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Attendance doubled at SAC’s movie events J.C. REEVES ARROW REPORTER

There has been a large increase in attendance at Southeast Missouri State University’s Student Activities Council midnight movie showings.

SAC has been able to nearly double its attendance for the midnight movies this semester over last semester’s attendance.

“Attendance has improved,” Joanna Shaver, coordinator for campus programming at Campus Life and Event Services, said in an email. “Our average attendance at the four fall movies was 262 people. After only two movies this spring, the average this semester is 504 people. In general, the attendance at this year’s series is higher than previous years, 342.8 people this year vs. 198.9 people.”

SAC has shown Perks of Being a Wallflower and Pitch Perfect this semester.

“When midnight movies began in 2000, they were showing older movies,” Shaver said. “Those movies were also chosen by student votes, but over time, the interest to see older movies has dwindled. Every once in awhile the students vote to see a childhood favorite, but the trend seems to be movies that came out within the past year or so.”

SAC’s midnight movies took place in Rose Theatre during the fall semester. SAC made a decision to show a movie at Cape West 14 Cine in December.

“SAC decided to show ‘Elf’ at Cape West 14 last December as a fun treat,” Shaver said. “After having the second largest movie attendance in the past seven years, the organization decided it was worth a try moving the shows back to the movie theater.”

SAC’s next midnight movie was

Hairspray, and it has kept the event at Cape West 14 Cine ever since.

“We usually have some of the midnight movies on campus during the fall semester and then decide what the students would like best for the spring semester,” said Angela Jacobs, SAC’s films and lectures coordinator.

“The students seem to enjoy getting away from campus and getting to go to a real theater. Cape West 14 provides each student with a free small popcorn and soda and cleans up after us, which is a great benefit.”

“The students seem to enjoy getting away from campus and getting to go to a real theater. Cape West 14 provides each student with a free small popcorn and soda and cleans up after us, which is a great benefit.”

Angela Jacobs SAC decides what movies to show based on a brainstorm session and a member vote during the council’s meetings leading up to the next midnight movie showing. Jacobs presents five movie categories and the members of SAC then talk about what movies they would like to see from each category. The members then vote on what they think are the top movies for each category.

Following the council’s vote, the movies chosen as the top five are then posted on the campus portal where each student at Southeast has the ability to vote for which movie they would like to see. SAC must obtain the

licenses to each movie that they show.

If it can not obtain a license for the movie with the most votes, the movie that comes in second place will be shown instead. SAC is currently selecting movies that will be available for showing during the upcoming fall semester.

Jacobs attributes the attendance increase to word of the showings getting out better than in previous years.

“As coordinator, I have tried to come up with fun contests and raffles to promote each movie more,” Jacobs said. “We always have flyers about the movie around campus, but I have tried to come up with something other than those to promote each one. For The Perks of Being a Wallflower, I put flowers on the walls all over campus for students to tear off the petals and bring in to the movie to be entered into an additional raffle. For the upcoming showing of The Dark Knight Rises, there will be SAC members wearing Batman capes around Tower’s Cafe and the University Center handing out miniature flyers promoting the movie.

As coordinator, I feel it is important to promote the movie as much as possible. If the word spreads about the movie, then the attendance usually rises.”

The Dark Knight Rises will be shown at midnight April 5 at Cape West 14 Cine. SAC is asking that students not wear masks to the showing of The Dark Knight Rises out of respect for the victims of the Aurora, Co., shooting last year. Jacobs does, however, encourage students to wear Batman related attire to the event aside from masks and costumes.

Tickets are free for students, staff and faculty with a Southeast ID. Non-students are $3, an increase from $2 in the past.

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BRIEFS Recycle Chartwells has expanded its plastic container recycling program to also include Rowdy’s Chartwells Dining Service has expanded the recyclable containers and food packaging system to include Rowdy’s.

The service was initially only provided at Towers Cafe, but Chartwells has recognized the need to expand.

Trevor Sumner, the Chartwells marketing director, said the recyclable container system is part of an effort to reduce waste and to eliminate the use of styrofoam as much as possible. The initial purchase of the containers was made by the Student Government Association, but the trend of reducing styrofoam is something that many members of the food service industry are gravitating toward, according to Sumner.

“You sign up for the program just so we know that one person isn’t taking four or five containers and throwing them away,” Sumner said. “That kind of defeats the purpose of trying to be less wasteful. So, you sign up for the program, and it gives you access to the container. And you go ahead, and if you come into Towers, or now Rowdy’s, and use the container, you return it to the Towers, and we go ahead and wash it for you. ... At that point, you are provided with the token so you are not always carrying around a dirty container, and you use that token to redeem it for another container.”

Although the containers may be used at Rowdy’s, they must be returned to the Towers Cafe for cleaning because the Towers Cafe is the facility with the cleaning equipment.

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Search The dean of the College of Business has been named as the interim provost Dr. Gerald McDougall has been named the interim provost and chief academic officer for Southeast Missouri State University, according to a university press release.

McDougall, who had been the dean of the Donald L. Harrison College of Business and associate provost of Extended and Online Learning, will replace Dr. Ronald Rosati, who has accepted the position of dean of the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture in Curtis, Neb. Read the full story at southeastArrow.com.

Attend Career Linkages will co-sponsor a career and internship fair on April 24-25 for all majors Career Linkages will co-sponsor Partnership of Prospects, a career and internship fair April 24-25. Students can submit a resume and register for the career fair at semo.edu/POP by April 12. The internship and career fair is for all majors and 2013 graduates. For more information, contact Career Linkages at 573-651-2583.

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“THE O’Neal” is official gymnastics skill MARGARET O’NEAL’S HIGH BAR RELEASE IS LISTED IN THE INTERNATIONAL BOOK OF CODE FOR GYMNASTICS

BRIEFS Baseball Redhawks sweep UT Martin over weekend The Southeast Missouri State University baseball team defeated Ohio Valley Conference opponent UT Martin 8-5, 9-6 and 7-2 at Capaha Field over the weekend.

Southeast pitcher Alex Winkelman earned the win in the 8-5 victory on Friday. Andy Lennington and Ryan Barnes went 2-for-4.

Will Spitzfaden earned the win in the Redhawks’ 9-6 win on Friday. He allowed five earned runs and had four strikeouts in five innings. Cole Bieser and Lennington each had two RBIs and were 3-for-5.

Luke Shearrow won his first game at Southeast in the 7-2 victory on Saturday. He had four strikeouts and allowed four hits in 3 1/3 innings. Lennington had two hits and extended his hitting streak to 11 games.

Southeast improved to 15-14 and are 7-5 in the OVC. UT Martin’s record is 8-19 and 1-11 in the OVC. The Redhawks face OVC opponent SIU Edwardsville at 6 p.m. Friday and 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in Edwardsville, Ill.

Softball Redhawks finish 0-3 in weekend series The Southeast Missouri State University softball team lost to Ohio Valley Conference opponent SIU Edwardsville 13-0 and 11-1 on Friday and 9-1 on Saturday.

Southeast pitcher Taylor Cowan earned losses in each game. She pitched 3 1/3 innings in the 13-0 loss and gave up seven runs on nine hits. Lindsey Patterson was 2-for-2 in the game.

Cowan gave up two runs in two innings in the second game of the doubleheader. Southeast scored its only run in the second inning. A single by Chelsea Smith drove in Brittany Smith.

Cowan gave up eight runs in 5 2/3 innings in the game on Saturday.

Southeast’s record fell to 10-18 and 3-5 in the OVC. SIU Edwardsville improved to 22-8 and 7-2 in the OVC. The Redhawks face OVC opponents Jacksonville State at 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturday and Tennessee Tech at 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. on Sunday in Jacksonville, Ala., and Cookville, Tenn., respectively.

Track and Field Men’s team finishes first at invitational The Southeast Missouri State University men’s track and field team finished first in the Oliver Nikoloff Invitational on Saturday, while the women’s team came in fifth place.

Southeast thrower Kevin Farley won the shot put, discus and hammer throw. Brian Grote won the javelin.

Blake Carter won the long jump with a distance of 24- 2 1/4.

Kendrick Farr won the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.07 seconds, Blake Smith finished second in 11.16 and Fabian Santiago finished third in 11.29.

In the women’s fifth-place finish, Courtney Gapelu was the only event winner and won the shot put with a distance of 49- 5 3/4. Sarah Hall finished third in the shot put with a throw of 47- 2 1/4.

The Redhawks host the Joey Haines Invitational on Friday and Saturday at the Abe Stuber Track and Field Complex.

Tennis Redhawks lose fifth consecutive match The Southeast Missouri State University tennis team lost its fifth straight match on Saturday in a 7-0 loss to Murray State.

The No. 2 doubles team of Jessica Courtnell and Elizabeth Nyenwe won, but the Redhawks did not earn that point because they lost in the No. 1 and No. 3 doubles.

