Arrow - Aug. 27, 2014 by Gary Rust

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BRIEFS Speak Anderson Cooper to speak in September

Football preview The Southeast Missouri State University Redhawks will have their first game at home on Thursday. Read more on pages 7-10. +

CUP ‘N’ CORK IS MOVING TO A NEW LOCATION. READ MORE ON PAGE 3. +

Award-winning journalist Anderson Cooper will speak at family weekend and will be the second speaker for the University Speaker Series. Anderson Cooper, anchor of CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” will speak during family weekend at 3 p.m. on Sept. 21 at the Show Me Center. From the Boston Marathon bombings, the conflicts in Syria and Egypt and the Sandy Hook shootings, Cooper has covered major events all across the globe. He is a regular correspondent on other major news networks, including CBS’s “60 Minutes” and has played a major role in political and election coverage. He has also moderated for presidential debates. General admission is $10 and tickets can be purchased at the Show Me Center Box Office, and students get in free with a valid student ID. It was announced Friday that Richard Picciotto, Mara Liasson, Soledad O’Brien, Hill Harper and Ozzie Smith will also be coming to campus as part of the University Speaker Series.

Perform LOOK ON PAGES 12-13 FOR A RECAP AND PHOTOS OF MOVE-IN DAY 2014. +

SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENT PUBLICATION AUG. 27 - SEPT. 2, 2014 Student run since 1911

Sara Edgerton, Paul Thompson and Matt Yount to open Faculty Recital Series The recital, which occurs at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 2 in the Robert F. and Gertrude L. Shuck Music Recital Hall at the River Campus, will be comprised of Sara Edgerton on cello, Paul Thompson on piano and Matt Yount on piano. The recital will include a variety of music including both Vivaldi and an adaptation of “Yesterday” by Paul McCartney and John Lennon. Tickets cost $10 and can be purchased online at RiverCampusEvents.com or at the River Campus Box Office located at the Cultural Arts Center.

Southeast students and alumni affected by events in Ferguson University president invited students in the Ferguson and Florissant areas to move back to campus early DAVID BOBER ARROW REPORTER

A number of Southeast Missouri State University students have been affected by events that have occurred in Ferguson, Missouri, over the past couple of weeks. On Aug. 9, 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by police officer Darren Wilson, a six-year veteran of the Ferguson Police Department. People took to the streets to protest Brown’s death and national news outlets covered the events. Southeast Missouri State University allowed students living in or near Ferguson to move to campus early on Tuesday, Aug. 19. An email was sent to those students along with a letter from Dr. Kenneth W. Dobbins, the president of the university. The letter extended the invitation to on-campus and off-campus students, saying that if off-campus students couldn’t live in their off-campus housing, a residence hall room would be made ready for them. “You, your family and your loved ones are in our thoughts and prayers,” Dobbins ended his letter. “We look forward to welcoming you back to campus this week.” Jennifer Gilcrease, a 2006 graduate of Southeast, lives in the area. “I actually stay on the borderline of Ferguson and Jennings, so I’ve been down to the rally and all of the stores are gone,” Gilcrease said. Gilcrease talked about how the tear gas and the police presence affected everybody in

the community. She said that there’s a lot of tension among the people in the area. Gilcrease frequently went to West Florissant Avenue to protest during the day, but she did not attend at night. “In the future I see, I don’t know if anything is going to change. I know right now they’re [the police and government officials] changing things. I’m thinking they’re only doing that because they have a spotlight on the scene and people are wanting them to change, making them change,” Gilcrease said. “I don’t know how long this is going to go on with the National Guard here and all the reporters are here. Hopefully his family gets the justice that they want, that they need or they deserve.” Steven Pierce, a sophomore at Southeast, lives on the border of Florissant and Ferguson.

“She lives in Kirkwood, so she would be coming to my house and leaving at midnight. Right before she leaves, I’m checking news, seeing all the updates, seeing where things are happening, where the police are at and seeing if it’s safe for her to get to the highway. I had her text me as soon as she got on the highway to make sure she got on safe,” Pierce said. Pierce stated that he feels neutral when it comes to thinking about who is right or wrong in this situation. “I don’t really want to take a side because the way I see it, both sides mishandled it. It was all blown way out of proportion,” Pierce said. “It’s a terrible tragedy, but it shouldn’t have ended in looting and rioting, and it also

shouldn’t have ended in militarized police response.” Governor Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew in Ferguson starting Saturday, Aug. 16, closing the streets from midnight to 5 a.m. The curfew was repealed on Monday, Aug. 18, and certain streets were barricaded near West Florissant Avenue either to make sure that protesters did not reach neighborhoods or to prevent people from going toward West Florissant Avenue. “Let’s seek to heal, rather than to wound each other,” President Barack Obama said in a statement from the White House, where he addressed the situation in Ferguson.

“It’s a terrible tragedy, but it shouldn’t have ended in looting and rioting, and it also shouldn’t have ended in militarized police response.” Steven Pierce “It’s made our community, especially my family, pretty nervous because it’s all going on right there and there’s wondering if it’s going to come this way because we hear things of homes being invaded and there’s gunshots everywhere,” Pierce said in an interview late last week. “It’s just really scary when you’re going out at night or coming home at night.” Pierce constantly worries about the safety of his girlfriend, who frequently goes to and from his house late at night.

Members of the St. Louis chapters of the NAACP and the National Urban League march on West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson, Missouri, on Saturday, Aug. 23. Associated Press photo

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Wednesday, August 27

Saturday, August 30

Hawaiian Ice Social @ River Campus 2 p.m.

Cape Riverfront Farmers Market @ 35 S. Spanish Street 8 a.m. - Noon

Escape the heat and head into the River Campus atrium to enjoy free Hawaiian ice.

Carnival Night @ Academic Terraces 5 p.m.

Come and enjoy a classic carnival at the Academic terraces. Snow cones, kettle corn, a bounce house and prizes will be available to students. Hey, just because you’re in college doesn’t mean you have to be a complete grown up.

Friday, August 29

Thursday, August 28

Women’s Soccer @ Houck Stadium 6 p.m. Support the women’s soccer team as it faces the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Karaoke @ Towers Lobby 6 p.m.

Get off campus and see the beautiful riverfront downtown while you enjoy live music, great food and Cape Girardeau’s great downtown shopping. Yeah, it’s pretty early, but it’s a great way to see the city!

Football Tailgate @ Outside Houck Field House 4 p.m.

Love to sing? Think you’re the next “American Idol?” Then go to the Towers lobby for some Karaoke and show everyone what you’ve got.

Head to the front of Houck Field House and enjoy some Live music and free refreshment to celebrate the beginning of football season and cheer on the Redhawks.

Technology Bits and Bites @ Magill 1 p.m.

Football Game @ Houck Stadium 6 p.m.

Cheer on the Southeast Redhawks as they The IT Department will be hosting an face Missouri Baptist in their season opener. informative and interactive demonstration in the Magill Computer lab, Room 118. This is your chance to finally figure out how to work Moodle and find out how you get connected to the Internet because we all know it can be a struggle. Everyone who goes will also get a free flash drive preloaded with helpful materials and one person will win a gift card. So stop fighting with your computer and join the IT Department at this event!

You can read more about the team starting on page 7.

#WhatsUpSEMO This is your source to find out what is trending on and off campus. Please feel free to let us know on Twitter, Facebook or any other social media platforms using the hashtag #whatsupsemo and the event that you share with us could be seen on this page! We are so excited for this academic year and who knows, maybe you’ll become what’s trending on campus.

Send in pictures of your opening week experience using the hashtag #whatsupsemo and your picture could be in next week’s issue!

