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IMSSO- Experience

another culture with free food and entertainment at Light the Night. The event is from 7:30-10 p.m. Friday, April 22 at the Hindsman Tower.

Campus Recreation

-Beginning at 10 a.m. Monday, April 25 equipment checkout from camps recreation will cease until classes resume.

Music Department

-The music department will host a Music Theatre Workshop Spring Dessert Cabaret Monday, April 25. Seating will begin at 6:45 p.m. and desserts will be served following the performance. Tickets are $25 per person. To make reservations, call (479) 968-0473 or send an e-mail to ktfutterer@ atu.edu. From 2:30-4 p.m. Sunday, April 24 the music department will host a Symphonic Wind Ensemble Concert in Witherspoon Auditorium.

SIERRA MURPHY/THE ARKA TECH

Brown Building officially open

SIERRA MURPHY News Writer

prospective and returning students alike.

On Saturday, April 16, several members of the Arkansas Tech University family gathered in the lobby of Brown for the official building dedication ceremony. The building is named after 11th president of Tech Dr. Robert Charles Brown and his wife Jill Lestage Brown.

“Today is a very special day in the life of ATU,” Dr. Robin Bowen, university president, began.

Construction on Brown finished last month; the building took almost a year and a half to complete. As the brother building to Rothwell, it will sit as the face of the university, welcoming

Those classrooms have been named after prominent donors to the building, some of which include Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield.

Bowen said the building is a “build upon that legacy” Brown and his wife left behind. The building “will provide Tech with what it needs: classroom space.”

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reported to have helped the university add to its growing campus. Arkansan senators and representatives have been working with the university and its “funding differential with the state,” and began with a $4.4 million general improvement fund, which was used to help build Brown. Tech is a state-aided university, not a state funded university, a problem that has been resurfacing with Tech’s steady 17 years of record-breaking enrollment. Thomas Pennington, university counsel at law and associate vice

ones

(see BROWN page 4)

Light the Night kicks off fifth year

CLAUDIA YOUNG Editor-in-Chief

The fifth annual Light the Night will set the Hindsman Bell Tower aglow on Friday at 7:30 p.m. Light the Night, hosted by the International Multicultural Student Services Office, earned its name by the string lights that line the sidewalks. Light the Night is a fair that educates students about cultures unlike their own, said Sabrina Anwar, international student services specialist. It aims to celebrate diverse cultures with food, activities, music and dancing. "Every time I learn something different because they're not showing the same thing every year,” Anwar said. “I'm learning as I’m trying out all the food." Every year, over 300 students and people from the community will come out to celebrate one of the most popular events IMSSO hosts.

"It lights up the whole night,” Anwar said. “It lights up your inside; it's inspiring."

This year’s celebration will consist of eight booths, including China, Southeast Asia, Saudi Arabia and the United States. Booths compete for first, second and third place. The booths are judged by how accurate the representation of the country is. This motivates students to give it their all, Anwar said. Students are responsible for their own booths. They cook food from their home country, have activities, decorations and presentations. Lindsey Ingmire, international student advisor, said that students enjoy sharing their culture with campus and the community. “It’s exciting to see this take place and to see the reaction from my students,” Lindsey Ingmire, international student advisor, said. “I can see them light up as they share a piece of themselves with us.”

JENN TERRELL/THE ARKA TECH In the past, guests voted for the winner. Anwar said that it was unfair because some years there were more people of the same nationality attending who would vote for their culture’s booth. The judges of the booths are not affiliated with the department so that there is no bias, Anwar said.

Binh Tran, student worker and multimedia specialist for IMSSO, will be participating in the Southeast Asia booth this year. She said she feels a lot of pressure to be cooking for hundreds of people, but she hopes that her booth’s hard work will pay off.

(see LIGHT page 4)

Maggie Hand elected president of SGA

AI OZEKI

Contributing Writer Tech students elected seven new executive members and 21 new senators for Student Government Association during the fall 2016 academic year through elections, which were held April 11 to 13. The following students will represent the voice of the student body and begin their terms of service: Voting station for the elections was sponsored by SGA at the Chambers Cafeteria, and the elections were conducted electronically through SGA’s

website on theLink, which is the online portal to all of Tech’s Registered Student Organizations, according to Tech’s website.

The voting for the elections was open to Tech students who have registered on theLink and become part of SGA page. “We are here for the students and listen to what they want done,” said Bethany Skaggs, senior double major in economics and finance and management and marketing from Greenwood who serves as the SGA president for the spring 2016 semester, in an e-mail. SGA serves as the official student voice to

the administration at Tech, and its mission is to genuinely represent the interests of students and enhance the students’ decision-making process to improve campus life, according to the SGA executive board election application and guidelines. Total vote counts will be posted on the door of the SGA Office on the second floor of Doc Bryan Student Service Center. For more information about the elections for SGA, visit its website on theLink: https://thelink. atu.edu/organization/SGA

(results on SGA election page 4)


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