Southeast will face Brescia College at 3 p.m. Friday in Owensboro, Ky., Eastern Kentucky at 3 p.m. Saturday in Richmond, Ky., and Morehead State at 9 a.m. Sunday in Morehead, Ky.

Southeast gymnast Margaret O’Neal performs her uneven bar routine at a meet against Texas Woman’s University on March 8. Photo by Alyssa Brewer

Southeast gymnast has skill named after her BRAD CONWAY STAFF WRITER

Southeast Missouri State University gymnast Margaret O’Neal performed a new skill called “The O’Neal” during the 2009 National Junior Olympic Championship, which is an annual event that features some of the best gymnasts in the nation.

“It’s a release on high bar, and I let go of the high bar and do one flip with a full twist and re-grab the bar,” O’Neal said about the skill.

After performing the skill on bars and receiving the highest score, O’Neal’s skill was listed in the International Book of Code for Gymnastics.

“It was a really big accomplishment and pretty nerve wracking because you have to not only train the skill and be able to do it, but you have to qualify to nationals,” O’Neal said. “So there was the added stress of getting to nationals and successfully doing it at nationals.”

Southeast gymnastics coach Kristi Ewasko said that having a skill named after an athlete is rare, especially when most skills are named after Russians or Romanians. It’s a rarity for Americans.

In order to name a skill in the sport of gymnastics, athletes have to be the first to complete it in competition, depending on which level they’re in.

“I competed it at a level 10 my senior year,” O’Neal said. “My skill will be there forever.”

In gymnastics, there are levels

ranging from 1-10, starting from basics to the elite level. Gymnasts must reach a minimum score in competition to move to the next level. In order to compete in nationals for women, they must be at levels 9 or 10.

“I’ve been doing gymnastics for 18 years, since I was 4,” O’Neal said. “I had a really good coach who was able to really understand me as an athlete and really able to push me beyond anything I thought I was capable of doing. He was the reason why I got to the level I was at.”

“I competed it at a level 10 my senior year. My skill will be there forever.”

Margaret O’Neal When it comes to the scoring system, it can be tricky, but according to usagym.org, there are six judges. One jury determines the start value of each routine while another jury evaluates a routine based on execution, technique and artistry and tallies points and deductions. The highest and lowest judges’ scores drop while the remaining four average and subtract from the start value. That’s how to reach the gymnast’s score and the highest attainable score for a routine is 10.

“My skill is a little bit difficult because it leads to what’s called an ‘empty swing,’ so it can actually lead

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to a deduction,” O’Neal said. “But it’s there if anybody decides they want to do it.”

Although having a skill named after her own last name is cool, O’Neal also said that education and being able to have the opportunity to do gymnastics is important.

“When I came here and met the girls, I just really liked their personalities and where they wanted the program to go,” O’Neal said. “They had really strong academics, and my family has always stressed that education comes first. It’s really another opportunity for me to continue to grow. I love my teammates, they’re great, really supportive, fun to be around, so I really enjoy that experience.”

In Southeast’s recent Midwest Independent Conference championship meet in Shreveport, La., O’Neal scored a 9.750 on uneven bars.

“Margaret is a spitfire,” Ewasko said.

“She’s going to do whatever she can, as well as she can. She’s the type of athlete that you want.”

O’Neal finished the season with an average of 9.466 in vault and a careerhigh score of 9.750. She also had an average of 9.582 on bars and a careerhigh score of 9.875.

O’Neal was among one of four seniors along with Taylor Westrick, Angela Serafini and Emma Garrett honored in their last home meet on March 8. The Redhawks finished with an overall record of 5-7.

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PROFESSOR also an agent

MICHAEL BARNES’ CLIENTS INCLUDE MLB PLAYERS, OLYMPIC ATHLETES, ARTISTS AND AUTHORS

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Sports management professor helped sell MLB history-making baseballs SPENCER MICHELSON STAFF WRITER

Michael Barnes’ career received a major boost with a bit of luck and an unexpected phone call. Now a part-time professor at Southeast Missouri State University, Barnes works full-time as a sports and entertainment agent.

In 1998, history was being made in Major League Baseball.

St. Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire and the Chicago Cubs’ Sammy Sosa were chasing Roger Maris’ record 61 home run mark, a record that had stood for 37 years. McGwire hit his record-breaking 62nd home run first, in a game against Sosa’s Cubs on Sept. 8, 1998. McGwire finished the season with 70 homers, while Sosa hit 66 home runs.

During the 1998 baseball season, Barnes was an agent representing local artists in St. Louis. Barnes dealt with auction houses and private dealers that took artist’s work and sold it.

“At the time, the most expensive baseball in history that had been sold was $120,000,” said Barnes, whose business is based in St. Louis. “We sold the 70th ball for $3 million, breaking that record by 15 times. That’s actually what landed me a lot of work after that, in the licensing field.”

Barnes received a phone call from the man that had caught McGwire’s 63rd homerun ball.

“The man that caught number 63 had actually read a piece on me locally representing artists in a local paper, the Suburban Journals, that I dealt with auction houses, private dealers,” Barnes said. “Then it kind of stuck in his head when he caught the baseball, that ‘I was getting called by auction houses, I’m getting called by these dealers.’”

Barnes said that people would call people who had caught the historic home run balls offering $25,000 cash in exchange for the baseballs. That’s when the other people that caught McGwire’s 64th, 66th, 67th, 68th, 69th and 70th home run balls saw that Barnes was representing the man that caught home run No. 63 and decided to hire him to represent them as well.

Barnes also represented the people that caught Sosa’s 64th and 66th home run balls.

“The feeling was, even though we each may benefit from the sale of our own baseball, we are kind of tied at the hip because if just one of us does that, it kills the market for what we thought the balls were worth,” Barnes said. “None of us felt that it would be $3 million.”

The baseballs were auctioned off at Madison Square Garden in January 1999. Thanks to the sale of the baseballs, Barnes’ career received a major boost. He now has clients that are MLB players, Olympic athletes, X-Games athletes, authors and

artists. He also represents the top female dog-sledder and one of the best video game players in the world.

Barnes didn’t originally plan to become an agent.

After he graduated from the University of Missouri with degrees in history and economics, he took a job at American Express as an account representative dealing in bankruptcy.

After working there for two and a half years, he realized that he didn’t want to do this the rest of his life, so he went to St. Louis University’s law school.

After getting his law degree, he started his own firm representing fine artists.

“I had a couple friends of friends who wanted to use me,” Barnes said. “So it was a good way to get started. I worked with my firm for two years. It was bought by a company going public, which bought out a lot of companies that went public, companies that primarily worked in the art space.”

At that point, a family friend was able to help Barnes out.

“I had a referral from a family member for an athlete and that was sort of my start there,” Barnes said. “I still, now going on 20 years, represent artists, but that was the time that I started looking at athletes, too.”

Barnes then started another firm. This was the firm he was at when he handled the auction of McGwire and Sosa’s home run balls. He merged that firm last year with Anders CPA, an accounting firm located in St. Louis.

Barnes runs the niche, or practice, area of the firm for sports, arts and entertainment with his two partners, Doug Mueller and Lori Ripplemeyer. Between the three, they have 120 clients, while Barnes deals with around 45 clients.

Barnes said that he acts mostly as an agent for the clients at his firm, while Mueller and Ripplemeyer do more of the financial work.

“I represent them for their marketing deals, their autographs, their book deals, licensing so forth. My partners handle more commonly what we call their business manager,” Barnes said. “They do their taxes, they handle a lot of their financials, the back office stuff. So we offer a one-stop shop for our clients.”

Dillon Saffle, Barnes’ intern, said he didn’t really know what to expect when he started interning for Barnes.

“Most people’s perception about sports agents is that it’s all about athletes’ commissions and contracts, stuff like that,” Saffle said. “I fell into that, that’s what I thought it was, and I got here, and a lot of what he does is not necessarily babysits, but constantly finds new ideas for revenue for his clients.”

Communication between his clients is different, Barnes said. He usually keeps up with a client at least once a week,

and it might not even be over the phone.

“It’s kind of funny when you look at our clients,” Barnes said. “The older clients, it’s usually they pick up the phone and call us. The clients that are maybe in their 30s, they’ll do an email and the younger clients, it’s text. It’s generational how they communicate.”

In his spare time, Barnes is a professor at Southeast in the sports management department. Barnes originally came to Southeast to speak to Dr. Beth Easter’s Legal Aspects of Sport and Physical Activity class. He enjoyed it, and Easter then offered him a chance to teach that same course during a spring semester due to faculty turnover.

“Teaching, this forces me to keep up [to] speed,” Barnes said. “I think it’s that old saying ‘You have to know what you teach.’ So much of what I’ve done now, for having done it for 20 years, I take it for granted.”

Barnes now teaches the class once every semester, and it meets one day a week. His commute is only an hour and 10 minute drive from his house in Jefferson County. He’s had an opportunity to teach at SLU, but due to scheduling conflicts it works out better teaching at Southeast.