Monday, September 1

Tuesday, September 2

*Labor Day*

Fiesta!! @ Kent Library Stairs 12 p.m. Free nachos, games and prizes. Everything you need to have an amazing fiesta.

*No Classes* Take this time to recover from the shock of having to be back in class.

IFC Fraternity Recruitment Events Begins Register for fraternity recruitment at www.semogreeks.com and then start attending all of the different events the fraterinities on campus are offering. This is a great chance to meet new people and to find your new brotherhood.

IFC Fraternity Showcase @ Dempster Hall, Glenn Auditorium 6 p.m. This is an opportunity for students to learn about fraternity life at Southeast. IFC Showcase is the place to get the information you need about going Greek. Prospective members are strongly encouraged to attend one of the two showcases.

Chi Alpha Worship @ UC 7 p.m. Chi Alpha Campus Ministry will be hosting it’s first worship service of the semester at the University Center. This is a contemporary worship that is open to all students.

Sorority Recruitment Informational Meeting @ Dempster Hall, Glenn Auditorium 8 p.m. If you are interested in joining a Panhellenic sorority, you can register for recruitment at semogreeks.com by midnight Sept. 7. Attendance at one of the sorority informational meetings is also a requirement of recruitment. If you are unable to attend one of the meetings, contact Ally Dumas at andumas1s@semo. edu.

Organization of the Week:

The Lighthouse We strive to be a Lighthouse of hope on campus by proclaiming that abundant life is found in Christ. We do this by placing students on a life long journey of discipleship by connecting them with each other in the midst of a loving Christian community. We start our normal schedule on the second week of classes. We have Life Groups which are student led small groups and a large week worship service called The Well. It is every Thursday at 7 p.m. We will also be starting Monday meals. These will be FREE meals every Monday at 6:15 p.m. They start on September 8th. Our new location is across from Merick Hall at 1115 Broadway. We have a fully operational coffee bar which will be open before/during our events. You can find more information at our website at www.semoLighthouse.com. A Partnership with Southeast Missouri State University and Rust Communications • To advertise, call 573-388-2741

GAY/STRAIGHT ALLIANCE

The Gay/Straight Alliance meets at 7 p.m. on Wednesdays in the UC Indian Room. More information can be found at facebook.com/ gsaSEMO.+

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RELOCATE

POPULAR café hangout moves one block OWNERS PATRICK AND TINA ABBOTT LEAVE MAIN STREET TO ACCOMMODATE A GROWING CUSTOMER BASE

Local coffee shop prepares for expanded dining Cup ‘n’ Cork will move to 11 S. Spanish St. over Labor Day weekend ZARAH LAURENCE A&E EDITOR

There’s something about local coffee shop and café Cup ‘n’ Cork that keeps Cape Girardeau residents coming back. Its brick walls and quaint bistro tables mixed with the clamor of cars and passersby in the heart of Main Street exude river town charm. Cup ‘n’ Cork is uprooting from Main Street at the end of the month, but that charm isn’t going anywhere. “We don’t want to lose the warmth and the welcoming nature of the place,” owner Patrick Abbott said. “I think we do a really good job with that. That’s not going to change.” The open space across the street from The Library bar, on the corner of Independence and Spanish streets, came up in a conversation with friend and building manager Annie Criddle. Abbott said the whole process came together pretty quickly. When it comes down to it, Abbott ultimately sees the move as an upgrade. “We can’t do anymore here than we’re already doing,” Abbott said. “We can’t expand seating. We don’t have a real kitchen. There’s just not a lot to be done.” Abbott said they’re currently only working off two panini grills, a steamer and “some high-tech hot plates.” “They’re digital, but a hot plate’s a hot plate,” Abbott said. The new space comes with the possibility of a full kitchen. Abbott wants to incorporate grilling meats rather than strictly roasting and cut down on pre-preparation and reheating. “Until you’ve had a Philly cheesesteak fresh off the grill, you just haven’t had a Philly,” Abbott said. There will be other additions and refinements to the menu as well. He’ll bring back the chicken Philly, a popular choice

from his old restaurant in Sikeston, and offer more soup of the day options. Abbott described the area in halves. The dining room will be about the same size, but, what has been dubbed “the venue side,” allows opportunities for meetings, receptions, weddings and other private hostings. The upstairs is even supplied with a boardroom style table. Local artwork will still adorn the walls, and the color scheme will stay the same, however, Abbott also talked about the implementation of what he likes to call “soft seating.” “In other words, couches and coffee tables in one section,” Abbott said. “Somebody told me that it’s not really a coffee house until you have a sofa, so we’ll have that covered.” There will be outdoor seating in an open courtyard too, which according to Abbott is triple the size and is as big, or bigger, than the café space. In good weather, Cup ‘n’ Cork will use it to host their weekly open mic nights, and, if called for, they can now amplify a full band. Jacob Seyer and Deavyn West, Southeast Missouri State University graduates and frequent performers at open mic night, look forward to seeing what Abbott has in store for the new location.

“We don’t want to lose the warmth and the welcoming nature of the place. I think we do a really good job with that. That’s not going to change.” Patrick Abbott “I mean, we love coming here for the coffee and the music and just the atmosphere here is great,” Seyer said. “I know they’re going to transfer that over there really well.” The appearance will have its tweaks, but Cup ‘n’ Cork’s “family vibe” won’t be lost. Barely a one block difference and two blocks closer to the River Campus, Abbott hopes he’ll still

Patrick Abbott, owner of Cup ‘n’ Cork, finishes out an open mic night set on the mandolin. Photo by Zarah Laurence see Southeast students in and out. “We’re just not equipped to offer as much right now to our guests,” Abbott said. “That’s really what we want to do — is offer as much as we can to our guests every day.” Cup ‘n’ Cork’s new address is located on 11 S. Spanish St. The business is set to move over Labor Day weekend and reopen by Tuesday.

FIRST HOME GAME OF THE SEASON Let’s FILL THE STADIUM and CHEER ON THE REDHAWKS as they take on Missouri Baptist!

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VOLLEYBALL STARTS SEASON WITH TOURNAMENT

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COMPETE

The Southeast Missouri State University volleyball team opens its season in the Saint Louis tournament starting on Aug. 28.+

CROSS Country heads into 2014 season THE MEN’S TEAM WAS PICKED TO FINISH THIRD WHILE THE WOMEN’S TEAM WAS PICKED TO FINISH FOURTH

Cross Country team looks to exceed expectations NICK MCNEAL SPORTS EDITOR

The Southeast Missouri State Redhawks cross country men’s and women’s team were both picked to finish in the top four of the Ohio Valley Conference by head cross country coaches from the conference in a preseason vote. The men were picked to finish third in the conference while the women were picked to finish fourth. “It’s just a heavy conference right now,” Southeast coach Ryan Lane said. “Most of the teams in our conference are very good. I think to be picked that highly, it shows that the coaches respect our team and who we are as a program. Of course we always want to make sure that we can exceed expectations, so we are excited to get out there and compete and to be better than what we were selected.” The men’s and women’s team both finished in the top five of the OVC Championships last season, and senior Rebekah Lawson finished second overall in the women’s race to help Southeast finis fourth in the championship. “I have Rebekah plus two other senior girls that are going to be in my top four,” Lane said. “So those seniors right now, with Rebekah leading them, we’re expecting them to lead our team to have the best finish we’ve had in the last 10 years.” The seniors Lane referred to are Mary Dohogne and Gloria Westlake, whom

Lawson said she looks up to as leaders of this team. “I really don’t feel like much of a leader myself,” Lawson said. “I kind of really look up to a lot of my other teammates like Mary and Gloria, they are seniors as well and the captains on the team. We all work together as a team and push each other, but it is mainly through action. It’s more of a team effort than an individual effort in the leadership role, especially with Gloria and Mary. They put a lot of work into motivating the team.” The men finished fifth last season in the OVC and were led by Craig Munie, who placed seventh in the men’s 8k.

