The University is taking
legal action against the architects responsible for the
original renovation in 2002.
Wells said the Board has
chosen to approve the construction even though the
lawsuit is still pending because it views repairing the
roof as a priority.
In addition to repairing
the roof, the University will
completely replace some
sections of drywall that grew
mold as a result of flooding
in OP in 2002.
Jones said the many repairs on the building have
been a frustration for the fine
arts department.
“It disrupts our teaching,
our class schedules, our
traffic through the building,” Jones said. “It restricts
what we can schedule in
terms of outside events to
bring into the space. It’s
very discouraging.”
University
President
Barbara Dixon acknowledged the amount of construction Ophelia Parrish
has required in just the past
few years.
“There are always a few
things in new building, but
the flaws in the final product were more extensive
in Ophelia Parrish than I
think we’ve experienced in
any other building,” Dixon
said. “That’s the real issue
— is it a design issue or is it
a construction issue? ... But
it’s wrong, whichever it is,
it’s wrong.”
Campus Planner Doug
Winicker said a new architect, Cannon Design, has
been chosen to do the repairs. A definitive timeline
has not been set, other than
construction will be completed by mid-April 2007.
Following the repaving of
the roof, both Wells and
Jones said the University
likely will address the
internal acoustics of the
hall.
“It is my hope all of this
will be resolved,” Jones said.
Senior Josh Kappel is
campaigning for a change in
University policy.
He and fellow Student Senate member sophomore Matt
Szewczyk have co-sponsored
a Student Senate resolution
regarding parental notification
for students who have committed a drug or alcohol violation.
Current policy states that
the University reserves the
right to notify parents of dependent students in all cases
regarding improper conduct,
parents of nondependent students under the age of 21 who
have committed a drug or alcohol violation and parents of
nondependent students facing
a health or safety risk.
Lou Ann Gilchrist, dean
of student affairs, said calls to
parents are rare, and according
to the Office of Citizenship
and Community Standards
Conduct Code Statistics, parents were notified in about 5
percent of violation cases.
Kappel and Szewczyk’s
resolution recommends the
University eliminate the notification of parents of a student over the legal age of 18,
except in cases of hospitalization or repeat offenses.
Kappel said he thinks the
current policy treats students
like children.
“The policy doesn’t allow
students to be responsible on
their own and contact parents
on their own behalf,” he said.
“A lot of times with this policy,
most students do contact their
parents, but sometimes students
don’t contact their parents, or
don’t want to contact their parents. There’s a reason for that.
We need to respect that.”
Szewczyk pointed out the
differences between procedures for notifying parents
and something as simple as
billing statements.
“They won’t send my
parents money so that they
can charge interest to my account if I don’t send them the
bill, but they’re going to go
and tell on me the first moment I do something wrong,”
Szewczyk said.
The issue first appeared as
an initiative on the ballot for
the most recent Student Senate
elections in spring 2006. According to the resolution, the
added ballot question asked,
“Should the administrators of
TSU notify the parents of students who violate the drug and
alcohol provisions of the Student Code of Conduct when
there is not an imminent threat
to students’ lives and the student is not a repeat offender of
those provisions?”
Gilchrist said she took issue with the wording of the
question.
“I would be opposed to
any policy that is so narrowly
defined that we can’t take individual circumstances into
consideration,” she said.
Gilchrist added that the
University takes a moderate approach and respects
students’ privacy by calling
parents only when there’s a
threat to a student or when the
University no longer can handle difficult cases by itself.
Kappel, president of the
University chapter of Students for Sensible Drug
Policy, said he put the initiative on the ballot with the
intention of getting it into
the Code, which was being
revised at the time of Senate
elections. Kappel’s version
of the policy did not make it
into the new code, despite a
majority vote of 77 percent in
favor of the change.
Gilchrist said the Board
of Governors, which approves the Code, was notified about the vote, received
input from a summary she
submitted and saw a presentation by Kappel.
Szewczyk said he expects
the resolution to pass in the
Senate when it comes up for
vote Sunday.
“Student Senate is not
a legislative body,” Szewczyk said. “We don’t
make policy, we don’t enforce policy. We don’t have
power in that sense. We do
have power from taking
students’ voices as a whole
and giving them a chance to
be heard and giving them a
conduit to be heard.”
Parental Notification
Resolution
A parental notification policy may discourage
students from seeking medical attention for problems related to drug and alcohol use out of fear
that their parents will be called and notified.
On April 17 and 18, The Truman State Student
Association voted 77 percent to 23 percent
against a ballot question regarding community
standards that asked, “Should the administrators of TSU notify the parents of students who
violate the drug and alcohol provisions of the
student code of conduct when there is not an imminent threat to students lives and the student
is not a repeat offender of those provision?”
The student government requests either a
change in a policy that would be in alignment
with each member of the community’s definition
of community standards or a written response
stating how the students’ definition of community standards or a written response to the
ballot initiative in April 2006, was implemented
when creating the community standards which
students are now required to adhere to.
Source: Senate’s
proposed resolution Design by Shane Haas/Index
NEWS In Brief
Police arrest two men in local burglary
Kirksville Police responded to a report of a burglary in
progress at about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday at Motters Feed and
Grain in the 200 block of West Potter. An employee arriving to work at the location interrupted the burglars in the
act, according to a press release from the Kirksville Police
Department.
After investigation, Police arrested Melvin Lazear, 30,
of Kirksville, and Robert Stifflemire, 21, of Kirksville,
on a charge of second-degree burglary, a class C felony.
Police said the investigation is ongoing, and additional
charges might be filed.
Blunt unveils new sex offender registry
Gov. Matt Blunt announced on Monday a new Sex Offender Registry and toll-free number for Missouri. The
changes are a result of the passing of House Bill 1698,
which was signed into law June 6.
The updated registry offers more information regarding sex offenders, such as names, aliases, dates of birth,
more physical descriptive information including tattoos
and scars, home, work and school addresses, information
about vehicles offenders might drive, their victims’ ages
and confinement information.
It also will offer updated photos because photos are
now required to be submitted more often. Additionally, the
registry will include a mapping function to map the listed
offender’s address.
To use the new registry, users can visit www.mshp.dps.
missouri.gov and click the “Sex Offender Registry” link at
the top of the page.
Those without Internet access can obtain sex offender
information via the new toll-free number 1-888-SORMSHP (1-888-767-6747). Missouri State Highway Patrol
employees answer the number Monday through Friday
from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Student Senate In Brief
• Senators senior Erica Flanagan and junior Emily
Meyer were absent.
• Former speaker alumnus Grant Mulkey addressed
Senate on his experiences since graduating and relating
them to Senate.
• Speaker junior Joe VanAmburg announced his intent
to resign as speaker by the end of November.
• External affairs chairwoman junior Mindy Maness
announced a new date for the off-campus housing forum.
The forum will now be at 8:30 p.m. Nov. 15 in the Ryle
Hall Main Lounge
• Senate passed a correcting money motion, proposed
by Maness, for $2 to cover cost overruns from Saturday’s
alumni reception.
• Senate passed a money motion, proposed by associate
senator senior Matt Seibert, for $150 to cover publicity material for AIDS Awareness Week from Nov. 28 to Dec. 1.
• Senate passed a money motion, proposed by campus diversity chairwoman sophomore Nadia Mozaffar,
for $300 to cover expenses related to a speaker for AIDS
Awareness Week.
• Senate passed a money motion, proposed by treasurer
senior Cory Kessler, for $35 to purchase a lock for Senate’s laptop computer.
• Senate passed a money motion, proposed by Kessler,
for $100 to purchase ink toner for Senate’s printer. Senator
senior Robert Kelchen amended Kessler’s original motion
of $80 to the increased amount.
• Senate passed a money motion, proposed by incoming senator freshman Jonathan Graber, for $50 to purchase
two gift cards as prizes for a future survey gauging interest
in Arabic classes.
• Senate passed a money motion, proposed by Kessler in
behalf of scholarship chairwoman senior Becky Hadley, for
$1,000 to fund two leadership excellence scholarships.
• Senate passed a money motion, proposed by Kessler,
for $200 to purchase 1000 sheets of letterhead and envelopes containing Senate’s logo.
• Senate read a resolution, introduced by senator senior
Josh Kappel, concerning the University’s parental notification policy.
• Senate discussed extended course descriptions and
online course surveys.
DPS Reports
10/22 Report of vandalism to vehicle in Parking
Lot 31
10/22 Sophomore Michael Masucci was issued a
Missouri Uniform Complaint and Summons
for minor in possession of intoxicants.
10/20 Report of bicycle theft from Campbell
Apartments
10/20 Report of bicycle theft from Violette Hall
10/19 Freshman Benjamin Rusk was issued a
Missouri Uniform Complaint and Summons for theft, and resisting/interfering
with arrest.
10/19 Freshman Lauren Jacoby was issued a Missouri Uniform Complaint and Summons for
minor in possession of intoxicants.
“
China is gaining more attention
and power in the matter of
international relationships. This is a
demand for people knowledgeable
about China and competent in the
Chinese language who understand
this ongoing change, its impact on
the world economy and its influence
on world affairs.
China
Summer
Study
Program
”
Students may partcipate without prior knowledge of the
language and students will earn six or seven credit hours.
The program is a five-week trip providing:
• A one week tour of Beijing (the capital of China): the
city of Bejing, Tiananmen Square, Museums, the site of
summer Olympics 2008, the Great Wall, the Forbidden
City and the Summer Palace.
•Four weeks of language and culture instruction at
Shanghai University in Shanghai, and weekend field
trips to the Shanghai Museum, Jianmao Tower, Pearl of
Orient, Jade Buddha Temple, Chenghuang Temple, Yu
Garden, and a night cruise on Huangpu River, as well as
FIRST STEP INTO CHINA a visit to the cities of Hangzhou, Suzhou and Wuzhen.
First informational meeting:
Oct. 26, 7:00 p.m. @ SUB Alumni Room
Contact Julie Minn for more information at 785-6015 or [email protected]
Christmas open house Nov. 3 and 4
•10 percent off purchases of $20 or more
(excludes tobacco and wine products)
•Serving spiced wine!
If you need a gift for men, come to The Green Door where you
will find cigars, shaving products, wine and beer making kits and
cowboy art.
Located at 103 W. Washington next to Pagliai’s
Index
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Newest resignation
plagues MOHELA
Board, initiative
MOHELA chairwoman
resigns because of
conflicting viewpoints
Nathan Becker
Monster Yard
Photo by Lisette Metz Grulke
A resident of a house on East Mill Street exhibits some spooky spirit, dotting the lawn with
inflatable decorations to get into the Halloween swing of things.
Youth explore force
Law enforcement
hopefuls learn the job
through Explorers
Richard Boggs
for the Index
NEMO Justice Systems Explorer Post 660, a program that
cooperates with the Boy Scouts of
America to teach young people law
enforcement skills required for jobs
in the field, began its operations in
Kirksville this semester.
The program focuses on people between the ages of 14 and 21,
although adults are encouraged to
participate as well.
When sophomore Nick Zotos
heard about a Kirksville Post, he
saw an opportunity to help.
“Because I am a justice [systems] major, they sent out an e-mail
letting us know that Kirksville’s
going to try to start one up,” said
Zotos, a Post member at the Chesterfield, Mo., branch. “I was more
than happy to help them set it up.”
This interest eventually led to
the group’s first organized meeting
in August.
The Kirksville Police Department perceived a local interest in the
Post, said Detective Jeremy Cordray
of the Kirksville Police Department.
“Our Explorer Post is specifically targeted toward law enforcement,” Cordray said.
However, he said Explorer
Posts can focus on a number of
subjects ranging from culinary
skills to medical education, all offering skills in varied fields.
“Explorer Post can be anything,” Cordray said.
Because the Kirksville Post division still is emerging, members
have a distinct opportunity to help
mold the organization as they see
fit, Zotos said.
Post 660 helps members develop a broad range of skills, giving
them an educational experience
with different aspects of law enforcement, from being a prosecutor to a probation officer and even
being in the FBI, Zotos said.
This convergence of law enforcement officials makes the
Kirksville Explorer Post unique
compared to others across the
country, he said.
“It’s a co-op effort between a
lot of different agencies and a lot the Taser,” said senior Erin Roper,
an adult adviser in the post.
of different groups,” Zotos said.
The Explorer Post sparked
Aside from the Police Department, the Post also involves the Roper’s interest early on.
“When I was a
Schuyler County Pokid, I saw a comlice Department, the
mercial [about ExConservation Depart“One lucky
plorer Posts] on TV,”
ment, the Department
Roper said. “In high
of Public Safety and the
person got to
school, [I] asked
justice systems division
shoot the
about it at the police
office, among others.
Taser.”
department, they had
“It’s kind of this
a Post, so I joined it.
conglomerate of justice
I was 14 then.”
entities,” Zotos said.
Erin Roper
Now 22, Roper is
This
cooperation
Senior
an adult adviser to the
created a pool of relocal Explorer Post
sources that previously
here in Kirksville.
did not exist for the
“I’m really interested in whitePost, he said.
For example, the Explorers had collar crime,” she said. “That’s
the privilege of attending a local law where the real bad guys are.”
Post 660 meets twice a month at
enforcement fair, which featured an
assortment of vehicles, weapons and 6 p.m. on Thursdays, but the orgatools. The Explorers also could speak nization is not tied to one specific
location.
with informational instructors.
Above all, the Explorer Post eduAn average Post meeting incorporates many hands-on activities, cates participants on proper behavior
including interacting with drug in the presence of authority figures.
“A lot of people don’t know
dogs, Taser demonstrations and a
visit from the SWAT team, Cor- how to talk to police, and that’s not
good for their safety or their condray said.
“One lucky person got to shoot stitutional rights,” Roper said.
Scholarships’ payoffs will increase
Kristyn Potter
development committee, the
new standard will result in an
Staff Reporter
additional $250 each year for
Freshman Teshome Assefa is students who receive these enone of the many University stu- dowed scholarships.
dents who has received an en“I think it will be very benefidowed scholarship.
cial to [students],” said Joe Bam“If the scholarbenek, member of the
ship amount that I
University Foundareceived were high- “I think it will be tion Board and develer, I would greatly
committee.
a positive thing opment
benefit by putting the
The Board’s debecause it is
extra money towards
velopment committee
books and other edu- going to provide proposed the initiacational expenses,”
because the cost
more benefits to tive
he said.
of education has instudents.”
For Assefa and
creased. The $10,000
other students like
standard was set 15
him, the University
years ago, and the
Mark Gambaiana
Foundation Board
cost of education has
Vice President for
has raised the mini- University Advancement gone up significantly,
mum standard for
Bambenek said.
new endowed schol“The idea is to give
arships from $10,000 to $15,000.
recipients of the scholarship more
Proposed Friday at the semi- money,” he said.
annual meeting by the Board’s
The University puts $10,000
in an account that earns 5 percent
interest. With an endowed scholarship, the interest accrued on that
investment is the money that selected students will receive annually as a scholarship.
Mark Gambaiana, vice president for University advancement, said the development
committee researched other institutions, and the scholarship
minimum of endowed scholarships at the University is significantly lower than at other
institutions, which also contributes to the desire to raise the
minimum amount.
“There is typically a $25,000
or higher minimum to establish
a named endowed scholarship
[at other institutions],” Gambaiana said.
The process of establishing a
named scholarship takes at least
a year while the investment earns
interest, Gambaiana said.
If donors aren’t able to provide
the $15,000 for a named endowed
scholarship, they have the option
of providing annual scholarships.
The minimum for an annual
scholarship is $1,000 and is typically for those who don’t have
the resources for a named endowed scholarship, Gambaiana
said. Annual scholarships are
terminated when the donor is unable to provide funds, while endowed scholarships are permanent once they reach $15,000. He
said about 75 percent of named
scholarships are endowed.
“I think it will be a positive
thing because it is going to provide more benefits to students,”
Gambaiana said. “I think it was a
really solid decision.”
This new initiative will not
affect donors who already have
a named scholarship established.
Only scholarships awarded after
Oct. 20 will increase.
The chairwoman of the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority board resigned Wednesday, citing disagreement with the
plan to sell assets of the popular
student loan authority.
Karen Luebbert, former MOHELA chairwoman, was one of
two board members who voted
Sept. 27 against enacting the
MOHELA plan. Four other board
members voted to enact Gov. Matt
Blunt’s plan, which is designed to
renovate higher education buildings across the state.
Luebbert could not be reached
for comment at her Webster University office, but a Webster
spokeswoman provided a statement Luebbert had written to address the situation.
“MOHELA needs a united
board as it moves forward in implementing the Lewis and Clark
Discovery Initiative,” Luebbert
said in the statement. “I cannot
support the selling of assets and,
therefore, believe it is in the best
interest of MOHELA that I resign,
effective immediately.”
This is the latest of many twists
and turns for the MOHELA sale,
which include several board members resigning for different reasons
and a lawsuit brought by the Missouri Attorney General’s office,
alleging that the sale violates the
Missouri Sunshine Law.
It was revealed Oct. 15 that
Blunt told two members of the
Missouri Higher Education Loan
Authority board in a conference
call that he wanted the agency’s
executive director replaced, according to a report from the Columbia Daily Tribune.
The phone call took place just
hours before the board met and
fired acting Executive Director
Mike Cummins on Jan. 24, but
the board did not replace him with
Blunt’s choice, Rick Fouts, a former MOHELA controller. Instead,
it appointed Raymond Bayer Jr.,
MOHELA’s associate director of
business operations.
The phone call involving Blunt
is described in sworn statements
given in August by some MOHELA board members to Attorney General Jay Nixon’s office.
The depositions were obtained by
the Columbia Tribune via an open
records request to the attorney
general’s office.
Melinda Wood, Truman financial aid director, said the sale
of MOHELA especially could
impact students whose loans are
consolidated.
She said MOHELA offers
unique benefits, such as reduction
and interest rates, that might not
be reproduced by the buying company once the loans are sold.
“If that portfolio were sold, I’m
not sure the students would retain
those benefits,” Wood said.
Will Shaffner, associate director of business development at
MOHELA, said the next step for
the plan is to go before the General Assembly.
“The board took up the resolution, they voted on it, they passed
it, and it’s now in the hands of the
state legislature,” Shaffner said.
MOHELA
Timeline of Events
Jan. 24: Missouri Higher
Education Loan Authority
Board of Directors fires Executive Director Mike Cummins after a few members
have a teleconference with
Gov. Matt Blunt.
Jan. 26: Blunt announces
the Lewis and Clark Discovery Initiative, his plan to sell
MOHELA assets to raise
money for capital improvements at Missouri public
universities and for new
scholarship endowments.
Jan. 27: Raymond Bayer
Jr. named interim MOHELA
board director.
Jan. 31: MOHELA board
votes to adopt Blunt’s plan.
Feb. 14: Attorney General
Jay Nixon sues MOHELA
board members for violating
the Sunshine Law, which
requires many government
proceedings to be open to
the public.
March 10: MOHELA board
holds public meeting to
reconsider plans.
June 16: Kathryn Swan resigns from MOHELA board.
Aug. 28: Blunt proposes
“cooperation agreement”
between the state and
MOHELA.
Mid-September: James
Ricks, Marilyn Bush, and
Charles McClain resign from
MOHELA board.
Sept. 19: Stem cell research clause added to
agreement.
Sept. 22: Lt. Gov. Peter
Kinder tells Nixon to stop
blocking the sale of MOHELA assets.
Sept. 25: Coordinating
Board of Higher Education announces support of
Blunt’s plan.
Sept. 27: MOHELA board
votes and approves Blunt’s
plan.
Oct. 25: Karen Luebbert,
MOHELA chairwoman, resigns from MOHELA board.
Reported by Jessie Gasch
and Nick Wilsey
Design by Nick Wilsey/Index
Blunt originally announced
his plans to sell MOHELA on
Jan. 26.
Although the board members
approved the plan Jan. 31, their
vote was rejected because there
had been no public input. The
board, then composed of several
new members, re-approved the
plan at its Sept. 27 meeting.