Barnes thinks that the biggest question facing future sports management majors who want to become sports agents is whether or not they need to go to law school.

“The first question I asked Mike was ‘How much of your law degree do you use?” Saffle said. “And he said around 5 percent for contracts. Is $120,000 worth 5 percent of what you’re going to be doing?”

Although Barnes doesn’t know whether a law degree will be a requirement down the road, he does recommend getting as much internship experience as possible.

“Maybe one summer you intern with the Cardinals,” Barnes said. “Another you intern with an agent. Another you intern with a licensing company because I really think it helps to have some experience at each of those levels.”

Barnes was a part owner of the River City Rage, an indoor football team, for two and a half years.

“It was literally like getting your MBA because I never would have learned what I learned trying to run a team,” Barnes said.

“There’s just no way to experience it in a book or read about it or whatever. You have to live it.”

Saffle is a senior and has decided against going to law school.

“In 20 years he’s built his portfolio so big,” Saffle said. “I mean if you take three years out of that, you could miss the McGwire balls.”

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Roy Wood Jr. will perform as a part of the Student Activities Council’s Laughter at :15 After series. Wood will perform at 8:15 p.m.

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MUSEUM and gallery host student work CRISP MUSEUM WILL DISPLAY STUDENT WORK CHOSEN BY HUROR AND THE ART GALLERY WILL DISPLAY THE PIECES NOT CHOSEN

Left and bottom right: Artwork submissions in the art gallery on April 1. Top right: Artwork that Kirsten Pointer submitted in a past year’s exhibition. Left and bottom: Photos by Drew Yount, Top right: Submitted photo

Annual Juried Student Exhibition and Salon des Refuses show student art ELLEN FIKE ARROW REPORTER

The Annual Juried Student Exhibition is an event that shows off the creative talents of the students from the art department at Southeast Missouri State University’s River Campus. Students submit pieces that they have worked on during the past year, and it is an honor for a student’s work to be chosen.

The art gallery, however, offers a Salon des Refuses, French for “exhibition of rejects,” so that student work that is not chosen can still be displayed.

The exhibition of rejects is a tradition that dates back to 1863, when artists rejected by the Paris Salon decided to have their own exhibition.

The Crisp Museum will house the juried pieces, while the River Campus Art Gallery will simultaneously show the pieces that were not selected. The students submitting pieces had to have their pieces turned in by Monday, April 1 to be judged and on Tuesday, juror Russell Nelson selected the pieces for the show.

Each of the events has different categories for its pieces. The juried event’s categories are: 2D color/design foundations, 3D foundations, graphic design/illustration, digital arts, ceramics, fibers, printmaking, painting, drawing and new genre. Winners will be chosen from each category. The prizes are Best in Show, Distinguished Merit Award and Purchase Award. The top prize winners will also be presented with a cash prize. The Salon’s categories are the same as the juried’s, but also include digital art and photo and video projects.

“To me, this annual exhibition is the most important thing for a SEMO art student,” said Kirsten Pointer, an illustration student who has participated in the event for the past three year but is not competing this year. “All of my work I do during my classes I do with the intent of submitting it to this show.”

Tori Pfau, a graphic design student, has submitted pieces for the juried exhibition for the past four years. She has only been selected by the juror once, which was last year, and she took part in Salon des Refuses during her freshman year.

“It’s pretty stressful to select and frame

pieces for the show, as well as expensive, but it does encourage you to put time and effort into creating artwork in class,” Pfau said. “Instead of completing a project for homework, you feel motivated to create a piece worthwhile to display in a gallery.”

“To me, this annual exhibition is the most important thing for a SEMO art student. All of my work I do during my classes I do with the intent of submitting it to this show.”

Kirsten Pointer According to Kristin Powers Nowlin, one of the art instructors and the coordinator of the exhibitions, any show that the students can partake in is a great thing to add to their resume. Since all of the art majors are required to submit at least one piece to be judged

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for the event, it is logical for the students to submit them to the Salon exhibition if they are not chosen. There will also be select pieces for sale in each of the exhibitions.

“Just because the juror didn’t select it for the juried exhibition does not mean that it isn’t great work or that someone else might not fall in love with it and buy it,” Nowlin said in an email.

But, according to Pointer, it can be disheartening for the students who are not chosen for the juried exhibition.

“Artists put so much of themselves into their art; you dedicate all of your time and energy to it,” Pointer said. “I put in over 60 hours for one piece one time and got really unhealthy because of the stress. It’s like that for all of us.”

The juried exhibition will take place from 4-7 p.m. on April 5 at the Crisp Museum, and the awards presentation will be at 4:30 p.m. The juried pieces will be on display in the museum April 5-28. The Salon’s exhibition will be from 1-5 p.m. on April 5, with the reception beginning at 5 p.m. and concluding at 7 p.m. in the River Campus Art Gallery.

THEATER WORKSHOP

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Dr. Kenneth Stilson will lead a theater workshop from 1-2 p.m. Thursday at the Glenn Convocation Center as a part of the Creativity Festival.+​

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ALUMNA, professor and guest perform SUNDAYS AT THREE CONCERT TO FEATURE SARAH HOFFMEISTER, BRANDON CHRISTENSEN AND CHRISTINE KYPRIANIDES

Concert features restored Baroque violin CALANDRA JONES-JACKSON ARROW REPORTER

The fifth edition of this year’s Chamber Music Sundays at Three concert series, “Brandon’s New Violin,” will feature music played on the 18th century Viennese Baroque violin restored to its original measurements by luthier Greg Bearden.

Brandon Christensen, associate professor of violin, searched for years to find the Baroque violin.

It took Christensen four to five years to find this violin. After finding it, it took one and a half years to make restorations on the instrument. Bearden is a luthier, which is the French word for violin maker, and completed all the restorations in St. Louis.

The modern violin and the Baroque violin are in the same string family, but the instruments do have differences.

“A Baroque violin has gut strings whereas a modern violin has strings that are metal and wrapped with nylon chords. It’s new material,” Christensen said. “The easiest thing to see that the Baroque violin is different is that their gut strings are made from sheep gut.”

Baroque violin strings are not made through modern technology and are made in eastern Europe. A noticeable difference is the neck of the instruments. The neck of the baroque violin is shorter.

“As history progressed and music became more complicated, the instrument needed to get a little bigger so that you can play a little higher. The range of the instrument expanded over time, so the neck had got longer,” Christensen said.

The performers in the next Chamber Music Sundays at Three series include a musician who has traveled throughout the world, a Southeast Missouri State University alumna and Christensen. Christine Kyprianides is a viola da gamba soloist and cellist and the other performer Sarah Hoffmeister, who is a pianist and harpsichordist, is a Southeast alumna. Hoffmeister currently is seeking her master’s degree in music from the University of Indiana’s Jacob’s School of Music.

“For folks who don’t know this, Indiana is one of the top

graduate schools in the country. It’s a big deal for us that she was able to get into the program, and we’re very excited that she’s come back to play,” Christensen said.

Kyprianides said she is thankful to have a professional life that is always changing and to be able to have a wide variety of experiences with different types of music and colleagues.

“It is very exciting, but tiring. Sometimes musicians see more of the tour bus than the cities in which they are performing,” Kyprianides said in an email.

Kyprianides has traveled throughout the world performing with many ensembles. Some include Huelgas Ensemble, Les Arts Florissants and Music Antiqua Koln.

“I have played throughout Europe, North and South America, South Asia (India, Pakistan, etc) and Japan,” Kyprianides said. “Perhaps the most memorable was the time I played three concerts in the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, the church where Johann Sebastian Bach worked, in November 1989. It was still East Germany, the same weekend that the Communist government opened the borders for the first time. We had hardly any audience because everyone was out on the streets demonstrating. We saw history being made, even if the church was empty.”

In addition to being a musician, Kyprianides also has taught early music performance practice at universities such as Dresden Academy of Early Music, the Lemmens Institute of the University of Louvain, the conservatory for Liturgical Music of Halle/Saale, the Conservatories of Cologne and Buenos Aires, the Catholic University of Santiago de Chile and many more.

“Teaching is a part of nearly every musician’s professional life at one time or another,” Kyprianides said. “Often we teach for financial reasons, but also because we become better performers when we teach others.”

Christensen has been an associate professor of violin at Southeast since 2002.

“I love being a musician. I always tell my students who are thinking about going into music that being a musician is not a job, it’s a calling. For those of us who chose music as a lifestyle, it’s the only way we can live,” Christensen said. “To be in

Brandon Christensen Southeast Missourian photo a place like Southeast and being a part of their lives as they’re [students] growing and developing, being able to set people on this path that’s going to help them in some way, it’s a real pleasure and honor. Every day I get to do two things that I love most. One is play the violin, the other is work with talented young students. In fact I’ve got the best job in the world.”

In honor of Christensen’s newly attained 18th century restored Viennese Baroque violin, this concert will include early string music.