“I think to be picked that highly it shows that the coaches respect our team and who we are as a program.” Ryan Lane Eastern Kentucky, who won both the men’s and women’s meets last year in the OVC championship, was picked to finish first again as it returns senior Una Britton, who finished first in the women’s 5k race and sophomores Ambrose Maritim and Ben Toroitich, who finished second and third in

the men’s 8k. Neither the men’s and women’s cross country teams have ever won an OVC championship, but Lawson thinks they can do well this year in the conference championship. “We have a lot of depth and we’re training really hard,” Lawson said. “I mean we’ve trained all through summer, which a lot of teams really don’t really have hard practices during the summer. Our team has definitely gone the extra mile in doing that and getting in the mileage and doing the extra small stuff to help prevent getting injured and to just make us a little bit stronger.” Last season Southeast’s women’s team finished first overall in its first two meets as Lawson placed first overall in both. Lawson competed in all but two meets last season. “This is my last year on cross country, and I’m just cherishing every moment that I have with my teammates,” Lawson said. “It’s going to be really good in making memories during the meets and just being with each other and motivating each other is what I enjoy the most.” The men’s team finished first in only one of their meets, but they were in the top five in three meets, which were the SIUE XC Challenge, the Big River Early Bird and the Bradley Classic. The Redhawks will start the season at the Gabby Reuveni Early Bird meet hosted by Washington University in St. Louis on Aug. 30.

Patrick Henry, First Among Patriots A Crader Humanities Lecture by Dr. Thomas S. Kidd

Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014, 7:30 p.m. Rose Theatre Grauel Building, 408 N. Pacific Free and Open to the Public

Dr. Thomas S. Kidd of Baylor University will deliver the annual Department of History Crader Humanities Lecture. Known for his famous phrase, “Give me liberty or give me death,” Patrick Henry was a genuine leader during the American Revolution, whose history deserves more attention.

Sponsored through an endowmentestablished by Saundra and the late Don Crader of Marble Hill and Stan and Debbie Crader of Jackson.

For more information: (573) 651-2180 or history@semo.edu

Craig Munie (Top) and Rebekah Lawson (Bottom) competing in last year’s meets. Submitted photos

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Other BSC Events: Free Lunch: Thursdays at Noon 30 Minute Chapel: Sunday Nights at 5:30pm Family Meal: Sunday Nights at 6:00pm Chinese Bible Study: Saturdays at 7:00pm Fall Retreat: October 10-12 Come and Make a friend!!

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CREDIT

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CHALLENGE

COACHES welcome Ice Bucket Challenge SOUTHEAST COACH STEVE BIESER AND ATHLETIC DIRECTOR MARK ALNUT DID THE ICE BUCKET CHALLENGE TO RAISE AWARENESS FOR ALS

ALS Ice Bucket Challenge comes to Southeast People who are challenged either complete the Ice Bucket Challenge or donate $100 to the ALS Association JAMI BLACK REPORTER

Facebook newsfeeds and Instagram timelines have recently been bombarded with videos of challengees and challengers participating in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Besides providing the nation with good, clean entertainment, the challenge has helped raised more than $62.5 million so far and has spread more awareness of the disease than ever before. People who have been challenged have the choice to complete the Ice Bucket Challenge and challenge their friends within 24 hours or donate $100 to the ALS Association. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, often referred to as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lou Gehrigâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Disease,â&#x20AC;? is a disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. Approximately 5,600 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with ALS each year. Southeast baseball coach Steve Bieser knows several people who have been affected by the disease, and he gladly accepted the Ice Bucket Challenge from a former Southeast football coach. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The challenge is kind of near and dear to my heart, so I was happy to do the challenge and give back,â&#x20AC;? Bieser said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just hoping we find a cure for this devastating disease.â&#x20AC;? Bieser, along with his two assistant coaches, completed the Ice Bucket Challenge but also decided to donate to the cause. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think the Ice Bucket Challenge felt too terrible at all,â&#x20AC;? Bieser said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you think about the people who have been affected by the disease, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s terrible.â&#x20AC;?

Southeast director of athletics Mark Alnutt, volleyball coach Julie Yankus, assistant volleyball coach Kayani Turner and soccer coach Paul Nelson have also all accepted the challenge. Not only have the sports teams at Southeast been challenged, but also several Greek organizations. Matt Tochtrop, student at Southeast and member of Phi Delta Theta, called out his entire fraternity to do the Ice Bucket Challenge for several reasons. Phi Delta Thetaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s national philanthropy is the ALS Association, and as one of the founding fathers of the newly installed fraternity at Southeast, Tochtrop knew his brothers would step up to the challenge.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think the Ice Bucket Challenge felt too terrible at all. When you think about the people who have been affected by the disease, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s terrible.â&#x20AC;? Steve Bieser â&#x20AC;&#x153;The decision to nominate them was easy,â&#x20AC;? Tochtrop said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I personally could not be more proud of what the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has accomplished.â&#x20AC;? As a chapter, the fraternity has taken on a completely new role with the ALS Association, not only raising money for its cause but becoming one of the first chapters nationwide to go to the homes of those affected by ALS and work hand in hand with families. The goal is to directly impact those in the community they live in. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My nomination of my chapter is my minuscule contribution in the global effort to help spread this awareness and support for something that is commonly overlooked, and I made it with hopes it would spread to all the Greek chapters at

Dillon Lawson, Steve Bieser and Lance Rhodes take on the Ice Bucket Challenge to raise awareness for ALS. Submitted photo Southeast,â&#x20AC;? Tochtrop said. In fact, the Ice Bucket Challenge has reached several of the Greek chapters at Southeast. In their video, Phi Delta Theta called out the Southeast chapter of Alpha Delta Pi, which accepted the challenge. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was awesome having my chapter nominated by another Greek chapter on campus because thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what Greek life is all about,â&#x20AC;? Alpha Delta Pi president Cassidee Bowen said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about supporting other chapters and donating to different philanthropies.â&#x20AC;? Alpha Delta Pi then challenged several other Greek chapters at Southeast. Many of the organizations at Southeast along with hundreds of Southeast faculty, staff and students have stepped up to take the challenge for a great cause. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We all have the capability to make a difference in the lives of others. It is up to us if we choose to or not,â&#x20AC;? Tochtrop said.

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DISCOVER

LIVE MUSIC

Kentucky Knife Fight and special guest BEEF will perform at 9 p.m. on Aug. 30 at Pitters Cafe and Lounge. There is a cover charge of $7, or $12 if under the age of 21.+

THE 440’s frequent downtown bar LoDo KYLE CLAY, STRING BASSIST FOR THE BAND, FINDS LOVE FOR JAZZ THROUGH IMPROVISATION

Local jazz band beats odds ZARAH LAURENCE A&E EDITOR

Southeast Missouri State University student Kyle Clay has played jazz since junior high school and found a passion for the genre in its demand for freedom of expression. “We’re not reading a lot of music,” Clay said. “It’s really a lot about — you can put your own inspiration into it, your own ideas. The conversation between the musicians that are playing it is really freeing. Take the song wherever you want it to go. You guys are really playing off each other, and you’re not locked into a certain set of notes that are on a page.” Clay is one of three members that make up that currently make up the local jazz ensemble, the 440’s. With Clay on bass, the others include Matt Gates on guitar and Trevor Smith as both saxophonist and keyboardist.