If approved, the sale is projected to provide about $350 million
for higher education, including
$21.6 million for Truman, which
would go toward the renovation of
Pershing Building.
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OUR VIEW
Shaun Gaynor
Ophelia Parrish hoards
building repair finances
A university’s renovations are never
done.
The roof of the Ophelia Parrish Performance Hall soon will be repaved to
improve the acoustical quality within the
hall [See story, Page 2].
Apparently the rain and other natural
elements create such a racket that musical events have been canceled, much to
the dismay of student and faculty musicians campuswide.
Nonetheless, there isn’t a student or
faculty member in Kirksville who is unaware of the budget difficulties that face
not only our own university but higher
education institutions statewide.
Therefore, the first question after
hearing about this expense that immediately springs to mind is, “So, where is
the money coming from?”
The Board of Governors on Friday
approved a $1-million allotment to rectify the problem.
The money will come from the maintenance and repair budget, said Dave
Rector, executive director institutional
research and budgets.
In fact, President Barbara Dixon said
the BOG members themselves were the
ones to decide the hall’s repairs were of
top priority.
“At some point [the BOG] said
‘Look, we just have to get this fixed,’”
she said. “And instead of waiting until
we were done with all of the whys and
wherefores and how comes, fights and
everything, they authorized us to go
ahead and get it fixed.”
It is difficult to criticize an administrative body who takes action rather than
hemming and hawing over coffee and
donuts. Yet, concerns crescendo with the
downbeat of this decision.
Is this one of the most immediate financial needs on campus? Will the rather
expensive repair actually eliminate the
sound problem? Hasn’t OP had enough
attention from construction workers in
the past five years?
Granted, the University is pursuing
legal action for the shoddy outcome of
the 2002 renovation, but the constant
apparent favoritism of the music building
above others on campus is approaching
excessiveness.
Four years — the amount of time the
average student spends to earn a college
degree — is how long it has taken to address the issue legally.
And yet the original renovation errors
still have not been rectified, despite the
fact that Bob Jones, dean of fine arts,
said the University was aware of the
acoustical issues immediately following
the 2002 renovation.
Thus, the needed attention for other
campus buildings has been either pushed
off or neglected. Kirk Building finally is
receiving roof repairs after years of the
building existing in partial uselessness.
Baldwin Hall, in all its dilapidated
glory, is a constant source of complaint
among students and faculty.
Furthermore, there is no guarantee the
$1-million roof repavement will cease
the interruption of the elements during
the “Hallelujah Chorus” or any other
performance.
Without a completed lawsuit and
the opinions of tuition-paying Truman
students, perhaps the risk of such a cost
might be worth the “whys and wherefores” where the precious little money of
the University is involved.
Oct. 19 Results
Index
as of midnight Tuesday
82% (244)
Web poll
Yes, I feel it is necessary.
Would you be willing
to pay a $25 fee for
the Athletics
Department?
16% (48)
No, my money could go to better things.
2% (5)
Undecided.
THIS WEEK’S QUESTION:
vote online at
www.trumanindex.com
How do you feel about the University creating a
museum?
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Letters to the Editor
Index unfairly portrays Leverson in
marijuana distribution article
It’s unfortunate that last week’s front
page news [“Senior arrested for selling
marijuana,” Page 1] went right for the
throat, indicting the accused for an
incident that has not yet been resolved
by the courts.
This paper has been more courteous to alleged arsonists and suspected
rapists.
It’s also unfortunate that Coach
Currier’s comment had more to do with
his own feelings of being cheated, rather
than showing any concern for a young
man who is now facing 10 years to life
in prison and is a victim of entrapment.
But what’s most unfortunate is that
an outstanding scholar and athlete, who
represents the very best character of our
students at Truman, has been branded
a criminal by an institution he respects
and a community he has served when
we could be more supportive of our
own.
Because if the accused was set up
(in a pre-election round-up meant for
“cleaning up the streets,” perhaps), then
his tragedy is not his own. It’s all of
ours and it affects us all. And it could
affect any of us at any time.
For example, under Chapter 195 of
the Missouri Revised Statutes (2005),
“possessing a controlled substance”
doesn’t mean one has to have something
on one’s person. Basically, one can have
knowledge of where something is (even
if it’s not his), or one can know someone
who has something, and this gives authorities the right to bust an individual.
Easily twistable laws such as this are
vague but powerful, since they can be
manipulated to incarcerate people. This
is the case in the 2,000-foot drug-zoning
law (Missouri Revised Statutes, Section
195.211.2) meant for protecting school
children, which was inappropriately used
to target a member of our community. A
parallel analogy would be the Government
manipulating the Patriot Act to arrest citizens as terrorists because it was possible.
So anyway, people should be a lot
less quick to judge this thing until the full
story comes out or a judge says it’s over.
And students, in particular, should be
aware that our civil liberties might not be
as easy to protect as we think they are.
Mark Spitzer
Assistant Professor of English
Adviser for NORML and SSDP
Possible prison sentence of
Leverson doesn’t fit the crime
Arrested senior Jerard Leverson is
at risk of spending 10 years in prison
— and for what, allegedly selling
grass? He might be put into a brutal
prison for a decade, forced to live
amongst real monsters and have his
life destroyed, and for what?
Authorities have never been able
to adequately explain why marijuana
is illegal. “It’s a gateway drug,” said
my good old DARE Officer Bulla
back in 5th grade. Well, if that’s the
logic, what about cigarettes or beer?
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Jonathon Burns
Senior
Smoking ban takes away the right
of choice for business owners
Smokers are the only minority I
know of off hand who can have their
rights taken away by a vote of “the majority” because more than 70 percent of
the Kirksville residents are non-smokers and under 30 percent smoke.
However, consider this: According to “Breathe Easy Kirksville,” 21
percent of the population here smokes.
This translates into 3,600 people,
according to our census data. Now if
they all quit going to bars and restaurants and assuming they were spending $1,000 a year eating and drinking
out (to me this is a very low figure,
our family spends closer to $3,000
a year eating and drinking out) this
will cost the local businesses more
than $3.5 million a year and about
$300,000 in lost sales tax.
Financial concerns aside, what
happened to the business owners’ rights,
the person that put up the thousands and
in some cases, hundreds of thousands of
dollars to open a business? Why can’t he
or she say “this is a smoking establishment — non-smokers not welcome”?
Now I know this offends the sensibilities of some people, to think that they
are not wanted somewhere or that their
business is not appreciated, but nonsmokers aren’t protected under the Constitution. I own a small local business
and do not employ any non-smokers.
However, Jill McCord is not
correct in saying that non-smoking
students have a hard time finding
work at a non-smoking business. At
the time of this writing, there are five
local shops that don’t allow smoking with “help wanted” signs out.
McCord and Jeff Newton probably
couldn’t vote on this issue as councilmembers since they both own
businesses that serve food. I don’t,
as a free American, feel that others’
views of behavior should be shoved
down others throats. If you don’t like
to be around smoke, then follow Dale
Blesz’s advice, and go to the 13 out
of 40 establishments in town that voluntarily do not allow smoking, and
stay out of the ones that don’t want
your business anyway.
Charles Cannaday
Kirksville Resident
Football’s practice field affects
others, not just the football team
Truman’s men’s and women’s
rugby teams are club sports and as
such, we are not permitted to reserve
the south field for practice during
the week. We can reserve the field
for intercollegiate matches only on a
first-come basis.
In recent weeks, the Truman football coaching staff has moved football
practices to the south field, citing a
desire not to ruin their practice field.
There is no question of access, since
apparently they have first right, and
we have no rights to the field. The
rugby teams are relegated to small
patches of uneven ground for practice. Not only are we forced to move
to smaller and less desirable practice fields without notice, but in the
process, the football team tears up our
only available game field. On the best
of days, the south “rugby” field is
only minimally adequate as a playing
surface. In fact, this field is inferior to
the home fields available to every college team we play, so it is even more
embarrassing and frustrating when
other collegiate rugby teams come to
Truman to play on a field that is completely torn up. We do not understand
why the football team can’t use their
own practice field, and let the men’s
and women’s rugby teams continue to
share the south field for practice and
games.
Tim Hage
Senior
President of Bulls Rugby Club
Index corrections
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Editorial policy
Marijuana is less dangerous than
either cigarettes or beer.
Marijuana is less dangerous than
driving on the freeway. The only
reasons for its continued illegality are
the government’s inability to find a
reliable way to tax it and its refusal to
admit it has lost the “war on drugs.”
New solutions to drug use are in order, and they don’t include perpetually
making drugs illegal.
Were marijuana legalized, gangland
violence would drop, and the quality
of the products would improve, along
with its safety — and the same goes for
other drugs. Remember Prohibition and
a great American businessman named
Al Capone? Capone never would have
been powerful and dangerous were it
not for a silly bunch of tyrants in Congress. Markets exist whether a particular lobby in this country wants them to
or not. And consider this: If drugs like
marijuana were legal and they harmed
people in very serious ways, consumers could sue the manufacturer. This
is what reasonable people do when
products don’t work.
A few years ago, when a big U.S.
car company had a problem with its
products gas tanks exploding, state
legislatures and the federal government
didn’t outlaw cars. Curbing freedom is
never a solution to a problem, but holding people to the contracts they make
usually is.
The Leverson case is highly instructive. Is it really worth the death of a
young man’s future and his banishment
to hell on earth (kept as a hell by the
government, I might add. Do a little research on the staggering level of maleon-male rape in prisons in this country
and the unwillingness of wardens to do
anything about it, and you’ll see what
I mean [makes Abu Ghraib look like
Barney]) and all in the name of keeping something as harmless as marijuana
illegal? It’s a bad trade. Wake up.
Steven Chappell’s byline in his letter to the editor [Page 4, Oct. 19 issue] is incorrect. Chappell was a former assistant
professor of communication at Truman, not an associate professor. Chappell also is not a professor at Middle Tennessee
State University but is the Director of Student Media.
The story “A.T. Still invests in advanced $10-million technology center” [Page 1, Oct. 19 issue] contains a statistical
error. On Page 7, the article states that “KCOM had until June 1 to raise nearly $8,000, the amount needed to receive the
Kresge award.” The amount needed is actually $800,000.
An indirect quote was misattributed in “Monday coronation allows for sigh of relief” on Page 1 of the Oct. 19 issue.
Senior Kelsey Umbarger said the committee believed having the King and Queen, as well as the rest of the court, present
at activities throughout the week was another incentive for announcing [the winners] Monday because attending the
parade has been one of the only activities they have, not senior John Allen as the attribution implies.
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Other Voices
Experience illustrates
ills of marijuana usage
I sell marijuana online.
Yes, you read correctly. I’m engaged in
the sale of what would be an illicit and controlled substance, if that were the whole truth.
To be forthcoming, I’ve been addicted to the
game “DopeWars Online” for about three
weeks now, gleefully selling and stealing in a
complete fantasy world of Internet drugs.
However, I’m also glad that in the real
world, marijuana remains illegal.
Last week, senior Jerard Leverson was
arrested for distribution of a controlled
substance near a school, specifically, marijuana near A.T. Still University of Health
Sciences, according to the Oct. 19 issue of
the Index. A guilty verdict for such a hefty
offense carries with it the penalty of a minimum of 10 years in prison, according to the
grand jury indictment.
However, Leverson is not alone in his
plight. Every 42 seconds, a person is arrested in the United States for a marijuanarelated offense, according to the National
Organization for the Reform of Marijuana
Laws.
So why am I happy that we have laws
that would imprison Leverson and others
like him if they are found guilty? Why am
I set against the reform of marijuana laws,
which would allow for decriminalization?
Quite simply, marijuana is dangerous.
In the United States, the Controlled
Substances Act of 1970 compartmentalizes
drugs, marijuana included, into separate categories of addiction, danger and medicinal
use. According to its placement in Schedule
I, marijuana has a high potential for abuse,
has no currently accepted medical use as
treatment in the United States and has no
accepted safety method for use, even under
medical supervision.
But let’s assume that you, like me, trust
“
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Daniel Glossenger
nothing that the government has to offer,
especially Nixon-era blanket statements
about some “high potential for abuse” or a
“lack of accepted safety for use.”
Then I’ll offer up the simple reason why
I don’t smoke and have no desire to do so.
It certainly isn’t the Controlled Substances
Act of 1970.
Like many other future educators, I was
inspired by a teacher I met in high school.
She taught me physics and chemistry, and
before I graduated, she told me the story of
why she wore her daughter’s high school
class ring.
Her daughter was ranked third in her
class and was two weeks away from her
graduation ceremony. She was driving home
from school in her small evergreen Nissan
truck, and as always, she was wearing her
seatbelt.
A little blue Chevrolet crossed the thin
yellow lines on the curving country road
outside our suburban country town. And that
little blue Chevrolet collided with the small
green Nissan being driven by my teacher’s
daughter.
A friend of her daughter knocked on my
teacher’s door — an accident had happened
nearby. At this point, my teacher began to
speak slower with fewer sentences. A green
truck. Sirens. Broken glass. And she was
gone.
The other driver stated that he began using marijuana some time ago and then later
became addicted to other drugs. He was
under the influence of marijuana when he
got behind the wheel of his vehicle.
I know that many of you will say, “But I
never smoke and drive.” Neither did he until
that balmy April afternoon. I know others
among you will say, “But all I do is smoke
marijuana, nothing more.” He would’ve
said the same.
I can’t expect this column to convince
you not to sell marijuana, much less decide
not to smoke at all. But I can expect for you
to just ask yourself, honestly, “Why?” Is
your life that hard? Do you really need to
escape that badly? Is it really that rebellious
anymore?
In the words of one of my close friends,
“It’s a ridiculous fad.” Unfortunately, for my
former teacher, it’s a bit more than that, I’m
afraid.
Just a bit.
Daniel Glossenger is a junior
history major currently
studying in Accra, Ghana
“
They didn’t inspire me to
begin to write columns,
but their work let me
know it was safe
to do so.
”
Chris Waller
about sensitive topics when no one else
would and oftentimes, put their own necks
on the line as a result.
Joel and Chris are a rare breed. They
didn’t write for their own personal gain,
for the ability to have their picture in the
paper every other week or for the money
(trust me, no one here writes because of
that). They wrote because they believed
they could make the world a better place
because of it. They believed the world had
many issues that needed to be brought
to attention, issues that needed to be
talked about. They believed that they were
providing a voice to the masses that had
previously gone unheard.
And because of actions and decisions
beyond their control, they felt as if the
voices they had created had been silenced.
They have both decided to take their work
elsewhere to places where they feel their
talents can be used more effectively.
I respect both Joel and Chris a great
deal for this decision, and even though
their absence will be felt in the opinions
section and in the paper as a whole, I
believe they made the correct move. They
were willing to take a stand when no one
else would and were willing to give up
everything, including their careers at the
paper, for it.
They were both assets to the paper, and
their contributions will be greatly missed.
Speaking on behalf of all of their fans in
the past few years, I would like to thank
both of you for the hard work you’ve put
into the paper, and I wish you both luck on
your future endeavors.
Chris Waller is a senior
communication and English major
from St. Joseph, Mo.
‘’Tis the season’ takes on a
different meaning in October
You just never know when the plastic
chain saw is going to get you.
No matter where you turn this time
of year, a host of ghoulish, growling,
grotesque creatures are ready to leap out at
you and knock your heart into your throat
for the next 11 months. There’s no shortage of haunted houses, barns, cornfields
or basements to give you the case of the
creeps and provide oppressive claustrophobia. And for some reason, we like it that
way.
Sure, it’s autumn, but it’s also the
Season of the Scare, that time close to
Halloween when we throw caution to the
wind and dive straight into the arms of
the nearest werewolf. We play Michael
Jackson’s “Thriller” continuously, become
strangely fascinated with cobwebs and
fake blood in Wal-Mart and spend hours
watching horror movie marathons instead
of toiling away at homework. We do all
this, but for the real fun, we wait until
darkness creeps in and the full moon rises
before merrily trooping to the nearest
haunted place. It doesn’t matter where, so
long as we’re guaranteed to scream and
dash madly for the exit.
I’m just as guilty as anyone when it
comes to getting my thrill fix. Halloween
isn’t my favorite holiday by far, but I love
a good scare like anyone else. For the past
few years, I’ve made it a point to visit one
of eastern Iowa’s premier autumn attractions, the “Haunted Barn.” As the name
suggests, this is indeed a small, run-down
barn that, during the month of October, is
filled with all things frightening. Despite
its remote location and lack of publicity, you’ll have to wait a good hour on
weekends before even setting foot in the
Around the Quad
This week’s question:
“Which building on campus needs the most
improvement?”
I know that many of
you will say, ‘But I never
smoke and drive.’
Neither did he, until
that balmy April
afternoon.
Departure of two columnists
inspires reflection of their work
I’ve never written a eulogy before, but
after sitting down to write this column, I
have a strange feeling of what writing one
would feel like.
Both avid readers of the Index and newcomers alike will notices two holes in the
paper for the rest of the semester. I’m not
talking about an actual blank spot in the paper (the editors would never let that slide)
but instead the holes that will be left in the
opinions section by the resignation of two
of the most tenured and talented members
who contributed to the Index.
Unfortunately, veteran columnists
Joel Anderson and Chris Matthews both
resigned from our paper last week, taking
a combined six years of experience with
them. Their decisions to leave were difficult for both of them. Joel and Chris both
thoroughly enjoyed writing and beyond
that, they truly believed their columns
made a difference in the community we
share here at Truman. They believed their
columns spurred public thought, debate
and most importantly, communication. In
my opinion, they did.
Their columns were unique and thought
provoking, and I remember when I first
read them in the paper, I was amazed that
someone at Truman had the guts to say
the things they were saying, let alone the
gall to print it. They didn’t inspire me to
begin to write columns, but their work let
me know it was safe to do so. They wrote
5
“
I don’t know what
comes over me or
anyone else that causes
us to run for dark,
deserted places and
embrace a chance to
scream.
Sarah Shebek
building. That’s part of the fun. While
standing in line and attempting to avoid
death by wind chill, you can hear all sorts
of tall tales about what really takes place
inside Iowa’s version of the haunted house,
everything from dismemberment to heart
attacks to ghost sightings. One year, I
hugged some sort of masked creature that
was haunting the crowds, and another year
I saw an unfortunate teenager get trapped
in the bathroom as a man with a plastic
chain saw lurked outside.
The hilarity only continues once
you’re fortunate enough to get inside.
Although the Haunted Barn is roughly
the size of a large garage and has far too
many places for the lunatics to hide. I’ve
had more than my fair share of near-death
experiences. I’ve been chased by crawling
creatures that barked and howled, crashed
into the Grim Reaper, ran headlong into
walls and was once forced into a corner
by the same thug with the chain saw. Apparently, he liked teenage girls, but I managed to escape without any missing body
parts. You would think these experiences
would reduce me to tears, but I laughed
hysterically the whole time and vowed to
”
come back for more the following year.
Honestly, I’m lucid and mostly normal
for the other 11 months of the year and so
are the friends that I drag along with me
to the haunted locale. I don’t know what
comes over me or anyone else that causes us
to run for dark, deserted places and embrace
a chance to scream. Maybe it’s a sugar rush
from too much Halloween candy or some
demented desire to reenact a scene from
“The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.” Maybe
life is just too mundane for our liking, or
maybe we want a second crack at those
childhood monsters that lurked under our
bed. Maybe we just enjoy screaming until
we’re hoarse, with pounding hearts, goose
bumps and defying doctor’s orders.
Whatever the reason, it’s become a tradition to pursue all things frightful during
this season. The world is too crazy not to
embrace the crazies once in a while. So run
for your life, and pardon me if I trample
you in my dash for the doors. I’m not getting trapped in any dark corners this year.
Sarah Shebek is a sophomore
communication major
from Iowa City, Iowa
“I’d have to say Baldwin. Out of all the
buildings I’ve been in, it’s not nice.