“Because it’s featuring early music, it’s going to be different from other musical concert experience,” Christensen said. “It’s unique. It’s like stepping back in time. They’ll [audience members] be able to hear this music played in the way that it would have been played 300 years ago.”

The performers would like for those attending the concert to gain a genuine experience of early music.

“I hope that people will be listening to us play, not just looking at us, and that they will be interested in hearing more 17th-century music,” Kyprianides said.

The “Brandon’s New Violin” concert will begin at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Robert F. and Gertrude L. Shuck Music Recital Hall.

Tickets are $15. For more information contact the River Campus box office at 573-651-2265 or at rivercampusevents.com.

Tales From The Field With

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CASTING site features student demos BROADWAYDEMO ALLOWS STUDENTS TO SHOW THEIR WORK IN PERFORMING ARTS TO CHOREOGRAPHERS AND CASTING DIRECTORS

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BroadwayDemo.com, a New York City musical theater casting website, has opened up to students at Southeast Missouri State University to showcase their talent to directors and choreographers from all over the country.

The BroadwayDemo website provides up and coming actors and performers a chance to showcase their talent through an online calling card where they can offer their mugshots, resumes and even recorded vocal demos.

There are currently 12 Southeast graduates’ profiles on BroadwayDemo.

“A demo is a quick, effective way to hear a sample of what we sound like, to see if we are even what they are looking for.”

Keith Johnson “There is so much going on in theatre all the time that often times it’s difficult to call people in to audition,” senior musical theater major Keith Johnson said. “A demo is a quick, effective way to hear a sample of what we sound like, to see if we are even what they are looking for.

“We can also put our link on our resumes, which is very helpful because, as performers, our resumes are gold. We hand them out all the time to producers, artistic and casting directors, managers and many other people in the business. The demo is a great selling point for us because it is our best work at this point in our training.”

Founders Tina Marie Casamento and her husband David Libby recently came to Southeast to connect with the performers and help get them started.

“I definitely feel that BroadwayDemo offers a wide range to showcase my talent,” senior acting major Dalton Riddle said.

“Tina Marie worked with all of us on our material before we

ever recorded to make sure the material we were using would showcase two very different sides of our talent so that directors and casting agents could really get a feel for us as performers. They [Tina and her husband] work in the industry, so they know what casting agents are looking for, and they made sure we were showcasing those qualities.”

Riddle also said starting the demo early, while he’s still in school, gives him the freedom and opportunity to be open for auditions and to let companies know that he is interested.

Talented students at smaller universities, like Southeast, can be overshadowed by larger entertainment schools such as Julliard or the University of Michigan. BroadwayDemo is there to give graduates a “leg up” on the competition, to start early and to make their presence known to the performing world.

Some artists who have used BroadwayDemo have received casting calls to perform on Broadway or have received jobs in the cruise industry. One Southeast student who graduated last December was contracted by Carnival Crusie Line because of her demo.

“I actually have gotten a response from my demo,” Southeast musical theater graduate Tayloir Pace said. “I got a call from a casting director last month for Carnival Cruise Lines who wanted to submit me for a singer/dancer for a sixmonth contract on one of their ships. He described it as a brand new pop/rock divas of the 90s show they were creating.

He had me send a few more videos of myself singing and even wanted me to fly to New York City to do a dance call.”

Pace said she already was booked for the summer, working for multiple shows at the Timber Lake Playhouse in Illinois, but she still sent in a few videos of her performances to build a good contact and let them know she was interested in working for them in the future.

Many performing arts students at Southeast think BroadwayDemo is a great starting tool to propel their career, but the real goal is a face-to-face callback.

“You always, always, always want to leave them wanting more,” Johnson said. “So we don’t want to give it all away so quickly. We would rather them get a hint of what we have to offer and then be called in for a more personal audition. Our

Keith Johnson sings at a recital rehearsal. Southeast Missourian photo goal is to be so good they can’t ignore us. I personally would want them to experience my full potential face to face as opposed to just hearing me.”

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TATTOO parlor serves more than students DIFFERENT DRUMMER TATTOO AND BODY PIERCING LOCATED ON BROADWAY HAS PATRONS FROM SOUTHEAST AND COMMUNITY

Different Drummer tattoo artist Jake French puts color on a tattoo for patron Logan Broughton. Photo by Calandra Jones-Jackson

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Tattooing is a form of art that sometimes has led to negative stereotypes. According to some tattoo artists, before someone gets a tattoo, he or she need to be aware that it is a permanent part of the body and that it should be profound.

A Different Drummer Tattoo and Body Piercing is a local tattoo shop located at 905 Broadway. There are six artists and three piercers including owner Chris Rose, Jake French, Cory Bedwell, Morgan Miller, John Bingham (artist and piercer), Heather Carmack and Johnny Thurman.

Becoming a tattoo artist is not like many other trades. There is no school of tattooing or online course that can be taken. In order to become a tattoo artist, one must do an apprenticeship. An apprenticeship is when someone works for another in order to learn a specific trade.

According to Jake French, apprenticeships for tattooing can range anywhere from one to 10 years.

“You go through an apprenticeship. Basically everything that you would need to know about tattooing, that’s when you learn it,” French said. “That way once you’ve done however much time it takes you to get the hang of it, you know a year, two years, 10 years. It just depends. Everyone’s different.”

Artists at A Different Drummer each share a joy for drawing. According to some of the artists, tattooing and piercing is something that they stumbled upon. It was a way to

enhance their creativity.

“I just always liked drawing and doing art and stuff like that, it just kind of worked out,” Bedwell said.

Miller is one of three piercers. Piercing is something that Miller did not plan to do. She has pierced now for three years.

For Thurman, being around the shop and drawing brought him to the tattooing profession.

“It kind of fell in my lap,” Thurman said.

“I was getting work here through all the guys here. Then one day I was given an opportunity from the boss because he knew I liked to draw, and that was it.”

The amount of experience of the artists and piercers ranges from two to eight years.

Many Southeast Missouri State University students make their way to A Different Drummer to get tattoos and piercings. Two of those students are Ashley Brown and Jess Haspel.

Haspel, a senior at Southeast Missouri State, has two tattoos. They are located on her hip and on her wrist.

“I got them because my friends got them,” Haspel said. “Sitting here watching her [Brown] I want another one.”

According to French, there are many Southeast students that come to the shop, but not as many as some might think.

“Generally when it comes to the college students, here’s the way I tell people. Because every time someone comes in they’re like, ‘Oh my gosh I bet you get a lot of college kids,’ and it’s like ‘Not really,” French said. “We do, but we don’t. Pour House [has] $6 all-youcan-drink cups Thursday nights. Let’s say you

come in, the cheapest thing we can do for you is either a $30 tattoo or a $30 piercing. There goes five weeks of your drinking.

“To a college kid, they’re like I can do without a piercing until mom and dad come, you know, or mom and dad give me some money. We do a lot of business with them, it’s just everyone’s specific. I do almost every football player for SEMO.” French also stated that many students come to the shop to get tattoos when they receive extra money from tuition reimbursements or refund checks.

Tattooing has become a major part of pop culture. Many singers and actors have one or more tattoos and there are also many reality shows like “Black Ink” and “Ink Master” that portray tattoo artists and shops.

“They’re showing how people with these glammed up personalities do things. You walk into a tattoo shop and talk like any of the people on those reality TV shows, you’re going to have a problem,” French said. “Those TV shows do not show what really goes on in tattooing.”

“It’s reality TV,” Thurman said. “I think with the TV shows though now, it’s so much more popular. It seems that like you’re almost a statistic for not having one.”

Attending tattoo conventions is one way artists can enhance their skills and see the works of other artists. French and Thurman attended the Best in the Midwest convention in February in Iowa.

“They’re fairly expensive to attend. But just like tattoos, if it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right,” French said. “Me and him [Thurman]

attended the Best in the Midwest in Iowa. The guy who won [Ink Master], Shane O’Neal, basically he took the money that he won from the show and developed a series. So now he has multiple tattoo conventions in multiple cities that show people, you know, that this is the legit tattoo industry. It’s not naked women running around whooping and hollering, there’s no one running around breathing fire.

You go there, and it’s the world’s best tattoo artists.”

Placement and types of tattoos are important. According to French, a couple of places that he tries to recommend people not getting a tattoo are on the wrist and fingers.

According to French, when tattoos are placed in such a visible part of the body, people are more focused on the tattoo rather than the person.

For those who are thinking of getting a tattoo for the first time, the artist recommends that people keep in mind that this is something that will stick with them for the rest of their lives.

“Wait until you have thought of something else,” French said. “People come in for the convenience and think, ‘Oh, I can get whatever I want,’ but if you really sat down to think, I really want this, and when you’ve thought and thought and thought and thought and figured out what you want, you’re going to go, ‘Oh my goodness, I’m glad I didn’t get that, I really want this.’ I just try to tell people, this will never go away. Regardless, you’re going to have to explain this to children, grandchildren, parents. People nowadays when they come in, they really don’t care.”

