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POLAR PLUNGE Muskingum’s second Polar Plunge event sent 15 students into the campus lake to raise awareness for the College Drive Presbyterian Church Food Pantry.
The event was hosted by Muskingum University Student Affairs. Despite the “balmy” 48 degree weather the students still participated in the winter charity event.
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MUSKINGUM WELCOMES NEW ATHLETICS VICE PRESIDENT
Submission/ Steve Brockelbank Steve Brockelbank and his wife Heidi, and their three daughters, Hayley, Maddie, and Morgan.
Dana Davis Orbit Media Reporter Muskingum University will officially welcome a new Vice President of Athletics and Athletic Director April first. Steve Brockelbank is an experienced athletic administrator and coach at both the collegiate and high school level. Brockelbank is no stranger to the Buckeye state, serving most recently as Assistant Athletic Director of Communications and Administration at Miami University. However, he hasn’t always lived in Ohio. “I grew up in Jenison, Michigan, which is a located just outside of Grand Rapids,” said Brockelbank. Brockelbank fondly remembers the times he would play sports as a kid with his neighborhood peers. “I loved every sport growing up, and
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we played every sport we could,” said Brockelbank. I grew up in the era before travel sports and played most of my sports with my friends in the neighborhood. My team was usually comprised of the kids from Teakwood and 22nd Streets. We would typically play the kids from the Sandcrest Street area.” Brockelbank played with friends from the moment school let out until street lights were their only source of light. “We played whatever sports were in-season. We would play from the dismissal of school until dinner. When we were not in school, we would play allday, and my rule was literally to report home when the street lights came on. We fought, we argued, and we eventually worked it out and continued playing.....still great friends with most of them,” said Brockelbank.
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His sports-loving nature continued into his teenage years. In high-school, Brockelbank ran track and played football and continued playing football through college. By the time he was 15 years old he was a 10 year veteran hockey player. Another lasting piece of his childhood is his love for the Detroit Lions. Possibly rivaling his love for sports is the love Brockelbank holds for his family. “I met my wife through my college roommate while home on summer break between my sophomore and junior years,” said Brockelbank. “We broke up, three years later ran into her again and will celebrate our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary this summer.” He and his wife Heidi have three daughters, all of whom share their father’s love for sports. His eldest daughter, Hayley, 22, played volleyball and softball. Maddie, 20, played volleyball and soccer. His youngest daughter, Morgan, 15, is an all-conference golfer at her high school and also has a love for softball. The Brockelbanks include in their family Bella, their Labrador Retriever. Brockelbank is looking toward his future with Muskingum University and the connections he will form in the community. “I am most excited to come in and develop relationships with our student-athletes and coaches,” said Brockelbank. “Regardless of where I have worked, I have always profoundly valued the relationships of those I work with and serve. April 1 cannot get here soon enough.” Brockelbank succeeds current Muskingum Univeristy Athletic Director Larry Shank who has spent 16 years in leading Muskingum athletics.
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Muskingum University Hosts Acclaimed Art Exhibition
Chad Holmes / Orbit Meida Leroy Neiman art exhibition takes over Louis O. Palmer Art Gallery and Phillip and Betsey Caldwell Hall through April 14 featuring more than 74 paintings in the collection.
Dana Davis Orbit Media Reporter Muskingum University is currently hosting the art exhibition, Action! An Exhibition of Leroy Neiman’s Champions. The exhibit is housed in Phillip and Betsy Caldwell Hall and in the Louis O. Palmer Art Gallery featuring a collection of 74 drawings and paintings. The exhibition opened Jan. 22. This is the first time that Neiman’s art has been shown in Ohio. Leroy Neiman’s collection comes from the LeRoy Neiman Foundation, located in New York. Leroy Neiman was an American artist who painted animals and people, with a focus on energetic, colorful images of athletes. Along with painting
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many athletes, U.S. presidents and celebrities, Neiman has written 15 books in his lifetime. Neiman was born in 1921 and passed in 2012. Neiman was born during the Great Depression in Minnesota and enlisted in the United States Military in 1942. After the war, he attended Chicago’s School of the Art Institute. President Susan S. Hassler was present for the opening day reception and was ecstatic about the exhibition. “We are so proud to have this exhibition at Muskingum, for two reasons.,” said Hasseler. “One, it’s going to bring people to our campus and our entire campus can enjoy it, but the other reason is it shows our true commitment to the arts.” Hasseler believes the exhibition goes hand in hand with the other arts pro-
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grams Muskingum offers. “We love the arts at Muskingum. We have a great art program, music program, theater program. We’re bringing them all together around this absolutely gorgeous exhibition,” said Hasseler. Professor of Art Yan Sun hopes to incorporate the exhibition into his classroom exercises. “This is a good beginning with this three-month exhibition, so that we have a design for workshops and lectures for our students. I think that Muskingum’s students will be involved in the many activities and the students will be involved in the preparation and design of the gallery,” said Sun. The exhibition runs through April 14 and is free and open to the public. The gallery hours can be found on Muskingum University’s website.