“I’d say the biggest thing is really being open to other people’s ideas and not shutting them down and being open to trying new things. We play songs in different ways probably every time we play them.” Kyle Clay After playing cabarets at the late Buckner Brewing Co., experimenting with a Jimi Hendrix sound and introductions at Southeast, the final trio came together. Clay said Brad Pool, owner of downtown bar LoDo, “gave them a shot” for a gig a couple months back and ever since they’ve been one of the spot’s regular bands. The term 440 isn’t insignificant. According to Clay, on the other hand, it may seem like it to someone who doesn’t practice music. The “A” that an oboe plays before a performance is used to tune the rest of an orchestra, and this note is set at 440 Hertz, or cycles of a sound wave per second. Clay joked that the group needed a name, and before they were only known as “those four guys who play jazz together.” Boiled down, Clay said they’re ultimately a jazz group; nonetheless, their particular

sound is hard to pinpoint. Everything from swing to bebop to contemporary artists like John Legend and Pharrell Williams, the 440’s aren’t afraid to add variety. “We even still throw in some Jimi Hendrix,” Clay said. Now a graduate student in composition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance, Smith has written some original pieces for the band. Smith plans to remain a part of the 440’s, though his departure for graduate school currently takes him away from the group. The trio stays a trio, however — drummer John-David Hahs recently jumped on-board around the same time Smith left. Hahs had played with Clay in the past and seemed like a good fit for the team. “We just, over the summer, kind of reconnected with him and said, ‘Hey, let’s get together and play sometime,’” Clay said. Clay is finishing a degree in music education at Southeast and admits there’s a careful balance between juggling school and the group. He said there’s a difference in being a part of a band and working to make a band sound good. “What we have to do is we have to make time,” Clay said. “To rehearse, we have to get together and to play gigs. We don’t just do it whenever we’re free. We try to make time to get together and actually do this. That sometimes takes away from, you know, your free time, your luxury time, but, in the end, whenever you guys get together and play really well, that’s what makes it worth it really.” Clay stressed that it’s important, as a group, to be friends beyond the music as well. “We all hang out outside of just rehearsal and just playing music,” Clay said. Sometimes they grill, have a cookout or simply meet up for dinner, but Clay said when getting back to practice, the process runs a lot smoother. It’s easier to keep an open mind to other members’ suggestions when viewing them less on a professional level and on more of a personal one. The 440’s “let’s do it” attitude contributes to their eclectic set lists. “I’d say the biggest thing is really being open to other people’s ideas and not shutting them down and being open to trying new things,” Clay said. “We play songs in different ways probably every time we play them.” The 440’s perform at LoDo on the first Friday of every month and will play with Dominique Thomas at Katy O’Ferrell’s Publick House on Sept. 13. There is no cover charge for the shows.

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The second floor lounge in the River Campus residence hall. Photo by Logan Young

River Campus residence hall opens to praise from students JAY FORNESS MANAGING EDITOR

Students moved into the recently-opened River Campus Center Residence for a variety of reasons but with similar praise. “There is nothing bad to say about the River Campus,” Kaytrina Horton said. “Everyone is saying how nice it is. They did a really good job.” Horton, a transfer student new to Southeast Missouri State University, didn’t choose to live at the River Campus because her major, communication disorders, has no classes at the River Campus but was placed there by Residence Life. Even so, Horton has liked living there due to its atmosphere. “I like it,” Horton said. “It’s quiet. The campus is quiet. My floor is very quiet as well.” Andrew Hacay, a music education major, had an obvious reason for living at the River Campus. “Every single one of my classes this semester are at the River Campus, so it’s just convenient,” Hacay said. “Before I had to drive back and forth every day.” Hacay, a junior who lived in Merick Hall his first two years at Southeast, found that the layout of the rooms at the River Campus are superior. “The layout of the room is completely different than the [other residence halls],’” Hacay said. “The room itself is about the same size as Merick, but having this whole suite area with the kitchenette is just completely different than any of the other dorm buildings, that I’ve seen at least.” Each suite at the River Campus has a kitchenette with an additional sink, cabinetry, microwave and a refrigerator. Also, each suite has an additional common space with an included couch, chair, end table, coffee table and 32-inch television. “The only thing I think is weird about it is that the light switch for the bathroom is

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outside of the room, so college students can have little wars with each other and turn off the light when someone else is in there,” Hacay said. What Hacay finds most helpful for the music program is the added classrooms inside the residence hall. “In the Cultural Arts Center [the main River Campus building], we have one big ensemble room where the orchestra and other ensembles practice,” Hacay said. “I haven’t seen those rooms here, but I know that they have more of that. It will give us more flexibility with when we practice, so all

“Every single one of my classes this semester are at the River Campus, so it’s just convenient. Before I had to drive back and forth every day.” Andrew Hacay the different groups don’t conflict with each other on times because there are a lot of music ensembles.” The hall, which also includes additional dining options at the River Campus, has attracted students who have majors outside of the arts. “I think it’s really beautiful,” Monica Noce, a nursing major, said. “That’s why me and my roommate, whose major is also nursing, picked it. And that it’s brand new. All the beds are new, and it kind of creeps me out knowing that someone else slept on my bed, but it’s new here. “ Noce also mentioned that a reason she chose to live there was the surrounding scenery with the Mississippi River and a park right outside of the hall.

GYMNASTICS TEAM’S GPA RANKS THIRD IN NATION The Southeast Missouri State gymnastics team posted a 3.696 GPA that ranked third in the nation among all gymnastic teams.+

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TOM Matukewicz leads Redhawks MATUKEWICZ TOOK OVER AS THE HEAD FOOTBALL COACH FOR SOUTHEAST ON DEC. 18, 2013

Southeast football coach Tom Matukewicz scouts his team from the sideline during a scrimmage at Houck Stadium. Photo by Caitlin Jasper

Day in the life of coach Tuke as the football coach at Southeast Matukewicz hired several new coaching staff members after becoming head coach NICK MCNEAL SPORTS EDITOR

Being head coach of any team makes for one busy schedule, and Tom Matukewicz, head football coach of the Southeast Missouri State University Redhawks, has a schedule that runs for 14 hours a day during fall camp. Matukewicz’s and the rest of the coaches’ days start at 7 a.m. when they hold their staff meeting an hour before the players arrive for the team meeting at 8 a.m. “I’m doing what I feel like I was put on this planet to do, and

that’s easy to get up in the morning and be around these players,” Matukewicz said. From 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., all the players and coaches meet together at first then split off into offensive, defensive and special teams meetings. At 9:30 a.m. they go to the field for walkthroughs before practice. Practice starts at 10 a.m. and this is when Matukewicz and the coaching staff get to not only teach plays but also lead and motivate their players. “It’s exhilarating,” senior cornerback Reggie Jennings said of participating in Matukewicz’s practices. “Fun, hardworking and he’s a passionate guy. He brings the best out of you and makes you want to do better not only for yourself, but for your teammates every day and just to be a better man as well.” Jennings said that when Matukewicz and this new coaching staff took over, it was like a breath of fresh air. He also stated that this year there is a lot more passion and

excitement and that, overall, this year just means more to him. First-year offensive coordinator Sherard Poteete and Matukewicz — who almost everyone refers to as “coach Tuke” — first met one another when Poteete was playing quarterback at Southern Illinois and Matukewicz was the linebacker coach and run-game coordinator. “Coach Tuke is awesome,” Poteete said. “We kind of go way back with our connections at our Southern Illinois days. I played quarterback there and he coached on that staff, and I kind of just got to know those guys over the years. I was able to work football camps in the summers when they were at Northern Illinois and just started our relationship back then and cultivated it over the years. I was a head coach before I came here and when Coach Tuke called me

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Offense looks to spread out the ball this year