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It is not uncommon to see a Southeast Missouri State University campus shuttle zip past while walking around in Cape Girardeau. In the mornings they seem to be on every corner transporting students all across campus.

Last semester these shuttles became fewer and less frequent, which raised questions about what changed. Students pay for shuttles through Residence Life room and board fees, the cost of parking passes, parking fines and through Student Government Association fees.

But with the continually increasing costs to support the shuttles this program is becoming harder and harder to fund.

Different measures have been taken to help cut back costs. At the beginning of last semester the number of shuttles running after 2 p.m. were reduced. After that time there is more parking options all over campus.

Government budget cuts are the main cause for the decreased shuttle routes this past year. However, there are many other aspects that go into keeping a shuttle running.

Southeast’s Department of Public Safety manages both the WINGS and on-campus shuttles. According to grant accountant Marie Justis, the on-campus shuttle program has cost $229,250 so far this academic year without including the transit operations supervisor’s salary. From these costs, $161,000 has been given in a grant to the university from the state.

“That’s decided at the state level from MoDOT [Missouri Department of Transportation],” Justis said. “I know each year DPS gets together a kind of what you would call a wish list, and puts together the expenses that it costs to run the transit, parking sheds, garages and things like that. And they send it to the state and then they [MoDOT] decide what they are going to give you of that, which is always way under what we estimate.”

It is then the university’s responsibility to cover the rest of the expenses. Student Government Association treasurer Emilee Hargis said last year SGA contributed a flat rate of $15,000 from their student-funded budget to the on-campus shuttle funds. Dr. Bruce Skinner, assistant vice president for Student Success and director of Residence Life said that for the current year Residence Life contributed $10,000 toward shuttle costs. Both of these contributions will increase in the future.

“These dollars are meant to subsidize shuttles in the evenings, night and weekends that are used by residence hall students,” Skinner said.

Director of Facilities Management Angela Meyer said that a new shuttle station called the multi-modal transfer facility nexus is being reviewed for construction as well. Meyer said the project has been bid on by contractors and MoDOT is reviewing the bids.

According to Hargis, Kathy Mangles, the vice president for finance and administration, spoke at a SGA meeting about Southeast being awarded a grant to build a heated shelter at the multi-modal transfer facility parking lot.

Southeast is required to match funding provided from the government, and the money that is not provided for shuttle costs through SGA or Residence Life is covered by DPS. Director of the budget office Sue Wilde said that DPS provides over half of the funds to match the federal grant.

Doug Richards, director of the DPS, said the matter of keeping oncampus shuttles running is all about the funding.

“The bottom line is that we’re working on funding for that at this point. I do not see any decreases at this time in the present campus shuttle because it is utilized so much,” Richards said.

Richards said that his department focuses on the hours the shuttle are used the most.

“My department accepts the rest of the expenses out of my account, which has grown and grown,” Richards said. “You know, it’s went from a $100,000 a year service to cost about $365,000 [a year] and that is simply because the increased buses, the increased routes that we have, the increased fuel costs and the increased maintenance costs.

You’ve seen the economy, everything goes up, so the costs have continued to rise.”

The shuttle funds also pay the salaries of approximately 25-30 temporary and permanent workers. Richards said that in order to offset some shuttle costs DPS tries to utilize the facility management mechanics as often as possible, but when the mechanics are busy with other issues on campus they must go to different companies in town that can fix it.

According to Wilde, DPS has made between $500,000-$600,000 this year through employee parking passes, student passes, fines and interdepartmental use of the shuttles. Besides helping to fund the shuttles this money is used for other maintenance projects across campus.

“Parking lot improvements, the officers, cameras in the parking lot and the warning system. That money isn’t just used for that [shuttles], it’s used for public safety,” Wilde said.

The other shuttles that Southeast provides are the WINGS shuttles that run every week Thursday through Sunday. Until recently there were two different routes available to students, the Old Town Cape route, which went downtown, and the West Park route, which stops at the mall, Walmart and other businesses in that area. These shuttles were originally funded entirely by SGA, but with the recent fund decrease DPS has also been contributing to the program.

“WINGS is one of our general line items, and they get 5.88 percent of our total budget,” Hargis said. “Originally that was supposed to run the downtown route and then we added on the West Park route — that is Walmart and Target, everything like that, and originally it was kind of a safe way to get home kind of deal, and then it turned out that people didn’t really want that, they liked the shopping route a lot more and a lot of international students rely on that to get places.”

DPS discontinued the downtown route in December. After DPS notified SGA, senate members discussed it and quickly released that information to the students.

“Their driver apparently fell ill who runs that [downtown route],” Hargis said. “It was a little odd, but, you know, we give them the lump sum of money and tell them to manage it, so we are glad they told us about it and we let the campus know as soon as we made the decision that the shuttle would no longer be running.”

During the 2012-2013 fiscal year, 17,384 students have ridden the West Park shuttles while only 768 students have ridden the Old Town Cape shuttle.

Hargis said that SGA bases its funds off of the previous academic year. Last year its base budget was $340,000, and 5.88 percent, or $19,992, of that went toward the WINGS shuttles. Students fund the SGA budget through a fee based on the number of credit hours they are taking. Hargis said that until this year DPS has not requested more funding, but in order to keep the shuttles running the way they are, more funds are necessary.

Richards said that since the cost of operating the WINGS shuttles has increased DPS has contributed between $3,000-$5,000 to the WINGS funding as well as managing them.

“We provide the buses, we make sure the buses are in excellent running condition and we provide the drivers and cover the hours that they have Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday,” Richards said.

“So we simply operate. This was a student government initiative, totally student government. So we just simply manage it, provide drivers, provide buses and we simply make sure we have people running the routes.”

With all the issues funding shuttles Richards remains confident that they will remain a staple on the Southeast campus.

“I’m not anticipating any changes to the regular campus shuttle at this point, no,” Richards said.

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“We may adjust some of the routes, or after we look at the driver pickup book cases and all that we may modify some of the routes.”

Pickup book cases are the sheets used to track the number of riders on specific shuttles.

“But, I do not see at this particular time — I do not see any reductions in service. We have seen a continual increase in ridership,” Richards said.

SGA has agreed to increase its funding for WINGS shuttles and Residence Life will make a larger contribution to support other shuttles.

According to Skinner, Residence Life has agreed to provide $50,000 to the shuttle services next year.

“The $50,000 provided next year by Residence Life is paid for by allocating money from within the Residence Life budget paid for by students living on campus,” Skinner said via email. “When we develop our budget we include this cost in our expenses and then work to balance the budget in terms of revenue needed. It is along the same lines as any other direct expense to the residence halls (utilities, salaries, supplies, maintenance, etc.).”

Skinner said that in terms of individual student costs, the $50,000 expense breakdown will be about $18 per residence hall student for the entire academic year.

Wilde believes that as long as the students want to keep the shuttle service running it should remain funded.

“It has been a challenge to keep the funding for it [shuttles] because, although I understand from the students perspective it seems like there is a large cost for parking and then you’re paying parking fines on top of that. But when you are looking at everything those monies have to cover like I said, officers, cameras, things to make this campus safe and parking lot improvements, the funds just aren’t able to stretch and cover everything.”

Both Student Government Association and Residence Life will allocate more student fees to subsidize funding for campus shuttle services for the next academic year.

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BOARD of Regents has new vice president SOUTHEAST ALUMNA AND PHILANTHROPIST HAS BEEN SERVING AS VICE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS SINCE FEB. 20

Kendra Neely-Martin appointed as vice president of Board of Regents ANDREA GILS COPY EDITOR

Kendra Neely-Martin, a philanthropist and alumna of Southeast Missouri State University, has served as vice president of Southeast’s Board of Regents since Feb. 20.

She was appointed to the board in November 2011 by Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon. The members of the board volunteer their time to make sure the university is as healthy and vital as possible, according to Neely-Martin.

It has the power and authority to change and enforce rules and regulations pertaining student conduct and suspend or expel students for disobedience to the rules. It can appoint and dismiss all officers and teachers and make other decisions pertaining to Southeast’s management.

The Board of Regents carries out an evaluation every two years, where they assess needs and leadership roles. The vice president position is a two-year commitment.

Neely-Martin said her responsibilities and commitment to the university as a vice president remain the same as her former position as a board member. She said that as a regent, she still has to make sure that Southeast is successful, that Dr. Kenneth W. Dobbins, president of the university, is successful and that the school is functioning well. As a vice president, NeelyMartin has to be available if board president Doyle Privett is unavailable and also provide support to Dobbins as needed.

“I’m very excited to have the opportunity,” Neely-Martin said. “I’m confident in my leadership and in the skills and resources that I bring to fill in the regent’s role.”

Neely-Martin said her objective as vice president of the Board of Regents is to move Southeast forward to stay ahead of the curve in relation to the education in the state of Missouri.

“We want to continue to be the school of first choice. … We want to make sure that the academic programs that we offer are solid and that the students are successful,” Neely-Martin said.