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Local Talents Explored Through Art, Music & Theatre Dana Davis Orbit Media Reporter Muskingum University offers a wide variety of cultural programs and events for students and the New Concord community.
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The Communication, Media, & Theatre department presented The Liar Feb. 22-25 in the Sandra Wolfe
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Thompson Theatre as one of its many productions this semester.
The Muskingum University Department of Music is sponsoring a faculty concert titled American Expressionism March 16. The concert beings at 7:30 p.m. in the San-
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dra Wolfe Thompson Theatre inside of Phillip and Betsey Caldwell Hall and is free and open to the public. Muskies are creating an original production for the community April 12-15. They will be under the direction of the Hinterlands Ensemble. The South Eastern Ohio Symphomy Orchestra (SEOSO) is hosting a children’s concert on March 18 at 8:30 p.m. The concert will be held at the Prichard Laughlin Civic Center located at 7033 Glenn Highway in Cambridge.
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POLAR
PLUNGE Franco Bossa/ Orbit Media (Above): Six New Concord officers stood by in case of emergency. One officer donned diver equipment to take part in the charity plunge. Franco Bossa/ Orbit Media (Left): Plungers were rewarded with towels and socks for taking part in the second annual charity Polar Plunge. Pictured: Ryan Lewton.
Franco Bossa/ Orbit Media (Right): Polar Plunge participants scurry out of the water immediately following their plunge.
QUICK FACT: January 2018’s Polar Plunge, hosted by Student Affairs was the second time the plunge has happened on Muskingum’s campus. 6
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CNS Nik Leasure Staff Writer & Editor
Computer Network Services (CNS) serves the Muskingum University Community from room 331 in Boyd Science Center. They monitor and repair the Zimbra email service, the telephone system, MuskieLink, and printing services on campus. Employees of Computer Network Services are comprised of student workers from a variety of majors and backgrounds. The Director of CNS, Ryan Harvey, said there are only 2 current employees that are computer science majors. One employee, Donny Purkey, is a Music Education major. Purkey said he has learned more than just computer skills working at CNS. “You learn a lot…social skills and computer skills,” said Purkey. Purkey is a computer technician which means he can only work on the operating system of computers. The hardware cannot be operated on by student workers unless the computer belongs to CNS. However, technicians can assist students and faculty with the operating systems of their computers and will recommend they seek help from the original vendor of their computer if they have hardware problems. CNS also employees Senior Resident Lab Assistants (SRLA) and Resident Lab Assistants (RLA) who maintain computer labs within the residence halls on campus and assist students on location when they are unable to go to the CNS main office or if the office is closed for the day. They can also deliver student computers to the main office if the issue cannot be fixed on site. SRLAs and RLAs are not required to live in the residence halls they work in.
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Though Computer Science majors do not comprise the majority of student workers, Purkey explains that it does give real world applications for both Computer Science majors and those interested in the IT department. Purkey has known Muskingum alumni who have gone into the information technology field such as David Saum and Courtney King who both worked at CNS. Purkey believes CNS is able to provide information that is applicable to life after graduation. “People who have never attended a computer science course have gone on from Muskingum to have full time IT jobs,” said Purkey. Being that Muskingum’s campus is filled with many computer, printers, and various wireless devices problems do arise from time to time. At the end of Fall 2017semester, there was a campus wide slow-down of the internet services. Harvey states that after monitoring the usage during that period, it was found that gaming systems were to blame for the slow-down. Harvey and CNS are taking measures to prevent future similar problems. “[CNS will] not allow one or two users to monopolize bandwidth,” said
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Harvey. CNS is also using outside counsel to help assit them with the Muskingim internet network. “[CNS has] contracted with a network engineering firm to assist [in] stabilizing our wireless network [and prevent users’ devices from] dropping off the network,” said Harvey. CNS can be contacted through email at cns@muskingum.edu or by calling 740-826-8050. The office is open between 8 am and 5 pm on weekdays with some variations during the academic semester.
Contact Information: email: CNS@muskingum.edu phone number: 740 -826 - 8050 location: Boyd Science Ctr. 331 7
The Black & Magenta, part of Muskingum University’s Orbit Media, is pleased to share with its readers this present-day iconic photo of the mannequin named Starman piloting a Tesla sports car in space. This photo comes to The Black & Magenta courtesy of the SpaceX Corp. in Hawthorne, California. SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, the world’s most powerful rocket, thundered to life and shot away from Florida on
Feb. 6, 2018, powered by 27 engines and nearly 5 million pounds of thrust, kicking off a spectacular maiden flight to send SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s cherry red Tesla Roadster on a “just for fun” journey into the asteroid belt well beyond Mars. It’s safe to assume that the late Muskie John H. Glenn Jr., first American to orbit Earth in the early 1960s, would be as dazzled by this dramatic image as we are.