The Northwest Missourian - March 3, 2016

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Thursday March 3, 2016

Clinton, Trump build lead after Super Tuesday

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CAMPAIGN UPDATE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES

THE CANDIDATES

HILLARY CLINTON 1,052 DELEGATES OUT OF 4,132

(2,383 required for nomination)

ANGELA LUNA Chief Reporter | @Lunie95

BERNIE SANDERS 427 DELEGATES

Americans pick their candidate to become the most powerful person in the country in November of 2016. Tuesday March 1 gave the country a preview for what is to come for the election. Super Tuesday is the day when 12 states come together to vote on their candidate for the Republican and Democrat primaries. Super Tuesday is also nicknamed “The SEC”, primarily since many of the states are represented in the South Eastern Conference in Division 1 college athletics. Many delegates are at stake. A Republican candidate must receive 1,237 delegates out of the total 2,472 delegates to secure the nomination. However, Democrats need to receive 2,383 out of the total 4,765 delegates. The Republicans alone have 595 delegates up for grabs Tuesday, which is 20 percent of the total GOP delegates. The Democrats will have 1,015 delegates. Before March 1, Donald Trump had a total of 82 delegates, Ted Cruz 17, Marco Rubio 16, John Kasich 6 and Ben Carson 5. For the Democrats, Hillary Clinton is ahead of Bernie Sanders 656 to 144. Clinton was predicted to win by a landslide starting with the Iowa Caucus. Iowa disagreed. Sanders won the Iowa Caucus for the popular vote by 1,000 votes.

3,286 delegates remaining

REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES

THE CANDIDATES

DONALD TRUMP 319 DELEGATES OUT OF 2,340 (1,237 required for nomination)

TED CRUZ 226 DELEGATES

MARCO RUBIO 110 DELEGATES

Delegate distribution may change by time of publication. The deadline to apply for an absentee ballot in the Missouri primary is March 9.

1,777 delegates remaining

Visit USA.gov/register-to-vote for more information.

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JAKE MLNARIK | DESIGN EDITOR SOURCE: POLITICO

Local organization holds jobs seminar ANTHONY PROCOPIO ROSS Chief Reporter | @AnthonyProcRoss

A Women’s Economic Empowerment Seminar offered women assistance on reviewing invaluable job skills Feb. 27 at Northwest’s J.W. Jones Student Union. Northwest Enactus Chapter (formerly known as SIFE) and the Walmart Foundation both sponsored the event. The free and open seminar provided information about interviewing skills, dressing professionally and improving a resume. Participants were then offered mock interview sessions after receiving lunch and a job-seeking kit. Enactus is an international nonprofit organization that helps students better their communities through service and education-based projects, as noted by the events news release. Students involved are able to exercise their entrepreneurial abilities while also improving the lives of others. Official advisors of the Northwest Chapter include assistant professor of management Ben Blackford, Ph. D. and senior instructor of marketing Brenda Jones. Freshman Enactus member and international business major Nathan Powel took part in the creation and execution of the event.

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ANTHONY PROCOPIO ROSS Chief Reporter | @AnthonyProcRoss

Alpha Phi Omega chapters. The process was hard, but when we met the Epsilon chapter at Truman University, they really helped us finish the process strong,” Rodriguez said. Alpha Phi Omega nationally has more than 400,000 members on more than 375 college campuses.

Bills proposed to the Senate would make it easier for people with some convictions to have their records sealed. Senate Bill 559 proposed the expungement of felonies, misdemeanor, infractions, and municipal offenses other than those of specified violent and sexual origin. This would happen after the span of eight years since imprisonment, period of probation, or period of parole where no further convictions of a misdemeanor or felony charge are recorded. Missouri law allows for limited expungement of an arrest record through documented petition without the new expansion of infractions provided in these bills. Dissenting views tend to hold people back from future career endeavours without considering present-day circumstances. Freshman Scott Mullins thinks it could help people find a second chance. “It’s hard to have new start with those things holding you back and with them off your record I thinks it a great idea,” Mullins said. Missourinet covered Sen. Bob Dixon’s view on future expungement laws. “What I believe is at hand is the time for the legislature to have a very frank discussion about a real expungement process that provides a path of restoration to those who have done wrong but have learned from their mistakes and have corrected their ways over a period of time so that they can, among other things, find employment,” Dixon said.

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Assistant Professor Stephanie Jorandby speaks to attendees during a women’s seminar Feb. 27

Alpha Phi Omega returns to campus ANGELA LUNA Chief Reporter | @Lunie95

After being kicked off campus for almost 30 years, the Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity is back. The Beta Upsilon chapter was a colony for three and a half years before it was finally charted Feb 21. Alpha Phi Omega held a chartering ceremony last Sunday in the

Proposed bill would expunge criminal records with petition

J.W. Jones Student Union Ballroom to celebrate its hard work for campus recognition. The APO fraternity national president was also in attendance. Only members of the fraternity were allowed to join, but from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. the banquet was open to the university with cake and refreshments. “Well, Alpha Phi Omega Beta Upsilon became inactive in the

AN INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER SINCE 1914.

1980s. In 2013, Dr. Shadinger reformed the group and we began the petitioning process. Some of the process required us to do 12 Service projects, four Leadership and four Fellowship projects,” Former Chapter President Kayla Rodriguez said. “All projects had certain requirements on attendance and a few of them had to be done with other

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