As a board member, Neely-Martin said she has had some tremendous opportunities to make decisions about the future of the university, including housing and expansions,

capital assessment, revitalization of the campus and adding amenities.

Thinking ahead, Neely-Martin said she would be honored to become the president of the Board of Regents but said it will depend on the reappointment of Doyle. If that presidency position becomes open, elections for that office and the vice president position would take place.

“I’m very excited to have the opportunity. I’m confident in my leadership and in the skills and resources that I bring to fill in the regent’s role.”

Kendra Neely-Martin “I would be honored to have the opportunity to submit my name for the advancement as president. I think that it’s a tremendous honor to have the opportunity to represent a school like Southeast and to have your input valued by the university,” Neely-Martin said. “That role is a very critical role in relation to the supporting of the president and ensuring that the university is functioning at the highest level, so it would be a tremendous honor but not a guaranteed honor.”

Neely-Martin said that the board members would have conversations to decide on who would lead the board best, given the need of the university.

There have been many changes since Neely-Martin obtained her bachelor of science in business administration at Southeast in 1994, she said. She mentioned changes in space and technology, the reputation of the Harrison College of Business, which has grown, and the campus itself.

“It’s not the same Southeast when it comes to structure when I attended, but the same beautiful experience is still here,” Neely-Martin said.

She also said that she is proud of the student organizations

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that build leadership skills and that she was happy to see they were still intact, such as Student Government Association.

Neely-Martin has served on multiple committees centered in diversity and educational experiences in Campus Life and SGA, and in Delta Sigma Theta, a sorority she has been a member of for 22 years.

She also referred to Southeast’s growth in terms of diversity and international student population as “amazing.”

“Being an alum and being away from Southeast for several years I just have an increased appreciation for higher education,” Neely-Martin said. “Overall, when it comes to higher education, the more stable you are, the higher the quality of education the students receive, and more importantly, there is an increased opportunity for graduates.”

Besides devoting time to Southeast’s Board of Regents, Neely-Martin said she spends countless hours with members of the St. Louis community. ”In order to make a difference we have to make sure we reach as far and wide as we can as individuals to impact lives and change the process, and especially for the underserved and disenfranchised, that we create a voice,” Neely-Martin said.

Neely-Martin is the chair of the educational development for the St. Louis Metropolitan Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta and works as a pharmaceutical sales specialist for AstraZeneca. She oversees the Delta Academy, a national program created to provide health and wellness training as well as instill the values necessary to build a solid community, astrazeneca-us.com stated in a press release.

Neely-Martin’s contributions were recognized with the Jefferson Award for Public Service, a national award that recognizes community service, which she received in 2011.

Helping the disenfranchised, selling pharmaceuticals, serving in Delta Sigma Theta and serving on the Board of Regents provide Neely-Martin a chance to work with people with diverse backgrounds.

“To continue to become a more global environment as a place to study is high on my list and I think Southeast should keep this pace of growth and inclusion,” Neely-Martin said.

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CHARTWELLS offers new service “APP ON CAMPUS” ALLOWS USERS TO VIEW NUTRITION INFORMATION AND HOURS OF OPERATION FOR ON-CAMPUS DINING OPTIONS

Chartwells creates nutritional information smartphone app ANDREW TYAHLA STAFF WRITER

One of the many challenges for a college student is eating a healthy diet.

While Chartwells provides many options at Southeast Missouri State University and other colleges around the United States, it can still be hard to know what nutritional value different foods have. Now, to quote an old Apple iPhone commercial, “There’s an app for that.”

The “App on Campus” application for smartphones gives students, staff and faculty members menus, nutritional information and access to special deals and events for any college where Chartwells provides food.

It was created by RoaringSky Incorporated, the same company that designed Chartwells’ website and was released on Sept. 1.

“One of the most common requests we get is access to nutritional information and this is another tool we can use to communicate the information,” said Trevor Sumner, marketing director for Chartwells at Southeast.

“App on Campus” shows the menus and nutritional information for all dining facilities at Southeast. It is integrated with Chartwells’ menu software and its current website, dineoncampus.com/semo. As a result, the information present on the application is automatically updated in real time.

For example, if a student plans to eat at

Towers Cafe, that person would be able to check “App on Campus” on his or her way to the dining hall to see whether the main course will be roast turkey or meat loaf. If there is a change to the menu, the app will also reflect that.

The application also lists the hours of operation for each facility but only the regularly scheduled hours.

The app does not show special hours of operation for occasions such as Spring Break or Easter. According to Sumner, that feature will come in a future update.

“App on Campus” is available to download for free in the iTunes Store and on Google Play and is compatible with iPhone models 3GS through 5, iPod Touch models from the third through fifth generations, all models of iPad and any smartphone or tablet running the operating system Android 2.2 or later. The application on Apple’s devices requires iOS 5.1 or later.

Once the app is downloaded, people will need to search for and choose Southeast Missouri State University from the list of schools that Chartwells serves. Not only is the app free to those who download it, but it does not cost Southeast anything to have its dining information on the application.

“This is a free service provided by Chartwells,” Sumner said. “So all the university has to do is have Chartwells provide its dining services.”

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Cape Girardeau’s Mike Renick Band will release fifth album ASHLEY BENNETT STAFF WRITER

Eight years ago Mike Renick came up with an idea to form the group the Mike Renick Band.

He wanted to play his own music that he wrote and that he enjoyed listening to. From there, he found a group of guys from diverse musical backgrounds and formed the group.

The band has released four albums and its fifth is in final stages of completion.

Renick is the operations manager at River Radio and is an on-air personality for 92.9 The River weekdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Q: Can you tell me about the Mike Renick band and how you all started?

A: It started many years ago. We have been playing with some configuration of the group for like eight years or so. The idea for me was wanting to be able to do my own music, music that I had written, and then get some guys together and pick up on certain instruments that I was interested in having play.

That’s kind of where it started from. I had a handful of written songs and wanted to record them to say that I did that, and it kind of progressed to getting together with a group of guys who just enjoyed playing together.

Everyone came from a different background.

Our drummer is in to the rock stuff and our saxophone player likes the Grateful Dead type of stuff. I’ve always been a fan of The Police, Dave Matthews Band, Peter Gabriel, Jack Johnson — those people. Those groups have always been groups I liked a lot. That’s where the musical influences come from.

Then we just started playing a lot around town with the college appeal. We do cover songs, but over the course of performance night it’s more so of the original stuff than the cover stuff. We aren’t a cover band. I just always thought it would be better to play your own stuff and it’s more gratifying and have it be a hit. So we just started playing a lot, through Cape and St. Louis, Carbondale, Columbia, Chicago. We’ve made some trips to Nebraska and Colorado on occasion. Over the course of those eight or nine years we’ve recorded four CDs, and I did one on my own as a solo CD.

Q: How many musicians are in the band?

A: There are five. An acoustic guitar and singer, which is myself, then drummer, saxophone player, bass guitar and electric guitar. For a long time we had a keyboard player, but he moved away. Sometimes he will come

back and play with us. We’ve had a violin player play with us. The music is somewhat organic in nature to where you’re able to bring in some other instruments. We’ve had different people sit in, and I like that and it adds something different for that night, adds a bit of flavor after you’ve played quite a bit.

It’s enjoyable, but it’s nice to add something extra, get an extra buzz around what’s going on.

Q: How often do you perform?

A: I would say roughly on average about once a week if you average it out over the course of the year, like once every weekend. We practice once a week. Tuesday nights are our practice nights. Usually in practice it’s a deal where we say, “OK, was there anything we needed to work on from this past weekend that we played? Is there anything new we want to do?” I’m always trying to introduce new stuff.

That’s what is fun for me — fiddling around in my room with my guitar and I’ll come up with a certain guitar riff, then I’ll bring it to practice and someone might say, “Hey, that’s cool, let’s add this to it or add that to it.” Then maybe after the course of a few practices you have a new song you can play.

Q: What is the genre?

A: I would say that it’s rock, but if you want to kind of sub divide it’s kind of like an acoustic rock-pop jam. The songs are not your standard rock songs, but we sort of come at it with a rock feel, but you have a sax that’s soloing and you might have some bluesy things going on with it. I call it like the college rock, Dave Matthews Band type of feel.

Q: How did you get your start as a band?

A: As far as the music goes, honestly I was just going to some open mic nights. There used to be a place called Jeremiah’s that was downtown. It was pretty popular, and they would do a Tuesday night open mic night, so I just went to that and started playing. One of the guys that first started playing with me I met there. So I did open mic night, decided to record the music, asked a few guys if they would come in and record their parts and, luckily with being from the area, I knew a lot of people here and was able to get their support. So they would come watch, and we brought out some good crowds and businesses would contact us and ask us if we wanted to play at their place so that helped.

Q: When does your next CD come out?

A: It’s not out yet. It’s been recorded. It’s done.

