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‘HARD WORK U’ Rachel Hajek, College of the Ozarks sophomore from Steelville, Mo., talks about her experiences at the college during an interview on Thursday in the school’s fruitcake/jelly kitchen. Hajek picked College of the Ozarks because of its debt-free appeal. GLOBE | ROGER NOMER
Mayor says city officials studying contentions by Fraternal Order of Police BY DEBBY WOODIN dwoodin@joplinglobe.com
Joplin police union members say that public safety is at risk because of a high turnover rate within the department. They have turned to pleading directly to members of the Joplin City Council about the issue they say is depleting the department of experience and tenure. “Our inability to retain experienced officers is a liability to the Joplin Police Department, to the city of Joplin and to the public safety of our community,” wrote Officer Shelby Howard in the letter to council members issued on behalf of the union, the Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge No. 27. He asks to speak to council members in person because “an open and frank discussion of these issues is vital to fully understanding the gravity of the situation.” Mayor Mike Seibert said city staff is analyzing the union contentions and will discuss the issues during council budget talks early next month.
Missouri college maintains debt-free philosophy Debt-free model
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COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS charges
no tuition. Instead, the institution provides the opportunity for each full-time student to work at one of more than 100 campus work stations to pay in part for his or her cost of education. Student jobs range from working in the fruitcake and jelly kitchen to milking cows at the campus dairy to serving meals in the college’s public restaurant. THE REMAINING PORTION of each student’s expenses is covered through scholarships provided by gifts and contributions from donors. Debt is openly discouraged and no federal, state or private loans are made. SOURCE: COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS
OINT LOOKOUT, Mo. — Tara McCloskey, the sixth-born child in her family of 10, grew up wanting to go to college but wondering how it would ever be affordable. She had watched two of her older sisters leave higher education because the cost was too high. Two other sisters had graduated, but they were still paying back their student loans six to 10 years later. “The idea of graduating debt-free was huge to me,” she said. “I want to be free while I’m young to do differHannah Deal, a College of the Ozarks junior from Claremore, ent things and not have to Okla., on Thursday demonstrates a loom in the weaving staSEE DEBT-FREE, 8A GLOBE | ROGER NOMER tion at the school in Point Lookout, Mo.
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TURNOVER RATES The FOP says in the letter that there have been 52 of 112 officers leave the Joplin department since 2014, creating a turnover rate of 46 percent. The city says
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