The Alestle: Volume 66, No. 2

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Thursday, August 22, 2013

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Volume 66, No. 2

Pharmacy students’ prescription for success: hard work

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E’ville welcomes students back at 14th Annual Block Party SIUE hosts a number of events during the first few weeks to welcome students each fall semester, and for the last 14 years, Edwardsville has had its own way of reaching out. The annual Block Party is a free event downtown with various activities, including inflatables, spin-art Frisbee discs, a balloon artist, carnival games and more. From 6 p.m. until midnight, vendors representing local businesses will have booths set up, introducing themselves to students.

According to Michelle Welter, Campus Activities Board assistant director, the Block Party, hosted by the university, the city and the Edwardsville Chamber of Commerce is meant to acquaint students with Edwardsville. “The purpose of the Block Party is to introduce students to area businesses and to get them to the downtown Edwardsville area, which is an area that a lot of students, especially freshmen, don’t get to right away,” Welter said. The Edwardsville Jimmy John’s has come to the Block Party the past several years, and its general manager Richard Lynch

hopes to be able to interact with students at the event by offering free samples, menus, magnets and a bean bag toss game with free sandwich cards as prizes. “We try to get into as many of the dorms and all of Cougar Village as much as possible,” Lynch said. “We’ll try to get as much involvement with the college as is possible this year.” SIUE groups will also have booths, some selling food and other items and others giving out tickets for winning carnival games, which can be used to redeem for prizes. Live music from local musi-

cians of Smash Band will provide another form of entertainment for students and community members. They have appeared at the Block Party for a number of years. “They do a great job and always bring out a great crowd,” Welter said. “Smash does a great job getting the students involved, and he does lots of contests and gives away lots of prizes.” Shuttle buses will be available for student to travel from campus to downtown and back.

Not knowing what you are going to be when you grow up can cause college students a lot of stress and anxiety. There are the long talks with the parents, trips to the guidance counselors and the changing of majors. Occasionally, however, you will find that rare student. The student that is so sure about his or her destination relaxed, — confident and steadily moving toward the goal. T h e ,(+6 /.+"76 School of 8 Pharmacy currently has not one, but two such students. Emily Papolczy, of Centralia, and Caleb Corrigan, of Decatur, are on a path to earn their doctorates at the age of 22 after finishing a majority of their pre-pharmacy classes while still in high school. The first thought that might come to mind is the show “Doogie Howser, M.D.” They must be geniuses. The rest of us can go back to “Call of Duty” and delayed graduations. But that’s not it. Although they are both intelligent, they are not prodigies, and their parents did not pay for a new building at the school. Papolczy went to public school where she was a member of the golf and track teams. She decided early what she wanted to do as a career and started taking steps | pg.2

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