Baldwin’s kind of old and dark.”
Shantay Guyton
freshman
“The main difficulty is in the [elevators].
They’re quite old.”
Dibyesh Neupane
freshman
“I guess BNB because, some of the stories
I’ve heard, some of the rooms are falling
apart, and it’s the oldest residence hall.”
Becky Whitford
freshman
“[I would] probably say Baldwin, because it
smells bad and it’s really hot.”
Billy Miller
junior
Marriage should not
be treated youthfully
In something reminiscent of the way
we all snatched up car keys the moment
our biological clocks rolled over to 16,
I have recently watched a handful of
friends pop the big question. Mazel tov!
But something is nagging at the back
of my brain. Perhaps it is that inner
denial that will not allow me to acknowledge that I am officially up for grabs in
the marriage meat market. It could be the
devastatingly high divorce rate for those
who marry before the age of 27. I want
to be an idealist, but I reckoned a long
time ago that my brand of idealism is
entirely unique.
The problem is the motivation behind
marriage. For many, the answer is,
“Because it seemed like the next natural
step,” as if this was on some sort of
checklist of things to do before they die.
It most likely is. In this mind set, love is
enhanced by marriage. In fact, love is not
love without marriage. Eureka! I have
found the problem.
From my understanding, love is
supposed to be infinite, selfless and
all-encompassing, an intimidating perspective on a word so casually thrown
around. For many, marriage is a symbol of something bigger, a love shared
between two people, a metaphysical
melting of two individuals into one while
tapping into some sublime infinity of
affection or something equally ambiguous and cheesy. I am not here to bash
love. Rather, love is the grand prize and
marriage is just the trophy. If love is pure
and eternal, then it certainly should be
self-sustaining.
For the religious reader, I understand
this does not comply with your notion
of marriage whatsoever. Coming from a
religious background, I understand your
opinion that without divine approval,
this love would not be wholesome. Essentially, this is God’s go-ahead on the
dirty deed. And you know what? Make
haste, clear things with the creator. This
is an expression of your faith, and it is a
vital part of it. If it has a celestial rubber
stamp, by all means it should be selfsustaining.
What is not needed is state contract
with potential to ruin — if God forbid,
and for some of us that is literal — the
whole thing fall through. Why is it we
need legal validation of a cultural and
religious practice? Perhaps it says something about our faith in divine authority,
our society or even our partner. Whatever
the reason, this move from a symbolic
covenant of love to a contract of obligation has proven again and again to be the
real threat to the sanctity of marriage.
Tax incentives aside, if a romance
needs legal boundaries not to go careening out of control, is it the kind of relationship one really wants to waltz into?
“
Phil Jarrett
The problem is the
motivation behind
marriage. For many,
the answer is, ‘Because
it seemed like the next
natural step.’
”
Is that undying love or never-ending duty?
So little consideration is given to the fine
print in a legally recognized marriage,
leaving it easy to walk into and a torment
to leave. For those who would suggest
that having no consequence would make
marriage inconsequential, I offer this
token: It has not stopped us before.
Limited outlets of civil union and domestic partnership, which can encompass
heterosexuality, still exist. Granted, the
tax breaks and joint-filing are non-existent, there is no establishing of kinship,
marriages cannot be used for immigration purposes and, oh, no wedding
presents.
Because the government has shown
itself to be so incapable of keeping marriage sacred, it is time for its grand exit
from the institution altogether. Now we
do not have to worry about gay marriage
interfering with religious exclusiveness.
The legal entanglement for the romantically entangled would be down played.
No more obligation over infatuation.
The fact remains, heterosexuality
still is enjoying superiority. However,
superiority comes with a high cost. If
anything, booting the state from our love
lives might promote a healthy cynicism
rooted in personal responsibility and
the time required to nurture an intimate
understanding of our partners.
But until that fateful day, college
kids need to apply their critical thinking
outside of academia. This early marriage phenomena might be the more
romantic option, but it certainly is not
the wisest.
Phil Jarrett is a junior philosophy
and religion and communication
major from Chesterfield, Mo.
Community
6
Ban discussion
draws crowd
Citizens discuss smoking
ordinance, Council approves
new notification system
he said. “This is a health issue, not a personal rights issue.”
Freshman Brittany Schultehenrich demonstrated how smoke circulates in a restaurant by bringing to the Council a fishbowl
Jackson Groves
with masking tape down the center.
“On the right side of the tape, we have
Staff Reporter
the no-smoking section,” she said. “On
More than 70 people packed city hall the left side is the smoking section. This
Oct. 18 to let council members know how dye represents a smoker. Watch what hapthey felt about a proposed smoking ban.
pens when I put the dye in the bowl.”
The ordinance would ban smoking
After a few minutes, the dye had cirin all bars, restaurants and city parks in culated throughout the entire bowl, parKirksville. Before the Council’s regular alleling how smoke circulates throughmeeting, about 25 people went to the po- out the restaurant.
dium to speak on the issue,
Later in the meeting, the
and all were unanimous in
Council gave approval to
their support of the ban. They
Kirksville Police Chief Jim
cited medical studies, per- “This is a health Hughes to begin the process
sonal experiences and even
of installing a new emergency
issue, not a
used demonstrations to entelephone notification system.
courage the City Council to personal rights
Hughes said the system
vote on the ordinance rather
would use existing phone
issue.”
than put it on the ballot.
lines and an automated mesSenior Josh Kappel supsage system to notify citizens
Tom Mayer
ported the ordinance but Academic Medicine Inc. of a wide variety of emerraised concern, saying people
gency situations. He said the
Employee
who go to bars to drink, and
system will notify citizens in
then go outside to smoke,
every house in Adair County
might inadvertently violate
or specific neighborhoods if
public intoxication laws.
the emergency is more localized.
“In passing the ordinance, you have to
“Take, for example, a tanker spill out
look at the whole picture,” Kappel said.
on Highway 63, and there was a toxic
Dr. Tom Mayer, of Academic Medi- plume of some type,” Hughes said. “We
cine Inc., said he has had to diagnose lung could estimate where it was headed and
cancer in many patients and said fears of draw a circle around where that plume is
economic loss are far outweighed by the going to go ... and the system would call
detrimental effects of smoking on health. every single home identified by that circle
“There is overwhelming evidence that on the computer system.”
a smoking ban would help businesses,”
Hughes said the system also would be
Jackson Groves/Index
Freshman Brittany Schultehenrich demonstrates at the City Council meeting Oct. 18 how smoke dissipates from
the smoking section of a restaurant to the nonsmoking section by using a fishbowl with masking tape and dye.
able to notify groups of people such as all
physicians or city employees if an emergency was happening that needed their
response. He also said people would have
the option to put their cell phone numbers
on the list so they could be notified even
if they were not at home.
He said the system would be purchased solely using money from a
$51,000 grant from the Department of
Homeland Security and would not cost
local taxpayers anything.
The University tentatively had agreed
to house phone lines for making the localized calls, which would mean that the city
would save money and not have to pay
additional expenses, Hughes said.
“There are a number of diverse uses for
this system,” Hughes said. “The primary
purpose is as an additional emergency notification system. Based on the system’s
parameters, we have the ability of making a phone call to every single resident in
Adair County within 30 minutes.”
Hughes recommended that the Council approve purchase of a system through
GeoComm because it handles the routing
of 911 calls in the area. Hughes said the
Police Department had arranged to set
up a “bank” of 50,000 one-minute phone
calls, which would be enough calls to
make four mass notifications of everyone
in Adair County.
After the 50,000 calls are used up,
the cost per call for the mass calls would
increase to 15 cents per 30-second call,
Hughes said.
He said he did not know of any communities in northeast Missouri that had a
similar system. He said he thinks the system
could be up and running by January.
The system would be useful for a wide
variety of different uses, including getting
word out about epidemic outbreaks of
viruses, hazardous material spills, lost or
abducted children, escaped suspects and
boil orders, Hughes said.
The system would not replace weather
sirens, emergency broadcast system or
the cable notification systems currently in
place because each one serves a slightly
different purpose, he said.
“This is just another tool in the emergency notification toolbox,” Hughes said.
University’s Speech and Hearing Clinic will join NEMO Telehealth
Laura Prather
Staff Reporter
Imagine being able to communicate with someone by looking at
them on a TV monitor.
Beginning January 2007, the
Speech and Hearing Clinic at Truman will begin to develop its services as a new site in the Northeast
Missouri Telehealth Network.
Truman clinicians will be able
to have sessions with clients via
TV monitor and camera with audio and video capabilities, said
Paula Cochran, professor of communication disorders.
“I consider it to be pretty cut-
ting-edge,” Cochran said. “But it
isn’t like nobody has ever done
this before. People have already
shown that this can be effective. It
just hasn’t been done in Missouri
or northeast Missouri.”
In the 2004-05 academic year,
109 clients received speech therapy on a regular basis at the Speech
and Hearing Clinic located in Barnett Hall, Cochran said.
The number of clients will not
increase with the extended services because of the limited number
of clinicians, Cochran said.
“We are not expanding the
number of clients, but a different
kind of client will have better ac-
cess to us,” Cochran said.
The NEMO Telehealth NetThe communication disorders work, which is funded by a
department applied
grant from the Misto be a part of the
souri
Foundation
NEMO
Telehealth
for Health, began in
“I consider it to July 2005, said Celia
Network and were
be pretty
informed of their acHagan, project coorceptance at the begincutting-edge.” dinator for NEMO
ning of the semester.
Telehealth Network.
“[It] won’t cost
The main pieces
Paula Cochran
the University anyof equipment are
Professor of
thing,”
Cochran
a TV monitor and
Communication
said. “It’s a service
camera, which send
Disorders
to the citizens of
the video and audio
northeast Missouri
through a broadband
and a great opportuT1 line, Hagan said.
nity for students, so it’s like a Other variations of equipment
win-win all around.”
can be used for specific func-
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Cochran said Truman is expected to receive the equipment
by the end of the semester so students can begin their training in
the spring.
Students will learn how to use
the equipment in their clinical
practice course, Cochran said.
Currently, undergraduate and
graduate student clinicians treat
clients in need of speech therapy,
senior Kate Carlson said.
Carlson, in her second semester of being a clinician, said she is
looking forward to being a part of
the new project before she graduates in December.
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“If I go elsewhere, I’ll be one of
the few people to say, ‘I’ve worked
with Telehealth. I’ve experienced
it, and it works or doesn’t work,’”
Carlson said. “I’ll be able to bring
that into future jobs.”
Carlson said that although
she was skeptical at first, she
thinks the new services will
benefit everyone.
“I think it will bring a lot of
positive attention to the University,” she said. “Other universities
don’t have the chance to provide
this kind of service, and we’re
stepping out in a new way, and I
think that can only reflect really
well on the University.”
Oct. 26, 2006
Downtown Cinema
7 p.m.
Awar ds
1st — $250
2nd — $150
3rd — $50
Best Themed Team — $50
People’s Choice Award
Rieger Armory
500 S. Elson
Kirksville, Mo.
Free to all Truman Students and Faculty
For more information call 660-665-4461
Por tion of pr oceeds to benefit The Nor theast Missour i Association of Citizens with Disabilities
Kirksville R-3 School is celebrating the
new 2006-07 school year. With this comes
many great changes. Just a reminder to everyone that our school and campus is smokefree. We take pride in the health and wellbeing of each and every student as well as
every faculty member. Kirksville R-3 would
like to wish all the area fall
sports a victorious season
and good luck this year!
Brought to you by
Kirksville R-3 Smoke Busters
and Missouri Foundation for Health
The festival was made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC), the Florence Gould Foundation, the Grand
Marnier Foundation, the Franco-American Cultural Fund, and the Truman State University
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7
FORUM l
All Adair County candidates not
running unopposed attend Tuesday’s event
Continued from Page 1
vote for who they want and on the
off by the media personalities.
issues they want,” said Boughton.
After Summers and McClanaBoughton said all Adair Counhan had answered the questions, ty candidates not running unopcandidates
for
posed chose to attend
State Senator Bob
the forum. About 250
Behnen and Wes
citizens showed up to
“We like to
Shoemyer, were inthe event.
troduced and went
Kirksville
citizen
educate the
through the same
Roger Nettleton said
public ... so the he attended the forum
process.
Debi Boughton, voters can vote to support McClanahan
project
manager
and Shoemyer and to
for who they
for the Chamber
find out how the candiwant and on
of Commerce, said
dates felt about issues
her
organization the issues they like the stem cell initiadoes not support
tive. He said he wished
want.”
a particular party
the candidates had more
or endorse specific
time to speak and exDebi Boughton
candidates. They
pand on their issues.
Project Manger for the
have been holding
“You get kind of a
Chamber of Commerce
candidate forums
fast glimpse that really
for several years.
doesn’t always repre“We like to edusent how [the candicate the public, so our goal is to give dates] really feel about an issue,”
opportunities ... so the voters can Nettleson said.
BALLOT l
Proposed amendments join list
strongly supports this amendment.
“I would judge by the sign on
the front door that we support
the amendment,” said Richard
Ellis, Vietnam War veteran and
member of the VFW. “I’m 99.9
percent satisfied with the way that
[veterans] are treated.”
The Secretary of State office
approves all ballot items. Stacie
Temple, media contact for the
secretary of state, did not return
repeated phone calls.
?
On the Ballot
Constitutional Amendment 6
Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended
to include a tax exemption for real and
personal property that is used or held
exclusively for nonprofit purposes or activities
of veterans’ organizations?
Constitutional Amendment 7
Shall Article XIII, Section 3 of the Constitution
be amended to require that legislators,
statewide elected officials, and judges forfeit
state pensions upon felony conviction,
removal from office following impeachment
or for misconduct, and to require that
compensation for such persons be set by
a citizens’ commission subject to voter
referendum?
Design by Lindsay Koski/Index
Source: sos.mo.gov
FIGHT l
MUSEUM l
these were part of the probable cause for Robinson’s
arrest. Robinson also had
three small cuts on his hand,
according to Feeney’s statement.
The investigation is ongoing, meaning more charges
might be filed, Hughes said.
He said police still are
seeking witnesses to the
event.
“We know there’s a lot of
witnesses out there that have
yet to come forward, and
we’re asking for the public’s
help,” Hughes said. “Give us
a call, and let us know what
you saw or heard.”
Roberts is being represented by local attorney Jay
Benson. Roberts’ preliminary
hearing is set for 2 p.m. Nov.
22, and Robinson’s will be
the same day at 9 a.m.
Neither Norfolk nor Benson could be reached for
comment.
John Fraire, associate vice president for enrollment, was involved
with the decision of relocating the
Office of Admission.
“I was happy when the University decided to make the move
and also to have the admissions
office there,” Fraire said. “It’s a
central location. ... It’s to our advantage that students and parents
and guests see a modern welcoming center.”
Brad Chambers, co-director of
the Office of Admission, said the
move won’t take too long.
“With our operation, it seems
we’re always open,” Chambers
said. “I suspect the move will be
very quick, so we’re not unavailable to visitors at any time.”
He said the new location will
help Admissions counselors to tell
the University’s story visually.
The extra space in McClain
Hall that will become available
will not go to waste.
Dixon mentioned several offices that are cramped, including the
Business Office and the Human
Resources Office.
Police
chief asks witnesses
to come forward
Photo Illustration by Samantha Sanchez
Senior nursing major Julie Bahr demonstrates how to give an influenza vaccine Monday. Junior Sheryl Adams received her flu
shot earlier that day. Now students will be able to get flu shots anytime during normal Student Health Center hours.
Students walk in for shots
More convenient flu
vaccines will cost
students $15
Lisette Metz Grulke
Assistant Features Editor
The Student Health Center
wants to stick as many students as
possible — at their convenience.
Starting Tuesday, students
can get an influenza vaccine at
the health center on a walk-in
basis for $15.
“The faculty and staff will
still have a flu shot clinic, a
couple set hours that they can
come in and get them,” said
Brenda Higgins, director of the
health center. “But students will
be able to come in at any time
besides those hours and get the
shot then.”
In the past, students only
could receive flu shots during
flu shot clinics, which occurred
once during the fall semester.
Higgins said they made
changes to ease the process of to avoid getting influenza regetting a flu shot.
ceive a flu shot in October or
“We’re trying to really make November, according to their
it more accessible for students Web site.
so that more students are able to
People in groups at high risk
get them,” she said. “We always for complications from influtry to do everything we can to enza, like people with asthma,
prevent
students
compromised
imfrom getting sick.”
mune systems, young
Senior Liz Raine
children and the el“You can’t get derly are especially
said she thinks the
convenience factor
encouraged to rethe flu from
of the new flu shot
ceive a flu shot.
getting a flu
availability will enPeople who are alshot.”
tice more students
lergic to eggs should
to get them.
not receive flu shots
“If you think
because of a potenBrenda Higgins
about the blood Director of the Student tial allergic reaction,
drives, where you
according to the CDC
Health Center
have to sit and wait
Web site.
an hour to give
It’s a common
blood, I’d think the
misconception that a
same would happen at a flu shot person can get the flu from reclinic,” Raine said. “If you can ceiving a flu shot.
just walk in and get one, people
“You can’t get the flu from
will be more likely to get one.” getting a flu shot,” Higgins
The Centers for Disease said. “You can get a little achy,
Control and Prevention recom- or have an immune response
mends that anyone who wants that will give you some flu-like
symptoms, like a runny nose or
a low-grade fever. But you can’t
actually get the flu.”
Although the vaccine is recommended and the health center is trying to make the process
as easy as possible, many students still will not get the flu
vaccine.
“I see the health importance
of getting one, but I don’t think
I need one,” Raine said. “I don’t
think I’ll ever get the flu.”
Junior Amanda Senn said
that although it might be easier
to get the shot now, she is not
likely to get one.
“I’ve never really gotten a flu
shot before because I’ve never
gotten the flu,” Senn said. “I
don’t know if I’d get one at the
health center because I’ve been
there before, and I don’t really
trust the information they’ve
given me.”
Senn said cost also is a factor that plays into her decision.
“Maybe I’d get one if it was
free,” she said.
Feasibility study determined
former firehouse could be converted
“Certainly a piece of Advancement would ... come upstairs,”
she said. “But there are many
ways in which you can reconfigure space.”
Dixon said the museum is set
to open in 2008.
Campus Planner Doug Winicker confirmed that the construction
of the museum should take about
18 months. However, he said the
University has not chosen an architect yet.
The Board authorized a feasibility study for the firehouse in May,
Winicker said. He said the study,
which was conducted by HKW
Architects, cost about $15,000.
The cost was split between the
University and the University
Foundation, which is the nonprofit
organization that manages private
donations to the University.
“We looked at various firms
and made a recommendation as to
someone well-qualified to do the
study,” Winicker said.
Ruth Mach, president of the
Board, said the museum will
honor Towne, a 1939 University
graduate and longtime professor
Phil Jarrett/Index
The firehouse at the corner of Franklin and Normal Streets will undergo massive renovations
before it opens as the Dr. Ruth Towne Museum and Visitor Center in 2008.
who died in 1998.
“She really made history come
alive,” Mach said. “It was really a
great desire of hers to make sure
that in some way we were able to
historically bring alive the great
story of Truman State University,
which is her dream, not only just
to have a museum but for it to be
visible, to be something that could
engage the public.”
Mach said the Board deliberated before allocating the University funds to the museum.
“We are always very frugal,
and we are very cautious about
making sure we never spend our
funds in a frivolous manner,”
she said.
At the Board meeting Friday,
Mach said the current Office of
Admission is directed inward to-
ward campus and that this adds to
the anxiety students feel on their
first visit to the University.
“I know the apprehension that
young freshmen take with them
to the campus, not only the students, but their families,” she
said. “I think of this as sort of a
gateway or pathway into the inner campus, a way to feel good
and secure.”
Index
8
Locals unite
with devout
collegians
Stefani Wittenauer
for the Index
When Truman students move
to Kirksville each school year,
they bring more to the community
than just added revenue.
