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TUESDAY • FEBRUARY 9, 2021 Alum Hosts Online Event About ‘Growing up Global’
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By JULIA BARTON Staff Writer Minnesota State University, Mankato alumnus Sophia Hoiseth shared her experience of global citizenship while talking about how her time at MNSU shaped the way she educates and empowers others. Last Thursday Hoiseth hosted “Global Hour,” an hour-long event via Zoom which showcased the experiences of different students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members of global education, and shared her story about the gift of “growing up global.” Hoiseth was born in St. Paul moved to Poland as a young girl from 19992007. Fluent in both Polish and English, Hoiseth lived in Peru and Qatar during her teen years before moving back to Minnesota. She’s also traveled to Oman, Kenya and Italy. When she came back to Minnesota in 2017 as an 18-year-old, Hoiseth said it was her first time living in her hometown yearround since she was born. Immersed in a culture very different than the one she grew up in, she said she noticed many difficulties and surprises while living here. “When I came back here to Minnesota I was so excited to sink my hands into everything like football games and the culture here,” Hoiseth said. “Looking back, I realize that is how I found how to build community and really make it feel like home.” “During my time at MNSU I joined clubs and Student Government. I wanted to be engaged in with my professors and fellow students, but I also really got involved with
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DAVID FAULKNER • SPX Sports Players from Minnesota State and Bowling Green packed the penalty boxes after a fight late in the third period Saturday night resulted in 72 minutes of penalties.
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Univeristy looks for Road Safety Solutions By BAILEY BRENDEL Staff Writer
Over the past few years, Minnesota State University, Mankato has been looking into numerous ways to help build traffic safety measures on campus. Recently they have put out more emergency phones, otherwise known as the blue safety poles, to help students feel safer when walking around campus and to help with any issues they may have. However, the university wants to provide more for its students. “I know right now, specifically with traffic safety, we’re working on a couple things. One issue is at the top of the Stadium Road hill. As you come up the hill, we’re trying to get a light in the arrow so that you can yield,” says MNSU Student Government President Andrew Trenne. “A few other things we’re working on specifically for traffic safety and in terms of the school are crosswalks. You know around our campus there’s a lot of pedestrian traffic, but there’s not a lot of crosswalks in places where people
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KJERSTIN HALL • The Reporter MNSU students walk across the Stadium Road crosswalk.
might not think there needs to be,” Trenne adds. Getting to and from Lots 1 and 2 from campus is a concern for many students. According to freshman Kendra Dowe, “I park in Lots 1 and 2, and not only is it a long cold walk across campus each day, but crossing the road is honestly scary. You never know how fast cars will come flying up so crossing the road is a bit scary. There are also shuttles that are supposed to take you to and from the parking lot, but I rarely
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see them so walking across campus late at night and with these cold temperatures makes it very scary.” In addition, freshman Amber Lovely comments, “I live in Julia Sears, so it is a shorter distance than most, but in the winter the walk is horrible. It is so terrible to walk there, and the shuttles are never there when you need them.” Another example of poor traffic safety would be on the
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President Davenport, along with several other administration members, joined a Zoom call with several members of Student Government, including Student Government Andrew Trenne for a “Meet and Confer” last Thursday. The purpose of these periodic meetings are to keep the administration connected with the student body via representatives. Several large topics were discussed at this meeting, including summer and fall semester plans, potential tuition increases and a vaccine update. Other topics discussed was the future of the Lincoln Statue and potential use of retrenchment. Interim Provost Matt Cecil spoke to the current plan for summer semester, saying that “Summer looks a lot like now, which sounds like a bummer, but it’s going to look a lot better than last summer”. There is more hope for the fall semester though, with faculty planning for the best case scenario of having the campus completely open. This is likely to be downgraded to a lesser capacity, but Cecil said that it is easier to go from a full schedule to a reduced one, than the other way around. “Scheduling like it’s a normal semester, understanding that likely what we are likely to see in the fall, we’d like to see an increase in openness overtime.” said Cecil. Vice President for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management Dr. David Jones spoke at the
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