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Kyle Snyder named starting quarterback The Southeast Missouri State football team’s offense, which ranked seventh in the Ohio Valley Conference last season, will be looking to spread out the ball more this year under firstyear offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Sherard Poteete. Poteete joined the Southeast coaching staff after being the head coach for one season at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M. Southeast only accumulated 1,666 passing yards last season when current starting quarterback senior Kyle Snyder split snaps with former Redhawks quarterback Scott Lathrop, who was dismissed from the squad for violating team policy. Snyder played in seven games last year and won the starting job in camp but shared starts with Lathrop all season. Lathrop started eight games for the Redhawks while Snyder only started four. This offseason, Snyder battled with Central Michigan junior transfer Alex Niznak and ended up winning the job after he out performed Niznak in Southeast’s final scrimmage on Aug. 16. “I feel good,” coach Tom Matukewicz said. about naming Snyder the starting quarterback.“Really once we got Alex here also, I felt good about either one. Whoever was going to win the job I felt good with, and the biggest thing is if something were to happen, I don’t feel like we should change.” Snyder will look to improve from his 2013 season by connecting with junior wide receiver Paul McRoberts, who was named to the Preseason All-OVC Football Team. McRoberts led the team in receiving last year with 44 catches, 646 receiving yards and nine receiving touchdowns with five coming in OVC play. “I look to step up more and make big plays like I’m supposed to,” McRoberts said. “Guys kind of lean on me more knowing that I am a returner and was the leading receiver. This is big and I like it. I like the role I have to play, so I’ll lead by example. Also returning to one of the starting wide receiving positions is senior wide receiver/return specialist Spencer Davis. Davis was the team’s second leading receiver last season with 35 catches, 302 receiving yards and three receiving touchdowns. “I was a captain last year and we got the leadership council this year, and I’ve been a part of that,” Davis said. “I’m just doing what I can to help my team move forward with this program my last year, and I’m going out with a bang. That’s all I can do.” Davis became the Redhawks all-time career leader in kick return yardage last season and has a total of 2,291 kick return yards in his career. “You’ve got to tailor your offense to the players you’ve got and I tell you what, we’ve got some really good running backs,” Poteete said. “It doesn’t matter what we do, we’re going to have to run the football successfully. If we can run the football successfully, it will open up our passing game, and we’re going to be in more spread formations than SEMO’s seen in the last few years.” Leading the rushing attack in the backfield this season will be 2014 College Football Performance Awards Running Back Award Watch List selectee DeMichael Jackson. Jackson became the starting running back last season when he rushed for 1,009 yards and scored four touchdowns on 170 carries. Upperclassmen Lennies McFerren and Lewis Washington are playing behind Jackson. They added a combined 470 yards and two touchdowns to the rushing attack, which ranked third in the OVC. The five men upfront on the offensive line this season for Southeast have started in a combined 52 games in their careers for the Redhawks. Senior Corey Porter will be starting at left tackle after transitioning this offseason from center, where he started the last two seasons. “It’s gone pretty smooth,” Porter said. “I’ve had my position coach working with me on some things to make the transition a lot easier for me, and I think he’s helped me out a lot with that.” The other tackle position will be taken by senior Kyle Finney, who started in eight games at left guard last year. Junior Traven Mable and sophomore Garret Baker will start at the guard positions. Mable has started 10 games at right guard in his career and Baker is coming off a season-ending injury after he broke his leg on the first play of scrimmage against Southeastern Louisiana on Aug. 30, 2013. Taking over at center for Porter will be sophomore Jake McCandless, who started eight games at right tackle last season. “I feel like I got the best line in the OVC,” Jackson said. “I got the best players blocking for me. With them guys giving their bodies out for me it’s just making the job easier for me. With those guys putting in all that hard work I just feel like I’m doing the easy job just following them.”

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A new defensive scheme has been put in place for the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks football team under first-year defensive coordinator Bryce Saia. This new 3-4 scheme is designed to help a defense that was ranked next to last in total defense in the Ohio Valley Conference last season. “They’ve bought in,” Saia said of his players. “I’m very happy with them and the transition. Getting caught up in a coaching change isn’t easy, but they’re doing a great job of it.” After having four defensive line positions last season, players will be competing for playing time with only three starting spots this season. Starting on the defensive line this season are junior defensive tackles Travis Sanders and Jon Slania along with sophomore nose tackle Marlon Hampton. Sanders and Slania both started on last year’s defensive line along with sophomore defensive ends Austin Black and Selwyn Carrol. “It’s been a little bit different for me as a smaller guy on the 4-3 scheme that I was in,” Black said. “I had to put on a little bit more weight to get ready to play that defensive end spot that we have.” Hampton played in all 12 games last season and recorded 14 tackles, two tackles for a loss and 1.5 sacks. Black and Carrol will be competing for playing time as they are currently not starting, but defensive line coach Ricky Coon made it clear that rotation on this year’s line is vital. “Obviously the more guys you have that can help you, the better,” Coon said. “Right now we’re trying to solidify a solid two deep, so six people in that three man front, and we’ve really got to find that seventh and eighth man, those role players to play in spot-man situations. But our top six, I feel pretty good about those guys and we need a couple more guys to just step up a little bit because you never know. That’s a position that takes a lot of physical beating and you’re going to need seven or eight guys to play.” Black registered 52 tackles and 4.5 sacks last season, which earned him many accolades such as being named to the First-Team Phil Steele Freshman All-America, and he was one of 21 finalists for the Sports Network’s Jerry Rice award. “He has done a great job for us,” Coon said. “He’s going to be playing our defensive end position, which is on that front three. He’s going to rotate in and we expect him to be a contributor for us.” As for the linebacking corps, senior Wisler Ymonice and sophomore Roper Garrett are returning from big seasons last year where they accounted for a combined total of 131 tackles. Ymonice will continue playing outside linebacker this season, but his role has drastically changed as a linebacker in this new scheme. “It’s been amazing,” Ymonice said. “Coach Saia has done a great job in teaching us the concept of the defense and just giving us the material needed to understand how everything fits and makes the whole defense work. So it’s been great. It allows us to make a lot of plays and just allows us to run to the ball and just do what we do best.” The other starting outside linebacker for the Redhawks this season will be sophomore Chad Meredith, who played in eight games last season. Garrett played in all 12 games last season and started two of them in his first year on the field after he redshirted as a walk-on in 2012. As of now, Garrett will be joined in the middle of the defense by freshman inside linebacker Hunter Bledsoe, who was named first-team all-state and all-region at Briarcrest High School in Tennessee. “For me it’s a really good thing because of how they have the front setup,” Garrett said. “It’s easier for us to get through without getting picked up by some of the offensive lineman getting at us, so I have really enjoyed it.” Returning defensive backs like senior cornerbacks Reggie Jennings, Tim HammBey and senior strong safety Ron Davis will bring experience to the secondary after they played in every game last season. Jennings and Davis started every game at their respective position and accounted for three of the 12 interceptions Southeast defenders recorded last season. Davis is returning as the team’s third-leading tackler after he made 64 tackles during the 2013 season. Hamm-Bey started the last two games of the season against Austin Peay and Jacksonville State. Jacksonville State is ranked No. 6 in the Football Championship Subdivision Top 25, which is the highest preseason ranking for any Ohio Valley Conference team in the last decade. Junior David Coley, who played in 11 games last season, will be starting this season at free safety. “We’ve just grown really close, and I feel like I’ve been coached by this coaching staff my whole life so far,” Garrett said. “I feel like we’re going to grow tighter and stronger as a team and do really good things this year.”

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MATUKEWICZ enters first year as coach OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR SHERARD POTEETE LEFT HEAD COACHING JOB AT OKLAHOMA A&M TO BE ON STAFF WITH MATUKEWICZ

BRIEFS Soccer Season opener canceled due to heat The Southeast Missouri State University womens soccer team’s season opener against UT Martin on Aug. 24 was cancelled due to extreme heat. Temperatures reached the high 90s with heat indexes in the 100s. The game has not been rescheduled, but Southeast will play Martin in Ohio Valley Conference play on Oct. 3. The Redhawks will open the regular season on Friday, Aug. 29 at Houck Stadium against UMSL. Conference play for Southeast starts on Sept. 26 against Eastern Illinois.