Students also bring a dedication to religion that impacts
faith-based communities in the
Kirksville area. Members of the
community and Truman students
often join together to practice
their faiths.
Christian Students
Volunteer Time, Talent
College students are often depicted as nonreligious people who
only care about partying, but new
research suggests that this stereotype is incorrect.
A majority of college students
say religion is important in their
lives, according to a Harvard
University poll released this
year. The poll also found that 25
percent of students said they had
become more spiritual since entering college.
Junior Zach Smyth feels the
same way and chooses to volunteer at an area church.
Smyth spends every Wednesday night serving as a youth group
leader through the Mary Immaculate Catholic church in Kirksville.
Smyth said he volunteered at
Mary Immaculate because he remembers the positive impact his
youth group leaders had on him
when he was a teenager.
“I had really inspirational and
cool people that I could look up
to when I was in youth ministry
and stuff back in high school,”
Smyth said.
Chris Korte, coordinator of
youth ministry for Mary Immaculate, said Truman students such as
Smyth serve as role models for
youth group members.
“The example the college students set is golden,” he said.
During the summer, when many
Truman students leave Kirksville,
Korte said weekly youth groups
do not meet because of the lack
of available leaders. Korte said
student volunteers from Truman
are essential to youth ministry at
Mary Immaculate.
“They’re really the youth ministers of our parish,” Korte said.
Korte said the experience often
benefits both the teenagers and the
college students.
“[The college students] get
to know the teenagers and kind
of build that sense of bond with
them,” he said.
Area Churches
Welcome Students
Although college students do
not usually make large financial
contributions, area churches
view them as important members of their congregations.
Many churches, such as the
Kirksville Church of Christ,
spend valuable time and rephoto submitted
sources on college-aged mem- Senior Allison Roth (front, center) roasts apples with members of the Grace Community Bible Church youth group at an event
bers of their congregations.
last year. Roth frequently helps out with youth events at the church.
Alan Klein, a deacon at the
“We have them over for dinner tually here in a room in the library, in Kirksville. Sophomore Anna
Church of Christ, said the church said she signed up for the adopted
community wants to help students family program and feels that it has on Sunday afternoon when most and we just try to have a room re- Horowitz, president of Hillel, the
strengthen their faith during their helped her build relationships with of them can make it,” she said. served for that because you can pray Jewish student organization on
non-students.
“We have lunch together, and we in any clean place, so we just kind campus, said Hillel allows Jewish
college years.
of put a sheet down on the floor and students to feel connected to one
“It’s nice to have somebody in just have a good time talking.”
“We look at the college time
another.
Hasting said that although she go about our business,” she said.
as being the most vulnerable the community who you can go
Cluck said the Muslim StuBecause Kirksville does not
is involved with Campus Crutime,” Klein said. “It’s important to,” she said.
Hasting said she knows that if sade for Christ, an on-campus dents Association exists foremost have a synagogue, Horowitz said
for us to keep [college students]
strong and give them a reason to she ever has a problem or needs ministry group, she still enjoys as a community for the Muslims Jewish students usually only athelp, her Kirksville family will be forming bonds with other mem- on campus, but the organization tend religious services for major
follow God.”
also strives to provide informa- Jewish holidays.
there for her.
bers of the community.
To achieve these
Nancy
Cham“During the holidays, we take
She said her participation with tion to non-Muslims. She said
goals, Klein said the
berlain is Hasting’s an off-campus church allows her she thinks it’s important that cars down [to Columbia],” she
Church of Christ tries
to make students feel “I think overall, adoptive mother at to meet new people and learn from people have a better understand- said. “It’s hard because we really
can’t do a weekly thing.”
welcome by offerthe community Grace Community their experiences, instead of only ing of Islam.
“There just isn’t a lot of access
Bible Church. She interacting with college students.
Horowitz said interacting with
ing free meals every
treats us
Non-Christian Religions [to information about Islam] other Jewish faculty members and their
has adopted eight
Sunday evening and
positively and Truman
Come Together
than what you see on CNN, and families helps students feel welstudents
gearing Bible studies
For some Truman students, even if that’s factual, it’s almost come.
toward college stu- are receptive to this semester because she wants the however, a place of worship is not never positive,” Cluck said.
Daniel Mandell, adviser of
dents.
us, especially
Christians make up 93 per- Hillel and associate professor of
students to feel at right around the corner.
Other area churchSome Jewish and Muslim stu- cent of Adair County residents history, coordinates gatherings for
es also make efforts whenever we do home in Kirksville.
Chamberlain
said dents drive more than 90 miles who claim a religious affilia- Jewish holidays.
to welcome college
education
she feels sympa- to Columbia, Mo., to visit their tion, according to the Associa“My family is Jewish,” Manstudents into their
experiences.”
thetic toward the places of worship because the tion of Religion’s County Mem- dell said. “We celebrate Jewish
congregations.
students because of Kirksville area does not have a bership Report.
holidays, and we invite Jewish
Senior
Corey
Andrea Cluck
synagogue or mosque.
Although Muslims are a mi- students and other Jewish facher own daughter.
Hasting, a member
Junior
Therefore, those students who nority in Adair County, Cluck said ulty members and people in the
“After my daughof Grace Commuter went to college, practice faiths other than Christi- she has felt accepted at Truman community who we know to celnity Bible Church,
I realized what it’s anity form their own communities and in the Kirksville area.
ebrate with us.”
said her church
“I think overall, the commulike for a kid to be in Kirksville.
Horowitz said Hillel is a small
makes her feel like
Junior Andrea Cluck, president nity treats us positively and are group with only about 12 to 14
she is part of the Kirksville away from home and not have
other adults that really care about of the Muslim Students Associa- receptive of us, especially when- active members, but the organizacommunity.
tion, said Muslim students at Tru- ever we do education experienc- tion gives Jewish students a sense
Grace Community Bible Church them,” she said.
She and her family invite the man come together despite the ab- es,” she said.
of belonging.
offers college students the opportuSimilarly, Jewish students at
“It’s basically a place to go, a
nity to be “adopted” by a Kirksville college students to their home for sence of a mosque in Kirksville.
“We do our Friday prayers ac- Truman are a religious minority community,” she said.
family for the school year. Hasting meals and other activities.
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Busch asks for
vote on locally
inspired beer
St. Louis brewery tries hand at
specialty beverage as consumers
favor microbrews to draft beer
Richard Boggs
for the Index
This election requires voters to be 21 years or
older.
The Specialty Brewing Group of AnheuserBusch Companies, Inc. is having a beer election in
October called “You Choose It, We’ll Brew It,” in
which adults choose between three beers that embody a unique Missouri theme. Based in St. Louis,
Anheuser-Busch is promoting Mule Kick Oatmeal
Stout, Confluence Amber Wheat and Pilot House
Pilsner.
“We were asked to get creative and brew something different that would appeal to the tastes of Missouri’s specialty beer drinkers,” according to a press
release from Mark Fabrizio, assistant brewmaster of
the Specialty Brewing Group. “We’re looking forward to tapping the first keg of the winning beer for
the people of Missouri.”
Legal participants can choose their favorite by
voting online at originalbeers.com. The election ends
Oct. 31, and the winner will be announced the next
day.
The Wooden Nickel restaurant and bar already offers the most common Anheuser-Busch products.
“Bud Light’s the No. 1 seller,” Wooden Nickel
owner Dan Vogt said. “Doesn’t matter if it’s a keg
or if it’s in bottles. Usually whenever they come out
with something new, we give it a shot.”
However, Vogt said he is not surprised that Anheuser-Busch is moving into the micro-brew market.
“They just want it all,” Vogt said. “They don’t
want a small piece of the pie. They want the whole
pie.”
Following the competition, the winning beer
will be inaugurated into the Missouri market Jan. 8,
2007. The elected beer will be available only in Missouri and “other select local markets as a draughtonly brew,” according to an Anheuser-Busch press
release.
“They make money making Bud and Bud Light,
that is where their business is,” said Bob Sullivan,
vice president and chief marketing officer of Boulevard Brewing Co.
The Kansas City-based brewery is the No. 2 beer
producer in the state.
With regular beer sales dropping and specialty
beer sales on the rise, Sullivan said he thinks Anheuser-Busch is trying to appeal to a broader market.
“It’s kind of like throwing darts at a wall and seeing what sticks,” Sullivan said. “They’ve tried so
many things.”
The three beers Anheuser-Busch is offering to
Missouri voters all are associated with the state in
several ways.
Mule Kick, an oatmeal stout, is a thick combination of caramel and chocolate flavors with the added
elements of coffee and oatmeal. It has an alcohol
content of 5.9 percent. Much like Missouri, the beer
is represented by a mule, “known for his stubbornheaded kicking-style,” according to a press release
from Anheuser-Busch.
Confluence, a lighter amber wheat beverage,
conveys the union of many Missouri state rivers. Brewed with both wheat and caramel malt,
the drink has an alcohol content of 5.35 percent
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Draft a
ked
Bre
w
Locals carry out
age-old tradition
Julie Williams
Staff Reporter
Respect that ice cold glass of
beer and not just for the obvious
reasons.
Brewing beer is a process that
takes weeks from start to finish. From the breweries at Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.
to the kitchens of beer fanatics across the country, brewing
beer requires some knowledge
of various ingredients and how
they will react with one another
to produce a good blend.
“Most college students see
beer as just a way to get really
drunk, and they don’t really care
how it’s made or what the flavor
is or anything,” said sixth-year
senior Greg Smith. “Not only is
it a semi-complicated process,
but you do learn a lot about the
chemical processes.”
Smith is a history major, who
said beer has been around since
the beginning of civilization,
when people used the brewing
process to kill bacteria in their
water. He said he has dabbled
in brewing his own beer, particularly a Sumerian recipe he
found. He said that turned out
pretty well.
“It does take a little bit of
know-how to do it,” Smith
said. “Once I’m out and have
my own place
I’ll probably just
brew some for my
own tastes.”
Adam Franklin, brewer and bar manager at Il
Spazio, has been the man
behind the restaurant’s beer
for two years. He said he
trained for three months under
the previous brewer, who was
an agriculture science and biology major, and therefore had a
much better understanding of
the science behind brewing.
“[Brewing beer is] very easy
to look at overall, but once you
start getting into the nitty gritty of
it,
it starts
to get really, really
complex,”
Franklin
said.
Franklin explained the process of brewing beer quickly,
casually throwing out words
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Students clean donated skeleton
Katie Johnson
Staff Reporter
Freshman Kate Richardson recently
spent an afternoon collecting bones on
the University Farm with a skull staring
her down.
Richardson and Charlie Apter, associate professor of agriculture, were gathering the bones from a skeleton of a horse
who died at the University Farm. Volunteers from the Introduction to Equine Science class will create a new skeleton from
the bones like the one that normally stands
in the downstairs display case of Magruder Hall.
“It was a little creepy to have the skull
laying there and have it, like, looking at
you,” Richardson said.
Alumna Tammy O’Haver owned the
horse whose bones will be on display.
The horse, named Mystique, was 25 years
old and had terminal liver cancer when
O’Haver decided to donate Mystique’s
body to the Truman science department.
“She went downhill pretty fast,”
O’Haver said. “Her quality of life wasn’t
good enough to try any treatments.”
O’Haver said she knew the skeleton
they had was going to be put in the display
case and not pulled out for labs, which is
something she had greatly enjoyed as a
Truman student.
After speaking with Apter, O’Haver
said she brought Mystique from where she
had been stabled in Queen’s City, Mo., to
the University Farm. The horse was put
to sleep in a remote spot on the farm, she
said.
The horse’s body was surrounded with
fencing to form a cage to prevent other
animals from scavenging it. The body lay
in that position for two years as the flesh
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Basement
Sigma Alpha, the
professional agricultural sorority
hosts its spooky
annual event at
University Farm.
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Charlie Apter, associate professor of agriculture, examines the donated bones
of a horse. The bones were moved to Magruder Hall this week for cleaning.
Haunted Corn
Maze
Around
Faculty- and student-written
compositions will be performed by Cantoria.
disintegrated and deteriorated, Apter said.
Apter helped others collect the bones.
“It’s like an archaeological thing,” Apter said.
The bones were collected as systematically as possible, he said. The vertebrae
were threaded onto a long piece of wire
to keep them in order. Originally, the plan
was to have a bucket to collect the bones
for each leg, but because the legs weren’t
as separated as they had suspected, that
didn’t work.
Although the bones are in good condition, the skeleton needed to be cleaned
before it could be assembled.
“It still has tissue sticking to it in some
parts,” Apter said.
Students began cleaning the bones Oct.
17. Apter said he plans to use the same
cleaning process for this skeleton that was
used for the first skeleton. First, the bones
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10
View from wheel
presents priceless
potential to flirt
In the words of the late TuPac:
“Picture me rollin’.”
Just sitting behind the wheel
of my beloved Joey — a candy
red 2000 Pontiac Sunfire with
squishy zebra-striped dice swinging from the rearview mirror.
I’m cruising down Interstate
70 headed back to my hometown
from an eventful weekend at my
grandma’s house.
It’s a warm summer day, and
most of my fellow motorists have
their windows down, shades on
and music blaring.
Including him.
In fact, when this board-shorts
clad fella pulls up beside me in
his yellow Jeep Wrangler, I’m
grateful my dollar-store sunglasses prevent him from noticing my
blatant staring.
This guy is the reason blond
hair exists.
And from the look he’s got,
most likely he’s heading to a
beach to meet his gorgeous, fourpack-abs girlfriend. (Don’t ask
me where the beach might appear
Sara DeGonia
in eastern Missouri.)
But somewhere between concentrating on the absolute chore
that is driving on I-70 in St.
Louis and sneaking peeks at my
new favorite highway attraction,
I realize he’s staring back.
At me.
Being the complete and total
dork I most often embody, a grin
From there, follow a few simstretches across my face from ear
ple steps: Watch as a car pulls up
to ear.
on either side of you, and take
And suddenly, I have the
note of the driver’s gender.
confidence of a recently crowned
For me, this summer, my
Miss America.
target was a male, preferably
I’m sexy. I’m beautiful. Mr.
traveling alone or accompanied
Cool-Collected-Surfer Guy is
by one or two other males.
tossing me one of those half
Once you locate an attractive
smiles that undoubtedly say,
subject, make eye contact and
“What a shame we’re not in the
smile.
same car, so I could ask your
Then wait.
name.” In a British accent no
If the person reciprocates
less.
interest, he or she might make
And thus, the strategy of car
an effort to keep their car next
flirting begins.
to you. Or, if he or she is the
Car flirting, as I discovered
immature, show-off brand, they
this summer, is an infinitely
might speed ahead
better way to pass
and then slow down
the 35 minutes from
home to work in
“In no time you’ll again to reconnect.
course, you
downtown Kansas
be cruising down canOf
develop your
City than, say, lookthe Vegas strip own car flirting
ing for out-of-state
style.
license plates or
with Heath (or
I refrained from
counting how many
Keira) by your
anything vulgar and
billboards advertise
side.”
most often wasn’t
awkward subjects
brave enough to
(Viagra, Vagisil,
speed up or slow
etc.).
down to adjust
Initially the
myself to another’s pace.
practice seems almost boringly
But if the right vehicle model
simple. After all, what’s difcomes along, who knows what
ficult about taking the time to
you’ll do.
glance out the window and send
Car flirting isn’t for everyone.
some friendly karma to another
And many of you might think
driver who just happens to be
the concept is silly or beneath
the spitting image of Heath
you.
Ledger (or Keira Knightley)?
But just wait until that sandyAnd the benefits far outweigh
haired chap in a Jeep drives next
the effort necessary to put forth.
to you, grinning for a solid mile.
Think of that stranger at the
I once had a car full of guys
grocery checkout who compliwaving and hollering at me
mented your new jeans.
while I was driving home from a
Car flirting is the exact same
long night at work, looking like
thing but without the scary
I’d been run through a printing
pressure of having to verbally
press.
respond.
It does wonders for your
And if you have any imaginamood.
tion at all, in no time you’ll be
And although I’ve since
cruising down the Vegas strip
traded in my wandering eyes for
with Heath (or Keira) by your side.
an “In a Relationship” status on
It is, as with all great things, as
Facebook, I’d highly recommend
easy as it sounds. My best strategy
giving car flirting a chance.
of yet is traveling in the middle
Just don’t forget to keep your
lane — if you have three to choose
eyes on the road.
from — for optimum opportunity.
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Master Sgt. Jack Glasscock reloads the ROTC cannon after Truman scored a touchdown against Washburn University on
Saturday afternoon during the Homecoming game. The ROTC fires the cannon every time the Bulldogs score.
sex
Iraq
veteran
loads
game
ville
’
and
the
with his artillery skills
Diane Poelker
for the Index
Master Sgt. Jack Glasscock
commanded artillery in Iraq. Now,
he fires up football fans.
Glasscock works as the senior
military instructor for Truman’s
ROTC program. At home football
games, he dedicates his time and
expertise to overseeing the cannon crew.
“It’s a lot of fun,” Glasscock
said. “It ... connects us to the
school in one way that we’re part
of the team, and it also instills morale with the football team.”
Glasscock said cannons are
rarely found at schools of Truman’s size. The cannon, a Pac 75
Howitzer, fires before the start of
the game, at halftime and every
time the Bulldogs score. Three
crew members, who learn drill,
ceremony and rifle movement,
man the cannon. Seven other
ROTC members also join the
crew on the field.
“They do push-ups every
time [the Bulldogs] score,”
Glasscock said.
Although Truman’s cannon is
used only for ceremonial purposes,
Glasscock had first-hand experience with artillery in battle. In Iraq,
Glasscock commanded 108 soldiers in the third infantry division.
One of his platoons shot firing missions using a Howitzer cannon. His
unit also provided security escorts
for personnel of the different ministries in the Baghdad area.
“It’s a different story over
there,” Glasscock said. “It’s not
what you see. I loved [Iraq]. In a
perverse way, I loved it. I actually
volunteered to go with the unit
that was deployed.”
Glasscock said his experiences
ranged from daily patrols and emails home to an attack by a sui-
Master Sgt.
Jack Glasscock
photo submitted
Master Sgt. Jack Glasscock in Iraq during his last tour of duty.
cide bomber that nearly killed him. ter junior year, cadets attend camp
He relocated to Truman in February at Fort Lewis, Wash., to practice
and began his first civilian assign- small unit tactics and battlefield
ment in his 20 years of service.
skills.
Glasscock said the main reason
“He’s very knowledgeable
he started teaching at Truman was about how real world stuff works
to spend time with his family.
and book stuff,” junior Jeff Nick“A lot of times in
erson said. “He’s got
the afternoon we’ll
a lot of field experigo on a run, and we’ll
ence which is good.”
“It’s a differstop at [Glasscock’s]
Much of Glassent story over cock’s unique style
house,” said Katie
Theismann, sophocan be credited to his
there. It’s not
more ROTC student what you see. I recent deployment.
and leader of cannon
“I teach some out
crew. “He brings his loved [Iraq]. In a of the text, most out
son and his daughter perverse way, I
of experience,” he
sometimes to football
said. “The good thing
loved it.
games. ... He brought
about it, though, is
his son to Ab Blastnow I have a way
Master Sgt. Jack
ers.”
to influence these
Glasscock
Glasscock’s main
cadets that are soon
duty at Truman in- Senior Military Instructor to be officers before
for ROTC
volves
preparing
they get on the batthird-year students for
tlefield. ... They’ll go
the Leadership Development As- in as much confident and knowlsessment Course. The summer af- edgeable leaders.”
Hey, Students!
Military service:
As a member of the military for 20 years, Glasscock has served at bases
throughout the U.S., North
Korea, Germany and Iraq.
While in Iraq, Glasscock
said he commanded 108
soldiers in the 3rd infantry
division.
Classes he teaches:
As a senior military instructor for ROTC, Glasscock
does training and leadership preparation for juniors
in the Leadership Development Assesment Course.