Mike Renick Band Submitted photo I think it’s going to be self-titled. It’s only got six songs on it. We haven’t had any art work done on it yet.

Q: What is the process of making an album?

A: The process that works for us is I like to have everything really prepared before we come in, so there is no wasting time.

Everything is pretty tedious. You have to make sure everything flows and sounds good together, there are no bad notes. Sometimes there are going to be and you might let those go for artistic expression, but the first thing we do is we will all play together and do what is called a rhythm track where you get the drums recorded first. Then you go back and build all the pieces back on top of that, then the bass might go in and record his parts down then the guitar then myself. That’s the process that we’ve done, and that’s what worked for us.

Q: What’s your favorite song that you’ve written?

A: Oh boy! The favorite one, that’s a hard one.

To be honest, I really like the stuff that we’ve just done for a couple reasons. It’s a little more rock sounding than some of the other stuff.

I personally think each CD has gotten better from maybe a performing standpoint, from the guy that we record with, him getting better to us having a better feel for each other and him knowing what our end goal is as far as sound goes. So with that point the songs, I think, are better. But man, to pick one that’s really tough, I’ll have to think on that one.

Q: Would you say that this album coming out is your favorite album?

A: As a whole, yes, I like a handful of the songs on each album, but as a whole I think this one is the best. There is a song that we recorded a while ago that’s called “Never Never Land” that we still play, and that was one that was a pretty decent representation of what our sound really is and I’ve always liked that song.

It’s one that I’ve liked and people have liked, so I’ll say that one for right now.

Q: What are your future goals for the band?

A: I just want to continue to keep playing because I enjoy doing that. Going back to this last CD, it was really an enjoyable process because it was more of collaboration from a couple folks in the band that are new to the group. The last few CDs, I’ve had an idea for a song and everyone would just come together and put the music together. This last one, though, there was more input and that was enjoyable and I thought a nice end product came of it. I like that, and I would like to just have the group continue to put together good songs and play wherever we can play. Everyone enjoys playing a lot and makes playing in the band an important part of their life.

Q: Do you all have any upcoming shows?

A: Yes. Our next show will be at Rhymer’s on the Plaza April 13 at 9 p.m.

How would you change the Southeast shuttle services if you could?

Audrey Gibson I would change how long they stay at a stop before they leave because I’ve seen them pull off while people are trying to get on them.

Chad Grapperhaus I didn’t have too many issues when I was living on campus, but I would make the shuttle tracker more accurate.

Michael Frangello The biggest thing I think needs changed is a bigger shuttle for the green route because they’re always crowded, too crowded sometimes. I’ve been kicked off before because there was not enough room.

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Indya Pruitt I would make the green shuttle bigger because it gets too cramped at nighttime, and I would have more than just the green and River Campus running at night.

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CYBER Defense Club competes regionally THE CYBER DEFENSE CLUB PLACED FIRST IN STATE COMPETITION AND ADVANCED TO REGIONALS

New club supports cybersecurity major, competed in first competition J.C. REEVES ARROW REPORTER

Southeast Missouri State University’s Cyber Defense Club has had a lot of success in a short amount of time.

The Cyber Defense Club was able to qualify for the regional cyber security competition after being an organization for only one semester.

Southeast seniors Jeremy Wiedner and Travis Holland started the Cyber Defense Club during the fall semester as a tool for cybersecurity students to promote the cybersecurity degree in an academic, professional and ethical manner. The club is also used to help the cybersecurity program obtain accreditation through the National Security Agency.

One of Wiedner’s biggest goals for the club was to participate in competitions. The club has since competed in a state and regional competition. The state competition was the first cyber defense competition in the state of Missouri.

“I contacted the national organization about having a competition and there were no teams signed up for Missouri,” Wiedner said. “After I signed us up last year, Rolla had signed up as well. Missouri has enough teams to have their own state competitions now.”

Some of the cyber defense competitions consist of teams that are each trying to create and maintain an email server. While the teams work, they are “hacked” and are coupled with the task of shutting down the hackers. The teams are scored on whether or not they successfully stop the hackers, whether they successfully complete their task and how fast they are able to achieve their goals.

Southeast’s team consisted of Wiedner, Holland, Jake Schnurbusch, Battle Tomasetti, R. D. Niroshan Lakmal Rajapakse, Melanie Thiemann, Charity Meyer and Blynn Atchley.

“We weren’t quite sure of what to expect,” Wiedner said. “We spent close to 80 hours preparing as a team, and some of us spent more than that outside of team practices. We were pretty confident going in, but again, just like anything else, things happen.”

“We weren’t quite sure of what to expect. We spent close to 80 hours preparing as a team, and some of us spent more than that outside of team practices. We were pretty confident going in, but again, just like anything else, things happen.”

Jeremy Wiedner Southeast’s team won first place at the state competition, which qualified it for the regional competition that took place in Chicago, Ill. “We didn’t place in the top three,” Wiedner said about the regional competition. “I know we didn’t get last, but I think we were in the top five or six.”

Wiedner said that the club competed against colleges that have won the national

The Cyber Defense Club won first place in the state cyber defense competition. This allowed them to compete in the regional cyber defense competition in Chicago, Ill. Submitted photo cyber defense competition.

Now that there are no remaining competitions this year, the Cyber Defense Club is beginning to prepare for next year’s state competition.

“They practice every other day,” Vijay Anand, adviser to Southeast’s Cyber Defense Club, said. “They can practice pretty long.

It can be five to eight hours of straight-up practice.”

The club’s practices involve being connected to a program that tries to hack it while the members attempt to create and maintain a server.

The Cyber Defense Club is open to anyone who wants to join. However, Anand explained that in order to join a student must sign an agreement that states the student will follow ethical guidelines while working with the club.

“We make everyone who joins the Cyber Defense Club sign an ethics pledge,” Anand said. “They must agree that they are a part of this club to help people, and not be hackers themselves. We will go over a lot of hacking situations. We are here to help people and not hurt people.”

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If one of your professors was to be elected president who would it be and why?

Jessica Bolhafner Fred Jones.

Matt Brucker

Mr. Mauk! He actually has common sense, and he’s hilarious!

Joshua Peters

None of mine, they are all biology professors. To quote one of my professors, “Science should never get involved with politics.”

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A-TEAM talks social media A-TEAM MEMBERS DISCUSS THE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE ASPECTS OF DEBATING ISSUES ONLINE Billy Schmitz @BillySchmitz

Arrow A-Team members Billy Schmitz, Jen Gradl and Benny Dorris limited themselves to only 140 characters to discuss this week’s question “How has social media changed how we argue and share ides?”

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Benny Dorris @benjamin_436

Billy Schmitz @BillySchmitz

Billy Schmitz @BillySchmitz

Benny Dorris @benjamin_436

Benny Dorris @benjamin_436

Social media has positive and negative aspects. It’s easier to share ideas and argue, but people are more likely to be jerks online.

I think social media debate can definitely polarize opinions on issues as well.

Arguments are very black and white.

I think it definitely breeds conflict, though. I’ve seen many online flame wars on Facebook and Twitter about controversial issues.

It certainly creates a “no holds barred” discourse that can sometimes be very closed off.

I get the “no holds barred” part (and agree), but what do you mean by it is sometimes very closed off?

People aren’t always open to differing opinions, which can lead to bickering back and forth online.

Benny Dorris @benjamin_436

Jen Gradl @jengradl

It’s caused us to lack in face-to-face communication. We’re more opinionated when we have a computer as our shield.

Billy Schmitz @BillySchmitz

Agreed. People will say anything and argue tooth and nail from a computer. Less constructive conversation than face-to-face.

Benny Dorris @benjamin_436

At the same time, I think the internet as a whole has broadened our ability to access ideas and seek information ourselves.

Benny Dorris @benjamin_436

And we all know how much everyone loves to read heated Facebook debates.

Right?

Jen Gradl @jengradl

It can definitely be a source of entertainment to see how passionate people can be about their opinions.

Jen Gradl @jengradl

And I think we’ve all blocked someone at some point because of their constant posts about a subject.

Benny Dorris @benjamin_436

I’m admittedly a glutton for punishment. It’s like a train wreck, you can’t look away!

But I guess that’s for better and worse.

Billy Schmitz @BillySchmitz

Billy Schmitz @BillySchmitz

We absolutely have more information at our fingertips, which is certainly good and allows for broader intelligence.

Billy Schmitz @BillySchmitz

As for being for good and bad, that’s totally right. We probably know more things now, but I wouldn’t say we’re much (if at all) smarter.

Jen Gradl @jengradl

I agree. I think our generation believes we know it all because we have the ability to access information on anything we desire. But that’s definitely not the case.

Benny Dorris @benjamin_436

It’s more important to be smart users of the information that we have. We must be critical of what’s put in front of us as well as be open to different opinions.

Billy Schmitz @BillySchmitz

Totally agree on being critical. You have to discern what is good information and what is not with the vast amount that is available, and people get misguided.