Basketball Southeast Missouri State men’s and women’s basketball schedules released The Southeast Missouri State University men’s and women’s basketball schedules for the 2014-2015 season has been released. The men will start the regular season off on Nov. 3 against Missouri Baptist at the Show Me Center. The women will also host their regular season opener on Nov. 3 at the Show Me Center, but against Alabama A&M. Both teams will play members of the SEC, which includes Missouri and Ole Miss. OVC play for both teams will not be until 2015 and both teams will play Belmont on Jan. 1. The men finished second overall in the OVC West and the women finished fourth last season.

+ Coach Continued from page 1 and gave me this opportunity, I jumped at it. I think very highly of the man or I wouldn’t have given up my head coaching job to come and work for him.” Matukewicz knew everyone he hired before he got the job as the head coach at Southeast in December, and that was important to him. “They’re just tremendous people,” Matukewicz said. “The fact that they’ve grown up the hard way, you know they

“I think that our guys respect him and look up to him, and I know that’s why the coaching staff is here, they feel the same way. We’re ready to go to battle with him day in, day out and we’re right here with him as he leads us on a daily basis.” Sherard Poteete were stripping fields, cutting grass, they didn’t just go play at [Division I Football Bowl Subdivision] and go as a [graduate assistant], they know how to work. So I feel like that’s what I was really looking for.”

Southeast Missouri State University football coach Tom Matukewicz instructs team at Rosengarten Athletic Complex. Photo by Caitlin Jasper Matukewicz mentioned that the difference between now and the first day he met the team is that it’s a lot more fun because he has gotten to know the guys he is trying to motivate and develop. “He’s a leader, he’s an innovator and he does a great job of getting our guys ready to play daily,” Poteete said. “He does a good job of getting our coaches ready to get out and coach those guys. He leads us. I think that our guys respect him and look up to him, and I know that’s why the coaching staff is here, they feel the same way. They love him and that’s why they’re here. We’re ready to go to battle with him day in, day out, and we’re right there with him as he leads us on a daily basis.” After practice, the staff meets and watches the practice film that was just recorded as the players have a break till 4 p.m. when weightlifting and more team meetings start.

This lasts till 6 p.m. when they have another walkthrough for 30 minutes. Then it’s time for the team and coaching staff to eat. After they eat, Matukewicz’s favorite time of day begins with night meetings and fellowship when the team meets for the last time of the day and doesn’t talk a whole lot about football. This is really where players and coaches have time to get to fully know one another and simply talk about life in general. “So many words can describe him,” Jennings said. “He’s an amazing man. He’s a God-fearing man, that’s basically my background as my father is a pastor. Just seeing that in him and seeing the passion and the love he has for not only football but for men in general is really amazing. So I love him for that, and I appreciate everything he has done for us. He’s a great guy, a passionate guy.”

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LOCAL bar forced to close

SLINGERS NIGHTCLUB AND LOUNGE WAS CLOSED AFTER THE BAR’S LIQUOR LICENSE WAS REVOKED IN JUNE

Nightclub owner says Slingers closed its doors in June LOGAN YOUNG EDITOR

Marcell Malone, the owner of Slingers Nightclub and Lounge for the past year, said that there were several reasons the nightclub eventually was shut down on June 19. Malone said that the first warning from the police came after three underage students were given MIPs, or charges for being minors in possession of alcohol. After that incident, Malone said that the club’s security guards were instructed to crack down on checking IDs, but that it was difficult to monitor the security guards at every moment. All of the nightclub’s 28 employees were students from Southeast Missouri State University, meaning they had a high likelihood of knowing many of the patrons coming in and out of the club, and the employees typically let students in, regardless of the rules, without checking their identification closely. “It was really hard for them to say no to their friends,” Malone said. Even though Malone said that some students were allowed in that shouldn’t have been, he added that over the course of the year his security team confiscated around 250 false forms of identification from students trying to use fake or borrowed IDs. “I think with Slingers being so close to the university, it made it a lot easier for people to get into trouble because, you know, people would just walk home a lot of times, like they’d just walk right across the street because a lot of people lived in Greek housing or they’d walk all the way down to Cape Trails even, and not everybody is the most behaved in the world when they leave, especially if they’ve

been drinking, so that had a lot to do with it,” Malone said. Malone said the problems for Slingers started to get worse when Delta Sigma Theta, an organization on Southeast’s campus, had a social at Slingers in April where two women got into a fight that drew the local police task force to the premises. Due to a large concentration of people standing outside the club, the police gave Malone another warning. The next social that Slingers held was for Alpha Phi Alpha, another organization on Southeast’s campus. Members from Omega Psi Phi came to the social and a physical fight eventually broke out that the Slingers security was unable to manage. Malone called the police to help control the fight and another strike was put against the nightclub. A couple weeks later, Malone applied to have the nightclub’s liquor license renewed, and later received a letter that said that the City of Cape had not only declined the request for the license renewal, but that the city had revoked the club’s current liquor license, so therefore the club could no longer open for business. “The reason stated in that letter [for the revocation of the liquor license]… More or less, it was because we were unable to contain a safe environment and we did not report incidents,” Malone said. Malone said that he had the opportunity to appeal the charges against the nightclub, but he withdrew the appeal because he thought the nightclub wasn’t going in the direction he had originally intended. “For a long time, Slingers has been a place that I managed, but when I took over I wanted to change it,” Malone said. “... I wanted

to change it to a place where everybody felt comfortable going to, I wanted to change it to the place that everybody just knew to go to when they’re in college, and the place that gave people from the age of 18 to 20 something to actually do.” Malone said that he liked the idea of creating a safe and fun environment for college students to hang out throughout the week, but that at a certain point it became too much. “I enjoyed people having fun,” Malone said. “I enjoyed providing fun to the community that I grew up in, and when I see students say things like ‘Oh, man, I built my whole school schedule around Tuesdays and Thursdays,’ I think to myself ‘That’s not OK. Those priorities are not good.’ And at that point that’s not me providing a positive place, that’s me providing a borderline negative place. … I think it contributed to people not being as focused on what they should be.” Malone said that, according to his records, he donated around $10,000 over the course of the last year to various organizations around campus, including philanthropies and certain charities. He said that his overall goal was to make the nightclub better than just another average bar and that he treated his staff like family. “I truly loved my staff like they were family,” Malone said. “And when I had to tell them that this wasn’t happening anymore it broke my heart more than losing a business and thousands of dollars. It hurt more to let friends down. These people, without them, there never would have been a Slingers to begin with.” Luke Propst, a former Slingers employee,

Slingers Nightclub and Lounge was open to everyone 18 and older. Submitted photo said he will miss having the opportunity to be with all of the staff and people that frequented the nightclub. “Just getting together with all of your friends, it’s not like we’re probably not going to be able to do that still, but it’s just a different atmosphere, I guess,” Propst said. “It was more of that nightclub atmosphere where you could go in there and have a big place to dance and have a good time.” Malone said that another individual has been looking at purchasing the space where Slingers was but did not have any further details. “For the people that did like it, I think the nostalgia will kind of be upsetting,” Malone said.