Truman football:
Glasscock oversees the
ROTC members who fire
the cannon at Bulldog Football home games. At the
game Saturday, Glasscock
said he did a back flip to
encourage the team.
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Quincy
Scene
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The Quincy Museum hosts an annual Halloween party where guests can decorate crafts. This year’s party will be from 6 to 8 p.m.
Sunday.
Weekend away offers cultural options
Saturday:
7:30 p.m. River
North Chicago Dance
Company performance
at Morrison Theater
The Quincy Civic Music Association is in its 80th season of providing professional concerts. The
association typically puts on five
concerts each season, which lasts
from September to April. One of
the concerts in their series this season features the River North Chicago Dance Company. The Saturday performance of the Company
will feature both jazz and modern
dance.
Mowbray Allan, president of
the Civic Music Association, said
the concert will give people a
chance to unite and enjoy a cultural event.
“It provides live entertainment
that brings people together from
the community to share an expe-
Sunday:
2 p.m. John Wood and
Free Frank “The Slavery
Question” lecture at The
Quincy Historical Society
The Historical Society of Quincy and Adams County schedules
programs that are hosted throughout the year. The most recent series will feature the Underground
Railroad. The second lecture of
that series will be at 2 p.m. Sunday
and will focus on John Wood and
Free Frank, who founded Quincy
and New Philadelphia, Ill. respectively.
The lectures in the series are always free of charge and are always
on Sundays. Winkelmann said the
lecture not only draws parallels
between the two founders but also
shows what the past was like.
“It gives people a broader look
at what the area was like at the
time,” Winkelmann said. “A lot
of blacks trying to escape slavery
would come across here at Quincy.
We had an Underground Railroad
site here.”
Quincy and Adams County
share the historical society. Preservation of history through educational programming, exhibits and
tours are the goals of the society.
The society fulfills these goals with
the use of artifacts of the community and the people who live here,
Winkelmann said.
The lecture will be at the John
Wood Mansion at 425 S. 5th St.
Call 217-222-1835 for more information.
From campus:
1) Drive south on Franklin Street.
2) At the intersection with U.S.
Highway 63, continue
straight (you’ll be on
Edina
Highway 6).
Mo
.H
Kirksville
wy
6
3) About 23 miles away, you’ll
arrive in Edina. Continue on Highway 6
as it winds through town.
4) About 65 miles from Kirksville, take
the U.S. Highway 24/61 north exit,
and follow the highway across the
Mississippi River to Quincy, Ill.
Source: mapquest.com
Sunday: 6 to 8 p.m. Quincy
Museum Halloween Party
The Quincy museum is housed
at the Newcomb-Stillwell Mansion. The museum first moved into
the mansion in 1980, when Quincy
Museum, Inc. purchased the mansion, said Barbara Wilkinson,
executive director of Quincy Museum. The organization has spent
millions of dollars on renovations
to the mansion, she said.
The museum is dedicated to
Victorian lifestyle, natural and
local history. It consists of three
floors. The first floor is a restored
high-style Victorian residence.
The second and third floors both
showcase exhibits, the third floor
is dedicated to natural history. But
on Oct. 29, the floors will look very
different.
For the past nine years, the museum has hosted a Halloween party
for children and parents to attend.
For $1, parents and children can
Quincy,
Ill.
Design by Nick Wilsey
participate in crafts and games, including painting pumpkins and pin
the nose on the witch, Wilkinson
said.
“It provides kids and their family a safe and fun place to celebrate
Halloween,” Wilkinson said. “I
realize it’s a couple of days before
Halloween, but it has become a tradition for a lot of families.”
The museum is located at 1601
Maine St. For further information,
call 217-224-7669.
A Weekend in Quincy
Quincy’s arts scene leaves hardly a dull moment for the town. Winklemann said a city bursting with
history and a love for the arts hardly
sleeps.
“It’s hard to find a weekend in
Quincy when nothing’s going on,”
Winklemann said. “If there is a
weekend where nothing’s going on,
it’s rare, and it’s probably because
everyone is tired from all that they
have been doing the week before.”
The subject of the
1998 Robin Williams
film will speak Nov. 1
Julie Williams
Staff Reporter
The Student Activities Board
secured students’ No. 1 choice
for a fall speaker this year, and he
is coming to Truman on Nov. 1.
Patch Adams
Patch Adams, the comedic
doctor played by Robin Wil- ness said. “He’s going to do it in
liams in the 1998 movie “Patch a funny way.”
Adams,” will speak next week in
Although Adams is a bigBaldwin Auditorium.
name speaker, bringing him to
Adams is a medical doctor who campus did not eat up SAB’s
in 1972 founded the Gesundheit! entire special events budget.
Institute, a health care institute Maness said special events still
that addressed his concerns with wants to bring another speaker
health care in America, according and possibly a debate to campus
to patchadams.org. Adams is a next semester.
full-time fundraiser for Gesund“We’re not trying to limit this
heit! and also has written a book at all,” she said. “We only spent
by the same name, according to half of the special events budget
the Web site.
on this because we want to be
Adams said he speaks at about able to expand and bring other
50 universities each year and has people.”
been speaking to the public for
Stephanie Powelson, assothe last 23 years. He
ciate professor of
said he generally is
nursing and nurson the road 300 days
program direc“He’s going to ing
of the year.
tor, said she is only
Adams’ visit to describe how it
familiar with Patch
Truman is part of a
Adams through the
is to have
12-day speaking tour
based on his
humor actually movie
of 12 cities in the
life but still thinks
affect the
U.S. and Canada.
he will give an interHe said he recently degree to which esting presentation.
made similar trips to
“I just think he
you let the
Italy and Australia.
would be of general
The topic of Ad- disease ... take interest to any popuams’
presentation
over your body lation,” she said.
next week is health
Powelson
said
and how it
and humor. Adams
she thinks Adams
said he does not actually helps.”
uses an individualthink laughter is the
ized approach to
best medicine for a
his patients and that
Mindy Maness
person but that huTruman students can
Junior
mor is a context for
benefit from hearing
living and enjoying
him speak.
life.
“I think he had an
“I think friendship is the best alternative style using humor in
medicine,” he said.
patient interactions,” she said.
SAB member junior Mindy
Senior
John
Brockman,
Maness said the organization American Medical Students Asput together a list of 15 possible sociation pre-medical trustee-atspeakers for a survey last spring, large, said he heard Adams speak
and Adams was a runaway first. during the summer and thinks his
She said she thinks Adams will work and ideas are revolutionbe a good speaker at Truman be- ary. He said Adams does not accause he gives both an education- cept payment from his patients,
al and entertaining presentation.
and speaking is one of his only
“I think that he’s diverse sources of income.
enough to where we can actually
Brockman said Adams is
bring in some of the Kirksville someone who is considered
community, while at the same outside the mainstream medical
time, students are going to be in- community, and it will be good
volved,” Maness said. “It’s some- for students to hear how he pracbody that students have heard of tices medicine.
and have seen the movie ‘Patch
“I think that it is a great opAdams’ and recognize it.”
portunity for the Truman comManess said SAB was care- munity,” Brockman said.
ful to look into the topic of AdAdams will speak at 8 p.m.
ams’ speech this year after some Wednesday in Baldwin Auditostudents were disappointed last rium. Tickets are free for Truyear with the discussion topics of man students, and $5 for general
the Discovery Channel’s Myth- admission and can be picked
Busters.
up in the SAB office between
“He’s going to describe how it 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday
is to have humor actually affect through Friday. Tickets also can
the degree to which you let the be purchased at the door, howdisease ... take over your body ever, SAB is expecting a sell-out
and how it actually helps,” Ma- crowd.
Hey Index readers:
Do you speak a foreign language?
We want to know all the languages
spoken on Truman’s campus
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in your major?
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Seventy-three miles from
Kirksville lies a town rich in history and the arts.
Quincy, Ill., has a lot to offer
college students. Within the span
of one weekend, students can
find a multitude of things to do in
Quincy from shows to exhibits to
tours.
“We have wonderful architecture on Maine Street, a number
of galleries,” said Judith Winkelmann, executive director of the
Historical Society of Quincy and
Adams County. “We have a watercolor society, very talented artists,
a symphony and dance companies.”
Quincy, Illinois
U.S. Hwy 61
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rience,” Allan said. “People in all
parts of the world have always enjoyed dance performances.”
The performance will be at
Morrison Theater on 14th and
Maine streets. Tickets are $22 in
advance and $25 at the door. For
more information, call 217-2245499.
U.S. Hwy 63
Arts, education, leisure
can be found about an
hour from Kirksville
Doctor will dole
out laughs for
improved health
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Entertainment
12
New Music Releases
Badly Drawn Boy
Shiny Toy Guns
Soundtrack
“Born in the U.K.”
Astralwerks/EMI, Oct. 17
“We are Pilots”
Umvd Labels, Sept. 12
“The Last Kiss”
Dreamworks, Aug. 8
RRRoo
Damon Gough, the artist also known
as Badly Drawn Boy, has created the
unlikely with his most recent release: a
radio-friendly concept album.
“Born in the U.K.” has the same subtle, somewhat distant vocals as Gough’s
previous works, including the soundtrack
from “About a Boy,” but it lacks the
experimental nature that made his other
albums so good. Before, Gough’s vocals
were just a component of his music.
However, Gough has gone in an opposite direction with his new release. This is
not music that can be favorably compared
to an airport on a Thursday morning (like
“Cause a Rockslide” from “The Hour of
the Bewilderbeast”). This is music that
can be favorably compared to a combination of Iron & Wine on a particularly
rock-y day and an unbelievably mellow
Ben Folds. This is not a bad thing — this
is just a new thing and most certainly
what immediately comes to mind when
Badly Drawn Boy is referenced.
These songs are more melodic, more
tune-driven and just plain ask more of
the listener. You not only have to actively
listen to them, but you also have to contemplate how each song relates to British
history since the mid-1970s, albeit, only
if you are nerdy enough to care. The
historical references aren’t blatant at all.
Thankfully, Gough has not created the
next “American Idiot” but a decent album
that not only history majors will enjoy.
— Lisette Metz Grulke
RRRRo
With a name like Shiny Toy Guns and
no reference to toys or guns in any of their
cover art or songs, one has to wonder
what this new album is trying to pull.
Whether you like to dance around your
living room or sit and contemplate the
meaning of life, Shiny Toy Guns’ new CD
“We Are Pilots” has a song for you.
These guys, and girl, play their hearts
out to songs like “Don’t Cry Out,”
“Chemistry of a Car Crash” and “Rainy
Monday.” The lyrics are deep, and the
vocals are excellent, especially with the
female vocalist, Carah Faye, who takes
over in some of the songs to produce a
knife-sharp sound. This piercing reverberation can be heard in the song, “Don’t
Cry Out,” where bells, electronic disco
and duo vocals come together to provide
a thumping beat to dance and flail your
arms in the air while humming “7,6,5,4/
and we’re having fun.”
In contrast, “Le Disko” has a sound
of a leather whip hitting a concrete floor
while riding a motorcycle. Perhaps it’s an
inconceivable image, but Shiny Toy Guns
manages to capture the sound in one song.
Every song on this album provides
decent music for any purpose. The poetic
drive of their music and each song’s
catchy lyrics show that Shiny Toy Guns
isn’t just another fly-by-night rock band.
If you have ever lived, you can relate to
the poignant sound of Shiny Toy Guns,
whether you like toys or not.
—Katie Monaghan
RRRRo
Zach Braff has done it again.
With “The Last Kiss,” Braff followed
the formula that made the “Garden State”
soundtrack pure gold:
1. Make a list of songs that everybody
patently likes (Imogen Heap’s “Hide and
Seek” and Rufus Wainwright’s “Cigarettes
and Chocolate Milk (Reprise)”). They
predispose a listener to liking the album.
2. Throw in a few lesser-known songs
by some pretty popular artists (Snow Patrol’s “Chocolate” and Coldplay’s “Warning
Sign”). This gives the popular group sound
to the album without making people think,
“Man, that song was so good in that car
commercial/on “Grey’s Anatomy”/six million times on the radio.”
3. Mine the best of indie gold (Rachel
Yamagata’s “Reason Why” and Aimee
Mann’s “Today’s the Day”). If you listen to
college radio, you have heard these bands
before and already like them. If not, you
will like them because they are new to you.
4. Throw some stuff in there that no one
has ever heard before (Turin Brakes’ “Pain
Killer” and Athlete’s “El Salvador”). Zach
Braff knows what’s up. And now that they
have been on a soundtrack of his, these
bands are officially up.
5. Have THE song — the one song that
everyone will love, will keep on incessant
repeat for days at a time and won’t be able
to get out of their heads (Joshua Radin and
Schuyler Fisk’s “Paperweight”).
6. Make another soundtrack that’s impossible to dislike. —Lisette Metz Grulke
The Chart Concert Calendar
Billboard’s Top 10
Ringtones of the Week
Oct. 26 through Dec. 7
Kirksville
1. John Carpenter
“Halloween”
2. Koji Kondo
“Super Mario Brothers”
Friday
11/3
Dashboard Confessional
Pershing Arena
Tuesday
11/7
The Vienna Boys’ Choir
Baldwin Auditorium 7:30 p.m.
Friday
11/17
The Ike Riley Assassination
The Dukum Upp
Ben Folds
Jesse Auditorium
7 p.m.
Cursive
Blue Note
7:30 p.m.
4. Buckcherry
“Crazy Bitch”
Five for Fighting
Grand Emporium
7 p.m.
Anathallo
Jackpot Saloon
10 p.m.
5. Bubba Sparxxx
“Ms. New Booty”
Thursday 11/2
Gwar
Beaumont Club
8 p.m.
Sunday
Hawthorne Heights
Uptown Theater
6:30 p.m.
The Granada
6 p.m.
8 p.m.
11/5
Saturday 11/11
Kansas City
Sunday
10/29
Wednesday 11/1
11/5
Wednesday 11/15 HelloGoodbye
6. Michael Jackson
“Thriller”
7. Nickelback
“Far Away”
8. Rascal Flatts
“What Hurts The Most”
9. Henry Mancini
“The Pink Panther”
10. Dem Franchize Boyz
“Ridin’ Rims”
9 p.m.
Columbia
Sunday
3. Ne-Yo
“Sexy Love”
8 p.m.
St. Louis
Thursday 10/26
Indigo Girls
The Pageant
Friday
10/27
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Mississippi Nights
8 p.m.
Tuesday
11/14
Regina Spektor
Creepy Crawl
7 p.m.
Monday
11/27
Death Cab For Cutie
The Pageant
8 p.m.
Sunday
12/3
Mannheim Steamroller
Scottrade Center
7 p.m.
Des Moines
Wednesday 11/1
She Wants Revenge
House of Bricks
5 p.m.
Wednesday 11/8
Angels and Airwaves
Val Air Ballroom
8 p.m.
Thursday 11/14
Hootie & The Blowfish
Surf Ballroom
7 p.m.
Sources: www.pollstar.com, www.kvrocks.com, www.iowatix.com, and individual venues
Noisy second
album requires
artist’s gratitude
The Killers’ sophomore
release lacks group’s
former poppy profundity
me/don’t you want to feel my bones/on
your bones.” Seriously.), but a few
bright spots gave me some hope. The
fourth track “For Reasons Unknown,”
seems to give a pretty insightful acJessie Gasch
count of aging with “My lips/they don’t
kiss/they don’t kiss the way they used
News Editor
to/and my eyes don’t recognize/you no
“Sam’s Town,” the newest effort
more.” And in “Why Do I Keep Countby The Killers, isn’t exactly a death
ing?” Flowers defends himself with the
sentence. It’s more like an hour-long
logical “If I only knew the answer/then
lecture class by a monotone professor
I wouldn’t be bothering you.”
just outside of a construction zone.
It’s not the lyrics that save this alI knew as soon as I heard the prebum from my giveaway pile. There are
view on the 2006 MTV Music Awards
so many musical effects that the laws
that this album wasn’t going to be
of probability govern that a few will
anything special. Don’t get me wrong
fall in the right spot. The harmonies in
— I can appreciate the brilliance of
“Bling (Confession Of A King)” are adtheir song “Mr. Brightside” as much as
dicting, and the entrance is reminiscient
the next person — but if you’re looking of Ewan McGregor’s haunting voice in
for more of those catchy lyrics, jaunty
“Moulin Rouge.”
beats and the occasional surprising proIn “Read My Mind,” one of the
fundity, you won’t
best tracks on the
find it here.
album, the backup
The biggest
vocals sound like
disappointment
wind. It’s anyone’s
is just how noisy
guess whether this
this album is. The
was intentional,
The Killers
CD has so much
but it works well.
“Sam’s Town”
synthesized, elecAnd “Uncle Jonny”
tronic chordage all
is one long, slowLabel: Island
the time that even
motion, air-guitar
Release: Oct. 3
when someone
moment that features
manages to find an
a tambourine and a
Tracks: 12
interesting riff (like
clichéd (but satisthe arpeggios that
fying) modulation
mimic water curtoward the end
rents in “This River
The token ballad,
Is Wild”), no one
“My List,” gives up
can hear it.
halfway through, but
For some hair
the drumstick-click
bands and Thom
entrance is interestYorke’s solo efforts, the electronica
ing and the piano accompaniment actueffect works. But for a poppy album
ally makes use of some rarer, complex
that’s too loud to be meditative and
chords. All of these songs, though, put
not upbeat enough to be dance-able, I
the first single to shame.
found myself adjusting the volume too
“When You Were Young” is repetimany times.
tive and sickly, featuring a pulsing bass
“Sam’s Town” begins with the
and more synthesizer that clashes with
title track, which includes lead singer
the nostalgia theme but leaves listeners
Brandon Flowers’ trademark strained,
nostalgic for the clear-cut singability of
almost vibrating, vocal style and an
“Somebody Told Me.”
effective fiddle ending. Then The KillTo parallel the enterlude, an “exiters move into an “enterlude,” in which
lude” thanks the listeners for, well, lisFlowers calms down and accompanies
tening. Not exactly innovative, but the
himself on piano while singing “We
quiet of the acoustic guitar and piano is
hope you enjoy your stay/and it’s good
a welcome relief, and I can’t help but
to have you with us/even if/it’s just for
imagine the gratitude is sincere. Flowthe day.” Aw. I felt appreciated.
ers’ edgy voice is a little too labored for
Most of the songs feature bland,
a piece like this, but then again, maybe
sometimes insipid lyrics (like in
that desperation is real: The Killers
“Bones”: “Don’t you want to come with should be thankful that I made it that far.
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Index
13
Week promotes safe alcohol habits
Groups sponsor second
annual “I Have a Choice
Week,” mock car crash
Laura Prather
Staff Reporter
Junior Ed Kymes died last
week, but unlike many real victims, he got up and walked away
45 minutes later.
Kymes was one of six students
who participated in a mock car
crash on campus as part of the
second annual “I Have A Choice”
week Oct. 16 to 20, sponsored
by Bacchus and Gamma, a student organization that focuses on
prevention of alcohol, and Delta
Zeta.
Senior Andrew Spiegel, who
also was a participant in the mock
crash, simulated a seriously injured victim who had to be evacuated via helicopter.
“I was anti-drunk driving before, but I had never witnessed a
drunk driving incident, and personally, I had not been affected by
it,” Spiegel said. “So actually seeing the car crash and the Jaws of
Life and everything that goes into
rescuing someone, it just changes
you.”
Spiegel said that after this experience, he will try to make sure
neither he nor any of his friends
ever drive drunk.
“When you’re involved with
something like that — the car
crash — or knowing someone
that’s been hurt the same way,
then you see what kind of choice
you have and the choices that
you’re making and how to change
them just to better yourself, if not
to better others,” Spiegel said.
He also said heavy drinking
should not necessarily distract
from the academic intensity of the
University.
“There’s a huge difference between calming down with a drink,
and calming down with 12,” Spiegel said.