Jen Gradl @jengradl

Do you think controversies discussed on social media sites allows us to be more open to different opinions? Or more critical?

Jen Gradl @jengradl

Ah, OK, that’s what I thought you meant. That is certainly the case. Especially in our age group. We are generally pretty stubborn.

Billy Schmitz @BillySchmitz

I enjoy reading the debates very much as well! The train wreck is a good analogy.

You know it’s silly, but you keep reading.

Benny Dorris @benjamin_436

Nothing cures a boring Monday like a good Facebook debacle.

Jen Gradl @jengradl

That’s for sure. It’s like once the all caps goes on, it’s time to grab the popcorn and watch it unfold!

Billy Schmitz @BillySchmitz

Ha! About two weeks ago, I had an old high school teammate who is really into fitness make a rude status about girls’ spring break pictures and how “out of shape they were.”

Billy Schmitz @BillySchmitz

Then a separate female friend from high school called him on it, and someone I didn’t know commented: *grabs popcorn.* It was great. That just reminded me.

Benny Dorris @benjamin_436

Take into consideration the recent media blow up on same-sex marriage...

So at the end of the day, I think it’s easy to say social media has shaped how we debate, but it’s hard to say whether it’s good or bad.

Billy Schmitz @BillySchmitz

Billy Schmitz @BillySchmitz

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MULTIPLE events coming up on campus STUDENTS CAN ATTEND CREATIVITY FESTIVAL EVENTS APRIL 4-6 OR THE WALK FOR WOMEN ON APRIL 13

Creativity Festival held to let people try something new KIERAN IVISON ARROW REPORTER

The Douglas C. Greene Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship will host its first annual Creativity Festival on April 4-6. It will take place at various locations around Cape Girardeau and the Southeast Missouri State University campus. Students, faculty members, staff and community members are all welcome.

The Creativity Festival is directed by Dr. Erin Fluegge Woolf, a professor of management at the Harrison College of Business.

It is the first of its kind at Southeast, which Fluegge Woolf believes makes it fit well with the theme of trying something new.

“Creativity is the creation of ideas, products and services that are novel and useful,” Fluegge Woolf said.

She explained that creativity is especially important for college students and graduates because it “is everywhere, in business and in life.”

Other significant members of the team responsible for the festival include CIE project coordinators Heather Holdman and Matt Huber and graduate students Tim Joyce and Anke Ruwette.

The festival will begin with a kickoff party from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. outside Kent Library. Anyone can stop by and learn about the festival while enjoying free food and drinks donated from local businesses and organizations.

According to Fluegge Woolf, the idea for the party is based on the block parties that occurred between Academic Hall and Kent Library in the late 1990s.

There will be a series of Creativity in Action sessions from 1-5 p.m. on Thursday and Friday. These are one-hour sessions during which attendees can explore activities they may not be familiar with in a hands-on manner. The events range from activities such as yoga, disc golf and meditation to sessions about trending on Twitter, cooking and theater. They will be taught by various experts at multiple locations on and near campus.

At 6 p.m. Thursday, Lagniappe’s at 11 S. Spanish Street will host the HootUp event.

Attendees will learn how to use HootSuite, a computer application that corrals multiple social media networks into one dashboard.

Fluegge Woolf described the program as “a lifesaver if you post a lot online.”

Registration for the HootUp event is not required but encouraged, and can be done at hootupcape.eventbrite.com.

The next event will be Coffee with the Entrepreneurs at 8:30 a.m. Friday in room 128 of Dempster Hall. The speaker at this event is Deb Maevers, owner of Pastime Antiques and director of the VintageNOW Fashion show, an annual fundraising event benefiting The Safe House for Women in Cape Girardeau. Maevers will share her experiences as the show’s director while participants can enjoy a free breakfast and coffee.

Fluegge Woolf described Maevers as symbolizing creativity in action completely.

“She walks the walk, and I think that’s great,” Fluegge Woolf said.

The Creativity Crawl event, an interactive scavenger hunt that will send teams of participants across the downtown Cape Girardeau area, starts at 6 p.m. Friday. Teams will use Twitter to help them locate and take pictures of several places in Cape Girardeau.

The hunt starts and ends at the West Bank Bistro, located across from the River Campus at 340 S. Lorimier. Registration is encouraged, but not required, and can be done online.

The Creativity Festival will close at 9 a.m.

Saturday with the 5K Costume Fun Run/ Walk for Scholarship. Participants can make their own costumes and run in a race that starts and ends at the CIE building. Awards are handed out for best costume and best race times at the post race brunch at 10 a.m.

Multiple awards will be given for different age groups. Fluegge Woolf said the judging criteria for the costumes are a secret.

The Fun Run costs $10 for Southeast students and $25 for anyone who registers after March 29. The application to register can be printed off at the official Creativity Festival page, semo.edu/create.

Proceeds from the race will help establish a new scholarship that will go into effect some time next year.

Further information, including registration links and locations for certain events, can be found on the festival’s web page.

Fluegge Woolf may also be contacted for information at (573) 651-2090 or erfluegge@ semo.edu.

Creativity Festival Events Thursday, April 4

Friday, April 5

Saturday, April 6

11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Kickoff Party with free food and beverages

8:30–9:30 a.m.

Coffee with the Entrepreneurs features Deb Maevers.

9-11 a.m.

5K Costume Fun Run/Walk

1-5 p.m.

Creativity in Action Sessions 6-8 p.m.

HootUp Session - Learn to manage multiple social media sites with HootSuite.

Noon–4 p.m.

Creativity in Action Sessions 6–8:30 p.m.

Creativity Crawl is an online scavenger hunt of downtown.

For a complete list of events, visit semo.edu/create.

Members of the Southeast women’s basketball team participate in the 2012 Walk for Women. Submitted photo

Walk raises scholarship funds JEN GRADL ARROW REPORTER

Southeast Missouri State University will host the sixth annual Walk for Women on April 13 to support women’s athletics.

The money raised benefits both men and women, but it gives the opportunity for women to be recognized for their athletic achievement.

Senior associate director of athletics Cindy Gannon created the event after researching similar events held at various campuses across the nation.

“You mold an event to what fits a campus,” Gannon said.

Every year the walk has grown not only in popularity but in financial support. Last year more than 250 people attended and raised more than $32,000, which at the time brought the five-year total for monty raised by the walk to more than $100,000 for athletic scholarships. The goal this year is to break every previous record of attendance and reach more than $40,000 raised, according to Gannon.

There are a total of 34 captains this year who travel around the community and recruit volunteers to participate in the walk.

Participants can be anybody from community members to faculty who just need a donation of $25 per person to register. They can even form teams, which can consist of an unlimited number of people.

In order to get more student participants, assistant vice president for student success and director of Residence Life Bruce Skinner and professor of mass media Karie Hollerbach are in charge of the “Campus Challenge” this year. The challenge asks people to form teams on campus, and the team that raises the most money receives a trophy, T-shirt and a free tailgate at a Southeast football game next year.

Participants will meet at Houck Field House at 9 a.m. for check in, and the event lasts for about two hours. At 10 a.m., they will begin the 30-minute walk around the campus, along with other activities including face painting and prize drawings for things such as gift cards and trips.

This year will be bittersweet though, Gannon said. The walk will highlight the lives

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of two women, Meg Herndon and Kim Mothershead, who died in the last year.

Herndon, a Southeast student and soccer player died last year following a scooter accident, and Mothershead, a former honorary chair for the event and member of the Board of Regents, lost her battle to cancer in late August.

“It’s a day of celebration, but also we’re going to take the day to remember two outstanding women that were a part of our program,” Gannon said.

Mothershead’s daughters, Kathryn Sprengel and Julie Mothershead, have formed their own team for the event and are hoping to raise more than $3,000 in honor of their mother. Sprengel and Mothershead hope their team raises the most money in order to be recipients of the Mothershead Award, which is an award granted to the team that raises the most money. The women even had a graphic designer from Dallas create a logo for their team shirts. Ultimately, the logo would become the logo for a foundation they’re hoping to start, Sprengel said.

The hummingbird logo and tagline represent a reminder to everyone to stay positive even through a time of crises, just as Mothershead did when she was battling cancer.

“It’s about continuing my mom’s legacy,” Sprengel said. “It’s also using her memory to help athletes.”

All of the proceeds from the event will go directly to the Southeast athletics scholarship fund, which is evenly distributed among all athletes. Gannon said the ultimate goal is to get the scholarships fully funded, but the amount of the scholarships needed each year varies.

According to the National Commission for Certifying Agencies guidelines, Southeast is allowed to give a maximum of 191 out-ofstate scholarships, but only about two-thirds of athletes are from out of state.

“It’s really hard for athletes, especially international students, to come to SEMO without an athletic scholarship,” said Jess Courtnell, a Southeast tennis player. “We’re all really appreciative of the opportunity to get an athletic scholarship, and the women’s walk helps us give something back so that future students will be able to get the same opportunities that we did.”