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FRESHMEN find their way to Southeast 1,199 NEW STUDENTS MOVED IN ON THURSDAY TO GET SETTLED BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF THE FALL SEMESTER

New students moved in across campus with help from student volunteers LOGAN YOUNG EDITOR

Last week, new students made their way to Southeast Missouri State University to move into the residence halls and begin a new fall semester. The move-in day consisted of new student check-in, move-in at all residence halls and the Move-In Bash on Parker Field later that evening. Overall, there were 1,199 new students that moved in, according to Kim Fees, the assistant director of facilities and operations. “I believe it went pretty well, it seemed like a pretty fluid process,” Fees said. Allan Mauk, assistant director for business operations at Southeast, was stationed at the Recreation Center-North and was in charge of organizing the student check-in process for the eighth year in a row. “We set up the day before, just for the rec center portion,” Mauk said. “We usually start around noon and we’re usually set completely up by 3 to 3:30, and all the different student organizations and campus organizations are invited to come in starting at 4 to start setting their booths up overnight, and they usually run from 4 to 7 is what we advertise that they can come set up.” Mauk said that Residence Life sends out invitations every year to organizations on campus and businesses around Cape Girardeau offering booth space in the Student Recreation Center–North for the first-year student move-in day, and that this move-in day saw an increase in the number of organization booth participants than in the last

couple of years. “We have more student organizations this year than in years past,” Mauk said. “There’s a couple of organizations that have never shown up before that are here, there’s a few more Greeks on campus than there used to be, there’s two new Greeks apparently, there’s a couple more club sports, there’s a magazine for the student literature club called ‘Journey,’ they’re here, there’s a dancers club that’s here. … As more students participate in this over the years they realize they can come.” Mauk said that it takes 24 resident assistants at one time to help staff the check-in stations at move-in day and that there are two shifts throughout the day. The resident assistants sign up to help direct the new students where they are supposed to go throughout the move-in day and keep them on track so they don’t get lost around campus. There were 945 volunteers from different campus organizations, along with resident assistants, stationed at all the residence halls to help the new students unpack and move into their rooms whenever they arrived at their assigned building after check-in. Micah Thomas and Levi Rutherford, both resident assistants, were stationed at Myers Hall on move-in day to help any students who needed assistance. In a joint interview with Rutherford, Thomas said her favorite parts of the move-in process are being the first face that the new students see when they arrive on campus and getting to see the excitement of the new students when they first walk into the residence hall. Rutherford said that he enjoyed

reconnecting with students he met earlier in the summer during Camp Redhawk, a summer leadership camp designed to help new students coming to Southeast for the first time in the fall. “I worked with a lot of incoming freshmen over the summer so I got to know a lot of them, and then seeing them throughout check-in while I was at the Show Me Center and just being like, ‘Oh, awesome, nice to see you here’ and stuff, so it’s just exciting to reconnect with people that I met over the summer,” Rutherford said. Mauk said that usually move-in day runs smoothly, but that there have been situations

in the past that have disrupted the flow of the new student check-in process. “It gets hard when something comes up that’s unexpected, a fire alarm goes off or something unexpected happens. … The hardest part is basically getting it organized before we show up. Once we’re here, we kind of know what we’re doing,” Mauk said. Fees said that move-in day can get hectic, but that he always hopes for a smooth transition onto campus for the freshmen. “When you have that many people checking in all at the same time or all in the same day within seven hours you just hope that it goes smoothly,” Fees said.

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NEW students arrived on campus Thursday A CHECK-IN STATION WAS SET UP IN THE REC CENTER-NORTH TO HELP FRESHMEN FIND THEIR WAY AROUND CAMPUS

1. Students checking in at the Student Recreation Center-North. Photo by Logan Young 2. A family on Move-In Day. Photo by Zarah Laurence 3. Students checking at the Student Recreation Center-North. Photo by Jay Forness 4. Two students moving a futon into Towers. Photo by Zarah Laurence 5. An overflowing dumpster outside of Merick Hall. Photo by Jay Forness 6. Volunteers wait outside of LaFerla Hall to help students move in. Photo by Jay Forness A Partnership with Southeast Missouri State University and Rust Communications • To advertise, call 573-388-2741

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ROTC cadet faced summer boot camp STUDENT COLTON JOHNSON WAS THE ONLY CADET FROM SOUTHEAST TO COMPLETE FIELD TRAINING IN JULY

Future airman finds calling to leadership ZARAH LAURENCE A&E EDITOR

Despite a declared major in criminal justice, Colton Johnson lives and breathes Air Force. Maybe it has something to do with tradition or the hope of one day piloting an aircraft, a born instinct to lead or a combination of all three, but after coming to Southeast Missouri State University from Warrensburg, Missouri, he knew he wouldn’t change his mind about joining the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps, more commonly abbreviated ROTC. His hard work paid off after two years, and over the summer, he was the only cadet from Southeast to attend and complete field training — a 28-day boot-camp style test of one’s Air Force knowledge, will and character.

Q: What’s the story behind you joining Air Force ROTC at Southeast? What made you choose this as your career path? A: I grew up as an “Air Force brat.” My dad was in the Air Force for 20 years. He retired as a tech sergeant, so it’s the only way of life I’ve ever known. For a long time I’ve known I’ve wanted to be in the military; I wanted to serve the country. Whenever I got to high school I looked into ways I could make the military happen, and I decided I wanted to do ROTC to pursue a commissioning as an officer rather than an enlisted member of the Air Force like my dad was. Everybody in my family was game. They thought that was a great idea for me to do because it’s kind of more prestigious to be an officer in the Air Force than it is to be an enlisted guy. So I knew it would be challenging, and I knew it would be something that would be really great to do. I get a chance to lead a lot of people doing it, and my dad said that that’d be great, you know? I can carry on his legacy by going in the Air Force, but at the same time, I can also pursue something even greater, which is an officer commission.

Q: So you were the only cadet from Southeast to go to field training this summer. How did that happen? A: Well we initially started out freshman year with around 25 cadets — it was 25, give or take a few — and we lost — basically at the end of every semester we lost a large amount. After the first few weeks of school, people would drop out of the program because they immediately found out it wasn’t for them. It was just a time commitment that they didn’t want to make. They also didn’t want to have to drive every week over to Carbondale, which that can get kind of frustrating having to do that. … So it was down to just me and two other guys in the program, and we ended up only having me be selected, whenever it came down to being selected for field training.

Q: Do you think the program, as a whole, is becoming more rigorous, more challenging? A: I would say that the expectations are getting higher. The program is still, I believe, it’s still ran the same way since I’ve started. I mean, it’s been ran the same way, but I think their expectations are getting higher. So rather than you being able

to skate by with a 3.0, you need to have somewhere close to a 3.5 or higher as a GPA. Things like that, or instead of getting a 90 on your physical fitness assessment, they’d rather have you get something above a 95, close to 100 because they are cutting back in the military right now. They’re cutting back the amount of people they’re taking in right now, so that of course is going to make it harder and tougher to get in. So it is tougher, but it’s only tougher because the expectations are getting higher. They only want the best of the best in.

Q: What was field training like? A: Well, it was the most fun I never want to have again. That’s what I told everybody that asked me about it. I wouldn’t really ever want to go back. It was a really great opportunity to learn about myself and, like, what I can do under a lot of pressure and what I can’t do under a lot of pressure and what I need to work on, as far as that goes. It also was a great learning experience as far as learning to work with others and learning to get to know them and learning to rely on them. Field training is a huge teamwork thing. If you go in thinking, “I’m going to be the best, and I’m going to be number one in my flight,” you’re not going to do well. You might just find yourself getting kicked out. But if you go in there knowing that you need to be part of a team and you need to rely on others, then you’re going to have a lot of success. That’s basically what field training was all about. ... It was basically just a big, stressful environment where they give us the opportunity to lead, and they evaluate us in that stressful environment.