Although 40 percent of students at Truman said they do not
drink alcohol, 28.5 percent of
MICROBREW l
like sucrose, dextrose, wart and
hops. The Il Spazio brewery
makes 130 gallons of beer at a
time, and each brew takes about
two to three weeks from start to
finish — 24 hours of which is
manual labor.
“You’re making something
that people are drinking for
months to come,” Franklin said. “
... There is a total art and science
to brewing.”
Il Spazio is the only micro
brewery in Kirksville and offers
a variety of beers that are brewed
on site, such as the Dog Slobber
Stout and Worker Bee Wheat.
The beer at Il Spazio is made
from a specific recipe. Most micro breweries keep their recipes
under wraps. Franklin said the
recipes have a lot to do with mixing hops.
“Hops are plants that add flavor, especially to the beer, either
BONES l
those that do drink admit to havBacchus and Gamma’s speing driven a car while under the cific focus for the week was to
influence of alcohol at least once, reestablish their message as an
according to the 2005 Core Sur- organization, Williams said.
vey.
“Most of our messages are
Phil Jorn, a counselor at Uni- we’re not going to tell you that
versity Counseling Services, you have to stop doing somesaid part of being responsible is thing, but if you would like to,
choosing not to drink and drive.
we’re going to help you do that
“We focus a lot on don’t drive too,” Williams said.
drunk, try to get a designated
In 2005, there were 53 alcodriver,” Jorn said. “Also, mak- hol-related arrests, up from 29
ing sure that if you’re drinking, in 2003, according to the annual
you’re drinking with people that Campus Crime Report.
you trust.”
Sgt. Chad Whittom said the
Jorn said he is also the faculty Department of Public Safety has
adviser of Bacchus and Gamma, programs to remind students of
and the group’s focus is not on their choices when making the
the prohibition of
decision to drink or
drinking.
not to drink.
“It’s not that
“When
people
we’re
saying
consume
alcohol,
that drinking is “There’s a huge sometimes they do
bad no matter
things they normally
difference
what,” Jorn said.
wouldn’t do, which
between
“It’s try and do it
leads to other probcalming down lems — sexual asresponsibly if you
choose, which I with a drink and sault, physical asthink is a good
drunk driving
calming down sault,
message, because
and things like that,”
with 12. ”
there are a lot of
Whittom said.
students that drink
Last year 36.6
Andrew Spiegel
and, being realispercent of students
Senior
tic, what are some
admitted regretting at
ways that we can
least one thing they
make sure that
had done because of
they’re drinking
alcohol use, accordmore responsibly.”
ing to the Core SurAccording to the Core Survey, vey.
in the past year 8.6 percent of stuWhittom said he hopes “I Have
dents have thought at least once A Choice” week had a profound
that they might have a problem effect on students by calling to
with alcohol abuse.
attention the effects their choices
UCS offers counseling to stu- have on themselves and others.
dents who come in voluntarily as
“I think a person has to keep in
well as students who are referred mind that ‘I’m responsible for my
for alcohol-related issues.
behavior, it’s my choice whether
“[Referred students come be- I do this or not, and therefore I
cause they] get caught with alco- have to face the consequences of
hol in the halls, or they get caught what happens because of my acdrunk or intoxicated on campus,” tions,’” Whittom said.
Jorn said. They are mandated to
Having a mock car crash
go through an alcohol education helped create awareness, he said.
course.”
“I think when you can see it
Sophomore Rachelle Wil- right in front of you rather than
liams, president of Bacchus and someone telling you, I think it
Gamma, said it is the group’s first has more of an effect to actually
year being a part of “I Have A experience it yourself,” Whittom
Choice” week.
said.
Students, faculty enjoy homemade beer
aromatic flavor or bitter flavor,”
Franklin said. “When you taste
the beer and actually taste the flavor, you’re tasting it in two ways:
one with your tongue but one with
your nose.”
Il Spazio strives for consistency with each of their beers, but
Franklin said sometimes things
like color will vary slightly. He
said a little inconsistency in their
beer is one thing that makes the
brewery unique.
Jason Miller, associate professor of mathematics, is one of
a number of Truman faculty and
staff members who brew beer
at home. He said he generally
brews beer in five gallon batches,
which he bottles for himself and
his friends. From the first steps
to the ready-to-drink stage, each
batch takes Miller about four to
six weeks.
“It’s very complicated,” Miller said. “I’m a mathematician.
I’m not a chemist or a biologist.
There’s so many things that are
happening when a beer is being
brewed. I wish I understood it
better.”
To make a batch of beer, Miller uses kits ordered from a company in Minnesota. He said a kit
will contain basic ingredients like
grains, barley, malt, yeast and
priming sugars. Most kits also
come with a recipe, which Miller
said can be tweaked to get different effects. He said some home
brewers come up with their own
recipes, although he is not at that
stage yet.
Miller said he can’t remember
when he started brewing beer. He
said learning how to brew has
given him more respect for the
beer he drinks when he goes out.
“It makes me aware of how
complex beers can be, how interesting beers can be and how bad
beers can be,” he said.
Alumna donated horse skeleton to benefit students
were scrubbed clean of dirt and laid
to dry in the sun for several weeks.
Fat held in the marrow cavities of
the longer bones will be cleaned
out. The bones will be soaked in
isopropyl alcohol and then acetone.
They will then be bleached,
rinsed and air-dried.
The framework of the first skel-
eton was made of steel and the teeth
were glued in.
Susan Guffey, assistant professor of biology, said she helped with
the identification of the bones in the
first skeleton and will continue to
be of assistance with this project.
“I’ll help them identify the
names of bones and decide which
one belongs to right legs and left
legs,” Guffey said. “On some of the
irregular shaped bones, sometimes
it’s a little tricky to figure out which
side is the front or the back.”
Guffey said the project will
teach the students about anatomy
and bone structures.
“This is something that will
stay around here for decades,”
Guffey said.
Junior Abbi Howe pours a draft of Fitz’s Root beer on the Quad. Delta Zeta and Bacchus and
Gamma teamed up to put on “I Have A Choice Week” Oct. 16 to 20.
ANHEUSER-BUSCH l
Pilot House, an imperial pilsner,
represents Missouri’s riverboat
history, according to the release.
With the highest alcohol percentage of the three at 6.5 percent, Pilot House is made using
a unique dry-hopping technique,
allowing for both a sweet and
bitter flavor.
Anheuser-Busch has conducted similar contests in other states,
where Ohio residents picked
Burnin’ Helles as their state beer.
Demon’s Hop Yard IPA was chosen in New England.
Jeff Newton, co-owner of Il
Spazio, which brews its own beer,
said he is pleasantly surprised by
Anheuser-Busch’s campaign.
“I’m just glad that the big guys
are finally feeling that they need
to make a more traditional beer,”
Newton said. “If it wasn’t for the
microbrewers of the past 25 years,
they wouldn’t be doing it.”
Newton
said
AnheuserBusch’s motives lie in capturing
a larger percentage of the Missouri microbrew market, which
is dominated by the Boulevard
Brewing Co.
“That’s who they’re trying to
compete against with these products,” Newton said.
Il Spazio offers a total of nine
homegrown beverages, ranging
from stout to the best-selling
honey wheat and are all made
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Pilot House
Oatmeal Stout
Amber Wheat
Imperial Pilsner
Named for the official
state animal of Missouri
Named for the meeting of
Missouri’s many rivers.
Named for the great
riverboats of Missouri
Flavor notes: caramel,
chocolate, roasted coffee
and oatmeal
wheat, barley
barley
Source: originalbeers.com Design by Lindsay Koski/Index
from wheat instead of rice or an
extract.
“It’s all made here, and it’s all
made with whole-grain infusion,”
Newton said.
Although Newton said he is reluctant to carry the winning beer
at Il Spazio’s tap, he said he has a
good idea which beer will win.
“I would say the one that’s going to win is probably this amber
wheat,” Newton said. “Myself,
I would be drinking the oatmeal
stout.”
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Photo submitted
Freshman Amanda Roberts performs with Illusionz Dance Team during the annual step show Oct. 16. Sororities and fraternities competed for the top spot in 2006.
Year
of
the DOG
Homecoming 2006
Oct. 16 to 21
Roger Meissen/Index
Above, Rapper Sycosis (alumnus Erik Roberts) performed during the step
show Oct. 21. Left, senior Sammy Jo Finney, representative from Alpha
Sigma Alpha, and senior John Allen, representative from Blue Key, were
crowned Homecoming Queen and King at coronation Oct. 16. Senior Megan
Hasse, representative from Delta Zeta, and senior Tim Hasken, representative from Sigma Tau Gamma were also on Homecoming court.
Roger Meissen/
Index
Homecoming teams
decorated
doghouses
as part of the
homecoming week
competition.
Some of the
doghouses
were incorporated in the
floats for the
Homecoming
parade.
Melody Jennings, instructor in health and exercise science, performed with members of her team
in the first Dancing with the Tru-Stars competition.
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Basketball: 7:30 p.m.
Saturday Oct. 28 vs.
Dreambuilders (exhibition)
Soccer: 11 a.m. Sunday
Oct. 29 vs. Saginaw Valley
State (Mich.)
Volleyball: 2 p.m. Saturday Oct. 28 vs. Northwest
MIssouri State University
Magic Numbers
Bulldogs capture
30 wins for fourth
straight year
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Defense
propels
victory
Football
wins in
rain, mud
Young group forces six
turnovers in contest,
leading to 21-7 victory
Joe Barker
Team prevails against
Washburn despite poor
field conditions, now 4-4
His face caked in mud, sophomore defensive end Les Hammers
ate a celebratory cookie.
The 6-foot-4-inch, 260-pound
Hammers deserved the cookie after he and his defensive teammates
helped the Bulldogs capture their
fourth victory of the season 21-7
by shutting down the Washburn
University Ichabods.
“Our defense is playing like
they’re the best defense in the
country right now,” senior tight
end Richard Mayson said. “That’s
huge because every time your defense comes out to play you have
a chance to win.”
The win matched the combined
victory total of the previous two
seasons of the Shannon Currier Era,
and the development of the new 3-4
defense was a big part of it.
“Championship teams have
good defenses,” Currier said.
“That’s the first thing you have
to have on a good team. You have
got to stop people.”
The entire defense made plays,
holding Washburn to just 151
yards when they averages almost
338 yards of total offense. The
unit forced six turnovers in the
second half.
Please See DEFENSE, Page 19
Chris Tharp/Index
Sophomore linebacker Jason Thier hits Washburn University running back Ra’Shawn Mosley
during Saturday’s rain-filled contest. The Bulldogs defense shut down the Ichabods 21-7.
to,” senior tight end Richard
Mayson said.
The victory was the third in
as many games and the fourth
in the last five for the team.
Joe Barker
The ’Dogs also have won three
straight home contests.
“They are learning how to
Rain or shine, Stokes Stadium win,” Washburn defensive cohas become a tough place to beat ordinator Chris Brown said.
the Bulldogs.
“[Head coach Shannon Currier]
On Saturday it was the rain is taking them a long way from
that helped the
where they were in
’Dogs dispatch the
the past. They are
Washburn Universi- “This is a win we playing with conty Ichabods 21-7 in
fidence, they are
needed to set
a football game that
playing
physical
ourselves up in and they are playlasted two hours and
14 minutes.
ing aggressive.”
the upper
With the win, the
On the swampechelon of the
Bulldogs
evened
like field, both teams
conference,
their record on the
eschewed the pass
season 4-4. The purin favor of trying to
which we have
ple and white now
pound the ball with
stand alone in fourth been trying to get the running game.
back to.”
place in the conCombined, the Icaference
standings
bods and Bulldogs
Richard Mayson
with a 4-2 record in
threw the ball only
Senior Tight End
MIAA games and
11 times.
are ranked 11th in
Currier said he
the NCAA Souththought the poor playwest regional rankings.
ing conditions favored his squad.
“This is a win we needed to
“We felt that it would be an adset ourselves up in that upper vantage, and the players thought
echelon of the conference, which that it would be an advantage, and
we have been trying to get back Please See FOOTBALL, Page 19
Women lose key regional game to UCM
Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Staff Reporter
Adam Kabins/Index
Junior forward Katie Ruefer cuts off a Washburn University
defender during Saturday’s 1-1 draw.
Bulldogs campaign for
Div. II playoff berth
Mike Cannon didn’t know
how his team would react.
After his team lost two critical
MIAA road
games during
Oct. 14 and
15, Cannon,
the women’s
head soccer
coach, was
uncertain
what his
team would
Conor Nicholl do next.
At the
time, the squad was three-quarters of the way through the
toughest four-game stretch on the
schedule and was on the verge of
slipping out of the playoff picture. At 3-3-2 in the conference,
the Bulldogs needed a strong
finish to possibly get a spot in the
postseason.
“We were at the point where
some teams may roll over and
die and decide the season is
over,” Cannon said. “Instead, we
had a strong week of practice.
The team understood what was
at stake and wanted to keep
playing.”
Essentially, they couldn’t afford another loss. Another defeat
would undoubtedly push the
Bulldogs out of the playoff picture, a picture they had been part
of for the past two months.
They survived the weekend,
tying conference leader Washburn
University 1-1 and defeating
Please See PLAYOFFS, Page 19
With 10 seconds to go in the
game, the screams began.
Yesterday’s game between
Truman and the University of
Central Missouri essentially
would determine which team
went to the postseason.
UCM held the fourth and final
spot in the latest regional rankings
— one spot ahead of the Bulldogs.
As time ran out on a chilly,
damp game, time also might have
run out on one team’s season.
Unfortunately, that team was
the ’Dogs, who concluded a
three-game homestand with a 1-0
loss to UCM.
“It doesn’t mean we’re completely out, but unless they mess
up this weekend, I don’t think
we’re going to get in,” head coach
Mike Cannon said. “We’ll see, but
we still need to win both games
just to make sure.”
Truman fell to 10-4-3 and 4-4-3
in the conference and, more importantly, fifth in the regional rankings
behind fourth-ranked UCM.
UCM scored early in the game
when Lindsay Hoerl took a pass
from Carrie Twellman and scored
the game’s only goal. It was the
first goal of the season for Hoerl.
The ’Dogs had several good
chances to score, but came up
short. Cannon said the ’Dogs had
the statistical upper hand although ball’s unusual bounces, junior forUCM grabbed the victory.
ward Katie Ruefer said.
“These are those kinds of
“That’s how they got their
games where it’s going to be de- goal,” she said. “The ball would
cided by a goal, and they got it to- bounce weird [and] get stuck in a
day, and we didn’t,” he said.
different spot.”
The ’Dogs entered yesterday’s
Despite not winning, the ’Dogs
game with a solid weekend, bol- played well against Washburn,
stering their playoff hopes. which entered the game at 13-1-3
Against Washburn University on overall and 8-1-2 in the conference.
Saturday, they were down 1-0
“I think it showed a lot about
with six minutes to play.
our team, the way we adjusted to
Then junior midfielder Emily the conditions and played through
Newsham sent the ball
probably the worst
to Wiegert, who took
conditions I’ve played
it down the field to tie
in at Truman,” Ruefer
“It doesn’t
the game. Wiegert said
said.
mean we’re
she was in shock after
A win would’ve
the goal.
helped
the women,
completely
“I didn’t realize it
but avoiding a thirdout.”
had gone in,” she said.
straight loss was cru“It was kind of a cheap
cial for the team, too.
MIke Cannon
goal because the goalie
“We couldn’t afWomen’s Head Coach
dropped it, and I was
ford a loss,” Cannon
just there to kick it in.”
said. “A tie doesn’t
The ’Dogs wound
hurt us at all, I don’t
up with a 1-1 tie after two scoreless think. A win would’ve helped us a
overtime periods. Tying wasn’t bad lot more, but a tie’s not bad.”
considering the conditions. The
Coming off two tough losses, the
teams played through the rain on ’Dogs shifted a few players around
a muddy field, which changed the in both games this weekend.
tempo of the game.
Ruefer joined forwards Wieg“The flow of the game was a lot ert and senior Lauren Hawks up
slower because the ball kept stop- top intermittently. Also, freshman
ping in puddles, but we just tried to defender Kelsey Richters started
make the best of it,” Wiegert said.
in place of sophomore defender
Washburn, an aggressive at- Kim Wolff, who rolled her ankle
tack-style team, actually benefited during practice last week. Richters
from the conditions because of the hadn’t started a game yet, appear-
Final Push
Women’s soccer needs to win its final two
games to earn an NCAA Div. II playoff berth
NCAA Central Regional Poll Oct. 25
Freshmen provide offensive
punch for women’s soccer
First-year trio helping
to keep Bulldogs in
playoff contention
Nathan Becker
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
Team
Nebraska-Omaha
Washburn
Missouri Southern
Central Missouri
Truamn
Record
16-0-1
14-1-3
10-3-4
10-4-2
10-4-3
Top four teams make the playoffs
Source: nccasports.com,
www.trumanindex.com
ing in six games off the bench.
Although Sunday was Senior
Day, the freshmen stepped up
against Emporia State University
as well. Five minutes into the first
half, it looked like the ’Dogs were
going to take an early lead. Wiegert caught Emporia’s goalie out of
the box and had a clear shot, but
the ball went just wide.
Then, about 10 minutes later,
Hawks headed a pass into the goal,
but the referee called the goal back,
saying Hawks was offsides.
Halftime changed the direction
of the game, however. Ruefer said
that in addition to passing diagonally more often, the ’Dogs benefited from switching goals.
“It was a lot better to have the
wind at our backs instead of going
against the wind,” she said. “The
ball traveled better, and that side
of the field was not as mushy as
the other side.”
Six minutes into the half,
Wiegert redirected one of Ruefer’s shots for the ’Dogs’ first official goal, which motivated them
to push even harder.
“With the field being as bad as
it was, easily they could’ve gotten another [goal] just for getting
lucky, so we needed to get another
one,” Ruefer said.
Halfway through the second
period, freshman forward Isabel
Gaeta scored an insurance goal.
The ’Dogs went on to win 2-0.
The Bulldogs women’s soccer
team isn’t scoring as much as it
used to.
To the team, and especially to
a trio of key freshmen, it doesn’t
seem to make a difference.
Freshmen Jessica Wiegert, Isabel Gaeta and Kristin Haluszczak
have scored several key goals this
season, allowing the women’s
team to stay in the hunt for the
NCAA playoffs, something the
team has made every year but
once since the 2000 season.
The ’Dogs are averaging 1.37
goals per game this season, and
the team’s scoring total has fallen
each year since it topped out in
2003 at 2.7 goals per game. But
the ’Dogs are still in contention,
thanks in large part to contributions from Haluszczak, Gaeta and
Wiegert.
Haluszczak, a midfielder who
head coach Mike Cannon describes as a hard worker, scored
the only goal in a 1-0 win versus
conference rival University of
Central Missouri on Oct. 6.
“That was a big game,” Cannon said. “It’s probably going to
be a one goal game. They’re a
very good attacking team, so it
was very important for us to score.
... It was a key goal.”
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16
SPORTS In Brief
No. 1 ’Dogs
defeat UCM
Hammers earns weekly
honor for the third time
Sophomore defensive end Les
Hammers earned the MIAA Defensive
Player of the Week Award for the third
time this year and for the second conective week.
Hammers, a 6-foot-4-inch, 260pound Jacksonville, Ill., native, has
won all three of his awards in the last
five weeks.
In Saturday’s 21-7 victory against
Washburn University, Hammers recorded eight tackles and picked up a fumble.
Seven of his tackles were solo and
the fumble that he recovered came
deep in Washburn territory. Hammers
also led a defense that allowed just 151
yards of total offense.
Hammers also ranks among the
conference and team leaders in several
key statistics. He is tied for second in
the MIAA with three forced fumbles.
Among the team leaders, Hammers is
second on the team with 48 tackles and
six tackles for loss. He is tied for first
on the team with three sacks and six
tackles for a loss.
Overall, his play has helped a defense that allowed nearly 40 points a
game last season to permit just 24.5
points per game in 2006. Overall, the
Bulldogs’ revamped 3-4 defense under
new defensive coordinator Josh Kotlenicki, ranks fourth in the conference
in overall defense.
Hammers first won the award after
the 24-21 victory against University of
Central Missouri in Week 4.
Top-ranked volleyball beats
Jennies 3-1, earns 30th win
for fourth straight season
Defensively, the ’Dogs held the Cougars’ top hitter, Rael Rotich, in check —
forcing her into a .000 (12 kills, 12 errors)
hitting percentage.
The Cougars also struggled to keep
Tyler Madsen
the ball on the Bulldog side of the net as
their six total blocks for the entire match
Staff Reporter
fell well short of the squad’s average of
Life’s never easy on the road in the 4.4 blocks per game.
MIAA.
“With all respect to their team beThe No. 1 Bulldog volleyball team cause they are very athletic, they play
recovered from an early deficit to gar- some very weak opponents by default
ner a 3-1 (27-30, -25, -20, -25) victory because they are NAIA,” Skoch said.
against the No. 12 University of Central “But I would like to give our team some
Missouri Jennies Wednesday night in credit, though, because we were hitting
Warrensburg, Mo.
with purpose, so it came down to just a
Senior
outside
hitter
Kelsey balance of those two factors.”
Wackerman stepped up for the ’Dogs,
After receiving about an hour to rest,
registering another triple-double with 14 the purple and white took the floor again,
kills, 24 assists and 16 digs. Sophomore this time against the Iowa Wesleyan Colright side Melissa Keck registered 13 lege Tigers. In what turned out to be a
kills. She was one of four Bulldogs with lopsided match, the ’Dogs used plenty of
double-figure kills.
reserve players and turned up the pres“We started out a little
sure early and often in a 3-0
slow,” head coach Jason
(-10, -8, -13) romp.
Skoch said. “However, we
“I love it that Coach actu“I would like to
were able to pull it together
ally trusts his bench players
give our team
in the final three games and
to play because any playing
some credit,
put together a great balis good at the college level,”
anced effort.”
though, because freshman middle blocker LauSophomore outside hitGraybeal said.
we were hitting renThe
ter Eli Medina tied a career
squad’s freshmen benhigh with 29 digs. The team with purpose, so efited the most in the victory.
combined to hold the high- it came down to
Outside hitter Susie Leshpowered Jennie offense to
er led the way with 13 kills
the balance of in two games while Graya .142 hitting percentage.
those two
The ’Dogs hit .400 in game
beal put down 11 kills of her
three to improve their total
own. The two combined to
factors.”
match mark to .215.
hit .553 (24 kills, 3 errors,
Prior to last night’s trip
38 total attacks).
Jason Skoch
to Warrensburg, the ’Dogs
Meanwhile, setter Krysta
Head Volleyball Coach
concluded the non-conferTholen nearly recorded a
ence portion of their scheddouble-double, (nine assists,
ule against a pair of NAIA
14 digs), and outside hitter
opponents Saturday.
Erin Hattey had three kills in just one
In the first match, the squad faced off game of work.
against the Columbia (Mo.) College Cou“I thought [the freshmen] played realgars, the No. 6 team in the NAIA national ly well,” Skoch said. “I was able to see a
poll. The ’Dogs took advantage of several lot of things that show how much they’ve
Columbia mistakes and rolled to a 3-0 (- improved already, and that is really en20, -27, -27) victory.
couraging.”
“We played really consistently [against
Since 2000, Pershing Arena has proven
Columbia], which was really important,” to be one of the toughest places for oppojunior defensive specialist Erin Leavitt nents to play. The ’Dogs have registered
said. “Coach says we struggle with ath- an astounding 81-7 record at home in that
letic teams, and they were really athletic, time-span. More notably, the squad is 9-0
so it was great to get the win.”
at home this season with eight of those
Sophomore middle blocker Allie Cher- matches consisting of 3-0 sweeps.
ven set the pace with 11 kills, while a pair
“It’s much easier to play at home
of seniors, Wackerman and outside hit- because you’re not tired from bus rides
ter Sarah Shearman, each recorded eight and traveling,” Leavitt said. “All of our
kills. Shearman also led three Bulldogs in friends get to come and watch us play,
double-figure digs, with 17.
so even though we don’t get as many
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17
Soccer ties
Mo.-Rolla
Men tie Miners 1-1, likely
out of the playoff chase
with two games left in year
senior midfielder Matt McCarthy capitalized on an assist by junior midfielder
Aldo Muniz.
It was McCarthy’s first goal of the season at the 12th minute mark.
Chris Waller
After the ’Dogs took the lead, they had
Staff Reporter
to fight hard to stay ahead.
Sophomore goalkeeper Ryan Farrar
The men’s soccer team needed a win made three stops in the first half alone,
Friday to have any chance of making the and Rolla tied the game in last seconds on
playoffs.
a shot that hit the crossbar.
After a big 1-0 loss at home to long“At halftime we were ahead, but I
time rival Southern Illinois University- knew they were going to come out reEdwardsville last weekend, the Bulldogs’ ally hard in the second half,” Farrar said.
needed to defeat the University of Mis- “They turned up the intensity. They fought
souri-Rolla and win the final two games hard to get back into the game.”
of the season to obtain any chance at the
After a break, UMR came right back
postseason.
out shooting.
“It was a long shot, but
Once again, Farrar’s
we knew we had to win out
goalkeeping skills were
the rest of our games if we
“We all felt that put to the test, as the Minwere going to be able to
ers had 10 shots in the secthis was a game ond half, six of which were
go,” senior midfielder Ryan
that we could
Cravens said.
on the mark.
Instead, the squad manFarrar was able to make
have won and
aged only a 1-1 draw
five saves in the second
should have won half, including three in one
against the 9-8-2 Miners
going into it. After minute, but one shot was
at Friday’s Homecoming
kickoff event.
able to sneak past him in
the first 20
“We all felt that this was
the 58th minute.
minutes .... we
a game that we could have
The goal knotted the
dominated, they score at 1-1, and it stayed
won and should have won
going into it,” Cravens said.
that way until the end of
came out and
“After the first 20 minutes
regulation.
played pretty
... we dominated. They
“They finally got an
came out and played pretty
equalizer goal, and the
well.”
well. They dominated us
rest of the way they just
after that, so maybe it was
kept pounding it in there,”
good that we came out with
Farrar said. “I thought that
Ryan Cravens
a tie.”
sometimes we had some
Senior Midfielder
The last time the Bullproblems in the back getdogs lost to UM-Rolla, a
ting the ball out. They
member of the Great Lakes
were able to capitalize on
Valley Conference after a
a couple of those times
stint in the MIAA, was a 3-0 defeat Sept. where we were just unable to clear or not
23, 2001.
able to clear it well enough.”
The Miners had shutout the Bulldogs
Both teams played hard in the overin their last three meetings, winning the time. Farrar made three more saves in
contests by a combined score of 5-0.
the second overtime period, giving him
The tie didn’t help the squad in the 11 saves for the game — the most by the
NCAA Great Lakes Regional poll re- Bulldogs’ keeper this season.
leased Tuesday.
Despite Farrar’s performance, the ofThe team remained out of the top six fense could not produce another goal, and
in the official NCAA regional rankings. the game ended in a draw.
Because only the top four teams are alHead coach Duke Cochran had control
lowed to continue playing, the squad has of the match.
slim postseason chances.
“I think we should have won,” head
After making the playoffs last year coach Duke Cochran said. “We were all
and advancing to the NCAA Div. II Sweet over them in the first 25 minutes, and then
16, this will be the first year since 2004 we took our foot off the gas. They outthat the squad has missed the postseason. played us for the majority of the game,
The loss kept the Bulldogs at a .500 and we still came away with a tie.”
mark for the season and takes away any
Even with the stalemate, Cochran bechance the team has of getting double lieves his team should still receive postdigits in the win column.
season consideration.
On Friday, they had several chances
“I think they are looking at overall reto tally a goal. They scored early, when cord instead of regional record because in
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Bulldogs’ sophomore goalkeeper Ryan Farrar and Southern Illinois-University Edwardsville midfielder John
Matthews fight for the ball in SIUE’s 1-0 win on Oct. 15 at Truman Soccer Park. Freshman midfielder Ben Green
looks on. After tying University of Missouri-Rolla 1-1 on Friday, the Bulldogs are 7-7-3 on the season.
the region we are 5-3-3,” Cochran said.
“There are teams in other regions that are
worse than that and are in the top six. We
could get there, but I don’t think we have
a chance to get into the top four because
we only play one more regional game,
and if they’re not looking at us now, then
probably not, and, at .500, that’s fair.”
The team has only two games left
this season, one on the road against
NAIA school Columbia College (Mo.)
on Friday, before ending the regular
season at home Sunday against Saginaw
Valley State University (Mich.).
The contest against Saginaw Valley
State is the team’s Senior Day contest.
Several seniors, including Cravens, McCarthy and senior back Dan Gajewski.
Cochran said the upcoming games are
still important, but the team morale has
changed.
“Any team that is used to getting into
the postseason is going to be frustrated
when you don’t,” Cochran said. “Some
people are deflated. It’s tough. I would
much rather have a long shot than not
have any chance.”
winner, Emporia State University’s Jo- on.”
nel Rossbach, captured first place.
The women’s cross country team fin“Rossbach opened up a lead, and ished a disappointing seventh place out
I just couldn’t get it back,”
of eight teams.
Faust said. “She ran a great
Other
Bulldogs
race.”
possibly
joining
Faust
“I definetely
Instead, Faust finished
at regionals are sophowould have liked more Danna Kelly,
second, the Bulldogs’ highest
finish by a woman since Beth
to have first, but finishing 23rd with
Luebbering was the runner-up
I am happy with a time of 22:57 and
in the 1999 meet. Faust was
senior Alana Walker,
the race I ran. I who finished in 24:45
very pleased with her finish.
“I am definitely at the top
raced effectively and placed 49th. The
of my game,” Faust said. “I
and carried out other Truman runners
haven’t been this mentally
finished 55th, 64th and
my game plan
sharp in the eight years I’ve
66th in the 70-runner
ran.”
that coach and I event.
Although she was disap“I think that everyhad worked on.”
pointed with how the team
one was disappointed
finished, Faust was happy
with how we ended
with the way she ran, finishup, but it was pretty
Jacquie Faust
ing in 21:49.
consistent with how
Senior runner
“I definitely would have
we ran all year,” Faust
liked to have first, but I am
said.
happy with the race I ran,” Faust said,
Head coach John Cochrane was also
“I raced effectively and carried out my very disappointed with the seventhgame plan that coach and I had worked place effort.
“It was the worst finish in the 27
years that I’ve been here,” Cochrane
said.
He said if they would have run well,
they could have placed sixth or possibly
even fifth.
“We did not have a good meet,” Cochrane said, “We were not very tough,
focused or tenacious. We did not perform well.”
Cochrane said he hopes the team
runs much better at regionals.
The men’s cross country team finished in sixth place, just one point shy
of fifth.
Freshman Zach Chapman led the
way with an 11th place finish, finishing with a time of 25:14.
“Zach [Chapman] ran the fastest
time ever for a [Bulldog] freshman,
and that definitely was the highlight of
the weekend,” head coach Tim Schwegler said.
Schwegler said he expected the
freshmen to be a big part of the team
but with Chapman’s performance, he
was pleasantly surprised.
“Zach’s running a little faster than
I thought he would, and that’s great,”
Schwegler said.
Senior Jason Simpson, running just
behind Chapman with a time of 25:19,
placed 13th. This marked a large improvement for Simpson after finishing
last year’s conference meet almost two
minutes later in 27th place.
Rounding out the Bulldogs’ top three
was senior Steve Porath. He finished
28th with a time of 26:05.
“I am pleased with the seniors, and
I commend them for all that they have
done,” Schwegler said.
The rest of the Bulldog field finished
between 37th and 65th in the 71-runner
field.
Schwegler said the team still has
some things to work on for the rest of
the season.
“For regionals, we need to make
some improvements,” Schwegler said,
“Our four through seven runners need
to group up better.”
Regionals are set for Nov. 4 at University of Central Missouri.
Faust finishes second at MIAA cross-country meet
Senior nearly wins title,
women rank seventh at the
competition, men are sixth
Dan Rettke
for the Index
Senior Jacquie Faust made her move
early in the MIAA Conference Championship. It nearly resulted in a victory.
Trying to become the first Bulldog
since 1980 to win the MIAA Conference cross country championship, Faust
found herself trailing one of her rivals,
Southwest Baptist University’s Amy
Broadhurst, early in the race.
“Cross country is like a chess
game— you have to wait and make the
right move, and my move was to sit until the three-kilometer mark and make
my push there,” Faust said.
That was exactly what she did. At
the 3K point, Faust took the lead from
Broadhurst and held it until about the
800-meter mark.
At that point, the race’s eventual
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Swim teams
drop opener
Blake Toppmeyer
Staff Reporter
The difference was five one-hundredths of a second.
That was the margin of defeat the
women’s 200-yard medley relay team
suffered in the season’s opening event.
The result of event one served to foreshadow the type of bittersweet dual meet
the women experienced last Saturday
at Div. I Missouri State University. The
opening 200-yard medley relay victory
sent the Bears on their way to a 162-132
defeat of the Bulldogs. Despite the loss,
the women outscored Missouri State 132130 in swimming events.
“When we lost the first relay by five
one-hundredths of a second, I knew
we weren’t going to be able to outscore
them,” head coach Mark Gole said. “I
knew we could still win the swimming
portion.”
The 200-yard medley relay team, consisting of senior Brigit Brunsman, juniors
Emily Greenwood and Laura Harp and
freshman Kate Aherne achieved a time of
1:47.92, which qualified them for nationals. This proved to be little consolation to
some of the relay members.
“We were more disappointed that we
got second place,” Greenwood said. “We
weren’t really concerned with our time at
that point.”
In addition to qualifying for nationals
in the 200-yard medley, Greenwood also
captured a first-place finish in the 100yard backstroke, narrowly missing an Acut qualifying time. Although Greenwood
trailed Missouri State’s Allison Zeller at
the halfway point, she made a late push to
take the win.
“When it comes down to that last [50
yards] ... that’s when I pour on the legs,”
Greenwood said. “That’s where we beat
people, the last half of every race.”
Greenwood’s victory was one of five
the women captured. Junior Whitney
Wodstrchill led the way with victories in
the 1,000-yard freestyle and the 200-yard
backstroke.
Gole said the 200-yard backstroke
turned the meet around for the women.
They claimed the top three spots, with
Greenwood and senior Lija Kaleps-Clark
finishing just behind Wodstrchill.
“I think our one, two, three finish in the
200 backstroke was huge for the women’s
team,” Gole said.
Soon after that event, junior Molly Polette took first in the 500-yard freestyle,
and senior Brittany Anderson won the
200-yard breaststroke. Anderson passed
three swimmers in the last 50 yards to win
her event.
“It always turns out that I have a lot of
energy [left] in the last 50 yards,” Anderson said. “I’m not, like, saving up, but it’s
just, like, ‘OK, this is the last few laps, I
have to go as fast as I can.’”
Although the women lost the meet, the
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Freshman Andrew McCall swims a few laps after practice last week. McCall and the rest of the men’s team fell to
Missouri State University 176-173 at the season opening dual meet.
fact that they outscored Missouri State in
swimming events proves they can compete with schools at the Div. I level.
“They’re just so close in ability,”
Gole said. “If you look at the results,
the first through fourth [place finishers]
are all close.”
The men experienced a much more
difficult time of competing at the level
of the Missouri State swimmers. The
Bears swept all 16 events en route to a
176-103 victory.
Nevertheless, Gole said he thinks the
men did perform well in certain events
and that his team got stronger as the meet
progressed.
“The early stages of the meet were a
little rough for us, just because I think
the lack of warm-up took a toll on them,”
Gole said. “As the meet got going, the
swims started coming around, and they
got better and better.”
While the men lacked a first place
finish, they did have some swimmers
capture multiple second place finishes.
Junior Ryan Ferrell, who finished runner-up in the 100-yard freestyle and
butterfly, and senior Robert Fletcher
— the second-place finisher in the 100yard and 200-yard backstroke — had
several quality races.
“I thought Ryan Ferrell and Robert
Fletcher swam probably the most consistent on the men’s side as far being
there in every one of their swims,” Gole
said. “Ryan is surprising me right now
because he’s way ahead of where he
was last year. ... I think he’s setting up a
really good year.”
Although the men did not technically
win any events, they did receive first place
points in the 400-yard freestyle relay. The
Missouri State teams swam for exhibition
times in this event.
“I thought the 400-free relay was pretty rock solid for this time of the year,”
Gole said.
Junior Alex Totura, a member of the
400-yard freestyle team, finished third
in the 500-yard freestyle and was the
top Bulldog finisher in the 200-yard
freestyle.
“The way [Missouri State] swam,
I thought that’s about the right place I
should be,” Totura said. “ ... More importantly, I swam the way I needed to
swim.”
Despite the losses by both the men
and the women, Gole is not alarmed.
“I’m really pleased with where our
team is at as far as training goes,” Gole
said. “And that’s really what I’m more
concerned with at the time being.”
nament in Arkansas. Playing against Bullets of the past helped out the 2006 team,
Gerhart said.
“Any chance we get to play a game is
good practice, but we will definitely see
a different style down in Arkansas,” Gerhart said.
With the rain showing no signs of letting up and players of past and present
making plans to get together later that
evening, the teams were anxious to turn
over the pitch to the Bulls for their own
alumni game.
Bill Sexton, men’s head coach, was
the first of his team at the pitch, because
he served as referee for the Bullets’ game.
Sexton said he enjoys helping out with
their game.
“I usually do it every year if I’m
available, and it helps keep it kind of
loose and just let everybody have fun,”
Sexton said.
By the time the Bulls took the field,
certain areas had standing water, giving
a bit of a water show whenever a player
would slosh into the end zone for a try.
The men had a smaller showing from
their alumni but were still able to play a
shortened game, with the alumni winning
37-15.
The flow of the game was broken up
at halftime by a different sort of competition, when current rookies and first-year
alumni took each other on in a powdered
doughnut eating contest.
One of the first-year alumni was former All-American Sean Foley, who said
he sees good things down the road for the
Bulls from what he saw Saturday.
“They’re really young, so they’re
going to be good,” Foley said. “The
more they play, the better they are going to get.”
Sexton said he would have liked to see
the team play better against the alumni,
but he can’t be too upset.
“I can’t be disappointed that they lost
since all but one of the guys out there learned
how to play rugby from me,” he said.
Sexton said he expects the Bulls’ final
match of the fall season, which will be next
Saturday at home against the University of
Nebraska, to be a very tough match.
“Their coach, Tim Russo, is a Truman
alumnus,” Sexton said. “He’s played for
the Kansas City Blues, a super-league
team, and a territorial senior men’s team,
so he’s played at a good level. He’s got
some good ideas and is working at creating a very good program.”
The Bulls will come into the match 20 in league play after winning by default
against the University of Kansas. Sexton
said a win against Nebraska won’t come
as easily.
“These guys are big, and they are fast,”
Sexton said. “They are playing very good
rugby right now. I expect it to be a very
difficult game.”
Rugby teams defeated by alumni in wet, muddy conditions
Ben Yarnell
Staff Reporter
The wind, rain and cold were not
enough to keep alumnae Stacy Pfeiffer
and Renell Strait from watching the legacy they helped start.
Both women braved the elements Saturday to come out to the Truman Bullets
Rugby alumni game and support the team
they were a part of 15 years ago.
“This is totally rugby weather,” Strait
said. “I don’t know how many games we
played up here like this.”
Both opted out of actually playing in
the game.
“My knees don’t like it when I run
anymore,” Pfeiffer said.
However, even without Pfeiffer and
Strait, the Bullet Alumni trounced the
current team 20-0.
Senior player-coach Natalie Gerhart
said her team had something to show the
alumni.