Q: What would you say is the biggest thing that you took away from the experience, in regard to being an officer in the Air Force? A: I think one of the biggest things that I took away from it was, like, know your people, know the people that you get put in charge of or know the people that you’re going to lead — that’s what I would say. Know them not just on the surface level. Don’t just be like, “Oh, that’s Bob. He does that.” You know? Know about him and where he comes from and what he’s got going on in his life. If you can know them, if you can know that person, then they’re going to be more apt to listen to you because they’re going to think you actually really care because you’re showing that to them. At field training, that was apparent in a lot of things because we didn’t have a lot of down time, but if we got to know each other, what little bit of down time we had or whenever we were taking care of our dorm or things like that, we would talk to each other and that was a great opportunity to get to know each other. Whenever we got to know each other, we started working better as a team, and whenever one person would step up to lead, people would be more willing to follow that person because that person truly cared about them because that person knew them more than by just their name. So that was probably the biggest thing — just learning about each other and learning what everybody has to bring to the table and learning that you aren’t the only one that can bring something to the table. A lot of times you’re going to need somebody else to help you out.

Q: Do you have any different duties this year, now that you’re a junior officer?

Colton Johnson, a Southeast student, made it through field training in July to become a junior officer. Submitted photo A: Yes, my official rank is a Cadet Second Lieutenant, so that’s what I will be called. As a Cadet Second Lieutenant, I’ll be put in charge of a flight, which will have a number of cadets — I don’t remember how many — but there’s a large number of cadets that are in my flight, a mixture of freshman and sophomores. I will basically just be accountable for them, and I will have to make sure that they are learning the things they need to learn, like the different things about the Air Force — the honor code, the core values, the ranks, things like that. I’ll have to make sure that they’re showing up at events on time, so I’ll have to make sure that they’re attendance is on par. I’ll just have to make sure that they are basically working within the flight and doing their job within the flight. I’m supposed to be a mentor to them and kind of train them because there’s going to be a lot of things that I’ve experienced that they have not experienced yet, so I’ll be there kind of there as a teacher in a way.

Q: Being the only junior officer, what do you think looks different about this year? What are your hopes for the upcoming year? A: So we are a cross-town [agreement], so a lot of what we do is part of — we’re part of Southern Illinois UniversityCarbondale’s detachment, Detachment 205 — so there’s a large number of cadets over there, a bigger number than us, a significantly larger number. I have to be in charge. I have to be teaching cadets not only from SEMO but cadets from SIU as well. I have to be interacting with other cadets that are the same rank as me and that outrank me at SIU as well. But in the past, we have had a decent number of cadets here at SEMO, so we’ve kind of had our own little mini detachment, so we were able to do a lot of things on our own because we had a decent amount of cadets. ... Now, there’s only three of us — two seniors and me, the only junior. So it’s going to be really difficult because there’s going to be a lot of things that we’re going to find that we can’t do anymore because there’s too few number of us. So that’s going to be a challenge, just trying to figure out how to do things, like how to get things done with a fewer amount of people. That is probably going to be the biggest challenge.

What is your favorite thing you picked up at the Welcome Back Picnic?

Lindsey Hines The newspaper because I want to join it.

Tessa Badamo I’ve gotten a ton of coozies. And a whole lot of candy that I’m super excited to eat.

Brian Scobie The one gallon of root-beer bag from Culver’s. I like the back scratchers, too, a lot.

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FOOTBALL season begins THE EDITORS DISCUSS WHETHER OR NOT STUDENTS SHOULD ATTEND FOOTBALL GAMES THIS SEASON AMBER CASON ONLINE MANAGING EDITOR

Coach Tom Matukewicz, his staff and the Southeast Redhawk football team have been preparing for their first game long before this fall arrived. They have been preparing since coach Tuke took on his new role last semester, and ever since then, he has been preparing his players not just on the field but off and truly inspiring the campus and making us all proud. From volunteering in the community and focusing on hard work, Tuke and his Redhawks have been changing the way this campus sees football and its players, and I could not be more excited to support them. Everyone should be going to this first game [and all others] to show how much we appreciate their efforts and to show them that their determination and dedication have not gone unnoticed. They have worked tirelessly throughout the summer to bring a change to the team and to the campus, and so far I think they have done an amazing job.

JAY FORNESS MANAGING EDITOR

I am not a sports person at all. I have been a sports avoider my whole life. The only sport I have played was little league soccer for one year. (I was terrible.) When my roommates watched the draft last year, I was shocked that it lasted three days. I tried to play the Madden video game, and let’s just say that I lost. So with all that, you would think that I would hate going to Southeast games, but I actually find them enjoyable. It’s not for the game, but for the energy being with friends and other students to cheer on our university. I would suggest sitting in the student section near the band, but if that’s not your jam, anywhere works. You don’t need to go to every game, and if the game is dying down there is no shame in leaving (repeat: no shame). But I feel like you should at least try to go. There is just something about sports games that encourages enthusiasm and it can be infectious, especially if you go with

NICK MCNEAL SPORTS EDITOR

On Thursday at 6 p.m. the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks, who went 3-9 in 2013, will start their regular season by hosting the Missouri Baptist Spartans. This is Missouri Baptist’s first football season and it is Southeast’s head coach Tom Matukewicz’s first season with the Redhawks. Matukewicz hired several new staff members for the team last year and they had the entire offseason together. There are many returners who had playing time last season, like 1,000yard rusher DeMichael Jackson and Preseason All-OVC selectee wide receiver Paul McRoberts. I, myself, am excited to see how the team will do since there is a completely different feel for Southeast football this year. As a former football player, it makes me want to strap on some pads and play at Houck Stadium myself. I won’t be at any other place Thursday night because I’m a true lover of football and love to see fresh new starts for athletic teams.

Many students say they don’t go to the games because they aren’t into sports, but even if sports aren’t exactly your thing you should still go out and see what the day has to offer. There’s tailgaiting where you can munch down on some great BBQ or socialize with some friends, there’s the Golden Eagles marching band that is really excellent, the Southeast Sundancers and more. So while, yes, football games are mostly about the game of football there is still something for everyone to enjoy at the game, even if you may not know what an end zone is. In years past, the stands in Houck Stadium have been less than impressive when it comes to attendance, and I feel like this is the year to make a change and really show our support for the football team that isn’t just during homecoming. They have not even had their first game but their passion has already made me so proud to be a Redhawk so I can’t imagine how I’ll feel once they actually take the field.

friends. If you feel like there is a huge barrier to football that you think you will never be able to fully understand, here is my explanation of the game. First, all you really need to know is that each team is trying to get the ball to one end of the field. Second, each team gets four chances just to get only 10 yards at a time (those are what the white lines on the field are for). Third, if they don’t go forward 10 yards in four tries, they lose the ball. Fourth, you only kick the ball at kickoff, after you score a touchdown, or as a last-ditch effort to score (there really should be more kicking). So there it is. Football, the game with so many rules that no one can expect you to know all of them, can be actually fun to watch in person. Even if you have never watched a full game before, a football game can be a nice place to hang out and is one of the few places where you can truly feel like the student body is coming together to support our school.

The best thing about going to SEMO is that if you want to attend a game, all you need is your Southeast ID. In my opinion, there’s nothing better than going to a football game at night. When the lights are on and the coaches are screaming from the sidelines to the players on the field, I can’t take my eyes away from it all. When I played I was in a complete zone and nothing else got in the way of what I was thinking about. Now it’s the same for when I’m off the field and viewing from the stands with my friends enjoying the game. Many Southeast students, faculty, alumni and fans, in general, will be attending the game because it is a great way to support Southeast and meet new people. The first game of the year is always the biggest for most teams because fans want to see how all of the offseason preparation pans out. So come out and watch starting quarterback Kyle Snyder spread out the offense and see inside linebacker Roper Garrett punish anyone in a Spartan jersey who has the football.

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