“I think they were a little surprised at
how hard we hit,” Gerhart said.
Even though the game was intended to
be simply a fun scrimmage, play had to
be halted several times to attend to many
injuries of different alumni players.
This game was the last match in three
weeks for many of the Bullets. The team
plans to make its way to Kansas City,
Mo., next week to assist in the women’s
Sweet 16 tournament.
The following week, as many as 12
Bullets might practice and play with the
Heart of America under-21 select side
team. Gerhart said the status of the game
is still up in the air.
“If that game is played, it will be a really good chance to play some really competitive rugby,” Gerhart said.
Further down the road, the entire Bullets squad will get back into competitive
mode Nov. 11 and 12 for the Ozark Tour-
Volleyball
Regular
Season
Finale
Senior Day
Saturday 2 p.m.
vs. Northwest
Missouri
Thank you, Seniors!
Kelsey Wackerman
Christine Wagener
Sarah Shearman
Alex Baker
Seniors honored
prior to match
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DEFENSE l
Ball-hawks force six turnovers, score
touchdown while leading team to third straight win
“Coaches stressed that way before the
game — we got to get the ball out,” Hammers said. “ ... And that’s what we did.”
In the wet conditions of the “lake” formerly known as the Stokes Stadium field,
both teams were forced to run the ball
early and often. The Bulldogs were ready
for Washburn.
“We knew what they were going to do,
and our defense really, really stepped up,”
Hammers said. “ ... We just came out and
did what we had to do.”
Currier said this year’s defense has
something that he didn’t have in previous
years: skill players who can make plays.
“Every good football team has playmakers,” Currier said. “It’s easy to see
playmakers that catch the ball, throw the
ball and run the ball, but defensively the
playmakers are the guys that come up
with those forced fumbles, batting the
balls down, big tackles and sacks.”
Hammers, one of the playmakers, had
another stand out game. His eight tackles,
one forced fumble and one fumble recovery performance earned him his third
MIAA Defensive Player of the Week
Award and his second in two weeks. He
was not alone in his dominance of the
Ichabods.
Sophomores Kyle Glenn and Courtney
FOOTBALL l
Jordan each came up big for the ’Dogs.
Glenn, a 6-foot, 230-pound linebacker,
led the team with nine tackles.
Jordan, a defensive end who started
for the first time in three weeks, was a ball
hawk, recovering three fumbles.
“Coaches always tell us to get to the
ball,” Jordan said. “I just happened to
be on my way trying to get in on the
tackle, and the ball came out, and I just
fell on it.”
Freshman linebacker Eric Sternberg,
a beneficiary of the team’s switch to the
3-4 system, had his best game as a collegian. He recorded eight tackles, forced a
fumble and picked off a pass in the fourth
quarter to seal the victory for the ’Dogs.
The dominating games from the underclassmen set up the potential for good
things to come for the rest of the season
— and years to come.
“It just means that the future is going
to be even better,” Hammers said.
After installing a new scheme late in
summer practice, there were concerns that
the defense wouldn’t be ready to compete
at a high level. Those questions are no
longer around.
“We are just growing as a defense,”
Hammers said. “From game one to now,
we just keep growing. The defense is just
rolling.”
KEY TURNOVERS
Time
Mistake
Result
1st Quarter
Derek Rodriguez fumbles a Washburn
punt at the Truman 12-yard line
Washburn scores three plays later, ties
the game at 7
3rd Quarter
WU’s Trent Hearn fumbles at Washburn’s
30-yard line
Chandler Terry picks up the fumble and
scores a TD, gives Truman 14-7 lead
4th Quarter
WU’s Brad Cole fumbles at the Washburn
17-yard line
Matt Ticich scores two plays later, gives
Truman a 21-7 lead
DECIDING FACTOR
Playing in marsh-like conditions Saturday
afternoon, neither Truman nor Washburn
could move the football effectively.
Turnovers led to great field position and a
Bulldog victory
Score
Turnovers
Pts. Off
Turnovers
Truman
Washburn
21
1
7
6
14
7
Source: gobulldogs.truman.edu,
Bulldogs alone in fourth place in MIAA after third straight victory and fourth in five weeks
Chris Tharp/Index
Three members of the Bulldogs defense pull down Washburn University’s
Ra’Shawn Mosley during the ’Dogs 21-7 win Saturday.
PLAYOFFS l
Women’s soccer likely a
NCAA playoff team after defeating UCM
Emporia State University 2-0.
Still, they couldn’t avoid a loss
Wednesday afternoon against
University of Central Missouri,
falling 1-0.
The loss to UCM essentially
ends the Bulldogs’ season. For
the first time since the MIAA
women’s soccer conference was
formed, the purple and white
won’t win the regular season
conference title.
Even more disappointing —
the Bulldogs, barring any massive collapse by UCM in the last
weekend of the year, will miss
the playoffs. If the Bulldogs had
captured the victory, they would
have been in the driver’s seat for
the final playoff spot.
This is a squad that shouldn’t
have missed the postseason at the
beginning of the year. This is a
postseason-caliber team, but that
awful Oct. 14 and 15 weekend left
them in too deep a hole to recover.
“We have had a great year,
we have just had one bad weekend,” Cannon said.
And that weekend – two
gut-wrenching road losses to
Southwest Baptist University
and Missouri Southern – was
very similar to Wednesday
afternoon.
The Bulldogs lost 1-0 in each
of those contests. They outshot
the opposition in each contest.
They put more shots on goal
each contest. They played better
each contest. They lost both
contests — one time in such
a fashion that Cannon didn’t
know what to say to his team
after the game.
The same applied to Wednesday’s showing. It was another
1-0 defeat. Another game where
the Bulldogs outshot the opposition (11-8) and placed
more shots on goal (5-2). They
controlled the ball in the final 15
minutes of the contest.
They just couldn’t win.
Statistically, the Bulldogs are
the conference’s best team.
They rank first in fewest goals
allowed and stand third in total
offense. But they rank as the
fifth-best team in the conference
in the most important numbers:
wins and losses.
All season long, it has been
the same theme: This is a team
capable of achieving great
things, but one play, one goal
forces a loss or causes a tie.
They tied a Family Day contest
against Southwest Baptist
on a late no-call when senior
midfielder Lauren Hawks was
tripped up inside the penalty
box by a Bearcats’ defender.
A few weeks later, senior
midfielder Rachael Schmidt hit
the post in the final minute of
overtime in the 1-0 loss to SBU
on Oct. 14.
Against UCM, the Bulldogs
controlled possession and controlled the offensive flow. They
just couldn’t capture the victory.
This team — with an
abundance of freshman playing
key roles — has played very
well this season, especially in
a MIAA conference that will
place three teams in the postseason for the first time ever.
This squad has defeated —
or tied — every top team in the
conference. They haven’t lost
to any team that is worse than
they are. All of their defeats are
one-goal margins, four of the 10 variety. They played a tougher
non-conference slate than most
of their regional competition,
especially Southwest Baptist.
They will likely fall short of
the playoffs, even if they win
their final two games of the
season against Missouri Western
State University and Northwest
Missouri State University. Both
are mediocre teams — Mo.
West ranks as the worst team in
the conference. The Bulldogs
haven’t lost to either of the
squads since the MIAA was
formed eight years ago. Two
wins should be easy.
The problem lies with Central Missouri. They also face-off
against Mo. West and Northwest. The chances of losing
either of the contests is slim.
Just like a few weeks ago,
the Bulldogs will need to react
strongly and capture the final
two contests.
And become Mo. West and
Northwest’s biggest fans.
it ended up being to our advantage,” Currier said.
For the second straight week, the
’Dogs’ “D” was the difference maker in
the contest. The unit held the Icabods to
151 yards of total offense, averaging a
paltry 2.4 yards per play.
The defense stopped Washburn in both
halves but really stepped things up in the
second half. The Bulldogs ended all but
one Washburn drive by forcing six turnovers in the half — five fumbles and one
interception.
“We really didn’t change anything,”
junior free safety Chandler Terry said.
“We just had to keep playing hard like we
did in the first half and just keep getting
after them.”
Terry recovered one of the five Ichabod fumbles and turned it into six points.
Terry picked up a ball that was forced
loose by junior strong safety Jesse Cooper
and returned it 30 yards for a touchdown.
“Coop made a nice play and made the
guy fumble,” Terry said. “I just saw the ball
close to the sidelines, so I just tried to stay
inbounds and pick it up and try and score.”
The lone Washburn touchdown came
on a 12-yard drive, courtesy of a muffed
punt by sophomore punt returner Derek Rodriguez. On the play, Rodriguez
charged in on a punt that sailed over his
head. He got a hand on the ball as it was
going by him, and Washburn picked it up
on the ’Dogs’ 12-yard line.
Rodriguez’s turnover was the ’Dogs
only one of the day.
YOUTH l
“One thing we did a great job with was
no turnovers on offense,” Currier said. “ ...
They had five, and that was the difference.”
Offensively, the Bulldogs did just
enough to win the game. The purple and
white registered a season-low 151 yards
of total offense and punted eight times.
Still, the team managed to score when it
mattered and secured the victory.
Sophomore quarterback Matt Ticich
led the way for the offense, although he
did little throwing the ball. Ticich threw for
just 14 yards on one of four completions.
Most of the first-year signal caller’s
damage came on the ground. For the third
consecutive week, Ticich led the rushing
attack, gaining 81 yards on 21 carries and
scoring two touchdowns.
The rest of the running duties were
split between two freshmen running
backs. Marvin Bembry had 13 carries for
58 yards, while Phil Kenney had 22 yards
on eight attempts in his first game back
from injury after missing the previous
four games.
Kenney also caught the only completed pass in the game.
Junior Jake Cunningham missed his
second game in a row with a knee injury.
For the second straight week the ’Dogs
will take on the team directly above them
in the conference standings. The team
will make the long trip to Pittsburg, Kan.,
to take on the Pittsburg State University
Gorillas on Saturday. At 7-1, the Gorillas
are tied for second in the conference and
are ranked No. 8 in the nation and No. 9
in the regional poll.
Oct. 14 at Emporia State
Site: Kirksville, Mo., Stadium: Stokes Stadium
Score by Quarters
Washburn
Truman
1 2
7 0
7 0
First Downs
Rushes-Yards
PASSING YDS (NET)
Passes Att-Comp-Int
Total Offense Plays-Yards
Fumble Returns-Yards
Punt Returns-Yards
Kickoff Returns-Yards
Interception Returns-Yards
Punts (Number-Avg)
Fumbles-Lost
Penalties-Yards
Possession Time
Third-Down Conversions
Fourth-Down Conversions
Red-Zone Scores-Chances
Sacks By: Number-Yards
3
0
7
WU
9
55-132
19
7-3-1
62-151
0-0
5-20
4-49
0-0
6-36.5
5-5
7-53
32:06
3 of 15
1 of 3
1-2
0-0
4 Score
0
7
7
21
TSU
8
44-151
14
4-1-0
48-165
1-30
1--9
1-37
1-11
8-27.2
1-1
2-10
27:54
3 of 12
0 of 1
2-2
0-0
RUSHING: Washburn – Hearn, T. 16-52;
Mosley, R. 17-47; Walker, B. 14-39; Cole,B.
4-16; Wofford, B. 2-2; TEAM 2-minus 24
Truman – Ticich, M. 21-81; Bembry, M. 1356; Kenney, P. 8-22; TEAM 2-minus 8
PASSING: Washburn – Wofford, B. 3-7-1-19
Truman – Ticich, M. 1-4-0-14
RECEIVING: Washburn – Gardiner, A. 2-15;
Hearn, T. 1-4
Truman – Kenney, P. 1-14
INTERCEPTIONS: Washburn – None
Truman – Sternberg, E. 1-11
FUMBLES: Washburn – Walker, B. 1-1; Mosley, R. 1-1; Hearn, T. 1-1; Wofford, B. 1-1;
Cole,B. 1-1
Truman – Rodriguez, D. 1-1
Three freshmen supply steady offense for the women’s soccer team this season
In the 61st minute, Wiegert
crossed the ball and Haluszczak
knocked it in with her thigh,
giving the ‘Dogs a lead they
wouldn’t relinquish.
“It wasn’t so much that I
scored,” Haluszczak said. “I
would have been happy for
anyone to score it. I was just
glad for the team that I scored
because we worked so hard that
game, and we totally deserved
to win.”
Cannon said one of the advantages of playing Haluszczak is that she can strike the
ball well with her left or right
foot, so she can play on either
side of the field.
“For her size, she just hits
the crap out of the ball,” Cannon said.
Fellow midfielder Isabel Gaeta is the opposite of Haluszczak’s
workhorse style, Cannon said.
Gaeta has started only one
game so far this season, but Cannon said that when Gaeta plays,
she has a nose for the net.
“She has a little bit of that
offensive flair, which is what
we need,” Cannon said. “She
likes to get forward. She’s
definitely going, ‘I’m going to
cheat a little bit, try to get in
front of my mark,’ and she just
likes to be around the goal.”
The offensive talent has
paid off, with Gaeta scoring
the game winner versus Winona State University early in the
season and adding an insurance
goal on Sunday to help defeat
Emporia State University.
Wiegert also knows about
big goals. She is tied for the
team lead in goal scoring with
senior Lauren Hawks, and she
leads the team in points with
17.
Cannon said Wiegert’s performance this year has been
admirable.
“For a freshman, stepping
in and being depended upon
to score goals is a lot to ask,”
Cannon said. “She’s going to
be a very good player for us for
the next four years.”
Cannon said that on top of
untimely injuries, the other
main reason for the lack of
scoring this season is inexperience.
Adam Kabins/Index
Freshman forward Jessica Wiegert dribbles the ball in the team’s 1-1 tie against Washburn
University on Saturday afternoon at Truman Soccer Park. Wiegert is one of several key
freshmen for the team.
“[One is] the fact that we
are playing a lot of freshmen in
those attacking positions,” Cannon said. “That’s going to happen, and for the future, it looks
pretty good, actually, because
they’re going to get more experience, they’re going to get better, and they’re getting a lot of
playing time.”
But this year, the ’Dogs are
working hard to make the playoffs, and Cannon said the team
essentially needs to win out the
rest of the season to get there.
Gaeta said the key to winning
those remaining two games on the
schedule is to take control early.
“I think we have to score
right off the bat, so then we have
some security,” Gaeta said. “And
once we start scoring, we should
score another one right away so
we can ... get into them mentally
and take the control right away
because [teams] usually come
out strong in the second half.”
C Y
M K
Index
Athlete of
the Week
Mike Shelden
Sport: Football
Year: Senior
Position: Center
Hometown: Eureka, Mo.
Shelden delivered one of
the finest games of his
four-year career
in Saturday’s 21-7 win
against Washburn
University. Playing in
marsh-like conditions
because of a steady
downpour that begin a
few hours before kickoff,
Shelden enjoyed a
terrific day. He didn’t
have a single turnover in
the shotgun spread
offense. The Washburn
center, Dan Schneider,
and the Ichabods’ two
quarterbacks, Beau
Wofford and Brandon
Walker, had problems
on snaps the entire
game. Overall, Washburn
turned the ball over six
times in the contest,
leading to 14 points.
The Bulldogs, 4-4 overall
and 4-2 in the MIAA, won
its fourth game in the
last five weeks.
20
Center helps
Bulldogs win
Mike Shelden doesn’t have
a bad snap in wet and
windy conditions Saturday
in 2006 and have a very good chance to
finish above .500 for the first time since
2002 and possibly earn a trip to the Mineral Water Bowl. With the victory, they
also entered the regional rankings (No.
Conor Nicholl
11) for the first time since Currier took
over as head coach.
Sports Editor
“I said all week, ‘This is the bigHead football coach Shannon Currier gest game of my career,’” Shelden said.
made certain he found one player after “They had a great defensive line, and
Saturday’s contest: senior center Mike we had to win to keep our postseason
Shelden.
hopes alive.”
A few minutes after the Bulldogs
Shelden was the crux for the offendefeated Washburn University 21-7 in sive line, plowing holes for an attack
pouring rain and quagmire-like condi- that ran the football 44 of 48 offensive
tions, Currier spotted Shelden talking plays. He also perpetually supplied a
with friends near the west goalpost.
steady snap in the shotgun spread ofHe walked over to his veteran center, fense.
gave him a high-five and said, “Great job
When he first walked onto the field
snapping today.”
about three hours before the 2 p.m. kickShelden’s solid snaps provided the dif- off, Shelden knew the conditions were
ference in a contest ultimately decided by going to be very rough.
turnovers and ball control. With help from
Rain started pelting Stokes Stadium
several offensive players, the senior suc- about 9 a.m. and wouldn’t stop until well
cessfully navigated through the muck of after the contest. By kickoff, the field
Stokes Stadium. He never committed a was soup-like.
miscue the entire contest.
By the end of the game, Stokes was
“Mike Shelden, our running backs a brown-and-green version of oatmeal.
and [sophomore quarterSeveral huge brown
back] Matt Ticich can all be
clumps dotted the field,
players of the game only bebetween the
“Mike Shelden, especially
cause of ball security, even
30-yard lines.
our running backs
if they didn’t make any
Players would sink
yards,” Currier said. “The
and Matt Ticich a few inches every time
key to this game was to not
they stepped on the field,
can be players
turn the ball over. That was
providing the worst conof the game only ditions Shelden, a twothe difference.”
On the other hand,
because of ball time MIAA Honorable
Washburn center Dan SchAll-Conference
security, even if Mention
neider and the Ichabods’
lineman, had ever played
they didn’t gain in during his five-year
quarterbacks turned the exchanges into a constant strugcollegiate career.
any yards.”
gle, losing fumbles six times.
Still, the senior — playOn a day where just two
ing in his 40th collegiate
drives went over 45 yards,
game and making his 30th
Shannon Currier
the turnovers — including
straight start — delivered
Head Football Coach
several deep in Washburn
an outstanding contest. In
territory — provided the
pregame, Shelden focused
Bulldogs with short fields.
on making every snap perThe purple and white took advantage, fect and clean.
scoring 14 second-half points off IchaHe always holds the ball on the laces
bod miscues and winning their fourth before every exchange, but on Saturday
MIAA contest in their last five games.
he especially focused on finding a solid
“It was one of those things where you grip. Shelden also called on the officials
had to handle the ball, especially today, whenever possible.
you really had to take care of the foot“Every time I thought that it was getball,” Washburn defensive coordinator ting too wet, I would ask the referee for
Chris Brown said. “If you don’t take a new ball,” he said. “They did a good
care of the football, you can lose a ball- job of switching it out. I knew it was
game that way.”
going to be a pretty sloppy afternoon
After finishing 4-18 in the first two at Stokes. It was all about just trying to
seasons of the Shannon Currier era, the keep my concentration and just trying
Bulldogs are now 4-4 (4-2 in the MIAA) to snap it.”
Photos and design by Chris Tharp/Index
On the other side, Schneider and the
Washburn offense treated Saturday like a
normal game.
“We just dry [the balls] off with the
towel, and hopefully it doesn’t get too
wet,” Brown said.
Shelden and the offense rarely used
towels on the field.
“After a minute or two, it gets kind
of pointless because the ball gets so
[soaked],” he said.
Instead, Shelden tried to stay dry and
keep his hands from getting cold in the
windy, 51-degree temperatures.
“The biggest thing is the mental game,”
Currier said. “You have to believe that
you are going to get the ball back there
and make certain you are not letting your
body feel cold. You have to have a mind
that is stronger than the elements.”
Shelden kept his mind alert and his
hands from getting too cold. His hands
were freezing after the Bulldogs’ first offensive possession, but he started using
hand warmers — small heating packs often used by skiers and snowboarders on the
mountains — that some players bought.
“I just wanted to keep my hands warm,”
he said. “I would also run and get a towel
and start wiping off my hands and trying to
keep my entire body clean, too.”
That process helped secure the football for the Bulldogs, yielding another
critical win in a remarkable season.
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